Tips for editing Videos in Adobe Premiere 6.5

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Tips for editing Videos in Adobe Premiere 6.5

• James Twoteeth
• GIS Analyst

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Presentation Overview

• Background of Names Places Videos (stats)
• Tips for Cataloguing and documenting videos
• Editing in Adobe Premiere (capture, title pages,
• Tips, etc)
• Sensitive issues, suggestions.

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Background
Original Work
This Is My Land (Khwi Khwe
Hntmikhwlumkhw) by Gary B. Palmer,
Ph. D, is a workbook published in 1987. Dr.
Palmer is a professor from the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas in the Department of
Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.
Elder Grammarians Lawrence Nicodemus
and Lavinia Felsman Funded by a grant from the
Idaho Humanities Council
Scope of the project
Identify geographic features with Coeur dAlene
names (over 120) Preserve Coeur dAlene
Language and Stories Follow up work done by
Graduate student Mathew Jensen (u of Idaho)
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Background
The Names-Places Project is a collaborative
undertaking by the Coeur d'Alene Tribal Elders,
the Language Center and the GIS Geographic
Systems) program. The purpose of this project
is to preserve tribal culture by visiting
geographic sites and recording video, audio, and
still photos of Elders describing the site in
both English and Coeur d'Alene languages. GIS
allows files to be linked to sites on maps that
can be accessed with a "mouse click." Digital
video, audio, and still photos of the site are
attached to the map. The Tribe has recognized the
potential of emerging technologies for archiving,
preserving, and presenting cultural information.
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Scope of the Names-Places project
Enhancement and expansion of Dr. Palmers
project using computer technologies.
GIS mapping Digital images Audio
recording Video
Where I come in
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To date, we have visited most of the 120 sites
listed in The original work for the Names-Places
project. We have about 85 finished videos for
the project along With audio/video footage from
other various tribal events.
Included in the tribal Website for use by Tribal
departments Maybe get a chance to look-at
website Later?
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Tip for cataloguing and documenting
It is very important to keep clear concise
records of the site visits to help with archiving
of the data, as well as assisting the people that
are editing the videos. Keep in mind that the
people that edit the videos probably were not
present during the site visit, so the
documentation is all they have to go off of.
Archiving contents Site visit forms Burned CD
of videos Burned CD of Audio Backed up VCR
Tape Misc info (Adobe premiere Projects, drgs,
etc.)
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Documentation, Archiving and Backups
  Trip record (paper) Field notes
Naming conventions By date, site , and
document (photo) GPS data By date,
site , and document (photo) VHS or digital to
VHS copies Audio cassette to digital CD
Digital photo to CD Storage Originals
(cool, dry place such as a safe) Backups
(stored off site)
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It can be a simple form like this.
Site NameDate Crew Names
Misc stuff GPS, description, Location, Photo
names, Filenames, videos, etc.
If you have multiple sites on one tape,
please mark down start/end times on documentation
Title Slides would really be helpful like have
a Dry erase board and write Site name, video
start/end time and display them on camera
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Or you can adopt a form from local SHIPO
Office to be consistent (CRM)
CDA Tribe CRM is a SHIPO Office so they adopted
these on certain visits.
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Field Techniques
Audio tape during travel Never have to much
data Microphone 90 minute
tapes - TAPE EVERYTHING NEVER MISS A GOOD STORY
RECORD, CUT LATER Video taping-
TAPE EVERYTHING NEVER MISS A GOOD STORY
RECORD, CUT LATER Microphone
wire/wireless Tripod
Lighting Shade, dark background
Slow pans Smooth zooms
Shoot lots of footage
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Video/Audio Capture/Editing
Gather lots of data never have too much
Use microphones Use a tripod Learn some
digital editing software Adobe Premiere is
very versatile Limit video clips to 180
seconds Videos are enomorous
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Hardware Tips
Computer have a beefy machine to do this.
lots of hard drive space (320x240 pixels
_at_ 15fps 100mb/min) video card
sound card lots of RAM VCR
actually two for dubbing and archiving TV
actually two Audio cassette
player/recorder with dubbing
capabilities
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Editing in Adobe Premiere
Adobe Premiere takes a little bit to learn, but
once You play around with it, it works very good.
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Editing in Adobe Premiere
Remember all the footage from one site could
be Like 1hr of tape (couple of GB as well). If
you put on a website you need to get that 1hr
of tape down to about 3 minutes of a final
video. So a suggestion would be to listen and
watch entire video and come up with a storyboard
or sequence of scenes to cut and edit, this will
save you a lot of time.
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Capturing Video
Capture via FIREWIRE Cable directly into Adobe
Premiere save as AVI files. Must capture into 3
minute segments or the video files will be too
massive to work with. When capturing, rewind
next clip 10 seconds, this way when you put
multiple clips together there is overlap and
they can be fitted together better.
Sony DCR-VX2000
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Video for editing, can import and mix anything in
Premiere.
Title Pages can be Made of any jpg or img.
Transitions between frames or scenes.
ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 Interface
Audio for editing, can cut and mix anything in
Premiere (all sorts of music).
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Title Pages can be Made and edited in Adobe
Photoshop, etc.
Usually takes about a day or two from start to
finish per video.
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Output Formats
Generally it depends on your audience. We are
putting ours on the web, so we stored our videos
in 3 common formats RM (real
media), FLV(Flash), WMV (Windows Media video
file)
Usually when editing in Adobe Premiere you are
working primarialy with AVI files, they are very
big and slow to put on a website.
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Sensitive issues
Rule of thumb Beware of showing the locations
of things that can be vandalized. Graves,
sacred sites, etc.
Indicate on field forms if something is present
that should be kept private .
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Sample Video Made in Adobe Premiere 6.5
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Any Questions? Contact InfoJames TwoteethGIS
Analystjtwoteeth_at_cdatribe-nsn.gov