In-depth Look at ALL of the Timeline Tools for Premiere Pro CC 2020

all right in this video we're gonna be getting to know the user interface of the timeline just a little bit better we're gonna be covering all of the tools that you have access to on this side of the timeline panel as well as up here there's a lot to cover with these tools so let's get right into it alright so the first thing we're gonna be going over is called toggle track output which are these eyeball icons right here so as you can see we have my intro right here and then right here we have a video of a hard drive all this does is when you click it it will disable that entire layer so now we're not seeing anything that is on the v2 track and now if I rename it we can see the hard drive and same thing down here if I were to disable this all we're gonna see is black because there's nothing underneath this video layer so this can be useful if you're wanting to hide an entire track maybe you just have some effects or a bunch of video clips that you don't want to see you can just turn them off by toggling off this entire track do be warned though if this is not on during export none of those video clips are going to get exported so before you export make sure any of your tracks that you want back on or turn back on alright so next up we're gonna be talking about what's called toggle sync lock and that's all of these icons right down here so normally what would happen if I were to delete this and then delete the gap as you saw everything moved over all the audio and all the video and all the different layers moved over so if I undo that and zoom out a little bit delete and then delete again everything moves over on the track now with toggle sync lock lets turn one of those layers off so I'm gonna turn toggle sync lock off for this entire audio track right here now watch what happens I'm gonna click delete delete it again everything shifted over except the audio so now for example if I were to disable the sync lock on track 2 you'll notice the only track that's gonna move is this one on v1 now this and this one stayed exactly in place now in this case that would put my whole video out of sync because I have all this b-roll lined up with the audio so that's not something I would want to do but if there are ever cases where you only want to move specific tracks but not everything else you can turn off the toggle sync lock and then those gaps will not move so as one more example on here we have this green clip right here which is on v4 so if I disable that and delete the gap you'll notice this never moves so everything else shifted over except this so if you don't want something to shift you can turn off the synch lock by default all of the sync locks are always on so everything will move whenever you shorten the gap next we have track targeting and that's all of these blue icons right here and they say v1 v2 v3 and so on as well as a 1 a 2 and a 3 anything with a V is referring to video anything with an A is referring to the audio if the track is blue that means track targeting is enabled for that track and if it's grey it is disabled to enable or disable all you have to do is click on the track so now there's quite a few scenarios where this comes in handy the first example that I'm gonna give is if I wanted to copy and paste a clip so maybe I come all the way over on my timeline and I copied this piece of text and now I want to paste it right above this clip here if I were to hit command B right now it's going to paste but it's gonna paste it on this bottom track right here and delete a bunch of my stuff so I pasted and now it cut off some of my clips well I don't want that to happen obviously and doing something like finding an empty gap pasting and then moving it just isn't very efficient so this is where track targeting comes in if I were to paste whatever the earliest track that's enabled is is where the clip is going to paste so in this case v1 is the earliest track that I have enabled which means it's gonna paste on v1 so if I want it to paste on v4 which is above this clip I can disable all of these hit paste and now it pasted right up here now if I wanted it to paste on v2 I could enable v2 and hit paste and now it pasted now you can also map keyboard shortcuts to track targeting so if I were to hit one on my keyboard that will enable v1 if I hit three that enables three four five six seven and so on now by default these aren't mapped to the number keys so if you want to change that you can come up to Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts and then search toggle target and this will give you all of the track targeting options so you can see my video layers are set to one two three four five six and audio is set to option one two three four five it's now if I ever copy something and want to paste it on the correct layer I can turn off all the ones I don't want and then paste right away and put it on the one that I do want now there's also another setting in premiere called selection Falls playhead which is up at sequence and then right here and with this on anything that is underneath the playhead will be automatically selected by premiere so if I hover over this clip automatically selected you can see it's automatically selecting for me I find this to be an incredibly handy feature and if you want to turn it off you can just go here and click it but now why this is important for track targeting is if track targeting is not enabled for that track it will not select anything on that track so if I were to hover over here and now move back you can see it's selecting the audio because video 1 is disabled so it's not going to select anything here now it'll select v3 but if I turn that off and go back you'll see now v3 is not getting selected so this is another area where track targeting is important now on our far left right here we have toggle track lock and that's just all of