Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Resources
- Chapter 2: User interface
- Changing workspaces
- About workspaces
- Choose a workspace
- Dock, group, or float panels
- Resize panel groups
- Open, close, and scroll to panels
- Navigate the panels
- Display any panel full-screen
- Save, reset, or delete workspaces
- Working with multiple monitors
- Import a workspace with a project
- Brighten or darken the interface
- Tools, clip details, and menus
- Preferences
- Change your preferences
- General preferences
- Appearance preferences
- Audio preferences
- Audio Hardware preferences
- Audio Output Mapping preferences
- Change the Auto Save settings
- Capture preferences
- Device Control preferences
- Label Colors preferences
- Label Defaults preferences
- Media preferences
- Player Settings preferences
- Titler preferences
- Trim preferences
- Changing workspaces
- Chapter 3: Workflows and system setup
- Basic workflow
- File-based workflows
- DVD or Blu-ray Disc workflow
- SWF workflow
- Cross-platform workflow
- Cross-application workflows
- About Adobe Bridge
- Edit a clip in its original application
- Working with Photoshop and Premiere Pro
- Create and edit Photoshop files
- Copying and pasting between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
- Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Flash
- Trace video with Adobe Bridge and Illustrator Live Trace
- Working with Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro
- Working with Avid Media Composer and Premiere Pro
- Pro Tools workflow
- Adobe Dynamic Link
- About Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Saving and Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Performance and Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Color and Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Create and link to After Effects compositions with Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Delete a dynamically linked composition or clip (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Modify a dynamically linked composition in After Effects (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Create an After Effects composition from clips in Premiere Pro (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Offline compositions and Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
- Metadata workflow
- Setting up your system
- About setting up your system
- Supported hardware
- Set up a DV or HDV system
- Set up an SD-SDI, HD-SDI, or component system
- Set up a file-based system
- Set up an S-Video or composite system
- Specify the default audio device
- Specify ASIO device settings (Windows only)
- Specify whether to render audio when rendering video
- Specify the duration for preroll and postroll pauses
- Specify scratch disks to improve system performance
- Optimize rendering for available memory
- Optimizing your operating system
- Chapter 4: Project setup
- Chapter 5: Capturing, digitizing, transferring, and importing
- Capturing and digitizing
- About capturing and digitizing
- System requirements for capturing
- Set capture format, preferences, and tracks
- Capture from stereo sources to mono tracks
- File size limits
- Set up device control
- Capture without device control
- Capture with device control
- Determine whether your device is online
- Use automatic scene detection
- Common capture issues
- Capturing DV or HDV video
- Capturing HD video
- Digitizing analog video
- Capturing content for DVD
- Batch capturing and recapturing
- Timecode
- Transferring and Importing files
- Importing assets from tapeless formats
- Importing still images
- Importing digital audio
- Importing sequences, clip lists, libraries, and compositions
- Importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro
- Import an XML file from Final Cut Pro
- Final Cut Pro clip data
- Final Cut Pro effects and transitions
- Conversion of Final Cut Pro video effects
- Conversion of Final Cut Pro video transitions
- Conversion of Final Cut Pro audio effects
- Conversion of Final Cut Pro audio transitions
- Final Cut Pro composite modes
- Final Cut Pro Multiclips
- Capturing and digitizing
- Chapter 6: Managing assets
- Customizing the Project panel
- Organizing assets in the Project panel
- About bins
- Work with bins
- Change bin behaviors
- Label assets
- Rename assets
- Jump to an asset in the Project panel
- Find assets in the Project panel
- Find assets matching criteria
- Remove assets from a project
- Edit cells in the Project panel
- About clip properties
- View the properties of a clip
- Change the frame rate of a file
- Managing metadata
- Chapter 7: Monitoring assets
- Chapter 8: Editing sequences and clips
- Creating and changing sequences
- About Timeline panels
- Open additional Timeline panels
- About sequences
- Open a sequence in a Timeline
