Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team – PDF Drive

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The detailed settings are accessible by clicking the Settings tab in the New Sequence dialog box. Remember, Premiere Pro will automatically conform footage you add to your timeline so that it matches your sequence settings, giving you a standard frame rate and frame size, regardless of the original clip format.

Tip For now, leave the settings as they are, but review the way the preset is going to configure the new sequence. Look at each setting from top to bottom to build familiarity with the choices required to configure a sequence. If you are not intending to broadcast your video this way but instead intend to distribute your creative work online, you may as well change this to 30 fps to accurately measure playback duration.

To do so, first choose a sequence preset that matches your media closely and then make custom selections in the Settings and Tracks areas of the New Sequence dialog box. Having adjusted the settings, you can save your custom preset for future use by clicking the Save Preset button near the bottom of the Settings section. If you save a preset, you can give your customized project settings preset a name in the Save Settings dialog box, add notes if you want, and click OK.

The preset will appear in a Custom folder under Sequence Presets. For complete flexibility, change the Editing Mode menu to Custom.

Without this option, you might see minor artifacts or noise in the picture when making images smaller. Without GPU acceleration, this option will impact playback performance and file export times.

Both of these options can be turned off or on at any time, so you can edit without them to maximize performance and then turn them on when you output your finished work. Tracks are horizontal areas in the Timeline panel that hold clips in a particular position in time. If you have more than one video track, any video clips placed on an upper track will appear in front of clips on a lower track.

The Tracks tab in the New Sequence dialog box allows you to preselect the track types for the new sequence.

This is perhaps most useful when creating a sequence preset with names already assigned to audio tracks. All audio tracks are played at the same time, creating a complete audio mix.

To create a mix, simply position your audio clips on different tracks, lined up in time. Narration, sound bites, sound effects, and music can be organized by putting them on different tracks.

You can also rename tracks, making it easier to find your way around more complex sequences. Premiere Pro lets you specify how many video and audio tracks will be included when the sequence is created. For now, choose Stereo. An audio track can be one of several types.

Each track type is designed for specific types f audio. When you choose a particular track type, Premiere Pro gives you the right controls to make adjustments to the sound, based on the number of audio channels in the track.

For example, stereo clips need different controls than 5. The types of audio tracks are as follows: Standard: These tracks are for both mono and stereo audio clips. Adaptive: Adaptive tracks are for mono, stereo, or multichannel audio and give you precise control over the output routing for each audio channel. For example, you could decide the track audio channel 3 should be output to your mix in channel 5.

This workflow is used for multilingual broadcast TV, where precise control of audio channels is used at transmission. Mono: This track type will accept only mono audio clips. When you add a clip to a sequence that has both video and audio, Premiere Pro makes sure the audio channels go to the right kind of track. L E o R video Premiere Pro offers exceptional support for video and video.

Both are often described as VR video, or immersive video, where multiple cameras, or a very wide lens, are used to capture a video image that can be viewed with a VR headset to create an immersive experience. On the VR Video tab in the New Sequence dialog box, you can specify the angle of view captured so Premiere Pro can accurately display the image.

VR video is beyond the scope of this book, but it is well worth exploring when you have mastered the basics of video editing. What is the purpose of the Settings tab in the New Sequence dialog box? How should you choose a sequence preset? What is timecode? How do you create a custom sequence preset? The Settings tab is used to customize an existing preset or to create a new custom preset. Premiere Pro makes this easy by describing the presets in terms of camera systems. Timecode is the universal system for measuring time in hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.

The number of frames per second varies depending on the recording format. To create a sequence, you need to import media files into your project.

This might include video footage, animation files, narration, music, atmospheric sound, graphics, or photos. Everything you include in a sequence must be imported before it can be used. Any item included in a sequence will always also be included in the Project panel.

Whichever way you approach editing sequences, importing clips to the Project panel and organizing them is the first step. Continue to work with your project file from the previous lesson, or open it from your hard drive. The pointer is called a clip, and you can think of a clip as a special kind of alias macOS or shortcut Windows.

A copy of the clip is added to the sequence with instructions to play only the part you selected. This changes the apparent duration in the sequence, even though the full original duration in the media file is unchanged.

Also, if you add an effect to a clip to brighten the image, the effect is applied to the clip, not the media file it links to. Media can be imported in two principal ways.