these lock icons right here and you can pretty much guess what this does if you turn it on its gonna lock the entire track you'll have all of these diagonal lines going through and now I cannot select or adjust anything for this track I can't move them I can't delete them so a lot of times if you don't want to accidentally mess with something people will lock their tracks so that they don't accidentally move or delete something all right now there's one more setting on the far left of this panel that you can't see all the time in order to be able to see this you need to double click a clip in the bin and open it inside of your source monitor and now you'll see we have another v1 and a 1 now this looks exactly identical to your track targeting and you might think well isn't it just the same thing and it's actually not this is called source patching and now what this is for is if you use the insert and overwrite commands while you're editing so remember how we can set an in and out point and now we can either drag the audio and video to the timeline and put it down there that way or you can use the period and comma keys to paste it from the timeline down to here if you prefer doing it with a keyboard shortcut so source patching is for if you use the insert and overwrite commands and if you're going to use the source monitor to put clips on your timeline I would highly recommend that you use the insert and overwrite commands so remember for track targeting depending on what track was enabled if I was to copy and paste something that's where the track would paste well it's the same thing for source patching right now B 1 and a 1 are enabled so if I hit insert it's going to insert the clip right on V 1 and a 1 now if I want to paste above and below this for the audio I can click right below and right above and now if I hit the period key it's going to go from the source monitor onto V 2 and a 2 so if I had a whole timeline right here full of b-roll and I wanted to put it all over top I wouldn't want these two to be enabled I would want to put that on top and bottom for source patching so now that when I'm doing this all of my clips that load in will go right above because I don't want to overwrite any of these so now remember in order to see your source patching the source monitor has to be enabled now here's one little problem that people who are new to Premiere frequently run into if I disable the source patching for video and now try and drag in my audio and video you'll notice only the audio came in and that's because this is disabled now you'll notice if I disabled the audio and enable the video if I drag only the audio comes with so sometimes people accidentally turn these off and then they go well what the heck my audio isn't coming with or my videos not coming with all you have to do to fix this is make sure that your source patching is enabled on both of the tracks so there you go that's source patching all you have to remember is that track targeting is 4 while you're editing and kind of where you paste and move your clips to source patching is sending clips from the source monitor onto your timeline depending on which track you have enabled is going to decide where it goes from the source monitor onto your timeline all right so next up we have the audio tools on our timeline and right here is just a microphone where when you click it it will start letting you record a voiceover directly on to the track in premiere now if you right-click on this track and click voiceover record settings you can change the pre roll and post roll so pre roll means it's gonna count down three seconds after you click the button and after those three seconds you can start talking you can either disable this if you want to start recording right away or you can leave it enabled and change the number if you would like to have that you can also change your microphone settings right and rename your track if you want if you ever want to see the name of your track you can double click on the track in an empty gap and it will expand it and now you can see the name you can also do the same for video tracks alright next up on the audio tools we have this s which is for solo track so you can see we have our music right here and then the sound from this clip so if we play both of these together you can hear them both now if I hit s I'll solo just this audio [Music] so if I ever wanted to isolate just a couple sounds or maybe one sound effect on a track you can just hit the solo button and listen that way and now M is the exact opposite this is just for mute track and now a common mistake that a lot of people make is I will see them mute a bunch of tracks just so they can listen to one and that's exactly what this solo track button is for instead of having to hit em on all of these tracks you can just hit S on one of them so keep that in mind because I have seen a lot of veteran editors make that same exact mistake and now we have these tools right here and you'll get to this more later in the course but these are for creating keyframes so if I press this button it will place a keyframe if I move over I can place another keyframe and if I want to hop between the keyframes you can hit these arrow keys to jump between them personally I would never use these because there's much better way to create keyframes as well as jump between keyframes which we cover in the creating keyframes video so check that out if you want to know more about those now if you right click on a track you're gonna get a handful more options you have rename so you could rename this to label your tracks which can help keep you organized so I can name this one a roll and then I could expand the second track and name this B roll you could expand the third track and do graphics and so on name of your tracks can just help you keep a little bit more organized now if you right-click again you'll see a handful of options you