Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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                Document Outline
- Contents
 - Chapter 1: Resources
 - Chapter 2: User interface
- Changing workspaces
 - 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
 
 
 - 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
 - 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
 

