How to Make a Movie in Eight Steps With Premiere

It takes only eight steps to make a simple movie in Adobe Premiere. These instructions apply to Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Windows.

Difficulty: Moderately challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Scanners
• Video Capture Cards
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Premiere
• Scanning Software

1. Import video and audio clips into the project window. You will assemble the clips to create the movie.

2. Drag an audio clip onto the audio track.

3. Drag a video clip onto video track A.

4. Drag another clip to video track B. Select the clip and apply a filter if desired.

5. Drag a transition onto the T track. This allows you to apply dissolves and other transitions between clips.

6. Preview the movie.

7. Combine your clips into a movie. (Use Make Movie from the Make menu.)

8. To play the new movie, click the Play button in the Clip window.

Tips & Warnings

• See Related eHows for specific instructions on getting video onto your computer, importing clips into Premiere, adding a sound track, combining clips and adding transitions.
• You can continue adding video and audio clips until the movie is the length you want.
• In addition to video clips, you can also import computer animations, scanned still images and Illustrator or Photoshop files.
• Video and audio clips take up a lot of space on your hard disk. You need a very large hard disk to make movies longer than a few seconds. Once completed, your digital movie can be stored on an external disk or burned on a CD-ROM, but for best results, work directly from your hard disk while you are making the movie.