Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies E-Book

Keith Underdahl

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Quiet on set! Time to start your moviemaking adventure -- here's what you need to know about capturing, editing, and publishing your videos If you're an amateur filmmaker shooting documentaries or a hobbyist putting together a family video, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies is the book for you. From setting up a production studio and shooting good footage, to editing clips, adding effects, and working with audio, this user-friendly and comprehensive guide written in plain English can help you create your next video masterpiece and share the finished product. This handy guide starts with the basics, getting you familiar with the Adobe Premiere Pro software and its interface and helping you set up your dream studio. From there, you'll dive into capturing footage for your videos, learn how to manage multiple movie projects, and edit movies to your liking. You'll learn to: * Capture audio and video from your camcorder or video deck (if your computer has the right hardware) * Pick and choose scenes to include in a movie, moving frame by frame through video to precisely place edits * Add and edit (up to 99) audio soundtracks to your program * Create titles and add still graphics to your movie projects * Animate titles and graphics * Apply one of 73 different transitions to video * Modify your movie with 94 video and 22 audio effects * Improve and adjust color using an advanced Color Corrector, new to this version of the software * Use powerful new audio tools to mix audio, whether it's mono, stereo, or 5.1 channel surround * Work with multiple, nestable timelines * Preview edits immediately in real time Once you're finalized your movie project, you can export it, save it to DVD, or publish it online. But that's not all! With this helpful guide, you'll learn pro movie-making tips, third-party software add-ons, and additional tools for your production studio. Pick up your copy and start shooting your film today.

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Adobe® Premiere® Pro For Dummies®

by Keith Underdahl

Adobe® Premiere® Pro For Dummies®

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About the Author

Keith Underdahl is a digital-media specialist residing in Albany, Oregon. Professionally, Keith is an electronic publishing specialist for Ages Software, where he serves as program manager, interface designer, multimedia producer, graphic artist, programmer, customer support manager, resident Portable Document Format (PDF) guru, and when the day is over, he even sweeps out the place. Mr. Underdahl has written numerous books, including Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Windows Movie Maker For Dummies, Macworld Final Cut Pro 2 Bible (co-author), and Digital Video For Dummies, 3rd Edition.

Dedication

My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.

— James 1:19

Author’s Acknowledgments

So many people helped me complete this project that I hardly know where to begin. First and foremost I wish to thank my family for allowing me to work two full time jobs as I completed Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies. My wife Christa has been my entire support staff, head cheerleader, creative advisor, and inspiration throughout my entire writing career. She was the one who urged me to start writing for a small motorcycle magazine in 1995, and that endeavor has led to so many great adventures and challenges in the years since. I owe everything to Christa.

My undying gratitude also goes out to my two very favorite movie subjects, Soren and Cole Underdahl. Not only do my boys take direction well, but they are also incredibly intelligent and look great on camera! I also received help both on-screen and behind the scenes from Ryan and Wendy Holbrook, and havoc23.

I wish I could take full credit for the quality and content of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies, but many other kind folks contributed to this work to make it what it is. I’d like to thank Steve Hayes for hiring me once again to write this book, my project editor Linda Morris, my technical editor Dennis Short, my copy editor Barry Childs-Helton, and the many other folks at Wiley Publishing who toiled to make this one of the best references on Adobe Premiere Pro to be found.

Finally, thanks to Liz McQueen, Jill Devlin, and all the folks at Adobe for inviting me to help develop this excellent video-editing tool; I’ve been on the user side of Adobe software for so long that it was great to finally get a chance to contribute and be useful!

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Contents

Title

Introduction

Why This Book?

Foolish Assumptions

Conventions Used in This Book

How This Books Is Organized

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I : Introducing Adobe Premiere Pro

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Premiere Pro

What Is Adobe Premiere Pro?

Taking the Grand Tour

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Production Studio

Selecting a Computer

Choosing Video Gear

Chapter 3: Getting Premiere Pro Ready to Work

Setting Up Your Workspace

Adjusting Program Settings

Customizing Premiere’s Windows

Installing Premiere Plug-Ins

Part II : Gathering Footage

Chapter 4: A Crash Course in Video Production

What Is DV?

