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Adobe Premiere Pro

The new Cineform Aspect HD 5.0 for HDV works great! Read about it here.

If you are going to use Clipnotes in Premiere Pro 2.0, you need to get the updates

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection are the versions you should be using. Read here and here.

Premiere Pro CS3 now has proper Time Remapping. How do you use it? Check out this simple tutorial.

Check out Eddie Lotter's download page for some interesting plugins and tools.

Get a bunch of projects from XSPro that help you create different movie looks with Premiere Pro native effects. No plugins. Very cool.

If you have a corrupt project file in Premiere Pro, try downloading XML Wrench and using it to fix the problem. Under tools, select Check Well Formed.

I use Cineform Aspect HD with Premiere Pro CS3 to edit HDV from my Sony FX1. I often use HDVSplit to scene detect my HDV before I convert it to Cineform CFHD AVI so I only have to convert what I plan on using. HDV requires less storage that way.

Check out the Premiere Pro Wiki. Add to it if you can. Almost everyone can learn from it.

The beginnings of a community are just starting to get going. Check out the Premiere Pro Collective on MySpace:

Check out the Creative Cow Podcast for Premiere Pro. No iPod required.

How to use more than 2GB of RAM for Premiere Pro

Three Premiere Pro 1.5 projects from Tim Kolb! Check out the readme.txt in each Zip file.

If you have not already downloaded his Style Library (see below), what are you waiting for? Now he gives us all some pretty cool DooDads to use in the Adobe Title Designer. Check out my Templates page for an image of the Doodads. You can download it from that page, or pick up the 46K zip file right here. Come on, you know you love free stuff! Over 13,500 downloads so far.

Craig Howard supplied an -18dB 1KHz tone for use in Adobe Premiere Pro projects. Check it out.

I enjoyed the Total Training "Adobe Premiere Pro Tips and Tricks" from Jacob Rosenberg. It is worth a look. Check out the Total Training site for all your training needs. (Except for Premiere Pro 1.5 of course - then you should watch my tutorials at Lynda.com )

Emmy award winning editor Tim Kolb sent me a new Style Library for the Adobe Title Designer in Premiere Pro to share with all of you. The ZIP file has a PRSL file, and a Read Me file. The instructions say to "Load Style Library", but you might want to replace the default style library the first time you look at it so you can easily see what Tim has done. As he says in the text file, the fonts are VERY large so you can modify them quite easily at your discretion. The zip file is only 154K, so even you folks on dial up connections can take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime deal. Over 21,300 downloads so far.

Save the PRSL file to the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Premiere Pro 1.5\Presets\Styles directory, or as appropriate for your file structure.

Tim says "Rather than constantly fool with the sizes after applying the style, simply hold down the alt key when you click on a swatch and the attributes will be applied without the font or size�" I put that in the readme file, but if you have already downloaded these, pay attention and use the Alt key.

My Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 tutorials are available on Lynda.com - check them out! All questions regarding the tutorials should be directed to premiereuser@stevengotz.com and they will all get a response. The DVD is no longer available. (Insert sigh of disappointment here.) You can still view them online for $25 per month or buy the yearly service for a discount. Jeff Schell has his new 2.0 version DVD available. His online tutorials are available as well.

Check this stuff out

Check out the tutorials at http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/premiere.html. Recording voiceovers, 5.1 surround audio sequences, looping soundtracks and more ...

Video on external monitor one second behind the one on your PC screen? Try this!

Start Windows XP (SP2) in safety mode and then copy the file msdv.sys (windows\system32\drivers) from SP1 (5.1.2600.0) over the SP2-version (5.3.2600.2180). Then reboot. Windows (SP2) now uses the SP1-firewire-driver to communicate with the video equipment. ( T he copy of the file that used to be posted online is no longer available. Sorry.)

Having trouble with �Adobe Premiere Pro failed to return a video frame. Canceling the operation.� Or an �Out of memory� error when using the Adobe Premiere Pro Export to DVD feature. There is a fix for Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5: http://www.mainconcept.com/adobemedia/downloads.html

Also check out: Error "...failed to return a video frame..." occurs when you export MPEG files

Error "...failed to return a video frame..." occurs when you export MPEG files
After Effects 6.x plugins that load into Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
Copy and paste between After Effects 6.5 and Adobe Premiere 1.5
Photoshop file created in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 ignores project settings
Troubleshoot errors or freezes that occur when you burn DVDs from Adobe Premiere Pro 1.x

Are you having a problem where the scroll bar on the effects window is horizontal instead of vertical? Try this:

1. Make effects a separate window (drag from program window if layered there).
2. Enlarge the effects window to a longer size and save your program as it is.
3. Close the program and reopen it.

Now it should be a scroll up/down in the window.

Drop me a line at premiereuser@stevengotz.com and let me know if there is anything you think I should add to this page.

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