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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Kalish Workshop 2013 Dates Announced

The Kalish Workshop will be holding its next workshop June 16-21, 2013 in Muncie, Indiana. This five-day storytelling workshop is taught by Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning editors including: Brian Storm, Geri Migielicz, Sue Morrow, Kenny Irby, Mark Edelson, Randall Greenwell and Scott Sines. Additional leaders in visual storytelling also join during the week. Attending workshop participants receive a discount for MediaStorm Online Training. The Kalish Workshop The Kalish Workshop is an inspirational and intense five-day experience in editing visual storytelling. It is designed to benefit anyone who touches photography with a narrative storyline for online and print. It is a hands-on, collaborative learning environment with daily in-depth discussions and exercises about the best practices to edit, produce and publish successful multimedia and interactive stories. Most faculty attend every session and are accessible to participants (AKA Kalish Kampers) the entire week, making the workshop unique and rewarding in a casual environment. The…

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MediaStorm Welcomes Spring Interns Josh Davis and Jon Kasbe

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MediaStorm is excited to welcome Josh Davis and Jon Kasbe to our team as Spring 2013 interns. Joshua Davis is an award-winning multimedia journalist and documentary videomaker. He recently earned his master's degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he produced his multimedia thesis, The Undocumentary, about the immigrant rights movement. The project received multiple honors in the 67th College Photographer of the Year Awards, and it was recognized in the 2012 FotoWeekDC International Awards Competition. Last summer, Joshua served as the managing editor of 100 Gallons, a 2012 special report about water for Powering A Nation. Joshua previously freelanced in New York and Washington, D.C., where he worked on projects for PBS Frontline, RollingStone.com, The New York Times, Arte, the Travel Channel, and nonprofit organizations. He has served as adjunct faculty at New York University, coached the 2012 Carolina Photojournalism Workshop and taught courses as an Apple Certified Final Cut Pro editing instructor.…

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MediaStorm Guide to Fundamentals of the Premiere Pro Project Bin

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…

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Transom Now Accepting Applications for 2013 Spring Workshop

Transom has just released the application for its two-month intensive workshop to be held in April and May 2013. The lead instructor for this workshop will be Rob Rosenthal, along with Sarah Reynolds, the Transom Team, and special guests including Sean Cole and many others. Deadline to apply is January 4th. The Transom Story Workshop The Transom Story Workshop is an eight-week, full time training workshop for beginning radio producers. The Spring 2013 session will take place in Woods Hole, MA from April 1 through May 24, 2013. Cost is $6,500 and includes a license to Hindenburg Journalist, an audio editing software. Participants will also receive a free one-year account with the Public Radio Exchange. Full details about the workshop and registration are available on the Transom website. About the Instructors Rob Rosenthal will be the lead teacher at the Workshop. Rob is an independent producer and an experienced teacher. Most notably,…

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