User manual ADOBE PREMIERE 5

[. . . ] User Guide Adobe Premiere 5. 0 ® ® © 1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated. This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Systems Incorporated assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this book. [. . . ] If you preview the same work area more than once without making any changes, Premiere instantly plays back the preview files instead of processing the Timeline again. Similarly, preview files can save time when you export the final video program by using the processed effects already stored in the preview files. If no preview file exists for a clip, the area above the clip directly below the work area band is white. If a current preview file exists for an clip with transitions or effects applied to it, the area above the clip and directly below the work area band is dark. To specify the disk location for preview files: 1 Choose File > Preferences > Scratch Disks. 2 For the Video Preview Temps and Audio Preview Temps menus in the Scratch section, choose a location for video and audio preview temporary files, respectively. The disk you choose must be large and fast enough to support video playback, so choose a hard disk attached to your computer, not a network drive. Also, because Premiere must be able to locate the preview files when you open a project, avoid specifying removable media. 3 Click OK. To delete preview files: Select a clip, and press Control+Backspace (Windows) or Command+Delete (Mac OS). 198 CHAPTER 4 Editing Video Playing back full-screen video The Print to Video command plays a clip or the Timeline centered on a computer or television monitor. If the clip or Timeline is smaller than the full screen, it plays alone on a black background. This is useful for previewing the program in the Timeline, for viewing source clips or individual video files, or for television playback such as recording onto videotape. Print to Video can double the size of the frame during playback so that you can play a quarter-screen video at full-screen size. Note: Some video-capture cards do not support this feature, or support it differently. If you see different options than the ones documented in this section, see the documentation included with your video-capture card. To play a video on a blank screen: 1 Do one of the following: · To play the Source view in the Monitor window, activate the Source view. · To play the program in the Timeline, activate the Program view in the Monitor window and make sure the work area you want to preview is specified in the Timeline. · To play a clip or sequence in its own window, activate a Clip or Sequence window (see "Creating a sequence of video files" on page 329). 2 Choose Export > Print to Video. 3 Specify the following options as necessary and then click OK: · For Color Bars, type the number of seconds to display color bars before playing the video. · For Play Black, type the number of seconds to display a black screen after the color bars (if specified) and before playing the video. For recording on videotape, displaying 15 seconds of black screen works well in many cases. · Select Full Screen (Windows) or Zoom Screen (Mac OS) to scale the frame size to fill the screen for Print to Video only. (Mac OS only) Choose Hardware from the Screen Mode menu if you have a video card that supports hardware zooming; otherwise, choose Software. ADOBE PREMIERE 5. 0 199 User Guide If the frame size specified in Video Settings is less than about half the size of the display screen, the resulting picture may appear coarse or with obvious pixels; however, this effect may be less noticeable after recording on videotape. · (Windows only) Select Zoom by 2 to double the height and width of the frame size for Print to Video only. This is useful for project frame sizes 320x240 or smaller. · For Screen Mode, choose Current to play on the main computer screen, or choose NTSC if you have an NTSC monitor connected to your system. The plug-in software included with some video-capture cards allows a temporary switch into the specified mode; see the documentation that came with your video-capture card. · Select Loop Playback to replay the video continuously. For information about recording the Timeline on videotape, see "Creating a videotape" on page 311. To stop Print to Video playback: Press Esc. 5 ADOBE PREMIERE 5. 0 203 User Guide Chapter 5: Adding Transitions T he visual change from one clip to another is called a transition. To add nuance, texture, or special effects between video clips, Premiere provides a variety of transitions, such as wipes, zooms, and dissolves. You can also create your own transitions. About transitions The simplest transition is the cut, where the last frame of one clip leads directly into the first frame of the next. [. . . ] see online Help resizing clip in Timeline 156 resizing when exporting 310 resolution, defined 344 Reverb filter. see online Help Reverse Field Dominance option 162 reverse playback 136 RGB Difference key type 266 ripple edit 177 ripple edit tool 179, 372 Ripple filter. see online Help Roll Options command 243 rolling edit 176 rolling edit tool 179, 372 rolling title tool 243 rolling titles 242 rotating a clip 284, 287 rotoscoping 326 rough cut, defined 20 rough cuts online 92 rounded-corner rectangle tool 245 rubber bands 218, 225 run-length encoding 348 S safe zones 236 sample rate audio capture 115 audio capture (Mac OS) 116 audio preview or playback 63 Save a Copy command 67 Save As command 67 Save command 67 scaling clip in Timeline 156 scaling when exporting 310 scratch disks 71, 116 Scratch Disks / Device Control command 197 Screen key type 267 scrubbing 194 SCSI, connecting devices 367 SECAM capturing requirements 359 frame rate 336 frame size 345 frames and fields 341 timebase 60, 335 selection tool 173 Send to Back command 254 Sequence window 329 sequences of video files 329 sequences of still frames 124, 325, 370 shadows, in titles 248 Sharpen Edges filter. see online Help Shift Material in All Unlocked Tracks option 140 Shift Material Only in Target Tracks option 140 shuttle slider 137 ADOBE PREMIERE 5. 0 391 User Guide shy tracks 143 Single View 135, 196 16mm film time display 339 16-bit Big Endian codec 358 16-bit Little Endian codec 358 64-bit Floating Point codec 358 Size command 240 slide edit 178 slide tool 180, 372 slip edit 177 slip tool 180, 372 Smooth Polygon command 247 SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) timecode 339 Snap to Edges command 175 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. 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