17 POWER Tips, Tricks, & HACKS for Premiere Pro CC

well hey everybody I'm Nathaniel Dodson from Tut vidcom welcome right into this premier pro tutorial where today we're gonna take a look at 17 absolutely killer must know tricks and tips and even I guess you could say hacks in Premiere Pro that are gonna help you edit faster and just some cool things you can do with Adobe Premiere Pro now and I got to break out the big guns for this this video is being brought to us by our sponsor Squarespace they're my good friends over there Squarespace that comment if you're in the market for a new website go to squarespace.com slash cut vid use the coupon code a Tut vid to get a nice little discount go ahead and show them some support for showing us some support they're helping me bring you all these tutorials and videos for absolutely free here on the channel they really do help us out and I love them very much for that so if you're thinking about getting a domain and a website setting up an online store getting your portfolio online finally hit over squarespace.com /tao if you check them out and show them some love now with that out of the way let's jump into this video right now and get this thing started alright so here we are in Adobe Premiere Pro and at the first tip or trick that I want to show you number one is just creating a simple text title so this is what you want to do come down here and hit new choose to create a new color mat I'm gonna hit OK and I'm gonna fill this color mount with white that's gonna essentially give me a white screen we can just call it white or whatever you like I'm gonna drag it out onto my timeline above my video stretch it out a little bit maybe something like that and then I can simply grab the text tool or the type tool and I can click out here and I can say the title of my film something like that and what we would do is over here in the effect controls you now get all of this information but I find it's easier to go window and choose the essential graphics panel to edit your text I like to do that and you can choose edit and you can see the title of my film the problem is the fill is white we want this to be black because we've just created our white frame there we go you can choose any font you like I think I'm gonna go with montserrat here and I will go with a bold or something like that and we can align this to the center so this is just centering the text up within the text area this doesn't actually Center it on the frame then you can use your align tools here to just align horizontally and vertically and boom you have some nice simple black text over a white background you can stretch that text out and you've created a nice little title sequence here just like that it's very very simple to create something like that here in Premiere Pro I'm gonna delete that the second thing I want to talk about is using your up or down arrow keys let's say my playhead is out here and I want to quickly get to either the first or last frame of this time-lapse clip well if I hit the down arrow key takes me to the end which you can see is actually the beginning of this next car is driving in Cuba clip but if I hit the up arrow key it takes me back to the beginning of that clip now one quick thing that I do need to point out this only works when you have tracks targeted so if you have multiple like graphics stacked up I said I drag out this white mat here maybe the white mat here say I've hit the down arrow key it's totally ignoring all those white mats it's only focusing on the video clips why because of this right here I've only targeted this track if I target both of these tracks now I hit the down arrow key it's gonna take me to the beginning of the white mat then the beginning of the next white mat then the end of that second white mat then the end of this video here and then down again it's gonna take me to the end of that white mat and by the way if i zoom out I can keep hitting the down arrow key and jump to the end of all these different Clips up arrow key to just back it up and shut off targeting if I don't want to target clips or be disturbed or distracted by cuts on other tracks here in our Premiere Pro project so let's talk about tip number three you can select and loop any little part of your timeline that you like let's say we're working on a little transition here between the end of this Cuban car clip and the beginning of the piranhas so the transition would begin maybe at 40 and 40 seconds so let's at the letter I to set an end point and the transition maybe ends at 42 seconds so it's about two seconds long roughly we hit the letter O to set an out point this kind of like grabs a selection of the timeline so to speak but we can tell Premiere to just loop within this in/out area and ignore everything else because maybe we want to get an idea of what this really looks like and be able to just look at it a few times without having to scrub back and forth well what you're gonna want to do is add the loop button so come over here to the button editor press the plus icon and just drag this looper button drag it and drop it down here with the rest of our buttons hit OK make sure we turn that on and then just simply hit the spacebar and you can see it's going to play through and it's gonna loop and it's gonna do that over and over and over again I can just hit spacebar to stop that and then alt or option + the letter X to clear my inner out points and that is a really really cool little trick to loop a specific part of your video in Premiere Pro now speaking of maybe we're working on a transition and we just want to quickly of you you there's another way you can do this that isn't necessarily that doesn't involved in or out points and that is called the play around feature you can get the play around future by simply hitting shift in the letter K and what this is gonna do is it's gonna back the play head up a few seconds and play that video and then play just a couple seconds past and just continuously loop that and of course for us it's continually looping because we still have our loop option turned on we could shut that off if you only want to see it once