Hey!

ok, there is a dwarf singing right, and i need to duplicate him and put a slightly smaler one of him behind the first.

I can easly duplicate him on adobe premier uyseing the transpearancey thignb but ofcourse both screens r the same size so you jsut see the dwarf, i need to make the screen size for one of this clips smaller, and the next even smaler, to creat lots of little dwarfs going of into the distance singing.

I hope this makes scence.

It would help if anyone knows of a way of useing adobes to shrink the screen size of a clip. but if i need another programe i gess thats ok.

thanks allot

Hi there,

I've done this, although I didn't use an editing program for it. I don't even think they can do this, as it's a Visual Effect in essence, and unlike a blue screen effect. I'm not totally sure though, but I believe this effect, using the 'mask' method which I'm about to explain, isn't available in Premier etc, only in After Effect, Combustion, Shake, etc.

Do you mean something like this:

www.beyondimagination-movies.net/me.jpg

You can achieve this effect by using the mask method in a composition program, like After Effects. I can explain it, but it would take me a lot of time, so I'll find you a tutorial.

http://msp.sfsu.edu/Instructors/rey/dv11-8.htm
http://www.vtc.com/products/after3.htm

Might be useful. Search the internet for masking in AE or anything similar. It's really, really easy. One thing to bear in mind is that you shouldn't move the camera. If you do, you'll need a similar camera move or a really experienced visual effect artist.

Contact me if you run into trouble.

Gotan

Well.. I think I kind of know what you mean. You want a shot angled from above that shows dwarves lined up in the distance? A perspective type thing?

Well, I don't think you can do this in your basic NLE program unless you refilm with a green screen. The method above seems interesting.

I was thinking more along the line of this...



A line of the same person doing the same thing just being copyed into the distance.

I wan thinking that i could just resize the clip to make it a bit smaller and use the transperancey tool and just resize the clip smaler, and smaler copys pasting them all ontop of each other.

So any simple way of resizeing the clip? this might not work but its worth a try.

umm, assuming you have some form of alpha channel or mask for the clip, couldn't you use position and scale to do what you want. I don't use premiere, but I know they have both (because they did in v3 when I stopped using premiere).

position and scale?

Where is this in premire? im new to it.

It should be in the window where you place clips, to further trim them before putting them in the timeline. It's the Window on the left in dual view.

http://www.monitor.si/images/clanki/slika/adobe_premier_1.5.jpg
This wasn't my cap - for creditary reasons.

The window with the blue sky and bird (and it is in dual view meaning you have a work screen for clips, and one for the whole project)

In the window to the left, the one with the blue sky and the bird, there are two tabs, one reads the clip name _______.avi (that is what you are playing) the other beside it reads "EFFECT CONTROLS". Highlight the clip you want to work with in the timeline by clicking, then click on "Effect Controls". There should be one tab already there labelled "Motion" click the arrow to make the options drop down. From there you can edit the scale and position. You can also employ keyframes by clicking on the stop watch icon under EFFECT CONTROLS