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Read Me Notes Adobe Premiere™ Macintosh Version 2.0.1 =============================================================== This Read Me file is a supplement to the Adobe Premiere 2.0 Getting Started Guide and the Adobe Premiere 2.0 User Guide. Be sure to fill out and mail the registration card enclosed in your package so that Adobe Systems can keep you informed of the latest changes and improvements to the program. You must return the registration card to receive technical support. Adobe Customer Support is open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Automated support is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Product information and technical notes can be obtained through Adobe FAXBACK. To reach these services, call (800) 235-0078 For Technical Support in Europe; please contact your local dealer or distributor. Software Package -------------------------------- • The Adobe Premiere software package contains five disks, not six (as stated in the Getting Started guide). Construction Window ------------------------------- • You cannot drag linked clips into the Construction window when the audio or video tracks in the Construction window are not visible. Single tracks of linked clips (selected by holding down the Shift- Option keys) can be dragged into the Construction window. Movie Capture --------------------- • When recording to RAM and using QuickTime™ 1.0, intermittent crashes may occur when memory becomes low or runs out. • Holding down the Option key when choosing Video Input forces the Video Input Options dialog box to appear on the start-up screen. • The Movie Capture window can be stretched to any size by using modifier keys while dragging the corner of the window. Hold the Shift key to resize and maintain the aspect ratio. Hold down the Option key to resize the window without any constraints. • Pressing the Option key while clicking the Record button will display the rate of capture in the upper right corner of the Movie Capture window. (This only works with QuickTime 1.0.) • With certain digitizing cards, when dialog boxes and menus are displayed over the video image in the movie capture window, the video image may display “through” this element and hide part of it from view. If this happens, move or close the Movie Capture window. • If your digitizer card also serves as the graphics card for your monitor, the card may not support video recording at certain color settings. For example, you may be able to set the monitor to 256 colors, but need to set it to Millions of Colors to capture video. If you set the card to a color setting that isn't supported for digitizing and then try to record in Movie Recorder, an error may result and you may need to restart. • When upgrading a driver or component for your video card, remove the old version before installing the new version to ensure that the correct version is loaded when your system is restarted. • To automatically advance your tape deck to the frame displayed in the In or Out field of the Movie Capture window, hold down the Option key and click the In or Out button. • During capture, if you select the Video Off command, some video cards continue to show a preview in the Movie Capture window; however, none of the video will be captured in your movie. • To see a sample image in the Compression Settings dialog box, hold the Option key while selecting Compression Settings. Continue to hold the Option key until the dialog box is completely visible on the screen. • Movie Capture does not work well under System 6.0.7 Finder. Run Multifinder or System 7.0 when capturing movies. QuickTime 1.5 and Movie Capture -------------------------------- • When you install QuickTime 1.5 in your system, you will notice several changes in the Movie Capture menu. The Compression Settings command is dimmed in the Movie Capture menu; compression settings are changed using the Video Input dialog box. Movies are no longer cropped in the Video Input dialog box. You crop movies by dragging a rectangle of the desired size in the Movie Capture window. Because of this change, the hand icon is no longer available to reposition a cropped image. Both the Video Input and Sound Input dialogs have been rearranged. Key Types -------------- • Two key types have been added to the Transparency Settings dialog box: Blue Screen and Green screen . Use the Blue Screen and Green Screen key types on images with true chroma blue and true chroma green backgrounds. After choosing the desired key type, drag the Cutoff slider to the right until the contrast in the foreground image remains static; then drag the Threshold slider to the left until the blue or green background of the image is transparent. To adjust the tightness of the key, shift the Cutoff and Threshold sliders to the left an equal distance. 'Chroma Blue' is a solid blue which contains little or no red or green. It is close to PANTONE®* 2735. 