Using the Media Browser. Being able to see this metadata which contains important information, such as clip duration, recording date, and file type W makes it easier to select the correct clip in a long list. Tip If you want to import assets used in another Premiere Pro project, you can browse inside that project in the Media Browser panel.

You can select and import clips and sequences to your current Project panel. Like any other panel, you can position the Media Browser in another panel group by dragging its panel name sometimes referred to as the panel tab. You can also undock it to make it a floating panel by clicking the menu next to the panel name and choosing Undock Panel. The contents of your storage are displayed as navigation folders on the left, with buttons to navigate forward and backward at the top.

You can use arrow keys to select items. There are several benefits to using the Media Browser: Note You can open multiple project files at the same time. This makes it easy to copy clips from one project to another. If you do, remember you are copying the clip and not the media it links to. Viewing and customizing the kinds of metadata to display. Correctly displaying media that has spanned clips across multiple camera media cards. Premiere Pro will automatically import the files as a single clip even if a longer video file filled a storage card and continued onto a second.

You can switch between the two whenever you like. Premiere Pro can automate creating proxy files during import. This dialog box contains the original project setup options you saw when creating the project.

You can change any setting at any time. By default, all the Ingest options are deselected. Whichever ingest option you choose, the actions will be performed regardless of the way you import media files from now on.

Files you have already imported are not affected. Enable Ingest by selecting it, and open the first menu to see these options: 1. Copy: When you import media files, Premiere Pro will copy the original files to a location you choose from the Primary Destination menu below.

This is a valuable option if you are importing media files directly from your camera storage, since media files must be available to Premiere Pro when your cards are not connected to the computer. Transcode: When you import media files, Premiere Pro will convert the files to a new format and codec based on the preset you choose and will place the new files in a destination location you choose.

Create Proxies: When you import media files, Premiere Pro creates additional copies that are lower resolution, based on the preset you choose, and stores them in the location you choose from the Proxy Destination menu.

You would not want to use these files for your final delivery, but they open up the option of using a number of collaborative workflows as well as speeding up effect configuration. Copy and Create Proxies: When you import media files, Premiere Pro will copy the original files to a location you choose in the Primary Destination menu and create proxies that are stored in the Proxy Destination menu.

Tip You can add a Toggle Proxies button to the Source Monitor or Program Monitor to quickly switch between viewing proxy or original media. Choose Create Proxies, open the Preset menu, and try choosing a few options. Look at the Summary in the lower part of the dialog box that explains each option.

When you have finished looking at the settings, click Cancel to exit without applying any of the options. This was just an introduction to the proxy media workflow. For more information about managing proxy files, linking proxy media, and creating new proxy file presets, see the Adobe Premiere Pro Help. Note To complete this lesson, you will import files from your computer. Be sure you have copied all the lesson files included with this book to your computer. For best results, follow these guidelines no need to follow along for now : Create a new media folder for each project.

Copy camera media to your editing storage with the existing folder structure intact. Be sure to transfer the complete data folder directly from the root directory of the card. For best results, consider using the transfer application that is often included by the camera manufacturer to move your video files, or explore Adobe Prelude CC, which can automate much of this process.

Check that all media files have been copied and that the original card and the copied folder sizes match. Clearly name the copied folder of the media with the camera information, including card number and the date of the shoot.

Create a second copy of the media on a physically separate, second drive in case of hardware failure. Really do actually create that second copy of your media on a physically separate drive! Importing from Adobe Prelude Adobe Prelude is designed to allow producers or assistants to quickly and efficiently ingest, log, and transcode media convert format and codec for tapeless workflows. Launch Adobe Prelude. Open the project you want to transfer, and select one or more items in the Project panel.

Adobe Prelude has a similar appearance to Premiere Pro but with simplified controls. Select the Project check box. Enter a name in the Name field. In the Type menu, choose Premiere Pro. Click OK. The Choose Folder dialog box opens. Navigate to a destination for the new project, and click Choose. A new Premiere Pro project is created.

You can open the Premiere Pro project file directly, or you can import it into an existing project. This is no problem for Premiere Pro because you can mix different types of media in the same sequence. Also, the Media Browser can display almost any media file type. AVCHD cameras. Apple ProRes. Image sequences, including DPX. Blackmagic CinemaDNG. Phantom Cine camera. It has Forward and Back buttons to go through your recent navigation. It also has a list of shortcuts on the side.

Finding materials is easy. Note When importing media, be sure to copy the files to your local storage, or use the project ingest options to create copies before removing your memory cards or external drives.

