Adobe Premier help sheet

A. Taking footage off SD cardB. Where to save your filesC. How to set up a Premier projectD. Basic tools and effectsZoom

Pointer

Split clips

Video transitions

Rendering

Video effects

Effect controls

Titles & text

A. Taking footage off SD card1 2

3 4

B. Where to save your filesFIRST THING TO ALWAYS DO

ORGANISE & NAME your files & folders straight away or your project will take twice as long.

Please see Media technician if you need to convert your footage to MP4 (your footage will change to an audio file with a speaker symbol when you put it into Premier)

Footage needs to be saved in TWO LOCATIONS your N-DRIVE and your D-DRIVE.

N-DRIVE

(this is the school’s network – backed up)

D-DRIVE

(on your computer in room 25, ensures machine runs faster as not relying on network)

You will find these on your computer in here

C. How to set up a Premier project1 New project

2 Remember to save Adobe Premier Project file and footage to N-drive

3 Change all of the Scratch disks to D-drive

4 Cancel sequence settings (we will create this later)

5 Select footage from your D-drive ready to import

6 Drag films into here (film specifications are shown at the top)

7 Drag film clip onto ‘Sequence symbol’ this automatically matches film and sequence settings

8 Film is on the time line, sequence is set up

D. Basic tools and effects

ZOOM bar allows you to enlarge your timeline for editing in detail

POINTER allows you to manoeuvre and re-order your film clips

CUTTING TOOL allows you to split clips for transitions

VIDEO TRANSITIONS are in EFFECTS tab (eg Cross dissolve)

Drag transition onto film clip split

Transitions and effects will need rendering

A RED BAR will show when this needs to happen

REMEMBER TO KEEP ON TOP OF YOUR RENDERING!

Choose RENDER ENTIRE WORK AREA in SEQUENCE TAB

GREEN BAR shows rendering is completed

VIDEO EFFECTS are in EFFECTS tab (eg Black & White)

Drag and drop like with transitions

More VIDEO EFFECTS…(eg Brightness & contrast)

Editing these effects can be found in the EFFECT CONTROLS tab

Putting TEXT and TITLES into your footage

Select NEW TTILE in TITLES tab

You can change the size, style, colour and position of text

Click on the CROSS IN THE CORNER when finished

TITLE is created here with your film clips along with its specifications

You need to drop your title into the TIMELINE, like a film clip