“I AM A MASTER ADOBE PREMIER PRO USER!” is a capitalised cry-out you will not hear from me until perhaps after an intensive short course, much crying, practice, and that which makes it perfect. As a media student, your alphabet starts with A = Adobe Premier Pro, B = B-roll footage, and C = crying, and so forth. It used to be F = Final Cut Pro but upon my commencement last year in this Bachelor strand, they have now transitioned to the creative cracker that is Adobe Premier Pro.
The number of times I’ve used Premier Pro is less than the phalanges on my one hand. So if you’d like to shout out, “Novice,” why yes, that I very much am. I have also been doing many things wrong or well, inefficient as opposed to what is.
Here comes Jeremy Bowtell, a real pro in this area. Some tips he gave were:
- Name it
- Locate it
- Scratch Disks: Get a Premier Scratch Disk
- Window: workspace (choose one comfortable for you) – Editing is the usual one
- Create a sequence, NEW ITEM – Sequence – Sequence Name
- Re-name some clips
- Organise Folders/ Scenes
- Change Sequence Settings to match clip’s settings: Change Sequence
- Shortcuts:
Input -I, Output -O, Blade – B, T – Track select forward tool - Edit using source window
- What does this, 00:00:00:00, MEAN?
He explains, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Frames - Slip Tool – changes input and output
- When adding TITLES:
Title, Safe, Action Safe line – don’t put titles out of the title safe line (duhh) - Colour Grade: Fast Colour Corrector, White Balance > colour pick where white is
He tried to help me out with some plug-ins as well, various effects that I could use for Premiere but they were outdated so we both gave up on that. Best part: he wanted to know how plug-ins worked so in a way, we both learned something new together! (even though it really didn’t work in the end. Whatever.)
In any case, thanks heaps, Jeremy!