Editing with Premiere CS6.

 As we dive in editing with Adobe Premiere CS6, today's posts focuses on the on the following areas:

• Opening software
• The interface
• Importing footage
• Editing 
• Nesting sequences

Opening software

The first time  you open Adobe premiere CS6 you will be we introduced to the panel that has New project, Open project and Help icons. Select  the (new project) icon  will lead you to the next small dialog box. In this dialog box is where you create a project name as well as choosing the location to save your Adobe premiere project file.

In my example, I will be editing my sons video project which will be called The dance. In this project I recorded my son's as he realized how to dance on a song on his own for the first time. The video project file will be saved as follow:

MyVideo/The_Dance/ TheDanceProject.prproj
/IponeMedia
/IpadMedia
/AndroidMedia
/Final

The last panel in the opening stage is the new sequence panel. This panel lets manually you create sequence manually  but clicking (Cancel) button on the lower right lets system select sequences automatically.

The interface

Adobe premiere CS6 is consist of several panels which can be rearanged for customizing your workpsace. Some of the these panel we will use are:

• Common menu bar -- located at very top
• Source monitor panel--located on left center.
• Program monitor panel--located on right center.
• Timeline panel --located on lower right.
• Project panel --located on the lower left.
• Tools panel --located right before the timeline.

Importing footage
Double click on the project panel to open the (import) dialog box. Navigate to your media folders to select the media folder and click on the (import folder) button. Then, your media folder should appear as a new bin inside the project panel. Please view the image bellow.

Editing 
In the project panel, double click the Media folder to open your video files in the folder bin. Then click the video clip to load it on the source monitor. In the source monitor click the play button to view your clip. After you have decided where you want your start and end of your video clip, click (mark in) tool--to indicate the beginning of  your video then drag the play-head and click (mark out) icon--to indicate the end of the clip.

Then drag the video clip from the source monitor to the (new item) icon next to (mark in) icon. At this point, the sequence with your edited video clip will be created. From the project panel, continue to edit or mark in and out the rest of your video footage as desired and drag them to the same sequenced in the timeline. However, if you have multiple media files of different formats--e,g.,( IpadMedia/consist of 1080p HD format )and (IphoneMedia/consists of 720p HD format ), after editing on on the source monitor drag the the (new item) icon in the project panel to create the second sequence. Note: the main reason we separate different formats into a separate sequences is to make sure all video formats will fit the screen aspect ratio.  At this point, you can rename your sequences if needed.

To trim clips in the sequence, double click on your sequence to open it. Then positioning your play-head on the timeline to select part of the video clip you want to keep or cut out. After you made your selection, put your mouse cursor in the beginning of the video clip and hold down the control key to change the cursor from red to yellow pointing arrow, then drag the begging or end of the clip towards to the play-head (the red arrow will leave space in between clips while yellow won't leave space, but move the clips).

Nesting sequences
Once all sequences are completed, control click the all the sequences and drag them to the (new item) icon again to create new sequence that combine all of your sequences. At this point, click to save your edited sequences as you prepared for the Video Adjustment step which I will cove in the upcoming posts. For more in-depth training about editing in Premiere, refer to "Get editing quickly" video on sidebar.