User manual ADOBE PREMIERE 5

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Creating a filmstrip file for editing in Photoshop Creating a sequence of video files About creating motion-picture film Processing a batch of projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 vii Measuring Time and Frame Size Measuring time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 . . . . . . . . . 339 . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Understanding timecode and time display options Comparing interlaced and non-interlaced video Measuring frame size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 . . . . . . . . . . 347 Compressing Video and Audio Understanding scenarios that affect compression About video compression Finding an appropriate codec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 . . . . 359 Maximizing Performance Preserving quality and performance during video capture Techniques for faster editing Maintaining edited projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Troubleshooting General problems when capturing video General operating problems Common problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 1 User Guide Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 W elcome to Adobe® Premiere®--software that brings the world of digital movie making to the desktop. Premiere lets you record, create, and play video programs using video, sound, animations, photographs, drawings, text, and other material on your Windows® or Power Macintosh computer. You can play movies created in Premiere in any application that supports the Apple QuickTime format or (in Windows only) the DirectShowTM format, or you can output video programs in a number of ways, including to videotape, to an Edit Decision List (EDL), or to MPEG or Animated GIF format. About this guide The Adobe Premiere User Guide provides detailed information about using Premiere. It is designed to be used as a reference tool in your everyday work with Premiere. This manual provides instructions for using Premiere on both Windows and Mac OS systems. Any differences in Premiere procedures between operating systems are noted in the text. This book assumes you have a working knowledge of your operating system and its conventions, including how to use a mouse and standard menus and dialog boxes and how to open, save, and close files. For help with any of these techniques, please see your Windows or Mac OS documentation. 2 Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0 systems requirements The following hardware and software are required to run Adobe Premiere: · Intel Pentium processor or 100% compatible · Microsoft® Windows 95 or Windows NT® 4.0 (or later versions) operating system · 32 MB of RAM installed · 60 MB of available hard-disk space for installation (30 MB for application) · 256-color display adapter and compatible monitor · CD-ROM drive We recommend the following: · Multi-processor system (Windows NT only) · 64 MB or more of RAM · Large capacity hard drive or hard-disk array · 24-bit color display adapter · Microsoft Video for Windows®-compatible or Apple QuickTime for Windows-compatible video capture card · Apple QuickTime for Windows 3.0 (optionally installed with Premiere), Microsoft DirectX® Media 5.1 (optionally installed with Premiere), or other video software supported by your video-capture hardware · Sound card (recommended if your video capture card does not contain on-board sound circuitry) ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 3 User Guide Power Macintosh system requirements The following hardware and software are required to run Premiere: · PowerPCTM processor · System Software 7.5.5 or greater (or 7.5.1 with RadiusTM VideoVisionTM only) · 16 MB of application RAM · 30 MB of disk space for installation · CD-ROM drive We recommend the following: · Multiprocessor system · QuickTime 3.0 (installed with Premiere) · 48 MB or more of application RAM · Large capacity hard disk or hard-disk array · QuickTime-compatible video capture card · 24-bit color display adapter Registration We are confident you will find that the Premiere program greatly increases your productivity. So that we can offer technical support and keep you informed about new Premiere software developments, please register your copy by returning the enclosed registration card. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Premiere, the original registration card with your serial number is still valid and you do not need to reregister the product. 4 Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 The Premiere package contents The Premiere package includes the following software and documentation: · Two Adobe Premiere CD-ROM discs, described in the following section. · Adobe Premiere User Guide. · Adobe Premiere Quick Reference Card. · Registration card. · A card or brochure that details Adobe technical support policies and describes the ways you can obtain technical support. · Adobe Acrobat® Reader software, which allows you to view the online documentation and third-party reference materials that have been saved as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Contents of the Premiere discs The Adobe Premiere Application CD-ROM disc contains the following: The installer program Installs the Adobe Premiere program and the video system software. Other software included on the discs use their own installers. Adobe Premiere Lets you capture, edit, and play back video. Video system software Includes QuickTime (Windows and Macintosh) and DirectShow TM software (Windows only) to act as editing modes in Premiere. Software from other manufacturers Includes filters, special effects, compressors/decompressors, and device control modules. ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 5 User Guide Adobe Premiere Software Developer's Kit Supplies complete support for developers interested in writing plug-ins, filters, and other custom solutions for Premiere. Adobe Type Library Includes a number of Type 1 fonts for your use. The fonts are not installed automatically when you install Premiere. Adobe Type Manager Improves font displays on-screen, lets you print PostScript fonts on non-PostScript printers, and lets you create customized instances of multiple master fonts. You can install this utility separately. Adobe Photoshop® LE and tryout versions of other Adobe Systems applications Let you explore other Adobe software at no additional cost. Photoshop LE offers many of the features found in the full retail version of Adobe Photoshop; you can install Photoshop LE and register the product online or with the registration card you use for Premiere. Additional tryout versions of Adobe products on the discs include Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe PageMaker®, and more. Tour movie and online tutorials Provide additional guides to help you learn Premiere. The tour movie, which requires that you install the QuickTime software, demonstrates the key benefits and new features of this version of Premiere. A subset of chapters from the Adobe Premiere Classroom in a Book® publication features step-by-step instructions for creating video programs using sample audio and video clips, which are also available on the disc. The Media Content CD-ROM disc contains: Stock clips Including professional images, clip media, and sound files from a variety of sources. Adobe Acrobat Reader software Lets you view the online documentation and third-party reference material that have been saved as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. 6 Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 About Adobe products and services For information about Adobe products and services, you can visit the Adobe site on the World-Wide Web (http://www.adobe.com) if you have Internet access. You can also open the Adobe Web site from within Premiere (provided you are connected to the Internet) by choosing File > Adobe Online and clicking a link in the window that appears. Note: Your Premiere package includes printed instructions for obtaining technical support. Adobe Systems training opportunities Classroom in a Book is the official training series for Adobe graphics and publishing software developed by experts at Adobe and published by Adobe Press. For information on purchasing Adobe Premiere Classroom in a Book, contact Macmillan Computer Publishing in the U.S. at 800-428-5331 or http://mcp.com, or contact your local book distributor. The Adobe Certification program offers end-users, instructors, and training centers the opportunity to demonstrate their product proficiency and promote their software skills as Adobe Certified Experts, Adobe Certified Instructors, or Adobe Authorized Learning Providers. Visit the U.S. Web site at http://www.adobe.com to learn how you can become certified. Using online Help The Premiere Help system contains all the information in this user guide, and more, optimized for use online. The Help system also provides sections on keyboard shortcuts. To get online Help: Choose Help > Contents (Windows) or Help > Help Topics (Mac OS). You can also choose a specific section of Help from the Help menu. Installing Adobe Premiere Use the following procedure to install the Premiere program files from the Adobe Premiere Application CD-ROM. You cannot run Premiere from the CD-ROM; you must install the program files onto your hard disk. If you are upgrading from Premiere 4.2 or earlier, the installer creates a new folder for the Premiere 5.0 files. Your current Premiere files are not affected. However, items such as QuickTime and DirectShow may be updated unless you are using versions of these items more recent than those on the Adobe Premiere Application CD-ROM disc. ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 7 User Guide To install Premiere: 1 Insert the Adobe Premiere Application CD-ROM disc into your CD-ROM drive. 2 Depending on your system, do one of the following: · (Windows) If a startup screen appears, choose Install Adobe Premiere. Otherwise, use Explorer to locate and open the Premiere folder on the CD-ROM, and double-click the Setup.exe file to begin the setup procedure. · (Mac OS) Double-click the Install Adobe Premiere icon to begin the installation process. 