Usually I can teach myself any software by just playing around in it. I feel it’s the best way to learn (for me anyway) because often a course teaches you in a structured manner, and you’re bombarded with information that you won’t be using much and when you do go to use it, it’s been a year and you’ve forgotten anyway. It just seems that when you learn because of a need, it sticks with you.
However, facing the opening screen of something like Flash 8 or Premiere is scary–there’s just so much there. So I figured that downloading the first three lessons straight from the Adobe tutorial site made sense. Or so I figured.
Two things have gone wrong already. First this, straight from the Adobe site:
Copy the P Pro 2.0 CIB Workspace.layout file to your My Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\2.0\Layouts folder.
The only problem is is that I can’t find this file anywhere in the unzipped tutorial files, or anywhere else on my hard drive. Where was I supposed to copy it from? Seeking help from the site search box brought me only to this same spot above.
Second, once I opened the project and started following the tutorial, the first thing I’m supposed to do is:
To place a clip in the Source Monitor, double-click Video 1a in the Project panel.
I did. It didn’t.
This is frustrating; I’m not normally a follow directions type of person, but when I dedicate myself to doing so, it’s annoying as hell not to have an easier time of it than had I messed around and finally stumbled across it myself.
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