Note When you open a project created on another computer, you may see a message warning you about a missing renderer. Continue working with your My Lesson Click the Media Browser panel name to bring it to the front of the panel group it should be docked with the Project panel by default. Tip Some keyboard layouts make it difficult to find the right key. The Media Browser panel should now fill the screen. You may need to adjust the width of columns to make it easier to see items.

Click the Thumbnail View button at the bottom left of the Media Browser panel, and drag the resize slider next to it to enlarge the thumbnails of the clips. You can use any size you like. Note The Media Browser filters out nonmedia and unsupported files, making it easier to browse for video or audio assets. You can hover your pointer over any unselected clip thumbnail, without clicking, to see a preview of the clip contents.

Click any clip once to select it. You can now preview the clip using keyboard shortcuts. When a clip is selected while in thumbnail view, a small preview timeline appears under the clip. Press the L key to play a clip.

To stop playback, press the K key. To play backward, press the J key. Experiment with playing back other clips. You should be able to hear the clip audio during playback. You can press the J or L key multiple times to increase the playback rate for fast previews.

Use the K key or the spacebar to pause playback. Having completed the process of importing, the Project panel opens automatically and displays the clips you just imported.

Like the Media Browser panel, clips in the Project panel can be viewed as icons or as a list, with information about each clip displayed.

Switch between these two viewing modes by clicking the List View button or Icon View button , at the bottom left of the Project panel. Making the most of the Media Browser The Media Browser has a number of features that make it easy to navigate your storage. The Forward and Back buttons work like those in a web browser, allowing you to navigate to locations you have viewed previously.

If you expect to import files from a location often, you can add the folder to a list of favorites at the top of the navigation panel. You can limit the types of files displayed to make it easier to browse large folders by opening the File Types Displayed menu.

You can open multiple Media Browser panels and access the contents of several different folders at once. By default, limited information about clips is displayed in the list view.

To display more information, you can add multiple columns of metadata by clicking the panel menu and choosing Edit Columns. In the Edit Columns dialog box, select each type of metadata you would like to display. People expect graphics to both convey information and add to the visual style of a final edit. Premiere Pro can import just about any image and graphic file type.

Anyone who works with print graphics or performs photo retouching has probably used Adobe Photoshop. Importing single-layer image files Most graphics and photos you will work with will have a single layer—one flat grid of pixels that you can work with as a simple media file. Select the Project panel. When the Project panel is in icon view, it displays the contents of graphics as thumbnails.

A good example is Dynamic Link. This allows you to import After Effects compositions which are a little like Premiere Pro sequences into a Premiere Pro project in a way that creates a live connection between the two applications.

Once added in this way, the After Effects compositions will look and behave like any other clip in your Premiere Pro project. Importing layered Adobe Photoshop files Adobe Photoshop can create graphics with multiple layers. Layers are similar to tracks in a Premiere Pro sequence and allow for separation between visual elements. You can import Photoshop document layers into Premiere Pro individually to allow for isolation when making adjustments or animation.

These are layers with layer visibility turned off in Photoshop but not deleted. Premiere Pro honors the layer selection automatically on import. Merge All Layers: This merges all layers into one, importing the file into Premiere Pro as a single, flattened clip. Merged Layers: This merges only the specific layers you select in this dialog box into a single, flattened clip.

Individual Layers: This imports only the specific layers you select in this dialog box, with each layer becoming a separate clip in a bin in the Project panel. Sequence: This imports only the layers you select in this dialog box, each as a single clip.

Premiere Pro then automatically creates a new sequence with its frame size based on the imported PSD dimensions containing each clip on a separate track matching the original stacking order. Tip There are good reasons to import individual PSD layers with separate layer sizes.

For example, some graphic designers create multiple images for editors to incorporate into video edits, with each image occupying a different layer in the PSD.

If you choose Sequence or Individual Layers, you can choose one of the following from the Footage Dimensions menu: 1. Document Size: This brings all the selected layers into Premiere Pro at the size of the original Photoshop document. Layer Size: This matches the frame size of the new Premiere Pro clips to the frame size of their individual layers in the original Photoshop file.

Layers are also then centered in the frame, losing their original relative positioning. For this exercise, choose Sequence, and choose Document Size. Sequences have a unique icon in List view Icon view and displayed over their thumbnail in. Note Remember, bins in the Project panel look and behave a lot like folders in your computer file system.

