Continuing migration from Avid to Premiere Pro. How 'bout these functions..?

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Hi folks,
Thanks for the continuing wisdom of this group as I continue migrating from an Avid system to Premiere.  These are some workflow questions and Premiere may or may not have equivalent functions - but it doesn't hurt to ask.  These are things I got used to in my workflow.  I can learn a different workflow in Premiere but first I'm looking for the simiarities and differences.  Unfortunately these functions are often called different things between products, making them hard to look up.
   1) "Mark clip."  In the Avid, park your CTI anywhere within a clip in the timeline.  With a given track active, hit "mark clip."  In one keypress or mouse click this sets an In Point at beginning of that clip's appearance in the sequence and an Out Point at the end without having to go find the boundaries manually.
   2) "Match frame."  Park the CTI in the sequence with a track active, hit Match Frame and the source clip will come up in the source window, cued to the same frame you're parked on in the sequence.
   3) "Find bin."  If the sequence monitor is active this will highlight the sequence in the project window, showing what folder it's in.  If the source monitor is active it will instead highlight the clip that's currently loaded as source.
   4) "Remove edit."  Say you previously used the knife (Avid would call it "add edit") to split a clip in the sequence.  Now, a number of edits later, you don't need the split there anymore.  In the Avid, you click on the seam between them and hit the delete key.  The Avid will recognize if these are contiguous points in the same clip and eliminate the cut, joining the clip back together seamlessly.  If it's anything else, hitting delete will have no effect.
   5) In the color correction effect, you can correct several (potentially large numbers of) clips simultaneously.  If you set in and out points, for instance, you can correct all the clips between them identically with all the adjustments being made automatically as you make them on one clip.  Or you can identify clips as all coming from the same camera and the correction will apply to every clip in the sequence attributed to that camera (very useful for multicamera projects).
I'd appreciate any insight into how Premiere deals with some of these.
Thanks!
Pete

Answer 1

Colin - thanks for the info - very helpful.
Todd - thanks for pointing me to the additional resources.
It's amazing how a product bundled into a suite for just a couple thousand bucks does virtually everything I paid over $100,000 for just a few years ago (and some things that product line doesn't!).
I do have two follow-up questions.
   1) What do you consider the BEST resource for getting your arms completely around how to get the most mileage out of the suite functionality, i.e, dynamic linking between applications, bouncing between Premiere, AE, etc.?  (I don't mind paying for some books or self-help resources but I'd love to know what you've had good experiences with).
   2) The Avid has an export option called a Reference file.  This exported file looks to other applications like a Quicktime or AVI file, depending on how you set it up, but it's really a set of pointers to the original media that make up the sequence.  So if you're using, for instance, a high-end software encoder for DVD (we use Cinemacraft, which I think does a better job than the built-in Adobe encoder), you don't need to export your entire sequence to another file and THEN bring that in to the DVD encoder.  You export a reference file which is a few hundred kilobytes.  Does anything like this exist in Premiere?
Thanks again,
Pete