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Technology Integrators Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 Page 1 Brevard County Schools

Table of Contents

Introduction......................................................2

Create a Video from Still Images.....................9

The Timeline..................................................20

Editing Video Clips ........................................23

Titles..............................................................31

Creating a Custom Title ...........................33

Titles from a Template .............................43

Scrolling and Crawling Titles....................47

Chroma Key Effects.......................................50

Transitions..................................................... 57

Adobe Premiere Elements - Introduction


The Start-Up Splash Screen

The Start-up Spash Screen will list recent projects. To return to a recent project or to make another selection from the Icons across the top:

• New Project – start the program with a blank work area.

• Open Project – open a project that is located on the computer.

• Capture video – will open a new project, connect to the camera, and proceed to the Capture Video workspace.

Click on New Project



Type in a name for the project. Press the Browse button and navigate to a convenient location on the computer. (My Videos in side the My Documents folder is usually a good choice.) Click on the OK button



Edit Workspace This is the default display that appears when a new project is opened. The Edit Movie Workspace will be available with either the Sceneline or Timeline view displayed.



Sceneline vs. Timeline With Premiere Elements 3.0 Adobe has included a new Sceneline workspace. The Sceneline workspace is billed as an easier to use, drag and drop, alternative to the Timeline workspace. The Sceneline workspace does not include many of the features and flexibility found in the Timeline workspace.

The Sceneline does allow the user to quickly and easily rearrange thumbnails of video clips, transitions and effects simply by dragging them to new locations.



Edit Workspace

The four buttons (icons) that are available in the Media window include:

1. Available Media 2. Get Media From 3. Effects and Transitions 4. Title Templates



Create DVD Workspace When the Create DVD tab is clicked, the workspace changes and the default area is DVD Templates. Two other work areas are available – Get Media From and Available Media.



1. Open Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 and make sure the Timeline button

is selected.

Create a Video from Still Images


2. Make sure the Get Media from button is selected and click on Files and

Folders

Navigate to the Media Clips folder and select all the clips. There are several ways to import all the clips.

1. One at a time Selecting a clip, click Open Repeat over and over.

2. Click-Shift-Click Click on the first clip needed. Hold the Shift key and click on the last clip in the sequence. Then click Open to import all the selected clips.

3. Ctrl-A Hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard and press the A key to select All the files. Click Open.

Choose the method that works for you and import all the video clips.



Shortcuts (NOT the actual clips) now reside in the Media window. The actual clips in their original location will remain intact no matter what editing is done to the shortcuts in the project.



Expand the Media window by dragging the right edge and bottom edge. (As the cursor approaches the edge of the Media window the pointer becomes a two-headed arrow. Click and drag to enlarge the window.) The other windows will conform to how the Media window is manipulated – A good thing.



With the Media window enlarged several details now become visible. • The Media Type – Is it a video clip (Movie), Still Image or Audio clip. • The Frame Rate – something we need not worry about here. • The Media Duration – if a video or audio clip, how long is it?

The three buttons at the top section of the Media window are used to automatically organize the various clips. By selecting one of these buttons only the corresponding clips will be shown. (When all buttons or no buttons are selected, all clips will appear.)



Click on the Show Still Images button. Hold the Ctrl key and select the following image in order: Gator.jpg Dock and Life ring.jpg palms2.jpg Fort Myers Beach.jpg Flamingo.jpg sailboat_sunset.jpg Pelican.jpg Release the Ctrl button. Click the More button, located in the upper right corner of the Media window. In the drop-down menu select Create Slideshow.



The Create Slideshow window now opens. This window contains several choices: Ordering - In a drop-down menu the following choices appear:

• Sort Order – The order in which the images appear in the Available Media window.

• Selection Order – The order in which the items are chosen. Play Duration – How long an image will stay in view.

• This time is editable. • The play duration can be determined by the number of frames or by

seconds. Transition Duration – How long it takes to transition from one image to the next.

• The user can choose to not have a transition (the slides move immediately from one to the other) or to have a transition based on the default choice for transitions When the program is first Installed the default transition is Cross Dissolve).

• This time is editable. • The transition duration can be determined by the number of frams or by

seconds.

In the Ordering drop-down menu, select Selection Order and click OK.



Make sure the Timeline is selected.

Press the Spacebar to start and stop the movie.

Copies of the images are transferred to the Timeline.



