Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC

Learn how to migrate your video editing workflow and your projects from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC.

Many post-production studios are migrating from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro. This course shows video editors what to expect when making the switch, focusing on the key differences in the editing workflow in Premiere Pro CC vs. FCP 7. It compares the two programs' interfaces, data structures, concepts, tools, and techniques. Author Jeff Greenberg walks through each step of the workflow: project setup, media import, editing and trimming, audio enhancement, transitions and effects, and export. The final chapter covers a few project management features that will help you transition seamlessly to Premiere Pro.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Starting Premiere for the First Time

• Getting familar with Premiere Pro
• Starting a new project and creating your first sequence
• Mercury Playback Engine benefits, system design, and minimal rendering
• Adjusting key preferences

2. Ingest and Organization

• Using the Media Browser for better importing
• Ingesting vs. linking: Making a safe copy
• Bins and marking clips
• Adjusting frame rates, fields, and alpha channels
• Handing stereo clips and mono clips
• Dual-sync sound
• Key comparisons about importing

3. Editorial

• Source tracks patches, drag and drop editorial, timeline navigation
• Three-point and four-point editorial
• Editing directly from bins
• Automate To Sequence
• Match Frame, Reverse Match Frame, and Reveal in Project
• Key comparisons about editing

4. Timeline Techniques

• Adjusting track heights
• Replace edit
• Moving clips on the timeline
• Freeze frames and adjusting speed of clips on the timeline
• Delete vs. Lift and Extract
• Key comparisons about the timeline

5. Trimming

• Using the Razor and track tools: Quickly cutting and moving footage
• Super fast: Tops and tails
• Trim tools: Ripple and Roll
• Slipping footage
• Key comparisons about trimming

6. Transitions

• Quickly adding video and audio dissolves
• Using the Effect Controls panel to customize transitions
• Key comparisons about transitions

7. Audio

• Speed bump: Adjusting raw clip volume and understanding gain
• Adjusting clip levels in the timeline and effects editor
• Adjusting clip levels in the Audio Clip Mixer
• The audio workspace and essential sound panel
• Adding effects to individual clips
• Powerful: Using the Track Mixer for effects on track and master output
• Key comparisons for audio

8. Effects

• Red doesn't mean render: The Effects panels, the Mercury Playback Engine, and acceleration
• Built-in (and non-built-in) effects: Scale, position, blend modes, crop, and drop shadow
• Copy, paste, and remove effects and attributes
• Speed bump: Getting clips to match the frame size
• Keyframing in the Effects panel and saving effects
• Powerful: Adding master effects
• Key comparisons for effects

9. Effecting Multiple Clips: Nests and Adjustment Layers

• Nesting and unnesting clips
• Adjustment layers

10. Color Correction

• Lumetri panel: Primary corrections
• Lumetri panel: Secondary Corrections
• LUTs in Adobe Premiere Pro

11. Titling

• Using the legacy titler
• New titles

12. Output

• Export media and queuing through Adobe Media Encoder
• Creating a custom QuickTime ProRes (or DNxHD) master output
• Exporting stills
• Exporting for audio work stations

13. Advanced Interop and Project Management

• Importing and working with multiple projects
• Using the Project Manager
• Sequence setup: Understanding smart rendering codecs for super-fast exports
• Pancake timelines

Conclusion

• Next steps