Bill Tranter New Intros

[Chuck Engels]

Bill Tranter had gotten some help from Steve at the Adobe forum and came up with this efffect
http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-222

He has also uploaded anther great intro too....

Thanks for sharing Bill!

[Wheat King]

The first effect look fantastic!. That is exactly the effect I was looking for here! Going to give this technique another shot.

[Paul LS]

Noticed the date on the intro Bill. You are an organized man... wish I was that good.

[William Tranter]

Because my wife and I are away on caravan holidays so much, we don't have a lot of time to edit our holiday videos, so getting the intros and titles done before we go gives me a flying start.
I try to have a different 'theme' to each video - for example, on one holiday last year I used a time lapse facility I have on my laptop, and so I was able to get lots of fantastic cloudscapes where the clouds race across the sky. Since we were on Dartmoor at the time, the effects were stunning.
As for the dates, we are members of the Camping & Caravanning Club, and we book well ahead to ensure we get a good pitch at each site. So far for this year, we have April, May and June pretty well fully booked, though September and October are still free (for the time being!). We don't go away in the second half of July and all of August because this is the high season when prices go sky-high.
All the best,
Bill

[Ric]

Bill that first intro was very good. How were you able to make that?

[William Tranter]

I used 6 video timelines - the bottom one left blank because it overlapped the intro, so on track 2 was the map. Above that (track 3) was a white matte, set to about 60% transparent. Track 4 was a 'disabled' (so it was invisible) track matte made in the Titles part of PE1 which then affected the white matte track, giving me the 'holes' in the white matte. Above that (track 5) was the video of the compass (set on a tripod and controlled remotely), and my wife moved a magnet near the compass to make it swing. Because the compass was sitting on a green background (actually a green two-ring binder!), I was able to 'green screen' the clip, getting rid of the green background and so superimposing the compass on the underlying map. Track 6 was the title text.
The holes, because they highlight where we will be going, show viewers the areas where the National Trust properties are. This will become more clear when the video is made and I can explain things to my viewers in the voice-over.
Hope that helps,
Bill

[ed]

That looks great!

[Maxine370]

Love the intro logo on the Cotswold video. Mind sharing the technique on that (the moving flared glow behind the logo)

[William Tranter]

Beth, the program is called "Shine" by a firm by the name of "Trapcode", and when I bought it over the internet, it cost me ?60 for the download, very expensive I know, but very classy!

I downloaded it to my 'Downloads' file so that I would always have the original software, then copied the program to the following:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Premiere Elements 1.0\Plug-ins\en_US

and when you run PrEl, it appears as an Effect under the word 'Trapcode'. I would think that the effect would also run on PrEl v.2, but I'm not so sure about PrEl v.3, since this version seems to be very different from versions 1 and 2.

Try looking up "Trapcode" in Google, because I can't remember where I found it originally, though it most probably was in our Forum!

Lots of luck with your videos (which are just brilliant, of course!),
Bill

[Chuck Engels]

That is exactly what Jamal needs too
http://www.trapcode.com/products_shine.html

[Wheat King]

That effect is sooo tempting to buy! MAybe someday I'll make the investment. Their other stuff looks pretty powerful too!

Jamal