Importing Into Premiere Pro

While myself and Lydia have been importing the targa/avi files and the sound effects/voiceover/music files into Premiere Pro while we are once again waiting for render files from someone in the group, we have been getting re-familiar with Premiere and learning new skills along the way.

Importing targa files has been a new and valuable skill for all of us. It makes rendering much more reliable and less likely to crash and lose all of our work, plus it is generally easier to piece all of our broken up scenes together in Premiere. We have had to leave some gaps for Scott's files that he keeps rendering at the wrong size for some reason, but the sound effects have been easily synced up and worked around this issue. The voiceovers were not needed for any of Scott's scenes, but he still needs to re-record his voiceover for Lydia's flashback scene, which was recorded wrong three times, but hopefully this will be done today.

We have been playing about again with the speed and duration of certain clips so that they fit together well with the sound. Me and Lydia have been also having fun using lots of fades and blending modes where it's appropriate, as well as timing the bombs with the big explosions. We have slowed down the fire scene at the end to make it a slow motion dramatic pan out, so that the majority of Roosevelt's speech can be included. We had to cut down certain parts of the voiceover ever so slightly, but we ensured that all of the important information was still included so that the viewer understood what was occurring in the flashbacks.