Bins exist only inside the project file and are a great way to stay organized. Image tips for Adobe Photoshop files Here are a few tips for importing images from Adobe Photoshop: 1. Remember that when you import a layered Photoshop document as a sequence, the frame size in Premiere Pro will be the same as the pixel dimensions of the Photoshop document. If you do plan to zoom or pan, create images so that the resulting zoomed or panned area of the image has a frame size at least as large as the frame size of the sequence.

Importing large image files uses more system memory and can slow down your system. As with any other media you import, changes made to the PSD file will update automatically in Premiere Pro when the file is saved. This means a designer can continue to work on an image you have already incorporated into a sequence.

Look at the sequence in the timeline. The contents of the sequence are displayed in the Program Monitor. Try clicking the Toggle Track Output button at the left of the timeline for each track to reveal and hide the content on each layer. Bins have the same options as the Project panel, and opening multiple bins to browse their contents is a common way to navigate the available media in a project. Vector graphics are mathematical descriptions of shapes rather than drawn pixels.

This means you can scale them to any size and they always look sharp. Vector graphics are typically used for technical illustrations, line art, or complex graphics. A clip linked to the Illustrator file you imported will appear in the Project panel. Notice the black text in the logo disappears into the black background of the Source Monitor. If you have Illustrator installed on your computer, choosing Edit Original will open this graphic in Illustrator, ready to be edited.

It always merges them into a single layer clip. As always with the Classroom in a Book, Instructor Notes are available for teachers to download.

Become well-versed with basic networking concepts such as routing, switching, and subnetting, and prepare for the …. Kochan, Patrick Wood. Table of contents Product information. Adding clips to the Timeline with the Program Monitor Setting the playback resolution Changing playback resolution Changing resolution when playback is paused Playing back VR video Using markers What are markers? Get it now. When you drag a panel by its name, a drop zone is displayed.

If the drop zone is a trapezoid, it will create a new panel group. You can also pull panels into their own floating windows. Note You may need to resize a panel to see all of its controls. Drop the Source Monitor anywhere, creating a floating panel. You can resize the panel by dragging a corner or a side. As you gain experience, you might want to create and save the layout of your panels as a customized workspace.

Type a name, and click OK. Now, to return to a recognizable starting point, choose the preset Editing workspace, and reset it. Premiere Pro has several types of settings. For example, panel menus , which are accessible by clicking the menu button next to a panel name, have options that relate to each panel, while individual clips in a sequence have settings you can access by rightclicking them.

The panel name, displayed at the top of each panel, is often referred to as the panel tab. This is the area of a panel you use to move the panel, almost like a handle you can grab the panel by. There are also application-wide user preferences, which are grouped into a single dialog box for easy access.

Preferences will be covered in depth as they relate to the individual lessons in this book. Drag the Brightness slider to the right to suit your preference. The default brightness is a dark gray to help you see colors correctly human perception of color is influenced by surrounding colors. There are additional options for controlling the brightness of interface highlights.

Experiment with the Interactive Controls and Focus Indicators brightness sliders. The difference in the onscreen sample is subtle, but adjusting these sliders can make quite a big difference to your editing experience. Set all three settings to Default by clicking the Default buttons when you have finished. Switch to the Auto Save preferences by clicking Auto Save on the left.

Imagine if you had worked for hours and then there was a power outage. With these options, you can decide how often you would like Premiere Pro to save an automated backup of your project file and how many versions you would like to keep in total. Auto Save backups have the date and time they were created added to the filename. Note Premiere Pro allows you to open multiple projects at the same time. This option creates an additional backup of your project file in your Creative Cloud Files folder.

If you suffer a total system failure while working, you can log in to any Premiere Pro editing system with your Adobe ID to access the backup project file and quickly carry on working.

If you have a sudden system failure like a power outage , this is the file you will most likely want to open to continue working.

Click Cancel to close the Preferences dialog box without applying any changes. These are usually faster and easier than clicking—once you know them. Several keyboard shortcuts are shared universally by nonlinear editing systems. The spacebar, for example, starts and stops playback—this even works on some websites. Some standard keyboard shortcuts come from celluloid film-editing traditions. The I and O keys, for example, are used to set In and Out points for footage and sequences: These special marks indicate the start and end of a desired section and were originally drawn on celluloid directly.

Many shortcuts are available, but not all are assigned a key by default. This allows flexibility when setting up your editing system. It can be a little daunting to see the number of keyboard shortcuts available, but by the end of this book you will recognize most of the options displayed here.

