[Steve Brame]

Explains how to do both!

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS774370E7-584E-40e2-B2E0-B33A0228BF02.html

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Premiere’s default background color is black. Is it possible that you are seeing that? Have you tried placing something behind your still?

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Couldn’t agree more. I didn’t want to push Pond5 too much because I sell footage on there myself, albeit just a little bit.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

We’ve been Digital Juice customers for years. They don’t offer a stock footage contract library, but neither does iStock, unless you count their Corporate Account as a contracted situation. With DJ, their stock footage library is a fixed number of clips, and a rather small collection compared to a repository such as iStock. Digital juice has so much more to offer than stock footage though. It’s certainly one of their smallest offerings. For stock footage though, the repositories such as iStock, Pond5, Revostock, etc. are wonderful for individual clip purchases.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

You can do this via the ‘Import Batch List’ command. Here’s an explanation…

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7f91a.html

You can easily create the required tab-delimited text (TXT) or comma-separated value (CSV) files using Excel.

Here’s a working Excel file for you…

5280_adobepremiereprobatchlist.xls.zip

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

I just shot several presentations in excess of an hour long each, and imported them into via Media Browser PPro CS6 without a problem.

The only quirk that I’ve noticed is that each of the spanned clip files will show up in the Project Panel, but they are easy to spot, all being exactly the same length. I remove all but the first clip of the spanned set from the Project Panel and use the first clip in my sequence.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

NAB covers the spectrum. More or less all vendors in the film/video/radio/audio world are there. We’re a very small corporate production company, two of us with a few freelancers, and NAB covers what we do quite nicely. However, NAB can be serious sensory overload.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

I can’t speak for Adobe MAX, since I’ve never been, but I’m a regular attendee at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, and I seriously consider it some of the most well spent money that we spend. I can’t imagine that Adobe MAX wouldn’t be at least as useful, especially for an ‘Adobe-centric’ production house. I’ve been meaning to add it to my agenda.

Early on, the DV industry was advancing at a race car pace, and without attending such conferences you could easily have been run over by it. In recent years the technology has settled to a less frantic pace, but I still find conferences like NAB Show invaluable. Even if you bypass the classroom instruction available, you can learn quite a bit simply sitting through the Adobe Evangelists’ presentations. Plus, you can discuss things with them one-on-one.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

If your have Premiere, then you probably also have Audition, or at least the now extinct Soundbooth. Both Audition and Soundbooth are far superior to Premiere in audio restoration. Here are some tutorials to get you started.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/audition/cs/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010548241038980c2c5-7f30.html

The Noise Reduction process in Audition can do amazing work at cleaning out the underlying ambient noise from A/C systems, crowd hum, etc. – anything that is fairly constant.

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Probably as much time as the ability to save Cross Dissolve presets would save.

But I digress…

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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions