Premiere Review Notes Eight Simple Steps to Moviemaking Using Premiere Import video clips and audio clips into the Project window. Drag an audio clip from the Project window onto any audio track. Drag a video clip onto video track A. Drag a video clip to video track B. (Optionally you can select the clip by clicking on it until it becomes highlighted. Press Command-F to apply a filter to a clip.) Drag a transition from the Transitions window onto the T (transition) track overlapping the end of video track A and the beginning of video track B. Preview the movie by adjusting the yellow work area bar across the top to cover all the clips. Press the Return key. Select Movie from the Make menu. Open MoviePlayer and play the finished movie which is ready to be imported into Director. The Premiere Tool Palette Selection Selects a clip Range Select Selects multiple items in Construction Window. Zoom Increases or decreases time unit Hand Scrolls the window Block Select Selects a segment of equal length in Construction Window. Track Selects all clips on a track to right of cursor Multitrack Selects all clips on all tracks to the right of cursor Razor Splits a clip In Point Sets In Point in a clip Out Point Sets Out Point in a clip The following tools are found by holding down the Range Select Tool. Rolling edit Trims a clip and its adjacent clip to maintain original combined duration. Link override Moves video or audio portion of linked clip independently. Fade scissors Creates two adjacent handles on Fade control section of an audio clip or superimposition. Rate stretch Changes the forward speed of a clip. Ripple edit Trims a clip without affecting duration of other clips on the track. Soft Link Creates soft link between an audio clip and a video clip. Fade adjustment Uniformly adjusts a segment of Fade control section of an audio clip or superimposition. Audio dissolve Creates audio cross-dissolve between two overlapping audio clips. Digitizing Video Using the Radius VideoVision Board from within Premiere Choose Capture/Movie Capture from the File menu. The Movie Capture window appears, and the Movie Capture menu appears in the menu bar. Select recording options using the Recording Settings command in the Movie Capture menu. Set the size you wish to digitize at. Use the Video Input command in the Movie Capture menu to select the type of video input device you are using. We use Composite video coming from a VCR. If you are using a Hi-8 video camera you might select S-Video if your Hi-8 camera supports S-video. Use the Audio Input command in the Movie Capture menu to select of audio sampling rate you wish to record at. We record at 8-bit, 22KHz. Press the play button on the VCR to start the tape. The tape begins to preview in the sample area of the Movie Capture window. Click on the "Record" button in the Movie Capture window when you are ready to start digitizing. The cursor disappears during recording. To stop recording, hold down the button. When the recording has finished, the clip appears in a clip window. Use the Save command to save this clip. You can change the size of the Movie Capture window by dragging the size box in the corner of the window. The window will snap to common sizes as you drag. To make the window any size while maintaining the current aspect ratio settings, hold down the Shift key while dragging the size box; to resize the window without maintaining the current aspect ratio, hold down the Option key while dragging. Premiere Special Tips (Try these on your own) Making a "Garbage Matte" The simplest keying takes the form of a garbage matte. The garbage matte effectively crops the superimposed image so the background shows through around the edges. To create a garbage matte, place a video clip in Track A and a different video clip in the Superimpose track. Select the clip in the Super track and choose Transparency (Command-T) from the Clip menu. You'll see a thumbnail of the super video in the Sample window. Select the page-turn icon to have the background video thumbnail displayed behind the Super thumbnail. Then drag the handles on the bounding box of the superimposed clip in the Sample window to the desired cropping. You should see the background video filling the remaining area. use the None key type for simple garbage mattes. In this case, Premiere creates the alpha channel automatically. Premiere also automatically creates an alpha channel when it imports Adobe Illustrator images, and when you use its excellent titling module to distinguish the letters from the background. Let's say you create a colored title on a white background using the Title window in Premiere. To superimpose the letters over the video, place the title clip in the Super track, the select Transparency from the Clip menu. Choose White Alpha from the Key Type pop-up. After Premiere compiles the scene, the video will show the letters superimposed over the background video. Masking and Traveling Mattes Let's say you want to play a video through a moving mask superimposed on another video. This is called a traveling matte. With the background video on the video track A, place the video clip to be played through the mask on the video track B. Then use Photoshop to create a grayscale image that represents the matte or mask. (No alpha channel is required.) Use black where you want the video the on track B to be opaque, white where you want it to be completely transparent, and gray levels for relative translucence. Next, place the matte image on the Super Track. Next select Track Matte as the key type. This tells premiere to use the image in the Super track as a traveling matte. Also, click the Reverse Key check-box so the video is opaque in the black areas. To make the matte travel, select the Super track and use Clip -> Motion to create a motion path for it.