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  • Page 1 User Guide Supplement...
  • Page 2 Adobe. Please remember that existing artwork or images that you may want to include in your project may be protected under copyright law.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ........49 Using the Adobe MPEG Encoder (Windows only) .

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Adobe provides a variety of options for you to learn Adobe Premiere, including printed guides, online Help, and tool tips. Using the Adobe Online feature, you can easily access a host of continually updated Web resources for learning Adobe Premiere, from tips and tutorials to tech support information.

  • Page 6: Using The Printed Documentation

    See “Using Web resources” on page 4. If you are an experienced Premiere user: Check out the new Adobe Title Designer to see how you can expand your creativity with • titles. See “Opening a new or saved title” on page 10.

  • Page 7: Using Online Help

    Using online Help Adobe Premiere includes complete documentation in an HTML-based help system. The help system includes all of the information in the Adobe Premiere 6.5 User Guide Supplement, the Adobe Premiere 6.0 User Guide, plus information on additional features, keyboard shortcuts, and full-color illustrations.

  • Page 8: Using Web Resources

    Note: Tool tips are not available in most dialog boxes. Using Web resources If you have an Internet connection, you can use the Adobe Online feature to access additional resources for learning Premiere located on the Adobe.com Web site. From the Adobe.com home page, select Digital Video Products.
  • Page 9 Adobe Online updates bookmarks and buttons so you can quickly access the most current content available. You can use preferences to automatically refresh Adobe Online. When you set up an Internet connection to Adobe Online, Adobe can either notify you whenever new information is available through the Updates feature or automatically download that information to your hard disk.

  • Page 10: Other Learning Resources

    files or were notified of them. • Select All Updates to view all the files on Adobe’s Web site that are currently available. To see a description of a file, click on a filename and view its description in the Item Description section.

  • Page 11: Customer Support

    For more information, refer to the technical support card provided with the Premiere documentation. Customer support on Adobe Online Adobe Online provides access to the Premiere Knowledgebase, where you can find answers to technical questions. Additional customer support resources Adobe Systems provides several forms of automated technical support: •...

  • Page 13: Using The Adobe Title Designer

    Chapter 1: Using the Adobe Title Designer In Premiere 6.5, you have the ability to design complex titles with the Adobe Title Designer. With the Adobe Title Designer, you can add a variety of attributes to titles, use various templates to design titles, freely manipulate shapes in a title, and create custom styles that you can save and use with other title documents.

  • Page 14: Opening A New Or Saved Title

    Like any other clip, it doesn’t become part of your video program until you add it to the Timeline. You can work with more than one open Adobe Title Designer window at a time, and use a title in more than one project. New titles saved from the Adobe Title Designer appear in the active bin in the Project window.
  • Page 15 User Guide Adjusting values by using hot text controls The Adobe Title Designer uses special hot text controls for adjusting values as you create object styles and perform transformations. Hot text controls are underlined, interactive values that make it easy to adjust values without entering text in pop-up dialog boxes.
  • Page 16 Using the Adobe Title Designer Using templates The Adobe Title Designer includes over 200 templates that provide you with title area configurations to help you build a title. For instance, some templates include art that may be pertinent to your project’s subject matter. Other templates have special designs, such as letterboxed or pillarboxed drawing areas.
  • Page 17 Sync to Timeline button to display the frame at the edit line in the Timeline and update the timecode to reflect the frame’s location on the Timeline. If you add new footage to the Timeline at the targeted time, the Adobe Title Designer displays the new footage.
  • Page 18 In the Adobe Title Designer, click Sync to Timeline Understanding safe title and safe action margins The safe title and action margins in the Adobe Title Designer drawing area designate the title’s visible safe zones. You can set display options for these zones in the Titler preferences dialog box.

  • Page 19: Creating New Titles With Text And Graphics

    To turn safe title and safe action margins on or off: Do one of the following: Choose Edit > Preferences > Titler (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Adobe Premiere 6.5 > • Preferences > Titler (Mac OS X), and select Show Safe Title Margins or Show Safe Action Margins to turn them on;...
  • Page 20 CHAPTER 1 Using the Adobe Title Designer The Adobe Title Designer recognizes each text or graphic element you create as an object. You can apply various styles to these objects to enhance the look of your titles. For more information on applying styles, see “Using object styles” on page 30.
  • Page 21 When you are finished, select the selection tool and click outside of the text box area. Selecting and moving text Controls in the Adobe Title Designer make it easy to select and move your text. To select a text box: Using the selection tool, click a text box.
  • Page 22 The Adobe Title Designer includes a font browser, which displays all of the installed fonts in their typeface. The Adobe Title Designer applies the font you select in the font browser to the selected text object. The font browser lets you quickly preview different fonts in the open title.
  • Page 23 For more information, see “Using tabs” on page 46. Creating objects with the drawing tools In addition to creating text objects, you can also use the drawing tools in the Adobe Title Designer to create a variety of shapes such as rectangles, polygons, and ellipses.

  • Page 24: Working With The Pen Tool

    Working with the pen tool The Adobe Title Designer includes standard pen tools that resemble those used in graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Use the pen tools to create an object of any shape, including straight lines at any angle or smooth flowing curves.
  • Page 25 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide To draw straight segments with the pen tool: Select the pen tool. Position the tip of the pen point where you want the straight segment to begin, and click to define the first anchor point (do not drag). The anchor point remains selected (solid) until you add the next point.
  • Page 26 CHAPTER 1 Using the Adobe Title Designer always has two direction lines that move together as a single, straight unit. When you drag the direction point of either direction line on a smooth point, both direction lines move simultaneously, maintaining a continuous curve at that anchor point. In comparison, a corner point can have two, one, or no direction lines, depending on whether it joins two, one, or no curved segments, respectively.
  • Page 27 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide Drag to create direction lines that determine the slope of the curve segment you’re creating. In general, extend the direction line about one third of the distance to the next anchor point you plan to draw. Shift-drag to constrain the direction line to multiples of 45 degrees.
  • Page 28 Adjusting points and curves The Adobe Title Designer includes tools for modifying existing paths. You can make adjustments to a path at any existing point in the path, or you can add and delete points to refine your adjustments.
  • Page 29 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide To adjust a control point: Select the path containing the control point. Select the pen tool Position the cursor over the point, and when the cursor becomes an arrow with a square next to it , drag the control point to adjust it.
  • Page 30 To place a logo in a title: Choose Title > Logo > Insert Logo. The Adobe Title Designer imports the logo at the size it was created. Drag the logo to position it where you want. If necessary, adjust the size, opacity, rotation, and scale of the logo.
  • Page 31 Use the Align and Distribute commands to line up or evenly space selected objects in the Adobe Title Designer. You can align or distribute objects along the vertical or horizontal axes. When you choose horizontal alignment, the selected objects align along the edge of the objects’s horizontal axis closest to the edge you choose.
  • Page 32 To adjust various global properties of the objects, either drag their control points in the drawing area, use the controls in the Transform section of the Adobe Title Designer, or choose a command from the Title menu.
  • Page 33 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide To scale one or more objects: Select an object or Shift-click to select multiple objects. Do one of the following: To scale the width, either drag any object’s left or right side points in the drawing area, •...

  • Page 34: Using Object Styles

    Using the Adobe Title Designer Using object styles With the Adobe Title Designer, you can apply a custom style to each object or group of objects you create. Styles can consist of any variation of any properties you add to your objects.
  • Page 35 Adobe Title Designer, the baseline is the line underneath the text. You can apply more than one leading amount within the same paragraph; however, the largest leading value in a line of type determines the leading value for that line.
  • Page 36 Text altered by adjusting the Distort value. Setting object styles for graphics When you select a graphic object in the Adobe Title Designer, you have several special options for applying styles to graphics. To change an object style for a graphic: Select the graphic object you want to modify.
  • Page 37 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide Specifies the shape of the graphic. The menu initially shows the selected Graphic Type graphic type as the chosen type. Choose another type from the menu to change the selected object. Depending upon the option you choose, one or more of the following values appears.

