Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 247

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 241 User Guide About Fixed effects Every clip you add to the Timeline panel has Fixed effects preapplied, or built in. Fixed effects control the inherent properties of a clip and appear in the Effect Controls panel whenever the clip is selected. You can adjust all of the Fixed effects in the Effect Controls panel; however, the Program Monitor, Timeline panel, and Audio Mixer also provide controls that may be easier to use. The Fixed effects include the following: Motion Includes properties that allow you to animate, rotate, and scale your clips, adjust their anti-flicker property, or composite them with other clips. (To adjust the Motion effect in the Program Monitor, see "Adjust position, scale, and rotation" on page 251 and "Animate motion in the Program Monitor" on page 253.) Opacity Lets you reduce the opacity of a clip for use in such effects as overlays, fades, and dissolves. (To adjust the Opacity effect in the Timeline panel, see "Adjust the opacity of clips" on page 365.) Time Remapping Lets you slow down, speed up, or reverse playback, or freeze a frame, for any part of a clip. Provides fine control for the acceleration or deceleration of these changes. Volume Controls the volume for any clip that contains audio. (To adjust the Volume effect in the Timeline panel, Effect Controls panel, or Audio Mixer, see "Adjust volume in the Timeline panel" on page 198, "Adjust volume in Effect Controls" on page 199, and "Set track volume in the Audio Mixer" on page 200.) Because Fixed effects are already built into each clip, you need only adjust their properties to activate them. Adobe Premiere Pro renders Fixed effects after any Standard effects that are applied to the clip. Standard effects are rendered in the order in which they appear, from the top down. You can change the order of Standard effects by dragging them to a new position in the Effect Controls panel, but you can't re-order Fixed effects. If you want to change the render order of Fixed effects, use Standard effects instead: use the Transform effect in place of the Motion effect, the Alpha Adjust effect in place of the Opacity effect, and the Volume effect in place of the fixed Volume effect. While these effects aren't identical to the Fixed effects, their parameters are equivalent. About Standard effects Standard effects are additional effects that you must first apply to a clip to create a desired result. You can apply any number or combination of Standard effects to any clip in a sequence. Use Standard effects to add special characteristics or to edit your video, such as adjusting tone or trimming pixels. Adobe Premiere Pro includes many video and audio effects, which are located in the Effects panel. Standard effects must be applied to a clip and then adjusted in the Effect Controls panel. Certain video effects allow direct manipulation using handles in the Program Monitor. All Standard effect properties can be animated over time using keyframing and changing the shape of the graphs in the Effect Controls panel. The smoothness or speed of the effect animation can be fine-tuned by adjusting the shape of Bezier curves in the Effect Controls panel. Note: The effects listed in the Effects panel depend on the actual effect files in the language subfolder of the Adobe Premiere Pro Plug-ins folder. You can expand the repertoire of effects by adding compatible Adobe plug-in files or plug-in packages available through other third-party developers. See also "Apply an effect to a clip" on page 244 About clip-based and track-based effects All video effects-both Fixed and Standard effects-are clip-based. That is, they alter individual clips. Since all clips include Fixed effects, you only need to apply Standard effects to a clip to create a result. You can apply a clip-based effect to more than one clip at a time by creating a nested sequence. April 1, 2008