User Guide

Premiere User Guide 6/1/94 10:36 c1.pdf.frame Chapter 1: Basic Concepts his chapter contains a short tutorial designed to familiarize you with the basic T concepts of making movies with the Adobe Premiere program. For information on installing and configuring the program, see the Getting Started booklet accompanying this guide. For information on basic Macintosh features, see your Macintosh documentation. Adobe Premiere is powerful video and audio-editing software designed to be a useful tool for the professional and novice alike. Adobe Premiere provides a comfortable and familiar working environment for those with both film and video experience. Those with no video experience will find the software to be a thorough introduction to the world of desktop video. Video and multimedia professionals will find Adobe Premiere a valuable tool for tasks such as video editing (both online and off-line) or creating QuickTime movies for presentations and CD-ROMs. Many of the program’s features were previously available only on high-end professional video-editing systems. In many instances, you will encounter terminology and interface designs drawn from traditional video production and post-production. For information on the fundamentals of video and audio, see Appendix A, “Video Basics.” Note: In this manual, commands in submenus are indicated by a preceding slash. For example, the instruction: “Choose Import/Project from the File menu,” means that you should choose Import from the File menu and Project from the submenu. CREATING DESKTOP VIDEO WITH ADOBE PREMIERE Adobe Premiere lets you combine source material, or clips, to make a movie, and then view and play the movie using any application that supports the QuickTime movie format. Your final Adobe Premiere movie is a file you create after assembling and editing clips. Clips can include the following: O Digitized video captured from cameras, VCRs, or tape decks O QuickTime movies made using Adobe Premiere or other sources O Animations First master page Premiere User Guide 6/1/94 10:36 c1.pdf.frame O Scanned images or slides O Digital audio …