Before getting started in Premiere Pro, it’s important to get familiar with the core interface. In this movie, Abba Shapiro identifies the four primary windows—the Source Monitor, the Program Monitor, the Timeline, and the Project panel. He discusses the roles that each of these panels play in organizing, previewing, marking, laying out, and editing video.

Learn how to work in the Timeline panel. Hide and show layers with the Video switch. Learn about layer duration and how to use composition markers. Zoom in and out in the Timeline panel, and move forward and backward in time.

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern gives an introduction to custom effects which trigger actions using layer markers inside of Adobe After Effects. You can download the Animation Preset from the http://www.sternfx.com/down

Create PSD documents in Photoshop that contain 3D object layers and animate and composite the 3D object layers in After Effects.

Use XMP metadata, layer markers, composition markers, and cue points.

Create PSD documents in Photoshop that contain 3D object layers and animate and composite the 3D object layers in After Effects.

Use XMP metadata, layer markers, composition markers, and cue points.

Use XMP metadata, layer markers, composition markers, and cue points.