This tutorial will show you how to insert a foreign object into a movie with Premiere Pro 2.0. I used it in my movie "House, Tritter and KFC", where I put a bucket of fried wings and a box of KFC nuggets in the hands of detective Tritter to create a funny scene with him and House.
In the process you will learn about transparency, import, motion and scale.
1. Preparing the object - Transparency
Find a picture of an object you want to insert into your movie and open it with Photoshop (here it's the KFC bucket).
We need to create an image with transparent background. The problem with Photoshop is that background layers don't allow transparency. But here is a little trick to fix that: right-click on the background layer in the layer window and select Layer from background, then OK.
Select your object with the Polygonal Lasso Tool (Feather 3px, Anti-alias).
Polygonal Lasso Tool
Invert the selection with Select -> Inverse. Press the Delete key and voila! Save the image as .psd or .gif (not .jpeg!).
2. Importing
The nice thing about Premiere Pro 2.0 is that you can import almost anything into it. So import your movie and then also the previously saved picture: Import (As footage, Merged layers).
Set movie to the moment that you want the object to appear in and drag the picture into the timeline (as shown below). I choosed the moment when the detective Tritter comes into the scene.
On the next page I will show you how to blend the object in and make it move with the person.
