To help one switch from LIQUID - my beloved editing program - to Adobe CS3 -I am starting some new links -  because the future of LIQUID is not looking bright to me (as of Nov,2007) At best it looks like Pinnacle will replace  Liquid with a new editing program (name and price to be determined) down the road - but that could be a while (24 months).  And it appears it will be not be at the "professional" level that Liquid is.  The good news is that at worst, Liquid will remain as it is - no upgrades, no further HD support,  no OS support past XP, etc. - but still a great editing tool.

So I am learning Adobe CS3 - and it is not that different than Liquid.  The emphasis in these links will be how I learned CS3 coming from Liquid - so that Liquidians can have some help in making a switch.

First thing I found was that Liquid's splitting out audio and video up front was a real editing blessing - especially in trying to edit in CS3. As was Liquid's ability to copy clip instances from the timeline back to a rack. As well as was some of Liquid's editing shortcut keys.

Anyway - this will be a work in progress - so it will not be real smooth as the pages getting developed in line time.

some examples...
Next Event in Liquid is Next Edit Point in CS3

shift +3 = timeline

Shift +2 = source viewer

V Selection Tool- this is the general mode you will work in moving around the timeline

A -Track Select - this lets you select ALL the clips after the playline or CTI (Current timeline indicator) for the current selected tracks.  A <shift>A lets you select ALL CLIPS on ALL Tracks.

U - Slide Tool

   I like to use the up and down arrow keys combined alone or combined with the Shift, Ctrl and ALt keys to do a lot of timeline and editing  movements.   

If you are used to up down arrows GROWING / SHRINKING your timeline in Liquid - those keys are preset in CS3 and are unchangeable (they are used  to move back and forth along the timeline)  - so I choose SHIFT+up or SHIFT+dn instead.

       They will not be linked, so focus on the audio clips, and the ALt+.(period) will move right 1 frame

Wjhat is a ripple delete - delete selected clip and roll down the timeline

New Sequence - File / New

In Liquid, going to the next event is the next clip or clip mark or timeline mark. 

In CS3 - there is no NEXT EVENT - but moving about is broken into 4 distinct types of markers

• Timeline Marks
• Encore Marks
• Edit Points ( beginning and ending of any clip)
• Clip Marks (marks on individual clips)
   

    go the next clip (edit point) on timeline (pg up / pg dn) 
   
    go to next clip marker (ctrl+shift+->) (WITHIN A CLIP ONLY)
   
    go to the next sequence marker (ctrl + ->)

    in Liuqid, you would choose one or the other - and probably switch back and forth between modes as you edited (as well as activating/deactivating tracks) - depending on the task you were doing.  If you were insert editing or moving clips around, you would generallty be in INSERT mode with all tracks activated.  

In Premiere - you are always in OVERLAY mode - unless you tell it differntly.

Activating All Tracks

Copy the .vfx plugin from folder Pinnacle\HollywoodFX5\Host Plugins\Liquid to  PPRO\Plugins\en_US, and then rename the etension .vfx to .prm

STUFF BELOW THIS HAS NOT BEEN EDITED FOR ADOBE CS3 - but I am keeping it to see if I can add answers and new references later

(Not all DJTV series are listed - so be sure when visiting their site that you check out the entire DJTV pages)

DJ Forum Link to Answer

Note: version 5 does not have this feature

Use Camtassia Studio to capture a region, bring avi into premiere and export to avi file.

Type your text with a weird color on a black background, bring it over the video and key the text color out, make a movie and then apply over the final video by keying the black color out.
Just a quick way to do it.