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Create & Edit Video in Photoshop CS6

video is not new and photo shops. It's been around for a little bit video editing, but realistically, its new Because in previous versions you had to be a rocket scientist with three PhDs to figure out how to do video. I mean, I'm not kidding. I was like, yea, video In the first, I was like, What? It's just like, what is going on here? And people would say, Well, just at a thing of time and do this And I was just like But I think what happened was Adobe start realizing more and more people are getting DSLR. Is that do nice quality video? So let's build on something we already know. Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do. I'll do it this way. You okay? So everyone look away for so don't look, I'm gonna do something for demonstration purposes, okay? So don't look this way. Don't look. Don't look. So what's cool about this is let's talk about this photo for a second. This photograph that I have here in a photo shop because it's just a still photograph right now. If you looked at a still photog...

raph and you thought I need to make that a little lighter changed exposure. How would you do it? While you would add an adjustment layer like levels or curves, you would make your photograph lighter or darker. And then, if you decided, maybe you want to do some effect like add a filter. You would convert this to a smart object and then apply some filter like Gaussian Blur, blurred a whole bunch and then lower the opacity to get that nice little soft focus thing I love so much. And I think, But now that I've done that, I think this would look nicer if it was black and white. So we gonna find our black and white adjustment layer. So that's a typical Photoshopped, right? Nothing I did there was unusual because I'm just adjusting the way I normally did. What's different about this is this is a video, so I'm doing all the things I would normally do in photo shop. But it's moving, and that's what's so brilliant about. The way that video now works in a photo shop is you're not having to learn a zillion new functions. You're just building on the photo shop skills you already have, so you have to look at it, and that's why it was sort of jokingly saying it's a photo, even though it wasn't because that's the way have to look at. It's a layer and you adjust the layer for the most part the way you normally would. But the difference is it also moves. So if you shoot a short little video clip with your DSLR and think, I'd like to just do that maybe do these Couple of quick little things Don't jump into Premiere and try and learn how this complicated video editing software works. Photo shop CS six has a very intuitive video ending capability, and I have got to be honest and say When it first came out, I was like, Okay, that's kind But I was just I wasn't into video. I had a camera that does, and I have my own little when I do little videos for my tutorials, just using the most basic software there's ever invented. And then Adobe asked me to teach a class on video at Imaging USA, and I was like Well, sure probably suggests I should actually work with it a little bit, and most importantly, I realize, well I've got a ton of photographs. I had no video at all. So I thought editing a video of me speaking, looking the same all the time would be terribly un interesting. So I thought, OK, I need to get some video So I called this young lady that I've worked with before. His name is Rachel. She's an absolute doll and her then boyfriend, ironically enough now fiance, which is kind of interesting side to this story, because I said, Let's shoot a video as if it was an engagement video and they went, Oh, that'll be fun. And four months later, they got engaged, so I don't know. Hey, the influence on it just saying so I filmed the whole bunch of video clips that I'm not a video guy. I've had a video camera, but I don't know how to shoot video. So the only thing that I did that's different than just pointing my camera is I borrowed this wonderful video device, which is fantastic, called a slider, and it's a little thing about this big, and you put your camera on it and it's got like ball bearings, and you can make this beautiful little panning motion because even though with video, when things the subject is moving, if the cameras to static, it's not as interesting. So I learned that having video where the just the camera was pen even is a little bit made a big difference. One of my friends is named Richard Harrington. He does a lot of training in the world of video, and he says video editing is all about throwing stuff away. So the whole concept of video is you capture more than you need and get rid of the stuff you don't want. So and I'm giving you the whole truth and nothing but the truth of my first video experience. I film what I thought was so much video. It was ridiculous. Like I've got so much video here I put my song I found on the little thing called a timeline, put all my video clips and I was still like a minute and 1/ short. I was like, Gosh, I could have sworn I had. So I went into the auto audio software, made the song shorter because I had no more video. So that's the one thing and be prepared for as you think you've got a lot, But if you really are trying to change the scenery a lot, it means a lot of little clips is the way to go. So this is where I would use bridge and I've already previously done this, but I took a whole bunch of clips and I started looking them and you can preview them in bridge so that even going to photo shop, he had this little preview window. You can see. What's this? What's in this clip and kind of preview it sad as he Ariel. So this was just them dancing around, making their own