LESSON 12: VIDEO TEMPLATE

Did you want to add something extra to your videos??  A introduction screen?

Maybe add text and borders to the top and bottom of you video. 

You could use this if you want to put together a Demo Reel of your work

You can create this in photo shop and later add this to your video.

If you have photo shop you can create this template. If not you can download a free trial on the adobe website.

Open Photo shop - Go to FILE then New - 

Select the Film and Video template then choose DVCPRO HD 1080 - 

Then for background content  Choose Transparent

Change the colour of the brush to black

Click Paint Bucket Fill and click the box the change it to black

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool 

select where you want the video to show, then hit Delete. 

Then Select the Rectangle Tool

Draw a Square Around the area where you want to have the red squares, then double click the rectangle in the layer list on the right and change colour overlay to red (see below)

Then change the opacity to your layers to make them transparent.

Double click on your background layer and choose gradient overlay,

You can keep adding rectangle throughout your project. To make it interesting.  change the transparency and colour.

The text that was in my original background screen was added in Sony Vegas Pro. 

Once you have completed this you can save it as PNG and import it into your editing program. 

This the end result. Of course you can change the colours and layout depending on what you want to use it for. This one would properly be good for a corporate demo