My relationship with Premiere is precarious and quite on and off. Throughout the last couple of years I have used it for projects but have never been all that confident in my ability to navigate its many features. I can sit in front of the program and roughly edit a sequence together, add titles and do some basic colour correction. However, I felt that my knowledge of how mouse clicks related to physical film processes was absent. After Paul’s introduction class I began to finally realise the scope of the program’s capabilities whilst simultaneously realising I had been missing so much. Even a concept as simple as Bins was something alien to me In previous days I would have dumped all of my footage into Prelude, maybe changed the names of some films and then finally attempted to edit everything in one sequence. This made organising a nightmare, often wasting time attempting to retrieve particular clips lost in cyberspace.

Whenever I was uncertain of a how to achieve a technique I would often YouTube it or try to find a tutorial on any number of blogs. It never occurred to me that I could look up a tutorial on how to actually set up and organise my editing. In terms of Paul’s suggested way of organising like the idea of separate bins and sequences, however, I feel that I working in a single project file is daunting. I would be constantly scared I would delete my entire semesters work or lose it somehow. On the other hand I feel that it may be a hindrance on my creative approach to certain tasks. New work will perpetually sit beside the rudimentary work I’ve created thus far.

As Paul explained in relation to new sequences, having a clean slate allows bold decisions to be made and I feel that I will work best with individual projects. Within each project I feel that I will follow Paul’s system that has finally cleared up a lot of my confusion and apprehension towards Premiere. I’m eager to continue to expand my knowledge of the program and hopefully explore to a greater extent how the program is intrinsically linked to editing physical film. This in turn will hopefully provide me with a greater scope of understanding when using the program to make creative choices.