Comparing Analog and Digital Video

Understanding Video Fundamentals

Analyzing DV Tape Formats

Understanding Codecs

Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Editing

Shooting Great Video

Chapter 5: Starting and Managing Your Movie Projects

Starting Your Project

Saving a Project

Opening an existing project

Chapter 6: Capturing, Importing, and Managing Media

Capturing Media

Importing Media

Organizing Your Media

Part III : Editing in Premiere Pro

Chapter 7: Editing Clips

Getting to Know Your Clips

The Ins and Outs of In and Out Points

Modifying Clips

“Oops!” Undoing Mistakes

Chapter 8: Working with the Timeline

Understanding the Timeline

Editing Clips into the Timeline

Using Markers in the Timeline

Working with Multiple Sequences

Chapter 9: Transitioning Between Clips

Choosing Effective Transitions

Using Transitions in the Timeline

Chapter 10: Improving Your Video Images

Understanding the Color Corrector

Using the Video Scopes

Correcting Colors

Using the Color Match Filter

Chapter 11: Compositing and Animating Clips

Compositing Video

Animating Clips

Chapter 12: Affecting Effects in Your Movies

Understanding Effects

Using Other Video Effects

Chapter 13: Working with Audio

Understanding Audio

Recording Audio

Working with Audio in a Project

Using Audio Effects and Transitions

Chapter 14: Giving Credit with Titles

Creating Titles in Premiere

Adding Titles to Your Project

Part IV : Wrapping Up Your Project

Chapter 15: Finalizing the Project

Previewing the Timeline

Adding Final Video Elements

Exporting Audio

Exporting Still Images

Chapter 16: Sending Your Project to the World Wide Web

Introducing the World’s Largest Screening Room

Selecting a Player

Exporting Your Movie

Chapter 17: Exporting Your Movie to Tape

Preparing for Analog Playback

Exporting Your Movie

Chapter 18: Recording DVDs

Understanding DVD Basics

Recording DVDs with Premiere Pro

Using Adobe Encore DVD

Part V : The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Ten Movie-Making Tips and Tricks

Transporters, Twins, and Timelines

Seeing Stars

Forcing a Perspective

Making Your Own Sound Effects

Filtering Your Video

Working with Assistants

Rehearse!

To Zoom or Not to Zoom?

Dealing with the Elements

Picture-in-Picture

Chapter 20: Ten Essential Software Add-Ons for Adobe Premiere

Adobe Video Collection

Adobe Photoshop

BorisFX

CineForm Aspect HD

Media Players

PanHandler

Panopticum Effects

Pixelan Effects

SmartSound Music Tools

Ultimatte Compositing Plug-ins

Chapter 21: Ten Tools (and Toys) for Your Production Studio

Audio Recorders

Dream Camcorders

DVD Burners

Filters

Microphones

Monitors

Multimedia Controllers

Tripods and Other Stabilization Devices

Video Converters

Video Decks

Part VI : Appendix

Appendix: Glossary

Introduction

S ome of you young folks may not remember all the way back to the twentieth century, but the waning years of that century were a heady time indeed. Hyped up on $4.00 coffee drinks and biscotti, overdosed on cathode rays, we’d spend hours sitting around and making wild predictions about the future. Through a fog of whipped soymilk we foresaw that humans (or possibly mutants) of the year 2004 would buy all their groceries online, check e-mail on their refrigerators, and edit high-quality movies on devices that fit inside most overhead storage bins. Of course, all these predictions were contingent upon whether or not the apocalypse came at the turn of the millennium.

Thankfully, many of our predictions proved untrue. We don’t have to trust Joe DotCom to pick out firm tomatoes, we don’t wonder if the light stays on when we close the door on our eIceBoxes, and doomsday appears to be delayed at least until February 2012 (the end of the Mayan calendar) if not longer. We can, however, easily edit movies on devices that fit into most overhead storage bins. Those devices are called laptop computers, and they’re even affordable. Hey, we got one prediction right. I think I’ll take the rest of the day off.

Okay, I’m back.

As you’ve probably heard, movie editing is one of the hottest topics in the computer business today. High-quality digital camcorders are now widespread, and computers capable of editing the video shot by those camcorders are now affordable, if not downright cheap. Software vendors are rushing to provide programs that can take advantage of all this new hardware, and Adobe Premiere Pro is among the best.

If you recently purchased a computer that has a FireWire (IEEE-1394) interface, it probably also came with some free movie-editing software. Windows XP includes a modest little program called Windows Movie Maker. Countless other low-cost programs are available from companies like MGI, Pinnacle, and Ulead. You might have gotten one of these programs with a video capture card or FireWire card that you recently bought. Are those programs any good? Sure, but Adobe Premiere Pro is better. Premiere Pro is widely recognized as one of the best midpriced video-editing programs available for Windows platforms. If you want professional-grade video-editing capabilities but don’t want to spend thousands of dollars, Premiere Pro is an excellent choice.

