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Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 What is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4? Adobe Premiere is a program that allows you to edit digital video with professional control. With this program, one can use precise editing tools to create broadcast-quality video productions, benefit from plug-and-play compatibility with the widest variety of digital video hardware, as well as take advantage of flexible output options. STEPS TO SUCCESS | Creating a Video When creating a video, the key is to stay organized. It is imperative to keep all of the files for each video project in one location for easy access. 1 | Starting a NEW Adobe Premiere Project To begin or open your project, double-click the Adobe Premiere icon on your desktop or you will find the program listed under the START menu. When Adobe Premiere opens, you will see this screen. If you have already started a project, it will appear in the Recent Projects section. If you are starting a new project, click on the New Project button.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

What is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4? Adobe Premiere is a program that allows you to edit digital video with professional control. With this program, one can use precise editing tools to create broadcast-quality video productions, benefit from plug-and-play compatibility with the widest variety of digital video hardware, as well as take advantage of flexible output options. STEPS TO SUCCESS | Creating a Video When creating a video, the key is to stay organized. It is imperative to keep all of the files for each video project in one location for easy access. 1 | Starting a NEW Adobe Premiere Project To begin or open your project, double-click the Adobe Premiere icon on your desktop or you will find the program listed under the START menu.

When Adobe Premiere opens, you will see this screen.

If you have already started a project, it will appear in the Recent Projects section. If you are starting a new project, click on the New Project button.

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1. The New Project window will appear – keep the default settings in the General and Scratch Disks tabs.

2. Now, set the location for your video project – this is located at the bottom of the New Project window.

Click BROWSE… Select LOCAL DISK (C:) Browse for and select the VIDEO folder – make sure you have selected this folder (shown below).

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Click MAKE NEW FOLDER - give folder a unique name for each project you create.

Select the folder you just created – and click OK.

**Notice the location information has changed – check the location and make sure it is correct.

Give your project a name (same as folder you created) – DO NOT leave project name as Untitled.

Click OK. The NEW SEQUENCE window will appear.

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Under Available Presets – make sure Standard 32kHz is selected from the DV-NTSC folder – if your video is in widescreen, select Widescreen 32kHz from the DV-NTSC folder.

Leave all other settings as default. Give the sequence a name (same as project name you created) – DO NOT leave sequence

name as Untitled.

Click OK. NOTES

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2 | Adobe Premiere Pro - Screen Layout

1 | Project Bin

2 | Monitor

A | Source B | Program

4 | Timeline

3 | Video Effects

5 | Tools

1 | Project Bin The Project window is where you import, organize and store references to clips. Here you have access to the video captured/imported, titles created, music imported, as well as pictures imported used in your video project.

2 | Monitors The Monitor window includes SOURCE and PROGRAM views of your project. A – Source Monitor (allows you to see individual clips) B – Program Monitor (allows you to see the current state

of the video being edited in the timeline)

4 | Timeline The Timeline provides a schematic view of the video project that is being edited. Here you can organize the video, music, titles, pictures, etc. while adding transitions for your final video production. The changes you make in the timeline will appear in the program monitor.

3 | Video Effects The Video Effects window is where you access video/audio effects and transitions. Each folder contains subfolders to better organize effects.

5 | Tools You will mainly use two tools –

- Selection Tool - Razor

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3 | Capturing Video First things first, capture video. To do this click on FILE and select CAPTURE – you may also press F5 on your keyboard.

Make sure your capture device is properly connected to your computer – if device is off or not connected properly, the status bar will say ‘Capture Device Offline’ or ‘Can’t Activate Recorder. Try Resetting Camera’.

When you are ready to capture click the record button first, then immediately click the play button – you will not have

to worry about pressing any buttons on your capture device; the computer has control of it.

When you have captured the clips that you want, click the stop button. The Save Captured File window will appear – you should save your clip or it will be deleted.

If you are recording multiple clips, Adobe Premiere will automatically name your captured video adding an incremental value to the end of the file name.

First, click RECORD.Second, click PLAY.

When finished, click STOP.

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4 | Importing Files To import video clips, still images, audio files, or other media that already exist on your hard drive– Click FILE and select IMPORT.

Browse for the media file and click OPEN.

To import a single clip – locate and select the file, and click OPEN. To import multiple clips – hold down the CTRL (control) button as you select each file you want to import.

