Select your clip, and head over to the Effects Editor. Now everything left is a matter of key framing.
You’ve now marked the dead center of the image to use as a guide to line up your ball. Click and drag a line down from the top to the middle line on the Title / Action overlay, and repeat this from the left as well. Now, clicking and dragging down from the top, and over from the left will create a blue marking line overlay on the image. Halfway down the overlay, on all 4 side you’ll notice a center marker. These overlays are normally used as a guide for on screen text and standard crop zones on older TVs, but this overlay can also help you quickly identify the exact center of the screen. In Premiere, display your title / action safe overlay. You can do a lot with little tweaks in an editing room, and this simple (but time-consuming) trick can turn an ordinary, boring shot into something eye-catching.įor a trick like this, you might be thinking you could just take it over into After Effects and motion tracking would make this a breeze, right? Well, in this case, that won’t work since the tracker wouldn’t be able to lock on to the spinning ball without making tons of mistakes.Īnd, though it make work better in After Effects sometimes, the quickest way to do a trick like this is to animate the motion in Premiere by hand. In this case, the soccer ball always sits in the dead center of the image and though it rolls and is kicked up several times, this is entirely an effect that is created in post.
When an object is continuously recentered in the frame, it draws in the audiences’ attention and has the effect of making that object seem like the center of the universe.
HOW TO CROP A VIDEO ON PREMIERE PRO 2020 HOW TO
Keyframing animations by hand is a tedious task, but this example of how to keep a moving object centered in Premiere by Javier Mercedes is well worth the extra effort.
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