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10 tips for Premiere Pro

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10 tips for Premiere Pro

Postby sidd finch » Fri Apr 26, 2019 6:40 pm

Saw this one:

Tip 1: Drag and Drop
Organization is key before starting any project. Before you start building your timeline, you create bins. Bins are just folders within your project window. McKinnon recommends dragging your entire footage folder into a bin. This saves you the time of having to go through folders and drag the footage separately.


Tip 2. Master Clip Effects
Instead of applying the color grade to clips in the timeline, apply it to the clip in the project window. This will color grade multiple clips with the same effect. So if you make a ton of jump cuts from one piece of footage and forget to color grade it, you can apply it to the clip in the project window and they’ll all be color graded.

Also, if you want to change the color grade of the opacity of the edits, you can go to the Master tab. There you will be able to master the color grading of the clips.

Tip 3. Adjustment Layers
Similar to the previous tip, you can apply an adjustment layer over the top of all your footage and apply effects to that layer. This way everything underneath the adjustment layer had the effects that the adjustment layer has.

Tip 4. Kill Switch
This isn’t really a new tip, but it’s still a good one to know. If your software freezes while you’re editing, you can get actually unfreeze your software within terminal and save your project. McKinnon goes over how you can do it on a Mac (he isn’t sure how to do it on a PC.) You go to your Activity Monitor and write down Premier Pro’s PID number. Once you have that down, you go to search and lookup terminal. Once there you type in “kill -SEGV -( Premier Pro’s PID number).” You hit enter after that, you will be able to go and save your project.

Tip 5. Quick Copy
This is a fairly basic tip, but many beginner Premier Pro users use command C for copy and command V for paste. If you want to duplicate a clip, hold down option, click and drag that clip over and let got. It’s a much faster way to duplicate clips.

Tip 6. Select All
Projects sometimes require massive timelines. If you have to select to the entire timeline and move the whole thing to the right or the left, hit A on your keyboard. You will see two arrows pop up. If you click on the clip you want, you will see that everything to the right of it will become selected and you’ll be able to move them. If you want to move everything from the left of the clip, hold shift and hit A again.

Tip 7. Drop Shift
If you want to put a clip right into the middle of your timeline, you can use drop shift to do that. Hold command and drag the clip over where you want to place that clip. The clip will be placed there and everything to the right of it will move over.

Tip 8. Locking Layers
You should be locking your layers. Why? Because if you are working with music or adjustments layers. All the cuts can be made to an edit without affecting the layers above or below.

Tip 9. Proxies
The answer to playing back large clips on Premiere Pro is using proxies. Proxies are essentially duplicate footage with a lower resolution. They make it so much easier to edit. And don’t worry, once you export your proxies, all the edits you made to it will be applied to the original footage.

Tip 10. Editing While Exporting
The last tip McKinnon has for you is to edit while you export. Don’t waste time waiting for things to export while you could be editing. To do this, instead of selecting Export, select Queue. This will allow you to edit while your project exports.

Many of these tips may seem like small tips, but it’s really the small tips that help you save time and to become a better editor. We hope some of them help you with your Premiere Pro projects.
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Re: 10 tips for Premiere Pro

Postby Steve Grisetti » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:24 am

Wow! Great tips, Sidd!
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Re: 10 tips for Premiere Pro

Postby sidd finch » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:40 am

Steve I really like your new icon, reminds me of Steve McQueen.... solid... :)

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Re: 10 tips for Premiere Pro

Postby Steve Grisetti » Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:45 am

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Re: 10 tips for Premiere Pro

Postby momoffduty » Mon May 13, 2019 8:37 pm

Great tips Sidd!
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