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Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting your project folder SD card
    • Creating a project folder
    • Backing up your project folder
    • Copying media files from a Canon video camera into your project folder
    • Copying media files from an iPad/ iPhone into your project folder
    • Copying media files from a video camera SD card into your project folder
    • Copying media files from a still camera SD card into your project folder
    • Copying WAV files from a Zoom H2n to your project folder
    • Downloading media files from YouTube to your project folder
    • Downloading free music to your project folder
    • Renaming MTS files
    • Opening Premiere
    • Creating a Premiere project
  • Importing and logging clips
    • Importing media files
    • Previewing clips in the Source monitor
    • Renaming clips in the Project panel
    • Creating a sequence
    • Logging your video
    • Writing a script
    • Recording narration
    • Adding In and Out points to a clip
  • Editing in the Timeline panel
    • Building a story in your sequence
    • Viewing your project in the Program monitor
    • Adding a clip to your sequence
    • Adding an image to your sequence
    • Adding an audio clip to your sequence
    • Arranging items in your sequence
    • Trimming or extending an item in your sequence
    • Deleting an item in your sequence
    • Zooming in and out
    • Muting timeline audio scrubbing
  • Working with audio
    • Using mute and solo controls
    • Centering audio channels
    • Adjusting the audio level of an individual clip
    • Adjusting the audio level of all clips in a track
    • Changing the duration of a dissolve or audio fade
    • Automating clip volume with keyframes
  • Adding text and transitions
    • Downloading a JAMS Text Template to Your Project Folder
    • Opening a JAMS Text Template
    • Adding a JAMS Text Template to Your Sequence
    • Working with Text in a JAMS Text Template
    • Adding the Media Milwaukee End Screen to Your Sequence
    • Adding a cross disolve
    • Adding a dip to black transition
  • Exporting
    • Exporting a still image from your sequence
    • Exporting an MP4
  • Troubleshooting
    • Panels are in Weird Places
    • A Panel is Missing or Looks Different
    • One Panel is Super Large and It's the Only Thing You See in Premiere
    • Media files are in your project folder but they don't appear in the import window
  • Glossary
    • Glossary
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  • Canon Vixia XA10
  • Canon Vixia XA11, XA15, XA30

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  1. Setting up your project

Copying media files from a Canon video camera into your project folder

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Before importing media files into Premiere, you'll need copy these files into your project folder. Note: Be sure to follow the instructions for the correct camera (XA10 or XA11.)

Canon Vixia XA10

  1. to the back of a Mac.

  2. Connect the video camera to the Mac using the USB cable. (The USB miniport on the camera is under flap under hand flap.)

  3. Turn the video camera on.

  4. On video camera, open the side panel.

  5. Press Camera to Play button.

  6. On the camera's touch screen, press Built-in Mem. (Do not disconnect or turn off the camera without properly ejecting it from the Mac.)

  7. Navigate to your project folder in a Finder window. Then . Select Canon in the left pane of the Finder window.

  8. Copy AVCHD from the Canon Finder window into your project folder.

  9. After AVCHD has copied into your project folder, eject the video camera. Control-click the video camera icon on the Desktop and choose Eject.

  10. Disconnect the camera from the Mac.

  11. In your project folder, rename AVCHD. Follow .

  12. .

Canon Vixia XA11, XA15, XA30

  1. to the back of a Mac.

  2. Connect the video camera to the Mac using the USB cable. (The USB miniport on the camera is under the front flap.) Note: Do not remove the SD card from the camera.

  3. On the camera, set the CAMERA/OFF/MEDIA switch to MEDIA.

  4. in a Finder window. Then . Select Canon in the left pane of the Finder window.

  5. Copy the DCIM folder into your project folder. The MP4 files you will import into your project file are in the 101_XXXX subfolder.

  6. After the DCIM folder has copied into your project folder, eject the video camera.

  7. Disconnect the camera from the Mac.

Connect your project folder SD card
open a second Finder window
JAMS file and folder naming conventions
Rename your MTS files
Connect your project folder SD card
Navigate to your project folder
open a second Finder window
Copying media files from Canon Vixia XA10 video camera to project folder.