Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 Basics | Home Edition (mac
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Installing Premiere Pro on your Mac
    • Checking if your computer meets minimum system requirements
    • Installing Premiere Pro
  • Setting up your project
    • Creating a 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
    • Previewing and renaming clips in Finder
    • Opening Premiere
    • Creating a Premiere project
  • Importing and logging clips
    • Importing media files
    • Creating and working with proxy 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 a subclip to your sequence
    • Adding an image to your sequence
    • Adding an audio file 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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  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.

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

  2. Turn the video camera on.

  3. On video camera, open the side panel.

  4. Press Camera to Play button.

  5. 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.)

  6. . Then . Select Canon in the left pane of the Finder window.

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

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

  9. Disconnect the camera from the Mac.

  10. In your project folder, rename AVCHD. Follow File and Folder Naming Conventions. (Do not delete, rename or move any files or folders inside this directory.)

  11. After renaming the AVCHD folder, .

Navigate to your project folder in a Finder window
open a second Finder window
preview and rename the MTS files