Last week, Richard Harrington presented a seminar on mastering the Timeline panel and related features in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Richard covered a lot of useful and interesting material, both in the main presentation and in the question-and-answer segment at the end.
Here’s a brief outline of what Richard talked about, as well as some links to more information about each subject:
recommended resources and contact information
- Rich’s blog
- Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro, Rich’s excellent book with Robbie Carman and Jeff Greenberg
- bug-report/feature-request form
- how to keep up with Premiere Pro and communicate with the Adobe Premiere Pro team
- resources for learning Premiere Pro
getting started and configuring the user interface
- creating a sequence and working with sequence presets
- RED (R3D) camera support
- file formats that can be imported and used natively (without transcoding)
- Maximum Bit Depth and Maximum Render Quality settings
- rendering preview files
- audio track types
- maximizing a panel to fill the entire screen
- resizing tracks
- modifying keyboard shortcuts
- using Final Cut Pro and Avid keyboard shortcuts
- adding keyboard shortcuts for targeting tracks
- scrolling and zooming in the Timeline panel
basic editing
- synchronizing and linking clips
- merging clips
- adding markers
- playing/previewing with J, K, and L keys
- setting In point and Out point with I and O keys
- track patching
- using comma (,) and period (.) keys to perform insert and overwrite edits
- showing audio waveform
- showing audio time units (samples)
- changing sequence start time
- assembling a rough cut with Automate To Sequence
- changing the default transition
- changing speed for clips, including time-remapping
- finding and going to gaps between clips
- closing/deleting gaps between clips
- enabling and disabling individual clips
- rearranging clips using Lift, Extract, Copy, Paste, and various dragging operations
- trimming
- Dynamic Link with After Effects
audio
miscellaneous questions and answers
- WMV files on Mac OS
- sequence settings when using assets of mixed framerates
- CUDA and the Mercury Playback Engine
- native format support, meaning no need to transcode
- optimizing for performance (making working with Premiere Pro faster)
- exchanging information between Premiere Pro and After Effects
- using Adobe Audition with Premiere Pro
- working with Premiere Pro and other applications together
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