On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:41:51 GMT, "Paul Tauger"
>"Alexander Ibrahim"
>news:thuX6.150188$e34.19860797@typhoon.southeast.rr.com...
>> Paul, doing this with Premiere is VERY easy, especially if your cameras
>> happen to be pointed at the same thing at at least one point, worth it to
>do
>> this on purpose. An analog clock with a second hand is good, any moving
>> thing will work in a pinch. Photo flashes are great.
>That's how I synced my wedding videos. The problem with Premiere (at least
>for me) is not getting the A and B roll to sync, but get anything done at
>all. I've been through the manual a few times and played around with the
>program a bit, but it's not terribly intuitive. I know there's no
>comparison, but I was up and running on StudioDV in 5 minutes. In Premiere,
>I've figured out how to drag a clip to the timeline, but that's about it.
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But what else is there...?;-)
It is my opinion that Adobe confuses the majority of
buyers (mostly beginners) with its interface that is
intended to resemble Avid/Media100 in operation...
Fortunately, you can avoid it by changing Premiere to
a timeline-centered, "get your hands on the footage"
approach. Click on the odd arrow in the upper right
of the dual preview window, and select "single view".
Stretch that to 720x480 (NTSC), then shrink the edges
to minimum. Arrange the various windows for convenience,
giving most of the space to the timeline window (this is
best done with dual monitors...). Use the similar arrow
on the timeline window to add video tracks (1A/1B->5
works for me) and audio tracks (1A/1B->7 works for me).
Rename all the audio tracks to correspond to the video
tracks (why they are not already is a mystery to me...;-).
Select "filmstrip" view (and the appropriate "frame" size
for your project), so you can see the material you are
working with without having to play it). You are now
ready to edit on the timeline, using playback
on the timeline (space bar), scrubbing on the timeline
(click on the time scale and drag), "Alt-key" scrubbing to
see effects/transitions/filters (applied by right-clicking
on tracks to get at menus) without rendering, and placing
the "work area" bar over material (click in the empty space
above timescale to get it, adjust ends to taste) and hitting
the "Enter" key to make the renders for viewing or output.
Most useful tools: "arrow", "lasso" (for grabbing chunks
to move or delete), "double-arrow" (under lasso, use
it to move everything to its right on the timeline to
open/close spaces), and "razor". Move clips to the
timeline, cut them by placing the cursor exactly where
you want to cut (found by "scrubbing"), then select
the "razor" tool and click a bit to the right of the
vertical cursor line (either in the video or audio
track). If you want to undo the cut, select "undo"
in the edit menu - or delete one part of the video and
sound, grab the cut end of the clip with the mouse, and
drag the clip back out to where you want it to end.
Place clips you want to have transitions between on the
1A and 1B tracks, overlapped, and grab and dump
transitions between them on the transition track. Double
click on the transition to adjust it (along with shifting
tracks, track ends, and transition ends to taste). The
order of predominance of video tracks is from the top
down - unless transparency on V2 and above has been
adjusted (video and audio tracks open, revealing level
"rubber bands", by clicking on the triangles in the tracks
at the left - and audibility/visibility of the tracks can
be switched on/off using the icons at the track far left
edges [useful for seeing/hearing individual tracks in
multi-camera edits]). When in doubt, try right-clicking
on things to get menus...
There you (basically) have it! No big deal, really...;-)