Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Adobe Certified Expert exam objective

Given an option on the Timeline, explain the purpose of the option and when or how to use that option.

1.

Select Window > Workspace > P Pro 2.0 CIB Workspace.

That puts the Project panel back in its regular spot next to the Effects and Audio Mixer panels.

2.

Click the List button in the Project panel (lower left corner) to switch back to that mode.

3.

Click in the Timeline to select it and press the backslash key (\) to expand the view of the clips to full Timeline width.

4.

Expand that view a bit more by pressing the equal (=) key twice.

This expands the width of the clips to help you make a more accurate edit. Your Timeline should look like the next figure.

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5.

Hover the cursor over the left side of the second clip until you see the right-facing Trim bracket () highlighted in the next figure.

6.

Drag the bracket to the right 14 frames (almost a half-second).

Use the timecode pop-up display in the Timeline and the Program Monitor display for reference. Release the mouse button. The purpose is to remove the first few frames where the dancer's arm is above his head.

You will make multiple edits and therefore, a few mistakes. You know you can back up, one step at a time by pressing Ctrl+Z (or selecting Edit > Undo). You can also use the History panel to move back several steps at onceeven as far back as the original Automate to Sequence.

7.

Press the minus key (-) to shrink the view in the Timeline slightly, so you can see the entire third clip.

8.

Move the CTI to 00;00;08;15 (read the time in the Program Monitor). That's just as the dancer begins his spin move.

9.

Drag the right side of the third clip to the left until it reaches the CTI line.

That vertical black line you saw in Lesson 2 appears and the edit

snaps to that point (see

Snap Feature sidebar). Release the mouse button.

Snap feature

Premiere Pro has a tremendously useful attribute called Snap. It's a default setting, and in only a few instances will you want to deselect it. With Snap on, as you drag a clip toward another clip, it'll jump to the edge of the adjacent clip to make a clean, unbroken edit. With Snap turned off, you'd have to slide the new clip very carefully next to the other clip to ensure there is no gap.

Snap is also useful when making precise edits. Using the Selection tool (in its trim mode) to trim a clip is a bit clumsy, as you might have noted in Step 6 of this mini-lesson. Snap lets you make it frame-specific.

Locate the frame you want to edit to by dragging the CTI through your sequence to that frame's location (use the Right and Left Arrow Keys to move to the specific frame). Use the Selection tool and drag the edge of the clip toward the CTI line. When it gets near the line, it will snap to the CTI, and you'll have made a frame-specific edit. You can use this technique in all sorts of circumstances.

If you want to toggle the Snap function off or on, click the Snap button in the top left corner of the Timeline (highlighted in the next figure).

1.

Right-click the gap between the first and second clips and select Ripple Delete (your only "choice").

Ripple Delete removes the gap by sliding all the material after the gap to the left.

2.

Repeat this for the gap between the third and fourth clips.

3.

Click the Ripple Edit tool (keyboard shortcut: B).

4.

Hover it over the left edge of the fourth clip until it turns into a large, right-facing square bracket ().

5.

Click and drag it to the right about eight frames.

Watch the moving edit position on the right half of the Program Monitor. Your goal is to move that clip until the dancer's head position on the right matches its position at the end of the previous clip (on the left).

6.

Release the mouse button to complete the edit. The remaining part of the clip moves left to fill the gap, and slides the clips to its right over with it. Play that portion of the sequence to see if the edit works smoothly.

7.

Move the CTI to about 10;10 (when the dancer's left shoulder is pointing toward the camera).

8.

Use Ripple Edit to drag the left edge of the fifth clip to the right until it snaps to the CTI.

Once again, placing the CTI at your edit point with Snap turned on makes it easy to make accurate edits.

Take a look at the Program monitor and note that the dancer's arms are close to the same position in both framesa matching edit.

9.

Do one more Ripple Edit at 12;11.

Position the CTI there and drag the left edge of the sixth clip to the right until it snaps to the CTI.

10.

View your sequence. It should flow fairly smoothly.

1.

Drag Audio 5a.wav to the beginning of the Audio 1 track.

2.

Move the CTI to 13;15.

3.

Select the Razor tool (keyboard shortcut: C) and click on the CTI line to cut the clip.

4.

Select the Rate Stretch tool (X) and drag the right end of the last clip to about a second past the end of the audio.

5.

Move the CTI to 14;15 (just as the audio fades), select the Razor tool and do a Razor edit of the video clip there.

6.

Right-click on that last video clip segment, select Frame Hold > Hold On > InPoint, and click OK.

7.

Drag the Cross Dissolve from the Effects panel > Video Transitions > Dissolve bin to the end of the last video clip.

8.

Play your video.

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