In this lesson we're going to learn how to edit a focus switch and a time lapse.
Now you can see here I've opened Adobe Bridge and I've opened the folder where Thomas shot
the time lapse.
Now you can see here we have 63 images that he shot over a period of about 10 minutes.
If I click on the first and we look at the preview and then I just put my finger on the
next button, the arrow pointing right, you can see I can very quickly have a quick look
how my time lapse is going to look.
Okay that looks quite good, okay.
Now what I need to do is to get all of these images in the right format, remember we shot
them as JPEGs and not as raw because it's going to be a smaller format and it's going
to be easier to edit and play around with and we're going to have a lot of stuff so
we're going to save space on our disk.
There's not much we can do with these because whatever we do to one we have to make sure
it looks exactly the same in all the others.
Effectively these are just going to be one or two frames of a video.
Okay so what I'm going to do now is to select all of them and I'm going to open them into
a lightroom.
So I'm going to drag them down and just drop them on the lightroom icon, you can't see
that on your screen because I'm missing the bottom of my screen.
Okay so here we have all of those ready to import and I'm just going to press the import
key again, you couldn't see that but I press the import key to bring them in and here they
come.
Okay all 63 files and I'm going to go to develop.
Now again we have a problem with the aspect ratio, I might also need to tilt the horizon
slightly if it's not quite straight.
So I'm going to go to the crop tool and I'm going to look now to see just to get my horizon
just right, well it looks pretty good, there we go about right there, so I'm going to do
one more, I'm going to go to my, over on the right hand side from the original crop to
the 169 crop and then I'm going to look for a place where I don't need quite as much
sky, I want lots of things happening in the foreground.
So I think my crop is about right there.
Now I need to get exactly the same crop for every single image and the simple way to do
that is to go down to library and then to select all of the images in my library.
Okay, once I've done that I can go up to the photo here, go down to the develop settings
and come on to sync settings.
Now I've already taken off all of these ticks here because I don't want it to sync anything
else just the crop, the straighten angle and the aspect ratio, those are the two things
that I've just changed.
Now I press synchronize and what it's going to do is it's going to go through all of them
as you can see it doing now and synchronize that exact same crop for every single image.
It's very quick to do.
Okay, and then when I come out of this what I'm going to do is go again to file, it's
just doing it, export, so it's just thinking about it and then I'm going to take my video
function, just change that from apple to srgb and I just go through this very quickly again
so the image size this time I've gone to 1920, I'm not going to zoom on any of these so there's
no need sharpening off and then I just check where I'm bringing these to, well I want to
put them in a special folder called timelapse, it's going to be easy for me to bring them
in.
So let's go to my desktop here and find this is the video folder in which I've been working
before.
There's a new folder inside that called timelapse and then I'm going to choose that and export
all of those images, okay so what's happening now it's going to go through them, it's going
to take a little while to do it so while it's doing that I'm going to just pause the recorder.
Okay I'm back again, now I'm going to go into Premiere here and then I'm going to import
that folder.
Now before I do that I would normally just do a straight import here, what I want to
do is change the settings and here I'm going to go up to Premiere Preferences and I'm going
to change the default duration of a still image.
Now this is when it brings it in it will choose how long a still image should be and at the
moment the default is 125 frames a second.
Now I actually only want these frames to come in for two or three frames, let's say two frames
each that's going to make it go through them very very quickly, so I press okay and then
I do my import, import and this time I'm going to choose within images, so within video I'm
going to choose the timelapse folder, import that folder.
So now I'm going to find that folder for some strange reason it's gone into my audio folder
here, so I'm just going to take the timelapse and I'm going to drag it out like I did before
just put it on the side, sorry where are we, I'll put it in my images, it's a more sensible
place for it to be, okay and then I can open up my timelapse, now here what I can do is
now select the first and the last, that's all of my folders, all of my images and I
can drag them down onto the video right here, okay close that down, now what we should find
here is that I have my timelapse all in place, it actually starts here and you'll see it
comes, now if I just press the plus key you should be able to see it in more detail, all
of those images coming in just at a couple of frames each, two frames each and so we
have a very short sequence here, let me just drag them right to the beginning of the timeline
and then you'll be able to see them, so we have in fact just over four seconds which
is about right and if I play it from the very start you're going to see it here and there
we have my timelapse, now the other thing I want to do is to bring in a focus switch
and you'll see above here here I have one image where we have the background already
in focus, I go to the second image let me just double click on that, we have the foreground
in focus, so to create a focus switch I'm going to start with the foreground and drag
that in here and as you can see because I imported it as a bigger picture it's coming
in as a bigger picture too and then after that let's go down with the minus key a little
bit and then after that I'm going to bring in the second image, now what all I'm going
to do to create my focus switch is to put a cross dissolve between the two, I want that
cross dissolve to be very long, so I go down to my video transitions, I go to dissolve
and I find the cross dissolve and I place it in between the two, now if I was to play
that it's going to have a very quick dissolve in the middle of the image, so we have a long
time with this one and then it very quickly dissolves into the other, but I want a much
longer focus switch, so to do that I'm going to drag that half way across there in that
direction and half way across there in that direction using the selection tool, now we're
going to get a much slower focus switch, have a look at this, in fact if we want to be very
dramatic we can take it right to the very edge of both and then we get a constant movement
of a focus switch as if you were turning the focus ring very slowly from one to the other,
there we go, it's a nice little effect, alright in the next lesson we're going to look at
color correction.
