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Video Cutting Instructions for Raw Videos

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1. Get your videos together. They need to be on the local computer and NOT the z-drive. You will need a folder with the raw videos in it, and an empty folder in which to store the finished videos.

2. Open Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

• Project Name: sdv4-single.prproj
• Project Name: SDv1.proproj

3. Open your first movie (from your raw folder)

4. Drag video from Library to Video 1.

• You have to click on the little video symbol, not the name of the video when dragging.
• When placing the file, make sure it is "snapped" all the way to the left, at the beginning of the timeline.

5. Process audio

• If you are using files WITHOUT SOUND you need to actually remove the sound.
  • Right click on the video and choose "unlink"

• Click anywhere else on the timeline to deselect the whole video.
• Click on the audio (in audio track 1) and press delete.
• This should delete the audio and leave the video. If both disappear, you probably didn't unlink.

• If you are using files WITH SOUND you need to process the sound so that it sounds good.
  • Right click on the audio and choose "Edit in Adobe Audition"
  • This will open up Audition, which is a separate program, and might take a while to load. Relax and talk to your fellow RA's while you wait.

• In Audition, go to file-> scripts.

• Click on "normalize and hiss" and then "Run Script"

• This will run two scripts...magically.
• Then press Control + S to save the new file and then press Control + W to close the file. This will magically insert it back into your original file.
  • Don't bother to close the actual Audition program, you will need it again.

6. Crop the video (do this whether you have audio or not). Cropping is easier when you zoom. The zoom slider is on the bottom of the timeline.

• When you crop you can zoom in and out, and look at the number on the timeline to figure out where. Your grad student, or you, should know where you want to crop.
  • To actually crop, click on the video, and press control + K. This cuts the video, and then you have to click on either part to delete.

• Once you crop the video you need to drag it to the beginning of the timeline, no matter how long the video clip is. If there is any space at the beginning of the timeline, it will show up as black on the video, and that is no good.

• Finally, adjust the top slider that tells the program how long the entire video sequence is. It should snap to the end of the actual video.
  • You might have to zoom out to find the end of it.

7. Encode the video.

• Make sure the video is highlighted. To do this, just click on it.
  • Go to file-export-media

• This will open the media options tab
• Click on Output Name. Go to the folder where you want to save the file, and then give the file a name (probably the same name as the source file, but that's up to you).

• At this point, there are several different encoding options, depending on what you are doing.

click to make larger

click to make larger

click to make larger

• All of the other settings should be fine. Then click on OK. This will load adobe media encoder, which is a whole separate program. This might take a little while to load. Be social, make a new friend.

• The encoder will add your video to the end of the encoding list.
  • You can repeat this entire process (with different video clips) many times before you actually encode anything.
  • You can occasionally go to file-> save queue to save the list of files to process
  • Just go back to premiere, delete everything on the timeline, and go to file-import and grab your next movie.
• When you are ready to actually encode (like the end of the day when you are going to leave), press "Strat queue" this will encode all of your videos one after another.
  • DO NOT TOUCH COMPUTER WHEN RENDERING (thus why you probably want to do it over night).

• When it is done rendering, the folder where you chose to save all the movies should be full of movies.
• If you are happy with all of your movies, highlight the entries in the queue and delete them.
  • If you are unhappy, you can click on any of them to make changes, change codecs, and otherwise make adjustments. You don't have to start from scratch!
• Remember, when you are done with a project entirely, to empty all of the files out of queue, as well as emptying all of the files out of the library in the premiere project.
• Also keep track of your videos closely! The raw videos, divx reencoded videos, and output videos from Premiere could all have the same name.
  • You have to keep your folder names straight in order to figure out what is what.
• Also, if you are doing eye tracking experiments, those files need to be converted to XVID, which you can do using the DIVX convert process, but with the XVID.vcf file instead of the DIVX one.
  • Just do it last after creating your avi files in Premiere.

8. When finished encoding, end up in Adobe

9. Open project again to begin next video.

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