Changing the Default Transition

Open the Dissolve area to find a black box around Cross Dissolve. This indicates Cross Dissolve is currently the Default Transition.

Open the Effects and Transitions window. Close all other areas and expand the Video Transitions area.



Press the Spacebar to play the movie. The Old Default Transition is still in effect! There was no change!

Expand the Iris area. Right-click on Iris Points. Click on Set Selected as Default Transition.

Rewind the movie by dragging the Current Time Indicator (Playback Head) left to the beginning of the movie.



Quickly, return to the Available Media window and re-create the slideshow.

With the Mouse, drag across all the clips (from right to left gets the best results). Notice the banners for the clips will have turned gray. Press the Delete key to remove the clips from the timeline.



Slide the Current Time Indicator all the way to the beginning, press the Spacebar and play the movie. Now, the changes are there. The movie is using the new Default Transition.

The Timeline


The Timeline is a very powerful tool to use while editing videos. Let’s take a few minutes to explore a few of the features available through the Timeline.

There are several ways to get clips to the Timeline. • We just explored one as we created a slideshow with a customized order. • Clips may also be dragged from the Available Media window directly to

the Timeline. Once on the Timeline, clips can be rearranged by dragging and dropping.

Currently, our collection of clips appear crammed and there are no details available.

Click the plus Magnifier three times to expand the Timeline. Three clicks keeps the seven clips of this movie on the screen (we could always scroll), but allows us to explore some details.

We can now see the titles of our seven clips and where the transitions lie at the ends of each clip. If we would expand the view a bit more we would even see the transition names.

The plus Magnifier expands the Timeline. The Slider offers infinite control.

The minus Magnifier compresses the Timeline.

The Timeline


The Timeline’s major components can be defined as follows:

• Video Tracks (1) – Premiere Elements has 3 video tracks by default. This will allow up to 3 video tracks to mixed together as one final project.

• Audio Tracks (2) – Each video track has an audio track associated with it.In addition, there is a Narration Track and a Soundtrack (for background music from an outside source).

• On the video tracks the user can use both still images and video clips. These are easily differentiated by different colors: purple for still images (3) and; green for video clips (4).

• Video Clips – that are imported from outside sources generally have an audio track associated them (5).

• Moving within a video project is made easier through the use of the Current Time Indicator (6).

• The Time Code Display (7) indicates the exact location of the Current Time Indicator. It reads in Hours;Minutes;Seconds;Frames.

• As a project grows it is often easy to become lost in the complete project while trying to work on a smaller portion or scene. The Work Area Bar (8) is used to define a small portion of the project to enable the user to concentrate on details within a smaller area.

The Timeline


Moving the Current Time Marker: • We have already seen how to move the Current Time Marker by dragging

the blue “Playback Head” back and forth.

• To move the Current Time Marker to the beginning or end of the movie press the Home key or the End key on the keyboard

• Click on the ruler to jump the Current Time Marker to an approximate position.

• To move slowly through the movie or to help determine an exact location, use the right-arrow ( ) and left-arrow ( ) keys on the keyboard.

• To move to an exact location use the Code Time Display. By inputting exact numbers into the Time Code Display the user can move to a precise location defined by the frame. The example above shows the Current Time Marker is set at 00 hours;00 minutes;03 seconds; and 15 frames into the movie.

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The Spacebar versus the Enter key: When the Spacebar is pressed, Adobe Premiere Elements will play the movie or clip in the Monitor window. However, when the Enter key is pressed Adobe Premiere Elements will first Render the workspace. What is the difference? When a movie is played, Adobe Premiere Elements combines the tracks and effects in the background, while playing the resultant movie in the Monitor panel. If, instead, the movie is rendered, Adobe Premiere Elements creates preview files and saves them on the hard disk. Once rendered, Adobe Premiere Elements needn’t process the tracks and effects again and can play the preview files directly. Similarly, preview files can save time when the final movie is exported because Adobe Premiere Elements can use the information stored in the preview files rather than render again. While working on a scene or clip, it is often best to simply play the clip using the Spacebar. Once happy with that scene, constrain it with the Work Area Bar and render it. This will save time later.

Editing Video Clips


Thus far, we have worked with a simple movie created through a wizard type utility and using Still Images. The same process could be used with video clips but, is probably not typical of the process that would be used. Let’s shift to a more “real-world” process.

