Video products should include a title graphic and black video as bookends. Bookends must contain a 5-second title graphic followed by 2 seconds of black video before your runtime, and 5 seconds of black video after your runtime for editing and documentation purposes.
To create bookends, follow these steps:
- Click within the Timeline Panel. Press Home on your keyboard to park the play head 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) Example: Sgt. John Doe
- Visual Information Record Identification Number (VIRIN) Example: 200101-O-ZZ999-1001
- Product title (appropriately name the product/story based on its content) Example: Video Documentation Demo
- 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.
- Select New Item > Black Video > Press OK.
- Right-click on the Black Video clip in your Project Panel and select Speed/Duration.
- Change the duration to 5 seconds.
- Rename it 5 sec black video.
- Select New Item > Black Video > Press OK.
- Right-click on the Black Video clip in your Project Panel and select Speed/Duration.
- Change the duration to 2 seconds.
- Rename it 2 sec black video.
- Place the 5 seconds of black video clip at the end of the video clip in the Timeline.
- Place the 2 seconds of black video clip between the title and the first clip of the video in the Timeline.
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