Subtitles of the Movie

After you launch Premiere, a welcome screen opens, providing you with three options. You can start a new project, open an existing project, or get help. For now, let's open a new project and then go through the steps in setting up your workspace. Once you choose this option, the New Project dialog opens. The first thing we need to do is establish the general parameters for a given project. These parameters control things such as how Adobe Premiere Pro works with your source device and video and audio files, how it renders your previews, and so on. All the project settings that you'll establish here apply to the whole project, and most can't be changed after a project is created. Notice that the dialog is divided into two tabs, Load Preset or Custom Settings. Presets contain groups of project settings. Premiere Pro ships with a variety of these already included, organized into categories here: DV 24P, DV NTSC, DV PAL, HDV, and then mobile and devices, and most of these contain options within those groups. Presets are simply groups of project settings. Notice that for each one, there's a description over here and then a general summary of what those project settings entail for that selection. These presets contain the correct project settings for most typical project types. When creating a new project, you can either select from among the standard presets here or customize a group of project settings and then save the customized group as a custom preset. That's where this Custom Settings tab comes in. If you want full control over almost all of the project's parameters, you'll want to start a new project and then customize the presets right here in the Custom Settings tab. After you begin working on a project, you can view your project settings, but you can only change a few of these settings. To do so, you'll want to choose Project in the Main menu, Project Settings. The Project Settings are organized into these four categories: General, Capture, Video Rendering and Default Sequence. The General settings here control the fundamental characteristics of the project, including the method Premiere Pro uses to process video. This is called the Editing mode right up here, as well as how to playback the video. That's the Time base mode right here. Notice that you cannot change those once you've set them up initially. Notice you also have your video Frame Size, which cannot be changed. Fields, Display Format can be changed. Thirty frames per second, feet plus, frames, frames, and so on. You can also change your Title Safe area and your Action Safe area. The Title Safe area is the safe location where you can place titles where they will not move off the edge of the screen. Action Safe, notice it's smaller; this is the area where it's safe to have movement, so there's a larger percentage of the frame that can show the Action Safe area. And then you have your Audio Sample Rate, which is also fixed, and the Display format. Audio Samples are in milliseconds. Probably easier to leave it audio samples if you are working with audio. Next you have the Capture Settings. This controls how Premiere Pro transfers video and audio directly from a deck or a camera. None of the other project settings or options affect the capturing. The options are DV capture here, since I don't have any hardware devices attached to my computer, this is my only option that I have. Video rendering controls the frame size, picture quality, compression settings, and aspect ratios that Premiere Pro CS3 will use when you playback video from the Timeline panel. This is where you'll be editing your video program. And lastly, we have the default sequence. This controls a number of video tracks and the number and type of audio tracks for any new sequences you create, and everything is changeable here. The Video setting will set up how many video tracks are available in a new sequence. The Audio allows you to set your Master Audio Track to mono, stereo, or 5.1 surround sound and then establish the number of mono, stereo, and 5.1 tracks that are available, as well as your sub mix or mono sub mix, Stereo sub mix and 5.1 sub mix channels. Now if you need to change project settings that are unavailable, you can create a new project by choosing File, New, Project, and then import the current project into the new project, and with the new project, and with the new project, you go ahead and make the changes that you need. Now if you do import the current project into a project with different frame rates or audio sampling rates, check the video and audio edits carefully. Although edit positions made under the old settings are preserved, they may not recognize precisely with the new settings. Edits or changes you make after importing are synchronized the new settings, so those, some things you need to be careful about are the audio sampling rate; that should match. Also, I found that the frame size is very important; that you keep that consistent. So you want to change you editing mode to Desktop and then go ahead and enter the frame size that you used in the other project; let's say 800 by 600. And lastly, that frame rate setting will be here under time base, ten frames per second, twelve, fifteen, twenty-four, and so on, so you'll want to match that frame rate with the other project.