Chapter 8. Create Animated Effects

When you edit video, the fourth dimension—time—is all-important. You want to control the pacing of your movies. You want voices in sync with images. Music should reflect the action on the screen and the mood you want to create. And effects should occur at just the right moment. In Chapter 7, you learned how to apply effects to an entire clip, while Chapter 6 focused on transitions (which are really effects at the beginnings and ends of clips). This chapter explains how to control the timing of those effects.

Premiere gives you frame-by-frame control over your effects. You'll learn how to make effects fade in and fade out at exactly the right moment and how to make pictures, clipart, and titles move around the screen.