Table Of Contents:

DV
Digital Video 1(24)

Introductory Notes 1(1)

Graphics 2(9)

Resolution 3(2)

Pixel Proportions and Frame Size 5(1)

Bitmap and Vector Graphics 6(1)

Pixel Depth 7(1)

Quality (Compression) 8(1)

Color 9(2)

Video 11(8)

Frame Rate 11(2)

Frame Numbering 13(1)

Compression Quality 14(1)

Video Standards 14(1)

Scanning 15(1)

Video Properties Summary 16(1)

About Computer Animation 17(2)

Sound 19(6)

What is Sound? 19(2)

Sampling Rate 21(1)

Encoding Depth (Format) 21(1)

Compression 22(1)

Mono and Stereo 22(2)

Audio Properties Summary 24(1)

User Interface 25(36)

Getting Started 26(13)

Getting Started with Adobe Premiere 27(3)

Getting Started with Flash 30(1)

Adobe Bundle Programs after First Start-Up 31(3)

Main Panels 34(5)

About Quick Workspace Tuning 39(1)

Main Properties of Adobe Bundle Programs 39(12)

Program Goals 39(2)

Projects (Premiere, After Effects) 41(1)

Managing Project Files 41(1)

Creating a New Movie 42(3)

Editing Several Movies Simultaneously 45(3)

Typical Controls 48(3)

Principles of Movie Editing 51(10)

About Movie Composition 51(1)

Inserting Video into Movies (Premiere, After Effects) 52(3)

Current Frame and Editing Line 55(2)

General Procedure for Editing Movies 57(2)

Canceling Undesired Actions 59(2)

Preparing Media 61(38)

Clips (Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects) 62(11)

Clip Types 62(2)

Viewing Clips 64(7)

Special Clips (Premiere) 71(2)

Importing Clips (Premiere, After Effects) 73(9)

Importing Files 73(3)

Importing Folders 76(2)

Offline Files 78(4)

Digitizing Clips (Premiere) 82(9)

General Information about Digitizing 82(2)

Preparing for Capture 84(3)

Capture without Device Control 87(2)

Capture with Device Control 89(2)

Media Import (Flash) 91(8)

Flash Library 91(2)

Normal Import 93(1)

Importing Video 94(5)

Linear Video Editing 99(42)

The Timeline Panel 100(7)

The Timeline Panel Structure 100(2)

Navigating within the Movie along the Timeline 102(1)

Setting the Timeline Scale 103(1)

Additional Elements of the Timeline (Premiere, After Effects) 104(3)

Previewing the Movie 107(7)

Flash 108(2)

Premiere 110(1)

After Effects 111(2)

Export to External File 113(1)

Composing the Movie 114(27)

Premiere 115(11)

After Effects 126(5)

Flash 131(10)

Preparing Media 141(36)

Controlling Tracks on the Timeline Panel 141(10)

Video and Audio Tracks 141(2)

Selecting the Working Track 143(1)

Expanding and Collapsing Tracks 144(2)

Enabling and Disabling Tracks 146(1)

Locking Tracks 147(1)

Displaying Keyframes 147(1)

Deleting Tracks 148(1)

Adding Tracks 149(1)

Renaming Tracks 150(1)

Inserting Clips into the Target Movie 151(5)

Preliminary Adjustment of the Master Clip 151(1)

Inserting Clips to the Edit Line 152(2)

Superimposing the Clip over the Movie 154(2)

Editing Movies 156(21)

The Tools Panel 156(2)

Selecting Clips 158(1)

Moving Clips 159(1)

Trimming Clip Edges 159(3)

Deleting Clips 162(2)

Cutting Clips 164(2)

Changing the Clip Rate 166(2)

Still Image Frames 168(1)

Editing Clip Junctions 169(8)

Layer-by-Layer Movie Drawing (After Effects) 177(40)

Managing Layers on the Timeline Panel 177(6)

The Structure of the Timeline Panel 178(2)

Controls for Layer Properties 180(2)

Auxiliary Columns of the Timeline Panel 182(1)

The Composition and Layer Panels 183(5)

The Toolset 183(2)

The Composition and Layer Panels 185(3)

Main Operations on Layers 188(11)

Moving Layers over the Composition Frame 188(1)

Zooming Layers 189(1)

Rotating Layers 190(1)

Controlling Anchor Point 190(2)

Reflecting Layers 192(1)

Aligning and Positioning Layers 193(1)

Layer Parameters on the Timeline Panel 194(2)

Copying, Pasting, and Duplicating Layers 196(1)

Splitting Layers 196(1)

3D Layers 196(3)

Drawing 199(18)

Drawing with the Brush 200(4)