music and stuff. So as I went through, I decided, OK, don't want that clip, Don't want that. And then I put them in order that in my head I was thinking if the video was to progress like this, this would be the progression of videos. And then I used a function bridge called batch rename, so every video file was called 010203 So organizing your video is half the battle because once you're in photo shop, while you could do it, it's much harder at that point to decide what should go first. Watch it go second. So we're going to get to this in a second. But I want to kind of show you the idea of where we're headed. But here's the other part that's interesting about this is even if you are not all that interested in video, like capturing video, this is an interesting idea. I put my camera on a tripod and I took 142 photographs. I didn't take them with a interval timer. Every X seconds to do a time lapse. You seen this inquiry? It looks like a video. It's a whole series of photographs, one after another. So let's see. This is actually before I want. Okay. Now, just to make my life easier. I made these a little smaller cause with purpose of time. You don't really want to sit and watch these many, many photos load in. So I've made them smaller. But you would, of course, make them whatever size you want the video to be it. I'm gonna open one of them in the photo shopping. At this point, this is a photo. It really is. This is a still photo and In fact, nothing has been made video yet because when you open a J. Pegaso faras follows from a certain it is a photo. But down in this little panel, which is where we're gonna live, called timeline, you see right towards the bottom, there's a button says, Create video timeline When you open a video that happens automatically when you open is still that you want to make into a time lapse or a slide show, you click this button to tell it I need this video timeline capability. And when you do this one clip, which is the term we have to use now because we're talking about clips and pieces as opposed to a photo appears for five seconds. And then that's the end of the story. In the Layers panel, it still looks like a layer, and that's where this kind of need is. It's still a layer based function that happens to involve movement. So once I've done that, now I want to add a whole bunch of these still images that I took. This little symbol here is a little pop up menu, awake and choose Add media, which means add more stuff in this case, you know, sound hurt clips or whatever I want. So I go in here, find smaller versions, and I don't need the 1st 1 I already have that and then scroll all the way down and animal in. And considering what I'm just asking you do, it's surprisingly quick cause I'm saying, just opened those 162 files and put them end to end beside each other. So as I do that at the top of this timeline, there's always this little slider thing that probably has a more official name than slider thing. But that's what I call it the little slider thing, and you could see in video they call this scrubbing screamer tool. It's a little scrubber thingy where you can kind of preview to see how it's gonna look. But I needed to say it would not be very useful when you say everyone gather around, let me show you this and have to scrub through it manually. That would be the hard way. So what I want to do is I want to have it happen automatically. Well, the problem is, if I hit the play button, here's what happens days on that one for a very long five seconds, now switches to that one. So it's not exactly the most effective use at this point. Unfortunately, there's no quick way to change all of these from five seconds to a much smaller number the way it's set up. At least I haven't found one. Someone out there may since have figured that out, but I haven't yet. So my solution. Waas, too, convert the frames into frame animation, which is, frankly, the way the good old days of photos. Obviously, this this animation panel where Sally people would make animated gifs was through this. But the reason that I do it that way is cause now look down the bottom. It says five seconds, and there's a little pop up menu. So that means now I could select the 1st 1 scroll way over shift, click on the last one, and now click on any one of them and shoes like 10. seconds. Now if I hit the play button, my little stop motion kind of time lapse thing Cool. I gotta tell you one thing. Sometimes I I laughed at myself with my own lack of thought process because the first time I had this idea is like, Oh, I could do a time lapse. I should go take some photos And it was kind of a semi rainy day where near my office. So I drove into this new nearby parking lot with my 7200 lens through my car window to take photos of cars going by. Thing was, I was in the post office parking lot, so probably not the best idea to sit in like a federal building parking lot with a really long lens, because every so often people are going like, Oh, it's just for better, just drive away now. So So this is a much better example of something more interesting like, Yeah, that whole sitting a post office parking lot, Probably not the best idea I've ever had. So this is a simple idea. It's creating video without even capturing it. So I'm not taking actual video. I'm taking a whole series of photos, which, on most cameras, is easy to do. So that's kind of one idea. And of course, this could all be incorporated Eventually. I didn't show you, but the last step would be now export this as a video, and we'll see later on more how to do that. But then I had this little short video that I could then put back into something else. So that's one idea of how to use video. The other one, which is kind of interesting, is when you want