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

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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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.)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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)

14. 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