Drawing Options 204(4)

Erasing 208(2)

Masks 210(7)

Effects and Animation (Premiere, After Effects) 217(38)

Effects 218(10)

Applying Effects 218(4)

Built-in Effects 222(1)

Editing Effects 223(1)

Resetting Parameters to Default Values 224(1)

Temporarily Disabling Effects 225(1)

Deleting Effects 225(1)

Applying Effects to Sound Tracks (Premiere) 226(1)

Adjustment Layer (After Effects) 227(1)

Dynamic Effects 228(9)

Modifying the Effect Dynamics on the Effect Controls Panel 228(4)

Customizing Effect Dynamics on the Timeline Panel 232(4)

Editing Effects 236(1)

Animation 237(8)

Premiere 238(2)

After Effects 240(2)

Animation Parameters 242(1)

Transparency 242(3)

Transitions (Premiere) 245(4)

Creating Transitions by Dragging 245(3)

Editing Transitions 248(1)

3D Effects (After Effects) 249(6)

The Camera Effect 250(2)

The Light Effect 252(3)

Drawing (Flash) 255(42)

Layers and Frames on the Timeline Panel 255(10)

Normal Frames and Keyframes 255(7)

Layers on the Timeline and Stage Panels 262(3)

Editing Layers 265(12)

The Tools Panel 265(2)

The Color Mixer Panel 267(1)

Inserting Objects into the Target Movie 268(2)

Selecting, Moving, and Deleting Objects 270(3)

Scaling, Skewing, and Rotating Objects 273(3)

Aligning and Distributing Objects 276(1)

Tracing and Breaking Objects 276(1)

Drawing 277(11)

Drawing Modes 277(2)

The Properties Panel 279(1)

Drawing with Pencil and Brushes 280(3)

Drawing Lines, Ellipses, and Rectangles 283(2)

Drawing with the Pen Tool 285(1)

Editing Objects 286(2)

Symbols 288(9)

Creating Symbols 288(4)

Inserting Symbols into the Movie 292(1)

Editing Symbols 293(4)

Animation and Interactive Features (Flash) 297(36)

Animation 297(19)

Animation Type 298(1)

Motion Tweening 299(5)

Configuring the Motion Path 304(7)

Shape Tweening 311(2)

Timeline Effects 313(3)

Interactive Features 316(17)

Buttons 316(6)

The ActionScript Programming Language 322(7)

Filters 329(4)

Working with Text 333(38)

Text (After Effects) 334(12)

Creating Text 334(4)

Editing Text 338(2)

Formatting Text 340(2)

Animating Titles 342(4)

Text Formatting 346(2)

Character Formatting 346(2)

Paragraph Formatting 348(1)

Titles (Premiere) 348(14)

Creating a Title Clip 349(2)

The Titler Panel Structure 351(2)

Titles Toolset 353(1)

Text in Titles 354(3)

Creating Titles Based on Templates 357(2)

Formatting Titles 359(1)

Creeping and Rolling Captions 360(2)

Text (Flash) 362(9)

Text Types 362(1)

Creating Text 363(3)

Editing Text 366(1)

Text Input Fields 367(4)

Audio Editing 371(36)

Sound Editing in Premiere 371(17)

Classification of Audio Clips and Tracks 372(2)

Viewing the Sound Volume Graph on the Timeline Panel 374(2)

Linked Video- and Audio Clips 376(2)

Audio Gain 378(2)

Smooth Volume Change 380(2)

The Audio Mixer Panel 382(3)

Sound Mixing on the Audio Mixer Panel 385(3)

Sound Editing using Audition 388(19)

The Audition Interface 389(3)

Controlling Sessions 392(3)

Sound Mixing in Multitrack Mode 395(7)

Sound Mixing in the Edit Mode 402(3)

Burning CDs in CD Mode 405(2)

Movie Output 407(43)

About Media File Formats 407(2)

Exporting Target Movies to Video Files 409(10)

General Sequence for Exporting Video 409(3)

Exporting Movies (Premiere) 412(2)

Exporting Movies (After Effects) 414(2)

Combining Your Work in Premiere and After Effects 416(1)

Movie Export (Flash) 417(2)

Movie Output to DVD (Premiere) 419(14)

Disc Markup using Markers 420(5)

Automatic Disk Markup 425(1)

Configuring Disk Menu 426(4)

Previewing DVDs 430(1)

Burning DVDs 431(2)

Movie Output to DVD (Encore DVD) 433(17)

Encore DVD Projects 433(4)

Composing DVDs and Creating DVD Markup 437(6)

Menus 443(5)

Testing and Burning DVDs 448(2)
Description of the Companion CD 450(1)
Index 451