Premiere1.docrev 11/11/10

Objectives:

  • Review the Premiere workspace
  • Manage too-large images
  • Create in and out points and state what they do
  • Unlinking audio and video
  • Settingthe duration of a still image
  • Using transitions
  • Using video effects

Basics of creating a video

  • Develop a script
  • Assemble assets: music (watch copyright), still images
  • Shoot the live video or import the video after taping
  • Decide on the title, ending credits
  • Assemble the elements on a time line
  • Add transitions (between clips), and effects (directly to the clips themselves)
  • Export the movie in the desired format (AVI, MPG, FLV)
  • Create a DVD with menus. You actually do this in a separate program called AdobeEncore.)
  • Create Flash Videos for the Web

Start Premiere

  • When you start Premiere, you are asked whether to start a new project or open an existing project.
  • Open a project from last class
  • The project folder will have some additional folders that Premiere created: Don’t erase them

Import the remaining assets (Not the files that Premiere Created)

All our assets are now in the Project “bin”

Delete anything on the timeline

Review the Two Monitors

  • There are two video monitor windows: Source and Program
  • Source window shows the selected clip (video or audio), the one you are editing
  • Program window shows your edited movie on the timeline/sequence

The Toolbox…define as we need them

  • We will mainly use the Selection, Razor, Track Select
  • Pen, (for making paths for titles)
  • and Ripple Edit tools
  • Selection used when we create titles, also to select clips after we razor them
  • Razor used to split a clip into two parts so you can delete either segment…we did this with audio in the previous module.
  • Ripple edit Change the duration of clips other than the last one.

Project Window

  • Where we select the assets to put on the timeline. Like a bin of things we might want to use.

Source Window

  • Edit video and audio clips

A clip is defined by a start time SMPTE code (in point) and an ending time…SMPTE (out point)

To save a clip in the Project panel:

  • Right click on the clip in the Source Window
  • Choose to make a subclip

  • Give it a name in the window that opens

Practice # 1:

  • Let’s see how we might set the InPointatfive frames, and the out point to 5 seconds
  • To get to the 5 frame point, do one of the following:

1. Click and hold on the yellow counter,

  1. Or click the Step Forward icon 5 times
  1. OR Use the jog shuttle (The wheel)
  2. Or use the Blue slider/marker
  • Now, click the left brace to SetinPoint
  • Drag the blue marker to the right and set the out point to five seconds: 00:00:05:00…clip now from 5 frames to 5 seconds.
  • Save the subclip as 5SecondClip
  • Notice the blue (gray?) area: That’s the clip we want

  • Drag the clip to the timeline
  • Now, you’ve changed your mind!

To clear in-out points in the Source monitor

  • Right-click in the clip area (blue) to reveal:

  • Remove both at this time (in and out)
  • Delete the clip from the timeline

Practice # 2: Create a clip from 00:00:02:02 to 00:00:4:00 . . . 2 seconds, 2 frames to 4 seconds

  • Drag to the timeline
  • In Source Window, jump to inpoint using tool:
  • Jump to out point
  • Delete from the timeline

Practice # 3: Video (Audio) Only options

Suppose we only want the video portion of a clip

  • Click the Drag Video Only tool:
  • Drag to timeline
  • Can also add audio only
  • Try it
  • Delete from the timeline
  • Drag pic1.avi directly to the timeline (Don’t Have to go through the Source monitor window)

Zooming…review

  • Use the zoom tool sliderto zoom in:

Questions on the Source Window?

