DIGITAL SHORT MASH UP!-Make your own Digital Short-the crazier the better; can be from existing digital shorts or your own!

For this assignment, I took four different digital shorts from SNL. [There are over 100 to choose from]. The ones I chose were I’m On A Boat, Boombox, The Creep, and Threw it on the Ground. These are four of my favorites.

Here’s the finished product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bY_P3PXEmCM

In order to make this, I first downloaded the youtube videos from the Lonely Island’s VEVO channel via iLivid. This exports the videos into my videos folder. I opened Adobe Premiere. I went to File->import and control clicked on the video files I wanted to import so that it could import multiple files at once. Once they were in premiere, I right clicked on each one under the project tab in the lower left corner to import it onto the editing table thing [sequence 1 is the default name] in the lower right hand side of the screen.

[Sometimes you can drag and drop too]. I used the razor tool to clip out the parts I wanted or didn’t want and deleted the ones I didn’t want by clicking them with the pointer and then pressing delete [because, let’s face it, that editing table gets pretty crowded.] I then used the pointer tool to put all of my clips in to place, dragging and dropping them where I needed them [be careful here—it is very easy to accidentally overlay video; adobe will show you when you are lined up with the video by this thin black bar that has arrows] , and played through to make sure I had edited everything clearly and concisely. I went to file->export-> media. When the screen pops up be sure you’ve got entire sequence selected [sometimes it will say work area DO NOT EXPORT JUST WORK AREA].

This appears on the left hand side of the export screen, below the video. I export in an MPEG4 because it compresses pretty well, although the video quality is higher in other export formats. Make sure you click maximum render quality too. Then, click export. You can decide the destination folder by clicking on the orange title and then seeing where it will appear. Congrats! You did it!