to make a slide show and your the slide shows that you can get from, like, light room or whatever they are. They're nice. They have little transitions, but I want to a little more, and I want to control it more. And I wanna have more options. So this is another possibility that we can do now. Here's a tip that I discovered the hard way because at first I had all these files from this photo shift. So I want to a little slide show with these files. And they were just all named, you know, typical shoot names like 04321 etcetera. But when I start to bring the men by file name, I could not tell which ones were portrait and which ones were landscape orientation. And from a video slideshow standpoint, that was make giving me grief. So I discovered for me. It worked best if I went through and renamed them. Also, all the tall ones have a tea in front, and all the wide ones have a W in front for no other reason other than when I go to pick the files. I'm not mystified by file names going. I have no idea because I want to do a slideshow, for example, with all the wide ones first, and then put some tall ones or whatever. So it's it's not a necessary step, but I found it. It really helped me a lot because then I could fear what the heck I was doing. So let's make a little photo shop slide show. I'm gonna make a new documents 80 by 7 20 which is a standard, high quality video format, which is nice because it's not a huge file click. OK, and again, that's a regular photo shop file, not a video. So I have to click the Create video timeline button to create the video, and now that's add some media. So we're gonna go back bit to find. So this is what I mean by if you didn't have that, you be like I'm not sure which one is which here, So this way they're sorted by their names. I know these are all the wide or landscape orientation I had open. They all come in and they're all layers, which is kind of cool. However, they're all really, really big, like, Look at that. That's an awesome slide right there, somewhere in the background. So I'm like, when that didn't work so well. But it's okay. I did that because I knew now that I could do this is I might consider taking all of these and doing free transform and then making them fit that way. Now, as I look through the video, there's all my pictures the size I want. So let's start off. Most basic of all is you just want tohave these photographs there and have a little transition between them. Now that's pretty easy. You just pop up this little menu. Here's transitions inside, like a cross fade between those two right there. Now I got a little CrossFit. So what's great about this is I'm not doing it. I mean, it's not anything Earth shatteringly crazy. Like what fade? I mean, it's a little as long as you know what's there. Here is your list, and you dragged them onto a little space between each one. If you decide for whatever reason, that this one right here should be there longer than you just click on the side of it and drag it to make it longer and it readjusts either end. So making some image stay on there longer is a simple is that if you look closely on the little video clip icon, the top right hand corner there's a little icon there. Do you click on it? This allows me to add motion without doing anything else. So all I do is a coming here, and I say, I would like this to pan. Okay, now, when I hit the play button so people in the video world go Oh, the Ken Burns effect, Burns was, is a documentary photographer that a lot of things about things like Civil War, where there was no video. So to make it more interesting, he'd always have the photos moving or zooming in solely. Just so it wasn't static all the time, but that's a simple event where I didn't have to do anything I just shows an option and said, Yes, I would like that to happen Now that's pretty straightforward. Pretty basic. I might also want to include some audio. So if you have an audio file, of course, you could go and find that and added across the bottom, I'm not gonna bother right in this case. But I could do that. That's what that little track is for now by nature. As soon as you put things in here, it's all considered a video group, which means across the board the Zahra Siris of video clips. And they're in one folder that's called a video group. And for the most part, we can work that way. Ah, whole lot. But every so often you might want to try something where you can't get it to work the way you want. For example, maybe the natural transition that goes between two images. You don't really like the way it looks. So one of things that I could try doing is say OK, that's the layer that I want to work on. So I'm gonna take this layer and pull it out and put it up higher up. Put it higher up there we go. So as soon as it does that, it creates a second video track. So now I've changing the rules to say, Well, what I'd like to have happen is maybe this one could be a smaller one yet. So what will kind of be up in one corner? Perhaps, And I'm just kind of making this up on the flight you can see now is it's going to go. It's gonna come panning them out. So by nature, it automatically you says, end to end and end. But then you could decide. But it might make better sensory in this case to have this one above. And all it's doing is you're looking at it like you would with layers if layers were in a group. But you want to treat one separately. You pull it out of the group, and it makes its own separate little layer. So on some videos and photo shop, you may just have one track that goes right across, and that's it. Others you might have 15. It all depends on where you put things and how you want things to look. And later on, I'll show you my first video ever did photo shop and then what it looks like