CONTENTS
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Working with Projects
Starting a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Specifying project settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Saving and autosaving a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Opening a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Removing unused frames from source clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Using a Premiere project on another platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Setting up Premiere’s scratch disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Correcting mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Working with windows in Premiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Setting up windows that resemble earlier Premiere versions . . . 74
Saving window positions (Mac OS only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Organizing clips using bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Storing clips and bins in libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Customizing a Project, Bin, or Library window display . . . . . . . . 79
Naming, finding, and deleting items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Printing window contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Creating a text list of project or library files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Changing the startup window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Working with palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Preparing and Importing
Source Clips
Capturing video for offline and online editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Preparing for video capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Capturing video without device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Capturing video with device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Batch-capturing video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Reading timecode from source video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Capturing stop-motion animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Capturing analog audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Capturing digital video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Importing digital audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Importing clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Importing another project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Using offline files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Creating a counting leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Analyzing clip properties and data rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
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