The most obvious way to get started in Premiere is to use Adobe's 'learn' and 'help' features. The 'help' search is always there in the upper right and the 'learn' window can be opened here;
But, sometimes it's easier to just go to a fast-paced YouTube video;
For me 'Premiere Gal' has proven extremely helpful! The video embedded above is freshly done and teaches you the basics in 25 minutes. You'll find all the videos here...
First, and most important it was necessary for computers to have a language beyond mathematics. The vision of Grace Hopper
made it possible to communicate with computers using English. At
Remington Rand her idea was not accepted for 3 years. In the meantime,
she published her first paper on the subject, compilers, in 1952. "I
decided data processors ought to be able to write their programs in
English, and the computers would translate them into machine code. That
was the beginning of COBOL, a computer language for data processors."
Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013),
whose vision of collaboration using computer technology to help solve
the urgent and complex problems of all of humanity, died on July 2,
2013. His comrades believed that his ideas were never fully realized due
to his ideals and generosity of spirit. For example, he resisted
patenting the "mouse" he'd invented and it eventually fell into the
public domain. The robotic rigidity of institutions is also to blame --
most powerful technology companies in American relegated him to R&D.
Ted Nelson, professor and inventor of the first hypertext project, delivered Engelbart's eulogy
on December 9, 2013. In his tearful delivery, he said the "...real
ashes to be mourned are the ashes of Doug’s great dreams and vision,
that we dance around in the costume party of fonts that swept aside his
ideas of structure and collaboration...Perhaps his notion of
accelerating collaboration and cooperation was a pipe dream in this
dirty world of organizational politics, jockeying and backstabbing and
euphemizing evil." Engelbart articulated his ideas for collaboration
publicly in what is known as The Mother of all Demos
delivered on December 9, 1968, over a half a century ago. Some of what
he described is still in the process of being realized in commercial
forms such as Skype, Google Docs, and more.
Ted Nelson
inserts a bit of attitude into this history. He detests the evils of
limitations and compromise. He questions corporate control. His
technical ideas may have not have had as widespread impact as others
here, but his spirit, and that of his ilk, is what helped made computing
a tool available to most rather than a select few.
Steve Wozniak
believed that computers could be beautiful machines. Not just
utilitarian devices with some industrial design on the outside, but
beautiful from the inside out. Art objects. The idea was radical, and
has changed our lives. We are now willfully living with computing
technology all of the time.
In 1979, Sophie Calle asked several (23) persons, friends,
strangers, neighbors, to come and spend eight hours in her bed
in order to keep this bed occupied twenty-four hours a day. These
people had to consent to being photographed and to answer some questions.
She took photographs of the sleepers and noted the important
elements of these short meetings: subjects of discussion, positions during sleep, their movements during their sleep, the detailed
menu of their breakfast she was preparing for them... The whole
set of these series of photographs (23) was exhibited at the
XIth Biennale de Paris in 1980, Sophie Calle's first show, inspiring her to "become an artist."
This essay extends the notion of 'the death of the author' to an
analysis of forms. The Work is the physical product, the Text comes after the
consumption of the Work, where the ideas can live on and mutate. It's almost cliche
now to look at an artwork and talk about 'the text that surrounds it',
but this idea is relatively new, and represents for many a transition
from Structuralism to Post-Structuralism.
In this essay Barthes brings up 7 points that can be briefly summarized;
1)Method:
Work is a thing, Text is a discourse
2)Genre:
Work often identifies as genre, Text transcends genre
3)The
Sign: Work = moderately symbolic, Text = radically symbolic
4)The
Plurality: Work is often singular and always finite, Text is infinite
5)Filiation:
Work has an author, the Text extends beyond the author
6)Reading:
the Work is consumed, the Text keeps giving
7) Pleasure: Work = fascination/delight, Text =
Utopian Pleasure
What we learn here is that what we mostly get from a cultural product isn't something that's extracted from it, but rather an entity that becomes quite independent of the original thing itself.
Everything we've looked at this term is pretty well summarized in three videos by the rather brilliant and accessible Tom Nicholas
Beethoven quickly becomes a focus of this essay. What was written here seems to evoke his 9th Symphony, created at the end of his life. Music which today can become invisible because of its pre-recorded familiarity, or revelatory in its creation of soul-stirring vibrations.
This doc is a bit cheezy but still a rather moving chronicle of the present day life of this 200 year old piece;
"That because Beethoven was freed {by deafness? maybe} to explore deep within his own nature, he was able to create works that would have a future." And, he most definitely did.
"The truth is perhaps that Beethoven's music has in it somethinginaudible(something for which hearing is not the exactlocality), and this brings us to the second Beethoven."- pg.152
It may be important here to think of Barthes as a student of Phenomenology, having an interest in the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Through Beethoven he may be waxing on the complexity of experience that music, and all other art forms, can stir up.
