Wojtek E. Janczak, for “Design and Information Architecture”, January 2002 Adobe Premiere 5.1 Tutorial One: Video capture. Connect the camera or digitizer to the computer with a FireWire cable. Open Premiere, in the Menu bar select File>Capture>Movie Capture: Movie Capture/Record window opens. In the Menu bar select Movie Capture>Recording Settings. In the Project Setting / Capture Settings window check following boxes: Capture Video, Capture Audio, Report Dropped Frames. In the Size boxes enter the size: 320 x 240, check the Constrain box. Click on the Video button: Compression; use Compression DV-NTSC, Quality: Best, Frame Per Second: 29.97. Image; leave defaults. Source; Digitizer: DV Video, Input: Sony DV (if you use a Sony recorder), Format: NTSC. Click OK button Click on the Audio button: Compression; Compressor: None, Speaker: Off While recording, Volume: 100 Sample; Rate: 22.050 kHz, Size: 16 bits, Use: Stereo Source; Device DV Audio Click OK button Click OK to close Capture Settings. Push a Play button of a camera or a recorder, click the Record button to start digitizing. To stop the recording, click again. The capture clip appears; play it to check the content and Save As... To check the info on the recorded clip select File > Get properties > File and select the clip. Starting a new project. Open Premiere and in the New Project Settings window select the following settings: Editing Mode: QuickTime, Timebase: 30 (the National Televison Standard Committee NTSC frame rate for video output is 29.97 frames per second; your project will be output on a CD at 15 fps; set the Timebase at 30 fps, as it is a multiple of 15), Time Dispaly: 30 fps Non Drop-Frame timecode. Video Settings: Compression: Video, Frame Size: 320 x 240, Frame rate: 15fps, Quality: 100%. Audio Settings: rate: 22 kHz, Format: 16 bit Mono, Type: Uncomporessed, Interleave: 1 second. Keyframe... Check Optimize stills, Field Settings: No Fields, (check Preview to RAM only if your project files will be always used on the same hard drive). Create a project folder and arrange all the files in folders: audio, stills, titles, video. Importing clips Choose File>Import>Multiples. Select the project folder, select a file (a clip) and click Import. Select the next file, click Import. Click Done when you finish the selection.The files appear in the Project window. To modify the appearance of the Project select Windows>Project Window Options and see Icon View, Thumbnail View and List View. Shortcut icons are located in the Project window. For details see Premiere Help>Help Topics>Contents>Preparing and Importing source clips. File formats that can be imported into Premiere (most popular): Still Images Photoshop: .psd (import individual layers or merged layers), .pct (Mac only), .bmp (Windows only), .gif, .jpg, .tif, Illustrator: .ai, .eps Video Clips: .mov = QuickTime movie (create files in Premiere, Director and Flash and export as QT movies) Windows only: .avi = Audio-Video Interleaved Audio Clips: .aif = Audio Interchange Format, .wav = Audio Waveform (Windows only), .mov, .avi, Macintosh Sound Format Placing files in the Timeline window Select a file in the Project window and drag it to the Video 1A track in the Timeline window(if the track is not expended, click the arrow to expend it). To modify the appearance of the window, select it and choose Window>Timeline Window Options. To modify the time units choose the unit from the Time Units menu or use the Navigator window for modifications. Click on the triangle in the top right corner of the Timeline window to see other options (Track Options window lets you add or delete video and audio tracks). Monitor window Monitor window: Source view and Program view. Use the Source view to preview and trim clips. Use the Program window to view the project clips placed in the Timeline and to view editing changes. Preview the project in the Program view (see “Preview the project” below). Trimming clips To trim a clip in the Source view of the Monitor window drag a clip from the Project window to the Source (or 2x click the clip in the Timeline if you placed it there already) and trim it by setting new In and Out points. Select the starting frame and click on the Marker In button {, select the end frame and click on the Mark Out button }, click on the Apply button, Use the slider under the Source view to move the clip manually. You can also trim clips in the Timeline window with a Ripple Edit tool. Position the ripple tool at the beginning or end of a clip and drag it left or right to shorten or extend the duration of a clip (setting new In and Out points). Use the Info palette to control the location of In and Out points. Adding transitions Position the first clip in the Video 1A track and the second clip in the Video 1B track. The portions of clips should overlap (try one second duration). In the Transition palette select a transition and drag it into the transition track. Click 2x on a transition in the transition track to adjust setting as needed.