Preparing Material for Editing

Log-on - To log on to the Mac proficiently, you must sign in with a shared username (which is shared by the whole class, but not shared with other classes). Also, the Macs are all on a local network, this is most necessary because it gets rid of any worry if the college network goes down. If the Macs were on the college network and that happened, then all of the work saved would be annihilated.

SD Card Files - when you plug in an SD card it will come up on your desktop. In my case, it has come up as 'EOS_DIGITAL'. When you click on the SD card icon, a few folders will come up, click on the folder named 'PRIVATE' and copy it then place the new copied edition into 'Macintosh HD - users - mediae (or whichever your class name is) - movies, and then make a new folder and paste it in there.' You should call your new folder the same as your project name.

you can then put all of your work on that project into the new folder.

When opening a project make sure that the correct options are selected.

When you do get onto to your project and have imported your footage, you have to sort them into 'bins' otherwise the organisation of the clips will be very hard to follow.

 



The bins in Premier Pro act as a holding place for all of the clips you may want to use. But, the clips do not save inside of the bin, they are saved in a folder on the hard-drive whilst the bins act as an easy way of getting to those files whilst still in Premier Pro. For exmaple, if you have all of your footage on a memory card, the way the you have to get the footage into Premier Pro is by copy and pasting the work on your memory card into an internal folder, then you take the copied footage and import it into Premier Pro, rather than importing the footage straight from your memory card. If you do import straight from the memory card then the footage will become unusable if you havent got the memory card plugged into the computer.