Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Start Premiere Pro 2.0.

2.

Click Open Project, navigate to the Lesson 2 folder and open Lesson 2-1.prproj.

This project opens with assets (video clips, an audio file and a Photoshop graphic) loaded in the Project panel and four sequences in the Timeline.

3.

In the Timeline, click the tab Lesson 2 Finish (the last tab on the right) to open that sequence. This collection of clips shows how your finished project will look at the end of this lesson.

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4.

Check that the Current Time Indicator (CTI), highlighted in the next figure, is at the beginning of this sequence. If not, press the Home shortcut key to move it there (you can also simply click and drag the CTI all the way to the left).

In addition to the Home keyboard shortcut, pressing the End key moves the CTI to the end of the last clip in the sequence, and pressing the Page Up or Page Down keys moves you backward or forward respectively through a sequence, one clip at a time. I suggest you give these shortcuts a dry run since you will use them all the time while editing.

If pressing a shortcut key has no effect it's because the Timeline is not the active frame. Click somewhere inside the Timeline to make it active (an orange border appears around whichever frame is active) and then press the keyboard shortcut.

5.

Press the Spacebar shortcut key to play this sequence (you can also click the VCR-style Play control at the bottom of the Program Monitor and highlighted in the next figure). Watch the video in the Program Monitor. It's a series of short video clips with a music bed that finishes with a superimposed graphic. Note that there is a Slide transition between the third and fourth clips, and the last clip becomes a freeze frame, then gets blurry as text and a graphic fade up over the still shot.

Now you will start creating the video you just watched.

6.

In the Timeline, click the Lesson 2 Start tab (the first tab on the left) to open that empty sequence. This will be where you'll do most of your work.

There are several ways to add clips to a timeline. For now, we'll use only one.

7.

Click and drag Video 2a from the Project panel (you might need to scroll down the Project panel to access it) to the Video 1 track on the Timeline and line up its left edge along the left sidethe beginningof the track. Release the mouse button.

Note that as you drag the clip into the Timeline, it becomes a gray rectangle (indicating its relative size and which track it's hovering over) and a little blue

insert edit icon appears on the clip (highlighted in the next figure) indicating the action you are about to take.

Also, as you move the clip near the left side of the track a vertical black line appears below the CTI, indicating that the first frame of the clip will start at the CTI's current position (the beginning of this sequence).

As you click and drag clips to and within the Timeline, you invariably will drag a clip to the wrong place. The quick fix for a single goof is the standard Windows Undo keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Z. You can also select Edit > Undo. If you totally mess up, you can start the project all over by selecting File > Open Recent Project, selecting the current project, and when asked whether to Save changes, clicking No.

8.

Drag the next video clip in the Project panelVideo 2bto the Timeline directly after Video 2a on the Video 1 track. When the vertical black line appears at the end of the first clip, release the mouse button.

That black line indicates the first frame of this second video clip will start immediately after the last frame of the previous clip.

You'll encounter that Lesson 5.

9.

Repeat these steps for the remaining four video clips. And then add another instance of the last video clipVideo 2fto the end of the sequence.

You will turn that repeated clip into the freeze frame that you saw earlier. Your sequence should look like the following figure.

10.

Drag Audio 2.wav to the beginning of the Audio 1 track.

11.

Click somewhere in the Timeline to make it the active frame (an orange border will appear around it).

12.

Press the Home key, then press the spacebar to watch and listen to your work.