Premiere Editing

For the past couple of days we have been working on putting our completed renders into Adobe Premiere Pro for the finalising of our animation. We have been using HDV 1280 x 720 format, ensuring that we are all rendering in the same way. Upon viewing some renders, we have needed to cut/extend the time on them so that they fit in with the narration and vice versa with the narration. For today, we have just been putting together all of our scenes and applying effects to the scenes that are our flashbacks.

For the flashbacks, noise, black and white and brightness and contrast have been added as effects to give these scenes an old looking effect, as they are the flashbacks into the history of Pearl Harbor while the attack is occurring in our other scenes. However, we forgot about the pain of having to render our scenes yet again in Premiere...a couple have taken a ridiculous amount of time again and have had to be left on overnight as the time remaining just kept increasing. So that was a major pain, but we have allowed enough time for it and plan to spend another day on getting the footage into Premiere, along with the soundscape and sound effects (Lydia has been creating the soundscape as best she can without the full timing of the animation while we've been waiting for other member's renders and I have been gathering sound effects to be used). Once the animation is complete, we will insert the sound effects and soundscape so that it matches up properly with the events that are going on in the scenes.

We have also added the beginning, end and title screens. These use simple fades and transitions to make our animation look more professional. We have also included a fade to white in the last flashback scene before some of the big battle scenes commence.