can anyone tell me how to use the adobe premiere pro??
can anyone tell me how to use the adobe premiere pro??
Well, what do you learn about it, there is millions of things?
Check out tutorials at the Adobe Web site, I believe you can get to them through the Adobe Design Center. Also, check out Steven Gotz's website, I believe at www.stevengotz.com. Lots of resources including tutorials.
A quick rundown: In the standard workspace; Upper left is the project manager palette. Its where your imported/captured clips and other files are located.You can drag clips from there to either the timeline or preview window.
Upper Center and Right; the Preview and program monitor windows. If you drag a clip to the preview window you can look at the footage, set in/out points, or decide whether to add just video, just audio, or both. Once you've done this you can drag the altered clip to the timeline and voi'la.
The program monitor shows you what you've actually added on the timeline. So while the preview monitor shows you one clip at a time the program monitor shows you all the assembled clips.
The timeline is where you put the clips, either sequentially or by stacking them for various effects.
Editing is non-destructive; when you 'shorten' a clip, i.e. the captured video file, your just telling the program to play only part of it, the actual file remains unaltered.
You'll find out that you can do the same things a number of different ways. This isn't to confuse you but to make the program adaptable to various styles of editing.
A quick rundown: In the standard workspace; Upper left is the project manager palette. Its where your imported/captured clips and other files are located.You can drag clips from there to either the timeline or preview window.
Upper Center and Right; the Preview and program monitor windows. If you drag a clip to the preview window you can look at the footage, set in/out points, or decide whether to add just video, just audio, or both. Once you've done this you can drag the altered clip to the timeline and voi'la.
The program monitor shows you what you've actually added on the timeline. So while the preview monitor shows you one clip at a time the program monitor shows you all the assembled clips.
The timeline is where you put the clips, either sequentially or by stacking them for various effects.
Editing is non-destructive; when you 'shorten' a clip, i.e. the captured video file, your just telling the program to play only part of it, the actual file remains unaltered.
You'll find out that you can do the same things a number of different ways. This isn't to confuse you but to make the program adaptable to various styles of editing.
Yes, I would recommend all advise given above - I'd like to point out that for people who don't deal with some complex GUIs in every day computer use Premiere may seem a bit daunting at first but it's really easy to work around once you know a bit more about it 
Try everything in it, you'll soon get the hang of it, I did. 
It really is a great program! It is pretty simple once you learn it and it has a lot of great features!
It really is a great program! It is pretty simple once you learn it and it has a lot of great features!
I've got pretty used to Premiere Pro 2 by just mucking, but at school they just have Premiere 5 or something and on a really unstable computer, so it's a pain working with that..
I agree with what's been said. Once you get used to it, it's really pretty easy to do some quite complex things.
Play with it and try things out, You'll soon get the hang of it.
Play with it and try things out, You'll soon get the hang of it.
I suggest go to tutorial websites there are a lot of them/.... one i can recommend is http://pixel2life.com great tutorial....of different softwares...
I've been looking for a way to do a split screen with adobe premiere pro but can't seem to figure it out, if someone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
Basically, I have 2 movies, I want to cut them in half, place the left piece of the first movie and the right piece of the second movie together. Is this possible?
Basically, I have 2 movies, I want to cut them in half, place the left piece of the first movie and the right piece of the second movie together. Is this possible?
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| I've been looking for a way to do a split screen with adobe premiere pro but can't seem to figure it out, if someone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
Basically, I have 2 movies, I want to cut them in half, place the left piece of the first movie and the right piece of the second movie together. Is this possible? |
One possibility is to scale both clips to half of their size horizontally and then just place them in their places, but I don't know if that is what you want...
Not exactly, if I scale them then I still have the complete videos, I don't want the size to change, I want pieces of each video joined together into one. I decided to draw a pic to make it more obvious what I want:
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