- Navigate in a sequence
- Work with tracks
- Set track display
- Selecting a sequence preset
- Create a sequence
- Sequence presets and settings
- Create a custom sequence preset
- Change sequence settings
- Start a widescreen sequence
- Start an HDV or HD sequence
- Create a sequence with uncompressed video playback (Windows only)
- Create a sequence for RED camera footage
- 24p sequences
- Start a mobile device sequence
- Multi-camera sequences
- About multi-camera editing
- About the Multi-Camera Monitor
- Display the Multi-Camera Monitor
- Add clips for multi-camera editing
- Synchronize clips
- Create a multi-camera target sequence
- Record multi-camera edits
- Play nested multi-camera clips in the Program Monitor
- Play clips in the Multi-Camera Monitor
- Rerecord multi-camera edits
- Adjust multi-camera edits in a Timeline panel
- Insert or overlay clips in a multi-camera sequence
- Using multiple sequences
- Creating clips
- Modifying clip properties with Interpret Footage
- Creating special clips (synthetics)
- Adding clips to sequences
- Adding clips to a sequence
- Open a sequence
- Targeting tracks
- Drag video and audio to a sequence
- Drag video only or audio only to a sequence
- Add a track while adding a clip
- Insert a clip into a sequence
- Overlay a clip into a sequence
- Make three-point and four-point edits
- Add clips to a sequence automatically
- Mixing clip types in a sequence
- Replace one clip with another in a Timeline
- Replace the source footage for a clip
- Set or remove sequence In and Out points
- Set sequence start time
- Trimming clips
- Working with In and Out points
- Trim in the Source Monitor
- Scrub the waveform in the Source Monitor
- Zoom in or out on a waveform in the Source Monitor
- Trim with Trim-in and Trim-out tools
- Trim with the current-time indicator (extend edit)
- About rolling and ripple edits
- Perform rolling and ripple edits
- Perform slip and slide edits
- Performing split edits
- Work in the Trim Monitor
- View source timecode in the Program Monitor
- Working with clips in a sequence
- Rearranging clips in a sequence
- Rendering and previewing sequences
- Correcting mistakes
- Markers
- Creating and changing sequences
- Chapter 9: Editing Audio
- Working with audio
- Working with clips, channels, and tracks
- Map audio channels
- Extract audio from clips
- Render and replace audio
- Break a stereo track into mono tracks
- Break all stereo tracks into mono tracks
- Use a mono clip as stereo
- Placing sound from one channel of a stereo clip into both channels
- Linking multiple audio clips
- Link audio clips
- Edit a multi-clip link in the Source Monitor
- Editing audio in a Timeline panel
- Recording audio
- Adjusting volume levels
- Monitor volume level from Timeline, or Program Monitor
- Specify whether to play audio while scrubbing
- Adjusting gain and volume
- Normalize one or more clips
- Normalize the Master track
- Adjust track volume with keyframes
- Apply a volume level to several clips
- Adjust volume in Effect Controls
- Set track volume in the Audio Mixer
- Mute a track in the Audio Mixer
- Mix tracks in the Audio Mixer
- Audio transitions
- Applying effects to audio
- Applying audio effects to clips
- Applying audio effects in the Audio Mixer
- Apply a track effect in the Audio Mixer
- Adjust audio track effects in a Timeline
- Copy and paste track effects
- Designate a track effect as pre-fader or post-fader
- Remove or bypass a track effect in the Audio Mixer
- Working with VST effects
- Adjust a VST effect in a VST Editor panel
- Select a preset for a VST effect
- Recording audio mixes
- Panning and balancing
- Advanced mixing
- Editing audio in Adobe Soundbooth
- Editing audio in Adobe Audition
- Correcting common audio problems
- Chapter 10: Titling
- Creating titles
- Creating popular types of titles
- Adding text to titles
- Adding shapes and images
- Working with text and objects in titles
- Adding fills, strokes, and shadows in titles
- Working with styles
- Creating rolling and crawling titles
- Chapter 11: Effects and transitions
- Working with effects
- Applying, removing, and organizing effects
- Adjusting effects
- About the Effect Controls panel
- View effects in the Effect Controls panel
- View keyframes for an effect property in the Timeline
- Adjust or reset controls in the Effect Controls panel
- Disable or enable effects in a clip
- Create markers in the Effect Controls panel
- Select a blend mode for an effect
- Blending mode reference
- Customizing effect presets
- Creating common effects
- Motion
- Changing clip duration, speed, or interlacing
- View clip properties in a tool tip
- Interlaced video, noninterlaced video, and progressive scanning
- About field dominance and field reversal
- Create interlaced or non-interlaced clips
