PRESENTER: Alysia Steele, University of Mississippi DESCRIPTION: What Final Cut Users Should Know About Adobe Premiere. Part of Journalism Interactive 2013 conference Teach-A-Thon. Educators were given 5 minutes to talk about curriculum ideas, tools, class assignments and more to help digital journalism educators. Journalisminteractive.com

1. ADOBE PREMIERE
FOR FINAL CUT USERS
Five Quick Tips in Premiere

2. #1No need to figure out file format
Before you import or edit files, YOU
MUST:
1. Go to Adobe Premiere’s Preferences
2. Under “General” make sure “Default
scale to frame size” is checked.
3. No need to scale photos or graphics.
It will automatically convert.

3. Select Default to
scale

4. #2 Making subclips is easier
1. In Final Cut you would have to edit
the asset and then make a subclip.
2. In Premiere, you import the asset
(video or audio) and then edit
directly on the file and drag to the
timeline.

5. When you double-click on the
video or audio this box
appears.
When you hover the mouse, the
video advances like a preview.

6. When you do your “I” and “O”
points it only shows that yellow
area that you’ve selected.
Once you’ve made your edit, you
can grab the file and drag
directly to timeline.

7. #3More precise audio editing
1. Select the asset.
2. Go to the Source window dropdown
menu in the upper right corner and
select
“Audio Waveforms.”
3. The wave file will be enlarged and
you can do In and Outs and make
subclips.

9. #4 Unlinking audio/video files
1. Drag your file to timeline.
2. To unlink audio/video, right-click on
file selected and then select Unlink.
3. Or select your asset, hold down
Option key and click. Select unlink.
4. To re-link, just right click again and
re-link.

10. Select Unlink

11. #5 Go back one screen
1. You can still go back several steps
with
Command+Z.
2. If you open a window and need it
closed, hit the~key. Top left corner
on keyboard.