Some keyboard shortcuts are specific to individual panels. Open the Commands menu at the top of the dialog box, and choose the name of a panel to create or edit shortcuts for that panel. Specialized keyboards are available with shortcuts printed on them and color-coded keys. These make it easier to remember commonly used shortcuts. The keyboard shortcut display updates to show the results of combining the modifier key with the character keys. Notice there are many keys without shortcuts assigned when you use a modifier key.

These are available for you to assign your own shortcuts. You can set keyboard shortcuts with any combination of modifier keys.

If you press a character key, or character and modifier key combination, that particular shortcut information is displayed. To change a keyboard shortcut do one of the following: 1. Having found an option you would like to assign to a key, drag it from the list onto the key you would like to use in the upper part of the dialog box. To remove a shortcut, click the key, and choose Clear at the bottom right. For now, click Cancel.

Close the project file and save any changes. Moving, backing up, and syncing user settings User preferences include a number of important options. For example, you might prefer the interface to be brighter than the default. Premiere Pro includes the option to share your user preferences between multiple computers: When installing Premiere Pro, you will enter your Adobe ID to confirm your software license.

You can use the same ID to store your user preferences in Creative Cloud, allowing you to synchronize and update them from any installation of Premiere Pro. You can sync your preferences while on the Home screen by choosing Sync Settings. If a dialog box appears asking if you would like to save changes you have made, click Yes. Why is Premiere Pro considered a nonlinear editor? Describe the basic video-editing workflow. What is the Media Browser used for?

Can you save a customized workspace? What is the purpose of the Source Monitor and the Program Monitor? How can you drag a panel to its own floating panel? Premiere Pro lets you place video clips, audio clips, and graphics anywhere in a sequence; rearrange items already in a sequence; add transitions; apply effects; and do any number of other video-editing steps in any order that suits you.

Transfer media to your computer; create a sequence by combining video, audio, and still-image clips in the Timeline panel; add effects and transitions; add text and graphics; mix your audio; and export the finished product as a video file.

The Media Browser allows you to browse and import media files without having to open an external file browser. You can view and select part of your original footage in the Source Monitor and use the Program Monitor to view the contents of the current sequence displayed in the Timeline panel. Choose video rendering and playback settings. Choose video and audio display settings. Create scratch disks. Use sequence presets. Customize sequence settings. You will not need any of the downloadable lesson files.

Luckily, Adobe Premiere Pro gives you easy shortcuts. To help you plan and manage your projects, this lesson contains information about formats and video technology. You may decide to revisit this lesson later, as your familiarity with Premiere Pro and nonlinear video editing develops. A Premiere Pro project file stores links to all the video, graphic, and sound files you have imported. Each item is displayed in the Project panel as a clip.

The name clip originally described a section of celluloid film lengths of film were literally clipped to separate them from a roll , but these days the term refers to any item in the project, regardless of the type of media. You could have an audio clip or an image sequence clip, for example. Clips displayed in the Project panel appear to be media files, but they are actually only links to those files. You can delete one without affecting the other more on this later.

When working on a project, you will create at least one sequence—that is, a series of clips that play, one after another, sometimes overlapping, with special effects, titles, and sound, to form your completed creative work. The beauty of nonlinear editing with Premiere Pro is that you can change your mind about almost anything, at any time. Premiere Pro project files have the file extension. Starting a new project is straightforward. You create a new project file, import media, choose a sequence preset, and start editing.

To speed things up, you can use a sequence preset to choose the settings and then make adjustments if necessary. You need to know the kind of video and audio your camera records because your sequence settings will usually be based on your source footage to minimize conversion during playback. In fact, most Premiere Pro sequence presets are named after cameras to make it easier to choose the correct option. Launch Premiere Pro.

You should see Lesson Notice that you can thin out the list of recent project files by typing some text into the Filter text box, where it says Filter Recent Files—only project files whose filenames contain the text will be displayed. There are a couple of other items in this window: 1. Magnifying glass button: Click the magnifying glass at the top right of the Home screen to open a multipurpose Search screen. You must be connected to the Internet to access the tutorials.

User button: Next to the magnifying glass is a thumbnail of your Adobe ID profile picture. If you have just signed up, this may be a generic thumbnail. Click the button to manage your Creative Cloud account online. Click New Project to open the New Project dialog box. Below the new project name and file location fields, this dialog box has three tabs: General, Scratch Disks, and Ingest Settings.

