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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. Dragging a clip to the left or right automatically changes in and out

points without changing the program duration.

✦ Slide edit. Dragging a clip to the left or right keeps its duration intact but

changes the in or out points of the preceding or succeeding clip.

Chapters 5 and 10 both provide in-depth discussion of Premiere editing

techniques.

As you work, you can easily preview edits, special effects, and transitions. Changing

edits and effects is often a simple matter of changing in and out points. There’s no

hunting down the right videotape or waiting for the production to be reassembled

on tape. When all of your editing is completed, you can export the file to videotape

or create a new digital file in one of several formats. You can export it as many

times as you want, in as many different file formats as you want. Furthermore, if you

want to add more special effects to your Premiere projects, you can easily import

them into Adobe After Effects. You can also integrate your Premiere movie into a

Web page using Adobe GoLive.

Adobe After Effects is covered in Chapter 21 and 24. Adobe GoLive is discussed in

Chapter 17.

Your First Video Production

The following sections provide a Quickstart tutorial that leads you step by step

through the basics of video production in Premiere.

In this project, you’ll create a video project called Nite Out. Figure 1-2 shows frames

of the production in Premiere’s Timeline window. The production begins with a title

created in Adobe Title Designer, viewed over an opening scene of people walking in

the city. After a few seconds, a dissolve transitions to the scene of diners in a restau-

rant. Soon the dining scene dissolves into one showing kitchen workers preparing

food. The project ends with another title superimposed over the last scene.

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