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Part number: 90011307 (4/98) iii Contents Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 About this guide .................................... 1 ......... 2 .................... 3 Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0 systems requirements Power Macintosh system requirements Registration The Premiere package contents Contents of the Premiere discs Using Online Help ........................................ 3 ......................... 4 .......................... 4 ...................... 6 About Adobe products and services Installing Adobe Premiere ................................... 6 ............................. 6 ...................... 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 What's New in Adobe Premiere 5.0 A Tour of Adobe Premiere Creating the bicycle advertisement: first steps Specifying project settings Importing the clips Creating a rough cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Previewing in the Monitor window Adding audio Trimming clips in the Monitor window Trimming clips in the Timeline window Adding a transition Splitting a clip Previewing transitions and other effects Changing the speed of a clip Changing a clip's opacity Superimposing an image Animating a clip Exporting the movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adding special effects to a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 iv CONTENTS Working with Projects Starting a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Specifying project settings Opening a project Saving and autosaving a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Removing unused frames from source clips Using a Premiere project on another platform Setting up Premiere's scratch disks Correcting mistakes Working with windows in Premiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 . . . 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Setting up windows that resemble earlier Premiere versions Saving window positions (Mac OS only) Organizing clips using bins Storing clips and bins in libraries Naming, finding, and deleting items Printing window contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 . . . . . . . . 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Customizing a Project, Bin, or Library window display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Creating a text list of project or library files Changing the startup window Working with palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Preparing and Importing Source Clips Capturing video for offline and online editing Preparing for video capture Capturing video without device control Capturing video with device control Batch-capturing video Reading timecode from source video Capturing stop-motion animation Capturing analog audio Capturing digital video Importing digital audio Importing clips Using offline files Importing another project Creating a counting leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Analyzing clip properties and data rate v Editing Video Using the Monitor window Using the Timeline window Editing In and Out points Using markers Editing clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 . . . . . . 152 Using named subclips and unnamed instances of clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Editing a video program Previewing a video program Adding Transitions About transitions Creating transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Using the Transitions palette Changing transition settings Creating Custom Transitions Mixing Audio Understanding how Premiere processes audio Adjusting gain Panning a clip Fading and cross-fading Viewing audio clips Applying audio filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Audio filters included with Premiere Creating Titles Creating a new title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Setting up the Title window Creating graphic objects Adding a shadow Creating rolling and crawling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Using color, transparency, and gradients Using the Color Picker Setting default text and graphic attributes Arranging text and graphic objects Adding a title to a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 vi CONTENTS Superimposing and Compositing with Transparency About transparency Using the Fade control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Using keys for composites and superimposing Superimposing two or more clips Adding a background matte Creating garbage mattes Creating split screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Animating a Clip Moving a clip across the frame Rotating, zooming, delaying, and distorting Specifying an exact time for motion Saving, loading, and deleting motion settings Applying Video Filters About video filters and keyframes Applying video filters to a clip Applying multiple filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Producing Final Video About output settings Specifying compression for final video File types available for exporting Exporting video files Creating a videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 . . . . . . . . . . 313 . . . . . . . . 316 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 About creating a video file for CD-ROM playback About creating a video file for the Internet Exporting an edit decision list About creating a video file for use in other software Creating a sequence of still images Exporting a still image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...