Titles are often text elements overlaid on black video or actual video. You can use a title to place the title of the clip on the screen or to add names, locations or credits. To create a title: Choose File > New Title. Premiere opens the Adobe Title Designer window. Click the Text tool () in the Title window and type the text of your title. Click on the Selection tool () to select the text, then adjust color, size, font and other elements in theProperties area of the window. Read more [...]

If you want to bring in music or a voiceover, you have some choices. You can import music from a CD or from a digital file on your computer. You can record a voiceover using audio editing software, or you can simply record your voiceover onto the video camera and capture it in the same way you capture video clips. (If you do this, set the Capture window to only record Audio by choosing Record Audio from the Setup Capture field.) Of course, legally you should have the right to reuse any Read more [...]

If you have other files – such as graphics, still photos or audio files – to add to this project, use File > Import to bring up the Import window and select the file(s). Video Alphabet Soup AVI: Audio Video Interleave. It is currently the most common file format for storing audio/video data on the PC. MOV: A file extension (.mov) for video in Apple’s QuickTime format. MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group. A standard for digital video and audio compression (video is usually called MPEG, Read more [...]

Start a new project and save it (File > New Project… and File > Save). If you want, at this stage you can also specify where your video captures will be saved, if necessary, by going to Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks. If you don’t specify a location for Premiere to save the video you digitize, it will be saved in the same location that you save your project file. Connect the camera via FireWire and turn the camera on. Digitizing? Capturing? Did you miss our description Read more [...]

In the next sections, you will get a look at digitizing and editing video using Adobe Premiere Pro, which includes most of the editing tools you need and has good integration with digital video – the best type of video for the web. The ideas and concepts you learn here should be adaptable to most video-editing software. You can download and try both Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Premiere Elements for 30 days from the Adobe website. Other software to consider: Apple’s iMovie, which comes standard Read more [...]

Most digital cameras take photographs that can be put onto your Web site just as they are — without being touched up. Some photos, however, will be greatly improved if their color and contrast are tweaked. While photo-editing tools can dramatically improve your images, each tool works slightly differently. Moreover, since every image is different, how you make adjustments will change for each image. With practice, you will come to know what tools will make the best corrections. Adjusting Levels In Read more [...]

Small animations can be created directly in Photoshop by using animation tools provided in Image Ready, a tool created by Adobe so Web designers can create animated GIFs. But be warned: animated GIFs are to be use sparingly. Inappropriate use of animations on a web page will annoy readers and drive them from your site. Only the GIF format is capable of being used for animations, so remember that images that don’t look good as a GIF, such as detailed photographs, may not work well as animated Read more [...]

Even if you are just starting out with digital photography, you should consider publishing slideshows and photo galleries when one or two photos just won’t do justice to the subject. While there aren’t any hard-and-fast rules about how many images to use in a slideshow — it all depends on the subject and the quality of the images — a good rule of thumb is to create a slideshow if you have 6-10 quality images. Of course, many news sites create slideshows with dozens of photographs in each one, Read more [...]