but this is a really nice little feature if you're if you're working on something and you you just kind of scrub through the transition you're like you know what let me just see that again shift K to play that now there's another little cool thing about this and that is you can go up to premiere preferences and come down here to the playback option and in here you can set the pre and post role times so maybe we only really want to see one second before wherever the playhead is and one second after it so we can set pre and post role to one second hit okay and now when we hit shift K it's only gonna back the playhead up one second and play one second passed so you can see it's just gonna show us a much smaller preview area so that can be kind of cool to go into there and make that little change and just set that up exactly with the 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that's T UT VI D to save 10% off your first website check them out show them some love they really helped us out and we appreciate you Squarespace so much thank you and with that out of the way let's jump back into this video so another really cool thing you can do is preview your video as a full screen now many of you may already know that you can simply hover over any one of your panels here and hit the tilde key and it's gonna maximize that panel so if I hover over my timeline as you can see maximize is that if I hover over my video monitor it maximizes that but what if we actually want it to be true blue fullscreen we'll check this out we can come up here to our keyboard shortcut editor and we can search down here in the search field right here we can search for the toggle full and we get the application toggle full screen option and I just set this to be control and the tilde key you can really set it to anything you want that's just it just feels natural to me being there but you can really set it to anything you want so at this point I could just hit control tilde and I get fullscreen video hit the spacebar to preview and play and then simply hit the Escape key to get out of it it's a nice little way to quickly be able to preview your videos in premiere pro tip number 6 another thing I like to do is change the hotkey for my add edit feature to the letter Z this add edit basically will cut the video at whatever point you've placed the playhead so I hit the letter Z boom you can see my video is now cut this is a nice easy alternative to having to come over here and grab the razor tool for every single cut you make so once more if we go into our keyboard shortcut editor and we search for the add edit function you can just go ahead and set the shortcut to something that works for you I changed add edit to Z because I also like to change my ripple deletes to the letter X you can see it's X or shift in the foreword delete button but just the letter X that way if I'm making some cuts what I can do is say yeah make cut there make it cut there and this sort of junk part is already selected it's not I just hit the letter X which is right next to Z boom it's gone just like that it's just a nice easy little workflow that I really really like now let's say we're gonna use that hotkey and just create a bunch of cuts here in this video just something kind of like that and we want to select these cuts you can do this by holding down the command or control key and dragging a selection over these cuts you can see how just the cuts themselves are selected now here this is pretty cool have you ever cut a clip and wanted to join it back together well if you just select the cut like this you can simply hit the Delete key and boom it's back to one normal clip again no need to nest all those clips together I'm gonna undo that and I'm gonna hold down commander control and select all those cuts again something else we can do is add a default transition by hitting command or control D you can see we've automatically added a cross-dissolve to all of these cuts now it's not really gonna look like anything because it's just the normal video going through its paces and by the way over here in effects under video transitions under dissolve you see that little blue square that means the cross dissolve is my default transition if you don't like that and you want something else's default transition right-click on something else and choose set selected as default transition a nice little thing to know all right let's move on to number eight I'm gonna grab these cuts I'm gonna get rid of them to join that together speaking of a bunch of multiple transitions this can be helpful if you have an interview or something that's a narrated where you have multiple cuts in the audio so I'm gonna lock up my video here for a second I'm gonna unmute my audio and let's use add edit to make just a bunch of cuts here to our audio so let's say these were all just like little bits and pieces of some interview that we were working with well what we could do is we could select just the cuts by holding down command or ctrl select all those cuts and then hit shift D to apply our default audio transition now if i zoom way in i'm gonna see i've applied these tiny little constant power crossfade audio transitions now how am i getting that and why is this important number one over here under audio transitions under crossfade constant power has that little blue square that lets me know yep that's my default audio transition and shift D is going to place my default audio transition now why is it so small yours is probably a little bit bigger and why is this important well let me answer the wise it's important first sometimes when you're working with narration or voice over an interview if there's some kind of ambient noise going on in the background at all sometimes you get a little pop or a noticeable something happening when you go from clip to clip as the video and audio plays through and adding just a very very quick crossfade it can just make everything smoothly flow one clip right into the next and this is a fast way to add that transition now why is the transition so small easy up here under the Premiere Pro preferences menu we can come down here to the