in photo shop. You could see the transition, but we're starting off with. I don't even have video yet, but this is kind of how I can start to build things that are kind of interesting in the way they work. So let's ah, look at another possibility. So I also want to bring in one of these tall ones and let's put it down. Here is what's in this group. But when I scrub over to it again, it's really small. But because it's tall, the problem would be if I tried to scale it down. I could scale down to a certain point, but it's the wrong orientation. So my thinking is, maybe I'll actually take advantage of the fact that it's big, so I could manually have. It's scaled down to the size. I want overtime. Instead of just saying pan automatically, I would like this toe happen myself control of myself. So the first thing I'd do is just kind of decided. Well, I think I wanted to be there around this long, and it shows you as you drag what kind of time it is so Here's a question that is interesting to ask, I think ignoring video for a second. If I had just brought in a layer and I wanted to somehow make it so I could scaled up and down, that was in quality. How might I do that? Make it a smart object. That's how we photo shop. That's one of the ways to preserve it. On video, it's no different. I convert to a smart object, and now this is what I have to do. Uh, in this little clip air. I mean, there's on the left hand. Side is a little triangle. If I twirl this down, there's three things that have appeared transform opacity and style. And these are It's if these all have a little stopping say over time, I would like to change this. So what I do is at the beginning, I said, Okay, I want her initially to be right there, so I'll click this button. Then I'll move towards the end of the clip it free transform and scale it down to whatever size I want hit, enter. And now another of these things called a key frame happens. So now if I was to look at the video over time, it's transforming the way I told it. Instead of using the built in, I want you to pan left to right. I'm actually saying, I want you to scale over time and look at the three factors that gives me transform, opacity or style. That means over time I could start the layer of zero opacity and halfway through, make it 100. So now I'm controlling how quickly it fades in instead of using the built in fate, or I add a colored overlay or a drop shadow when I say at first, I don't want a drop shadow, but I wanted to fade in. So that's what these key frames do. Is there allow you to say, over time, this is what I like to have changed. Okay, so there's some interesting ways that we can take advantage of those key frames. I mean, I think I have one here. I started, so this is you can see now this is a slightly more complicated looking one, because I have music I put across the bottom. I started making a little slide show. Scrolling text is a layer function. Okay, so what was really fun as I was doing this in in the class I was teaching, and I had this last minute thought or if you notice that. But this is my favorite thing so far because it's just photo shop. Standard stuff that moves is that we have the thought it would look really cool if the word came from looking like was behind her. That's just a type layer with a layer mask. The layer mask is the edge of her face, and all I did was at that point I said at the beginning of this, make the type position here, keep the mask unlinked So the mass stays put, which we talked about before, and then later on, make the text end up here. So I'm doing the same overtime. Reposition it, but because there's a mass there, it makes it look like the Texas coming out from behind her face. Now that's cool, because it's something I already know how to do. A photo shop is do masks and things like that and you start thinking, but now it does. Nothing has to be static over time. I'm saying Make this happen over time and that little slideshow. I was doing things like doing a couple of built in pans that I had one where I said, I want you to kind of rotate and turn a little bit And there others where I might have said add, you know, a black and white adjustment layer but haven't fade in. So what I love about this again is the fact that the majority of taking some using our things I already know how to do in photo shop is just the added bonuses. Things are moving, and that's pretty cool to me that you have that ability to do that. And are all your photographs smart objects? They could be at first? They're not, I mean, wrecked. If I want to have full control over things like scaling that I would go to each want to make them smart. But like this first example, I didn't at first cause all I was doing it was kind of transitioning between them. But I could have. And if you did, could this be your my favorite slide show template? And then just when you get your next client model, theoretically, I mean it's it's a little harder if you could try it. But video smart object. I'm not sure that how easy would be to like replace contents, but it certainly be worth a shot. That's a good thing. Toe for meat. Explore later on. Get back you on that one. But I think that that certainly has interesting possibilities for sure. Okay, And she keep, who asks, Can you sink the amount of photos to the link of the length of the song? Is there any nothing? Nothing built in now. One thing I always like toe pause slightly for a second and before we go too far is this is version one, As Faras video and photo shop is concerned, It really is because it's technically it isn't. But it really is because the previous video was so complicated and it was just the boats, the most non intuitive thinking ever seen. So a lot of the questions people have is broken. You the