Intro to Premiere – Part 1 Working with Video Intro to Premiere – Part 1

Overview About Adobe Premiere Preparing to work in Premiere Starting in Premiere Premiere Interface Saving your Project Getting Project Assets into Premiere

About Adobe Premiere Considered to be a NLE (Non-Linear Editing) Program It is a Video Editing Application The beauty of Premiere is the ability to navigate to specific spots in a video (remember SMTPE) and we are not locked into linear navigation (ala VCR) Videos are created around a timeline – a sequence, showing the asset for x seconds, then another asset for y seconds etc. Assets include video, images, animations, etc.

Preparing to work in Premiere Premiere works in Projects – External folders that hold all of your assets for a video that you combine through the link created between Premiere and the folder Prior to starting ANYTHING in Premiere – Set up how you want your project organized Suggest having a main project folder, then a folder for video clips, a folder for images and a folder for audio The Premiere file (.prproj) will be stored in the main folder

Preparing to work in Premiere Open Premiere – You should be faced with the Start pop- up window If not, go to File > New > Project Select New Project A New Window Pops up asking you to set your project up

Preparing to work in Premiere Important areas to edit/pay attention: Name: The name of your project, what you are saving it as, etc. Make sure this is descriptive Location: Where you want Premiere to save the project file and where it will be referencing when you begin to edit Make this the folder created to hold your project assets! Click OK

Premiere Interface Source Preview Progress Preview Toolbar Project Folder Timeline Panel Premiere Interface

Saving the Project As you work in Premiere, it is encouraged to save your project often To do this, go to File > Save If you correctly set up your location for the .prproj file when creating a new project, it will save over the current copy of the project. Save Often! Save Locally! Don’t forget that when working on the local machine in the lab, to make sure you move your project folder to your storage location (i.e. network drive, external drive, etc.)

Organizing Assets in Premiere Once you have a project set up, you will want to begin to link to your assets you would like to work with These will be displayed and organized in the Project Panel Again, you are linking to the assets, you are not actually placing them into the .prproj file! Double-Click in the Project Panel and it will open and allow you to import selected items

Organizing Assets in Premiere By default, Premiere will place each item in the folder to be displayed and does not carry over the back-end organization you have created in your working folder Next to the Post-It Note icon, you can create Bins within Premiere to organize your Project content

Warning – Take home your source videos! Your source videos are NOT saved in Premiere If you forget to copy your source videos to your hard drive – or if the drive letter changes – you get this dialog If you do, either hit “Locate” to find the first video (all others should auto-locate, if they were in same folder) or cancel and work on it when you retrieve your files! You won’t be able to see or render “Offline” media

Time Codes Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Used to specify a specific point in the video. Format: HH:MM:SS:FF Interpret as Hour, Minute, Second, Frame Example: 01:10:10:24 So, the above means: One hour, 10 minutes, 10 seconds, 24th frame

NTSC First standards Established by the NTSC (National Television Standards Committee…,there are other standards (for digital TV, for example, but for this class: NTSC)

Frames Video: 30 fps Film: 24 fps Persistence of vision 6 duplicate frames Persistence of vision Image stays on the retina for brief period of time