User manual ADOBE PREMIERE 5

[. . . ] User Guide Adobe Premiere 5. 0 ® ® © 1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All PhotoDisc images: © 1997 PhotoDisc, Inc. This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Adobe Systems Incorporated. [. . . ] Some videoediting cards and operating-system software support a preview monitor independent of the desktop, and others support a preview monitor that is contiguous with the desktop so that it can also function as additional space for windows and palettes. See the documentation that came with your video-editing card and operating system software. 196 CHAPTER 4 Editing Video You can separate the Monitor view from the Monitor window controllers for additional flexibility in arranging your Premiere work area. Premiere lets you move the Monitor view to another monitor while keeping the controllers with the other windows and palettes in Premiere. To do this, your computer and operating system must support a multiple-monitor desktop. To preview the Monitor Program view on another monitor: 1 In the Monitor window, click the Collapse button ( ) at the lower right edge of the window. The Monitor window divides into a Monitor window containing the source and program controllers and a Monitor View that shows the frame at the timecode of the active controller. 2 Click the triangle below the Monitor window title bar ( ) and choose Single View from the Monitor window menu to display only the Source or Monitor view, depending on the active controller (see "Setting up windows that resemble earlier Premiere versions" on page 74). Monitor View in single view (top) and collapsed controllers (bottom) ADOBE PREMIERE 5. 0 197 User Guide 3 Drag the Monitor View to another monitor. If you want, you can resize the Monitor View window to fill the screen. Press Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and click the Source or Program window to automatically send the Monitor view to a television monitor, if one is connected to and supported by your system. If you double-clicked without a TV monitor attached, double-click again to return the Monitor view to your computer monitor. Working with preview files When you preview a program, Premiere creates temporary files on your hard disk. These preview files contain the results of any effects that Premiere processed during a preview. If you preview the same work area more than once without making any changes, Premiere instantly plays back the preview files instead of processing the Timeline again. Similarly, preview files can save time when you export the final video program by using the processed effects already stored in the preview files. Premiere stores the preview files in a folder you can specify. If no preview file exists for a clip, the area above the clip directly below the work area band is white. If a current preview file exists for an clip with transitions or effects applied to it, the area above the clip and directly below the work area band is dark. To specify the disk location for preview files: 1 Choose File > Preferences > Scratch Disks. 2 For the Video Preview Temps and Audio Preview Temps menus in the Scratch section, choose a location for video and audio preview temporary files, respectively. The disk you choose must be large and fast enough to support video playback, so choose a hard disk attached to your computer, not a network drive. Also, because Premiere must be able to locate the preview files when you open a project, avoid specifying removable media. 3 Click OK. To delete preview files: Select a clip, and press Control+Backspace (Windows) or Command+Delete (Mac OS). 198 CHAPTER 4 Editing Video Playing back full-screen video The Print to Video command plays a clip or the Timeline centered on a computer or television monitor. If the clip or Timeline is smaller than the full screen, it plays alone on a black background. This is useful for previewing the program in the Timeline, for viewing source clips or individual video files, or for television playback such as recording onto videotape. Print to Video can double the size of the frame during playback so that you can play a quarter-screen video at full-screen size. Note: Some video-capture cards do not support this feature, or support it differently. [. . . ] see online Help split edit 223 split-screen effect 275 splitting a clip 181 still images Adobe Illustrator and 123 Adobe Photoshop and 123 aspect ratio of 164 duration of 122 exporting a sequence of 325 Gradient Wipe transitions and 213 importing 121 as sample title frame 234 Stop Motion command 112 stop-frame animation 111 streaming video 300, 316 Strobe filter. see online Help stuttering frames 373 Style command 240 subclips 150, 152 superimposing clips 273 EDLs and 321 superimposing. see also transparency Swap Left and Right filter. see online Help symmetrical compression 350 synchronizing motion settings 286 system requirements 3 T Take Audio icon 146 Take Left command 227 Take Right command 227 Take Video icon 146 Targa (TGA) file format 122, 124, 304, 328 temp files setting up 71 temporal compression 349 text. [. . . ]