3 Follow the on-screen instructions until installation are complete. Installing plug-in software modules You can purchase or otherwise obtain updated or additional plug-in software from Adobe or other manufacturers. Some plug-ins come with an installer you can run. If the plug-in does not have an installer, you can install it easily by dragging. To install additional plug-in software: Make sure Premiere is not running, and drag the plug-in software from its original location to the Plug-ins folder inside the folder in which you installed Premiere. What's new in Adobe Premiere 5.0 Premiere 5.0 includes dozens of new and improved features for creating and editing video programs from your desktop. This version of Premiere also includes enhancements that improve both quality and performance speed in such areas of the program as editing, previewing, capturing, and outputting. Timeline window The new Timeline window replaces the Construction window of earlier versions of Premiere. The Timeline provides a more intuitive and fluid interface for adding, displaying, and editing the tracks in a project. Enhancements include the following: 8 Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 Powerful and flexible track layout Hide and more easily lock tracks, target tracks for editing, and even collapse subtracks (Video 1A, Video 1B and the transitions between them) into a single track using new controls on the left side of the window. The new shy track feature lets you hide a track while still including its clips in the final output. Many of these new concepts and interface elements are modeled on those in the Layers palette found in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and PageMaker. Adding and deleting tracks Use the Track Options dialog box (available from the Timeline window menu) to add, delete, and rename tracks. Moving to next and previous edits, and moving the edit line Use buttons in the Monitor window to move to previously established edit positions, or accomplish the same tasks using the following shortcuts in the Timeline window: Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) + Shift + the Left or Right arrow keys moves to the next or previous edit points. Deselect clips in the Timeline (by clicking any selected clip) and then press the Left or Right arrow keys to move the edit line itself. Rendered scrubs and alpha scrubs Perform a rendered scrub (displaying frames with applied effects and filters) by pressing Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while dragging in the time ruler. If you also press the Shift key while scrubbing in this fashion, you can preview effects involving alpha channels. Drag the edit line to display frames without applied effects or filters. Other interface improvements See more clearly where filter and motion settings are applied to clips, and see the name of any applied transparency type: This information is now displayed on the clip representations in the Timeline window. All video tracks above the Video 1 tracks are superimpose tracks--the topmost track in the window is foremost in the video program. ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 9 User Guide Monitor window The new Monitor window in effect combines the Clip, Preview, and Trimming windows of past versions into a single window, better replicating a professional video-editing suite. The window includes two views: Source view for playing and editing individual clips, and Program view for displaying the contents of the Timeline. The Monitor window has two modes, edit and trim. Importantly, many of the essential editing tasks can now be accomplished with keyboard shortcuts. Other related changes include: More precise and accessible trimming Easily enter trim mode by pressing Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) + T (or choose Trim Mode from the Monitor window menu). Ganging, or synchronized playback Preview how a source clip fits into the video program-- before adding it to the Timeline--by using the gang button in the Monitor window. This synchronizes the source and program controllers and previews. Insert, Overlay, Lift, and Extract buttons Click buttons (or use keyboard equivalents) to accom- plish these key editing tasks rather than dragging clips into the Timeline. Flexible viewing options Take advantage of NTSC or PAL monitors by collapsing (detaching the controllers from the Monitor window). You can switch to single view mode which displays only the selected view in the center of the window, and switch among active clips by choosing their names from a convenient pop-up menu. Optionally, you can have clips open each in their own separate clip window, just as in earlier versions of Premiere. New project management and media management features The Project window supports many new database fields you can use to categorize clips for sorting and searching; Premiere now also provides user-defined fields. Display options in the Project window have been improved, and you can now display text-only information about your source material. Other organizational capabilities include a cleaner and more straightforward handling of source clips (to avoid display of duplicate source clips for each instance used in the Timeline), an auto-loading feature (so that clips added to the Timeline or Monitor window become listed in the Project window), and the improved use of storage bins in the Project window. 