MediaStorm Guide to Exporting from the Premiere Pro Project Window

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.


In earlier versions of Premiere Pro, it was necessary to put media onto a timeline before exporting.

The latest update to the program, Premiere Pro 2014, changes this, making it easy to export any asset or even an entire sequence straight from the Project window.

Here’s how:

In the Project window, simply select a clip or sequence. Then, right-click and choose Export Media… at the bottom of the menu.

 

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Attend CUNY’s Reinventing TV Conference

The future of visual journalism is up for discussion at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Come and see what more than a dozen TV and video news innovators -- including representatives from VICE News, Twitter TV, NPR and more -- think will show up next on your TVs, desktops, phones and iWatches. Register now for the free event on September 19th, 2014. The event will also live stream on the CUNY Journalism website. For more information visit Reinventing TV News. Do you have an idea for reinventing TV or video news? Post it here for a chance to win $1,000 and make your pitch to the Sept. 19 audience of media leaders.

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July 2014 MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop Staff & Participants

MediaStorm 2015 Workshop Dates Announced

July 2014 MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop Staff & Participants

2015 marks our eighth training year at MediaStorm. Each year our workshops attract leading industry professionals looking to advance their multimedia and storytelling skills. Over 100 participants have come through our professional workshops and we continue to be humbled by how much they take away from the experience.

Meredith Birkett, Senior Multimedia Editor at NBCNews.com, told us that our Methodology Workshop was “a creativity adrenaline shot for doing storytelling at the highest level and for the right reasons.”

After taking our Storytelling Workshop, Claire Molloy, a freelance documentary filmmaker and editor, had the following to say, “I was in awe by the detail and thought MediaStorm has put into their stories. During the workshop they broke down their methods and process. The team not only discussed their achievements but their failures as well. Showing us you learn a lot from your mistakes. This is a company that truly loves to teach and wants everyone to improve.”

In 2015 we’ll be offering three Methodology, two Storytelling, and six One-day workshops at our studio in Brooklyn, NY. We are looking forward to another exciting, innovative and challenging training year. We hope you’ll be able to join us.

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MediaStorm Welcomes Interactive Designer and Developer David Kofahl

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MediaStorm is excited to announce that summer intern David Kofahl will permanently join our staff as an Interactive Designer and Developer. David is a designer and programmer, who explores the intersection of technology and storytelling. Since joining the MediaStorm team in May, he has supported the web development team in revamping the MediaStorm Storytelling Platform. For the past two years he has collaborated on America Recycled, an interactive documentary that traces unique and radical communities across the Southern United States. He is currently developing the web application for the film. In 2009 he founded Studio Syndicate, a web firm focused on building digital interfaces for non-profit organizations. His work often extends beyond developing websites and includes designing print materials, writing grants, and consulting. He earned a bachelors degree in Political Science at the University of Florida.  

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Photo by Mary F. Calvert

Congratulations to the 2014 Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant Recipient

Today the Alexia Foundation announced the recipient of the 2014 Alexia Foundation Women's Initiative Grant: Mary F. Calvert, an independent photojournalist based in the United States. Calvert will receive the $25,000 grant for her project, "Missing in Action: Homeless Female Veterans." Her work will focus on the Los Angeles region, where the largest concentration of homeless veterans live. She will examine the painfully slow response to this crisis by the beleaguered U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs as well as the organizations that attempt to help these women. Calvert's aim is to put a human face on this neglected crisis by making compelling photographs of the women affected and allowing them to tell their stories in their own voices. For more information on Calvert's project and the Alexia Foundation's mission to promote the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice visit AlexiaFoundation.org.  

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