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. Two weeks ago Adobe released Creative Cloud 2015. And while Premiere Pro promises lots of new features, we at MediaStorm are always a bit gun shy about upgrading immediately, particularly when in the middle of a project. But if you can’t wait to dive in, here’s how to do it safely so that the new install does not overwrite your previous version. This way you can always revert back in case you find CC 2015 not to your liking. Click the Creative Cloud menu bar, then select the software that you’d like to install. You’ll be presented with a new update window. The key here is to uncheck…

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. A reader who is new to Premiere Pro writes, “OK, I cry uncle. I can’t for the life of me come up with an efficient way to use the keyboard to select the end or beginning of a clip. How do you do it? Do you use the mouse?” Turns out that selecting edit points with just the keyboard is simple. Just press the T key and Premiere Pro will select the edit points closest to your playhead. Here’s the trick though: Premiere Pro will only select the tracks that are highlighted in the left column. In the example below, pressing T selects only the edit point for…

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. Sharing sequences between team members is easy with the latest version of Premiere Pro CC. As often happens during our workshops, a participant will cut a sequence using her laptop. We’ll then need to import that work into the main project on a second computer. Here’s how we do it: In the Media Browser window (Shift–8), navigate to the project file that contains the sequence you’d like to import. Double-click the file and you’ll see all of the sequences and media available in that project. To import, simply drag the relevant sequence from the Media Browser to the Project window. A couple of caveats: first, make sure that…