Chapter Two. Editing Preliminaries

Every project has a bunch of lowest common denominator activities—the unglamorous work of capturing or importing your videos, trimming and sequencing them, and getting them to the timeline. Fortunately, Premiere Pro has a number of tools and techniques that streamline these steps to make them faster and more efficient.

This chapter includes essential techniques on expediting these editing preliminaries, starting with capture, working through sequencing in the Project panel, and concluding with a look at three-and four-point editing.

#7 Enabling Scene Detection During Capture

As you may know, DV camcorders and some other devices store time codes on the tape that record the starting and stopping point of each ...

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