12 LESSON 1
Touring Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
Presenting the standard digital video workflow There is a basic workflow for creating videos with NLEs such as Adobe Premiere
Pro. After a while, it’ll become second nature to you. Generally, that workflow
follows these steps:
1 Shoot the video.
2 Capture (transfer or ingest) the video to your hard drive. With tapeless media,
Adobe Premiere Pro can read the media directly. Or, use Adobe OnLocation CS5
to record video right to your workstation hard drive (bypassing the capture step).
3 Build your edited video by selecting, trimming, and adding clips to the Timeline.
4 Place transitions between clips, apply video effects to clips, and composite
(layer) clips.
5 Create text, credits, or basic graphics, and apply them to your project.
6 Add audio—be it narration, music, or sound effects.
7 Mix multiple audio tracks, and use transitions and special effects on your
audio clips.
8 Export your finished project to videotape, to a file on your desktop computer,
to streaming video for Internet playback, or to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc.
Adobe Premiere Pro supports each of these steps with industry-leading tools.
Since this book is geared toward beginning and intermediate video editors,
becoming proficient with these standard workflow tools is the primary goal of
the upcoming lessons.
Enhancing the workflow with high-level features Adobe Premiere Pro goes well beyond providing a full-featured toolset for standard
digital video editing. It’s loaded with extra features that can enhance the video pro-
duction process and improve the quality of your finished product.
You’re not likely to incorporate many of these features in your first few video
projects. However, as you ramp up your skills and expectations, you’ll begin to tap
these high-productivity features. The following topics will be covered in this book:
