Exporting to a suitable format

I found that the labs computers and the AR0107 lecture theatre could play videos encoded with the WMV format, as all the computers are run on windows, so i decided to use this format.

THe video itself was 640x480 pixels, so for the smaller one, i simply halved this and encoded it with the same properties, although i had to change the frame rate to 15fps to enable playback from a CD.

Here is a screenshot of the properties i used to export the videos into a wmv file:-

Creating and addingTitles.

To create my title, i used adobes title creator included with premiere.

I actually found it easy to use, and was done within 2 minutes.

I created a black background, and in front of it, added my name, my enrolment number and the name of the video. I then changed the property so that it would scroll up from the bottom, and was pleased with the result:-

Adding sound

Adding sound was also easy to do, as i found a clip of the "24" clock tick on the internet from a friend, and luickily it was exactly 10 seconds long.


i had to import this again, and then add it to audio track one, line it up with the video track and play it to test it was all lined up correctly, and it was...result!

Adding the clock into my video

Adding the clock was fairly straightforward.

I imported each psd file into premiere and added them to the timeline in another video track in order from 10-0, but found that i had to speed these up as they went over a second in length. I used the speed property to change each image to a second and after playing with the percentages, found that 600% would make each image 1 second in length.

I then grouped them together to make it easier to move if i had to etc etc

Creating the Clock.

I thought this would have been pretty simple to do... how wrong was I!!!!


TO create the clock, i found a video on youtube detailing how to create the clock effect and add it into adobe premiere. It looked simple enough until i saw a part saying create a different PSD file on photoshop for each second.Luckily i only had to do 10 seconds, so it wasn't as bad as first thought.

I downloaded an LCD clock font and added it to Windows fonts, so that i could use it in photoshop.

In photoshop, i created 2 layers, and on the first layer put a black rectangle, where the clock would go, so that you could see the clock over the videos in the final thing.

I then added a text box with the following: 00:00:10, as the clock was to count down from ten. I needed to change the colour from black to a gold yellow so did this and then saved the file as 10.psd, so that i could then add it into premiere.

I did the same for each number from 00:00:10 to 00:00:00, and saved each one as a #.psd, where # is the number used on the image itself.

Creating the split screen effect.

After importing both of the videos into adobe premiere Pro, i can now work on getting the split screen effect done.

This was pretty simple as all i did was to copy each video onto a different timeline like in the image below:

I then had to resize and position the videos using the clip effect in Premiere. I ended up with each video being place in the correct place at the correct time.

I now had to create the timelapse effect by speeding up the video, so that i could get 30 minutes of video into 10 seconds. To do this i right clicked on the video on the timeline, and clicked the speed property. I played around with different percentages, and found that i had to speed up the video by a phenomenal 9,500%!!!.


It worked!, i now had the basis for my video and it was 10.12 seconds long, which is still ten seconds, so all i needed to do now was add the 24 clock into it, and add the title and the clock tick sound also used in "24"...

Ripping the Video to computer

Luckily , my computer has a firewire port at the back embedded within the motherboard, and i also got a cable with the motherboard when i bought it new last month, so ripping to the computer would be no problem.


it took me an hour to rip both the videos to the computer, i didnt realise that they would end up being 5GB each!!! just for half an hour film!.

obviously i would have to do some edititing so that end video doesnt end up being 10GB+!!!!