From the course: Premiere Pro CS5 Essential Training

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The Premiere Pro workflow

The Premiere Pro workflow

As you begin your Premiere education, it's good to take a step back and see the big picture. So in this movie, we're going to look at the overall workflow in Premiere Pro. The first step in the Premiere process is that we import footage. We bring in all kinds of elements that we'll be using to create our story. So in the Project panel is where this all goes down. We bring in audio clips. We bring in graphics, Photoshop files. We bring in video clips. Anything that will help us to tell our story, all different kinds of media. We then take the clips from the Project panel and add them to a little mini project called a sequence and this is really where we do our work, here in the sequence. And this is the Timeline panel where we see our sequence. And I have several clips here that you can see. And we add effects and we add transitions to our clips in the Timeline over here in the Effects panel. We can tweak those effects and transitions in the Effect Controls panel up here. With our…

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