Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorials

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The Basics
Overview of Premiere Pro Getting Started
Importing Exporting
Audio Tools

Workspace
Overview Customization
Panels: Project, Monitors, Timeline, CTI, Misc

Common Tasks & Functions

Titles Keyframes
Transitions Types of Edit
Speed and Duration Opacity
Effects Trimming

Special Effects
Star Trek Transporter Effect Blur Part of an Image
Highlight Part of an
Ghost Effect
Image
Duplicate Actors

Misc
Version Information
Task
1 Starting Premiere..........................................................4
2 Customizing New Project Settings...............................6
3 Optimizing the Workspace........................................... 8
4 Importing a Video Clip...............................................12
5 Coordinating Clip and Project Settings...................... 16
6 Placing a Video Clip Into the Timeline Window........18
7 Configuring Timeline Window Options.....................22
8 Project Controls and Controlling Playback................26
9 Editing the First Clip, Don.mov..................................32
10 Editing the Second Clip, Ash.mov..............................36
11 Playing and Navigating the Edited Project................. 38
12 Understanding What Happens to Edited Clips..........40
13 Adjusting Audio Levels...............................................46
14 Adding Transitions......................................................50
15 Tutorial 3 Summary....................................................60

TUTORIAL
Premiere is a sophisticated video editing application and it will take some time to learnall of
its capabilities. However, you can create some remarkable productions once youhave
mastered the basics. After working through this tutorial, you will have seen theessential
techniques required to edit your own programs.
NOTE: Before starting this tutorial, we strongly recommend that you carefully go
through Tutorial 1. It explains how to optimize your computer to get the best
performance for video editing.
Quick Start Editing
Everything you need to know to complete a basic video production
FILES REQUIRED FOR TUTORIAL 3
Copy the files required in this tutorial from the ADITA Premiere 6.5 CD-ROM to yourhard
drive. We strongly recommend that you copy theentireP r e m 6 . 5 Tu t folder fromthe CD-
ROM to your hard drive (C:\) or a video drive. If you are low on hard diskspace, you may
prefer to copy only the files that are required for this lesson.
The files you will be using in Tutorial 3 are:
• Don.mov
from thePrem6.5Tut\Video folder
• Ash.mov
from thePrem6.5Tut\Video folde

Starting Premier
Deleting the Premiere Preferences File
Before we begin this tutorial and before starting Premiere 6.5, we will delete an important
prefer-ences file used by Premiere. Using theWindows Search Utility on the menu, enter the
name “Premiere 6.5 Prefs” (be sure to include the quotation marks) and look in theC:\ drive.
When the file appears in the search window,click once on its name and
then pressthe< D E L E T E > key and send the file to the Recycle Bin. Premiere will
automatically create a new Premiere 6.5 Prefs file using the original "factory" settings when
you start the program. With this done, yourPremiere screens will look just like the views in
these tutorials

NOTE: When you start working on your own video productions in Premiere,
there will be no need to routinely delete the Premiere 6.5 Prefs file. However,sometimes
your computer “crashes” during an editing session and you discoverthat Premiere is not
functioning well after restarting your system. In this case,you can often fix a host of problems
by exiting Premiere, deleting the prefer-ences file, and reloading your project.

Deciding on an Editing Style (Initial Workspace)

Click on the START menu and load Premiere from the Adobe program group.
After Premiere loads, you are asked to select an Initial Workspace or “editing environment.”
The
two choices are A/B Editing or S i n g l e -Tr a c k Editing. Click on “ SELECT A/B EDITING “
.
NOTE: In these tutorials we will primarily use the A/B Editing environment. There are some
advan- tages to Single Track Editing and you will be instructed to choose it in some of the
tutorials

Loading Project Settings

After selecting your Initial Workspace, the Load Project Settings dialog box appears. It is
here
that you choose customized settings for your particular video project

If you are using a proprietary video capture cardwith your computer, there will be a variety of
cus-tom settings listed under Available Presets. For ex-ample, a computer equipped with the
Pinnacle
DV500capture
card will containnumerous addi-tional presets ashighlighted abovein red.
For the tutorials in this series, we will be using various settings that are not specific to any
particular capture card. The video clips are all in QuickTime format (.mov files) so they'll
work on
both Macintosh computers and PCs.QuickTime 5.0 was installed at the same time as
Premiere
NOTE: When editing full-motion video with a specific capture card, it is very important to
choose a preset that conforms to that card. There will be instructions provided with your
video
capture board that outlines how to select the proper presets
Customizing New Project Settings

New Project Settings

To meet the specifications of the clips

that were supplied on the CD-ROM, the
best available
preset for this tutorial is Multimedia
QuickTime. Click the mouse once on
this selection and then

Choose “COUSTOM”, located on the

right side of the Load Project
Settings dialog box

Customizing General Settings

For Editing Mode choose

QuickTime and for

Time base choose 30. The Time

Display should read 30 fps Non Drop-
Frame Time code. To access the
Video setting spress the “ NEXT”

button

You can also click on the drop down

menu button to access any of the five
dialog boxes that make up the New
Project Settings. They are identified
as General, Video, Audio, Key f r a m e

and Rendering, and Capture

NOTE: For a detailed explanation of all the project settings, refer to Adobe’s Premiere 6.0
User Guide