Start by deleting the clips currently on the Timeline: Drag across all the clips (they will turn gray) and press the Delete key. The Timeline should now be empty.

In addition, resize the Media Available window back to a more traditional size by dragging the right edge to the left and the bottom edge up.

Editing Video Clips


Drag the following clips to the Timeline in the following order: 1. palms2.jpg 2. John and Jack in Waves.wmv 3. Shamu.wmv 4. Long Day.wmv 5. sailboat_sunset.jpg

As each clip is placed make sure is placed on the Video 1 line and that it “snaps” to the clip to the left of it by dragging it close to the previous clip It may be necessary to scroll the Timeline to get the last 2 clips on the end.

Unless you have made changes, the Still Images button at the top of the Media Available window should still be the only one selected. Click this button to release it. Now all the imported media is shown.

Editing Video Clips


A quick check can be made by pressing the End key on the keyboard. This moves the Current Time Marker to the end of the movie and allows us to determine the exact length – 3 minutes, 53 seconds and 24 frames.

The longest segment of the movie, in it’s current form, is the Shamu.wmv video clip. Slide the Current Time Marker to the approximate start of the Shamu.wmv clip and press the Spacebar on the keyboard (or click the Play button on the Monitor window). Please wear headphones or turn the sound WAY DOWN on the computer!

Wow! That’s a lot of killer whale! I was over it after the first two big splashes!

Editing Video Clips


By now you have several methods for moving the Current Time Marker to a specific location. Move it to 00;00;29;10.

Click the Split Clip icon on the Monitor window.

Editing Video Clips


Click on the title of the second clip. It will turn gray.

Press the Delete key on the keyboard. The second portion of the clip is gone. Press the End key on the keyboard. The movie is now about 42 and-a-half seconds long (remember, 30 frames equals 1 second).

Press the Spacebar to play the clip (it is only about 9 seconds long). Press the Spacebar again to pause the clip.

Notice that about two-thirds of the way through the camera man shakes the camera.

Place the Current Time Marker at the beginning of John and Jack in waves.wmv.

Editing Video Clips


Press the Home key on the keyboard to take the Current Time Marker to the beginning of the clip. Press the Spacebar on the keyboard to start the video clip. When the clip begins to shake, press the Spacebar to pause the clip.

Double-click the title of the clip to open the Preview window.

The Preview window contains several controls that make editing a clip easier that working directly on the Timeline.

Editing Video Clips


Use the Arrow keys to position the Current Time Marker to the location just before the camera view begins to shake. This should be at approximately 00;00;06;15 on the Time Code Display.

Click on the Set Out icon. This causes the Set Out Marker to move to the location indicated by the Time Control Marker.

Editing Video Clips


Hold the Ctrl key and drag the Teacups.wmv clip to bring all the clips together. (The Ctrl key combination causes the whole chain connected to the Teacups.wmv clip to move as one.)

The next clip – Teacups.wmv – appears to be okay the way it is. It will not need to be edited.

However, a basically static shot of the child sleeping in the stroller for over 7 seconds seems a bit long. Five seconds would be more appropriate.

The clip is shortened and all the clips to the right are drawn together.

At the same time, on the Timeline, the clip has reflected the change in its length.

Point to the end of the Long Day.wmv clip. Two things happen: 1. The cursor changes to a Red Bracket with a double-headed arrow. 2. An information pop-up appears.

The original duration was 07;15. We want the clip to be 05;00. This is a difference of 02;15 (2 seconds and 15 frames). Drag the end of the clip to the left until it has been shortened 02;15.

Creating Titles


Titles are a valuable addition to a movie and serve many purposes, from naming the people and places in the movie, to providing professiona-style credits at the beginning and end. Titles can be created using any font installed on the computer. Titles can incorporate any graphic or photo-image on the computer or those graphics custom made using the Titler’s shape creation tools. With the Titler the user can create titles from scratch by using the text and shape tools, or the user can use one of the included templates, preset text styles, and images to quickly create an attractive title.

Creating a new title: There are several ways to create a new title. The easiest method is to click Add Text in the Monitor pane.

Creating Titles


This opens The Adobe Premiere Elements Titler.

In addition, it places a new item (the title) on the Timeline at the location indicate by the Current Time Marker..

If the Current Time Marker is located at an empty area, the title is placed on the Video 1 line. If the area is occupied, the title is placed on the next available Video line. Titles can easily be relocated by dragging and dropping to a new location on the Timeline.

