Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources]

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Customizing the workspace: Lesson 1-2

Adobe revamped the user interface of Premiere Pro 2.0 and several other products in the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium. Here's what's new:

  • As you change the size of one frame, other frames change size to compensate

  • All panels within frames are accessible via tabs

  • All panels are dockableyou can drag a panel from one frame to another as a means to customize your workspace

  • You can peel away a panel into its own separate floating panel

In this lesson you'll try out all of those functions and save a customized workspace. You'll continue where you left off at the end of Lesson 1-1. Before changing the interface layout you'll adjust its brightness.

1.

Select Edit > Preferences > User Interface.

2.

Slide the Brightness slider to the left or right to suit your needs. When done, click OK.

Cave-like editing bays

As you approach the darkest setting, the text switches to white on gray. This is to accommodate those editors who work in editing bays in darkened rooms.

3.

Place your cursor on the vertical divider between the Effect Controls panel and the Timeline. Click and drag left and right to change the sizes of those frames.

Note

The cursor stops briefly as the vertical divider between the two frames snaps tolines up withthe divider above it between the Project and Source Monitors (holding down the Shift key as you drag a divider temporarily turns off the Snap function).

4.

Use the Snap feature to adjust those frames so those dividers line up. Those four frame corners should like this next figure.

Premiere's context help

Premiere Pro provides immediate context help in two ways: tool tips and messages displayed along the bottom of the interface. For example, as you click on a frame divider, a message appears at the bottom letting you know about the Snap feature. If you hover the cursor over the Program Monitor controls, tool tips pop up.

5.

Place the cursor on the horizontal divider between the Effect Controls panel and the Project panel and slide them up and down.

6.

Click on the History panel tab's upper left corner (its drag handle) and drag it to the top of the interface, next to the Project tab, to dock it in that frame.

Note

As you move a panel around, Premiere Pro displays a drop zone. If it's a rectangle, the panel will go into the selected frame. If it's a trapezoid, it'll go into its own frame.

Dealing with a crowded frame

With the History panel added to the frame with the Project panel, you cannot see all the tabs. In this case a slider appears above the tabs. Slide it left or right to reveal all the tabs. You can also open a hidden (or any other) panel from the Main Menu by selecting Window and then clicking on a panel name.

7.

Click and drag the Effect Controls drag handle to a point about mid-way up into the Project panel to place it in its own frame.

As shown in the following figure on the left, the drop zone is a trapezoid that covers the lower portion of the Project panel. Release the mouse button and your workspace should look something like the following figure on the right.

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8.

Click on the Program Monitor's drag handle and hold down the Ctrl key while dragging it out of its frame. Its drop zone image is much more distinct, indicating you are about to create a floating panel.

9.

Drop the Program Monitor anywhere, creating a floating panel. Expand it by dragging one of its corners.

Use a floating panel to increase the viewing area of a panel beyond its frame's borders. This can come in handy when adjusting the many parameters in the Audio Mixer, Effect Controls, and Program Monitor.

10.

As you gain editing acumen, you might want to create and save a customized workspace. To do that, select Window > Workspace > Save Workspace. Type in a workspace name and click Save.

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11.

Open the workspace created for this lesson by selecting Window > Workspace > P Pro 2.0 CIB Workspace. This is a great way to get back to square one if your workspace customizing efforts run amok.