This video follows the steps below to demonstrate how to finalize your video projects with a five-second title graphic followed by two seconds of black video at the beginning. Also included is how to create five seconds of black video at the end of your runtime.
To create bookends, follow these steps:
- Drop your video footage on your Timeline.
- Click within the Timeline panel. Press Home on your keyboard to park the playhead at the start of the video.
- Select Graphics > New Layer > Text. A text box appears in the program monitor, and a new text layer appears in the Timeline.
- Use the Selection tool [V] to move the text box to the upper-left corner within inner safe margins.
Note: If safe margins are not visible in the program monitor, right-click within the program monitor, and select Safe Margins.
- Switch to the Type tool [T]. Click inside the box and select all [Ctrl + A].
- Fill in the box as follows. Press [Enter] after each line.
- Your rank and name (first and last, e.g., Sgt. John Doe).
- Visual Information Record Identification Number (e.g., 200101-O-ZZ999-1001).
- Product title (appropriately name the product/story based on its content, e.g., Video Documentation Demo).
- Press Enter after each line.
- Switch to the Selection tool [V]. Right-click on the text layer in the Timeline, and then select Speed/Duration.
- Change the duration to 5 seconds.
- Click OK.
- Navigate to the Project panel.
- Select New Item > Black Video > Press OK. A new window will appear.
- Check to ensure the Width, Timebase and Pixel Aspect Ratio are correct. Select OK.
- Right-click on the Black Video clip in your Project Panel and select Speed/Duration.
- Change the duration to 2 seconds. Select OK.
- Rename to: 2 Sec Black Video.
- Select New Item > Black Video > Press OK. A new window will appear.
- Check to ensure the Width, Timebase and Pixel Aspect Ratio are correct. Select OK.
- Right-click on the Black Video clip in your Project Panel and select Speed/Duration.
- Change the duration to 5 seconds. Select OK.
- Rename to: 5 Sec Black Video.
- Place the 2 Sec Black Video between the title and the first clip of the video in the Timeline.
- Place the 5 Sec Black Video at the end of the video clip in the Timeline.
The beginning of your video now includes a five-second title graphic followed by two seconds of black video, and the end of your footage concludes with five seconds of black video. Your video product is complete and ready for the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service.
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