timeline option right there timeline and we can choose audio transition to fault duration and I right now have it set to two frames and that's really all you need it just needs to be something tiny if you want it to be bigger you can go 30 frames or something like that I can hit OK now I can undo to get rid of all of my all of my little transitions and now if I select these transitions and hit shift to D you can see I have a much larger constant power crossfade the problem with something big is you're gonna end up fading their voice in and out and that's gonna sound just as bad you want it to be something that just happens pretty much instantaneously and just gets rid of any kind of little popping or just sound in disgust ound discrepancies I should say that don't sound good and of course with all of these selected I can hit the Delete key to delete them and rejoin my audio clip as it was I'm gonna unlock my video track and we're gonna move on to tip number nine here and that is going to be well let me find my videos here and my bin that is going to be replacing a clip in your timeline so I could take this video shot here I can drag it out hold down my alt or option key and drop it on the clip and you can see that old clip just simply gets straight-up replaced by this new clip maybe I don't like that I want to go back to the old clip there's that little time-lapse I can drag that and drop it while I'm holding the Alt key and boom the clip is just replaced easy peasy just like that now tip number 10 and this is gonna embark upon a number of little trimming features and these are gonna be something maybe you should write them down or just make a note of them because they're super duper useful they're so helpful especially when you're fine-tuned editing something but they can be difficult to remember especially if you're not using everyday we can select a side of a transition you can see that when that red arrow appears I can click on it you can see how it's selecting like the side here on the time-lapse and if I wait until the red arrow flips now it's sort of selecting the Cuban car side right well I'm gonna select this side I can simply hold down my alt or option key and use the right arrow and just cut the clip back one frame at a time if I hold down my shift key while holding down all I can bounce it back five frames at a time so that's kind of a nice little feature and if I don't like that I can just drag it back out to the way it was but that's a really nice little trimming feature you can also do it to the front of a clip hold down alt or option tap the right arrow key hold shift while doing that and tap that right arrow key and you can nudge it a whole bunch just like that it can be a really helpful way to precisely edit and trim up your Clips within a project now check this out let's say we make a cut here in the middle of our video we cut out a chunk like this and I'm gonna go over to my effects in my presets I have a little I got a black and white option here just a black and white preset I'm gonna drop on the video right here so you can see it's gonna make this part of our video black and white whereas the two pieces around it are still in color I'm gonna mute the audio as well because that's kind of annoying hearing it just kind of Peter through like that but let's say we send this off to the client they say oh we really like that quick cut to black and white but we kind of want it to be a few seconds earlier so then you would have to come in here you'd have to get rid of whatever effects you've placed you would have to you know delete those cuts but you don't really have to do any of that because you can hold down command or control select both those cuts and then hold down your altar option key and move the entire clip within context the beautiful thing about this is it's it's not stretching the video at all you can see the video is just exactly the way it would have been just with basically the black and white filter moved it's not actually taking and knocking everything out of place it's just sort of sliding that black and white effect over as well as those cuts in the video to make it super fast and super easy to make those kind of edits to any of your Clips I'm gonna go ahead hold down commander controls select both of those cuts delete them and you can see the black and white just goes away no problemo and let's move down let's make this interesting we've been working with this time lapse clip let's go ahead and come to this girl riding a vintage bike shot and let's say here the the clients looking at it and they say you know what I want to cut away some of this stuff at the beginning of the clip so we want this clip to begin right here when the pedal is straight up and down so right there is where we want it to begin basically we need to trim the entire head of this clip off well you can do that by number one making sure that your clip is targeted or your track is targeted I should say and then simply hold down alt or option and hit the letter Q now you can see there's also trimmed away all of this audio so I'm gonna undo that let's just lock up our audio and try that again alter option in a letter Q boom the video is gone and it trims it exactly to the playhead now what if this is where they wanted the video to end we need to trim the tail off this clip well you could hold down alt or option and tap the letter W and the entire tail of the clip gets cut off and it makes a lot of sense if you look at your keyboard Q well that's the left side and this is the left side of the playhead and W is on the right side on your keyboard and this is the right side of the playhead that's getting trimmed one of the nice things about this particular trim is it's not going to disturb the timing of the rest of your video right none of the video ripple deleted or moved around it but if you do want to ripple delete well that's no problem just get rid of the alt or option key hit the letter Q to ripple delete the head of the clip off boom and now the clip just begins right here I'll undo that or if you want a ripple delete the tail of the clip hit the letter W boom just like that super