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Stage one:Creating folders and saving projects

STEP ONE

To ensure you don’t want to loose any of your work, the first thing to do is set up a folder on your memory stick named after your project.

STEP TWO:

Once you have made your folder you should then make three new folder inside the project folder

Footage- This will contain your footage

Sounds- This will contain all your sounds

Archive – This folder will contain your pictures.

STEP THREE

After making your new folders you can open Premiere Pro

This what the screen will look like

Click ‘new project’

STEP FOUR

After clicking ‘New Project’ this box will appear. Next you Have to name Your Project.

You will have to direct it to the right folder you want your project to be saved in using the ‘Browse’ button

STEP FIVE

Make sure you project is saved in the correct format.

Make sure your project is saved at DV- PAL and standard 48kHz

Stage two:Using Media Encoder to convert your footage.

STEP ONE

In order for you footage to work on Premiere Pro you have to convert the file into QuickTime.

To do this open Adobe Media encoder.

STEP TWO

Click the ‘Add’ button to find your footage then click ‘Start Queue’

STEP THREE

Once all your clips have been added to the encoder you need to change the footage to QuickTime.

All clips should automatically change if this doesn’t happen you will have to change one manually. Once all your clips have been converted press start queue. This sometimes takes a while.

Stage three:Basic editing

IMPORTING

You need To import all your Footage, sounds and picture, to do this click on

File

Import

Then find your files and click Open.

STEP ONE

Double click the scene you want to use and it will appear in the left hand screen.

STEP TWO

To watch your footage simply use the play button, or your can drag the blue bar through to the part you want.

You can cut down your footage on this screen as well by using the ‘I’ and ‘O’ on the keyboard.

STEP THREE

Now you need to move your footage onto the time line, you can do this in three ways

To move sound only drag the sound icon (speaker) onto your timeline.

To only move the film without sound, drag the film icon onto your timeline.

To move the sound and film together simply click on the footage and drag it onto your timeling.

STEP FOUR

Now you can move onto Transitions and effects

They can both be found on the bottom left hand side. Simply drag them onto your clip.

To control the effect, go to the control panel which is found in your source panel

STEP FIVE

Once you have completed your work you need to export it, to do this you have to go to

File

Export-media

All you have to do is press export and Adobe will do the rest for you.