Why This Book?

Adobe Premiere Pro is an advanced program, so you need an advanced reference. But you do not need a gargantuan textbook that causes your bookshelf to sag. You need easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for the most important tasks, and you need tips and tricks to make your work more successful. You need Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies.

Needless to say, you’re no “dummy” or else you wouldn’t be reading this book and trying to figure out how to use Adobe Premiere Pro correctly. Video editing is fun, and it is my hope that you’ll find this book fun to use as well. I have included instructions on performing the most important video editing tasks, including lots of graphics so that you can better visualize what it is that I’m talking about. You’ll also find tips and other ideas in this book that you wouldn’t otherwise find in Adobe’s own documentation.

Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies doesn’t just help you use the Premiere Pro program. If you’re relatively new to moviemaking, you’ll find that this book will help you choose a good camcorder, shoot better video, publish movies online, and speak the industry technobabble like a Hollywood pro.

Foolish Assumptions

I’ve made a few basic assumptions about you while writing this book. First, I assume that you have an intermediate knowledge of computer use. Movie editing is one of the more technically advanced things you can do with a computer, so I assume that if you’re ready to edit video, you already know how to locate and move files around on hard drives, open and close programs, and perform other such tasks. I also assume that you have Windows XP, because (unlike previous versions of Premiere) Adobe Premiere Pro isn’t available for the Apple Macintosh — and it won’t run on Windows Me, Windows 2000, or any older versions of Windows.

Another basic assumption I made is that you might not (yet, anyway) be an experienced, professional video editor. I explain the fundamentals of video editing in ways that help you immediately get to work on your movie projects. Most of the coverage in this book assumes that you’re producing movies as a hobby, you’re working in a semiprofessional (“prosumer”) environment, or you plan to use Premiere Pro for video production in a corporate environment. Typical projects might include wedding videos, company training videos, school projects, kiosk videos, professional presentations, or even programs destined for broadcast.

Conventions Used in This Book

Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies helps you get started with Premiere Pro quickly and efficiently. The book serves as a reference to this program, and because Premiere Pro is a computer program, you’ll find this book a bit different from other kinds of texts you have read. The following are some unusual conventions that you encounter in this book:

File names or lines of computer code will look like THIS or this. This style of print usually indicates something you should type in exactly as you see it in the book.

Internet addresses will look something like this: www.dummies.com. Notice that I’ve left the http:// part off the address because you almost never have to actually type that into your Web browser anymore.

You will often be instructed to access commands from the menu bar in Premiere and other programs. The menu bar is that strip that lives along the top of the Premiere program window and usually includes menus called File, Edit, Project, Clip, Sequence, Marker, Title, Window, and Help. If (for example) I’m telling you to access the Save command in the File menu, it looks like this: Choose File⇒Save.

You’ll be using your mouse a lot. Sometimes you have to click something to select it. This means you should click once with the left mouse button after you’ve put the mouse pointer over whatever it is you’re supposed to click. I’ll specify when you have to double-click or right-click (that is, click once with the right mouse button).

How This Books Is Organized

Believe it or not, I did put some forethought into the organization of this book. I hope you find it logically arranged and easy to use. The chapters of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies are divided into five major parts, plus an appendix. The parts are described in the next section.

Part I: Introducing Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a highly advanced program, and if you’re new to video editing, many of its parts may seen unfamiliar. Part I helps you get started with your movie-making adventure by introducing you to Adobe Premiere Pro. You’ll begin by touring the Premiere Pro program and getting familiar with its tools and basic features. Because Premiere Pro is just one of many tools that you will use to produce movies, I will spend some time helping you prepare your production studio. I’ll also show you how to prepare Premiere Pro for use with a variety of media formats.

Part II: Gathering Footage

After you’re comfortable with Adobe Premiere Pro, you should familiarize yourself with the basics of video production. The first chapter in Part II introduces you to the fundamentals of moviemaking, a thorough understanding of which is crucial if you want to produce great movies. Next, you start new projects in Premiere Pro and manage the media and content that Premiere uses. I also show you how to import and manage material in Premiere Pro so you have something to work with when you start editing.

Part III: Editing in Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is, first and foremost, a video-editing program, so this part could be considered the heart of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies. Here you edit clips, create movies using the Timeline, and give your project a high-quality soundtrack. You also utilize Premiere Pro’s more advanced editing features. You perform advanced color corrections on video clips, create and manipulate transitions between scenes in the movie, create and use special effects, and get a crack at combining (or compositing)multiple video scenes into one, much the same way special-effects pros do in Hollywood. You also create title screens that tell viewers the name of the movie and who is responsible for it.

