MediaStorm Guide to Creating Smart Quotes in Premiere Pro’s Title Tool

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. I've noticed that Premiere Pro’s title tool (Command-T) does not automatically convert quotation mark to smart quotes, sometimes called curly quotes. By default quotation marks look like this: To create smart quotes on a Mac simply use the keystroke Option-[ (Option-Open Bracket) for an open smart quote and Option-Shift-[ (Option-Shift-Open Bracket) for a closed smart quote. Much nicer.

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MediaStorm Guide to Changing File Names with Automator

Sometimes when organizing assets you may want to add a word or two to a group of files. Fortunately, you don’t need to do this manually as OS X provides powerful built-in automation tools.

In the Applications folder, open Automator.

When you open Automator, you’ll be presented with several options. Double-click Service.

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MediaStorm Guide to Keyboard Customization in Adobe Premiere Pro

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. One of the keys to getting up to speed on any editing application is to know your shortcuts. In Adobe Premiere, these are available in the Premiere Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts... menu. At the top of the window, you’ll see a pull-down menu labeled Keyboard Layout Preset. By default this is set to Adobe Premiere Pro CS 6.0. These are Adobe’s built-in shortcuts. If you’d prefer to use the more familiar Final Cut Pro 7 shortcuts, choose the Final Cut Pro 7.0 option from the pull-down menu. After some debate, we’ve decided at MediaStorm to use the default Adobe…

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MediaStorm Guide to Making Quick Selects on the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post is the second of two posts on navigating the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline, written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. I spend much of the time in Premiere Pro making selects. Knowing just a few shortcut keys makes the process much faster. As in Final Cut Pro, J, K, L, are your transport tools. J shuttles your timeline playhead backward. K is stop. And L is forward. To begin, place clips from a single day or scene onto one timeline. Add the suffix RAW to your sequence to indicate that the timeline contains all media from a particular day. Then, press the Spacebar or the L key…

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