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Premiere Pro CC Basic Editing, Transitions, Special Effects, Text & Titles
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Basic Editing, Using Transitions, Special Effects, Text & Titles Working in the Timeline – What you need to know: 1. You will be selecting footage from the Project Window to create clips and edit in the Timeline. 2. In your Project Panel double click on a file containing the footage you want to use in your project. The footage opens up in the Source Monitor, the top left-hand window. 3. You will use the Source Monitor to look at your footage and set your edit In & Out points. 4. Select the beginning point of the footage you want to use by setting the In-point of your clip (hit the “i” key). Select the end point of the footage you want to use by setting the Out-point (hit the “o” key). The selected portion of your footage, from In to Out, will have a dark green bar under it. ‘I’ and ‘O’ are the keyboard shortcuts for setting In and Out points. Use either the keyboard controls - j, k, l keys; i and o keys, space bar etc.- or the control icons in the Source Monitor to go through your footage and select In and Out points. J, K, and L keys: These are keyboard shortcuts for playing and pausing the video in the Source Monitor, Timeline, and Program Monitor. J – play in reverse. Hit J multiple times in succession to speed up the reverse play. K – pauses the video. L – play forward. Hit L multiple times in succession to speed up the forward play. 5. Click on the Insert Edit or Overwrite Edit icon buttons in the Source Monitor to bring your clip, the footage between the In & Out points, into the Timeline. You will build your Sequence in the Timeline. All of your selected clips, transitions, effects, titles and audio are placed in the Timeline and viewed in the Program monitor. 6. You can also click-and-drag clips to the Timeline. The new clip will be placed wherever the blue playhead is positioned in the Timeline. Clicking and dragging may cause unwanted gaps in your edits but it is a quick and easy way to build a rough edit. 7. An Insert Edit inserts the selected footage between the In & Out points into your Sequence at whatever point you have placed the playhead. It can be between two clips, or even in the middle of a clip. No footage is replaced or covered over. An Overwrite Edit replaces the footage on the Timeline, or writes over it. 8. You can set In & Out points on your Timeline as well, and select only an In or Out point on the clip in the Source Monitor for frame-accurate editing.
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This is called three-point editing and it refers to setting 3 edit points: an In & Out point in one window – either the Source Monitor or Timeline – and an In or Out point in the second window. This assures frame-accurate editing. It allows you to prioritize either your clip in the Source Monitor, or the space you want to fill in the Timeline, whichever makes the most sense as you work with your footage. 9. Repeat the process of selecting footage, creating clips and bringing clips into the Timeline to build your film. Place clips into the Timeline before making decisions about transitions and effects because you will be making changes as your film progresses. 10. There are 99 levels of undo in Premiere Pro. To undo any action, use the command + z keyboard shortcut, or go to the top menu: Edit > Undo. 11. Remember to Save your project frequently. If the computer crashes, for example, you will lose any work you have not saved if the Autosave function has not activated recently. Use the command + s keys to save your project, or go to File > Save. If you use Save as, you will be creating an additional version of your edit and it will show up in your Project Folder as an additional version of the project. Some people prefer to keep earlier versions for reference and use the later saved-as versions to continue working on. If you use Save as, should make a note of which version you want to continue working on to avoid confusion. Using Video Transitions: 1. The term transition refers to the way the film moves from one clip to another. Transitions are effects placed between clips. The default transition is a cut edit. Other transitions include dissolves, wipes, boxes, fades etc. In order to use a video transition other than a cut, you need to open up the Effects tab and the Video Transitions folder in the Project Window. 2. Select (click + hold) a desired transition from the Video Transitions folder and drag-and-drop the selected transition onto the edit point between two clips. A small transition icon appears on the point between clips. Play the clip from the Timeline to see it in the Program Monitor. 3. The Program Monitor displays the project you are building in the Timeline. The Program Monitor and the Timeline are always connected – they are two versions of the same thing. In the Timeline you see icons and video & audio tracks, transition & effects icons, and keyframes,
