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A QUICKGUIDE TO ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
Version: AY08/09_Sem1
General Video / Image sequence editing process
Importing
Editing Rough Edit Fine Cut
Rendering
Exporting
Topics: 1. Getting started 2. Setting up a Premiere Pro Project 3. Importing still images and video footages 4. Exploring the workspace 5. Editing images, video and audio clips in the Timeline sequence 6. Adding titles 7. Adding video and audio transitions 8. Applying video and audio effects 9. Exporting
1. GETTING STARTED . Create a new folder in the Documents folder. . Name the new folder “FDN4D_2010_yourclass_yourname” (eg. FDN4D_2010_G1_HarryLee”) . Create 2 additional folders in your newly created personal folder – “RAW Still Images” and “RAW Videos” . Connect your digital camera (eg. Nikon D40) or video camcorder (eg. Panasonic HDC-TM700) to the computer.
1. GETTING STARTED
. Copy image or video files into the respective RAW folders in your personal folder. For still images captured on Nikon D40: copy from SD card storage > DCIM > ….. For videos captured on Panasonic HDC-TM700: copy from camcorder harddisk > CAM_MEM > AVCHD > BDMV > STREAM [File format for still images: .JPG. File format for videos: .MTS] [Note: bring your own portable hard disks to backup the contents in your folder.]
2. SETTING UP A PROJECT . Launch Premiere Pro by clicking on the icon in the Dock, or selecting Premiere Pro from the Applications folder. . Click “New Project”. . Select location of folder in which project file will be saved by clicking “Browse…” . Select your personal folder as the location to save your project file. . Give your new project an intelligent name. (eg. Yourname_title_edit01) . Type in the name and click “OK”.
2. SETTING UP A PROJECT
Select this preset.
. Select “AVCHD 1080i25 (50i)” from the list of Sequence Presets. . Click “OK”.
A NOTE ON IMAGE DIMENSION & FRAME RATE Image dimension DV PAL: 720 x 576 DV NTSC: 720 X 480 HD (720p): 1280 x 720 HDV: 1440 x 1080 HD (1080i or 1080p): 1920 x 1080
Frame rate: Refers to the speed images are captured and played back. The higher the frame rates, the less noticeably the image flickers Film: 24 fps PAL: 25 fps NTSC: 29.97 fps AVCHD 1080i25 (50i) = image dimension 1920x1080, 25 fps, 50 interlaced fields.
3. IMPORTING . Choose File > Import…. [shortcut is Command-i] . You may import individual files or the entire folder.
Click to import entire folder.
3. IMPORTING . Imported files will show up in the Project Panel. . You may import still images, video or audio files. Click on inverted triangle to reveal contents of folder.
[Note: The imported files in Premiere Pro are not the actual files, but just pointers or link files to the actual items located in their respective folders in the computer harddisk, ie. Premiere Pro performs non-destructive editing….]
3. IMPORTING . When importing still images, ensure that they have pixel resolutions equal to or larger than 1920x1080, up to 4096x4096.
OPTIONAL : [You can customise the duration of the your imported still images by choosing Preferences > General and entering the number of frames next to “Still Image Default Duration”.] [Choose Preferences > Media. For “Indeterminate Media Timebase”, “25.00fps”. Thereafter, 25 frames of still image will be equivalent to 1 sec…]
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4. EXPLORING WORKSPACE
You may select other workspace presets, or reset current workspace. Tools Panel Project Panel Source Monitor / Effects Control
Media Browser / Info / Effects Panel
Program Monitor
Timeline Panel Audio Maste r Meter s
Project Panel - contains Sequences, Bin folders, video clips, audio clips & still images. [Use Bins to organize your clips and sequences. Create new bins by right-clicking in Project Window and selecting “New Bin” from contextual menu. Rename sequence, clip or bin by clicking once on the name. ]
Current timecode field (hh:mm:ss:ff) (ie.hours:minutes:seconds:frames) Duration timecode field (hh:mm:ss:ff) Playhead
Time ruler
Source Monitor – to view source materials from Project Window or Media Browser, mark in/out points; [Hover mouse cursor over different buttons to know what their functions are and their keyboard shortcuts]
(duration between In/Out markers)
to perform Effects Control on edited clips in Timeline
Audio Mixer – the control volume levels & stereo pan of video and audio clips on Timeline sequence; audio recording with internal/ external microphones.
