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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.
✦ Integrate files from different sources into your production. Premiere loads not
only digital video and audio files, but also Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator,
JPEG, and TIFF graphics.
✦ Create special effects, such as distortions, blurring, and pinching.
✦ Create motion effects in which logos or graphics move or bounce across the
screen.
✦ Create transparency effects. You can superimpose titles over backgrounds or
use color, such as blue or green, to mask the background from one image so
that you can superimpose a new background.
✦ Edit sound. Premiere enables you to cut and assemble audio clips as well as
create sophisticated audio effects, such as cross fades and pans.
✦ Create transitions. Premiere can create simple dissolves from one scene to
another, as well as a host of sophisticated transition effects, such as page curl
and curtain wipes.
✦ Output files in a variety of digital formats. Premiere can output QuickTime
and Video for Windows files, which can be viewed directly in other programs,
as well as streamed over the Web. Premiere also features Web-specific file
formats, such as animated GIF. You can also use Premiere’s Advanced
RealMedia Export command to export your clips to RealVideo format
for the Web.
✦ Output files to videotape.
✦ Output Edit Decision Lists. Edit Decision Lists can be used by professional
production houses to recreate your digital production on videotape.
Figure 1-1 shows frames from a short Premiere project called America and the
Timeline that represents it.
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