Introduction Working with Panels

Outline of the lecture Navigate the panels Display any panel full-screen Display panel options Display context and panel menus Tools panel and Options panel Clip details in the Info panel

Navigate the panels You can use keyboard shortcuts to activate panels in rotation. -Do one of the following: -To activate panels in rotation to the right, press Ctrl+Shift+. (period) (Windows), or Control+Shift+. (period) (Mac OS). -To activate panels in rotation to the left, press Ctrl+Shift+, (comma) (Windows), or Control+Shift+, (comma) (Mac OS).

Display any panel full-screen You can expand any panel to display it in full- screen mode, and toggle back to normal view. You can do so with the current panel in focus or the panel you are hovering over with your mouse. In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, do the following. 1. Hover your mouse over the panel you want to maximize. 2. Press the accent key (`). Typically, this key lies just to the left of the numeral one (1) key. Some see this key as the back quote key, or the tilde key. Press the accent key once more to restore the panel size

Display any panel full-screen In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later, to maximize a selected panel you can choose Window > Maximize Frame. To restore the panel size, choose Window > Restore Frame Size. You can also press Shift+accent to maximize the panel size of a selected panel. Press the accent key to toggle the panel size of a panel you are hovering over with the mouse.

Display panel options Click the panel menu icon in the upper- right corner of the panel. You can open a panel menu even when the panel is minimized. In Photoshop, you can change the font size of the text in panels and tool tips. In the Interface preferences, choose a size from the UI Font Size menu

Display context and panel menus In addition to choosing from the menus at the top of your screen, you can choose from context menus, which display commands relative to the active tool or selected item. Panel menus display commands relative to the active panel. -To display panel menus, click the button in the upper-right corner of the panel. -To display context menus, right-click a panel.

Tools panel and Options panel Open the Options panel Select Window > Options

Tools panel and Options panel Dock the Tools panel to the Options panel 1. In the Tools panel, click the panel menu icon 2. Select Dock In Options Panel

Tools panel and Options panel Undock the Tools panel from the Options panel In the Options panel, click the dotted area to the left of Selection Tool. Premiere Pro removes the Tools panel from the Options panel, and returns the Tools panel to the location it had before docking to the Options panel.

Clip details in the Info panel The Info panel displays several data about a selected item, and timecode information for clips under the current-time indicator in the Timeline. At the top of the panel, information is displayed for the current selection. This information varies depending on its media type, the active panel, and so on. For example, the Info panel displays information unique to an empty space in a Timeline panel, or a clip in the Project panel.

Clip details in the Info panel Video Indicates frame rate, frame size, and pixel aspect ratio, in that order Audio Indicates sample rate, bit depth, and channels, in that order. Tape Indicates the name of the tape. In Indicates the In point timecode of the selected clip. Out Indicates the Out point timecode of the selected clip. Duration Indicates the duration of the selected clip.

Clip details in the Info panel The section below the current selection data contains the timecode values for the active sequence and for clips in each of its video and audio tracks. These values are displayed in a stacking order that matches the Timeline for easy visual correlation. Video track timecodes are displayed with the highest track number on top, and audio tracks are displayed with the highest track number on the bottom. The only time this section is blank is when all sequences are closed.

Clip details in the Info panel When a track is added to or deleted from the current sequence, the Info panel updates to accurately display the number of tracks in the sequence. -There is no limit on the number of tracks displayed. Similarly, when the user switches to a different sequence, the Info panel updates to display the correct number of tracks in that sequence.

Clip details in the Info panel The Info panel displays timecode for the current selection and for all track items under the current-time indicator. When the playhead crosses a blank area in the timeline, no timecode value is displayed for that track, but the track label remains visible and undimmed. The vertical stack layout of the timecodes is easily correlated with the physical layout of the tracks in the sequence

The Info panel

Clip details in the Info panel A. Name of selected clip B. Data for selected clip C. Tape name D. Sequence timecode locations of clip Start and End points E. Name of active sequence F. Source timecode location in selected clip of current-time indicator G. Source timecode location in clips on video tracks of current-time indicator H. Source timecode location in clips on audio tracks of current-time indicator -Note: You can change the default behavior of some of the panels in the Preferences dialog box. See Preferences. More Help topics