Part IV: Wrapping Up Your Project

All your editing work is for naught if you don’t share your movies with others. This part helps you wrap up a movie project and then distribute it on the Internet, on videotape, or on DVD.

Part V: The Part of Tens

I wouldn’t be able to call this a ForDummies book without a “Part of Tens” (really, it’s in my contract). Actually, the Part of Tens always serves an important purpose. In Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies, it gives me a chance to show you ten great moviemaking tips that you can use in Adobe Premiere Pro, ten Premiere Pro plug-ins and accessory programs that you may find useful, and ten toys, er, tools to help you make better movies.

Part VI: Appendix

Video editing is a technical subject with a language all its own, so I’ve provided a glossary to help you quickly decrypt the alphabet soup of video- editing terms and acronyms.

Icons Used in This Book

Occasionally you’ll find some icons in the margins of this book. The text next to these icons includes information and tips that deserve special attention, and some warn you of potential hazards and pitfalls you may encounter. Icons you’ll find in this book are easy to spot:

Although every word of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies is important, I sometimes feel the need to emphasize certain points. I use Remember to occasionally provide this emphasis.

Tips are usually brief instructions or ideas that aren’t always documented but can greatly improve your movies and make your life easier. Tips are among the most valuable tidbits in this book.

Heed warnings carefully. Some warn of situations that can merely inconvenience you; others tell you when a wrong move could cause expensive and painful damage to your equipment and/or person.

Computer books are often stuffed with yards of technobabble, and if it’s sprinkled everywhere, it can make the whole book a drag and just plain difficult to read. As much as possible, I’ve tried to pull some of the deeply technical stuff out into these icons. This way, the information is easy to find if you need it, and just as easy to skip if you already have a headache.

Where to Go from Here

You are about to enter the mad, mad world of video production. Exciting, isn’t it? Video editing is the hot topic in computer technology today, and you’re at the forefront of this multimedia revolution. If you still need to set up your movie studio or need some equipment, I suggest that you start off with Chapter 2, “Setting Up Your Production Studio.” If you aren’t quite ready to start editing yet, you may want to spend some time in Chapter 4, “A Crash Course in Video Production.” Otherwise, you should go ahead and familiarize yourself with Adobe Premiere Pro, beginning with Chapter 1.

Part I

Introducing Adobe Premiere Pro

In this part . . .

It wasn’t so long ago that moviemaking was “magic” that came from the shining temples of Hollywood. But thanks to the home-video revolution that got started in the mid-1990s, anyone with a reasonably modern personal computer, an affordable digital camcorder, and a video-editing program like Adobe Premiere Pro can now produce a high-tech motion picture.

This part of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies begins the moviemaking adventure by exploring Adobe Premiere Pro and finding out just what this program can do. It also looks at what’s needed for your personal video-production studio, and walks you through configuring Premiere Pro to make movie magic.

Chapter 1

Getting to Know Premiere Pro

In This Chapter

Getting a look at Adobe Premiere Pro

Taking the Grand Tour

T he field of video-editing software is getting pretty crowded these days. Premiere Pro is now just one of many pro-caliber editing programs in the $500-to-$1000 price range, a field now populated with such offerings as Apple Final Cut Pro (for the Macintosh only), Avid Xpress DV, Pinnacle Edition, and Sonic Vegas. Adobe Premiere now has more than ten years of experience in the realm of PC-based video editing— but to be honest, it has been upstaged by some of its rivals in recent years. Thankfully, the newest version of Premiere Pro answers questions that almost everyone was asking, bringing it once again to the forefront of the video-editing scene.

This chapter introduces you to Adobe Premiere Pro by showing you what this program is designed to do and what it has to offer. You also get a tour of Premiere Pro to help you find your way around this feature-packed program.

What Is Adobe Premiere Pro?

Adobe Premiere Pro is, first and foremost, a video-editing program — although that term is almost too modest, given the versatility of Premiere Pro. Editing movies on affordable PCs has been a dream since multimedia-ready computers became common in the mid-1990s. For years, the reality of affordable video editing lagged well behind the dream. But today, video can be easily edited on computers that cost less than $1,000, and powerful programs like Premiere Pro give you editing tools that were previously available only to video and film professionals, working on systems that cost hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars. With Adobe Premiere Pro, you can skip the glitz and get right to the gist: