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Premiere Pro 2.0: Clip Notes, The Editor's Friend Tutorial Series, Part 1

If you click on any of those entries in that drop-down list, the clip will be cued up to that point where you made the comment. Click the right arrow next to that drop-down box, and the clip will be cued to your next comment, and the back arrow will cue the clip to the previous comment. It?s also nice the way all of your comments will be dutifully spellchecked by Adobe Reader.

Once you?ve entered as many comments as you?d like, click on the Export button on the bottom right of the Clip Notes interface. Save that file to the desktop again so that it will be easy to find. Notice it?s already entered a filename for you, using that same name that you used when you made that clip notes file in premiere. The Clip Notes interface saves this information in the xfdf format, and adds the word ?data? afterward, helping the editor stay organized by knowing which preview file with which he?s working. Once you have it saved, it?s time to close Adobe Reader and go back to Adobe Premiere Pro.

Next, let?s import those comments back to the timeline. This is the most fun part. Make sure your timeline panel is active?you?ll be able to tell if it is if there is a yellow highlight around. If it?s not, click anywhere on the timeline and you?ll see the yellow highlight appear.

Go to the Sequence menu, and click Import Clip Notes Comments. In the following dialog box, simply navigate to your desktop and double-click on that data file that you just created in the Adobe Reader/Clip Notes interface.

Now, take a look at the top of the Premiere Pro timeline, and you?ll see a whole new set of gray-colored markers, each resting at every frame where you made your comments earlier (see graphic below).

Double-click on any of these markers and you?ll see a dialog box that opens, showing the comments that were made at that exact frame. Click the next button and it jumps to your next comment. Hey, this is neat. You can import as many comment documents as you want, and each set of comments will appear as markers on the timeline. If there?s more than one comment at a specific frame, they?ll appear sequentially inside this window. 

One extra hint: if you add your own comments inside your timeline, those comments will be exported with your Clip Notes when you render it into a PDF file. This way, you can explain what you?re thinking to your client when you send that file for review.

This is a routine that?s quite uncomplicated to navigate and makes it effortless to export a video, add comments to it and then bring it right back into Premiere Pro for modifications. It?s a unique review and approval routine, and it?s straightforward to use, too.

Looking for the other parts of the Premiere Pro 2.0 Tutorial Series? Here they are:

Part 1:  (You are here) Premiere Pro 2.0: Clip Notes, The Editor's Friend

Part 2:  Hot Shots with Premiere Pro 2.0: Multicam Editing

Part 3:  Living Color: Premiere Pro 2.0 Color Correction Made Simple

Part 4:  Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0: Three-Way Color Correction

Part 5:  DVD Authoring from the Timeline

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