Classroom in a book

Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace
You’ll dive into nonlinear editing in the next lesson. At this point, you’ll take a brief 
tour of the video-editing workspace. In this exercise, you’ll use an Adobe Premiere 
Pro project from this book’s companion DVD.
1
Make sure you’ve copied all the lesson folders and contents from the DVD 
to your hard drive. The suggested directory is My Documents\Adobe\
Premiere Pro\5.0\Lessons (Windows) or Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/5.0/
Lessons (Mac OS).
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 Note:
It’s best to 
copy all the lesson 
assets from the DVD 
to your hard drive and 
leave them there until 
you complete this book; 
some lessons refer to 
assets from previous 
lessons.

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LESSON 1
Touring Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
2
Start Adobe Premiere Pro.
3
Click Open Project.
4
In the Open Project window, navigate to the Lesson 01 folder in the Lessons 
folder, and then double-click the Lesson 01.prproj project file to open the first 
lesson in the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace.
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 Note:
You may be prompted with a dialog box asking where a particular file is. This will happen 
when the original files are saved on a hard drive letter different from the one you’re using. You’ll 
need to tell Adobe Premiere Pro where the file is. In this case, navigate to the Lessons/Assets folder, 
and select the file that the dialog box is prompting you to open. Premiere Pro will remember this 
location for the rest of the files.
In Adobe Premiere Pro’s 
welcome screen, you 
can start a new project 
or open a saved one.
All Adobe Premiere 
Pro project files have a 
.prproj extension.

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ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK