Importing Clips - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

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Preparing and Importing Source Clips
5 If you want to import only a portion of the entire track, do any combination of the
following in the Audio Selection section and then click OK:
For Start and End, type times relative to the track duration.
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Drag the beginning or ending sliders.
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Specify a location and filename to store the converted track, and click OK.
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Importing clips

You can import clips into Premiere in several ways. You can import a single clip, multiple clips,
or an entire folder of clips directly into the Project window. If you want to examine a clip
before importing it into the project, you can first open the clip in a Clip window and then
move the clip to the Project or Timeline window. Clips cannot exceed 4000 pixels tall by 4000
pixels wide. If the software you use to create art does not let you specify pixels as a unit of
measure, specifying points may be sufficient. By default, Premiere will alter the size and aspect
ratio of a video clip or still image to match that of the video frame you specified for your
project. You can preserve the original aspect ratio of a clip (see "Maintaining the original
aspect ratio of a clip" on page 164).You can also scale an image to a size other than the frame
size (see "Scaling a clip" on page 156).
Premiere can import a number of video and audio formats. Importable video formats
include Audio-Video Interleaved (.AVI) and QuickTime (.MOV) file formats. In addition,
the Windows version of Premiere imports Open DML, Perception Audio Video (.AVC), and
Perception Video (.PVD) file formats. Importable audio formats include AVI, MOV, and the
Audio Interchange Format (.AIF). In addition, the Windows version of Premiere imports
the Audio Waveform (.WAV) file format, and the Mac OS version of Premiere imports the
Macintosh Sound Format and Sound Designer I & II file formats. Premiere also imports
still-image and animation file formats; see "Importing still images" on page 121, "Importing
Adobe Illustrator files" on page 123, "Importing Adobe Photoshop files" on page 123, and
"Importing an animation or still-image sequence" on page 124.