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MediaStorm Guide to Enhancing Adobe Premiere Pro’s Auto-save Functionality

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:December 3, 2012

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. Like Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro offers an auto-save vault. The functionality is similar. Premiere incrementally saves a backup of your project at a user-specified interval. To customize this feature on your Mac choose the menu Premiere Pro > Preferences > Auto Save. There are three options in this menu: A checkbox to enable the feature, plus two options boxes. One tells Premiere how often to backup and the other designates the maximum number of versions that will be saved before the application begins to delete the oldest ones. I like to save every 10 minutes. That’s about as…

MediaStorm Guide to Keyboard Customization in Adobe Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:November 29, 2012

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…

MediaStorm Guide to Fundamentals of the Premiere Pro Project Bin

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:November 26, 2012

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. The Adobe Premiere Pro Project Panel behaves much like the Browser in Final Cut Pro. Its basic function is to store and organize the assets used in your project. Still, there are two key, significant differences. Unlike FCP, if you drag a file from the Finder directly into your timeline, Premiere Pro will automatically add a reference to this asset in the Project Panel. Therefore, if an asset exists in a timeline then it will also exist in the Project Panel, whether you put it there or Premiere does. The more significant difference, however, is the way Premiere Pro…

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

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:November 19, 2012

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…

MediaStorm Guide to Navigating the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:November 14, 2012

This is the first 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 first of two posts on navigating the