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Adobe Premiere Pro CC Startup Guide Adobe Premiere Pro CC Startup Guide Page 1 of 8 FVNMA Tech Office McLean Center Rm. 1320 Before opening Premiere pro Edit on an External Harddrive Editing on an external hard drive is highly recommended by the FVNMA Dept. Firstly, having your media files on a separate drive relieves your system drive from running OSX, Premiere Pro, in addition to reading and writing media. Work with your media on an external drive whenever possible. G-Drives and Lacie drives with Thunderbolt & USB3.0 come highly recommended. Drives with an external power source are preferred as opposed to a bus- powered drive, as they tend to be more reliable. I stress that if you are utilizing a 4K or a RAW HD workflow, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 are required for smooth playback. Memory Particularly when working with 4K/UHD footage, max out your system’s memory. HD footage runs at 50 MB/ Second and 4k data rates can go up to 200MB/Second. PPro will run smoother and playback more responsive in systems with more memory. Media Management Premiere Pro is a non-destructive editing system, meaning that it will never divide, cut, or move your media files without you doing so. What Premiere Pro will do is reference your media files from where ever they are on your computer, thus especially working in and around SAIC, it is important to have a good understanding how Premiere Pro references your media. This understanding, mixed with good practice, will smooth out a better framework for you, allowing you to do what is most important, Edit. Maintaining a good project folder Firstly it is important to keep all of your media organized in a Project Folder which is on an External Harddrive. I keep all of my media separated into folders: Video Footage by Day & Scene, Titles from AfterEffects, Sync Audio files, BG Sound & Music, and I keep an Exports folder for Renders. Why this is important: When importing footage into Premiere Pro it will recreate the folder scheme you’ve used in Finder, saving you the hassle of organizing the footage in Premiere, and it’s way easier too. And during the course of post-production, you’re bound to want to add new files to your project, replacement audio, new music, titles. It’s always good to have a place to put them in your project folder, so that when moving between computers, or labs, you’ll have a good understanding of where things are. Another benefit is that if you ever decide to backup your project, or upgrade your harddrive, everything is in one place.

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Before opening Premiere proEdit on an External Harddrive

Editing on an external hard drive is highly recommended by the FVNMA Dept. Firstly, having your media fi les on a separate drive relieves your system drive from running OSX, Premiere Pro, in addition to reading and writing media. Work with your media on an external drive whenever possible. G-Drives and Lacie drives with Thunderbolt & USB3.0 come highly recommended. Drives with an external power source are preferred as opposed to a bus-powered drive, as they tend to be more reliable. I stress that if you are utilizing a 4K or a RAW HD workfl ow, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 are required for smooth playback.

MemoryParticularly when working with 4K/UHD footage, max out your system’s memory. HD footage runs at 50 MB/Second and 4k data rates can go up to 200MB/Second. PPro will run smoother and playback more responsive in systems with more memory.

Media ManagementPremiere Pro is a non-destructive editing system, meaning that it will never divide, cut, or move your media fi les without you doing so. What Premiere Pro will do is reference your media fi les from where ever they are on your computer, thus especially working in and around SAIC, it is important to have a good understanding how Premiere Pro references your media. This understanding, mixed with good practice, will smooth out a better framework for you, allowing you to do what is most important, Edit.

Maintaining a good project folderFirstly it is important to keep all of your media organized in a Project Folder which is on an External Harddrive. I keep all of my media separated into folders: Video Footage by Day & Scene, Titles from AfterEff ects, Sync Audio fi les, BG Sound & Music, and I keep an Exports folder for Renders. Why this is important: When importing footage into Premiere Pro it will recreate the folder scheme you’ve used in Finder, saving you the hassle of organizing the footage in Premiere, and it’s way easier too. And during the course of post-production, you’re bound to want to add new fi les to your project, replacement audio, new music, titles. It’s always good to have a place to put them in your project folder, so that when moving between computers, or labs, you’ll have a good understanding of where things are. Another benefi t is that if you ever decide to backup your project, or upgrade your harddrive, everything is in one place.

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Starting a ProjectCreating your project

Open the New Project dialogue by selecting File>New>Project or by hitting Option + Command + NThe General tab is where you name your project and specify its project folder. Here you can see I named my Project: DJ Krush and is within a ‘DJ Krush’Folder on an External Drive. This is the same folder where my Footage is.

The remaining settings are dependant on your systemRenderer: The available renderer is dependant on the graphics card in your system with an NVIDIA brand graphics card you may have more option such as OpenCL and/or CUDA for enabled systems. The hierarchy for renderers from fastest to slowest are CUDA>Open CL>Software Only. Video Display Format: Timecode is customary for a digital production, You only need to use Feet and/ord Frames if you are editing in Premiere and exporting an EDL(Edit Decision List) to recut your fi lm workprint.Audio Display Format: Set to Audio Samples

Scratch DisksBy default it should be set to Set to Same as Project as this is ideal for most productions. This is only important if you are capturing tape using an HDV/DV Deck. It is good practice to double check these settings while starting a project. Most of your project settings can be changed after creating it. This does not include Project Title and Project Folder.

