Table Of Contents:
Introduction x

The Project 2(14)

What Is a Project? 3(1)

Project Presets 3(2)

Exercise 1_Creating a New Project 5(5)

The Premiere Pro Workspace 10(6)

The Project Window 16(20)

What Is Importing? 17(1)

Importing vs. Capturing 17(2)

Exercise 1_Importing Clips 19(3)

Exercise 2_Previewing Clips 22(2)

Exercise 3_Setting a Poster Frame 24(2)

Exercise 4_Changing Views 26(2)

Exercise 5_Creating Bins 28(3)

Exercise 6_Organizing Clips in Bins 31(3)

Exercise 7_Rearranging and Sorting 34(2)

The Monitor Window 36(18)

Source vs. Program 37(1)

Exercise 1_Playing Source Video 38(7)

In and Out Points 45(1)

Exercise 2_Setting In and Out Points 46(5)

Exercise 3_Clearing In and Out Points 51(3)

The Timeline Window 54(36)

The Timeline Window 55(2)

Exercise 1_Adding Clips to the Timeline 57(7)

Exercise 2_Snapping Clips 64(6)

Exercise 3_Rearranging Clips 70(3)

Exercise 4_Moving Multiple Clips 73(5)

Exercise 5_The Ripple Delete 78(4)

Exercise 6_Trimming Clips in the Timeline 82(4)

Exercise 7_The Ripple Trim Pointer 86(4)

Audio 90(26)

Audio Clips vs. Video Clips 91(2)

Exercise 1_In and Out Points with Audio Units 93(7)

Exercise 2_Snap Edit to Sequence Marker 100(5)

Linked Audio and Video 105(1)

Exercise 3_Separating Linked Audio and Video 106(4)

Exercise 4_Taking Audio and Video 110(3)

Exercise 5_Trimming Audio and Video 113(3)

Title Designer 116(46)

Adobe Title Designer 117(3)

Exercise 1_A Basic Title 120(6)

A World of Style 126(3)

Exercise 2_Editing Title Clips in the Timeline 129(4)

Exercise 3_Font Properties 133(10)

Exercise 4_Fills, Strokes, and Shadows 143(8)

Exercise 5_Title Templates 151(4)

Exercise 6_Rolling and Crawling Titles 155(7)

Still Images and Fixed Effects 162(22)

Converting Still Images to Video 163(1)

Still Image Sizes 164(2)

The Fixed Effects 166(3)

Exercise 1_Image Scale and Position 169(5)

Alpha Channels and Rendering 174(3)

Exercise 2_Alpha Channel Vignette 177(4)

Exercise 3_Artificial Widescreen 181(3)

Transition Effects 184(46)

What Is a Transition Effect? 185(2)

Exercise 1_Adding Video Transitions 187(7)

How Transitions Works 194(3)

The Effect Controls Window 197(2)

Exercise 2_Modifying Transitions 199(8)

Exercise 3_Adding Transitions to Titles 207(8)

Single-Sided Transitions 215(1)

Exercise 4_Adding Single-Sided Transitions 216(7)

Clips Without Heads or Tails 223(1)

Exercise 5_Creating Head or Tail Materials 224(6)

Audio Transitions 230(36)

About Audio Transitions 231(1)

Exercise 1_Fading In and Out 232(6)

Exercise 2_A Seamless Crossfade 238(12)

Exercise 3_Crossfading Speech 250(11)

Exercise 4_Single-Sided Transition 261(5)

Audio Effects 266(40)

What Is an Audio Effect? 267(1)

Clip Volume 267(4)

Exercise 1_Changing Volume Keyframes 271(9)

Volume and the Effect Controls 280(1)

Displaying Keyframes in the Effect Controls 281(1)

Creating Keyframes in the Effect Controls 282(3)

Exercise 2_Changing Volume with Effect Controls 285(6)

Volume vs. Gain 291(2)

Exercise 3_Normalizing Gain 293(3)

Exercise 4_Applying Standard Effects 296(10)

Video Effects 306(40)

What Is a Video Effect? 307(1)

Rendering Multiple Effects 308(3)

Exercise 1_Changing Render Order 311(4)

Exercise 2_Creating a Freeze Frame 315(3)

Exercise 3_Animating Fixed Effects 318(4)

Exercise 4_Saving Effect Presets 322(5)

Keyframe Presets 327(2)

Exercise 5_Saving Keyframe Presets 329(10)

Exercise 6_Changing Motion in the Program View 339(7)

Audio Mixer 346(40)

Audio Mixer Basics 347(1)

Types of Audio Tracks 348(1)

Exercise 1_Viewing Master Meters 349(4)

Clip Tracks in the Audio Mixer 353(2)

Exercise 2_Applying Track Effects 355(5)

Automating Volume and Balance 360(1)

Exercise 3_Changing Track Volume and Balance 361(7)

Submix Tracks 368(1)

Exercise 4_Creating a Submix 369(3)

Exercise 5_Modifying Master Track 372(4)

Recording Narration 376(2)

Exercise 6_Recording to a Track 378(8)

Nesting Sequences 386(44)

What Is Nesting? 387(1)

Exercise 1_Nesting a Sequence 388(15)

Exercise 2_Adding Effects to a Nested Sequence 403(6)

Exercise 3_Importing Photoshop Layers as a Sequence 409(8)

Track Mattes 417(1)

Exercise 4_Creating a Track Matte 418(8)

Fixing Project Size 426(1)

Exercise 5_Importing a Project 427(3)

Exporting Movies 430(40)

Exporting Basics 431(1)

Record to Videotape 432(2)

Configuring DV Playback 434(2)

Exercise 1_Exporting to Tape 436(6)

Export to a File 442(1)

Exercise 2_Export a Still Image 443(4)

Exercise 3_Export a WAV Audio File 447(2)

Exercise 4_Export a DV Movie File 449(4)

Adobe Media Encoder 453(2)

Exercise 5_Export to Web Movie 455(5)

Exercise 6_Export MPEG-2 Movie 460(4)

Exercise 7_Burning Directly to DVD 464(6)

Capturing Digital Video 470

What Is Capturing? 471(1)

Capturing Digital Video 471(1)

The Capture Window 472(2)

Capturing to a Hard Drive 474(1)

Exercise 1_Preparing for Capture 475(7)

Exercise 2_Capturing Footage 482(3)

Exercise 3_Logging and Batch Capture 485(8)

What Is Scene Detect? 493(1)

Exercise 4_Capturing with Scene Detect 494

Project Management 2(16)

What Is Archiving? 3(1)

Archiving Methods 4(3)

The Project Manager 7(1)

Exercise 1_Trimming a Project 8(5)

Exercise 2_Capturing Offline Clips 13(5)

The Next Step 18(478)

Adobe After Effects 19(1)

Adobe Audition 20(1)

Adobe Encore 21(475)
Index 496