10 easy steps to bullet dodging in Premiere

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:59 pm

This is a simple way to have your actors dodging bullets in Premiere.

1. Film your actors.

2. Take a few pictures of a bullet.

3. Capture the tape to PC and put the pics on PC.

4. Edit bullet pics in photo-editing program, to take out the shell and place black back ground (or green or blue).

5. Bring the pics and video up in Premiere.

6.Place video on track 1 and place bullet pic on track 2 or whatever.

7. Slow down video to whatever you want.

8. Use transparency and motion with the bullet pic to set beginning position of bullet and ending position.

9. At beginning position set ZOOM to 0 and ending position set ZOOM to however big you want.

10. Set speed on bullet track as fast or slow you want (and of course render the thing) and you got it.

I hope this tutorial helped you as well as teach you how to munipulate Premiere in many ways, good luck making movies.

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:47 pm

Thanx for the guide, but I still couldn't see (once I removed the greenscreen on the bullet) where the bullet was in relation to the background footage? Guessing I didn't do something correctly!

Think it would work well though, I actually just tried this, but ended up using AE to move the bullet using keyframes and was very simple to do.

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:36 am

of course it will look much better using a 3d program to make and animate the bullet

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 10:17 am

Yes, but alot of people cannot afford 3D software / or can work it to that standard.

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:30 pm

Eh, download the trial versions!

FreZko · Post by **FreZko** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:06 am

nice, nice...
But how to get those circles around the bullets

-Frez

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:27 pm

theres a tutorial for 3ds max on 3dkingdom.org

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:36 pm

Ya know, at the time I thought this would actually help some one, I mean...ya know, this is like for SOOPA N00Bs like I once was, but anyway, this stuff should be common sense when you learn how to use Premiere.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:55 pm

i just *bought* off ebay 3dsm so i gotta find out how to use it.

NoRemorse · Post by **NoRemorse** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:59 pm

Ahhh, eBay. I recently bought Premiere Pro off eBay for Ã‚Â£25.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:14 pm

Hmmmmm, I should look for some software on there!

Job · Post by **Job** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:41 pm

NaziSentry wrote:Eh, download the trial versions!

can (anyone) you give me a link?

videoman7790 · Post by **videoman7790** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:13 am

http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp

has 30 day trials and stuff
have fun

sourceoferror · Post by **sourceoferror** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:02 pm

use blender, its a free 3d rendering program. it takes awhile to get used to it, but you can do alot with it.

http://www.blender3d.com/