- Look at that. That is a perfect, mathematically,
nearly perfect cubic inch to point zero zero one
thousandth of an inch. That's just, that's just fantastic. Love things like this! It's just, it's just great. I just, I love that. (upbeat music) What's up everybody? Peter McKinnon here, and welcome back to yet another tutorial. Very excited for this
one, the highly, highly, highly requested 10 tips in Premiere Pro that you should know, that your friends, and everybody who's at all
interested in editing a video that uses Premiere Pro should know. Buckle up, do what you
gotta do to get your coffee, whatever, we're about
to dive into this thing. Let's get started. (gentle music) Okay, so these tips kind of
range from some simple tips to some, like wow how did
you think of that tips, to some old tips, things
that've been passed around and floating around the Internet, a little amalgamation if
you will, love that word, a little collection of
things that I thought would be great for anybody to know. Kind of ranging all skill levels, from people that have never
opened the program before, to people that use it here and there, to people that use it every single day. My goal here is not to just
single out one type of person, but to try to appeal to the masses, so that you guys get the most
out of watching this video. So with that being said, let's
dive into tip number one. (gentle music) Tip number one, Drag & Drop, folks. So you guys know, I am a
big fan of organization and when you're organizing your media, before you even start editing
a project, that's key. You wanna have all your ducks in a row before you start building
out your timeline, so that you can just
work more efficiently, so usually to do that,
you create different bins. Now, bins are just folders
within your project window. The way I used to do this,
was I would click the new bin, it would pop open the project
window, I would name it one DX Mark two, and I would go over, highlight all my footage, drag it into the one DX Mark two bin, but there's a way faster way to do that, just drag the whole folder in. Whatever folder that you
need, drag it right into that project window and all your
files will come along with it. So we got some B roll here,
we got a drone, we got a vlog, we highlight them all holding Shift, we drag them down, we let
go, and we expand these, you can see that they all have contents. You don't have to do that separately, it's all done in one motion, good to go. Taking that organization a step further, you want to label your footage. That way, it's color-coded
on the timeline, so when you just look down at a glance, you can see everything
from a bird's-eye view, and know exactly where vlog clips are, drone clips, B roll clips, you can zoom into that spot
very fast without having to be like, "Where, what,
was it here, was it, "I guess, I thought I had it,
I thought I had it where..." You don't have to do any of that. It's all color-coded for you,
so just highlight the clips in your project window by
clicking on the bin itself and then hold down Shift,
click on the bottom clip, it's gonna highlight everything, right-click and select Yellow, select whatever colors
you want for the remainder of the bins you want to do this for. Then, when you drag
those into the timeline, they're color-coded. Look at that, I just love stuff like that. Color-coded clips,
organized bins, yes please. Moving on to tip number two. (gentle music) All right, tip number two
is Master Clip Effects. And you might be saying,
"Pete, what does that mean?" Let me give you a little
backstory on this. Sometimes I'm editing a vlog, you guys know I do a lot of jump cuts, that's something I do for my
style within these tutorials, within the vlogs, but if
you forget to color grade that clip first off, and
you make 20 jump cuts, from one piece of footage, what do you do? Well, you color the first
clip, and then you would have to copy and paste attributes
and paste and paste and paste over every single cut that
you made, to try and get that color grade to match,
but no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even worry about that. Instead of applying the
color grade to the clip in the timeline, apply it to
the clip in the project window. Let's open up our effects
tab here and type in Mojo, that's from Colorista,
quick kind of color grading, we'll drag that onto the
clip in the project window. So once you drag that
effect to the clip in the project window, you'll
notice all of those clips are now color graded the
same way in the timeline. However, I know what you're thinking, I know you're saying to me right now, "But Pete, what if I want
to change the opacity of those edits, like how
can you actually tweak, maybe like I only want 50% of
that color grade on that clip, but now it's full and
it's on all of them." Zoom on up here to where it says Sequence, and you'll notice to the
left, it says Master. Go ahead and click on
that tab that says Master. This is where you can
control all the effects for that master clip, that master color grade. We'll come down to the bottom
where it says Strength, we'll change that to 50%, 43%, whatever. And now you'll notice
that 43% is applied to every single clip in our timeline. Just love learning new things. (gentle music) Tip number three is Adjustment Layers. And very much like tip
number two, you can apply an adjustment layer over
top of all your footage, and apply effects to that layer. That way, everything underneath
that adjustment layer has the effects that the
adjustment layer has. So you kind of just apply all
of your stuff to that layer and it affects what's below
it, like this for example. Here's a couple B roll
clips from the wintertime, I miss winter. Down at the bottom, you'll
notice the little page icon, that kinda has a little turned corner. Go ahead, click on that corner,
select Adjustment Layer. Just hit OK when that box pops up. That's gonna add a new adjustment layer to the project window, so go
over to the project window, click on that and drag
it onto your timeline. Drag it all the way out so it matches the length of your footage. Now, we can apply our
color grade or our effects to that adjustment layer and
it affects every single clip that that adjustment layer covers. Another little fun fact
about that adjustment layer, if you guys like doing
those fake widescreen bars, I know some people hate
it and they're like, "Why do you do that?
