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Selection Tool: The standard tool for ADOBE PREMIERE PRO PRIMER selecting clips, menu items, and other objects in the user interface. It’s generally a good practice to select the Selection Tool when you are done using any of the other, more specialized, tools. For more Premiere is Adobe’s non-linear video editing software for professional post-production video information about using the Selection Tool, work. It is used to sequence, edit, and preview video work and as a place to bring together see Select one or more clips. media created with other programs, like Audition for audio, After Effects for motion graphics/ Track Selection Tool: Select this tool to animation/special effects, and Illustrator and Photoshop for static assets. select all the clips to the right of the cursor in a sequence. To select a clip and all clips to the right in its own track, click the clip. To select a clip and all clips to its right in all Premiere organizes videos files into Projects, Sequences, and Clips. tracks, Shift-click the clip. Pressing Shift changes the Track Selection Tool into the Projects are the “Document” of Premiere. They contain all your assets, media files, and Multi-track Selection Tool. sequences, as well as some general settings. To create a new Project, open File > New > Ripple Edit Tool: Select this tool to trim the New Project. In or Out point of a clip in a Timeline. The Ripple Edit Tool closes gaps caused by the Sequences, however, are where you do all the work. They are where you combine and edit video edit and preserves all edits to the left or and audio, even other sequences, to make your video project. They also contain more specific right of the trimmed clip. settings for your videos, like the resolution and framerate that they will output. Rolling Edit Tool: Select this tool to roll the edit point between two clips in a Timeline. Clips are the pieces that you arrange and modify. They are added to your timeline by dragging in The Rolling Edit Tool trims the In point of a media file. A single file can broke into multiple clips and have parts of the file excluded. one and the Out point of the other, while leaving the combined duration of the two clips unchanged. Effects Control/Source Monitor Preview Monitor Effects Panel Rate Stretch Tool: Select this tool to shorten a clip in a Timeline by speeding up its playback, or to lengthen it by slowing it down. The Rate Stretch Tool changes speed and duration, but leaves the In and Out points of the clip unchanged. Razor Tool: Select this tool to make one or more incisions in clips in a Timeline. Click a point in a clip to split it at that precise location. To split clips in all tracks at that location, Shift-click the spot in any of the clips. Slip Tool: Select this tool to simultaneously change the In and Out points of a clip in a Timeline, while keeping the time span between them constant. For example, if you have trimmed a 10-second clip to 5 seconds in a Timeline, you can use the Slip Tool to determine which 5 seconds of the clip appear in the Timeline. Slide Tool: Select this tool to move a clip Media Bin/Browser Tools Panel Timeline Audio Meter to the left or right in a Timeline while simultaneously trimming the two clips that surround it. The combined duration of the three clips, and the location of the group in the Timeline, remain unchanged. New Project Dialog Pen Tool: Select this tool to set or select While it looks difficult, the New Project keyframes, or to adjust connector lines in a Timeline. Drag a connector line vertically dialog is simple to use because, for the to adjust it. Ctrl-click (Windows) or most part, you will not need to change any Command-click (Mac OS) on a connector settings. Set your save location and, if you line to set a keyframe. Shift-click have a second hard drive, set your scratch noncontiguous keyframes to select them. Drag a marquee over contiguous keyframes disks to a fast hard drive with ample free to select them. space (otherwise, leave the defaults).