Program Monitor

  • In the Program monitor, play the “movie” using the various controls…try frame at a time, play head, wheel,…

Timeline Option: show all theframes, or just the first and last

  • Click the tiny square (SetDisplay Style) next to the small circle , on the Video 1 track
  • Try the various options
  • Try Show Frames (it can take a LONG time to do this)
  • Flip to head and tail frames

Timeline: Volume

  • Add Sparks
  • Find the yellow line…if not there, click :
  • The yellow line represents the volume level

Later, we’ll see how to affect part of the audio volume

Unlinking Audio and Video

Note there is an audio track, but I made the clip be silent

  • Let’s delete (uncouple) the audio track from the clip on the timeline (Note…probably would be easier to use the Drag Video option instead)
  • Select the clip…the border turns black
  • Both video and audio tracks are selected now.
  • Choose Clip>Unlink:
  • Click (select) just the audio track (click away, then click the audio track)
  • Press Delete key
  • The audio portion (only) is deleted.
  • Now you can add your own audio track…maybe some music, or you talking… called voice-over)

Trimming audio (music) same process as video

  • Open a file in Source Window
  • Trim to about 60 secondslong starting at 00:02:45:17

  • Click Inpoint icon

(Note premiere uses semicolons as SMPTE separators )

  • SetOutpoint at 00:03:45:11

Or use I and O…play the clip, hit I to create Inpoint, O to create outpoint

G will erased the in/ot

  • Click and hold in the solid light-green area
  • Drag to Audio 1track
  • Zoom out to see the entire timeline
  • Play the movie…space bar, or Enter, or use the Program monitor

Working with Stills (photos)

  • Dragimageto the Video 1timeline.
  • Position the Playhead(Blue thing) on imge
  • Check the Program monitor…picture too big!!

Resizing Images

Method # 1: Fit to Frame

  • Position the blue play head over a portion of the image on the timeline ( Already did that)
  • Select the clip
  • Right-click on thetimeline clip and choose Scale to Frame Size

Result:

  • Ctrl-Z

Method # 2: Use Effect Control

  • Ctrl-Z
  • …This method is more flexible…select the clip, then click the Effects Controltab at top of Source window
  • Open the Motion tool and look for Scale
  • Adjust the Scale value until the image is “safe”
  • Now, you can evenMove the image

Click and drag on the image to adjust its position

Method #3: Pan the picture

  • Instead of scaling (variation on previous method…ctrl-Z), you can click on the picture and just move it so the portion you want is in the safe area:
  • Can even ScaleandPosition:

Later, we’ll see how to panacross an image

Changing the Still-Image Duration

  • The default duration for a still image is 5 seconds

How do we change the duration?

Method # 1:For last image only

  • To change the duration of the last image:
  • Position the cursor at the end of the clip
  • Will see a new cursor shape, drag to the right to change the duration:

Method # 2Use Menu

  • Right-click the clip on the timeline and choose Speed/Duration

Will see:

  • Change the duration to say 7 seconds
  • Again, only works if it’s the last clip
  • Drag imageto the end of the timeline
  • Now, try to lengthen cozmo …can’t!!

Need Ripple Edit

Ripple Edit: For changing the duration of anyclip on the timeline

  • Now, we decide that we want the Cosmo Calendar Train.jpg image to last 12 seconds
  • We need to use Ripple Editin the toolboxto solve the problem.
  • Select the tool
  • Now lengthen the Cosmo Calendar Train.jpg clip (to 12 seconds)
  • It WORKS!!
  • Add four or five additional cat images to the timeline, don’t go too far beyond the music clip length
  • Vary their durations
  • Resize the images then so they fit the frame size…, try using all methods for resizing still images
  • Use the Ripple Edit tool and change durations of inner clips.
  • Click the Select tool to deselect the Ripple Edit tool
  • Save

Playing the movie

  • Play by hitting the space bar (fast display, low quality)
  • Hit Enter – Renders the movie…makes higher quality
  • At the top of your timeline, there is a red or green bar. If it is red, that section is not rendered. A green bar indicates rendered areas. Want all green before exporting to other formats

Review: ChangingAudio volume

  • Note that there are several audio tracks on the timeline. We can use for:
  • Music,
  • Voice over
  • Sound effects,…
  • Select your track in the timeline
  • The yellow line indicates the volume.
  • You might have to click the arrow to the left ofAudio1 to show the actual wave form…Collapse/Expand Track:

You can change the level by selecting the yellow line (or a portion, as we’ll see later) and raising/lowering the volume

Remember to Save your project