Adobe PREMIERE 5 Manuale utente

User Guide

Adobe®Premiere®5.0

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Contents

Getting Started with

Adobe Premiere 5.0

About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0 systems requirements . . . . . . . . . 2

Power Macintosh system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Premiere package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Contents of the Premiere discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

AboutAdobe products and services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Using Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

InstallingAdobe Premiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

What’s New inAdobe Premiere 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A Tour of

Adobe Premiere

Creating the bicycle advertisement: ﬁrst steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Specifying project settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Importing the clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Creating a rough cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Previewing in the Monitor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Trimming clips in the Monitor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Adding audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Trimming clips in theTimeline window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Adding a transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Previewing transitions and other effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Splitting a clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing the speed of a clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Changing a clip’s opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Adding special effects to a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Superimposing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Animating a clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Exporting the movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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CONTENTS

Working with Projects

Starting a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Specifying project settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Saving and autosaving a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Removing unused frames from source clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using a Premiere project on another platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Setting up Premiere’s scratch disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Correcting mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Working with windows in Premiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Setting up windows that resemble earlier Premiere versions . . . 74

Saving window positions (Mac OS only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Organizing clips using bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Storing clips and bins in libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Customizing a Project, Bin,or Library window display . . . . . . . . 79

Naming,ﬁnding,and deleting items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Printing window contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Creating a text list of project or library ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Changing the startup window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Working with palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Preparing and Importing

Source Clips

Capturing video for ofﬂine and online editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Preparing for video capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Capturing video without device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Capturing video with device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Batch-capturing video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Reading timecode from source video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Capturing stop-motion animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Capturing analog audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Capturing digital video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Importing digital audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Importing clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Importing another project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Using ofﬂine ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Creating a counting leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Analyzing clip properties and data rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

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Editing Video

Using the Monitor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Using theTimeline window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Editing In and Out points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Using named subclips and unnamed instances of clips . . . . . . 152

Using markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Editing clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Editing a video program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Previewing a video program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Adding Transitions

About transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Using theTransitions palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Creating transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Changing transition settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Creating CustomTransitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Mixing Audio

Understanding how Premiere processes audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Adjusting gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Fading and cross-fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Panning a clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Viewing audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Applying audio ﬁlters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Audio ﬁlters included with Premiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Creating Titles

Creating a new title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Setting up theTitle window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Creating rolling and crawling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Creating graphic objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Adding a shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Using color,transparency,and gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Using the Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Setting default text and graphic attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Arranging text and graphic objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Adding a title to a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

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Superimposing and

Compositing with

Transparency

About transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Using the Fade control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using keys for composites and superimposing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Superimposing two or more clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Adding a background matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Creating garbage mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Creating split screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Animating a Clip

Moving a clip across the frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Rotating,zooming,delaying,and distorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Specifying an exact time for motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Saving,loading,and deleting motion settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Applying Video Filters

About video ﬁlters and keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Applying video ﬁlters to a clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Applying multiple ﬁlters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Producing Final Video

About output settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Specifying compression for ﬁnal video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

File types available for exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Exporting video ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Creating a videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

About creating a video ﬁle for CD-ROM playback . . . . . . . . . . 313

About creating a video ﬁle for the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

About creating a video ﬁle for use in other software . . . . . . . . 316

Exporting an edit decision list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Creating a sequence of still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Creating a ﬁlmstrip ﬁle for editing in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Exporting a still image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Creating a sequence of video ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

About creating motion-picture ﬁlm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Processing a batch of projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

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Measuring

Time and Frame Size

Measuring time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Understanding timecode and time display options . . . . . . . . . 339

Comparing interlaced and non-interlaced video . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Measuring frame size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Compressing

Video and Audio

Understanding scenarios that affect compression . . . . . . . . . . 347

About video compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Finding an appropriate codec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Maximizing Performance

Preserving quality and performance during video capture . . . . 359

Techniques for faster editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Maintaining edited projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Troubleshooting

General problems when capturing video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

General operating problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Common problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Index

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

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ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0

User Guide

Getting Started with Adobe

Premiere 5.0

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 yourWindows



or Power Macintosh computer.

YoucanplaymoviescreatedinPremiereinanyapplicationthatsupportstheAppleQuickTime

format or (in Windows only) the DirectShow

™

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 bothWindows 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 conven-

tions,includinghowtouseamouseandstandardmenusanddialogboxesandhowtoopen,

save,and close ﬁles.For help with any of these techniques,please see your Windows or

Mac OS documentation.

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Getting Started withAdobe 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 orWindows 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

•

MicrosoftVideo forWindows



-compatible orApple QuickTime forWindows-compatible

video capture card

•

Apple QuickTime forWindows 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)

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