Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace You’ll dive into nonlinear editing in the next lesson. At this point, you’ll take a brief
tour of the video-editing workspace. In this exercise, you’ll use an Adobe Premiere
Pro project from this book’s companion DVD.
1 Make sure you’ve copied all the lesson folders and contents from the DVD
to your hard drive. The suggested directory is My Documents\Adobe\
Premiere Pro\5.0\Lessons (Windows) or Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/5.0/
Lessons (Mac OS).
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Note: It’s best to
copy all the lesson
assets from the DVD
to your hard drive and
leave them there until
you complete this book;
some lessons refer to
assets from previous
lessons.
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16 LESSON 1
Touring Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
2 Start Adobe Premiere Pro.
3 Click Open Project.
4 In the Open Project window, navigate to the Lesson 01 folder in the Lessons
folder, and then double-click the Lesson 01.prproj project file to open the first
lesson in the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace.
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Note: You may be prompted with a dialog box asking where a particular file is. This will happen
when the original files are saved on a hard drive letter different from the one you’re using. You’ll
need to tell Adobe Premiere Pro where the file is. In this case, navigate to the Lessons/Assets folder,
and select the file that the dialog box is prompting you to open. Premiere Pro will remember this
location for the rest of the files.
In Adobe Premiere Pro’s
welcome screen, you
can start a new project
or open a saved one.
All Adobe Premiere
Pro project files have a
.prproj extension.
