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 05/01/2012 10:55:23 AM · #1
I was asked to put together a video of our trip to Haiti. I'm no video expert and hope to have critiques and suggestions for the transitions, edits, text, etc. It's too late to reshoot the interviews, so I could only change simple things.

You can find the video on my Smugmug site here. It's just under four minutes. Let me know what you think.

WARNING: The video is overtly religious. If that kind of stuff makes you squeamish, then I wouldn't watch. I'm not looking to turn this into one of "those" threads.
 05/01/2012 11:23:44 AM · #2
I am far from an expert but I thought it was pretty good. A few suggestions I would offer are the following: I would like to see more movement in the stills, I forget the name but you basically start the frame at one part of the photo and you choose to pan it or zoom in/out to draw attention to specific parts. It also adds drama in my opinion. The other suggestion is the transitioning of music to talking, parts seemed a bit sudden and I would say to fade the music but have it in the background during speaking parts. Thanks for sharing the video.
 05/01/2012 11:29:50 AM · #3
Originally posted by MinsoPhoto:
I am far from an expert but I thought it was pretty good. A few suggestions I would offer are the following: I would like to see more movement in the stills, I forget the name but you basically start the frame at one part of the photo and you choose to pan it or zoom in/out to draw attention to specific parts. It also adds drama in my opinion. The other suggestion is the transitioning of music to talking, parts seemed a bit sudden and I would say to fade the music but have it in the background during speaking parts. Thanks for sharing the video.


I really wanted to do the pan and zoom as well, but do not know how to do it through Premiere Elements. Anybody have any info on this?

I also agree on your transition critique. That was a struggle. I tried the same song in the background and it was too busy so I switched to the much lighter instrumental. Maybe I could add a few slides and fade the music over a longer period or even fade it out completely for 3-5 seconds before the interview starts.
 05/01/2012 11:31:15 AM · #4
Great little video! I didn't find it overtly religious, it was about right to convey the level of commitment that you guys have.

I do agree that a little motion would add a lot of interest.
 05/01/2012 11:42:07 AM · #5
I'm using Premiere Elements 7 BTW. I may have found some forum topics on it. I agree it always makes it more interesting.
 05/01/2012 12:04:01 PM · #6
I have only ever played around with iMovie on the Mac so I won't be of any help with that.
 05/01/2012 06:53:29 PM · #7
Bump for the evening crew, especially if someone knows how to do pan and zoom in PSE 7.
 05/01/2012 11:01:02 PM · #8
I found the opening sequence hard to take. You just bombarded me with images. But once you got to the interviews you found a narrative for the photos and it worked well.
 05/01/2012 11:51:00 PM · #9
Originally posted by posthumous:
I found the opening sequence hard to take. You just bombarded me with images. But once you got to the interviews you found a narrative for the photos and it worked well.


Thanks Don. It may be a bit hard to address that. The opening sequence is meant to tell the story of Port au Prince in general outside the compound and tent village. Many of the pictures come from our initial drive through the city, but I see how they seem less connected. Maybe I can alter their order somewhat.
 05/02/2012 04:33:54 AM · #10
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by posthumous:
I found the opening sequence hard to take. You just bombarded me with images. But once you got to the interviews you found a narrative for the photos and it worked well.


Thanks Don. It may be a bit hard to address that. The opening sequence is meant to tell the story of Port au Prince in general outside the compound and tent village. Many of the pictures come from our initial drive through the city, but I see how they seem less connected. Maybe I can alter their order somewhat.

If you can work out the zoom/panning of those initial images, that might help. You could use something like ProShow to create the slideshow part and then merge the result with the video portions in Premiere.

Overall, I thought it was great. The quality of the video was fantastic, as were the images, but then I would expect that from you. :) Only nit is the flash words around 25 seconds in.

Well done on the video and more importantly, on the efforts to help the folks in Haiti.
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