answers, not not yet, but we have to take everything with the sort of disclaimer that this is just the first run at this and considering that it's pretty darn good, and there's already been a few things like Oh, I wish I could change all of these clips at the same time and I can't yet. But considering anyone, I would say that the best thing is go back and open photo shop CS five and try and do a video in there. And then you'll be like, This is the best thing ever invented because honestly, it was just so complicated. It was like or so Yikes. So let me show you. Here's my first video that I ever did edited completely in Photoshopped. Let's look, I love you. Want you home? A whole man dog. I never want you whole being is wrong. Hold me. Don't blame small note. Howman duh. Home says Wrong help. Keep everything until the morning. Keep your arms around me. Let your answer. Would you keep me so we owe now, having said before, we're our own worst critics. There's like 10 things I would change now that I look at it but putting in perspective, considering I've never done anything remotely like that. I pretty happy with the way it turned out. And like I said, the only thing that was out of the ordinary was a couple of those slider things like with cowboy boots. That to me made a huge difference, because if I try to do that myself, it wouldn't looked as good. But next time going in, I would have said I would done a couple more of those shots come from or that I would have done this. But overall and I wasn't really thinking. I had a very vague plan. Looking back, I wish I had done a better shot to kind of finish it off, have them walk into the sunset. But that was the first time. So I mean, that's the guy thing where you you think next time. But what's neat about that, I think, is if now. So here's the Photoshopped version. This will take a moment or so to open while first checking with fonts, of course, because we need to always do that. So this is off to make this video really small for now, so you can see what my timeline looks like. I'm still thinking about it. Hello? Okay, we'll talk about it as it's happening. So a couple of things if you think about the video there was one part, my favorite part where they suddenly started walking slowly. That's because I as I was poking around, I discovered that when you're looking at a clip, it tells you the duration of this clip is this long. So I thought, I wonder what happened if I took that clip that was like 20 seconds and about 1/3 of the way through, split it into two and made this one slower. When I played, it was like they started walking in slow motion because it wasn't like some fancy, like, How do I do that? It was like, Oh, make that take longer. And the great thing about the way video clips work is when you put them end to end. If you extend one by nature, everything else pushes over. You have to worry about Oh, now now have to make space. It's just they kind of naturally do that. So here's that finally finished loading tell. I just want to be able to kind of show you the structure, but this might be too unwieldy to actually show, so it has probably two or three video groups because there were times where just made better sense for me to overlap them on different tracks that trying to it all through one. Um, so I guess I'm not gonna have great success training show you this. And does the audio come in automatically with the well, that's actually a separate. There I made there was an audio track that I created, All right, because one of the office just like adding media is an option. So is adding audio. Got you. So you add it separately. So I had always separately just well around that topic. This is an absolutely wonderful resource that I'm so happy. My friend Rich told me about this because music is a big issue. You don't want to put music on there. They don't have the right to. So this is a, ah, free music that's got she called Free music archive dot Organ. It's a searchable database of a bazillion. I mean, I'm not kidding you. You can find just about anything on that place. So if you want to find like, acoustic guitar, that was a love song. You put those search ones said, here's the 800 ones that you might want to pick from and each one has. Some of them are saying you cannot use this for you can't sell this but this one and it gives you different options as to how you can use the music. Some are completely open to whatever you want, especially the older ones that sound like well, actually, scratch your records that are kind of cool, but you can search by genre and by keywords and all kinds of things. So it's it's a wonderful resource if you're in the business of doing this and you're thinking I'm gonna pick two or three songs I'll use over and over again. Then you can use one of the services out there where you can pay a licensing fee to say, I'm gonna buy this music and use it for these purposes, especially for my purpose, or just tryingto try something. And I wasn't do anything. Is that demonstrated then? This is a great place toe to do that. Um, so okay, lets but just opened up. So sorry. Do it this way. All right, So if I open, it's losing its memory all of a sudden, here is all to go back a long way to find it here. Video. Okay, so there's a video clip and you can see as I move that scrubber. There's the video now, at a certain point, for example, on this video right about there, maybe a little more. There be really no reason to keep the rest of it, because it's just me making sure I didn't cut them off. So the way you trim a video clip in photo shop is you click on the end. You say I'd like it to be this long and see how the little previews popping up there. So if you're not even sure it will show you the asked to far right about