Edit Your Project and Render the Movie

The first steps in outputting a video to the web is to get the video clips into the computer and edit them.  

If you made it this far, good!  You are ready to learn more about outputting video to the web.

Picking up where we left off last time, we had the following project called "Parismovie.ppj".

Assuming you have edited your video to your heart's content (added titles, added graphics, added sound effects, added music where necessary), we can render the movie.  Rendering is a term to describe the process of compiling the special video effects into a single file.  This is when your on-screen lighting effects, complex transitions, and chroma-key style effects must be run through a processor and compiled, taking longer for the amount of effects that you have used.  

Render the film by stretching out the work area bar (the yellow bar near the top of the timeline window) across your entire production that you would like to render.  The yellow work area bar also makes it easy for you to only render a specific area of a timeline, in order to see a single effect (quick) before the entire project is rendered (lengthy).  Once your work area bar is in across the area you are interested in, hit ENTER.  

Your project will now render (if it needs rendering).  HINT: One way to know if a project needs rendering is to look for red spots of color on the work area bar. Here's a graphic to help you out.

The red spots under the work area bar represent the frames of video that will have to be rendered.  Since the work area bar is only stretched over the first red area, that will be the area to get rendered.  In order to render the entire project, double-click on the work area bar, or place your mouse selector over the gray arrow-shaped handles on the end of the yellow bar and pull.

Once you have rendered your project, go on to export your video.

You have finished assembling clips in the Construction window, and are satisfied with the previewed results, you are ready for the program to create, or compile, the final Quicktime movie file.

1. Before creating the movie, save the changes you have made to the project by choosing Save form the File menu. It's always a good idea to save your project often as you work.

2. Choose Movie from the Make menu . The Make Movie dialog box appears.

3. Click Output Options. The Project Output Options dialog box appears.

This dialog box lets you change characteristics of the final movie, including size, frame rate, compression type, and format. Double check to make sure that the video size is correct and that audio is set to be digitized.

The Output: area should be set to Work Area

The as pull down menu should be set to Quicktime Composite

The left Video box should be set to the following parameters:

- the Video box should be checked

- the Size: boxes should be set to the desired size

- the 4:3 Aspect check box should be checked

- the Type: pull down menu should be on Full Size Frame

The right Audio box should be set to the following parameters:

- the Audio box should be checked (if you are going to use audio)

- the Rate: pull down menu should be set to the desired rate

- the Format: pull down menu should be set to the desired rate

- the Blocks: pull down menu should be set to 1 sec

Miscellaneous check boxes:

- the Optimize stills check box should be checked

- the Open finished movie check box should be checked (if you want to immediately view the movie once it has finished)

it is finished

Click OK

4. The other parameters should already be set. They were set when the project preset was chosen.

5. Name the movie in the Make Movie dialog box, and click OK. A progress bar appears while Adobe Premiere® compiles the movie.

When the movie has been compiled and saved, Adobe Premiere® opens the movie in the Clip window.

6. To play the movie, press the Play button (the triangle pointing right) in the Clip window.