Read more about the article MediaStorm Announces Post-production Workflow for Premiere Pro

MediaStorm Announces Post-production Workflow for Premiere Pro

Here it is: a year-and-a-half after our big switch from Final Cut 7 to Premiere Pro, we are proud to announce the release of MediaStorm’s Post-production Workflow for Adobe Premiere Pro. In more than 150 steps, you’ll learn to organize and edit your projects with the same proven efficiency we’ve used time and again–we focus on organizing first so that creativity is not hampered once editing begins. This workflow is a complete guide to working in Premiere Pro: from importing material through final output and archiving. The underlying principal of the MediaStorm process is elimination. Whether it be pictures, interviews or b-roll, our guiding rationale is to save the good stuff and take away the rest. These steps emphasize the importance of making a copy of your work at each stage so that should you need to access previously discarded material, you have a clear and quick path back to needed material.…

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Photojournalist Kitra Cahana Defends A Different Kind of Freedom at TED

In her recent TED talk, photojournalist Kitra Cahana shares the stories of the nomadic, homeless youth she roamed the United States with for months. Tracing her attraction to vagabonds to a bag she packed to run away as a child, Cahana draws parallels between the alternative lifestyle of nomads and the need we all have to escape the confines of everyday life. "Many of you might be wondering why anyone would choose a life like this," she says. "Under the thumb of discriminatory laws, eating out of trash cans, sleeping under bridges, picking up seasonal jobs here and there. The answer to such a question is as varied as the people that take to the road, but travelers often respond with a single word: freedom." Her five minute talk shares images and arguments for the validity of taking the open road less traveled. Learn more about Kitra's intimate approach to photography that…

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Read more about the article MediaStorm Guide to Auto Saving Premiere Backups to the Cloud

MediaStorm Guide to Auto Saving Premiere Backups to the Cloud

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.

When it comes to backups, you can never have enough.

Fortunately, Premiere Pro’s Auto Save vault (File > Project Settings > Scratch Disks…) allows you to backup your project file at user-specified intervals.

I’ve written previously about how to enhance this functionality with Noodlesoft’s $25 Hazel. Hazel essentially watches your vault for updated versions and then copies them to a secondary destination of your choice, all automated and in real time.

The reason for this added protection is that even if you backup your work every evening, what happens if your drive dies in the middle of the afternoon? You could potentially lose hours of work.

With the advent of  Premiere Pro CC, Adobe now offers users 20GB of free online storage. This makes for another great location to store automated backups. With the assistance of Hazel, you can think of this storage as an Auto Save vault in the cloud.

Setting Up Creative Cloud

To set up your online storage, log in to creative.adobe.com, select Download Center on the menu bar and choose the Creative Cloud application.

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