- Change the field order of a clip
- View the total duration of selected clips
- Change speed and duration for one or more clips
- Change clip speed and duration with the Rate Stretch tool
- Change clip speed and duration with Time Remapping
- Blend frames for smooth motion
- Vary changes to speed or direction with Time Remapping
- Change the default duration for still images
- Freeze a frame
- Color correction
- Adjusting color and luminance
- Set up a Color Correction workspace
- Apply the Color Correction effects
- Quickly remove a color cast
- Make quick luminance corrections
- Color balance, angle, and saturation controls
- Adjust color balance and saturation
- Adjust color and luminance using curves
- Adjust luminance using levels
- Select a color with the Adobe Color Picker
- Define the tonal ranges in a clip
- Specify a color or range of colors to adjust
- Special color and luminance adjustments
- Transition overview
- Applying transitions
- Fine-tuning transitions
- Customizing transitions
- About the effect reference
- Audio effects
- About audio effects in Premiere Pro
- Balance effect
- Bandpass effect
- Bass effect
- Channel Volume effect
- Chorus effect
- DeClicker effect
- DeCrackler effect
- DeEsser effect
- DeHummer effect
- Delay effect
- DeNoiser effect
- Dynamics effect
- EQ effect
- Fill Left, Fill Right effects
- Flanger effect
- Highpass and Lowpass effects
- Invert (audio) effect
- MultibandCompressor effect
- Multitap Delay effect
- Notch effect
- Parametric EQ effect
- Phaser effect
- PitchShifter effect
- Reverb effect
- Spectral Noise Reduction effect
- Swap Channels effect
- Treble effect
- Volume effect
- Audio crossfade transitions
- Adjust effects
- Blur and Sharpen effects
- Channel effects
- Color Correction effects
- Brightness & Contrast effect
- Broadcast Colors effect
- Change Color effect
- Change To Color effect
- Channel Mixer effect
- Color Balance effect
- Color Balance (HLS) effect
- Equalize effect
- Fast Color Corrector effect
- Leave Color effect
- Luma Corrector effect
- Luma Curve effect
- RGB Color Corrector effect
- RGB Curves effect
- Three-Way Color Corrector effect
- Tint effect
- Video Limiter effect
- Distort effects
- GPU effects (Windows only)
- Generate effects
- Image Control effects
- Keying effects
- Alpha Adjust effect
- Blue Screen Key effect (Windows only)
- Chroma Key effect (Windows only)
- Color Key effect
- Difference Matte effect
- Eight-Point, Four-Point, and Sixteen-Point Garbage Matte effects
- Image Matte Key effect
- Luma Key effect
- Non Red Key effect
- RGB Difference Key effect (Windows only)
- Remove Matte effect
- Track Matte Key effect
- Noise & Grain effects
- Perspective effects
- Render effects
- Stylize effects
- Time effects
- Transform effects
- Transition effects
- Utility effects
- Video effects
- Video dissolve transitions
- Chapter 12: Animation
- Chapter 13: Compositing
- Compositing video
- Transparency (masks, alpha channels)
- Creating transparency and solid colors with keys and mattes
- Apply a key to a clip
- Make a color transparent with Color Key
- About mattes
- Define transparent areas with Image Matte Key
- Replace a static background with Difference Matte
- Move or change the transparent area with Track Matte Key
- Mask out objects with garbage mattes
- Create a solid color matte
- Remove a black or white matte
- Chapter 14: Exporting
- Basics of exporting
- Adobe Media Encoder
- About the Export Settings dialog box
- Export Settings viewing area
- Presets for export settings
- Comments and output for export settings
- Export Settings Format options
- Pre-encoding tasks
- Show or hide the options tabs
- Audiences export settings
- Tab menu settings
- Audio export settings
- Clip Notes export settings
- Filters export settings
- Video export settings
- Multiplexer export settings
- Others export settings
- Formats exported directly from Premiere Pro
- Exporting editable movie or audio files
- Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools
- Exporting HD and HDV sequences
- Exporting still images and still-image sequences
- Exporting PDF documents for comments
- Exporting to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or CD
- About exporting to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or CD
- Choosing file formats for various discs
- Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, or SWF file in Encore
- Exporting files for CD-ROM playback
- Exporting files for Video CD playback (Windows only)
- Export files for DVD, Blu-ray, videoCD (Windows only), super videoCD, or CD- ROM
- Exporting projects for other applications or archiving
- Exporting to videotape or film
- Exporting for the web
- Exporting to iPods, cell phones, PSPs and other mobile devices
- Exporting XMP metadata
- Chapter 15: Keyboard shortcuts
- Index