Working with stills

In this chapter we're going to explore working with still images such as…photographs, and there's a couple of key preferences you need to be aware of…before you start importing photographs or pictures into Adobe Premiere Pro.…To find your preferences on a Macintosh, you'll look underneath the Premiere Pro…setting, and there's your Preference setting, and if you're a Windows machine,…that would normally be under the Edit menu. At the very bottom, you would see…Preferences. Once inside, they are exactly the same between systems.…

So we're going to go to Preferences and select General, and there's two things…we're going to look at. The first is Still Image Default Duration.…Now by default, it's 150 frames, so if you're cutting at 30 frames a second--…which is pretty much the standard--you get 5 seconds of a still image when…you bring in any of your photographs. Now don't panic, if you need 6 seconds…or 4 seconds, because it's a photograph or a still image, you can make it as…long or as short as you need once it's in your project.…