TV Safe Title Safe
Select Zoom Level Safe Margins
Program Monitor – to view the edited sequence of clips as laid out in the Timeline. [Hover mouse cursor over different buttons to know what their functions are and their keyboard shortcuts]
Timeline Panel – for editing and laying out sequence of video and audio clips from the Project Window or Media Browser.
Current timecode field
Snap
Scroll zoom bar
Playhead Work Area Bar
Tools Panel – various tools used in editing [the commonly used ones are Selection, Razor and Zoom tools]
[Hover mouse cursor over different buttons to know what their functions are and their keyboard shortcuts]
Media Browser - to browse media from all locations in the computer; Info - view information on item selected / highlighted; Effects – selection of effects and transitions.
Audio Master Meters – master audio levels for left and right channels, for all tracks laid out in the Timeline
5. EDITING 5.1 Playing and Navigating a Clip . View an image/video/audio clip from Project Panel by double-clicking its icon. . It will appear in the Source Monitor. You may also click-and-drag a clip into the Source Monitor. . Play video/audio by pressing “Play-Stop” toggle, or press spacebar on keyboard. . You can also scrub the footage by moving the Playhead along the Time ruler.
5. EDITING 5.1 Playing and Navigating a Clip . Use keyboard shortcuts J, K and L to navigate clip in the Source Monitor. L - forward K – pause J – reverse Shift-L - slow-motion forward L repeatedly - fast forward Right arrow key – advance by one frame Left arrow key - reverse by one frame
5. EDITING 5.2 Adding clips to a Timeline sequence You can add clips to a sequence in the following ways: a. Drag the clip from Project Panel or Source Monitor to a Timeline sequence or Program Monitor. b. Use the “Insert” and “Overlay” to add clips to Timeline sequence.
buttons in Source Monitor
. Difference between “Insert” and “Overlay”? . Make sure the “Snap” button is active to make clip edges align when dragging clips into Timeline.
5. EDITING 5.3 Trimming clips with In/Out points . Setting a clip’s In and Out points is a process called trimming. . You define the first frame you want to include in a sequence by marking that frame as the clip’s In point. Then you define the last frame you want to include by marking it as the Out point. . You can set In and Out points for a clip in the Source Monitor. . Press the Set In Point button . Keyboard shortcuts: i – set in point o – set out pint
or Set Out Point button
5. EDITING 5.3 Trimming clips with In/Out points 3-point Edit (In point, Out point, and point on the timeline sequence) . Set the In and Out points of the clip in Source Monitor. . Position Playhead in the Timeline. . Press Insert or Overlap buttons on Source Monitor; OR Click and drag clip from Source Monitor into Program Monitor or Timeline to do an overlay edit. [for an insert edit, press Command key as you click and drag] . Clip is added to timeline sequence.
5. EDITING 5.3 Trimming clips with In/Out points . After a clip is in a sequence, you can trim a clip’s In or Out point by dragging its edge. . You may also use the Razor tool (shortcut – C) to split clips into parts, and using the Selection Tool (shortcut – V) to move the parts around on the timeline.
[Important: Remember to save your project regularly! (Shortcut – Command S)]
5. EDITING 5.3 Trimming clips with In/Out points . Useful shortcuts – Fn-left arrow key : go to beginning of timeline Fn-right arrow key : go to end of last clip on timeline Fn-up arrow key : go to previous edit point Fn-down arrow key : go to next edit point
5. EDITING 5.4 Managing the Timeline . To zoom in/out on the Timeline, select Zoom Tool (Keyboard Shortcut – Z). . Click to zoom in, hold onto ‘Alt’ on the keyboard to zoom out. OR press keyboard buttons ‘+’ to zoom in, ‘-‘ to zoom out. . You may also use the scroll zoom bar on bottom-left corner of timeline to zoom in/out. . Zooming in is useful for detailed, minute editing. Zooming out is useful for an overview of all the clips on the Timeline.
5. EDITING 5.5 Rendering and Previewing Timeline Sequences . Premiere Pro attempts to play back any sequence in real time and at full frame rate. . However, real-time, full frame-rate playback is not always possible for complex sections without preview files: unrendered sections. . To play back complex sections in real time and at full frame rate, you may have to first render preview files for those sections. Premiere Pro marks unrendered sections of a sequence with colored render bars.
