Mastering Premiere Pro — insurmountable bugs?

[Karen Lee]

Great tips Tim and Ann, thanks.

Greg, you’re a diplomat. 🙂 Think what I need is to keep progressing in PP maybe in a more systematic way, e.g. return to Lynda.com, or maybe take an intermedia course through college extension to provide a structured learning environment. When I do random searches there’s a large amount of tutorials on Youtube, but most are for past versions so obsolete which is not efficient.

[Bill Celnick]

Hi Karen – Like you – primarily self taught beginning back in the early 2000’s, but taking a six year detour to FCP and stayed there until 2014 – a couple of years after FCP 7 was discontinued.

FCPX was foreign to me, and I quickly found that Premiere was much closer to FCP7, and my own workflow, so I switched back to it, and also back to a Windows environment, as you just plain got much more “bang for your buck” with a Puget System then a similarly specked Mac Pro would have been.

The pitfalls of being self taught are that you never experience many situations and learn all the capabilities. About 3 years ago, I took Ashley Kennedy’s entry level course on Lynda.com, and it showed me things that really broadened my basic knowledge of Premiere, and although it’s great to know many of these things, that basics are what I use probably 90% of the time.

The only constant in our field is that the demand for bigger, more powerful, more expensive is constant, and it’s much more aggressive now that we’re beyond producing physical media.

[Karen Lee]

Thanks, will look into that course, have taken Lynda but it’s been piecemeal.