Click on any phrase to play the video from that point.
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[Lightroom for Travel Photography]
[male speaker] With virtually all digital cameras and in fact many mobile phones
giving you the capability to capture digital video,
there's a good chance that during your travels you might capture some video clips
alongside your still photographs.
Lightroom 4 makes it easy to manage, optimize, and even share your digital video clips
along with all of your still photographs.
On the filmstrip you can see that I have a video here.
There is a time code letting me know this is a video
and that it is, in this case, 48 seconds long.
I’ll go ahead and click on that video thumbnail.
Now you can see that we have some controls with the video,
and we’re able to actually play back the video directly here within Lightroom.
In this case, the video is perhaps a little bit too long, so I’d like to trim it.
This beginning section here is really just unnecessary.
We can scrub through the video.
I’ll go ahead and drag the slider left and right
to the particular time code where I want to get started.
And let’s assume that right about there is where I’d actually like the video to start.
I’ll go ahead and pause the video and adjust the starting point,
and then I can click on the button at the far right in order to trim.
This will bring up a set of additional controls.
I’ve positioned the video at the point where I want it to start.
I want to trim away all of this over on the left side.
I’ll go ahead and drag the handle over to that point,
and that portion of the video will no longer be played back within Lightroom.
I’ll go ahead and drag over toward the right,
and we’ll find a nice ending point for the video.
You can see a bird flying through the frame,
so maybe we’ll stop the video right before that bird enters the frame.
Right about there looks pretty good,
so I’ll drag the slider from the right side to trim to that point.
Now we have a much shortened version of our video.
We can go ahead and play that video back.
You’ll see that it starts and ends exactly at the positions that I’ve identified with that trim slider.
I can also change the thumbnail that’s associated with the video.
You’ll notice that the thumbnail shows the first frame in the video.
But if I’d like to have a different thumbnail represent the video, I can do that.
I’ll go ahead and move the slider to a position
that's more representative of the contents of the video--
this looks to be a pretty good spot--
and then I’ll click this button and choose Set Poster Frame,
and that will cause the thumbnail for this video to be that exact frame.
You can see now in the Navigator I have a thumbnail
that represents that particular position
rather than just the first frame of the video.
The poster frame that I’ve selected is a good representative frame for the overall video.
So now in the Quick Develop section on the right panel I can apply some adjustments
in order to improve the overall appearance.
I’ll definitely increase Contrast.
The single arrow buttons adjust to a small degree,
whereas the double arrow buttons adjust to a large degree.
So you can fine-tune using those buttons.
I’ll also darken the image down just a little bit--that looks a little bit better--
and I think I might warm up the image just a little with the Temperature adjustment.
I can adjust all of these parameters for the video and a few more.
I could even use a preset.
We have a variety of presets that are included with Lightroom.
We can also create our own.
And in fact, if you’d like, you can capture a still frame from the video
and use that as the basis of your adjustments
and then save a preset in the Develop module and apply that here.
To capture a frame from the video, you can just click this button on the control set
and then choose Capture Frame and that will capture the current frame.
You can see this is the movie file on the left and a jpeg image over on the right.
They’re in a stack.
I can apply adjustments in the Develop module to this jpeg image
and then save a preset and apply that preset to the video itself.
I think this video is looking much, much better.
The overall appearance has improved,
and I’ve also shortened it to include just the more interesting portions of the clip.
And so at this point I can very easily share this video clip
just as I would my photographic images.
I can export the video to upload it to another website, for example,
or I can share it directly to Facebook or Flickr
if I set up those accounts within the publish services.
The bottom line is that, for the most part,
we can share videos in exactly the same way that we share still photographs in Lightroom.
The only key difference, obviously, is we need to think about the fact
that this is a video and not a still photograph.
With all these capabilities it’s very easy to organize, optimize,
and share your digital videos just as you would your still photographs within Lightroom.
[Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4]
