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Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart

Starting a Premiere project

A Premiere digital video production is called a project instead of a video production.

The reason for this is that Premiere not only enables you to create the production,

but it enables you to create and store titles, transitions, and effects. Thus, the file

you work in is much more than just a production — it’s truly a project.

Your first step in creating a digital video production in Premiere is to create a new

project. Here’s how:

1. To load Premiere, double-click the Adobe Premiere icon. When you load

Premiere, the program automatically assumes that you want to create a new

project.

2. To create a new project, double-click the Premiere icon to load the pro-

gram. Windows users can also choose Premiere in the Adobe Group after

clicking the Start button. If Premiere is already loaded, you can create a new

project by choosing File ➪ New Project.

If Premiere is already loaded and you already have a project onscreen, you need to

close that project because you can only have one project open at a time.

Specifying Project Settings

Before you can start importing files and editing, you must set certain options. The

Load Project Settings dialog box appears whenever you create a new project (see

Figure 1-3). This dialog box enables you to quickly use predetermined video and

audio settings. The most important project settings determine the frame rate

(frames per second) and the frame size (viewing area) of your project as well as

how the digital video will be compressed.

For a detailed description of project settings, see Chapter 3.

As a general rule, you normally choose project settings that match your source

footage. For this example, you can choose whether to create a project from digital

video (DV) footage with a frame size of 720 x 480 at 29.9 frames a second, or from

footage that consumes less hard drive space. This footage has a frame size of 160 x

120 pixels and plays at 25 frames per second. If you’re running Premiere at the

minimum system requirements, you may want to create the production with

these files.

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