10 Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 A related improvement is project archiving: You can specify how often project files are saved and whether to create separate files. Creating separate files lets you go back to different stages of a project for reference, for back-up purposes, or to "undo" a stage of work in the project. Improved titling Premiere now supports two popular title effects: rolls (which move on-screen vertically) and crawls (which move on-screen horizontally). You can set ease-in and ease-out points for both effects, control their duration in seconds and frames, and use masking to make the type appear or disappear at a specified location. For any title, you now can apply font, size, color, and other type attributes to any range of characters within a text block. Multiple keyframes for filters Previously you had to split clips to apply a filter to a portion of a clip. But now you can easily create multiple keyframes in a clip and apply different filter settings to each one. The filter effect can change over time within a single clip or be limited to a specific portion of the clip. Long-format support Premiere supports long-format editing capabilities with true 29.97 timebase support, the ability to hold up to three hours of footage, new Slip and Slide editing tools, and a Navigator palette (for quickly moving around in the Timeline without losing sight of the bigger picture). New audio features Improved sound editing and mixing provide the kinds of audio control available in an audio studio. New and enhanced audio capabilities include: Better audio processing Convert from one audio sample rate to another without a loss in audio quality, thanks to the new Enhanced rate conversion settings. When you output audio, an improved downsampling method delivers high-quality, low-data-rate playback. For Web distribution, you can downsample certain sound files to 2 or 3 kHz. ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 11 User Guide More audio filters Enhance sound clips using any of Premiere's 11 new filters, including Reverb, Bass and Treble, Flanger, Multitap delay, and Chorus filters. Panning and fading Specify panning and fading using new controls added to Audio tracks in the Timeline. The improved Timeline interface lets you show or hide the waveform associated with audio clips. New palettes and palette enhancements Premiere now presents the Transitions and Info windows as floating interactive palettes and adds the Navigator palette to the product. Palettes quickly display information and options on-screen without interrupting the creative process and allow for easy opening, closing, and resizing. You can even group and dock palettes for more efficient handling. The Navigator palette, modeled on the Adobe Photoshop feature, lets you see at a glance where you are within a project by showing a miniature of the entire length of the project, and a small display window highlighting the area currently visible in the Timeline. Simply drag the highlighted area in the palette to move to a different portion of the Timeline. The Windows version of Premiere now includes the Commands palette (introduced in the Macintosh version of Premiere 4.2), which lets you turn the menu commands you use most often into buttons you can click quickly in a floating palette; you can even load and save custom sets of command buttons. Better hardware and system software compatibility As improvements in hardware and software throughout the industry make video-editing ever more powerful and efficient, Premiere's capabilities lead the way. Capture card profiles are now included with Premiere project presets, so you can load them as needed for video or audio capturing. Support for the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) standard enables developers to create or modify hardware drivers to accelerate features in Premiere, including support for real-time effects (before rendering). Support for the latest versions of QuickTime and DirectShow ensures that your work relies on the most prevalent industry standards. 12 Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 5.0 Miscellaneous enhancements Many of the new features in Premiere don't get the visibility of other features used day in and day out, but can greatly enhance your efficiency nonetheless. The following are just a few of these other areas improved in this release: Improved capturing Crop at capture time (provided your capture board supports this) and view important capture settings in the Info palette. Batch capturing now supports specified timecode offset and trim handles in frames. Cross-platform compatibility Move projects and related files from one platform to another with ease now that Mac OS and Windows versions of Premiere share the same code base. Premiere includes cross-platform support for titles, profiles, motion graphics, filters, storyboards, batch lists, libraries, and most system settings. Integration with Adobe product family Get up to speed fast thanks to an interface consistent with other Adobe products. If you're familiar with software such as Photoshop, you'll appreciate the common look and feel, shared keyboard shortcuts, and features such as tabbed palettes, support for Photoshop filters, and the ability to import Photoshop layers individually. Also, EPS files from Adobe Illustrator are automatically rasterized when you import them, just as they are in Photoshop. Premiere also anti-aliases Illustrator files automatically at 2000x2000 pixels.