Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 Basics | Home Edition (Win
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Installing Premiere Pro on your PC
    • 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

Previewing and renaming clips in Finder

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  1. If you haven't already done so, copy the media files on your device (camera, iPhone, Zoom, etc.) into your project folder.

  2. Disconnect the device and navigate to the media files in your project folder.

    • Note: To navigate to media files from a Canon video camera, you'll need to do the following:

      • Go into your renamed AVCHD folder (see if you haven't renamed this folder.)

      • In your renamed AVCHD folder, you'll see two folders (BDMV and Canon.) Right-click the BDMV folder. In the fly-out menu, select Show Package Contents.

      • In the BDMV folder, you'll see several folders. Double-click STREAM. The files (00000.MTS, etc.) in this folder are your media files.

  3. To preview a media file using Finder, single-click the file to select it. Then press the spacebar (on keyboard) to play it using the Windows Media Player.

  4. After previewing the media file, close Windows Media Player. Then rename the media file following . Repeat this process as necessary.

Copying media files from a Canon video camera
JAMS file and folder naming conventions