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Making Your Mark in Adobe Premiere Pro

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essentialeditmarksAs you work in the timeline or source window, you’ll come to rely upon In and Out points to accurately edit. These two points can clearly define which part of a clip you want to use, what section of the timeline you want to replace, or where to remove footage.

Here are the most essential editing shortcut commands:

  • In—Press I to add an In point.
  • Out—Press O to add an Out point.
  • Clear In—Option+I (Alt+I) to clear an In point.
  • Clear Out—Option+O (Alt+O) to clear an Out point.
  • Clear In and Out—Option+X (Alt+X) to clear both an In and Out point
  • Go to In—Shift+I to go to an In point
  • Go to Out—Shift+O to go to an Out point
  • Lift—Press ; (semicolon key) to remove the media between the In and Out point and leave a gap.
  • Extract—Press ‘ (apostrophe key) to remove the media between the In and Out point and close the gap.

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Importing a Final Cut Pro Project to Adobe Premiere Pro

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Video editing is often a collaborative process. You may need to work with someone else’s editing project that was started using Final Cut Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro is a very flexible editing solution. You can easily import projects and media started on other edit systems. For example, moving a project over from Apple Final Cut Pro is a snap.

  1. In Final Cut Pro, mark an In and Out point within a sequence for the range you’d like to export.
  2. Choose File > Export > XML. In the dialog box that opens, choose Apple XML Interchange Format, version 4 (or later), and click OK.
  3. Specify a location for the new XML file (such as your project folder) and click OK. The XML file is small and references the original media on your drive. It will only take a few seconds to write.
  4. Switch to Adobe Premiere Pro and create a new project using a preset that most closely matches the video format you’ve been using.
  5. In Adobe Premiere Pro, choose File > Import. Navigate to the XML file you created and click Import.
  6. Adobe Premiere Pro creates a sequence and adds the media and a report to the project.
  7. Update the edit or work with the imported project sources.

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Premiere Pro tutorial: Expanded support for formats

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Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tut.... This tutorial reviews the new supported file formats and codecs in Premiere Pro, including ARRIRAW and ProRes.

This tutorial is a single movie from the Premiere Pro Technology Preview course presented by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course duration is 2 hours and 7 minutes long and explores the features that are designed to get video producers and editors excited about the online subscription version of Adobe Premiere Pro.

Introduction 1. User Interface Improvements 2. Extending the Power of Premiere Pro 3. Quality and Format Improvements 4. A Better Timeline Panel 5. Project and Media Management 6. Improved Effects Workflow 7. Improved Audio Workflows 8. Improved Multicamera Workflows 9. Improved Closed Caption Workflow 10. Improved Export Controls Conclusion

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Free Webinar on Color Grading with Tiffen

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Creative Color Grading – Fast!

Learn how to approach color grading tasks from production to post. Learn important techniques about what to shoot in the field including camera profile, white balance information, and essential metadata. Then in post you'll learn how to create popular looks that clients want. This workshop will explore both general techniques and theory as well as a detailed look at Tiffen Dfx Video/Film tool set.

  • Each attendee will receive a 15 day trial as well as a special discount on the software.
  • One lucky attendee with receive a give-away of a full license of the software
  • To register for Creative Color Grading Webinar, click here

Selecting storage for video editing

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When it comes time to edit your video, the hard drives you use are going to have a huge impact on the performance of your system. No matter how much RAM you have or how powerful a video card, you won’t get real-time performance if your drives are a bottleneck.

Important factors

There are three factors when choosing a disk for video editing:

  • Speed: The speed of drive is the most important factor in determining what media you can play off it. Drives like internal laptop drives or bus-powered USB drives are generally not fast enough to edit HD video.
  • Capacity: When you start to edit HD video, you’ll quickly use up disk space. For example, each minute of video shot on a Canon 5D Mark II is about 320MB. In order to get the storage you need, you may invest in multiple drives or drives that are striped together for a performance RAID.
  • Redundancy: To avoid losing their video footage, most video creators choose to back up to two or more drives or to use additional methods like Blu-ray Disc. Look at redundant drives (such as RAIDs)

Drive technology


Be sure to consider your options when looking at hard drives.

  • Internal drive solutions: Many computers support multiple drive slots. Consider placing a fast SATA drive internally into your computer as a performance disk. Keep it only as a scratch disk and avoid installing application or system files on it.
  • External and portable drive solutions: Several different drives are available once you’ve maximized your internal storage. You’ll find both single- and multiple-drive solutions. Look for units offering connections like FireWire, USB3, or eSATA.
  • Networked RAIDs: Several professional drives allow multiple users to connect simultaneously. These solutions are important if you work in a multiple editor environment and need to share projects or assets.


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Two Cool (Free) Plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro

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Simple Mask



This plugin allows to create a simple alpha mask on the source clip and composite it with the existing alpha channel by adding, subtracting or intersecting. Both rectangular and elliptical shapes are supported. They can be repositioned and rotated.

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Vignette


This plugin allows to create a vignette on the source clip. Both rectangular and elliptical vignettes are supported. Vignettes can be repositioned and rotated, applied in any color and blending mode available, to the inside or to the outside. Alternatively only the mask can be rendered, replacing the source layer altogether or the vignette can be filled with transparency.

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New Wacom Tablet Offers Potential for Motion Graphics, Animation, and Video Pros

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Wacom has just announced the new Cintiq 22HD touch. This device combines tablet and display into one, plus now features multi-touch. Here are the features I'm most excited about.

  • Multi-touch to directly interact with UI elements like color correction controls.
  • A 21.5" full HD display (with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution)
  • 16 customizable, application-specific ExpressKeys located on the side of the display bezel.
  • User-defined Touch Strips, placed on the back of the display to adjust functions like zoom, scroll, brush size and canvas rotation
  • An adjustable stand allows for display rotation, offering both landscape and portrait viewing angles as well as the option to set an incline between 10° and 65°.


The Cintiq 22HD touch ($2,499 USD) will be available in May at select locations and Wacom’s eStore.