[Steven L. gotz]

When you create a title with the Title Designer, you save it and then from the project window, drag it into a track above the video. The transparency of the background is automatic.

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

The “stairway” (great description) method is all you can do in Premiere Pro. In After Effects you have Time Remapping to do it properly.

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

Hector,

I highly recommend that you take a little time to read the manual, and perhaps invest in a training course. These are pretty basic questions.

To Automate to Sequence, select all of the clips in the project window and use the Twirl-Down menu (little triangle in the upper right corner of the project window) to select Automate to Sequence. You might want to place all of the clips in a new bin to make it easier to arrange them first. Then automate it.

For slow motion, you can put all of the clips in a new sequence and then select that sequence from the project window, and place it into the original sequence. You can use the Clip > Speed Duration menu, or you can use the Rate Stretch tool in the toolbox. It is the one made active by using the “X” as a shortcut key while the timeline is the active window. Just stretch the video to make it longer.

Titles are created using File > New > Title (F9) and to select Roll or Crawl, look in the upper left hand corner for Title Type.

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

The short clips can have the transition applied by using Automate to Sequence. If they are already on the sequence, Page Down gets to the next cut, and Ctrl-d applies the default transition.

To make them all slow motion, copy them to a new sequence and nest the sequence in their place. Then just time stretch it with the tool, or set the duration using the menu.

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

ME? Aw, shucks. I’m just paying back the help I get when I need it. I handle the easy stuff. I leave the hard stuff for Tim and Mike and Tim.

You must have hit one of the “Adobe Presents: The HDV Uncovered Tour” stops? Maybe met David Helmly? I got a chance to meet him a few weeks ago in Dallas. How was the presentation? They get you excited about HDV?

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

I don’t know if the import goes back that far. You might have to open and resave it with 6.x and then bring it into PPro.

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

Is track one selected? Is the header section darker on track one than on the others?

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

I suggest that the best you can do is delete all of the render files and render the project overnight.

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

Are you selecting the correct track first?

Steven
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[Steven L. gotz]

If one existed, I imagine I probably would have read about it on a forum by now. I requent quite a few forums on a wide variety of sites. Way too many, actually.

Sorry.

Steven
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