Premier Workspace
The overall application environment or GUI (Graphic User Interface) is referred to in Adobe Premier as the "workspace." There are several workspaces to choose from but for our purposes we will stick to the basic Editing Workspace default.
This may seem overwhelming at first but think of it as a series of monitors in which you will focus your attention to individually (in professional work environments you would typically see these panels displayed on dual monitors for more work space as longer videos can take up a lot of real estate on a single monitor).
Effects and Effects Controls Panels
The Effects Controls panel is where you can apply and control various effects for movement and opacity. This is where we will be addressing the Ken Burns effect for making still images move. Our use in this panel will be limited for this workshop but it is instrumental in video editing.
The Effects panel is in the same area as the Project panel in the Editing workspace and is where we will be applying various effects such as Video Transitions like Fade, Slide, and Wipe as well as Audio Transitions like Cross-Fade.
The Project panel is where we will import the audio, video, still imagery like jpgs and Photoshop files. From this panel we will drag and drop the various files needed to begin our video editing into the timeline.
The Timeline panel is used to manage the various video and audio files. By clicking on these files while within this panel we can apply the various effects to create transitions and other effects to audio and video files. It is also where we will be placing title pages. The pink boxes represent the video files and the green boxes represent the audio files.
The Program Monitor is the panel in which we will be looking at our work and viewing how our video will look overall when exported. When can also control movement of images and video here as well.
