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03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 3 1 C H A P T E R Premiere Quickstart ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ In This Chapter W elcome to the world of Adobe Premiere and digital video. For both experts and beginners alike, Adobe Premiere 6.5 packs the power you need to create sophisticated digital video productions. You can create digital movies, documentaries, sales presentations, and music videos directly from your desktop computer or laptop.
03518305 ch01.F 4 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 4 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Here’s a short list of some of the production tasks that you can accomplish with Premiere: ✦ Edit digital video clips into a complete digital video production. ✦ Capture video from a digital camcorder or videotape recorder. ✦ Capture audio from a microphone or audio recording device. ✦ Load stock digital graphics, video, and audio clips. ✦ Create titles and animated title effects, such as scrolling or rolling titles.
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03518305 ch01.F 6 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 6 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere How Premiere Works To understand the Premiere production process, you need a basic understanding of the steps involved in creating a conventional videotape production in which the production footage is not digitized. In traditional, or linear, video production, all production elements are transferred to videotape.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 7 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart ✦ Rolling edit. As you click and drag to add frames to the clip in the Timeline, Premiere automatically subtracts from the frames in the next clip. As you click and drag to remove frames, Premiere automatically adds back frames from the next clip in the Timeline. ✦ Ripple edit. As you add or subtract frames, Premiere automatically adds to or subtracts from the entire program’s duration. ✦ Slip edit.
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03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 9 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart Starting a Premiere project A Premiere digital video production is called a project instead of a video production. The reason for this is that Premiere not only enables you to create the production, but it enables you to create and store titles, transitions, and effects. Thus, the file you work in is much more than just a production — it’s truly a project.
03518305 ch01.F 10 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 10 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Figure 1-3: Use the Load Project Settings dialog box to pick project presets. • If you want to use the DV files, click the DV– NTSC Real-time preview folder and then click the Standard 32kHz choice. This setting is used for footage shot with a DV camera. It adheres to the National Television System Committee (NTSC) standards used for broadcast TV in the United States.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 11 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart Setting a Workspace When you start Premiere for the first time, a dialog box opens in which you must choose your default workspace. After you make your choice, Premiere sets up windows and palettes geared to your specific needs. You must choose between A/B Editing and Single-Track Editing. If you are new to Premiere or don’t have any editing experience, your best bet is to choose Edit: A/B workspace.
03518305 ch01.F 12 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 12 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere After the Premiere windows open, you’re ready to import the various graphic and sound elements that will comprise your digital video production. All the items that you import are stored in the Project window. An icon represents each item. Next to the icon, Premiere displays whether the item is a video clip, an audio clip, or a graphic.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 13 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart Figure 1-4: The Project palette with the items needed to create the Nite Out project CrossReference Creating titles in Premiere is discussed in Chapter 8. Viewing clips in the Project window Before you begin assembling your production, you may want to view a clip or graphic, or listen to an audio track. You can obtain a thumbnail preview of any of the clips in the Project window by clicking the clip.
03518305 ch01.F 14 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 14 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Premiere’s storyboard feature enables you to import clips into a storyboard window or to drag clips into a Storyboard window to help you in your pre-production planning. Figure 1-5 shows a simple storyboard we created for our Nite Out project. Viewing it should give you an idea of how the production will be edited. Figure 1-5: Using a storyboard can help in your preproduction planning.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 15 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart then appears in the Timeline as an icon. The duration of the clip or graphic is represented by the length of the clip in the Timeline. Arranging clips in the Timeline You’ll spend a great deal of time positioning clips in the Timeline while editing your production. Premiere’s Selection and Range Select tools help you assemble your program’s clips in the order you want. Here’s how to work select and move clips: ✦ Single clip.
