
First I want this slide show to fade up from black so I need to bring in some black video. Okay….let’s begin the actual build on the timeline.

Next, I’ll bring in the music I’m going to use and a background I’m going to use. So, I’ll select the folder and then position my mouse on the words “Import Folder” and click. Once the slide folder is found, I can import the entire folder at once saving me from doing each slide individually. There are shortcuts to this that you can learn later. So I position my mouse on “file” and click then scroll down to “import” and click. Next, I’ll bring in the slides that I’m going to use in this project. But, I’m going to save that choice until I can look at a couple of them to see what works best. The only other default setting we will change is the transition that I will want to use between each slide. Now when I import my slides, each will be four seconds long and that’ll save me the time of having to change each one individually. There are 30 frames per second so I need to change the “Still Image Default Duration” to 4 times 30 or, 120 frames. Here you can see that the default is 150 frames or, 5 seconds.


To do that, I have to tell Premiere Pro at what length it should import my slides into the project. Now, I’ve determined that I want each of my slides to be up on the screen for four seconds.