Click in the Name box, and name your new project First Project. Note When choosing a location for your project file, you may want to choose a recently used location from the Location menu. Click Browse, and browse to the Lessons folder.

Click Choose to establish this new folder as the location for the new project. Click OK to create your new project. Just like media files, sequences have settings that specify such things as the frame rate and image size.

This is called conforming. Each sequence in your project can have different settings. Matching the settings reduces the work your system must do to play your clips, improving real-time performance, and maximizes quality.

If the first clip you add to a sequence does not match the settings of your sequence, Premiere Pro checks if you would like to change the sequence settings automatically to fit. Premiere Pro can work natively with a wide range of video and audio formats and codecs and will often play mismatched formats smoothly. However, when Premiere Pro has to adjust video for playback because of mismatched sequence settings, your editing system must work harder to play the video, and this will impact real-time performance you might see more dropped frames.

Note The Preset Description area of the Sequence Presets tab often describes the kind of camera used to capture media in this format.

The essential factors are always the same: the number of frames per second, the frame size the number of pixels in the picture horizontally and vertically , and the audio format. If you were to turn your sequence into a media file without applying a conversion, then the frame rate, audio format, frame size, and so on, would all match the settings you chose when creating the sequence.

Premiere Pro can create a sequence based on your clip. Use this menu to create new items for your project, including sequences, captions, and color mattes full-screen color graphics useful for backgrounds. To automatically create a sequence that matches your media, drag any clip or multiple clips in the Project panel onto the New Item menu. A new sequence will be created with the same name as the first clip selected, and a matching frame size and frame rate.

You can also select one or more clips, right-click the selection, and choose New Sequence From Clip. Using this method, you can be confident your sequence settings will work with your media. If the Timeline panel is empty, you can also drag a clip or multiple clips into it to create a sequence with matching settings. Choosing the correct preset If you do know the settings you need for a new sequence, you can configure the sequence settings exactly.

Click the New Item button at the lower-right corner of the Project panel now and choosef When you choose a preset, Premiere Pro applies settings for the new sequence that closely match a particular video and audio format.

After choosing a preset, you can adjust these settings on the Settings tab if necessary. These settings are organized based on camera formats with specific settings inside a folder named after the recording format. You can click the disclosure triangle to see specific formats in a group.

These are typically designed around frame rates and frame sizes. Click the disclosure triangle next to the group Digital SLR. You can now see three subfolders, based on frame sizes. Remember that video cameras can often shoot video using different frame sizes, as well as different frame rates and codecs.

Click the disclosure triangle next to the p subgroup. Choose the DSLR p30 preset by clicking its name. For this sequence, use the default settings. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the description displayed on the right. Click in the Sequence Name box, and name your sequence First Sequence.

Click OK to create the sequence. You have made a new project and sequence with Premiere Pro. Formats and codecs A format is a frame rate, frame size, audio sample rate, and so on. Codec is a shortening of the words coder and decoder.

The media file is referred to as the wrapper, and the video and audio inside the file, stored using a codec, are sometimes referred to as the essence. Tip You created a new sequence using the File menu this time. There are often several ways to achieve the same goal in Premiere Pro. Choose the DSLR p30 preset again by clicking its name.

This lets you view the settings while reading about them. Click Settings at the top of the dialog box. Premiere Pro will automatically conform footage you add to your timeline so that it matches your sequence settings, giving you a standard frame rate and frame size, regardless of the original clip format. This makes the sequences settings a critical part of your project configuration.

Creating a sequence preset Although the standard presets usually work, you may sometimes need to create a custom preset. To do so, first choose a sequence preset that matches your media closely, and then make custom selections in the Settings and Tracks areas of the New Sequence dialog box. Having adjusted the settings, you can save your custom preset for future use by clicking the Save Preset button near the bottom of the Settings area.

When you save a preset, you can give your customized project settings preset a name in the Save Settings dialog box, add notes if you want, and click OK. The preset will appear in a Custom folder with the other sequence presets. The new sequence is intended for online distribution only, so change this to 30 fps to accurately measure playback speed.

Tip For now, leave the settings as they are, but review the way the preset configures the new sequence. Look at each setting from top to bottom to build familiarity with the choices required to configure a sequence.