duper easy and it's just such a really nice editing trimming technique it's so stinkin fast and the more you do it the more you'll love it and the faster you're going to get at editing here in Premiere Pro all right now for tip number 13 I want to talk about removing and pasting attributes let's say again we've made this whole clip of black and white right in the client just they love this look they're like this is it we want the whole video to look like this well of course we could just select all the clips and drag this this visual effect out and drop on all of them but we could also copy and paste attributes from one clip to another I can just make sure I have this clip selected here and I can go edit I can choose copy just like that nice and simple and then I can come over here to any other clip maybe the classic cars right and I can choose edits paste attributes and you can see it's gonna tell me a which attributes would you like to paste well I don't really care about the emotional path city or time remapping but I also know that I didn't make any changes to those so I'm just gonna leave them there the main thing I'm interested in is the luma tree color effect now the cool thing about this is let's say you have 20 different effects on a clip number one you probably should have 20 different effects on a single clip but hypothetically if you had 20 effects on a single clip you could just pick the ones you want it and send those over when I hit OK you're gonna see the black and white effect gets copied over to this clip it's really cool it's really pretty easy but now if you decide you don't like it again you could always right-click here and just choose to clear this effect but again hypothetically if there's 20 of these effects applied right like maybe we've gone ahead and applied this VHS of fact you could look I mean look at all this stuff right are you gonna go through and select all that stuff and get rid of it well probably not you can simply go edit and you would choose remove attributes it's grayed out we want to make sure we select the clip over here on our timeline and then we'll go edit remove attributes and here we don't need to get rid of the motion opacity or time remapping stuff we just want to get rid of yeah all this stuff here all these stupid effects hit OK they should all be checked and boom just like that they're all gone really really fast really easy and we can do the same thing here with this we can go edit remove attributes and just say yep get rid of the luma tree color we can leave the other stuff checked on - because we haven't made any changes to it and now the clip is back to the way it was when we first dragged it in already moving right along to tip number 14 let's talk about adding some motion blur so I'm gonna add some type here I'm gonna type in Havana I hope my hope I'm spelling that correctly Havana Cuba and I am going to yeah we'll just leave this as Montserrat I think we will make this a little bit larger maybe something that lets align this center within the text center align the text I guess it should be saying and let's go back to essential graphics real quick and choose edit and I'm gonna change the field here to white I could do that my effect controls panel but I'm mainly interested in my align and transform options here I want to just line that up with the very middle and yeah I think I'm okay with that now what we're gonna do is we're just gonna perform just a very quick and dirty scale from very small to much larger now we could animate the scale option here which is sort of your default video effects but we can get a better effect if we go to the effects panel close my presets here and I search for an effect called transform down here video effects distort transform I'm gonna drop that here on the text and we have a scaling option here why do I want to use this you ask well let me show you we're gonna tick on animation here by draw by hitting the stopwatch dropping a keyframe we're gonna set scaling to is zero and then I'll move out just a little bit like right here and we'll set the scale back to 100% at this point you can see we have a little bit of just kind of a zoom from nothing boom right up to much larger text it looks kind of it looks kind of staticky there's just not much going on there what I think I'll do let's make it a little bit faster let's push that keyframe back a little bit and you can see there's our text animating up from nothing just like that there's no motion blur though so here's the trick down here in the transform effect you have this used compositions shutter angle as you can see we can uncheck that and choose our own shutter angle I like to go with 360 degrees for my shutter angle and I'm just gonna drag this back so I can see my keyframes I might even I'm gonna zoom in here on this timeline by hitting the plus icon I'm gonna make my animation happen in even less time so it's gonna happen even faster and you can see look at that we have this nice blurring effect now applied to our animation we get a really cool just text that appears from nothing zooms up into the screen just like so and the motion blur is made possible by the transform effect now speaking of this effect this brings me to tip number 15 getting better crisper more professional-looking animations I'm gonna hold select this animation timeline and hit my plus key to zoom in a little bit more let's say we want to give this a little bit of bounce right we want to make this look a little smoother maybe a little bit more like it was made in After Effects well we can select both these keyframes by dragging this selection over them we can right click and maybe we'll just go with something simple like an auto but za which is going to give it a little bit of easing in you know and kind of make it just bounce into place make it look a little more professional but we can also hit this little arrow over here to the left of the scale option and we have these custom easing options which I can zoom in on and again the key here is going to be make sure you have your keyframes selected they're blue they're selected they're gray they're not selected drag you