there. Now, let me not do that. So then I can show you. But I would add a second clip. It automatically puts it right at the end. So just says there is the next one. But now that I look at that again thinking, okay, that's too long. So I go to this clip and I use that nice preview and say, right about there, see how the other one just moved right over with it At the beginning, I do the same thing. Decide at what point? I mean, I don't want to stay on one shot for two, too long so I might decide. Maybe right around here, you do the same thing. So editing the clips is really about as hard as that. You look at the beginning and end, which in video is considered in pointing out point of a video where it starts where it stops because you've got them and and as soon as you adjust one, the next one's or one's logically move over so you don't have to worry about. I've got this big gap. It just does that automatically, and you continue to change this of you decide later on. I should have actually had more that's still there. So it's It's a It's not really called a smart video, but it kind of is in the sense that it's still there. In case you decide later on. I need another few seconds of that. After all, you can still do that, and on top of that is resolved before you can add the transitions and all that kind of stuff. What if you had a clip of them? Let's say walking down down the path or whatever, and you wanted to break that up into three sections and put it throughout the video. So in that case, you could one of the other options. This method is your trimming, but the other option is to go. Okay, I want to take the argument. I'm gonna right click here and choose split clip. So now I've cut into pieces so I could take just this one piece and reposition it or put on another track or whatever so you can start with one and split them. This is also how for that case when they were walking, I still want to look like one continuous video. But I came in here and said, Make the duration instead of giving, see what that says. Is my eyes so bad? What is that? Eight. Thank you, 15. Okay, so, yes, I went the wrong way. But when you get the idea, that's where you would go in and say I'll maybe was the speed was what I really want to do. That's what I want. I want to speak to be slower. So now that's that little slow motion thing. But as far as its concerned, it's still one clip. So it's continuous, but you're changing the speed. The other reason you might split a clip is, at a certain point, you something go right at this point, I want to add a color tint to it or something. So you just kind of change it? There was one part of the video, if he knows that. But it had this kind of almost slightly blown out black and white effect. That's because when I looked at video, it looked really bad compared to the rest cause the focus a little off and just like photographers do, the best solution is to change it to black and white, make it look like art. So I did that in the video as well. I just said yes. I meant to do that. I was going for that slightly soft focus blown out effect in black and white. Okay, So just to kind of show you some other thoughts of how this works much, you just have to think photo shop techniques with some other things added in to the equation you saw in that video had some little scrolling text. That kind was like credits. That was actually much easier to do than I thought it would be like, How can I do that? Schooling credits well in photo shop. If I were to add text, I would probably say, Let's make a text block and put some text in here. Put anything so I have something. Okay, make it big. Now this Onley works scrolling text. If the text goes off the page, they have mawr That all fits in one. There's nowhere for it to really school. So ideally, I would zoom out to the point where I can enlarge this text block and go. There's all this text all the way down to here wherever that might be. So the way this works and this is probably the thing that takes most people a bit of practice because you have to kind of think through the process a little bit. But here's my type player. I wanted to be the same duration as the one underneath. So that's me determining how long will the text visible in total from beginning to end? Okay. And then at the beginning, I don't really want to see it at all. So I'm gonna take this text and just to give myself more options, convert to a smart object and then drag it right off the window. So at the beginning of this, you don't see it at all. Now I just say at the beginning it should be there, and there is not visible that I moved to the end and you have to do this really zoomed out to be able to do this at the end. I wanted to be. I didn't go far enough. Zoom out even further with the size of screen we're having big monitors helps a whole lot in the world of video. So at the end, I want the video to be off the screen. So the first key frame, I said, put it below where you can't see it at the end, I put it off the end. So now when I hit the play button, there's my scrolling video, our scrolling text. This is really slow. So this is like the Star Wars beginning thing that goes on forever. So you might want to change the speed a little bit, but the principle is the same. And that's the thing that I keep saying because I love this about video. Is that yes, there were a few new things I had to learn, but it wasn't like, Oh, I have to learn a whole new style of creating text or working with graphics. It's still those things and still ultimately layers. So you're still looking at Layers ago now, 12 layers this way. But they're also this way across the timeline, and that's the only part that takes a little bit of practice. So my suggestion to people starting out on this would