have add track delete track add tracks delete tracks and customize if you go to customize you can customize which buttons are inside of your track if you really don't want to see one of these buttons you can get rid of it or reset your layout back to normal personally I just leave mine at the default now if you ever want to add tracks there's a couple ways you can do that so you can see I own we have a third layer right here if I want to add a fourth all I have to do is drag this clip up one layer and it will automatically add a fourth and you can keep doing it that way or if you have to add a bunch of tracks at once you can right click add tracks and now I can just type in a number I could do ten and it will tell you before first track after video six or whatever track you want and you can do the same with audio so I'm gonna add three audio tracks and ten video tracks and now you'll see we added a whole lot more tracks now here's a little tip for you if you hover over your tracks and hold shift and then scroll you can expand all your tracks or you can close all your tracks same for audio if I hover over the audio I can close them all or expand them all now if you want to open just one track without double-clicking on it you can hold down option or Alt on Windows and scroll and that will only expand that one track personally I find it a little bit easier to just double click and open it though alright so that covers all the tools in this timeline panel now let's come up to the top this one right here which is called insert and overwrite sequences as an S or individual Clips I actually have a full video that breaks down this feature as well as nesting so go check out the what is nesting video if you want to know more about that next up we have this magnet icon which is for snap in timeline and basically with this enabled what will happen is when you go to a clip you see that black little line going down it's a little magnet saying hey we're gonna stop you here because we think you want to just connect it here now if I were to disable this and move around you can see that black lines not showing up so it'll let me place this clip wherever I want but now most of the time when you're moving Clips around you don't want to try and measure everything perfect to a frame just to make sure it lines up and you don't overwrite anything so if you enable the magnet you'll have that snapping turn back on and you'll be able to see when you're connecting to a clip most of the time you're gonna want to leave this on next up we have linked selection and with this enabled audio and video that came together will stay linked and you can move them around but if you turn this off now audio and video will move separately so these were linked together but now I can move them freely because this is off and you'll notice there's this red little box with some numbers inside of it and this tells you how many seconds and how many frames these are apart so currently this is 31 seconds and four frames apart from this audio and if I move them closer you'll see that number goes down now it's 17 seconds and two frames if I move it again two seconds and 15 frames and then if I line them back up it disappears again this is something you're probably just gonna want to leave off and now next up we have the marker button you can click this and it will place a marker down on your clip or timeline if no clip is selected it will place a marker on your clip you can also use the keyboard shortcut which is M to place markers I'm gonna have a full video that breaks this down as well because there's a lot to cover with markers but for now that's what markers does and you can place one on the timeline just by hitting out alright now we have our timeline display settings which are under this wrench and there are a lot of options in here all of these right here are pretty self-explanatory if you want to see your video thumbnails on the timeline you can click this and it will turn them off or you can leave them on show video keyframes you should always leave this on same with audio keyframes show video names I leave this on which is just this name right here and for show audio names I leave this off it's purely preference whether you want this on or off so either way works next up we have show clip markers and if we had placed some markers and then we turned this off you will not see your markers on the timeline so if you ever placed some markers but you can't see them make sure to check your timeline display settings and then enable this if it's disabled all right so next up we have show duplicate frame markers and this is actually a really cool feature so I'm gonna duplicate this clip by holding down option on a Mac or alt on Windows and then dragging it to the right and now notice a blue line went straight through this as soon as I did that and what this color means is that hey there's another clip on your timeline that is using these exact same frames so if you had some b-roll you were using for a project sometimes you get a edit that's just big enough where you're not sure if you've already used that shot well if you see this line you know you've used that shot before but now watch this if I were to shrink this shot over here you'll see the blue line disappeared on part of the clip because this part of the clip is no longer being duplicated anywhere else and it's only this portion of the clip right here so this can be really helpful telling you exactly which frames of the clips are being duplicated somewhere on your timeline now if i duplicate another shot you'll see that the color is different that way you can find out which colors match the shot that's been duplicated but do be warned after you've duplicated ten Clips the colors will start to repeat so show duplicate frame markers can be really helpful in spotting duplicate frames on your timeline by default show duplicate frame markers is turned off all right