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Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Quick Start Guide for Media Composer users

Switching to the enhanced video-editing power of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is now easier

than ever. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is a natural and familiar transition for editors currently

working with Avid Media Composer. Use the traditional editing paradigms you are used to,

while leveraging real-time playback, accelerated rendering, and faster encoding.

Get started quickly

Launch Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and select “New Project.”

In the New Project Dialogue box select the

location where you want to store your project and give it a name. By default all of your captured Video,

Audio and previews are stored in the Project Folder. All media you import is kept in its original location,

just as you would expect.

If you are not sure which preset to use in the New Sequence Panel, just press Cancel. After importing

your media, right click on any piece of footage and choose “New Sequence from Clip.” Adobe Premiere

Pro will automatically build a sequence optimized for the media. Alternatively, you can start with any

sequence and drop a clip into the timeline. Adobe Premiere Pro will make the best match for the footage.

Moving a project from Media Composer into Adobe Premiere Pro – It’s as simple as 1,2,3!

1.

Export an AAF file from Media Composer, make sure to choose AAF Edit Protocol and Link to

existing media. Close the source project.

2.

In Adobe Premiere Pro, select File >Import.

3.

Browse to the AAF file, and click Open. Adobe Premiere Pro will prompt a relink to AMA Footage

(Native MXF Avid media can reconnect varying on codec.) Dissolves and audio keyframing come

across for the sequence.

Importing Made Easy

The Media Browser allows you to easily import virtually any video format without transcoding and edit it

natively. Adobe Premiere Pro links to traditional movie and audio files as well as industry standard file

based media, such as P2 cards, XDCAM, RED, and ARRIRAW. To import files using the Media Browser,

select the Media Browser Panel in the lower left quadrant, navigate to the files you want to import, select

the files you want to use and right-click and choose “Import” or drag the clip thumbnails to the Project

panel.

Timeline Colors Demystified

Here is a key to decoding timeline colors.

No color Playback will play directly from the original source media file. Playback at full quality is

certain to be in real time.

Green

A render preview will be used.

Yellow

Playback will probably be in real time.

Red

Playback may or may not be in real time

If you have a fast computer, then a lot of things marked with red may play back in real time; if you have a

slow computer, then some things marked with yellow may need to be rendered to preview files before

the segment can be played in real time.

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Quick Start Guide for Media Composer Users

Get more information and meet

others making the switch to Adobe

Premiere Pro from Media Composer.

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Designed to take advantage of

today’s 64-bit operating systems

and all of the RAM in your system,

the Mercury Playback Engine in

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 delivers an

amazingly fluid editing experience

with real-time playback, accelerated

rendering, and faster encoding.

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Mobile Mac workflows also can

take advantage of GPU-accelerated

performance thanks to support for

AMD Radeon HD 6750M and AMD

Radeon HD 6770M graphics cards

with 1GB VRAM on some MacBook

Pros running OS X 10.7.

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You also can get faster GPU-

accelerated performance with a

supported NVIDIA card.

For an up-to-date list of supported

cards, see www.adobe.com/

go/64bitsupport.