help me a lot is even though I was tempted to jump right in and throw in like five video clip to start reading them. I started with something really simple, like put a bunch of still images in and then add transitions and go scrub across all network and then try and do start off with something that's not moving and then start adding in. Of course, you could mix and match. You could have a bunch of still images, and if you only have a 22nd video, took a people. You add that into your slideshow, so you have a bunch of still images, nicely trying to also a little video clip and then back to images again. So as far as the timelines concerned, it doesn't care. You can say start with this. Put some of that in as some of that in not a big deal at all. I would highly recommend, though, that well, a couple things. First of all, most people find they never have enough video. Um, there's my little example here. Do you hear this? And also, um, be willing to try experiment with different things. So here's one that I was playing with. I want to Do you know how in the movie sometimes that the credit Stark rolling a scrolling and then they have out takes So no one watches the credits anymore. So I thought maybe I could try that And I had a little out take video that I done from some other project. So just within a couple of minutes of playing around, this is what it came out like. I see. I guess for some reason, the audio isn't playing because we're doing a green screen shot for some reason to these roll out. Take. So it's not going anywhere Near is interesting if you can't hear me flipping up, so that's actually a good thing. So you get the idea, and that was just me going okay So let me see if the credits scroll and then I'll just put a little video window here. But once the credits have gone over time, I could just say now, make the video bigger. So this point of the timeline scale it up. So it really was actually very logical. There was no racking of brain going. I have no idea how to do this. Was it all just kind of made sense? So you just have to think two directions. The layers are this way, but the time goes this way. So then you start putting the two together and say, OK, at this point, the video I would love of the whole video changed the black and white. So at a black and white adjustment layer, but only make it visible starting right there. So from there on, it will be black and white. So building on what you already know in photo shop and just making things move in addition to me is a very powerful thing. And it's I'm very excited by the fact that considering this is really version one of video and photo shop, and here's the other thing I forgot to mention this before CS six, it was only an extended version. You don't even get the possible that video and extended now video Every version of photo shop from now on has video in it. They don't have to be an extended for self extended owner to get access to all of this. So this is, uh, very exciting. The fact that we have most of us in our DSLR has the ability to capture pretty darn good video. One very important suggestion I would have for you if you do decide to presume pursue the area video. One thing that I learned a long time ago that I've since seen this in action is if you have a video where the quality of the video is not the greatest, but the sound is good. People will live with that. If you have the best looking video ever and the sound is bad, people will not watch it. Which is weird to say that because it's a video but sound is such a big part. You've ever watched an interview or YouTube video where it's you see this Nice, clear. Very well. It sounds like people just they can't. They can't watch that. So don't rely on the on camera video, our audio when you're doing a video, unless you're knowing. Like in my case, I knew I didn't. All I was capturing was wind because I was putting a track of audio across the bottom, fearing anything where you're capturing video, get yourself some little some extra way of recording audio. And I have a little $100 zoom recorder thing. YSL handheld thing. And all I do is I start the audio. I start the video and then I clap my hands once. And then when I put it in photo shop, I see a big spike where I go. Oh, that's where it is, and I can line them up very easily and then delete the the audio from the video capture. That's a very common little trick that people do when they're trying to get the best results. Now again, if you're doing slide shows with engagement couples where you know you're gonna put a nice song across the bottom, that's not as important. But I always mention that these people are so thinking of video, they ignore the fact of how important the audio portion of video is and anyone here could a test of that because people watching video at home seeing a broadcast like this, it's great. But if the sound was offer was hard to hear, they would be much less likely to stick with it. Yes, so this was the first video you shot. I know you've been around video production for quite a while. Did you have a hard transition Making that brain clicked of movement versus still images? Well, I think for me the biggest thing Waas I kind of have an idea for a shot of, like, Sam se them dancing on that boat house. And as I was recording, I was like, Is this long enough? I don't really know, because that was the part that was new to me. Is should I be recording five seconds or I mean that that was the part that was the hardest for me. As I could visualize, that would be kind of cool, but I had no idea how long to keep it there. So that's why I thought I had lots of video until I started looking like, Wow, that's an awful long time on that same shot. So I trim it. All of a sudden, everything was getting