User manual ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 4.0

[. . . ] Adobe Premiere Pro Help Using Help Using Help | Contents | Index Back 1 Using Help About Help Adobe Systems Incorporated provides complete documentation in an Adobe PDF-based help system. This help system includes information on all tools, commands, and features of an application. It is designed for easy on-screen navigation and can also be printed and used as a desktop reference. Additionally, it supports third-party screen-reader applications that run in a Windows environment. Navigating in Help Help opens in an Adobe Acrobat window with the Bookmarks pane open. [. . . ] If you use a grayscale image for the mask, pixels containing 50% or more gray convert to black, and pixels containing less than 50% gray convert to white. To use an image as a transition mask: 1 In the Effects window, expand the Video Transitions bin and then the Special Effect bin. 2 Drag the Image Mask transition from the Special Effect bin to an edit point between clips in the timeline. 3 Click Select Image, and double-click the image file you want to use as a transition mask. To preview the transition, drag the current-time indicator through the transition in the timeline. To edit an Image Mask transition: 1 Double-click the transition in the timeline. 2 In the Effect Controls window, click the Custom button, specify options, and click OK. Using the Gradient Wipe transition Adobe Premiere Pro can use any importable grayscale image as a gradient wipe. In a gradient wipe, image B fills the black area of the grayscale image and then shows through each level of gray as the transition progresses until the white area becomes transparent. When you create a Gradient Wipe transition, you can specify the softness of the transition's edges. To create a Gradient Wipe transition: 1 In the Effects window, expand the Video Transitions bin and the Wipe bin inside it. 2 Drag the Gradient Wipe transition from the Wipe bin to an edit point between clips in the timeline. 3 Click Select Image, and then double-click the file you want to use as the gradient wipe. 4 Adjust the softness of the transition's edges by dragging the Softness slider. As you drag the slider to the right, image A increasingly shows through image B. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 168 Adobe Premiere Pro Help Adding Transitions Using Help | Contents | Index Back 169 5 Click OK. To preview the transition, drag the current-time indicator through the transition in the timeline. Result of the Gradient Wipe transition on a clip To edit a Gradient Wipe transition: 1 Double-click the transition in the timeline. 2 In the Effect Controls window, click the Custom button, specify options, and click OK. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 169 Adobe Premiere Pro Help Adding Transitions Using Help | Contents | Index Back 170 About clip handles and transitions Adobe Premiere Pro creates a transition by using the handles at the beginning or end of a clip, if available. Handles are the captured frames outside a clip's In and Out points. The handle between a clip's Media Start time and In point is sometimes called head material, and the handle between a clip's Out point and Media End time is sometimes called tail material. A B C D E F Clip and handles A. Media End In some cases, the source media may not provide enough frames for clip handles. For example, the camera may have stopped rolling too close in time to the next take, leaving too few frames between the clip's Out point time and Media End time. If you apply a transition and the handle duration is too short to cover the transition duration, an alert appears to warn you that frames will be repeated to cover the duration. If you decide to proceed, the transition appears in the timeline with diagonal warning bars through it. [. . . ] Government end users (a) only as Commercial items and (b) with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the terms and conditions herein. Unpublished-rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States. Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 94110-2704, USA. Government End Users, Adobe agrees to comply with all applicable equal opportunity laws including, if appropriate, the provisions of Executive Order 11246, as amended, Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (38 USC 4212), and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the regulations at 41 CFR Parts 60-1 through 60-60, 60-250, and 60741. [. . . ]