'Chroma Green' is a solid green which contains little or no red or blue. It is close to PANTONE 354. • Garbage mattes do not travel with clips that have motion settings applied to them using the Motion feature. Device Control --------------------- • Adobe Premiere requires version 2.1 of the Diaquest DQ Animaq control panel device (CDEV). Contact Diaquest for further information. Audio -------- • When using MacRecorder to record audio, no sound will be heard through the speaker during recording. However, the sound will be recorded into your movie. • When using MacRecorder as your sound input device, you may experience a system error if you have installed the MacRecorder driver, but the MacRecorder hardware is not physically connected to your computer. Be sure that the MacRecorder hardware is connected to the modem port of your computer before attempting to use MacRecorder. • Sounds saved in the SND resource format are compatible with Adobe Premiere when the creator type of the file is "sfil." Some programs such as SoundEdit save SND with different creator types. To make these sound files work with Adobe Premiere, change the creator type using a program such as DiskTop. • AIFF files created with versions of SoundEdit earlier than version 2.03 may not function properly in Adobe Premiere. MIDI Device Information ----------------------------------- • Adobe Premiere can be used to trigger a MIDI device when playing a movie from a Clip window or when using the Print to Video command. To use MIDI triggering, you need the Apple MIDI Manager and Patch Bay installed on your Macintosh. (These utilities are provided by your instrument or sequencer manufacturer. Refer to their documentation for further details about installation and use.) To change the timing of the MIDI signal sent to your instrument, use the MIDI Setup command in the Preferences pop-up menu under the File menu. Edit Decision Lists -------------------------- • Frame accuracy: In order for edit decision lists to be frame accurate, timecode must be accurately stamped onto your QuickTime movies, and movies must be captured at 30 frames per second. (This requires a full frame capture card, most likely with JPEG compression built onto the display card.) Frame accurate capture may not be possible on systems with slower processors than the Macintosh IIci. • The Visca Adobe Premiere plug-in module is not guaranteed to be frame accurate. • Timecode: To ensure that timecode is accurately recorded when using controlled movie capture, use the Auto Record option, calibrate your device controller (within Adobe Premiere), and turn off AppleTalk and any Inits or other applications that may interrupt your system (such as e-mail, file sharing, special clocks, etc.). Timecode cannot be accurately recorded without using the Auto Record option. During capture, only the in point needs to be auto-recorded, as the pre-roll of the deck guarantees the frame accuracy. By default, the out point timecode is greater than the length of your tape; thus, the entire tape can be captured without setting an out point at the end of the tape. You can stop auto recording at any point during capture by clicking the mouse button. • Calibrating timecode: With some device controllers, changes to video and audio input options can affect timecode stamping of QuickTime movies. As a result, the timecode reading of the first frame that appears in the Clip window may not correspond to the timecode on your videotape. To compensate for these errors, a calibration feature has been added to the Recording Settings dialog box under the Movie Capture menu. The Timecode Offset command allows you to adjust the capture in quarter frame increments. In most cases, you will see errors in whole frame increments. To calibrate by whole frames, enter numbers in multiples of 4. If the timecode displayed in the clip window is greater than the actual timecode, enter a positive number in the calibration setting. Otherwise, enter a negative value by typing a minus sign (-) before the numeric value. When calibrating timecode stamping, it is best to use a video source that superimposes the timecode on the screen (window dub). If you do not have a video source window dubbing, you will need to visually inspect and compare the frame in the Clip window and the frame from the video tape. If the timecode does not match, change the timecode using the Timecode dialog from the Clip menu. • Key (superimpose) levels in Edit Decision Lists: Level controls for keys (superimposed clips) are handled as though each point is set to 0 or 100 percent. Notes can be provided that give the actual values of the points for adjusting the key levels during the on-line editing session. You can choose to have audio and key (superimposed clips) notes displayed in your edit decision lists. To choose notes, use the Level Notes pop-up menu in the Export Edit Decision List dialog box. • Audio in Edit Decision Lists: As stated in the User Guide, when using the Audio Separately or Audio and the End option, all overlapping audio clips in tracks A and B are treated