Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0

I recently downloaded the trial for Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. I've been messing around with it and have found quite a bit of cool little things to do.

In one of my classes, we have to make a video. I was just curious if anyone here has made any videos with Premiere. I am always willing to listen to tips, tricks, and hints that people have to offer. I want it to turn out looking nice and professional (so I'm holding back on the effects and transitions that are commonly used by the inexperienced). I'm not saying that I am experienced, but I don't want to have a video that looks like I produced it with Microsoft Movie Maker.

I'm also wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other programs to try out. I have the trial for Ulead VideoStudio, but I like Premiere a bit better. I'm open to suggestions. As long as it is either free or there is a good trial (no watermarks or major limitations), I'm willing to look into it.

 

Premiere Pro is THE Windows video editing software.

But, as I'm sure you know, THE video editing software period is Final Cut Pro. And iMovie is quite popular if you don't want to use a pirated copy, since Final Cut is very, very pricy (and will not be available for Intel Macs until next year). If you are in college and they have a film department, they should have these softwares at a computer lab.

My boyfriend made his first movie in iMovie (in his school's computer lab) and he did the sound in Premiere Pro 1.5 'coz we don't have Macs here at home. And the ones I could "borrow" from work are too old. Movie came out pretty good. However, he says iMovie is way easier to use than Premiere. But he's also never used other Adobe products before, so there's more of a learning curve.

If you're planning to shoot a movie and you don't have a good battery for your camcorder, you can get one at Circuit City and then return it when you're done.. And they won't charge a restocking fee!!! They do charge restocking fees on the camcorders themselves though.

There are lots of tips & tricks websites. The only Premiere Pro book that my boyfriend found in store though (i.e. that he could return), written by Adobe, was pretty lame - it was just a walkthrough of doing very specific things instead of going through the features of the package and explaining what they do, and just how to use the thing.

Good luck!

 

Thanks for the input. I don't want to go through the lab just to use iMovie. iMovie was very straightforward and had great features, but I would prefer to do it on my own computer (less restriction). I'd like to try Final Cut, but the labs don't have it and I don't have a Mac (or the program).

The camera I'm using to shoot the scenes isn't the greatest. It is actually just a digital camera that does movies with audio. I'm not expecting anything to be amazingly awesome, but I'm going to do what I can with what I've got.

I figure that the decent quality of my USB microphone will suffice for the lacking audio of the digital camera.

Well, I'll keep looking around for hints about the program. I am starting to feel more at home with it. Hopefully I'll be able to make a decent video with the mediocre equipment that I have.

 

Have you tried using your camera to film anything at length? I've a camera that can do video, and it's fairly recent (Sony Cybershot DSC-P200), but it gets out of focus so easily, it'd be impossible to do a movie with it. I think the cheapest MiniDV camcorders are like $200, something like Canon with Z in the model name comes to mind, but I could be wrong.

 

I have Adobe Premiere but i dont' use it much. From What i learnt from a few first pages of Adobe Premiere book, you can edit cut and paste the movie( that's what i mostly do). About the effects on movie, I had tried once ( change contrast and colors) but didn't see anything different.

If you want your adobe Premiere works well, i recommend you install the K-lite codec pack for digital video support formats( free, google it). When you install it, you should check mark all the components the software offer to install to get the best codec supports.

 

Try Sony Vegas 6. You can download a fully functional trial. I prefer Vegas over Premiere.

 

I'm going to try and do what I can with the digital camera. The video isn't going to be very long. I'll likely get my hands on a better camera before I move on to making anything that has longer scenes. If I like the filming and editing processes, I may invest in some other equipment. I've always thought that making films would be a funny hobbie, but I never wanted to put down any money. I always get this feeling that I would end up giving up, so I try to take things slowly.

I'm downloading the Vegas 6 trial right now. I'm interested to see how well it works. The website makes it look like it would be a good piece of software. I guess I'll know a little bit more after I install it.

Thanks again for the tips and suggestions.

 

I was about to download Premiere trial but I saw that it puts a watermark on the output video. I also have to make a video like for my spanish class and i was thinking about downloading the Vegas Movie Studio trial. However I need to be able to show my video on a standard DVD player that hooks up to a TV and the vegas trial says that is cannot export to DVD format. Is this true or can I still export to DVD format? If not, is there any other video editing trial software that doesnt watermark? I dont care about the trial period cuz I only need it for a few weeks and I'm tired of using Windoze Movie Maker.

 

@gamer06: Does the Vegas website list any restrictions on the trial version of Movie Studio?

 

I currently use Premiere pro 1.5 and have also used 6.0 as well and I must say that premiere is the best windows video editing software out there. I mostly edit home made movies and as well as make movies from video footage from video games using "fraps."

Premiere is so darn complex, it's really hard to explain how to really use it and the way that i pretty much learned it through trial and error. I have tried Vegas and I thought is was pretty ****py.

 

This is exactly what it said when I was going to download it:

Please Note: This trial version will allow you to use all product features for 30 days, except for DVD Handycam capture and export to certain formats that require third-party licensing (i.e. MPEG and MP3).

 

I'm pretty sure you can create DVDs with the trial version.

 

My computer came with WinDVD Creator. It allows you to import a format like AVI, and it'll turn it into DVD format that you can play on a regular DVD player. If your computer came with something like that, you may be able to use VMS to create an AVI or something, and then use the app that came with your burner to make it a DVD. I've never used VMS, but it's worth checking.

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