so next we have show through edits now if I were to place a couple cuts on this you'll see you can see the cut where the little black line is and now if I enable show through edits you'll see there's these little arrows connecting and what these are saying is hey you placed a cut on a clip that could all be one clip so right here if someone came onto this timeline and saw all these cuts they're not gonna know at a glance without that on that this is all one clip they might think these are all separate shots well you can see that it would all be one shot if it's enabled and now if you wanted to move all of these around and you didn't make any changes it would be a really big pain you know highlighting all of these and then moving it around or moving them one by one so what you can do if you want to restore all of this and get rid of these cuts on the single clip is you can hold down command on a Mac or ctrl on Windows and then highlight all the cuts and hit your delete key and this will get rid of all of those cuts assuming that there's been no changes in between those cut points so for example if I place some cut points and then I changed the speed of this clip to 20% you can't rejoin this cut point because the speed has been changed here so the speed over here is a hundred percent but over here it's twenty percent so you can't rejoin that but if the clips are all the same and there hasn't been any speed changes you can highlight all of these delete and everything rejoins by default join through edits is off as well right next up in the list is show FX badges and that's just this little FX badge right here when there's no effects applied to your clip it's gray but now if you apply any adjustments to the position scale or rotation that badge will turn yellow if I undo those it'll go back to gray and now if I apply in effect from here like luma tree color that badge will turn purple now if you have a clip that has an effect on it as well as changed the skill or rotation that badge will turn green to let you know that a combination of those have been applied together and now the last badge color you can have is when there's a red underline underneath this so if I select this clip we have our effects control panel and if I go over to the master and now drag the Lu metric color inside of there you'll see that this badge turns red so now what this means is you've applied a master clip effect so if I go over to the master tab and change this it's going to change it everywhere inside of premiere so I just raised the exposure up by three stops and now that adjusted in the source monitor on the timeline and in my bin so if you ever want to have an effect on your clip and you want it to apply everywhere in the project then you can do it by applying a master clip effect and that's noted by showing you a red underline underneath your FX badge alright next this is enabled by default but we have composite preview during trim which is a mouthful but if I were to take this clip and start dragging it you'll notice in the program monitor we can see two little views the left clip is the one that is currently being adjusted and you can see the time being adjusted on it and this is telling you how much you have shortened or extended the clip and then to the right of that is the beginning of this clip right here so if I go to the beginning you can see it's a picture of that hard drive right there so if I'm dragging this out on the right you'll see the start of that shot and on the left is the clip that you're adjusting so I'm gonna drag in a clip that actually has some movement in it so you can see this so let's put this one in here place a cut and now we'll adjust this so if I move this you can see that the left shot is moving and this is showing you what the last frame of that shot is gonna be so I'm gonna go where you just barely see the SanDisk and now if I go right here you can see it's exactly how we had just edit it where you can barely see the word SanDisk if I drag it out it's black because there's no clip against this but once it's against this you can see the other shot that's incoming so that's all composite preview during trim is it just lets you see more information up in your program monitor and now getting to the end of this finally we have minimized all tracks which will minimize all the tracks on the online or you can expand all your tracks or you can use these presets so for example if you know you always want some tracks expanded and others minimized you can set it up however you want so let's say you wanted V to be one and audio one always expanded you could set those up exactly how you want them then go down to save preset and you can save this as a track height preset and then you assign it to one of these track height presets and once you've done that you can go up to Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts and then search track height and you can map a shortcut to those presets so that way if you ever want to quickly adjust all of your tracks at once you can just map keyboard shortcuts to it and do it that way if I do command T that's going to minimize all of my tracks for me and you can see that I have that set up right here and I named that one minimized tracks if you want to manage your presets you can click manage preset and you can change which one they're assigned to or you can delete them and then lastly at the bottom here we have customized video header which we already went over that's just where you right-click inside of here and then click customize you have that for both audio and video so your guys go that is all of the tools inside the timeline panel I know there were a lot of tools but getting to know these can be extremely beneficial for your editing if you guys have any other questions feel free to let me know

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Length: 21min 18sec (1278 seconds)

Published: Thu May 07 2020