Need help urgently with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

[even13flow]

During my most recent filming excursion (Papa Roach), I accidentally stopped recording the show by hitting the record button again by accident. 46 seconds later, I realized it. Now, I did run a second cam as a backup audio rig that night, so I do have audio. I thought that instead of having a cut in the show I would do as I've had Tim and Michael do for me in the past, put in a countdown clock like this one.



I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro and admittedly am not the best with it, but this video is one of my best yet and I don't want to mess it up! Can anybody help me?

~Jake

[LeperMessiah26]

During my most recent filming excursion (Papa Roach), I accidentally stopped recording the show by hitting the record button again by accident. 46 seconds later, I realized it. Now, I did run a second cam as a backup audio rig that night, so I do have audio. I thought that instead of having a cut in the show I would do as I've had Tim and Michael do for me in the past, put in a countdown clock like this one.



I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro and admittedly am not the best with it, but this video is one of my best yet and I don't want to mess it up! Can anybody help me?

~Jake

Hi Jake,

I cant comment on Adobe PP, but i used Sony Vegas for the Disturbed show, also Photoshop.

I created the picture in PS, with no timer, then i put that picture into Vegas and then rendered an MPEG2 video from it.

You then insert that MPEG into the gap in your show, stretch it so all the gap is filled with the new video, find out how long the gap is, in your case 46 seconds.
You then add a video fx on the rendered MPEG, it`ll be a timer filter, add 46 seconds, then render that MPEG again, insert the new MPEG in place of the old one, then click on video fx again, and reverse it, that should leave you with a countdown timer.

This is in Vegas though, i havent used Adobe, but i presume its something similar?

Good luck mate

[even13flow]

Thanks for the help Michael, I'm going to give it a shot and see what happens lol

[maidencolorado]

I'd probably follow the same workflow as Michael, as I have access to Vegas but have no real experience with Adobe PP. Hopefully things work out for you on this one.

[even13flow]

Well, after spending quite a bit of time working on it I FINALLY got it, had to keep texting Tim and having him baby step me...but I started with the steps Michael gave me. Here's what I came up with.



Thanks to both of you guys for your help.

[maidencolorado]

Looks good, Jake! Glad you got it to work