Don't you know anything?" But if that's something you
like because you didn't shoot in a widescreen format, but
you still kinda wanna give it that cinematic look, we're just
talking YouTube videos here. You can go over to your
effects tab, hit crop, drag that crop onto your adjustment layer, change the top and bottom to 13%. I'm dying here, guys. That's gonna throw those widescreen bars over top of your footage, but it's not going to
actually affect your footage. It's on the adjustment
layer, so if you didn't want, at any time, you can just
piece that out, and good to go. (gentle music) Tip number four, kill switch. This isn't a new tip, this
isn't something I discovered, this is old as the hills,
there's tons of literature, if you will, scattered across,
strewn about the Internet with regards to this little
hack, but we all know, the spinning wheel of
death is absolutely no fun. That disgusting beach ball sometimes, that just shows up when you're
editing in Premiere Pro, and it's like, "No, you're
not editing anymore. We've decided that you're finished." There's a way to get through
that, so banter aside, if your software freezes
when you're editing, there's a way to actually kill
that spinning ball of death within terminal so you can
get back and save your project without everything just
crashing, you might be like... What? This is how you do it. It's a little convoluted,
but it totally works. So let's say you got the
spinning ball of death here. What you're gonna do
if you're using a Mac, I don't know how to do it with a PC, but you're gonna open up your search, you're gonna type in activity monitor, and then you're gonna
find Adobe Premiere Pro. You'll notice a little
tab up there that says, PID, that's the PID number,
you wanna record down that PID number for Adobe Premiere Pro. In this case, it's 2034. Once you've memorized
that, or written it down, you're gonna go back up to search, you're gonna type in terminal. When terminal opens, you're gonna type in, kill space dash S-E-G-V, space dash two zero three
four, the PID number. I'm gonna put it on the
screen what you have to write as I'm doing it here. Kill space dash, all
caps, S-E-G-V, space dash, the PID number. Bear with me. Hit enter, and this is
gonna pop up to say, Sorry, an error has occurred. You can hit okay and you're gonna be able to save your project and
get out of that lock screen. So you don't have to just
like hold the power button, or yank it out of the
wall, or throw it down a flight of stairs, it's
kind of like your escape key. Use it at your own risk,
but that is a way to get out of your stuff being frozen. And sometimes get a save back out of it. That's some hacker stuff right there, I feel like we're in The
Bourne Identity and I'm like, I'm routing in through Reykjavik. I'm trying to hack this server before... Tip number five, moving on. (gentle music) This is a super fast one. Tip number five is quick copying clips. Quick Copy, we'll call it. Now this is a super basic
one, but a lot of people that don't know anything
about video editing or just starting in
Premiere, you might always be selecting a clip, command C
for copy, command V for paste. But if you want to just duplicate a clip, just hold down Option, click
and drag that clip over, and let go, and you've
duplicated that clip super fast. I use this every single day,
this is one of those keystrokes that is always being
used when I'm editing, way faster than copy and paste. If you didn't know that, now you do. If you already did, congrats! You're amongst the elite few that are ripping through Premiere Pro. Maybe not the Elite few,
but you know, I'm just, I'm pumped for you, I'm glad you know it. (gentle music) Tip number six, we're
gonna call Select All. Sometimes, you have a massive timeline, you just want to move the
whole thing to the right or to the left, so you can
squeak a new clip in there, but if your timeline's
huge, you gotta zoom all the way out and then
highlight the whole thing and hopefully you highlighted
it right to the right, say no, that's just no. Hit A on your keyboard,
you're gonna notice two arrows pop up. If you just click on the
one clip that you want, it highlights everything
to the right of that, then you can just drag and
move it out of the way. If you want to go left,
hold Shift and hit A again, that moves all the arrows to the left. And we can just click everything
