Creating special clips, Create a counting leader (windows only), Create color bars and a 1-khz tone – Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 User Manual
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Creating special clips
Create a counting leader (Windows only)
If you plan to create film output from a sequence, you may want to add a counting leader. A counting leader helps
a projectionist verify that audio and video are working properly and are synchronized. You can create and
customize a universal counting leader to add to the beginning of a project. The leader is 11 seconds long.
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In the Project panel, click the New Item button
at the bottom of the Project panel and choose Universal
Counting Leader from the menu that appears. Specify the following options as needed:
Wipe Color
Specifies a color for the circular one-second wipe area.
Background Color
Specifies a color for the area behind the wipe color.
Line Color
Specifies a color for the horizontal and vertical lines.
Target Color
Specifies a color for the double circles around the numeral.
Numeral Color
Specifies a color for the countdown numeral.
Cue Blip On Out
Displays a small cue circle in the last frame of the leader.
Cue Blip On 2
Plays a beep at the two-second mark.
Cue Blip At All Second Starts
Plays a beep at the beginning of every second during the leader.
You can customize a counting leader clip by double-clicking it in the Project panel.
Create color bars and a 1-kHz tone
You can create a one-second clip containing color bars and a 1-kHz tone, as a reference for calibrating video and
audio equipment.
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In the Project panel, click the New Item button
at the bottom of the Project panel and choose Bars And Tone
from the menu that appears.
Note: Some audio workflows must be calibrated at a specific tone level. The default level of the 1-kHz tone is 012 dB
referenced to 0 dBfs. You can customize the tone level to match your audio workflow by choosing Clip >
Audio
Options
> Audio Gain with a clip selected. If you select the bars and tone clip in the Project panel, you set the default
gain level for new clip instances. If you select a clip in the Timeline panel, you change the level for that clip instance only.
Create black video
Empty areas of a track appear black if no other visible clip areas are present on underlying video tracks. If necessary,
you can also create clips of opaque black video for use anywhere in a sequence. A black video clip is a still image at
the project frame size, with a five-second duration. To create a clip of a different color, use a color matte (see “
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In the Project panel, click the New Item button
at the bottom of the Project panel and choose Black Video
from the menu that appears.
April 1, 2008