Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Studio Techniques

When working with stills, proper management of the imported image's resolution and frame size is vital. It's best to work with images at an equal high resolution; that way they can share effect presets easily. If you plan on zooming at levels between 150% and 200%, be sure that the frame size of your image is at least double that of your video frame; a 720 x 480 video frame, for example, would need a 1440 x 960 picture frame.

Because you can't range select and adjust the duration of an entire group of stills, you will want to adjust your default still duration value before you import groups of stills. Your chosen duration value is will be assigned to your images when they are imported.

After you import your images, you still have resizing options. When adding stills to your sequence, remember that you can you can instruct Premiere to automatically resize them to fit entirely within the video frame, just remember that if you decide to animate them, you should turn the Default Scale off.

One thing I didn't cover in this chapter, because it wasn't necessary, was the Anti-Flicker filter in the Motion effect. This filter should be applied (by increasing its value) if you find that any of your image pans and zooms yield undesirable flickering or shimmering from the image. Simply increase the Anti-Flicker filter to reduce the presence of any flicker.

Finally, consider using custom effect presets. You can create and reuse effect presets to your heart's content. You can also export and import presets to and from other Premiere Pro systems. All of the presets that were created for this lesson can be imported individually. Just choose Import Preset from the Effects panel wing menu, and select the presets from the APPST2 Lesson Files/Chapter 14/Custom Presets folder, and use them as much as you like.

The next chapter switches gears a bit. You will explore the more advanced features of the Titler to quickly and efficiently create your own custom titles, styles, and templates.