[Lloyd Coleman]

And -100% for reverse at full speed, -50% for reverse half speed, etc. If you are using PPro 1.5 or 2.0 ther is a checkbox for reverse.

[Lloyd Coleman]

Yes, this is normal. When you lay one clip over the other it trims the clip. When you move it back it is still trimmed. The video is not gone, however, and can be seen again by draging the end of the clip out to where it was.

[Lloyd Coleman]

You are looking in the Effect Controls tab, which shows the effects applied to the clip you have selected. There is another tab called the Effects tab that has folders with all the available effects in them. You will find the effect you are looking for there in the Video Effects folder. When you have found it you can drag the effect to the clip itself or to the Effect Control folder and it will apply the filter to the selected clip.

[Lloyd Coleman]

Under ‘Video Effects’ choose the ‘Transform’ folder and then the ‘Horizontal Flip’ effect.

[Lloyd Coleman]

‘J’ key pay backwards, ‘K’ key stops, ‘L’ key plays forward. Pressing the key more than once increases the speed up to I think 4 consecutive presses.

[Lloyd Coleman]

How are you opening the saved project? I believe that if you simply open the project file, you will get the most recent version that you manually saved. To open the most recent auto saved version you need to go to the Adobe Premiere Auto-Save folder inside your project folder and open the newest file there. Look at the time on each folder, not the name. They are saved as 1,2,3,etc. but the newest one is not always the highest number.

[Lloyd Coleman]

If you have selected ‘show track volume’ or ‘show track keyframe’ you lose a lot of control of each audio clip. If you ‘show clip volume’ or ‘show clip keyframe’ or ‘hide keyframes’ you have control of each clip. Maybe this is the problem you are having.

[Lloyd Coleman]

I work with stills in Premiere a lot. I learned long ago that resizing the stills to an appropriate size does many things that are helpful.
1. It really controls the flicker problem of sharp edges on the photos when you zoom or pan on them.
2. It make the overall project size much smaller
3. It makes the program much more responsive
4. It reduced render time considerably
5. In PPro 1.5 it would allow me to put many more still in a project before I got the famous green or black screen

Standard video is only 720×480. If you size your stills to around 1,000 to 1,200 across you usually have room to zoom or pan and still not burden the system. There may be cases where you want to zoom an extreme amount and you can size that particular still for that case.

I tried your example with a 1000×1000 picture and a 4000×4000 picture. I noticed that the larger picture was less than 3MB and the larger picture was over 37MB. On my machine the 1000 pixel picture rendered in 4 seconds and the 4000 pixel picture took about 5 minutes. That is an increase of 75 times for the larger picture! Naturally someone would be frustrated with that kind of performance. Although Premiere can handle a picture this size, I don’t think most people need stills that are over 46 times the size of standard DV and therefore Premiere was not designed to handle this task. To me its like buying a pickup truck and then complaining that acceleration, braking and performance is poor when it is loaded to the top with bricks.

[Lloyd Coleman]

I just looked at my versions of PP1.5 and 2.0. Both of them are the same on my computer. The safe margins (both safe action and safe titles) in the titler match the program monitor.

[Lloyd Coleman]

Hold down the ‘control’ key and drag the clip wherever you want it. The rest of the clips will be moved forward to make room for the new clip.