For this lesson we’re going to cover the Premiere preparation alone. If you’re not familiar with Adobe Premiere, check out Gretchen Siegchrist’s tutorials on Desktop Video @ About.com.
Here’s the basic setup of what you’ll need: clean video of your video subject against a solid background that doesn’t share any colors with your video subject (bluescreen or greenscreen is best), imported into Premiere and dragged onto your Timeline. The higher quality your video, the better; we’re going to be reducing quality by exporting to a compressed/reduced image format, which means you’ll need the best video possible to start with in order to keep deterioration to a minimum.
