1. THE INTERFACE, PART 1 MyGraphicsLab: Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 ACA Certification Preparation for Video Communication Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education

2. OBJECTIVE Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education This presentation covers the following ACA Exam objective: 3.1 Identify elements of the Adobe Premiere Pro interface.

3. EXPORTING: LAUNCHING PREMIERE PRO Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education When you launch Premiere Pro, you start with a panel that lets you create a new project or open an existing one. Up to five recent projects are presented as links. You can also access the online help system (although you will need access to the Internet to view it). Click New Project to create a new Premiere Pro project from scratch. See the video What Is Adobe Premiere Pro? for more information about the software and an overview of its capabilities.

4. EXPORTING: SETTING UP A NEW PROJECT Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education The New Project dialog lets you configure settings, set scratch disk destinations, and set the tape capture format. Scratch disks are the locations where media files are stored, which are typically created when recording video from tape. If you change your mind, all these settings can be updated at a later stage from within Premiere Pro. Choose a location for your new project, and click OK. See the video General Project Settings for more information about configuring a project.

5. EXPORTING: CHOOSING A SEQUENCE PRESET (1 OF 2) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education It’s important to match the settings of your sequence to the camera format of the footage. Premiere Pro has a powerful real-time playback engine that works best when the sequence matches your source media. There are many sequence presets to choose from, covering the most widely used formats. Select a preset, name your sequence, and click OK. See Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Classroom in a Book, pages 24–45, for more information about setting up projects.

6. EXPORTING: CHOOSING A SEQUENCE PRESET (2 OF 2) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education Don’t worry if you cannot see your exact video format in the preset list, because Premiere Pro can work with a wide range of digital file formats. You can customize your settings using the Settings tab to match your footage and then save these settings as a custom preset. Premiere Pro also has the ability to automatically set up new sequences to match the media you are editing, even if the preset is not in the list.

7. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (1 OF 2) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education The Premiere Pro interface consists of multiple panels. You can adjust the position and location of panels to create a custom workspace layout. Click in-between panels to drag and resize them; as you change their size, other panels resize to compensate. All the panels are dockable, and when docked, they are accessible via tabs. If you want to restore your workspace to the default settings, choose the menu item Windows > Workspace > Reset Current Workspace.

8. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (2 OF 2) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education You can select each panel by simply clicking it. The current selected panel is indicated by an orange outline. There are keyboard shortcuts to select the most used panels:  Shift+1: Project panel  Shift+2: Source Monitor  Shift+3: Timeline  Shift+4: Program Monitor  Shift+5: Effect Controls  Shift+6: Audio Mixer  Shift+7: Effects panel

9. INTERFACE: DOCKING PANELS Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education All the panels are dockable, and when docked, they are accessible via tabs. Right-click a tab name to undock it, and it becomes a floating window. You can then drag the floating window into another panel to dock it. See Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Classroom in a Book, pages 16–22, for more information about docking and organizing panels.

10. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (1 OF 6) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education Many program functions are accessed through the menu items at the top of the interface. Note the relevant keyboard shortcuts, because it’s much more efficient to use them rather than move the mouse up to the menus every time you need a certain function. Most panels also have buttons or the ability to right-click and duplicate menu functions so you don’t have to repeatedly access the menus.

11. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (2 OF 6) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education At the bottom right of the Project panel, there is a New Item button. You can use this button to create new items such as sequences and titles. To automatically create a sequence that matches your media, drag and drop any clip in the Project panel onto this New Item button. Premiere Pro then creates a new sequence with the same name as the clip and a matching frame size and frame rate, which is more accurate and efficient than choosing a preset manually.

12. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (3 OF 6) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education At the bottom left of the Project panel, there are Icon View and List View buttons, which change how the content of your project is displayed. List View is more efficient when sorting for files through multiple nested bins. Icon View shows the content of each of the video clips in the current bin. You can use the scale slider to increase the size of the icons. The tilde (~) keyboard shortcut “maximizes” the panel currently under the mouse, which is useful when viewing media.

13. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (4 OF 6) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education With Icon View selected, you can hover over your video clips and scrub through them by just moving the mouse. If you select a clip, a mini- timeline is presented, on which you can make In and Out points, and drag the mini-playhead to view different frames. The JKL and spacebar keyboard shortcuts also control playback of the mini-timelines on each selected clip. This is an extremely efficient way of working when previewing and marking up footage.

14. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (5 OF 6) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education At the top right of each panel are drop-down menus, which provide important program functions for the current panel. These are contextual and change their list of functions according to each panel. Although many of these functions are duplicated in the main menus or when right-clicking an item within the panel, they are a useful way to control and adjust interface elements and footage.

15. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL WORKSPACE ELEMENTS (6 OF 6) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education The Source Monitor and Program Monitor panels both have a set of Transport Control buttons for playback and editing. You can customize the buttons by pressing the Button Editor icon at the bottom right of each panel. You can show and hide the buttons by selecting the Show Transport Controls function using the drop-down panel menu on each panel. Hovering over a button helpfully reveals the related keyboard shortcut.

16. EXPORTING: IDENTIFY AND LABEL TOOLS IN THE TOOLS PANEL INTERFACE Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education Each icon in the panel refers to a tool with a specific function. The tools are named in order as follows: Selection Tool, Track Select Tool, Ripple Edit Tool, Rolling Edit Tool, Rate Stretch Tool, Razor Tool, Slip Tool, Slide Tool, Pen Tool, Hand Tool, Zoom Tool. Hover your mouse over each icon in Premiere Pro to reveal its keyboard shortcut. You’ll typically use the Selection tool most frequently, because it is the most versatile and changes appearance according to its current task.

17. EXPORTING: IMPORTANT PREFERENCES (1 OF 4) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education The are a number of important settings within the Preferences panel that are useful to configure and set to suit to your own workflows. Access the Preferences panel from the Premiere Pro menu (Mac) or the Edit menu (Windows). The Preferences sections don’t have keyboard shortcuts, but it’s possible to create a custom shortcut to each of the individual preference sections. See the video Important General Preferences for more information about important preferences.

18. EXPORTING: IMPORTANT PREFERENCES (2 OF 4) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education The General section contains settings that can substantially speed up your work. It’s useful to be able to change the default duration of video and audio transitions, which you can then apply to multiple clips on the timeline. Similarly, the ability to set the duration as well as the scaling style of multiple still images at the importing stage is a great time-saver. This panel is also where you can tweak interface elements to suit your own working style.

19. EXPORTING: IMPORTANT PREFERENCES (3 OF 4) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education When you are working for long periods of time in front of a screen, your eyes can get tired or more sensitive to brightness. It’s useful to have the ability to adjust the interface color to match the lighting setup to the room in which you’re working. The default brightness is a neutral gray to help you see the colors in video content correctly. If you prefer, it’s also possible to drag the slider to the right to set the interface to high contrast with black text on a light gray background.

20. EXPORTING: IMPORTANT PREFERENCES (4 OF 4) Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education Auto Save is essential for saving multiple versions of your project as you work. You can configure different time increments and the number of versions saved. Auto Save files are typically saved in a folder next to the Premiere Pro project file. Premiere Pro doesn’t actually save the current project you’re working on; rather, it saves a copy of the project. So, it’s still important to regularly save your project, either by selecting File > Export > Media or by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+S.

21. EXPORTING: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education You can adjust and customize the keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro. Access the Keyboard Shortcuts panel from the Premiere Pro menu (Mac) or the Edit menu (Windows). The shortcuts are organized into sections, which reflect functions in the menu items and individual panels. The search field is a fast way of finding a specific function to which you can then apply your own custom shortcut.

22. EXPORTING: KEYBOARD LAYOUT PRESETS Copyright © 2013 MyGraphicsLab / Pearson Education If you are moving to Premiere Pro from another editing application, Adobe has provided several Keyboard Layout Presets, which map the shortcuts to match the most important ones from Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro 7. This can be a help when you are still learning Premiere Pro but need to edit and complete projects. You can also save a series of customized shortcuts as your own individually named preset.