A Long Island Sunset

This edit was an exercise in the basics. While in NY last week, I shot some simple footage as my Uncle and I watched the sunset along the eastern shore of Long Island.

The editing of this footage consisted of me learning the limits of the "Edge Feather" effect in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Originally, I wanted to have a second, duplicate video layer of the sunset, and have the edges feathered in to highlight the sun. I would fade out the lower layer sunset video, revealing the layer with the sunset being highlighted by the feather effect.

However, I discovered that the feather effect in Premiere does not extend beyond it's limit of "100", which is roughly half of the video size. The small area of the video that I wanted to emphasize was too far from the edges of the video to be affected by the feather effect. If I wanted to continue with my original plan, I would have to do an After Effects composition. Instead, I just did a simple crop with animation.

Anyway, this is the beautiful sunset as seen from The Hamptons. The video hardly does it justice, but you can get the idea.