shorter and shorter. So the main thing I learned is capture more than you'll think you'll need. Because, as my friend Rich says, you end up throwing away a lot of stuff to get to the to the end result you want. As far as the audio is concerned, when editing in photo shop, are you able to, like, play a music clip and then have it fade out and have maybe the audio in the moment like if you're doing engagement session, reason, music and then I love you, the guy telling the girl back to music. Well, you kind of could do that now that the audio track doesn't have a lot of control over it. So normally, if you bring in a video that has audio in it, usually in here you don't see it. But there's old button says Mute audio. So usually that's the only option for video that you brought in and has audios. Either turn it on or off, so you'd have to figure a way to kind of split the clip and say unm, you did now and then kind of split you know, lower that. So you have to kind of do a work around. That's that kind of gaming. That's certainly possible in full blown video editing software. But that's the kind of thing where you start to kind of go, Ooh, I wish I could do it this way, and you may have to kind of figure out some. In the meantime, some work around until right now. I know they have a list of wants that people, So I wish I could. You don't do these additional things. As good as this is, there's a fume or and that's probably going to be a thing that I would say that over time, though, you will see more of that. So, like you've been able to stack the photographs in the videos on different tracks, you have you tried stacking sound well. Right now, there's only one audio. Okay, so there is the most one and most videos off where you're gonna have many audio tracks as you want, but in forced off there's one. Because again it's in its first stage is like, well, most people would probably have to make some decisions or assumptions that mostly would probably put using across the bottom and slides across the top and then very quickly, people said what I'd like to you know so and again. This is not premier. Premiere is a full blown editing product that I'm thinking part of what adobes expectation is people, especially if you're a creative cloud member. Where you have access to it is you'll start with photo shop and then you run into a slight robot. Go on. Maybe I do need to we'll get more into premier cause I want to do much more than this conduce. But for someone that doesn't want to do that, then this is a definitely a pretty cool place to start considering nothing. There was hardly anything in here that I was like, Wow, I just can't figure that out. It was like, Okay, over time I could change this And there I've shown you that, like here you'll see there. Her three options transform opacity and style. If I had a layer with a mask that be also one that's a mask, so even the mask over time you could make the mask appear or not. So there the more things you do, the more options appear. And all of these things, a little stopwatch is a way of reminding you this is change over time by adding a key frame. It says at the beginning, look like this at the and look like this and it fills in the blanks for you. So whether it's movement or opacity or scaling or all of the above, that's the simple way to say, Take my static layer and make it do something And you could do that with video. The video could get smaller and moved, just like it good with a still image. Pretty darn cool stuff, I think, considering it's version one, and the reason I threw this in and this is just kind of with my intention here was to kind of get the ball rolling in your mind to say video, something to explore and also because maybe I'll come back on creativelive again and do more on this knows that might be interesting, but so this was just a wet your whistle. But it seemed to fit into the whole theme of creativity where how can I do things that aren't your typical service that everyone Joe camera guy can do. This would be another one. You've already got a camera that captures little video clips. Why not pull something together like this? You know that when I showed you my 1st 1 took me a while cause I was learning. But I bet you could do a better job the second time in half the time, because now I kind of know I actually restarted One point. I got half within one. Ls I'm kind of going down a path that's not gonna work. So I started again. And so the next time next time after that, like anything, it will get easier as I get more experience with it and start shooting. Just like we talked about shooting photo for photo shop with stills. You're also doing the same thing with videos. I don't want to shoot thinking this could be the start. This could be the end. You know, I didn't do enough of that because I never done it before. Next time, I actually thought I had the perfect ending. I gotta admit this because it's just funny to me. I was They were by this fence and the horse came by. I was like this is perfect. So I had my lens. It was it wasn't a zoom lens. So I had to physically zoom right in and went right to the horse. Was like, That is so perfect. And I looked at it and I instead of pressing record, I'd press stop. So, like, you know, when you forget your VCR and you get just the commercials, not the program was pretty much the same thing. I got nothing. And I was like, course the course was gone. And I was like, Oh, darn it all so And I could like, could you mind running around again? Horse, please. So I can get trying that again. So that's one of the things with more experience I would look at. Okay. What am I pressing here? Okay, start not stopped. So I recorded all this walking of the ground because I thought it was off anyway, so yeah,