Last week, Carey Dissmore presented a seminar on how to edit a demo reel in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Carey covered a lot of useful and interesting material, both in the main presentation and in the question-and-answer segment at the end. Because Carey has spent a lot of his career using Final Cut Pro, much of his presentation focused on how he is making the transition to Premiere Pro and what similarities and differences are between the two applications. I recommend that anyone who uses (or wants to use) a non-linear editor check out the recording.
For more information about making the transition from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro (including a limited-time offer to save 50% off the price of Premiere Pro or Production Premium), see this page.
I should also point out that Carey will be doing a hands-on, interactive workshop on this same topic at the motion conference in October.
Here’s a brief outline of what Carey talked about, as well as some links to more information about each subject:
introduction, setup, and importing
- basics of what makes a good demo reel and why you create one
- creating a new project and choosing project settings
- choosing a renderer, and an introduction to CUDA and the Mercury Playback Engine
- creating a new sequence and choosing sequence settings
- preferences, including UI brightness
- customizing keyboard shortcuts
- importing footage with the Media Browser
basic editing
- basic trimming
- insert and overwrite edits
- three-point edits, four-point edits, and fit to fill
- applying transitions
- ripple and rolling edits
- using the Razor tool (like Blade tool in Final Cut Pro)
- snapping
- rate stretch and changing speed and duration of clips
- slip and slide edits
- using the Pen tool for audio fades
- color correction
interchange with After Effects
- Warp Stabilizer
- Dynamic Link
- copy & paste between After Effects and Premiere Pro
- other integration between After Effects and Premiere Pro
interchange with Final Cut Pro 7 and exporting
- importing a Final Cut Pro XML project into Premiere Pro
- exporting a Final Cut Pro XML file from Premiere Pro
- Encore, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc export
- export to Vimeo
- Adobe Media Encoder
miscellaneous questions and answers
- equivalent to Widescreen effect in Final Cut Pro: Crop effect, color matte, and effect presets
- importance of transition handles
- changing sequence settings
- creating a sequence that matches footage
- Cross-Dissolve versus Film Dissolve
- performing insert and overwrite edits by dragging from Source to Program panel
- CUDA cards
- XML exchange with Davinci Resolve
- importance of brevity and music in motion graphics demo reel
- customizing keyboard shortcuts
- working with ProRes footage (and advanced options)
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