Creating Titles


Creating a Custom Title

The Titler has all the tools needed to create a custom title.

When a title is first created, the text tool is active by default. Drag across the text in the text box and type the desired text for the title. The style of type, font size,and alignment can all be chosen. Hint: Some functions require the text to be highlighted.

Creating Titles


Once the text has been entered the title can be moved about the frame by using the Selection Tool. Click on the Selection Tool in the toolbar and use it to drag the textbox to the desired location.

The Centering Tools are used to place the Textbox in the exact center of the frame, either horizontally, vertically or both.

After working on another area of the movie, it is easy to re-open the title. Simply double click on the title in the Timeline.

Creating Titles


Some color fun! Select the textbox. (Click on the selection tool – the arrow – in the toolbar, and

click on the textbox.) Change the Type Style to one with broad open letters. Increase the font size to at least 90.

Creating Titles


Click on the Color Properties button. The Color Properties window opens.

Creating Titles


Create a fill or stroke: Definitions: Fill is the color or texture of the inside of the letters.

Stroke is the outline of the letter.

• Select the text or shape to be adjusted (we have already selected the textbox).

• Click the Color Properties button.

• Click the Fill button (the button is selected when it appears depressed).

• For now, leave the Gradient selection at Solid.

• If the Color Slider is not visible, click in the Color Bar. Use the Color Slider to adjust the preferred color. Note, the color of the text is changing as the Color Slider is moved.

• Opt for a Drop Shadow by clicking in the Drop Shadow selection box. To create a Stroke (color outline) around the text, click on the Stroke button and repeat these procedures to select a complementary color for the Stroke.

Creating Titles


Gradient types and options When a gradient fill or stroke is created there are several types to choose from:

• Solid Creates a fill of a single color.

• Linear Gradient Creates a two-color gradient fill that changes color from left to right. Click each gradient button to specify the different colors. Click the Reverse icon to reverse the order of colors. Drag the Angle control to change the angle where the colors meet. The gradient buttons can be dragged to adjust where the gradient color begins.

• Radial Gradient Creates a two-color gradient fill that changes color from the center. Click each gradient button to specify the different colors. Click the Reverse icon to reverse the order of colors. Click the Repeat value to change the number of times the gradient repeats itself.

• 4-Color Gradient Creates a gradient of four colors. Click each of the four gradient icons to specify each of the four colors.

• Bevel Creates a colored bevel edge. Adjust the Size and Balance controls to specify edge properties.

• Eliminate Makes the fill or stroke invisible.

• Ghost Makes the fill or stroke invisible, but leaves the shadow visible.

Creating Titles


To add a Gradient to the title:

1. Make sure the Textbox is selected. 2. Click the Color Properties button. 3. Select Fill. 4. Click the down-arrow to choose the type of gradient 5. Select Linear Gradient

Creating Titles


6. Click on the Beginning Color Marker. When the little square is selected, the

arrowhead above it darkens to indicate it’s selected. 7. Move the Color Slider to select the predominant color. 8. Click in the shade area to select the exact color.

Note how the title changes as these selections are made.

Creating Titles


9. Select the Ending Color marker 10. Move the Color Slider to the predominant color 11. Click to select the exact shade 12. The Start and End Color markers can be dragged back and forth to adjust

exactly how the gradient appears on the letters.

Creating Titles


The color gradient can be reversed by simply clicking on the Reverse Icon. The angle the gradient sweeps across the text can be adjusted by dragging the Angle pointer around the circle. Once again the changes are immediate on the subject text. Click Okay to save the changes.

Creating Titles


Creating a Title from a Template

There are times when it is not in the best interests of effort and creativity to create a custom title. Adobe Premiere Elements contains a fairly large selection of Title Templates that can greatly reduce the time and effort needed to produce an attractive title.

In the Media Pane select Title Templates.

The Title Templates box lists all the templates, grouped by theme. Click the triangle (twisty) next to travel.

Creating Titles


Travel has now opened to reveal a set subset of travel categories. Click the triangle twisty for Beach Resort.

Choose the last title in the Sub-Category. It is called “beachresort_title”.

Creating Titles


Drag the beachresort_title Title Template to the Monitor pane.

The view in the left pane changes to Available Media with the new title template located at the bottom. The Monitor pane now contains the title template with the Text tool active.