5. EDITING 5.5 Rendering and Previewing Timeline Sequences
Green render bar section that already has rendered preview files associated with it.
Red render bar unrendered section, must be rendered in order to play back in smoothly in full frame rate.
Yellow render bar unrendered section, but does not need to be rendered to play back smoothly.
. To render, click on the Timeline panel and press “return” key. After rendering is complete, Premiere Pro will playback the entire timeline sequence from start to end.
6. ADDING TITLES (ie. TEXT) . To add titles/texts to your timeline sequence, choose New > Title. . Specify a name for the new title and click “OK”. . Titler window will appear. . Use the “Text Tools”, “Text Properties” and “Text Actions to create a new title/text or use the “Title Styles” available. . Click on Roll/Crawl Options button moving - “Roll” or “Crawl”.
. The title can be “Still”, or
. You can also create a new title based on the current one by clicking on the button. . Close the Titler to save the title.
6. ADDING TITLES (ie. TEXT) . All titles that are saved will be logged in the Project Panel. . Drag title from Project Panel into the Program Monitor or Timeline sequence, a. with an overlay or insert edit – titles with black background. b. on a video layer above the images – titles with images as background. . Drag the edges of the title clip in Timeline to alter its duration. . Double-click on the title icon in Project Panel to alter its content or properties.
6. ADDING TITLES (ie. TEXT) . Keep titles / texts within the Title Safe Margin!
Title Safe
Safe Margins
7. ADDING TRANSITIONS . Generally, you use a simple cut to move from clip to clip, but in some cases you may want to transit between clips by phasing out one and phasing in another. . While you usually place a transition on a cut line between clips, you can also apply a transition to only the beginning or end of a clip. . Add a transition by dragging its icon from the Effects panel (eg. Effects Panel > Video Transitions > Dissolve > Cross Dissolve) onto the cut line between two video clips in the Timeline.
7. ADDING TRANSITIONS . Click the transition in the Timeline to display its properties in the Effect Controls panel. You can change its duration, alignment, and other properties.
7. ADDING TRANSITIONS . Play back the sequence, or drag the playhead through the transition to see the effect. If the playback is not smooth, press “enter” to render the sequence. . Similar to video transitions, you can apply transitions (eg. Effects Panel > Audio Transitions > Crossfade > Constant Power) between two adjacent audio clips.
8. APPLYING EFFECTS . You can use effects to rotate and animate a clip or adjust its size and position within the frame. . You can also use effects to add a special visual or audio characteristic to your video/audio clips in the Timeline sequence. . Premiere Pro has “Fixed” effects and “Standard effects”. . “Fixed” effects adjust clip position, scale, movement, opacity, speed, and audio volume, while “Standard” effects generally affect clip image quality and appearance.
8. APPLYING EFFECTS . Fixed effects for any selected clip can be found in the Effect Controls panel – Motion, Opacity & Audio Volume
You can add keyframes to animate any effect.
8. APPLYING EFFECTS . You can add keyframes both in the Effects Control panel and in the Timeline sequence clip.
Use the Selection Tool to adjust the level of the handles or add keyframes by holding down “Command” key
. Play back the sequence, or drag the playhead through the clip to see the effect. If the playback is not smooth, press “enter” to render the sequence.
8. APPLYING EFFECTS . Standard effects are listed in the Effects panel and are organized into two main bins, Video Effects and Audio Effects. . You can apply one or more Standard effects to a clip by dragging effect icons from the Effects panel into a clip in a Timeline panel. Alternatively, select the clip and drag the effect icon to the Effect Controls panel. . In the Effect Controls panel, click the triangle to show options for any effect, and then specify the option values. . You may also copy, paste and delete Standard effects on a clip from the Effect Controls panel.
9. EXPORTING . You can export video from a sequence in the form best suited for further editing or for a viewing audience. . To export an edited video or image sequence, select the sequence in the Timeline panel which you want to export. . Choose File > Export > Media…
9. EXPORTING . You may also choose to export your sequence in other formats and compression. . Playback your exported movie (using an appropriate player, eg. Quicktime Player) to ensure that the image/audio quality, contents and results are what you expected….
