Wojtek E. Janczak, for “Design and Information Architecture” Adobe Premiere 5.1 Tutorial Three: Export a movie Choose File>Export>Movie. In the Export Movie dialog box click on the Settings button. In General Settings select File Type: QuickTime and Range: Entire Project (or Work Area), check boxes: Export Video and Export Audio. Video Settings: Compression: Sorenson Video Frame Size 320x240 Frame Rate: 15fps Quality: High (100%) Audio Settings: select 22kHz - 16 bit - Stereo, Uncompressed. In keyframe and Rendering options select Optimize stills. Click OK, name the file name.mov, select a fo;der and click OK. The saved file is a Adobe Premiere movie file and has ties to Premiere: when you click on the movie file icon, it will open in Premiere, not in the QuickTime Player. To play it with the QuickTime Player, open it with the QT Player or drag it on top of the Player icon. To create a Premiere-independent QuickTime Player file a movie has to be “flattened” or made self-contained. Flattening a Premiere movie file with QuckTime Pro Player (flattening only, there is no settings to adjust): Open a movie with QuckTime Pro Player, choose File>Save As... and select Make movie self-contained. Flattening a Premiere movie file with MediaCleaner Pro: Open a movie with MediaCleaner Pro, choose File>Flatten and Save. Modifying compression with MediaCleaner Open MediaCleaner pro, choose File >Open, open your movie file. In the menu bar choose process>Specify Settings, select QuickTime CD-ROM>QT-CDROM Sorenson, click Apply, click Start. QuikTime Export Choose File>Export>QuickTime Export. In the dialog box select Export: Movie to QT Movie and Use: Default Settings. The saved file is a QuickTime Player document, but the quality is poor. Another saving option: choose File>Export>QuickTime Export. In the dialog box click Options and select/modify settings for Video and Audio, and select fast Start if the movie is intended for the www. It is better to save yor movie as a Premiere movie file (see above) and then save it (flattening ir or making it self-contained) with MediaCleaner or QuckTime Pro as a QT Player file. Splitting a clip (to change a part) Position the edit line at a point where you want to split the clip, select a razor tool, position it at the edit line in the clip and click. Speed of a clip Select the clip with a selection tool, choose Clip>Speed and change the % rate in the dialog box. Fade control If you want to create a fade-in or fade-out effects or superimpose two or more clips and control the levels of their transparency, you can adjust the opacity in the opacity bar of a clip. Place a clip in the Video 2 track or higher and expand the track. In the opacity bar click on the red line to create a handle. Dragging a handle down creates an effect of transparency. Holding down the Shift key when you drag a handle displays the % of opacity. If there is no clip in the tracks below, the movie will fade-in from black (background colour) or fade-out to black. If there is a clip in the tracks below, the movie will fade-in from the clip below or fade-out to the clip below. By holding down the Shift key when you drag a handle, you can adjust the level of opacity for the whole clip. You can use multiple clips, one below another, with various opacity clips. Superimposing a clip (see Help>Help Topics>Contents>Superimposing and compositing with transparency) Choose Clip>Video>Transparency. Filters Select a clip, choose Clip>Filters. In the Filters window select a filter, click the Add button, click OK. If you want to vary the filter effect in time: 1. Select the first keyframe, click the Edit button, select/modify the settings (a number or percentage) and click OK. 2. Select the last keyframe, click the Edit button, select/modify the settings and click OK. 3. You can move a keyframe along the timeline to modify the point of beginning and/or ending of the filter effect. 4. In the most of filters you can add more keyframes: click at any point on the timeline and modify the settings. 5. You can use multiple filters in one clip.