Creating a scrolling line of footage

[jesseg21463820]

Hello!

This may be impossible for Premiere, but I thought I'd put my quandary before those who know the program better than myself.

The concept is to have several clips on an old-school film frame scrolling past the screen, lingering on certain clips for a second, then moving to the next one. I want to be able to zoom in and out of the passing clips as well. My initial thought was to lay out the full, hi-res film frame line (16 frames worth), shrink it, shrink the 16 clips, put them in the frames, then nest the whole thing so I could animate it.

The problem, of course, is that when the footage is nested at a fraction of its size, when you try to enlarge it in the timeline, the quality is horrible. It just enlarges the small clips instead of restoring them to their native size. But if I try to nest the footage at full size, it cuts off wherever the edge of the frame is, so I can move them right or left.

I've come at this from several different angles, and I can't see a way of doing it without animating the whole thing one keyframe at a time...which would be murder.

Any thoughts as to how to get a sequence assembled for animation/editing that extends well beyond the boundaries of the frame?

Thanks for your time!

[RobShultz]

Maybe create an adjustment layer and extend it over all of your clips in a video track higher than your clips. Then apply the “offset” effect to the adjustment layer. Key framing the “Y” number could give you an old “vertical roll” look over all of your clips. You could also apply the transform effect to the adjustment layer and key frame the scaling. Hope this helps.

[jesseg21463820]

Thanks for the swift reply, Rob! I haven't used the offset effect yet (or the adjustment layer for anything but color correction), but I'll look into it. It sure beats recording the horizontal and vertical positions of every element at every keyframe! Thanks again for a new option!

[Carlos Ziade]

01. create a sequence 2x larger (or more depending on the number of videos you want)

      than your current one

02. distribute your different videos there as you like using scale and position

03. drag that sequence into your current one, DON'T use scale to frame size,

      scale it down manually from Motion - Scale until you see all your frames.

04. now start keyframing and animating position and scale the way you want,

      this way you will not loose quality upon scaling.

[jesseg21463820]

I appreciate the help, Carlos! When you say a sequence "2x larger", I'm guessing you mean in terms of resolution? If so, that's brilliant! I never thought to go that route! --If not, I'm a little confused. I'm gonna give it a try as well!

[Carlos Ziade]

yeah sure, higher res... let's say you are working on a 1920x1080 seq.

spread those many frames on a 4k sequence.. then drag that 4k seq into the full HD one

and start animating its scale and position or other properties ...

[jesseg21463820]

Glad I understood ya! ...Alas, the footage is already 4K, so I'll have to go really big, but I think it'll still work. Next time I'll use proxies. But again, great idea. I forgot about the magic of sequences. Cheers!

[Carlos Ziade]

Well Rob's advice will work if you have no problem using offset,

which creates offset positions of the same clip..

if you really want different clips scrolling, scaling, etc... unfortunately

until now this is the only way to do it inside Premiere Pro, to preserve quality.

In After Effects you have Null Objects that you can attach to, in Premiere this

is not available and you have to cheat it manually... I hope I did not miss something

I don't know about...

[Carlos Ziade]

the 'footage' is 4k, but if you have no problem to final export

from a Full HD sequence, you can still spread your 4K footage

in your 4k sequence, scale them down and distribute using position,

then drag the 4k seq into a full HD one where you will create the animation.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi JesseG,

I have had great success with a similar effect by setting up the flying "layers" in the Essential Graphics Panel. Please try it!

Thanks,
Kevin