Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Using a storyboard to build a rough cut: Lesson 5-1

You've seen Lesson 5 Intro video.

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This is a DV-NTSC Standard 48kHz project.

Lesson 5-2 (if you do the brief extra credit work). It's a compressed WMVWindows Media Videofile. It's a bit blurry and intended to run only in Premiere Pro's Program Monitor, or in Windows Media Player running in less than a full screen mode.

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Selecting Copy when you've highlighted multiple clips will copy the entire collection of clips.

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I had you Copy/Paste the video files into the separate Storyboard bin because you will delete some of them. In this way, you delete them from the Storyboard bin but not from the Project panel.

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Even though the Storyboard video files were highlighted, shifting to Icon view returns you to the top-level Project panel view.

Arranging your storyboard

The purpose now is to arrange the thumbnails into a logical order. Before I tell you what I think that order should be, do the steps below to see what you can come up with. Keep in mind that you will trim some clips later to make the edits work more smoothly.

View each clip in the Preview monitor by clicking each clip to select it and then clicking the Preview monitor Play button (highlighted in the previous figure).

Decide which clips do not work in this sequence and settle on an order for the remaining clips. Take some time working on this before continuing with this lesson. Selecting an order for clips is something you will do time after time.

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Some of the videos are a little dark and can be hard to view critically in the Project panel Preview Monitor. In those cases, double-click on a clip and view it in the Source Monitor.

Here's the order that I think works well: Video 5f, 5e, 5c, 5h, 5i, 5b, and 5g. I think the following clips don't work in this sequence: Video 5a (one-handed break dance move doesn't match other clips), 5d (doesn't match other spinning moves) and 5j (hand by ear doesn't match other shots).

Here's how to create my recommended sequence:

No word wrap

The Project panel Icon view does not have the equivalent of Word Wrap. Removing clips leaves gaps in the Icon view. Newly added clips generally run past the right side of the panel, and when you resize the panel, the clips don't move to accommodate the change. To remedy these issues, open the Fly-out Menu and select Clean Up.

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As you drag clips, you will leave gaps. Use Clean Up to remove those gaps.

Your Storyboard should look like the next figure.

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Automating your storyboard to a sequence

Now you're going to move your storyboard clips to the Timeline, placing them there contiguously, in sequential order. Premiere Pro calls this

Automate to Sequence . Here's how you do it:

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You can also open the Fly-out Menu and select Automate to Sequence.

In the newly opened Automate to Sequence dialog box you face several options (see figure on next page):

• Ordering Sort Order puts clips on a sequence in the order you established in the Storyboard. Selection Order places them in the order you selected them if you Ctrl+clicked on individual clips.

• Placement Places your clips sequentially on the Timeline as opposed to at unnumbered markers (something we haven't covered).

• Method The choices are Insert or Overlay. I discuss both concepts later in this lesson. Because here you are placing the clips on an empty sequence, both methods will do the same thing.

• Clip Overlap Overlap presumes that you'll put a transition such as a cross-dissolve between all clips. The goal in this lesson is to create a cuts-only video; that is, a video with no transitions. Set Clip Overlap to zero.

• Apply Default Audio/Video Transition Because you'll opt for no transitions, uncheck these boxes.

• Ignore Audio/Video These clips have no audio so these options are inactive.

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View this sequence critically. Several edits are jump cuts or feel awkward. Some clips are too long. Your task in the next two lessons is to fix those flaws.