to the left to select it, drag it that way. If you want to get back
to moving it to the right, you just hit A, and it flips
those arrows back around. So it's a very fast way to just, kinda part the Red Sea there,
drop in a couple clips, and Bob's your uncle, you're good to go. Way faster, way more efficient doing that. If when you hit A, you don't get that, it might be because your
keyboard's set up differently, so just go into your Keyboard Shortcuts, type in the search for
track select forward or track select backwards
and you're gonna assign that hotkey to any key on your keyboard. Listen to me, I sound like
James Earl Jones right now. This would be a fantastic cinematic. That's why that voiceover
was so good folks. Just get sick and then record a voiceover, and you're just off to the races. I sound so much more epic right now, I sound like I'm narrating Planet Earth. Planet Earth. Dig it. (gentle music) All right, tip number seven,
we're gonna call Drop Shift. A lot of these little
shortcuts and hotkeys are gonna help you edit faster like
we've been talking about. 'Cause sometimes if you want
to drop a clip on the timeline, but you wanna place it
in the middle of the edit you're already building,
sometimes you'd be like, all right, I guess I'll
just highlight everything on the right, zoom out,
highlight, move over, drop that clip in,
highlight, move it back, whereas that whole process
could be eliminated by just holding down a key
and dragging a clip in, and it would just do all of that for you. So the more of these things
you get comfortable with, you start flying through
an edit and that takes you from five hours editing
a vlog to three hours, or maybe it takes you from
ten hours to seven hours. But now that's extra time
to hang out and go live life or make more content, or learn more skills that you can get better
at what you're doing and take that from seven to three, so that's why I'm kinda
teaching you some of these, and why some of them may feel like, well that's not very substantial. But they actually are substantial, so this next one, drop
shift is exactly that. You wanna drag a clip into the timeline, let's say we have an edit right here, we wanna drag a clip into
that into the middle, if you'd have just dragged
that and let it go, it would just drop it right
in and it would delete, it would replace everything
you're dropping it over, but if you were like, no
I want everything from where I want that clip to
be to move to the right, but I don't want to have
to highlight everything, but if you hold Command,
and drag that clip over, everything to the right of
where you want that clip to drop is gonna move over to the
right and make room for it. It's not gonna replace. Now if you hold Option and
drag a clip over and let go, it'll replace the clip. Just a quick little way to
kind of move in and around the timeline without having
to zoom out and highlight and slow yourself down. Moving on to tip number eight. (gentle music) Tip number eight is locking, locking the layers. Very easy to do, very helpful
when you're working with music or adjustment layers, music tracks and adjustment layers. That way, all the cuts
that you could be making to a vlog or an edit aren't
affecting those layers above and below, because
that can get super annoying. For example, let's say you're
ripping through an edit, and you start making cuts
'cause you've got your hotkeys set up, and you're like, cut
here, here, cut here, here, here, you'll notice it's cutting
the adjustment layer above and the music tracks
below and you're like, this is a mess now. So just go over, lock those
layers and you're golden. For example, over on this side
here, there's a little lock beside the track, click on that. Click on the lock for the music track, it'll kind of gray it out
with these like hashed lines, and then you're free to
do whatever you want, it's not gonna affect
your actual timeline. So now we're making our
cuts, more cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts everywhere, and the adjustment layer and the music track
are not being affected. Once you're done, you can go unlock those, and you are off to the races. So locking your layers can really help you not mess up your timeline. You want to keep it
clean and keep it nice, so it's not more convoluted
than it already is, when you're trying to make
