Chapter Eight. Creating Slide Shows in Premiere Pro

Adobe Production Studio has two basic approaches for producing slide shows from digital images, like those from a digital camera or inputted from a scanner. If your goal is a highly customized production with pans, zooms, and narration à la the two well-known Ken Burns productions, Baseball and The Civil War, you should produce your slide show in Premiere Pro.

No matter which program you use, you may want to preprocess your images in Photoshop, and you'll need an understanding of how Premiere Pro handles the display of square-pixel images in rectangular pixel videos in order to produce images that will import into Premiere Pro as you want them to appear.

This chapter covers these two topics first, and then describes how to produce slide shows in Premiere Pro. It concludes with a look at the Frame Hold function in Premiere Pro, which is great way to convert video to a still frame for credits or other overlays.