Barracuda Highschool Hellcats

Barracuda Highschool Hellcats
Video sent by IrishHermit

Here's how I did it. My old video camera is an analog 8mm format. Because of that, I had to transfer the original video to my computer using an ATI capture card. The one mistake I made was in capturing it as a .wmv file instead of an .avi file to keep the size down. The compression took a lot of quality out of the video. Then I converted the Hellcats trailer to an .avi file with Quicktime Pro.

Once I had both of them converted, I imported them into Adobe Premiere Pro. The next step was find those parts of the trailer I wanted to use. I put that on the second video track in Premiere. Then I had to go through the video from the cookout and decide on what parts I wanted to use with the captions and audio from the trailer. I put those parts on track one and converted them to black and white. On track two I used the Luma Key effect to make the black parts of the video transparent. In Adobe Premiere, like most non-linear editors, the higher tracks cover the video in the lower tracks. The transparent sections allow the lower video to show through.

Except for the Hillary joke, I killed the audio from the original video and used the trailers audio. I played around with the levels and roll-off to try and match the audios. Most audio editing programs will allow you to create newsreel type audio by playing around with the roll-off of the low and high frequencies.

Once that was finished I used Adobe's Media Encoder to export the video. Dailymotion limits the size of the video you can upload to 150 MB. So, I had to experiment with various encodings to get the finished product to a size that I could upload. I ended up using mpeg with a frame size of 320 x 240 pixels.

What I didn't do was balance the contrast, brightness and gamma in the original video. Also, you can see quite a bit of bleed through in the titles from the trailer. They look like poor video overlays from the fifties. Even though I was trying to recreate the look of an old American International movie, it still had too much of a "video" feel. Considering I just started playing with this and have yet to read the manual it didn't come out too bad. I have access to Adobe After Effects and want to learn that program. From what I read, that is better for the video effects.

That's it in a nutshell. Now I have to read the books.