[Instructor] So, once Premier Pro launches
the first thing that you probably are going to see
is the start screen, but it's possible that
you might see the welcome screen,
if you're on a trial version or if this is
the first time that you've launched the software.
You can always access the welcome screen by
coming up to help and then welcome screen.
And this contains some step by step
tutorials and some practice media that
you might find really useful if you're a beginner.
Okay, so feel free to explore that on your own, for now
choose skip.
Because we're gonna focus on the start screen.
And before we go over everything on
the start screen, I should mention that
there is also now a learn tab and this
contains even more tutorials for you to learn Premier Pro.
Alright?
So, again feel free to explore that on your own.
But, let's take a look at the start screen
and I'm gonna start over here at the recent tab.
And this is where you can see the
projects that you've recently accessed.
Of course if this is you're first time
launching the software you won't find anything here.
There are also two other tabs here.
CC files where you can access shared files and
assets that you can use across multiple
creative cloud applications.
And sync settings, where you can log in
under your Adobe ID and sync your personal user settings.
We'll talk more about these handy creative
cloud capabilities a little later in the course.
But, I wanna start basic here, so
let's go back to the recent tab.
Alright, so let's talk about accessing
new and existing projects.
You can either work in stand alone projects with
new project and open project or
you can collaborate with others in
team projects, new team project and open team project.
Now as of this recording, team projects are
available for creative cloud for teams users as
well as creative cloud enterprise users.
So as most people taking this course are
likely on individual or education plans
we won't be discussing these in this course.
So, we'll come back up to new project and open project.
Now, first I just wanna show you
what happens when we create a brand new project
so that we can see what everything looks like from scratch.
I'm going to click on new project and
when I do this, I'm gonna see this
new project dialogue box where I
need to make some choices.
First, I need to name the project.
It's really important to name your
projects intelligently, never leave it named "Untitled".
So I'm just gonna call this one "Donut DEMO".
This is where you direct where your
project is going to live.
So, I can click on browse, and navigate to
a location, I'm okay with it going
right inside of my project folder in my exercise files.
So I'll set that location, but of
course you can place yours wherever you like.
And this is a basics course so
we won't hit all the information
within this window in great detail,
but I did just wanna briefly tell you
what's some of these things are.
Under the general tab, you have
video rendering and playback and
this is where you can direct Premier Pro
to use your graphics card to help
achieve real time performance and playback
with your video and effects.
So, if you have GPU-acceleration make sure to
choose that and I have that selected here.
The default options for video, audio and
capture are fine for now.
But, I'm gonna head over to scratch disks and
talk about a few things here.
This is where you set the locations,
where you wanna store new media
that you create during the editing process.
This includes things like video and
audio that you capture if you're
ingesting anything from tape or disk,
your video and audio preview files,
which are temporary render files
that are sometimes necessary for real time playback.
Your project auto save location,
which is where you project backups go,
which can be very useful in the case of
a crash or project corruption.
There's also the folder location for
creative cloud library downloads and
this allows you to access commonly used
assets across many different creative cloud
applications, that downloads right to your system.
As well as location for your motion
graphic templates media and these are
templates that you create in after effects
and can edit with in Premier Pro.
It's totally up to you where you store
each of these items, just be aware of what you choose.
I'm might recommend to keep your project
auto saves in a different location than your project.
That's because if the drive that you
keep your project on crashes, for example,
then at least your auto saves will be
safe in another location.
So, to set this to another location,
I would just browse and then navigate to a new location.
Then there's also the ingest settings tab
and this gives you the ability to automatically
ingest media in the background as
you edit in a number of ways,
including copying, transcoding, creating proxies
and copying and creating proxies.
Now, this is a little bit too much to
go into right now, but we will touch on
this in chapter three, just realize that
this is creating brand new media,
something that we're not interested in
doing right now, so I'm going to uncheck this.
Alright, so I've created a new project,
I've named it, I'm gonna say okay and
the project opens and we'll begin
taking a look inside the software next.