Lesson 2. About Digital Video Editing

When you edit video, you arrange source clips so that they tell a story. That story can be anything from a fictional television program to a news event and more. Understanding the issues that affect your editing decisions can help you prepare for successful editing and save you valuable time and resources.

This lesson describes Premiere's role in video production and introduces a variety of key concepts:

• Measuring video time.

• Measuring frame size and resolution.

• Compressing video data.

• Capturing video.

• Superimposing and transparency.

• Using audio in a video.

• Creating final video.