Creating Titles


Titles are automatically made part of the project and are saved when the project is saved.

Since new titles are automatically placed on the Timeline wherever the Current Time Marker is located, it might be necessary to drag it to its proper location.

Carefully click until the existing text boxes are selected. If the style is acceptable, use it by continuing to type. If it is not acceptable, delete it and type new text. Resize, add gradients, strokes and change fonts

Creating Titles


Scrolling and Crawling Titles Everyone knows what a credit slide looks like in a movie. Credit shots are easy to do with Adobe Premiere Elements. Move the Current Time Marker to the last image of the movie. Some like this to be a still image while others may prefer to overlay the credits on a video clip.

In the Menu line at the top of the screen, click Title. In the first sub-menu click New Title. In the next sub-menu choose either Default Roll or Default Crawl.

A Roll moves from the bottom of the screen up and out the top of the screen. The typical credits at the end of a movie are Rolls. A Crawl enters the screen on the right and moves across the screen to leave at the left. The news banners one sees on CNN and other TV channels are Crawls.

Creating Titles


The credit style chosen now appears. To preview how the new title will appear, drag the Current Time Marker back and forth across the title in the Timeline. Creating the rest of the title is a simple as changing the sample text.

Creating Titles


To cause the title to fade in or out: Leave the Edit Title mode by clicking on a blank spot on the Timeline. Note the Properties Pane changes. Click on the “Twisty Triangle” next to Opacity.

Click on the Fade In and Fade Out buttons. As each button is clicked, the yellow “Rubber Band” across the images changes. This rubber band represents the Opacity of the clip or title. It stretches across the whole movie as it is created. Over the title clip it is now adjustable. The small white “handles” allow the user to edit how the fade in or out effects appear.

Chroma Key Effects


The Chroma Key effect “keys out” all image pixels that are similar to a specified “key color”. When a color value is “keyed out” of a layer, that color or range of colors becomes transparent for the entire layer. The range of transparent colors can be controlled by adjusting the tolerance level. The edges between the transparent and opaque areas can be smoothed by feathering the edges. Chroma Keying can allow the creativity to run wild as objects or talent can be placed in any scene imaginable.

Chroma Key Effects


Clear the Timeline by selecting all the clips and press the Delete key on the keyboard In the Media Available pane locate the video clip entitled Driving.avi and drag it to the beginning of the Timeline. It should have pushed the current clips to the right along the timeline.

Press the Home key on the keyboard. Press the Spacebar to play this clip. This is a pretty boring clip – someone stuck a video camera out the window and shot about eleven seconds of driving past some buildings.

Chroma Key Effects


Drag the Running.avi video clip to the Video 2 Timeline. Slide it to the right to offset it about 3 seconds.

In the Media pane click on the icon for Effects and Transitions.

Chroma Key Effects


In the Effects and Transitions window click on the ”twisty triangle” for Video Effects. After Video Effects expands click on the “twisty triangle” to expand Keying. Find the Chroma Key effect and drag it to the video clip with the green background (Running.avi). Notice in the Properties pane, a new property (Chroma Key) has appeared.

Click on the Running.avi clip in the Timeline to ensure that is the “working” clip. Click on the “twisty triangle” to expand the Chroma Key effect.

Chroma Key Effects


In the expanded Chroma Key effect the first selection is Color. In the Color area are two items:

• A color swatch (it is probably white at this time)

• An Eyedropper icon. Click on the Eyedropper icon The cursor becomes an Eyedropper. Find an area in the green background that represents the most predominant color and “suck up” that color by clicking the left mouse button. That color now fills the Color Swatch. Some of the background starts to bleed through.

Now fine adjustments need to be made.

Chroma Key Effects


Adjust the Chroma Key settings as needed:

• Similarity – Broadens or reduces the range of color that will be made transparent. Higher values increase the range. (Try setting the Similarity to a value around 10.0 to 15.0.

• Blend – Blends the clip being keyed with the underlying clip. Higher values blend more of the clip.

• Threshold – controls the amount of shadows in the range of color that is keyed out. Higher values retain more shadows.

• Cutoff – Darkens or lightens shadows. Drag to the right to darken shadows, but do not drag beyond the value on the Threshold slider; doing so inverts gray and transparent pixels.

