Today we used keys on a keyboard to stream through and scrub through clips, and we also
The J Key - Used to rewind clips in prelude, the more you press it in sequence, the faster it rewinds.
The K Key - Used to stop a clip dead in its tracks no matter what, easy to use with the J and L keys.
The L Key - Used to speed up through clips, the more you press it in sequence, the faster it speeds through.
The . Key - Used to create a Overwrite Edit, which will completely replace the clip it is pasted over, overlapping it.
The , Key - Used to create an Insert Edit, which doesn't overwrite a clip, but shifts the clips out of the way and is inserted between them and slots in the middle.
Space Bar - Used to play and stop clips at any time.
The I Key - Used to create an in point, which will decide when the clip will specifically start at, creating a new start point.
The O Key - Used to create an out point, which will determine when the clip will end at exactly, creating an exit point.
This is an introduction video to Adobe Prelude, made by Jason Levine, who has a lot of experience with the tool. The tutorial specifies near the beginning that it will focus on ingesting, logging and creating rough-cuts from clips.
Ingesting
Straight away he heads into the ingesting process, from there the steps go as follows:
1) Click on the big ingest button near the top of the tool, which will link you to a navigation pane, showing all of the physical and removable drives and cameras connected to the system.
2) Footage can then be selected can 'scrubbed', a process which is where you can preview the clips in a lower resolution and see the movement and what happens in said clip, similar to Premiere Pro. You can also re-size the thumbnails and give yourself a better idea of what's in the clip.
3) You can then select one or more of the clips, click on the check-box on the bottom right of each clip, and choose 'ingest'.
4) You will now be on the project panel, which will have a very similar layout to Premiere Pro, now from here you can playback the clips.
5) If you want to do a partial ingest, you can click on a clip and a play-head will appear, then you can decide the start and finish, by using the 'I' and 'O' keys. This will only extract that specific part of the clip into the project.
6) You can also decide to set a destination folder for example, also a sub-folder or even transcode it into different formats, also by using transcoding you create new files, otherwise it's just using references and not actually changing the media in any way.
7) Once you click ingest after this, it begins to process and the clip itself, will now appear inside the project panel as it's own, independent clip.
Commenting and Creating Subclips
1) When it comes to making a subclip or a comment, you can select another clip, and to the left of the Timeline, should be something that's titled 'Marker Type'/ This holds all kinds of different markers and you can view all of the default ones here.
2) Click on what you want, for example, a comment marker, then you press the 'I' key at the point in the clip you want the beginning of the comment to be. Then you wait for it to play out to the point of the end you want, then hit the 'O' key, then your comment has it's start and it's end.
3) You can now select the title and description and configure them as you wish, To the right in the Marker Inspector, your comment will appear and so will it's title and description. (Note: it is possible to change the length of the clip without using the 'I' and 'O' keys).
4) An asterisk will appear next to the clip name on the top right of the Timeline, this means that the clip has been modified or is now 'dirty'.
Rough Cuts
1) By selecting many clips and/or subclips, you can go up to the file tab and select 'Create Rough Cut...'. (Other options include buttons featured on the project interface).
2) When you make a Rough Cut you are prompted to make a name, create the name and click 'save'. You can then go on and choose your clips, then drag them into the timeline.
3) From here, any clips with any modifications like comments, or subclips, actually appear int he timeline panel. This is purely a cut-sequence timeline, the markers themselves in this state, are not edible.
4) If you want to edit those clip markers you will have to go back to the original clip and edit and save those changes yourself.
5) Now that your rough cut is assembled you can go ahead and go the file tab and select 'Send to Premiere Pro'. Or you can export it to Premiere Pro or Final Cut if you see fit, in this case, we focus on Premiere Pro.
6) Then, it will appear in Premiere Pro and actually boot up the software, opening your clips, now from here, you can work on these clips with Adobe Premiere Pro.