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Panel menu Playhead The Timeline is where all the editing work happens. On it, you can drag clips around, Timecode use tools to make cuts and adjustments, Settings overlap them, and combine them with audio. The timeline is made of Audio and Video Tracks. Tracks allow you to overlap and/or Video Tracks mix together content. Without effects or transitions, overlapping audio tracks will mix while video will only show the top track. An Audio Tracks audio track may be muted, soloed, or the recording target of a live microphone. A video track can be hidden. To add new tracks, right clicking on the left-hand side of the timeline. Track Controls Navigator (scrollbar and zoom control) The scrollbars on the timeline have a special function, which is controlling the zoom level Timecode format of the timeline. They can be adjusted to hour minute second frame view the entire project all the way down to individual frames. In order to add clips to the timeline, you have to add media stored in your media bin. Import the exercise files to your bin by opening File > Import. Navigate and select all the necessary Sequence Nesting Mode Timeline Display Settings clips. Once imported, drag the first of the Snapping Add Marker files into the timeline. Link Video/Audio tracks when selecting
“Scrub” through the video track using the In-Timeline Editing cursor or by moving the playhead. You’ll Selection Tool (V) notice that the video file contains multiple takes and multiple shots. Using the razor Track Select Forward/Back Tool (A / Shift+A) tool (press C), you can make cuts to divide Ripple Edit (B), Rolling Edit (N), Rate Stretch (R) the track up into smaller, more manageable, Razor Tool (C) clips. Do this now, making cuts at around 1 Clip handles can be dragged, minute and then again at 1:16. changing the in/out points. Slip Tool (Y) Notice that parts of the first take are junk, The timeline has several other Pen Tool (P) and Shape tools intuitive features. It uses between :00 and :59 because they are a Hand Tool (H) and Zoom Tool (Z) bad take and also captured director/crew modifier keys and context to Type Tool (T) and Vertical Type Tool discussion. Select (by switching back to the adjust what the tools do, and selection tool) this clip and use the delete or has in-track control points to backspace key to remove it from the timeline. allow you to make some types Highlight the end of a clip to fine tune itsin/ adjustments quicker. out points. Explore the interface and read mouseover tooltips to discover these features. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | SCHOOL OF ART | GRAPHIC DESIGN Spring 2018
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Using Transitions Extra Reading The most common and basic transition is the cut. Cuts are the simplest and most powerful tool Paul, Johnathan. “8 Essential Cuts Every Editor Should that an editor has. There are types of cuts, which are determined by context, such as a Jump Know.” The Beat. October 6, 2015. https://www. Cut and Cutaway. You can read about these and watch example videos by looking at the extra premiumbeat.com/blog/8-essential-cuts-every- reading link. editor-should-know/. Other transitions can be found in the Effects Panel under Video Transitions. While there are many options, in nearly every situation will want to limit yourself to Dissolves. Slide, Wipe, Zoom, and “3D Motion” transitions will have a campy effect and are best avoided.
Additive Dissolve: Transitions by adding the color information from Clip A and B, then subtracting A. Cross Dissolve: Transitions by adjusting the opacity of the clips. Dip to Black/White: Fades Clip A to either black or white before fading in Clip B. Film Dissolve: Uses a different color blending to more closely match the look of dissolve created using film. Morph Cut: Re-interpolates frames from both clips and performs a morph distortion between them to attempt to soften/eliminate the negative appearance of jump cuts. Non-Additive Dissolve: Transitions by mapping the luminance of Clip A to Clip B.
Apply transitions To place a transition between two clips (centered on the cut line), the clips must be on the same track, with no space between them. As you drag the transition to the timeline, you can adjust the alignment interactively. • In the Effects panel, find the transition you want to apply. Expand the Video Transitions bin, and then expand the bin containing the transition you want to use. • To place a transition between two clips, drag the transition to the cut line between two clips, and release the mouse when you see the Center At Cut icon. • To place a transition on a single cut, Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Cmd-drag (Mac) the transition into the timeline. Release the mouse when you see either the End At Cut or Start At Cut icon. End At Cut icon: Aligns the end of the transition to the end of the first clip. Start At Cut icon: Aligns the beginning of the transition to the beginning of the second clip. • Note: As you drag over heads or tails of clips in the Timeline panel, you can see the area covered by the transition outlined. • If a dialog box appears containing transition settings, specify options and click OK. • To preview the transition, play the sequence or drag the current-time indicator through the transition.
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