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while in the Program Monitor, you see how those same clips look and sound. What happens in the Timeline happens in the Program Monitor. 4. Double-click on the Transition icon in the Timeline to adjust the length of the transition you must double-click on the transition; a small new window opens near the Timeline that provides information about the length of the transition. You can adjust transition length in this window. The default length is 1 second and it appears as Timecode: 00:00:01:00 To change the length of the transition, simply key in the new length. For a 2-second transition, key in ‘200’ rather than 00:00:02:00. The software interprets ‘200’ as 2 seconds and re-writes the Timecode accordingly. For a 3-second transition, for example, key in 300. 5. You can also adjust the length of the transition directly in the Timeline. Click the end point of the transition. A red bracket and arrow will appear at the end point of the transition. Drag the end point of the transition to the new desired length. Always view your transition to make sure it is what you want. You can change parameters, delete transitions, or add a different transition at any point in the edit process. 6. Transitions are always placed at the point between two clips. Using Video Effects and Motion Effects (Speed): 1. While Transitions are placed between clips, Effects are always placed directly on the clip in the Timeline. They affect the appearance of the clip rather than what happens in the transition point between two clips. They do not affect transitions between clips. They do not affect your source footage. 2. In the Project Panel, open the Effects Tab. Find and open the Video Effects folder. In the folder you will find a list of special video effects. 3. To apply an affect to a clip, click-and-drag the effect from the effects folder and place it directly over a clip in the Timeline. 4. You can change the parameters of an effect by opening it in a new window and using the menu for the effect. To do this, double-click on a clip in the Timeline that has had an Effect applied, i.e. dragged over it. The clip then opens in the Source Window and the Effects tab in the source window will indicate which effect has been applied to the clip. Each effect has a different set of parameters, which means that each effect has different things about it that can be changed. The best way to know what an effect does, or what changing the parameters do, is to try it out. 5. To change the speed or direction of the footage in a clip, select the clip in the Timeline, and right-click (control+click) to bring up a sub-menu. Scroll down to the Speed & Duration option and select it.
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A dialogue box opens that allows you to change the clip’s speed parameters, which include speed (fast as well as slow motion), reverse motion, ripple-edit function, and audio speed parameters. 6. About speed: 100% speed means that the clip will play at the normal recorded speed. Anything below that, such as 50% speed, means that the clip will play at the percentage indicated. A clip playing below 100%, e.g. at 50% speed, is playing in slow motion. A clip playing above 100%, e.g. at 200% speed, will be playing in fast motion. 7. There is a box to check for reverse motion as well. This means your clip will play backwards. 8. There is a box to check for how you want your audio to be affected if you alter the clip’s speed. Check the box if you want the audio pitch to remain the same as the recorded audio. If the box is un-checked, your audio pitch will be either higher (for fast-motion footage) or lower (for slowmotion footage). Preview (i.e. play) your clip to check that your speed parameters are set the way you want them. Adjust this as many times as necessary until it looks and sounds right. Changes to the speed of a clip will affect the clip’s length and therefore the length of the entire Sequence. Fast motion creates a shorter clip. Slow motion creates a longer clip. This may cause problems if your clip is in the middle of the sequence, flanked by other clips. If your changes to the speed of a clip will affect the clips around it, it is best to click the ripple-edit box as well. This assures that the changes in speed of one clip mean that the surrounding clips will adjust to the new Sequence length. Text & Titles: 1. Creating titles in Premiere Pro is a lot like creating titles in Photoshop. You will be selecting fonts, font sizes, and looking at options for outlines, shadows, placement within the frame and other elements of text design. 2. First, position the playhead over the area in your Timeline where you want the title to start. Then in the menu at the top select Title > New Title > Default Still. The title dialogue box opens and even though you have not yet entered text, key in a Name for your title and click OK. By entering a filename Premiere Pro generates a new title clip and places it in the Program Panel with the rest of your footage.