• Smoothing – Specifies the amount of anti-aliasing that Adobe Premiere elements applies to the boundary between transparent and opaque regions. Anti-aliasing blends pixels to produce softer, smoother edges. Chose None to produce sharp edges with no anti-aliasing. This option is useful when it is advantageous to preserve sharp lines, such as those in titles. Choose Low or High to produce different amounts of smoothing.

• Mask Only – Displays only the clip’s alpha channel, as modified by the key settings.

After selecting settings, click on the Timeline, press the Home key on the keyboard to move the Current Time Marker to the start of the video and press the Spacebar to view the video. Further adjustments may be necessary to achieve the final look.

In the Properties pane, pointing to one of the blue numbers will cause the cursor to be enhanced with a 2-headed arrow. By dragging left or right with the enhanced cursor the numbers can be changed.

Chroma Key Effects


Notes on shooting Chroma Key clips: The success of any Chroma Key effect depends greatly on two items.

• The first is the background color. Most schools have the Visual Communicator kit that included a Green Screen curtain. That is what was used for this lesson. Because they are vinyl, these curtains can reflect different colors due to fold, wrinkles and the effects of draping the curtain. Taping the edges all the way around will help produce a more even effect and a more consistent color. The Visual Communicator curtain was also designed to do “head shots” and not large scenes as was attempted in the examples in this manual. Thus, it is easy to see the boundaries of the screen and the detrimental effects that occur when the boundaries show. There are “green screen” paints that are designed specifically for this use. They ARE EXPENSIVE but, if a lot of Chroma Key work is going to occur, it may be worth the investment. Be sure to apply it to as FLAT a surface as possible to prevent shadows from cracks, seams and dimples found in most school construction.

• The second factor affecting successful Chroma Key effects is lighting. Smooth, consistent lighting, both on the subject and on the background screen can make all the difference. Several light sources on both sides and from above are always recommended. One thing to strive for in lighting is to use the SAME TYPE OF LIGHTING throughout the room. Try not to mix fluorescent and incandescent lighting on the subject.

Transitions


Transitions By default, whenever two clips are placed next to each other on the Timeline, the transition is called a Cut. Simply stated a Cut is when the last frame on one clip is immediately followed by the first frame of the next clip. At times this works and other times it can be quite “jarring” and too abrupt. When it is desirable to add an emphasis or a special effect to a scene change there are a variety of Transitions to do so. There are Wipes, Zooms, Fades, and Dissolves, just to mention a few. Transitions are applied to clips in the Timeline using the Effects and Transitions window. They are then edited and modified using the Timeline and the Properties window. In most cases transitions should be kept simple and unobtrusive. Most professionals use a simple fade or dissolve for a large percentage of their transitions. That doesn’t mean that a Star Zoom doesn’t have its place in some movies. However, too many different transitions can detract from the content of the movie. Transitions are the best when they are used sparingly.

Transitions


Clear the Timeline – Select all the clips on the Timeline and press the Delete key on the Keyboard.

Prepare a short movie with only 2 clips.

• Drag Teacups.wmv to the Timeline

• Drag I’m King of the World.wmv to the Timeline

• Drag the Current Time Marker to 00;00;17;00 seconds.

• Click the Split Clip button in the lower right of the Monitor window.

• Click on the second portion of the I’m King of the World.wmv clip.

• Press the Delete key on the Keyboard to delete the second part.

• This leaves a 17 second video made up of 2 clips.

Transitions


In the Task bar click on the Effects and Transitions button to open the Effects and Transitions window.

Click the ‘Twisty Triangle” to expand Video Transitions. Click the “twisty triangle” to expand Dissolve. We are going to use the Cross Dissolve for this demonstration. Drag the Cross Dissolve transition to the cut between the clips.

Transitions


As the transition is dragged to the cut between clips, one of three icons will appear depending on exactly where the transition is between the clips.

• The End at Cut transition icon appears when the transition is over just one clip – the first clip. This will cause the transition to be applied only on the first clip.

• The Center at Cut transition icon appears when the transition is centered over both clips. This will cause the transition to be applied equally to both clips. Most transitions will Center at Cut by default.

• The Start at Cut transition icon appears when the transition is over just one clip – the second clip. This will cause the transition to be applied only on the second clip.

To preview the transition after it has been applied, click the Home button the keyboard to move the Current Time Marker to the start of the movie. Press the Spacebar on the keyboard to start and pause the movie.

Additional Resources


Additional Resources