these long crazy vlogs, videos, or whatever it
is that you're filming. Lock your layers. Tip number nine coming right up. (gentle music) Okay, we've all been there. We've flown a drone, we've
got some incredible footage, maybe you're shooting
with a red, whatever, you've got some hardcore,
4K and up footage. You drop that drone
footage on your timeline, and you're like, yo, why
is this not playing back, why is it skipping, why is
my computer going to explode? It's melting, it's just not, I can't, I gotta watch this at like 20% quality in order to even get a smooth playback, or even edit, so the
answer to that is proxies. What is a proxy, you might be asking. So a proxy for those
of you that don't know, is kind of like creating duplicate footage that is lower resolution, so
that it's just easier to edit and easier for your
computer to manage while you're working on your project. Your 4K and your high-res
footage is still there so when you go to export,
those proxies that you made that are lower res, they
kind of call back to that original high-res footage that you have and you can still export your
project with all the same cuts and color grades and
everything that you did to those proxies will then be
applied to your high-res footage. Essentially, it's saving
time, it's just saving your computer from exploding and melting and saving you lots of frustration. So this is how you do that. Let's drag in some drone clips here. Here we go, we got our yellow drone clips, 'cause we labeled them. Call back. And you can see it's like super choppy. It's just garbage. So you're gonna come down to the toolbar that's right below your preview window. You're gonna hit that plus
button and then you're gonna drag this little kind of
recycling looking icon down to your toolbar. Let it go there, hit OK,
so come over to your clip in the project window,
right-click, hit Proxy, then select Create Proxies. This opens up a little
dialog box and this is where you wanna change that resolution
to be a little bit lower, like 720p so that your computer
can actually handle it. And you can do that by
clicking on where it says Preset, and selecting 1280
by 720 and then just hit OK. Once that's done, it's
doing its black dark magic, the dark arts, its
wizardry in the background. You're gonna come over to that little icon that we dropped on our toolbar. We're going to toggle
proxies which turns it on, which effectively takes
all that high-res footage and makes it so you're
using your 720 proxy and now that footage
plays back super smooth. Check that out, I love it! That is editing with
proxies, you're welcome, you're gonna love it. (gentle music) All right folks, that
brings us to tip number ten. You've done it, you've done it all. You stayed through one through
ten, unless you close it now and then you didn't do anything, you quit. Don't quit. Tip number 10 is editing while you export. And it's the easiest little
thing, because a lot of times, I would export a rough
cut so I could send it to a client or send it to a friend. And while that's exporting,
you just gotta sit there. You sit there and you're looking around, and you're just wasting
time instead of just editing in the background and continuing
to work on your project while it's exporting. And it's super easy to do. That just sounds so terrible. I just want this to go away. (coughing) I apologize. So open up your export window
like you normally would, and instead of hitting Export, hit Queue. That's gonna queue it up, you can go up to the top right corner where that little green play button is, hit Play and then you are free to edit while that does its work,
and then you're done. You can keep editing
on your crazy timeline, like we are right now. How awesome is that? It's the little things folks,
that make the big difference. I always say that. It's not necessarily huge, obvious tips, it's the little things
added up that make you a better artist, a better
editor, better at what you do. And that's what I'm trying
to do with you guys here. I'm trying to just help
you out as best as I can. These are 10 tips that I love. Thank you so much for watching this video. Thank you for putting up
with my crazy deep voice that's just cracking and
going all over the place, 'cause, oh, virus. I appreciate you. Thank you so much. Hit that Like button
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