Once you hit OK, your project will be created, saved into the specifi ed folder and Premiere Pro will open.

TerminologyBin: Simply a folder in Premiere. It is a legacy term from fi lm editing, where fi lm was stored in a literal plastic or metal bin. Clip: a Media File, either video or audioScratch Disk: A drive & folder where captured media(typically from a HDV/DV tape deck) will be recorded & saved to.

Sequence: A Sequence in Premiere Pro is a graphical representation of all of your edit decisions.Titles: Text of any kind applied on top of videoTrack: A layer within a sequence. There are two types of tracks, Video and Audio Tracks

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sourcemonitor

ProjectWindow

Programmonitor

TimelinesTools

Audio meters

workspaces

InterfaceWorkspaces

The workspaces are simply diff erent iterations of the interface for Premiere Pro. Selecting between them will change the layout of the windows and monitors for diff erent uses. The most commonly used one is Editing, and is shown here. It is also known as a “Two-Up” layout.

Project WindowProject: (Project title)This is where your footage, audio, and other media ‘live’ in Premiere, and where to manage it. Changes you make in the Project Window will not refl ect in Finder, ex: renaming a clip in Premiere will not rename the fi le in Finder, nor will moving it from a bin move it to a folder in Premiere. Note that along the top of the panel are tabs, and this is where a number of other windows are in this area. We will only discuss the ones most useful.

Media Browser: Think of this as a fi nder window in Premiere, where you can navigate through your computer and drives. You can open media fi les from the Media Browser to the Source Monitor, but in order to use them in a sequence, it must be imported into the Project Window.

Eff ectsThis is where Audio Eff ects, Video Eff ects, Transitions, and Presets are found.

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Source MonitorDouble clicking on any media from the Project Window, Media Browser or within a Sequence/Timeline will open it within the source monitor. Think of this window to preview footage and make selections from to put into a sequence.

TimelineThe Timeline Window is a graphical display of your Sequence. Each open sequence gets its own tab in the Timeline Window. Video Tracks are stacked above the midline and Audio Tracks are stacked below the mid-line. Think of Video Tracks as layers in that the top most track will be viewed “on top” of the track below it. For example, a Title(Text) would be placed on Track 2, directly above Track 1. In the Program Monitor, The title would display on top of the Clips on Track 1.

Program MonitorThe Program Monitor is similar to the source monitor in that it displays footage, except that the Program Monitor displays only what is under the playhead of the Timeline. Think of this Monitor as a way to review your edit in progress.

Importing FootageDouble click in the project folder to pull up the import dialogue. You can import an entire folder of media, and if you have subfolders, Premiere Pro will automatically create the bins for you. If you use the Media Browser to navigate to media, you can use the context menu(right click) to import media and folders into Premiere Pro. Another method is to drag and drop media and/or folders from Finder into the Project Window.

Creating SequencesYour sequence settings should match the footage you’ve shot on. This will reduce or eliminate Premiere’s need to render your footage for smooth playback. You can have as many sequences as you need, i use one for Assembly, Editing, & SyncingMultiple Sources: If you are mixing footage from diff erent sources(ex. Mixing 1080p and 720p sources) match the sequence to the dominant(most prevalent source) to reduce render times. Note that it is possible to change the sequence settings after creating a sequence. Also, if there is a disparity between the sequence and the fi rst piece of media you put onto the sequence, Premiere Pro can conform the sequence to your footage.

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Useful Keyboard Shortcuts` (Tilde)

SI

O, (Comma)

. (Period)J

Space, KL-=

CMD + -CMD + =

Left/RightUp/Down

F

Panel FullscreenSnapping On/Off Set In PointSet Out PointInsertOverwriteReverse / Slow down PlaybackPlay/PauseFast Forward / Speed up PlaybackZooms Out of TimelineZooms In to TimelineDecreases Track HeightIncreases Track HeightPrevious/Next FramePrevious/Next Edit PointMatch Frame

editingThe 3 Point EditThis is the industry standard, can do in every program, universally accepted, and fastest way of getting selections of footage from your project window and into a sequence. 1. Double click on footage in Project2. Use J, K, & L keys to ‘scrub through footage.3. Find your IN Point: where you want your clip to

begin. Hit the ‘I’ Key to set your In Point.4. Scrub to your OUT point and hit the ‘O’ key to set

the Out Point Your Out point cannot be before the In Point!