03518305 ch01.F 16 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 16 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Changing the time zoom level Most Premiere users create their video projects at 15 to 30 frames per second. Viewing all of these frames on the Timeline quickly consumes Timeline space. As you work, you’ll probably want to switch time intervals back and forth between viewing individual frames and viewing frames by seconds.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 17 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart Adding the title to the Timeline Start the production process by adding the opening title to the Timeline. The title includes an alpha channel, which allows the background video to be seen beneath the title. The title was created from a template in Adobe Title Designer. (To access Adobe Title Designer, choose File ➪ New ➪ Title.
03518305 ch01.F 18 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 18 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere 7. Save your work by choosing File ➪ Save. Name your file Nite Out. Note If you don’t see tracks Video 1A and Video 1B, your workspace is probably set to Single Track Editing. To view the Video 1A and 1B tracks, choose Window ➪ Workspace ➪ A/B Editing. Trimming clips in the Timeline window You can edit a clip in several ways.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 19 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart Play Figure 1-9: The Monitor window’s Play button Editing in the Clip window The clip window provides precise controls for editing clips. Using the Clip window, you can easily navigate to specific frames and then mark in or out points. After you apply the in and out points, you can drag the clip directly to the Timeline. If the clip is already in the Timeline, it adjusts to the settings used in the clip window.
03518305 ch01.F 20 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 20 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Note Clips open in the Clip window, when the Monitor window is set to Single View (the default setting for the A/B Workspace). If the Monitor is set to Dual View, doubleclicking a clip opens it in the left (Source) side of the Monitor window. The button controls in the Source section of the Monitor window are very similar to those in the Clip window.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 21 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart drag the Scrub tool, or click and drag in the tread area. To forward or backward move frame-by-frame, click either of the two arrow buttons to the left of the Stop button. 6. Now click and drag in the tread area or drag the Scrub tool to the right to move toward the end of the clip. At about 6 seconds and 2 frames, the scene switches to a long shot of the waitress handing out menus. 7.
03518305 ch01.F 22 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 22 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Figure 1-11: The Cross Dissolve Settings dialog box previews the curtain effect. 4. To place the transition onscreen, click and drag it to the Transition track. Place it at the point where the clip in the Video 1A track ends, and the clip in track Video 1B begins. Previewing the transition You can create a manual preview of the transition effect by double-clicking the Transition icon in the Transition palette.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 23 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart 5. To complete the edit, click the Apply button. Adding another dissolve Now create another transition — this time between the Diners clip and the Chefs clip. 1. Open the Dissolve folder in the Transition palette. 2. Drag the cross-dissolve transition into the Transition channel between tracks Video 1A and Video 1B. 3.
03518305 ch01.F 24 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 24 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere 5. Press the Return/Enter key or choose Timeline ➪ Preview. If you don’t see the transparency effect, render the area by pressing Shift+Return/Enter. Adding and fading in the audio track Now that the majority of editing is complete, it’s time to add the audio track. Fortunately, the Timeline treats audio much the same as it treats video. To place the audio track in the Timeline, follow these steps: 1.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 25 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart export format for your project was set when you created your project. (The export format was specified by the preset you originally chose. You can quickly view the export format and other settings by choosing Project ➪ Settings View). However, as the next section explains, you can change these settings before you export the final movie.
03518305 ch01.F 26 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 26 Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere Exporting a QuickTime movie Both Mac and Windows users can export Premiere projects as QuickTime movies. QuickTime is widely used on the Web and can be imported into other programs such as Macromedia Director and Macromedia Flash. Depending upon the final destination of your project, you may want to change the frame size and frame rate of our video before exporting.
03518305 ch01.F 10/31/02 2:53 PM Page 27 Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart 6. In the Export Settings dialog box, type a name for your file. 7. Click OK. Premiere creates the export file and opens it in the Clip window for viewing. Summary This chapter gave you a chance to experiment with the basic concepts of editing in Premiere. You learned how to do the following: ✦ Create a project. ✦ Add clips to the Timeline. ✦ Edit clips in the Clip window and in the Timeline. ✦ Create transitions.
