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Note: You can view the text of the file in a scrolling window.

4Select Script Text Matches Dialog only if the imported script covers the recorded dialog verbatim. For example, if the reference script is the script from which the talent read their lines, select Script Text Matches Dialog. Select this option even if the recorded dialog is shorter than what the script file covers.

5Click OK.

The Import Script dialog closes, and the reference script is selected in the Reference Script menu.

6Click OK.

Improve speech analysis with Adobe Story scripts (CS5.5 and later)

Speech analysis is more accurate if Adobe Story script data is associated with a clip. Adobe Premiere Pro automatically uses the Adobe Story script as a reference script. When Adobe Premiere Pro finds enough matches with the embedded script, it replaces the analyzed speech text with the embedded script text. Adobe Premiere Pro carries over the correct spelling, proper names, and punctuation from the reference script, benefits that standard speech analysis cannot provide.

To find and fix more errors, you can make side-by-side comparisons of the text of the Adobe Story script with the text of the speech analysis. If a clip has a Story script attached to it, the script is displayed in the Embedded Adobe Story Script view in the Speech Analysis section of the Metadata panel. Compare the script displayed in this view to the results of the speech analysis displayed in the Analysis Text view below it.

Note: The Embedded Adobe Story Script view is read only. You can't perform editing operations in it.

To attach an Adobe Story script to a clip or clips:

1Match the scene number of the clips to the scene numbers in the Adobe Story script. Adobe Premiere Pro needs the information so that it can match the clips to the correct scenes in the script. You can assign scene numbers to clips in the Project panel or the Metadata panel.

2Select one or more clips in the Project panel, right-click and choose Attach Script File or select File > Adobe Story > Attach Script file.

Note: An Adobe Story script cannot be attached to a Merged Clip. If, however, a Story script was attached to a component clip prior to the merge, the merged clip may be analyzed using the previously attached Story script.

You can also import an Adobe Story script into OnLocation and then import the shots into Adobe Premiere Pro with the script metadata. OnLocation produces a list of shot placeholders for each scene. Either record these shots using OnLocation during production, or link the placeholder shots to their respective video files when you import the video files into OnLocation. In either case, OnLocation embeds the text for each shot from the original script into the metadata of the shot, and the information is retained when the shot is imported intoAdobe Premiere Pro.

Select one or more clips

When you want to perform an action that affects a clip as a whole, such as applying an effect, deleting a clip, or moving a clip in time, first select the clip in a Timeline panel. The Tools panel contains selection tools that can handle various selection tasks.

Do any of the following:

•To select a single clip, use the Selection tool and click a clip in a Timeline panel.

•To select only the audio or video portion of a clip, use the Selection tool and Alt-click (Windows) or Optionclick (Mac OS) that portion.

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•To select multiple clips by clicking, use the Selection tool and Shift-click each clip you want to select. (Shift-click a selected clip to deselect it.)

•To select a range of clips, click in an empty area of the sequence under the time ruler, and then drag a rectangle (marquee selection) that includes any part of the clips you want to select.

•To add or subtract a range of clips in the current selection, Shift-drag a marquee around clips. Shift-dragging a marquee that includes unselected clips adds them to the current selection. Shift-dragging a marquee that includes selected clips deselects them.

Selecting a range of clips by dragging a marquee

•To select all clips that exist on and after a certain time on one track, select the Track Select tool and click the clip at the beginning of the time span you want to select. Shift-click with the tool to select clips in all tracks.

Selecting clips with the Track Select tool

•To select clips in a track independently of its linked video or audio, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) using the Track Select tool .

Enable or disable a clip

You can disable a clip while you try out a different editing idea, or to shorten processing time when working on a complex project. Disabled clips do not appear in the Program Monitor or in a preview or video file that you export. As long as you have not locked the track containing a disabled clip, you can still make changes to it. If you want to disable all clips on the same track, exclude the entire track instead. See “Targeting tracks” on page 173.

Select one or more clips in a Timeline panel and choose Clip > Enable. A check mark next to the command indicates that the selected clips is enabled. Disabled clips appear dimmed in a Timeline panel.

Since it is a common duty for editors to enable and disable clips, it is recommended that you create a custom keyboard shortcut for this task. See “Customize or load keyboard shortcuts” on page 451.

Group clips

You can group multiple clips so that you can move, disable, copy, or delete them together. Both audio and video tracks of a linked clip are included when you group it with other clips.

You can’t apply clip-based commands, such as the Speed command, or effects to the group, though you can select individual clips in the group and apply effects.

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