User Guide

choose for Method—Insert Edit or Overlay Edit—because in this case, there aren’t any
clips in the sequence already. If you want a specific transition between each clip, check
the
appropriate box or boxes to apply the default audio or video transition. Specify the
duration of the transitions by entering a value for Clip Overlap. To exclude either the video
or audio tracks, select the appropriate Ignore option.
When you click OK, the clips in your storyboard are instantly assembled into a sequence
according to the options you specified.
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Animating an Adobe Photoshop File
You can make sophisticated compositions in Adobe® Premiere® Pro by adding motion
graphics to your video clips. Import multilayered graphics from Adobe
® Photoshop® and
manipulate their scale, skew, and position. Every track is a compositing track that includes
an alpha channel so that transparency is built in. Just add layers, adjust, and go!
1. Import Adobe Photoshop files.
To take full advantage of new compositing capabilities in Adobe Premiere Pro, use
Photoshop files with transparent backgrounds, or add an alpha channel to an existing
Photoshop file. For example, you can create a logo on a single, transparent layer to
animate over video. (For instructions, see Adobe Photoshop Help.)
Import the Photoshop file as footage with merged layers and then add it to the topmost
track in the Timeline window. Add video clips to the lower tracks. Use the rate stretch tool
in the Timeline window to adjust the duration of the graphic to around five seconds.
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2. Optimize your work area to use effects.
Adobe Premiere Pro uses effects to animate layers and provides a workspace setting
designed specifically for this task. Choose Window > Workspace > Effects to open the
Effect Controls window, docked in the Monitor window. Click the tab to view its contents.
3. Set keyframes for the Motion effect.
To animate clips, use the Motion effect. This effect allows you to adjust the position, scale,
and rotation properties of a clip. Because these properties are intrinsic characteristics of a
clip, they are built into every clip. As such, the Motion, Opacity, and Volume effects appear
in the Effect Controls window whenever you select a clip in the Timeline window. To view
these effects, select the Photoshop file in the Timeline window.
To make Motion properties vary over a specific duration, you must set at least two
keyframes for each property. Adobe Premiere Pro interpolates values between these
keyframes. Expand the Motion effect in the Effect Controls window and click the
stopwatch for each property to establish starting keyframes.
4. Adjust the clip handles.
The easiest way to animate scale and position is by directly manipulating clip handles
in the Program view of the Monitor window. To activate clip handles, select the
Motion effect in the Effect Controls window. Handles appear around the edges of the
image and an anchor point appears at its center. All adjustments are calculated around
the anchor point.
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Next, position the selection tool on the image in the Program view. To adjust scale or