For complete flexibility, choose Custom from the Editing Mode menu. For many effects, this means bit floating-point color, which allows for trillions of color combinations. This is the best possible quality for your effects but is more work for your computer, so you may get lower performance in real-time playback. Without this option, you might see minor artifacts or noise in the picture when making images smaller.

Both of these options can be turned off or on at any time, so you can edit without them to maximize performance and then turn them on when you output your finished work.

Even with both options enabled you can use real-time effects and expect good performance from Premiere Pro. Tracks are horizontal areas in the Timeline panel that hold clips in a particular position in time. There is more than one video track, and video clips placed on an upper track will appear in front of clips on a lower track.

The Tracks tab in the New Sequence dialog box allows you to preselect the track types for the new sequence. This is perhaps most useful when creating a sequence preset with names already assigned to audio tracks.

All audio tracks are played at the same time to create a complete audio mix. To create a mix, simply position your audio clips on different tracks, lined up in time. Narration, sound bites, sound effects, and music can be organized by putting them on different tracks.

You can also rename tracks, making it easier to find your way around more complex sequences. Premiere Pro lets you specify how many video and audio tracks will be included when the sequence is created. For now, choose Stereo.

An audio track can be one of several types. Each track type is designed for specific types of audio clip. When you choose a particular track type, Premiere Pro shows the right controls to make adjustments to the sound, based on the number of audio channels in the track. For example, stereo clips need different controls than 5. The types of audio tracks are: Standard: These tracks are for both mono and stereo audio clips.

Adaptive: Adaptive tracks are for mono, stereo, or multichannel audio and give you precise control over the output routing for each audio channel. For example, you could decide the track audio channel 3 should be output to your mix in channel 5. This workflow is used for multilingual broadcast TV, where precise control of audio channels is used at the point of transmission. Mono: This track type will accept only mono audio clips.

The Submix options available in the Track Type menu are used in advanced audio mixing workflows. Premiere Pro makes sure clips go to the right kind of track. You will usually configure the project settings when creating the new project, but all of the options can be modified at any time.

Some special effects can be played immediately, combining your original video with the effect and displaying the results as soon as you click Play.

Real-time playback is desirable because it means you can watch the results of your creative choices right away, staying in your creative flow without waiting.

If you use lots of effects on a clip or if you use effects that are not designed for real-time playback, your computer may not be able to display the results at the full frame rate. That is, Premiere Pro will attempt to display your video clips, combined with the special effects, but it will not show every single frame each second.

Premiere Pro displays colored lines along the top of the Timeline panel, where you build sequences, to tell you when extra work is required to play back your video. No line, a green line, or a yellow line means Premiere Pro expects to be able to play without dropping frames. A red line means Premiere Pro may drop frames when playing that section of the sequence. Real-time playback can make a difference to your editing experience and your ability to preview the effects you apply with confidence.

If frames are being dropped, there is a simple solution: preview rendering. When you render, Premiere Pro creates new media files that look like the results of your effects work and then plays back those files in place of the original footage. The rendered preview is a regular video file, so playback is at reasonable quality and full frame rate, without your computer having to do any extra work. You render effects in a sequence by choosing a render command from the Sequence menu.

Many menu items display a keyboard shortcut on the right. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Jim Owens. Adobe Dreamweaver The professional Portfolio. Against The Clock. Timothy Samara. Kristin Cullen. About the Author Maxim Jago is a media trainer, presenter, award-winning writer, and film director. He presents regularly at media events, has trained editors all around the world, and has taught everyone from schoolchildren to university professors, from ABC’s top editors in Australia to the BBC’s tech gurus in the UK.

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Verified Purchase. It’s a good book but not geared up for a beginner; in Lesson 5 Automating a Sequence on page it took me two hours Googling Adobe support and the Internet to figure out how to get my Automate to sequence button to appear at the bottom of my Project panel. I just spent an intensive two weeks with this book, and the entire time I was wishing I had tackled this topic earlier I went from being a person who couldn’t figure out how to cut a long video into shorter pieces my original goal , to being a person who can create a scene with one video floating across another in a spinning rectangle, complete with “lens flare,” and lines of text both “scrolling” and “crawling” across the screen in the background, all narrated by my female voice converted into a low male voice It’s a steep learning curve, though.

 
 

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Each sequence in your project can have different settings. This is a valuable option if you are importing media files directly from your camera storage, because media files must be available to Premiere Pro when your cards are not connected to the computer. Layer Size: This matches the frame size of the new Premiere Pro clips to the frame size of their individual layers in the original Photoshop file.