Hey im new with premiere and i have a question?

[El Magnifico]

In the Source window, can you zoom in in the time line. like if its a 30 min vid and i want to get like 10 sec from it. But i need to search the video to get it.
kinda like sony vegas (zooming in in the time line of the source file).

Also if i am correct premiere pro doent like MPEG files?

 

[Kim Welch]

Did you find your answer? In Premiere Pro you can zoom the Source Monitor's time ruler by dragging the ends of the zoom bar under the monitor, then set In and Out points (I and O) around the 10 seconds you need and drag that into your timeline. Premiere handles MPEG files, though converting long files to an editing codec can make scrubbing smoother.

 

[El Magnifico]

yeah i figured it out.

 

[Cybertricks2004]

vegas

vegas

do you know your way around the Sony Vegas software?

 

[El Magnifico]

yeah i m kinda familiar with Vegas.
and i am slowly figuring out stuff.

 

[Tim Kolb]

PPro isn't any worse with MPEG than anything else...

It's biggest limitation right now is that it can't handle any MPEG bigger than 35 Mbits/second or anything at 4:2:2...so it only goes up to standard XDcamHD at 35 Mbits/s and 4:2:0.

I work with this format a lot, and it works well and looks great, but when I want to shoot at 50 Mbits or 100 Mbits/s 4:2:2 for FX work, I'm currently hobbled.