as transitions. Before generating an EDL, it is advised that you carefully check the audio tracks for unnecessary overlap of audio tracks and eliminate them. To eliminate overlaps, you can set the audio fade level to 0 for the sections that overlap. The EDL routines in Adobe Premiere treat audio with 0 levels as non-existent. • Special Effects in Edit Decision Lists: The way that some special effects are interpreted by a standard EDL has changed. The Channel Map, Cross Zoom, Funnel, Luminance Map, PICT Mask, and Three-D special effects are now interpreted by a standard EDL as Cross Dissolves. Title Window -------------- • The opacity slider has an additional setting at its lowest position: Clear. The Clear setting causes a selected object to become transparent. If there are objects behind the selected object, a transparent hole of the same size as the selected object is created in each object behind the selected object. This can be used to create 'see-through' text or objects. • Hold down the Command and Option keys and then drag to select and move all of the objects in the Title window. • Hold down the Command key and drag to move a title to another window such as the Project or Construction window. • Hold down the Option key and click on the preview slider to automatically preview all animated text in a title. Filters -------- • If you have combined the Plug-Ins folders from Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop™, some of the Adobe Photoshop filters, although accessible, are not appropriate for use in Adobe Premiere. For example, the Adobe Photoshop Displace filter displays a dialog box for every frame being processed when used in Adobe Premiere. • The Settings button in the filter dialog box is always active even if filters do not have any settings. Importing or Opening a Series of Numbered PICT or Adobe Illustrator Files ------------------------------------------------------------------ • To open a series of numbered PICT or Adobe Illustrator™ files, the file names must contain a period, a suffix, and a consistent number of digits after the period. Spaces may be included after the period; for example, File. 000, File. 001. To open all of the numbered images and compile them into a single clip, choose the Import or Open command; then select the first numbered image in the series and click OK. The images are compiled and appear as a single movie clip in the Project or Clip window, respectively. The clip's frame rate will default to 1 frame per second; to change the frame rate, select the clip and choose the Speed command from the Clip menu. RAM Caching ------------------- • Thumbnails for clips are cached in RAM. Thus, the more RAM available for Adobe Premiere, the more thumbnails will be stored, and the faster the software will perform. You can also enhance performance by saving frequently used clips on a RAM drive. Hardware Zoom ---------------------- • The Hardware Zoom feature in the Print to Video dialog box is only supported on graphics cards that have hardware zoom and a zoom plug- in module in the Adobe Premiere Plug-ins folder. Miscellaneous -------------------- • When using the Motion Settings command, the last frame of the clip may not display long enough to be visible. To display the last frame of the clip, split the final frame from the clip using the razor tool. • In the Clip window, you can press the Tab key to select the current frame indicator. • Some photographs in the Tips & Techniques section of the User Guide were supplied and are copyright by: Cinenet (Cinema Network), 2235 First Street, Suite 111, Simi Valley, CA 93065, (805) 527-0093. Troubleshooting ----------------------- • If memory availability is low, some of the thumbnails in your project may preview in black. If possible, allocate more memory to the program to correct the problem. • Adobe Premiere requires a larger amount of memory to create movies of larger dimensions. To create a 640 x 480 movie, you need to allocate 8 MB of RAM to Adobe Premiere, or you will receive an out-of- memory message. • If the audio portion of a movie drops out during playback, remake the movie with the Key Framing option turned off in the Output Options dialog box. • The system may crash when low memory situations occur. In general, Adobe Premiere should warn you many times when memory is running dangerously low. Once you see the memory message, save your work and eliminate any unnecessary QuickTime movies from your project. If the messages persist, change the memory setting for Premiere using the Get Info feature in the finder. Do not ignore these messages. • When switching between QuickTime 1.0 and QuickTime 1.5—or later versions, throw away your Adobe Premiere Prefs file. ----------------------- Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. QuickTime is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. *Pantone, Inc's check standard trademark for color reproduction and color reproduction materials. Other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.