Classroom in a book

Three types of settings
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 has three types of settings:
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Project settings
: These apply to the entire project, and most can’t be changed 
once the project is created.
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Sequence settings
: You set these when you create a new sequence and deal 
with the types of media you will be using.
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Preferences
: These generally apply to all projects, and you can change them at 
any time.

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Specifying project settings
To specify project settings for your Premiere Pro project, do the following:
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Launch Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
The startup screen appears. The Recent Projects list should be populated with 
the projects you last opened. In this case, you’ll be starting fresh.
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Click New Project to open the New Project dialog, which contains the General 
tab and Scratch Disks tab.
General tab
The General tab contains these sections:
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Action and Title Safe Areas
: It is recommended you leave the settings in this 
section at their default values. They do not affect the video in any way. They 
simply determine where guides are displayed on the Program Monitor and 
Source Monitor to help plan title placement and see where TV overlay molding 
may hide the edges of video.
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Video and Audio
: Again, it is recommended that you leave the Display Format 
settings at their defaults unless you need to display video increments in feet or 
frames rather than timecode or you need to display audio in milliseconds rather 
than at the sample rate.
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Capture
: The only setting in this section, Capture Format, is important to set 
correctly based on the media you plan to capture. The choices are DV or HDV.