Editing Video Clips To Remove Unwanted Objects (page 2)
Experimentation Leads to Innovation
You can use the technique of resizing and moving the position of a video clip to do much more than fix a boo-boo or hold a shot steady. If you regularly import still photos into your project, you can use the same technique to pan and scan across images. You can also use this strategy with more violent changes to simulate a bump in the road or a 6.0 earthquake. Finally, you can also animate your movie titles to zip and zoom in and out of the screen in any which way you like. As you get more comfortable with this technique, you may want to look into more advanced video compositing software, such as Adobe After Effects and Apple Motion. These software tools have many more options for moving clips, photos and graphics across your screen. Just make sure you chalk out some time. Keyframing can be a great way to move these objects through simulated 3D space, but it also can be a huge time suck.
Contributing editor Mark Montgomery is an independent video producer.
