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Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere

Premiere’s storyboard feature enables you to import clips into a storyboard win-

dow 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 pre-

production

planning.

Here’s how to create your own storyboard:

1. Choose File ➪ New ➪ Storyboard.

2. Drag clips from the Project window into the Storyboard window. If clips

haven’t been loaded yet, you can load them directly into the Storyboard win-

dow by choosing File ➪ Import File or File ➪ Import Folder. At any point, you

can click and drag in the Storyboard window to rearrange the graphics.

3. To add descriptive text to the storyboard, double-click in the white rectan-

gular area below each image.

4. To save your storyboard, choose File ➪ Save from the Storyboard window.

You can have Premiere automatically place the items from the Storyboard window

to the Timeline window by choosing Automate to Timeline from the Storyboard

options menu (the right-pointing arrow in the upper-right corner of the Storyboard

window).

Assembling production elements

After you import all of your production elements, you need to place them in the

Timeline window so that you can start assembling your project. The Timeline win-

dow displays a visual overview of your entire production. Using the mouse, you can

edit, rearrange, and create transitions in the Timeline window.

Placing clips in the Timeline

To move an item from the Project window to the Timeline window, simply click it

in the Project window and then drag it to a track in the Timeline window. The item

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