Need some handholding regarding Premiere 2.0 (comments thread contains questions)

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preferably in IM chat, because I just don't understand the program well enough to ask useful questions here. Ideally, I'd need someone in RL who could sit beside me so I could point at stuff on the screen and go 'ugh!' (I'm lacking practically the entire vocabulary here) but since it's unlikely that there's a vidder who could give me private lessons where I live, IM will have to do.

I don't really want to do anything *particularly* fancy - mostly just very basic transitions; possibly a white flash, and some slowing down of certain parts. I've played around with the program, on and off, for months, but most of its functions are just utterly mystifying to me.

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After some more playing, and actually managing to improve my vid a bit...

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I just tried 'render work area' and got the error message 'disk full'. Now, the partition I installed Premiere on is far from full - there's about 80 GB free. Is it possible that Premiere uses parts of another partition for rendering (my C:\ partition is pretty small), and if it does, can I tell it to use the one it's installed on?)