12 Targeting Tracks for Input


#12 Targeting Tracks for Input

Premiere Pro is very flexible regarding ways to add content from the Source Monitor to the timeline: you can drag the file down, click the Insert or Overlay buttons that we saw in Figure 11, or use the keyboard shortcuts (,) and (.), respectively. (The only limitation is if you have toggled to audio only and try to drag the clip into a video track, or vice versa.) But if you use the button or keystroke commands, how do you control to which tracks the content is sent?

Figure 12a shows an example from a recent piano concert that I produced. On the timeline at the bottom of the frame, you can see that a new pianist, Kimberly Wells, is about to start playing. At the beginning of her mini-concert, I wanted to insert a title with her name and the name of the songs she was about to play. The title is currently in the Source Monitor and the current-time indicator at the start of her performance.

Figure 12a. Let's insert this great title (from a Premiere Pro preset, by the way) at the start of Kimberly's performance (where the current-time indicator is now positioned).


If you look to the extreme left of the timeline, you'll note that Video 2 is highlighted and is a lighter color gray than Video 1. This is because I clicked the Video 2 track within the area that is now highlighted to select it. If you click the Overlay button (see Figure 11), Premiere Pro will insert your title at the current-time indicator on track Video 2 as shown in Figure 12b.

Figure 12b. Here's the title inserted in the targeted track.


Working with Audio

This technique works with audio and video. In fact, you can specify different tracks for the audio and video content coming from the same filesay Video 2 for the video frames and Audio 3 for the audio. This mixed target feature can be particularly useful when you're trying to shoehorn in some content during late-stage edits when the timeline is already crowded with audio and video.





Adobe Digital Video How-Tos. 100 Essential Techniques with Adobe Production Studio
Adobe Digital Video How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques with Adobe Production Studio
ISBN: 0321473817
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 148
Authors: Jan Ozer

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