Day 1. Overview Public Service Annoucement (Listen Up), Overview Adobe Premiere
Day 2. Basics of Premiere (Menus, Layouts, Buttons), Video Editing (Duration, Speed, Selecting Clips, Arrow-single clips, Range Select-multiple, Track Select, Multitrack Select)
Day 3. Transitions (Transition Settings), Filters, Rendering (ALT)
Day 4. Audio Editing, Gain, Handles, Cross Fade, Pan, Audio Filters
Day 5. Titles, Superimposing, Animation. Treatment is Due.
Day 6. Capturing Audio (Microphone and CD),
Day 7. Capturing Video (VCR)
Day 8. Camera Shots and Layout, Premiere Review
Day 9. Script Due. Begin Project.

Premiere Video

Selecting Clips:

Single Clip – Selection Tool

Multiple Clips – Range Select and drag or hold down (Shift) and click

Clips on a track after a point – Track Select Tool

Clips on multiple tracks – Multitrack Select Tool

Different Types of Edits:

Rolling Edit: Over-Record Edit (Program duration remains the same)

Ripple Edit: Insert Edit (Clip lengths remain the same)

Slip Edit and Slide Edit: We probably won’t use (deals with in and outs of clips)

Splitting Clips:

Razor Tool –

Multi-razor – Splits all unlocked clips

Delete, Edit Cut, Edit Copy, Edit Paste to Fit

Link Clips (Audio and Video) Edit/Break Link

Link Override

Zoom Tool

Right Click Video Clip:

Duration: Length of Clip

Speed: Fast or Slow Motion (Adjusts length of clip)

Frame Hold: Stills Clip

Premiere Transitions and Filters

Transitions:

1. The amount of overlap between V1A and V1B will determine the length of the transition.
2. You must render transitions, create movie or ALT

3. Double click on the transition to get the transition settings

*Check show actual sources

*Move the start and end sliders (two sources at same time – push)

*Borders (some transitions don’t have them)

*Smoothness – anti-aliasing

*Direction arrow, forward reverse, horizontal or vertical orientation

4. Try: center peel, cross zoom, flip over, stash slide, spin away, zoom trails
5. Higher level transitions:
*Image mask (black and white image replaced by A and B) Bubbles.bmp

*Luminance mask

*Gradient Wipe

*QuickTime Transitions

*Create custom transitions

Filters:

1. When you add filters, they are applied from top to bottom.
2. You must render, create movie or ALT.
3. You can animate filters by adding keyframes and changing the settings on those keyframes.
4. Try: posterize, ghosting (video), backwards (video), camera view

Premiere Audio

1. Make sure arrow is pointed down to see audio waveforms (Timeline Window Options/Show Audio Wave Forms).
2. Click Handles on blue horizontal Audio line. These rubber bands allow you to adjust gain at a specific point. (Drag points to where you want them.) This line should be a red line.
3. To fade two points simultaneously, select the fade adjustment tool –
4. If you want to fade sharply from a particular point, you can use the fade scissors tool –
to automatically create two adjacent handles.

5. Cross fading audio between two tracks you can either do manually or get the audio tracks lined up on the two separate channels and select the cross-fade tool – to do it manually.
6. To adjust pan (left and right speaker in stereo), place pointer on blue line and Hold Alt, click and move mouse. This will adjust the blue line. Remember, blue in the middle is balanced audio to each speaker.
7. You can adjust audio speed and duration just like video.
8. You can use audio filters just like video.
9. SPEND TIME WORKING WITH AUDIO. REMEMBER, IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR VIDEO POETRY PROJECT.

Premiere Graphics, Animation and Superimposing

Titles:

1. File/New Title
2. Foreground and background color (like PhotoShop)
3. Right click for text options.
4. You might choose to create font in PhotoShop and import into Premiere.

Superimposing:

1. You can use opacity in Video 2 track. Click the arrow down to see the slider below. Create handles and drag to create opacity (just like audio).
2. You can key out portions of images in Video 2 track (EVHS Logo). Right click clip, Video/Transparency. Key type: chroma; select portion of background with eye dropper; (adjust similarity, blend, threshold, cutoff). Hold down ALT to preview.

Animation:

1. You can animate text in the text window.
2. You can animate any image across the frame by right click, Video/Motion.
3. Adjust start and end point.
4. Adjust background color (black for rolling credits).
5. Rotation, zoom, delay, distort.

To adjust speed, put a motion point in the time area in motion settings area box.