Hello! And welcome to this Adobe Premiere PRO CS4 tutorial. This is an introductory series of tutorials for those who have not used Adobe Premiere PRO before or have used an older version and looking to upgrade. We are going to walk through a lot of the workflow of the news CS4. When you launch CS for the first time, you are going to come up with this welcome screen and we are on a Mac by way, a Mac PRO. It runs wonderfully on this. This is also for PC. So you are going to come up with this welcome screen and if you have a project that you already created, you wan to click to open project you can also go on the latest recent projects here.
Throughout the CS4 series, you are going to see help screens or links all over the place so help is only about a click away. So we are going to click on the new project and that’s going to create a project. And then this is where we set everything up. Here are the action and title areas, how you suggest that you leave those alone. The defaults are perfect and unless you have some really specific settings you need to put in, I would just leave the defaults here.
We’ve got video display. If you want a time code that fit in frames if you’re using film or just frames. I worked in time code 99% of the time. For audio, we are going to get display audio samples or milliseconds I leave them in audio samples. Capture, you have a couple of different formats here, you can go Quick Time of course we are on the PC. Believe—I mean on the Mac, I believed on the PC it’s different AVI or I think its AVI. But we’re on—on the Mac’s we’re going to capture in Quick Time, we can also capture in HDV. I used Quick Time because it just works so wonderfully well with the rest of the programs.
Of course there are lots of advanced screens that you can do. A lot of other things but we really don’t need those for now. In the video, you can click that and decide what type of format that you want to have it allows you to have all that configurations as progression or progressive mode or in our list, et cetera. But you really I don’t tell you’re capturing from down here. You can really just get going with the defaults for now. In the location, you are going to want to browse and pick area on wherever you’d like. Usually, I liked to do it on a separate drive then where the program is installed so you can pick for example, I want to pick my second hard drive there. I can choose that and its going to save it there and I can title it Tutorial.
And then click OK. Before click OK, I’m sorry let’s go up here to the scratch disks and this is where you are going to have your video, audio, your previous where it’s all going to be stored. So right now I have it on my Macintosh hard drive too and actually, see I made a little mistake and this is good—If I go here, I want to create a new folder and we are going to call this Tutorial and I’m going to create that on my second hard drive and then I want to click choose. So now, it’s going to go in tutorial and the project name is Tutorial. Otherwise, it would have just gone the second hard drive and just had everything all over the place.
So like I said, the scratch disk and now it’s going to capture video and audio into the tutorial section. Video previous we running out of there as well and we are good to go and that will launch from here. It will give you one more question here it will say, “What sequence do you want? What are the presets do you want to capture footage in? What are you working in?” So, you’ve got a lot different premiere that comes with a ton of different options here. And a new one will be down here soon for our red cam stuffs so that’s exciting. AVCHD, DV-24P, DV-NTSC, you know, you choose whatever you’d like. I usually worked with DV-NTSC. And I usually pick standard. It might just be some video for the web that’s someone capture and I’m doing some work well.
But as you can see, you can use—there’s a ton of presets. You can also go into general and create what you like. Change the frames per second, change the frame size, you can highly configure everything. And then track some of the video tracks do you want, how many audio tracks do you want, and you can save them as presets. So very configurable, the defaults usually work for what you named and tell where you’re pulling the video from, et cetera. And in sequence name, you can change it to whatever you’d like but if you don’t have an idea what you want to call it now, you can just leave it alone and click OK. And that’s going to launch premiere, and here we are in the Premier PRO time line. So I’m going to stop this video here. I just want to get you going into how to start you project. Next we will explore the Premiere PRO user interface.
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