Premiere CS3 Workspace
Premiere Project Workflow
- Shoot the video & collect the files to use in the movie (e.g., sound, graphic, etc.)
- Start or open a project
- Capture the video directly from camcorder if not already captured
- Assemble and refine a sequence in the timeline
- Add titles with the Titler tool
- Add
- Mix the audio with the Audio Mixer tool
- Export the sequence using Adobe Media Encoder
Premiere Workspace
Project Panel
- Defines Project content files
- Project panel contains information about all of the elements you have imported for your project.
- Does NOT contain copies of the elements, but defines paths to the elements
- Elements & paths of project elements are stored in a file of type .ppj
The .ppj file includes information about
- Elements that can be used in the movie -- name, media type, duration
- Also information about how elements are used in the Timeline
- When you save the ppj file, you save element names and locations and information about how elements are used in the timeline.
- If you are creating your movie at school, you should
- SAVE the elements separately on a thumbdrive.
- Save the project (ppj file) on your thumbdrive.
Opening an existing Project File
- When you open a .ppj file, it will look for the elements (movie clips, audio clips, titles) wherever you stored them when you built the movie.
- If Premiere prompts you for pathname for any of the elements when you open a project
- you can browse to that element
- or skip it -- but then it will no longer be part of your movie
- Once you locate one file, Premiere finds the rest in the same location
place elements in the project panel by
- File>open
- File>import (multiple files or folders of files)
- From Adobe Bridge, select file and click File>Place
- File>open opens places the element in the Source Monitor --
- you can then drag it into the Project panel or onto the Timeline, which also puts it in the Project panel
- File>import adds it to the Project panel
Drag elements into the Timeline or open in the Source Monitor and change them there (e.g., clip them, apply filters)
When you edit elements in the Timeline or Source Monitor, you do NOT change the clip in the Project panel
Changing display in project panel - click arrow on panel:
- Change views from icons to list
- Change amount of information about file element that is displayed
- Show Preview Area opens a player at top that will play selected file
- Click file to select it and put it in preview player
- Click VCR control to play it
Double-Clicking file in project panel loads it into a clip player to play
Source Monitor
For editing clips for the timeline
- Doubleclick the clip in the Project panel, edit it in the Source Monitor, & drag it into the timeline OR
- Drag it onto the Timeline, and Double-click it to open it in the Source Monitor
- You can scrub the timeline of the clip, and set in and out points to get rid of a section that you do not want to use in the timeline sequence
- In the rose movie the beginning and ending frames have been clipped off because they are empty.
- The frames within the blue area on the time coding below the image are included in the rose.mov in the timeline.
- Clipping a clip does not alter its original source file
- The Effects Control and the Audio Mixer are on tabs behind the Source Monitor
Timeline panel
- The time display 00:00:38:14 shows where the timeline indicator is sitting on the timeline
- The green line at the top of the timeline indicates the parts of the sequence that have previews
- The red line has not yet been rendered and will be previewed the next time the <enter> key is pressed
- There are 3 video tracks (video 3 is empty)
- The video clips each display video effect names: opacity, motion, and Time Remapping are added to each video clip automatically.
- Other video effects are available in the video effects panel
- There is a Cross Dissolve Transition between the BEACH.MOV and pagemuseum.psd clips which fades one BEACH.MOV out & the psd in
- The small diamonds on the clips in video track 2 are keyframes that mark positions in which video effects, such as scale, motion & opacity, change
- explosion.avi begins with its opacity lowered so that car.avi shows through.
- Both explosion.avi & car.avi have their scale increased in the Motion video effect, because they are smaller than the movie dimensions.
- The scale & position of the beach movie clip is also changed
- pagemuseum.psd is "panned" by having the position & the scale of the image change at keyframes which make it appear that the camera moved as the photo was taken
Timeline Zoom Slider
- located at the lower left of the Timeline Panel
- sliding to left displays fewer frames in the timeline
- sliding all the way to the right displays each frame
- allows you to zoom in on specific areas of the sequence time code
Audio Tracks in Timeline
- Mono (monophonic): one audio channel -- Audio tracks 1 and 2 are mono
- Stereo: two audio channels (left and right); audio track 3 is stereo.
- When you drag audio files into the timeline, they always go into the appropriate channels
- A master track that controls the combined output for all tracks in the sequence is below Audio Track 4 and out of sight.
- car.avi and explosion.avi have linked video & audio tracks that stay together unless you unlink them: select the clip and hit Clip>Unlink
- Premiere automatically creates new audio tracks when you drop an audio clip below the last audio track in the Timeline panel.
- This feature is useful if the number of audio clips that you’re stacking exceeds the number of available tracks in a sequence, or if the number of channels in an audio clip doesn’t match the number of channels in the default audio tracks.
- You can also add tracks by right-clicking a track header and choosing Add Tracks, or by choosing Sequence > Add Tracks
Effects Palette
The Cross Dissolve Transition was applied to the change from one movieclip to another in the timeline by dragging it over the beginning edge of the pagemuseum.psd clip.
The transition effects, including the duration of the transition, can be modified in the Effects Control panel which is on a tab behind the source monitor
Tools Panel
Tools for editing clips in the timeline
Tools from left to right, top to bottom
- Selection tool for selecting and moving clips in the timeline
- Track Select tool selects items on a track.
- Shift>Track Select selects multiple tracks
- Ripple Edit, Rolling Edit, Slip & Slide Tools adjust edits in timeline
- Ripple Edit - 2 clips side-by-side: drag to extend or decrease the duration of one clip, but doesn't affect duration of clip next to it, changes duration of entire track
- Rolling Edit -- 2 clips side-by-side: extend or decrease the duration of one clip and drop equivalent number of frames from clip in direction in which you drag it
- Slip Edit - 3 clips side-by-side: change the in & out points of a clip between two other clips, without changiing duration of any of 3 clips.
- Slide Edit - 3 clips side-by-side: change the in & out points of a clip between two other clips, changiing duration of adjacent clip in the direction in which you drag it.
- Rate Stretch Tool changes speed of a clip by clicking & dragging a clip edge with the tool
- Pen tool provides creation of keyframes on Timeline when adjusting Video & Audio Effects
- Hand Tool scrolls through different parts of Timeline without changing zoom level
- Zoom Tool provides zooming in & out of timeline
Program Monitor Panel
Program monitor displays movie preview
