Adobe 25520388 User Guide - Page 304

USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 299 Effects and transitions More Help topics "Choose fields in the Source and Program Monitors" on page 126 Duration and speed View the total duration of selected clips 1 Make sure that the Info panel is visible. If it is not, choose Window > Info. 2 In either the Project panel or Timeline panel, select the clips for which you want to know the total duration. The Info panel displays the number of items selected and the total duration of those items. This information is useful if you want to paste clips into a specific area and need to know the exact duration of the target area or of the source clips. Note: If you select contiguous clips in the Project panel, the Info panel displays the total duration of all the clips you select. However, if you select noncontiguous clips in a sequence, the Info panel displays the duration as a range, from In point of the first clip you selected, to the Out point of the last clip you selected. For the purpose of copying and pasting, the duration of a particular range is more important than the sum of all the clips' durations. If you copy and paste a noncontiguous group of sequence clips, the pasted clips will occupy the range noted on the Info panel and the areas that you did not select will be empty. Change the default duration for still images 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > General (Mac OS). 2 For Still Image Default Duration, specify the number of frames you want as a default duration for a still image. Note: Changing the default duration of still images does not affect the duration of still images that are already part of a sequence or that have already been imported. You will have to re-import the images after you change the default duration to get a different duration for the images. Change speed and duration for one or more clips The speed of a clip is the playback rate compared to the rate at which it was recorded. Initially, a clip plays back at its normal, 100% speed. (Even if the frame rate of the source footage doesn't match that of the sequence, the sequence automatically reconciles the difference. It plays back the clip at its proper speed.) In a Timeline panel, clips with speed changes are indicated with a percentage of the original speed. Changing clip speed omits or repeats the source frames during playback, thereby making the clip play faster or slower. A change in speed results in a corresponding change in duration, unless the clip is simultaneously trimmed. You can, for example, ungang speed from duration in the Clip Speed/Duration dialog box. Then, when you increase the speed, Premiere Pro uses more of the clip to fill the duration between the In point and the Out point. When you decrease the speed, Premiere Pro uses less of the clip to fill the duration. You can ungang speed and duration with more than one clip selected. Then, you can change the duration of the clips. For example, you can change the speeds only enough to make all the clips last the same duration. When you change the speed of a clip containing interlaced fields, you can adjust how Premiere Pro treats the fields. Consider making this adjustment especially when the speed drops below 100% of the original speed. (See "Create interlaced or non-interlaced clips" on page 310.) Last updated 1/16/2012