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CHAPTER 1 40
A Tour of Adobe Premiere
Now let’s generate another preview.
6
Drag the right end of the work area bar to the right so that it extends to the end of the
Fastslow clip in the Video 2 track.
7
Choose Project > Preview or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) on the keyboard.
To preview more than once, just repeat this step.
8
Save the project.
Changing a clip’s opacity
If a clip is on Video 2 track or higher, you can make it partially transparent by changing its
opacity. The opacity option lets you fade into or out of a clip and superimpose one or more
clips on top of others, so that two or more clips are visible at the same time. You’ll superimpose
clips later in the tour. For now, you’ll use the superimpose track to fade out a clip by manually
adjusting its opacity over time.
By default, Premiere includes one superimpose track, Video 2, above the Video 1 track. You
can add others, as needed. Once a clip has been placed in a superimpose track, an opacity
control bar, or a “rubber band,” becomes available. To see the bar, you need to expand the
Video 2 track.
1
Click the arrow to the left of the Video 2 track.
The opacity bar shows the clip’s opacity. Right now, the opacity is at 100%.
2
Now move the pointer onto the opacity bar (where the pointer changes into a pointing
finger), and click about three-quarters of the way into the clip to create a small box called
a handle.
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