Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 169

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 163 User Guide Comparative advantages for specific tasks The strengths of Adobe Premiere Pro lie in its numerous video editing features. You can use it to combine Photoshop files with video clips, audio clips and other assets, using the Photoshop files, for example, as titles, graphics, and masks. In contrast, Photoshop has excellent tools for painting, drawing, and selecting portions of an image. Tracing a complex shape to create a mask is much easier with the Photoshop Quick Selection tool or Magnetic Lasso tool than with the masking tools in Adobe Premiere Pro. Rather than hand-drawing a mask on each frame in Adobe Premiere Pro, consider doing this work in Photoshop. Similarly, if you are applying several paint strokes by hand to get rid of dust, consider using the Photoshop paint tools. The animation and video features in Photoshop Extended include simple keyframe-based animation. Adobe Premiere Pro, however, provides quite a bit more keyframe control over various properties. Exchanging still images Adobe Premiere Pro can import and export still images in many formats, but you will usually want to use the native Photoshop PSD format when transferring individual frames or still image sequences between Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop. When importing or exporting a PSD file, Adobe Premiere Pro can preserve individual layers and masks. When you import a PSD file into Adobe Premiere Pro, you can choose whether to import it as a flattened image or with its layers separate and intact. It is often a good idea to prepare a still image in Photoshop before importing it into Adobe Premiere Pro. Examples of such preparation include correcting color, scaling, and cropping. It is often better to make a change to a source image in Photoshop than to have Adobe Premiere Pro perform the same operation many times per second as it renders each frame for previews or final output. By creating your new PSD document from the Photoshop New File dialog box with a Film & Video preset, you can start with a document that is set up correctly for a specific video output type. If you are already working in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can create a new PSD document that matches your composition and project settings by choosing File > New > Photoshop File. Exchanging movies You can also exchange video files, such as QuickTime movies, between Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. When you open a movie in Photoshop, a video layer is created that refers to the source footage file. Video layers allow you to paint nondestructively on the movie's frames. When you save a PSD file with a video layer, you are saving the edits that you made to the video layer, not edits to the source footage itself. You can also render a movie directly from Photoshop. For example, you can create a QuickTime movie from Photoshop that can then be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro. Color Adobe Premiere Pro works internally with colors in an RGB (red, green, blue) color space. If you want to edit video clips you create in Photoshop in Adobe Premiere Pro, you should create them in RGB. If relevant for your final output, it is better to ensure that the colors in your image are broadcast-safe in Photoshop before you import the image into Adobe Premiere Pro. A good way to do this is to assign the appropriate destination color space-for example, SDTV (Rec. 601)-to the document in Photoshop. April 1, 2008