  • Page 38: Working With Fills, Sheens, And Textures

    You can fill any object you create with colors and textures, as well as adjust the fill opacity, sheen, and type. Changing fills The Adobe Title Designer includes many options for designing a variety of fills for your objects. To change a fill for an object: Select the object you want to fill.
  • Page 39 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide Creates a gradient fill composed of four colors, with a color emanating 4-Color Gradient from each of the object’s corners. Set the following options for this fill type: Color specifies the color that emanates from each corner of the object. Double-click •...
  • Page 40 Offset Loading textures You can map a texture to any object in the Adobe Title Designer. To add a texture, you first load it from a bitmap or a vector file of your choosing. You have several options for adjusting the textures once you have loaded them.
  • Page 41 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide • Face stretches the texture so that it fits the face exactly. Extended Character considers strokes when calculating the area over which the texture • is stretched. For example, if you have a large, 20 pixel outer edge, the texture will be stretched beyond the extents of the face.
  • Page 42 Deselect the Sheen or Texture option. Creating strokes The Adobe Title Designer gives you great flexibility in adding an outline, or stroke, to your objects. You add both inner strokes and outer strokes. Inner strokes are outlines along the inner edge of your objects, and outer strokes are outlines along the outer edge. You can add up to 12 total strokes to your objects.
  • Page 43 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide To add a stroke to an object: Select the object. In the Object Style section, expand the Strokes category. Click Add next to either Inner Stroke or Outer Stroke. Expand the Inner Stroke or Outer Stroke values of the stroke you just created. Set any...
  • Page 44 In the Object Style menu, choose either Add Inner Stroke, or Add Outer Stroke. Creating shadows Add drop shadows to any object you create in the Adobe Title Designer. The various shadow options give you full control over color, size, angle, spread, distance, and opacity.

  • Page 45: Saving And Loading Styles

    To change the default characters on the swatches: Choose Edit > Preferences > Titler (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Adobe Premiere 6.5 > Preferences > Titler (Mac OS X). In the Style Swatches box, type up to two characters that you would like to appear on the style swatches.
  • Page 46 CHAPTER 1 Using the Adobe Title Designer Creating and applying styles Creating a style consists of saving the object styles you’ve added to your design. Once you’ve created a style, a swatch appears in the Style section displaying the attributes you have selected.
  • Page 47 In the Styles section, select the style you want to set as the default style. Choose Set Style As Default from the Styles menu. The Adobe Title Designer applies this style to each object you create from this point and retains the setting when you save the title.

  • Page 48: Creating Rolls And Crawls

    Titles that move vertically over the footage are called rolls. Titles that move horizontally are called crawls. The Adobe Title Designer provides choices and settings that facilitate creating smooth, expert rolls and crawls.
  • Page 49 To preview the roll or crawl, place the finished title in the Timeline and generate a preview. To scroll a roll or crawl in the Adobe Title Designer: Note: Objects must extend beyond the borders of the work area before the scroll bars will scroll.

  • Page 50: Using Tabs

    Using the Adobe Title Designer Using tabs Similar to a standard word processor, the Adobe Title Designer uses tabs to assist in text alignment and justification. When you create credits, especially rolling credits, tabs can help display the credits in professionally aligned and justified columns. You can set multiple tabs for any text object in the Adobe Title Designer.

  • Page 51: Adding A Title To A Project

    ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide To view the tab stops without opening the Tab Stop dialog box: Choose Title > View > Tab Markers. A check mark beside Tab Markers indicates that the tab stop viewing lines are on. When they are on, the yellow tab markers display for each text object you select.
  • Page 52 CHAPTER 1 Using the Adobe Title Designer To change the duration of a title in the Timeline: Do one of the following: Drag its In or Out point. • Select it, choose Clip > Duration, and type a new duration.

  • Page 53: Using The New Features In Premiere

    Chapter 2: Using the New Features in Premiere 6.5 Using Real-Time Preview Adobe Premiere 6.5 includes software-based Real-Time Preview among its Timeline preview options. You can preview the Timeline without any additional hardware. Premiere’s Real-Time Preview supports all Premiere effects, transitions, transparencies, motion settings, and titles.

