Creative Cloud Journey: Adobe Premiere Pro

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As I ease you all back into my continued adventures through Adobe’s Creative Cloud, I’d like to make a brief detour
to talk about my map: Lynda.com, which houses thousands of video courses to help you develop both personal and
professional skills. If you’re looking for professional development, especially in the hopes of transitioning to a new Deleted: , both professional and otherwise
role, Lynda.com is a great place to start looking. My purpose here is to develop professionally by making myself a Deleted: My purposes here are to professionally develop
more well-rounded team member, starting with learning Premiere Pro. by making myself a more well-rounded team member,
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I elected to plan my own project as I went through the Lynda.com Premiere Pro course. This turned out to be such Deleted: some
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as you begin. Adobe products are so robust, you can and will get lost just rolling through features if you don’t have ¶
a project or planned direction. Starting with a final product in mind led me to continually ask, “Can I do this in Deleted: else planning
Premiere?” and the answer was inevitably, “Yes, and . . .” Deleted: lead
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To digress for a moment, know this about working with Adobe products: they are beasts, and your machine will
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tell you so. While Premiere Pro is running, the fan in my MacBook quickly starts to sound like a jet engine. I can
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watch the battery drain, and while it’s a hyperbole to say it gets hot enough to burn, it’s not much of a hyperbole.
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That’s fine, though, because using Premiere Pro with just a laptop screen is far less than ideal. Premiere Pro utilizes
a lot of panels—panels within panels, even—depending on what you’re trying to do. It’s entirely possible that you Deleted: ,
might have two separate videos on the screen at once, with all sorts of tiny, nuanced controls in between, so you Deleted: ,
will need screen space as you learn. Away from my second monitor, I spent far too much time trying and failing to Deleted: in order
grab the right edge of a panel to shrink it. Spare yourself the frustration. Deleted: Anyway, my project.
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Most Adobe products devote significant space to storage and organization, but given all the assets and sequences
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that go into a video, this is especially true of Premiere Pro, which enables you to structure entire file systems
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within it so you can keep track of all your assets. And after setting things in order within Premiere Pro, I realized
that I needed to set them in order outside it as well. I needed to capture footage, plan shots, and record audio. Deleted: in the process, I expanded my learning
experience significantly.…

I made use of a storyboard template that a colleague created using InDesign. Working in InDesign enabled this Deleted: also
colleague to set up the template in such a way that the text fields cascaded to each other. We could copy entire Deleted: with
scripts and then manipulate them within InDesign to pair specific lines with specific images. It’s quite cool and Deleted: , which is my excuse to explain some of the
saved me a great deal of time, proving crucial in identifying footage I still needed. things you can do with that program
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dropping your clips and footage in the right order. The interface looks imposing, but in actual use, it turns out to be Deleted: so that we
very elegant. Users with all their clips prepared in advance could create a sequence as fast as their mouse could
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drag the footage over.
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I am proceeding apace, working my way through the Lynda.com course, backtracking, and reviewing as necessary Deleted: saves

to remind myself of key principles. I’m nowhere close to finishing the project, so I can’t share the results. And some Deleted: and proved
of the language used in the project isn’t appropriate to the workplace anyway. The skills I’m building, though, very Deleted: to meet my precious vision
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