5. Hit the Comma or Period to Insert or Overwrite the footage into the Sequence.

6. The edit will insert or overwrite your selection and start it at where ever the playhead is on the Sequence

IN POINT

INSERT

OVERWRITE

OUT POINTShown above is the bottom of the source monitor, you can see we’ve made In and Out points. Using Insert or Overwrite will put that footage at the Sequence playhead here.

Insert vs. OverwriteUsing an Insert will move footage forward on the sequence to make space for the edit. Overwrite will edit on top of any footage.

FOOTAGE IS PUSHED

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Syncing Footage from multiple sourcesmultiple audio sources: Synchronizing by Audio Waveforms

The past few years have seen a resurgence in dual system shooting, that is: shooting with a Camera for picture and a separate Audio Recorder for sync sound & dialogue. Here we’ll show you how to sync the footage from a Canon 7D(with in-camera audio) with .wav fi les from a Zoom h4N. 1. Create a sequence entitled ‘Sync’2. Place one clip with its corresponding audio in the

timeline. Here you can see we have a slated clip with it’s audio pair and two stereo pairs below it.

3. Select all the footage in the timeline and select, Synchronize. The synchronize window will pop up.

4. Select the Audio Radio Button, and under Track Channel select Mix Down

5. Hit OKAY and the audio and video will shift in the timeline, to where the audio matches. This works best with slated footage.

6. Once they are in sync, right click on both your video and audio tracks and select MERGE which will create a new merged clip in your project folder. Merging the clips will keep the audio and video in-sync and will treat it as one clip(in this case: one video track paired with 3 stereo pairs).

7. I highly suggest adding a suffi x to your clip names to stay organized, I also keep my merged clips in a SYNC Footage Folder.

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Syncing Footage from multiple sourcesMultiple Video Sources: Multicam Editing

Multicam is a form of editing that can simplify and speed up the process of editing between multiple cameras used on the same shoot. Think of it as a method of real-time click & switch editing, similar to broadcast switching without a live camera feed. This section here was produced with footage from 2 Canon DSLR cameras each with on-board audio. 1. Highlight clips in project window, in the context menu(right click) select:

Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence2. In the create source dialogue, set the Synchronize Point to Audio, and

set the Track Channel to Mixdown. Once you select OK, Premiere Pro will process your footage, and create multicam sequences for matching footage it fi nds.v

Note: PPro will move your footage into a folder entitled ‘Processed Clips’. If you are forcing a sync(footage from sources that do not have sync’d audio) make selections in your clips with In & Out points and use In-Points)

3. Once complete, notice that you will have a number of multicam sources in your project folder, they will be labelled multicam and with an icon highlighted here in Red.

4. Now that you have a multicam source, select it and in the context menu(right click), select Create Sequence from Clip. This creates a sequence where your multicam edits will be recorded.

5. To view the multicam feed in the Project Monitor, select the wrench icon located to the lower right hand corner of the Monitor and change the view mode from Composite Video to Multicam. Your program monitor should look like this:To enable the recording of your edits: add the Record Button(a Red Circle) with the + Icon below the Program Monitor Timeline

6. With Multicamera Record Enabled: Now you can playback and watch multiple video feeds playback in-sync. The feed highlighted in Yellow is playing back from previously recorded multicam edits, Red highlighted feeds are edits being written.

7. Once playback is stopped, Premiere Pro will display your selections and create edits in the timeline.

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Basic exportingExporting out of Adobe Premiere

1. First set an In and Out point on your sequence. This isn’t exactly necessary but it is good practice, to avoid exporting sections of your sequence that aren’t a part of your edit.

2. Go to File>Export>Media This will open up the export dialogue, and use these suggested settings below. Remember that exporting is relative to your project and the medium you’re exporting for.

Exception: DVD is standard defi nition so resolution will diff er greatly.

Exporting for Web(Youtube, Vimeo) Format: H.264Preset: Both Vimeo and Youtube have a number of Presets. Choose the one that best fi ts your project. A typical DSLR Shoot will be: 1080p HD or 720p HDThis preset will automatically conform to the Source Setting, if not select Match Source under Basic Video SettingsNote: Also useful for in-class playback. Also, Vimeo only uses 720p for Free Users.

Exporting for DVDFormat: MPEG-2 DVDPreset: NTSC DV Wide Progressive 23.976 or NTSC DV Wide Progressive (29.976) which ever matches your Source

Exporting for Blu-RayFormat: H.264 Blu-RayPreset: HD 1080p 23.976 OR HD 1080i 29.97 which ever matches your Source

Exporting for Archive(Lossless)Format: QuicktimeVideo Tab>Codec: Apple ProRes 4444under Basic Video Settings, select Match Sourcecheck Use Maximum Render Quality

Format

Preset

Filename: Click to change Name and Destination PathDefaults to Project Folder & Sequence Name