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A Title clip acts like any other clip in the Timeline with one important exception: when you place a Title clip on a video track over another video track, Premiere automatically places the text over the image below. Text and image are both at 100%. 3. The Title editor opens up. It shows the video clip on the Timeline where you have placed your playhead, but this is for monitoring only – you can place your title over any section of your Sequence since it is a separate clip and can be placed on the video track above any clip in the Sequence. It can be placed directly in the Sequence in the Video 1 track as well to give you a default title of white letters over a black background. You can turn the background image (V1) on or off by toggling the background image selector box on the upper right-hand corner of the text editor. 4. To write text click on the Type tool (capital-letter T) in the tools palette on the left-hand side of the text edit window. Then click anywhere on the main text screen and type in your text. You can re-position text at any point while creating your titles. To go to a new line within the same title, press the enter key. 5. To change the position of the text on the screen click on the selection/arrow tool in the tool palette (keyboard shortcut is v) and click on the title to drag it into position. To center the title horizontally or vertically, click on the Vertical and Horizontal Center icons in the Center panel, in the left-hand area of the text editor, under the tools panel. 6. Use the title settings menus to change the size, font, color, etc. of the text. You also can add a drop shadow, a stroke around the letters, or a gradient. You can also choose a font-preset from the Title Styles menu below the title editor window. To change font parameters (style, sixe, tracking, etc.) use the title menu above the title window. You can also use the Title Properties menu on the right-hand side of the text editor, which allows further fine tuning of your text. Note: changes to the Leading (pronounced “ledding”) property will affect the space between lines of text. Kerning adjusts the distance between two letters. Tracking adjusts the spacing throughout the entire word. You can sample a color from your video using the eyedropper tool in the title Properties window. Simply select the eyedropper and drag it over a frame in the Program Monitor. Then click on a color in the frame. The text color in your title editor window will change instantly. Continue sampling colors (click with eyedropper) until you have the text color you desire. Text Properties: • Stroke: outlines text
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Shadow: puts a shadow behind text. Use this when your video footage has both light and dark areas under the text for easier reading of text.
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Background: applies a background color which you can select in the Background properties area of the Title Properties panel.
Each property (shadow, opacity, fill color) has its own set of parameters. Experiment with these to find out how each alters your text. Shape tools: In the Tools panel of the text editor, you can select one of the shapes to create a shaped area under your text. • Use the handles around your text to adjust the size for the selected shape. Then right-click on the shape area you have created to open a sub-menu. • Use this menu to position the shape under your text by selecting: Arrange > Send Backwards. • Use the Title Properties menu to add a color and change the opacity of the shape behind your text. 7. When you're finished fine tuning how your text looks, close the title creation box. The Title is in your Project Panel. 8. Go to the Project panel to locate the title clip. Click-and-drag the title clip to a video track at the position on the Timeline where you want the title to appear. Release the mouse and the title you created will be displayed on the Timeline. You can use Transition effects on your titles in order to make them fade in and out. 9. If you need to change the title, double click on it in the Timeline to open up the title editor and make your changes. When you close the text editor, your revised title will be in the Project panel. Rolling Titles and Crawling Titles 1. To create a Rolling title (text that rolls from the bottom of the screen to the top, as in rolling credits), or a text Crawl (titles that move across the screen from right to left or from left to right) select Title > New Title > Default Roll, or Title > New Title > Default Crawl. 2. Rolling text begins and ends off-screen. It rolls up from the bottom of the frame and rolls out at the top of the frame in a rolling text motion. Crawling text crawls left & right across the screen. Create text for your rolling or crawling title and view the off-screen text in the Title editor. You set these parameters after you have created your text.
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3. To create rolling or crawling text, click the Roll/Crawl options button in the title editor. 4. Specify the Direction and Timing options you want, such as fast or slow roll/crawl, direction (crawling titles only) etc. Click OK. 5. You may need to expand the view of the text if your rolling text is long. Press the Command key (Mac) or Control key (PC) to expand your view of the text. Use the scroll bar that appears on the right-hand side of the text editor, or the scroll wheel of your mouse, to scroll down. If your rolling text is very long, you may need to expand the text view (using Command or Control keys) additional times until you have finished entering text. 5. Roll/Crawl timing options: • Start Off Screen – the roll/crawl begins out of view (off-screen) and scrolls into view • End Off Screen – specifies that the scrolling continues until text is out of view • Preroll – specifies the number of frames that play before the roll begins. • Ease-In – specifies the number of frames through which the text rolls at a gradually increasing speed until it reaches proper playback speed (remember, there are 30fps) • Ease-Out – specifies the number of frames through which the text scrolls at a gradually decreasing speed until the scroll is complete • Postroll – specifies the number of frames that play after the roll completes • Crawl Left, Crawl Right – specifies the direction of crawling text across the screen