  • Page 54: Using The Adobe Mpeg Encoder (Windows Only)

    Timeline previews without effects. Using the Adobe MPEG Encoder (Windows only) The Adobe MPEG Encoder is a Windows-only plug-in for Premiere 6.5 that creates high- quality MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 output for DVD, Super Video CD, and Video CD. The plug- in includes a variety of presets, making it easy to set the right parameters for generating MPEG files right from the Timeline.
  • Page 55 Activate the Timeline and choose File > Export Timeline > Adobe MPEG Encoder. • Select a clip in the Timeline and choose File > Export Clip > Adobe MPEG Encoder. • Set any of the following options and click Export: Note: If you export with the default DVD option, the encoder creates separate audio and video files.
  • Page 56 For information on specific presets, as well as other advanced parameters, see the Adobe MPEG Encoder Help PDF included on the CD or check out the user forum on the Adobe Web site. You can also search the World Wide Web for user groups dedicated to the Adobe MPEG Encoder for more information.

  • Page 57: Using The Quicktime File Exporter (Mac Os Only)

    ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide To save a preset: In the Advanced MPEG Settings dialog box, select the Basic Settings tab. Specify the preset or settings you want and click Save Settings. Specify a folder (use the Settings folder if you want the preset to appear in the Presets menu).

  • Page 58: Using New Effects From Adobe After Effects

    5. Set options in the Movie Settings dialog box as desired, and then click OK. For more information on the Movie Settings dialog box, see online Help or the Adobe Premiere 6.0 User Guide.
  • Page 59 Note: Plug-in effects that are not compatible with Premiere, such as third-party plug-ins that are not certified by Adobe or other After Effects effects, may not work correctly in Premiere and may cause errors. Only use certified compatible plug-ins with Premiere 6.5 and earlier.
  • Page 60 Crossfade mode). At 100%, only the first clip is visible. Changing this slider linearly over time gives you a standard crossfade (see online Help or the Adobe Premiere 6.0 User Guide for information on setting effect keyframes). To try the other blending modes, set Blend with Original to 0% to see the full effect of each mode.
  • Page 61 ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide Specify how much detail is added to the lightning bolt Detail Level and Detail Amplitude and any branches. For Detail Level, typical values are between 2 and 3. For Detail Amplitude, a typical value is 0.3. Higher values for either option are best for still images but tend to obscure animation.
  • Page 62 CHAPTER 2 Using the New Features in Premiere 6.5 Specifies the width of the inner glow, as specified by the Inside Color value. Core Width The Core Width is relative to the total width of the lightning bolt. Specify the colors used for the lightning bolt's outer and Outside Color and Inside Color inner glows.

  • Page 63: Using The New Dv Device Control Options Dialog Box

    ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5 User Guide Ramp This effect creates a color gradient, blending it with the original image contents. Create linear or radial ramps and vary the position and colors of the ramp over time. Use the Start and End of Ramp options to specify the start and end positions. Use the Ramp Scatter control to disperse the ramp colors and eliminate banding.
  • Page 64 Do one of the following: Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks & Device Control (Windows and Mac OS 9). • Choose Adobe Premiere 6.5 > Preferences > Scratch Disks & Device Control • (Mac OS X). In the Device Control section, choose DV Device Control 2.0 from the Device menu.
  • Page 65 19 creating in straight segment 21 converting from one type to exporting another 25 drawing with pen tool 21 MPEG files with Adobe MPEG deleting 24 customer support 6 Encoder 50 Apple DVD Studio Pro 53 arc tool 19...
  • Page 66 17 titles 10 text box 17 Orientation command (titles) 17 round-corner rectangle tool 19 MPEG encoding round-rectangle tool 19 using the Adobe MPEG Encoder 50 path text MPEG export creating 16 safe zones and QuickTime File Exporter 53...
  • Page 67 41 text tools style swatches Web documentation overview 4 using 16 setting default characters on 41 Web site for Adobe 5 titles styles wedge tool 19 adding to a project 47 applying to objects 42 changing duration of 47...

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