out of selection over them and make sure they're selected I'm gonna drag this tangent handle over and then I'm gonna drag this tangent handle up and what what this is going to tell the animation is animate right here remember this point is a scale of 100% this point is a scale of 0% so we're gonna tell this look scale up get bigger than 100% and then snap back into place at 100% and this is gonna give us kind of a cool almost whiplash effect with this effect so you can see just very quickly and easily we added this really neat little snap to our title maybe not the most professional thing in the world but hey you now know how to go in and use these tools to use your own personal aesthetic and skill to maybe get a more professional looking animation by using the custom easing and win this case scaling options for easing here in Premiere Pro alright tip number 16 this tip is relatively simple but kind of important don't sleep on the adjustment layer so we can come over here to our project bin in fact I'm gonna find my actual sub bin right here and we can hit the new icon down here and choose to create an adjustment layer it's gonna give us all these settings and everything great and then I can drag this adjustment layer out over a few Clips the beauty of the adjustment layer is you can apply effects to the adjustment layer and they will affect any clips that just happen to be beneath that adjustment layer so we could look at these videos these these few clips and maybe we want to give them a special like you know deep blue color treatment or something we can go to effects we could go to video effects we could say color correction and maybe I'll just I don't know what we'll give it something like a tint let's just do a simple tint with the adjustment layer I'm gonna map the black to maybe like a deep dark let's go actually go a deep dark blue something like that very very saturated hit okay and we'll map the white to something like a very kind of beige you looking yellow color something like that and then we can you know increase or reduce the amount to tint maybe thing like 55% that looks cool so you can see if we shut the adjustment layer off I can just toggle abating the eyeball there it is before there it is after so we've changed this clip but we've also changed this clip see if I shut that off there's before there's after and then if we come over here to our sunrise there's before and there is after so we've applied the same exact effect across a series of clips but we didn't have to worry about adjusting these clips and if we decide you know what let's see what this looks like with the puranas we can just drag that adjustment layer out and now we've applied it over part of the Parana clip so here's the Parana clip without the adjustment and here's the Parana clip with the adjustment so adjustment layers can be a really really powerful tool there are a whole lot of fun to use they're very versatile and very very useful here in Premiere Pro alright so we're gonna head into the seventeenth and final tip we've come so far we've come so far don't leave me now and this tip is going to be all about exporting using the Adobe Media encoder part of the cool thing about Adobe Media encoder this app right here is you can come over to the queue and you can choose to add a source and we can navigate to a premier project now maybe I want to jump back into Premiere Pro just make sure I've saved my project and probably unmuted the audio track as well but in order to do that we need to unlock it so now I could unmute the audio track and while we're in here so it gets me every time we'll just trim the audio track off I always do a little bit too much alright let's get back to the task at hand Adobe Media encoder we could double click our premiere project did I save it commander ctrl s to save it that's what I initially went over there for alright we can select our premiere project double click on it and dynamic link is going to access this premier sequence here nice and easy I can choose the 17 tips folder there's that working sequence which we're working in see the name of the sequence is working so it's going to select all this video we have in here I can select that working sequence hit OK it's gonna load it up here for export I can choose a preset if you've got a preset or one of Premiere Pro as many presets choose whatever you like you can choose to output the file wherever you want it to be under sound putting this guy to my desktop and then hit the play button and that will start the cue and render out now the importance of this is you can render out a file and then jump back into Premiere Pro and continue editing and not worry about Premiere Pro being all bogged down and throttled by Adobe Media encoder get back to work and bring your Pro editing while that exports in the background it's nice and easy helpful and that is the final 17th of 17 tips for editing faster tips tricks hacks you name it in Premiere Pro and yes there you have it ladies and gentlemen that is 17 power tips tricks hacks whatever you want to call them in Adobe Premiere Pro if you enjoyed this tutorial make sure you subscribe to my channel by hitting that little subscribe button now and I turn those notifications on you're never miss another Premiere Pro tutorial in the future you can also jump into our discord discord me / tut vid and join our little community that we're building over there as well so for all of these cool trimming features and creating quick title sequence and hey adjustment layers and just everything that we covered here and now today right here in this Premiere Pro tutorial guys that's it get it got it good nathaniel Dodson took vidcom I'll catch you in the next room and before you go make sure you subscribe to my channel for more great tutorials every day also by my course it helps us do what we do and this channel is supported by viewers just like you you can also just click the thumbnail and watch another video from this channel see you next time guys [Music]

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Length: 25min 38sec (1538 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 20 2018