Imported files will appear in the Project Window. NOTES

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5 | Editing The Timeline is where you create and edit your video program. After you capture or import your clips, the next step is adding them to and arranging them in the Timeline.

The Tools panel contains a number of tools for editing sequences in a Timeline panel.

Zoom Controls

} }

Video Tracks

Audio Tracks

Zoom Out

Zoom Slider

Zoom In

Selection Tool The standard tool for selecting clips, menu items, and other objects in the user interface. It’s generally a good practice to select the Selection Tool as soon as you are done using any of the other, more specialized, tools.

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.

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To add video clips, audio clips, or titles to the Timeline, click on the media file in the Project Window and drag to the Timeline.

To edit clips in the timeline:

1. Select the Razor tool

2. Click the point in the Timeline where you want to split the clip – you will perform this step twice (x2) – unless at the beginning or ending of a video or audio clip.

Additional Tips

To split only the audio or video portion of linked clips, Alt + click with the Razor tool.

To split clips on all except locked tracks, lock any track containing a clip that you don’t want to split. Shift + click with the Razor tool to split all tracks at the same point in a Timeline panel.

NOTES

Split #1 Split #2

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3. Right-click on split-clip and select Ripple Delete – this will delete the selected clip and shift video clips together.

To apply transitions to edited video clips:

1. Select Window from the menu bar and click on Effects.

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2. The Effects panel will appear in the bottom-left corner of the Adobe Premiere window.

3. Select the Video Transitions folder.

4. To apply transition, click on the desired transition from the Effects panel and drag to the Timeline between media clips.

NOTES

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6 | Titles

To create a new title, click on File from the menu bar > select New > click on Title.

1. You will be prompted to save the new title.

2. Click OK.

Using the Title Window –

NOTES

} Default (DO NOT CHANGE)

Give title UNIQUE name.

{ Title Tools

Text Alignment

Tools

} Title Properties (font, size, color, etc.)

}

Preset Title Styles

{

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Using the Title Window Menu Panels –

Create a NEW TITLE based on

current title

Roll / Crawl Options Title

Templates

Show Background

Video

{ Additional Text Properties

Opacity – text automatically appears at full (100.0%) opacity, the lower the opacity the more transparent the text will be.

Aspect – should always be 100.0% Leading – the space between lines of text in the same text box Kerning – the space between characters Tracking - the space between all letters in a block of text

Angle– the angle of the shadow in relation to the object Distance – the number of pixels that the shadow is offset from the object Size – the size of the shadow Spread – the blur of the shadow (is useful on small, thin objects)

Strokes – allows you to add an outline to your text

}

}

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NOTES

Selection Tool

Type Tool

Horizontal Area Type Tool

Path Type Tool

Rotation ToolVertical Type

Tool

Vertical Area Type Tool

Path Type Tool

{ Shape & Drawing Tools

} Pen Tools

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7 | Audio

To adjust the audio for your project:

1. Select Window from the menu bar, click on Audio Mixer, and then choose the sequence for which you want to adjust the audio.

2. The Audio Mixer will appear in the Source Monitor window.

3. Select the fader for the audio track you would like to adjust.

Audio Tracks

{VU Meters & Faders

Project Volume

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You can also set the gain (volume level) to make levels more consistent among tracks or clips, or adjust the audio signal of a track when it is too high or too low. Keep in mind that if the level of an audio clip was set too low when it is digitized, increasing the gain or volume might simply amplify noise.

1. Right-click on the audio clip in Timeline.

2. Select Audio Gain.

3. Select Normalize All Peaks to: 0dB and click OK.

NOTES

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8 | Exporting Project

Your Adobe Premiere Project is not available as an independent video file until you export it. Before you export your project, make sure that your project meets all of the requirements for video segments.

To export your project to a video file:

1. Select the Timeline window.

2. Click File on the menu bar, click Export, and select Media.

3. Select the format for your video file.

Video File FORMAT Settings

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4. Select the location to save video file – click on the hyperlinked text next to Output Name.

You should select the Video folder on your C: drive, then select the Finished Videos folder.

5. Give the video file a unique file name.

6. Click SAVE.

7. Adobe Premiere will export your video data and open Media Encoder.

NOTES

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8. Click Start Queue.

NOTES

Start Queue