Premiere Simplified
By Dirk Fischer, Educational Technology Consultant
Simple? Adobe Premiere? SIMPLE?
Actually, with the release of version 6.0, I can safely say that Adobe's Premiere video editor can be easily learned, even by those new to video.
I say that because there is now a STORYBOARD editor as well as the familiar and to some people, highly intimidating TIMELINE editor. Storyboarding is the process of placing PICONS (Picture icons) of your captured video clips in the sequence you want them to be in your video project. Picons can very easily be moved around the storyboard and your storyboard can be saved as a file.
Double clicking on any picon will open it inside a CLIP EDITOR where you can easily set any in-point or out-point you want. You can change the picon's POSTER FRAME. That's the single frame of video used as the picon. Poster frames can also be used as backgrounds when composing titles for your video.
Once you have your picons arranged in a row, in the order you want, you can then move all of them in order to the timeline editor for further tweaking adding titles, adding transitions, adding effects and so on. You can send your storyboard with a DEFAULT TRANSITION between your clips. This is usually the standard DISSOLVE from one clip to the next. This default transition is placed between all of the clips in your storyboard, which is not a bad thing when you consider that most of your transitions are going to be same.
Storyboarding automates the process of arranging your clips in a sequence on the timeline. Once your storyboard's on the timeline, the full power of Premiere is available to you to really jazz up your project! Many times your storyboard will be all you need to do to edit your video. It's a great time saver.
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