MUST WATCH editing tips in Adobe Premiere Pro

hello and welcome the video revealed I'm Colin Smith this is the must watch editing tips in Premiere Pro I've got one at the end that I guarantee you've never even tried and didn't even know it was there we all know Premiere Pro can be a very deep program and for a lot of new users it takes quite a while for them to get up to speed with a lot of tips that professional editors have been using for years so I've got a bunch of these tips these are the top things that are really really easy to mix the first one is did you have any idea you can make a whole new sequence with a folder let's have a look I've got a folder here full of videos a bunch of clip shot by my buddy Kurt pear and all I have to do is have an empty sequence over here on the right take the whole folder drag it over here and boom now I've got all of that in there pretty easy this is really great for b-roll when you've got a bunch of stuff you just want to throw in and trim out now all of these clips come in at their full duration from the beginning to the end what's an easy way to chop these up with a Q key and the W key this is ripple trim previous edit to playhead ripple trim next edit to playhead Q and W so you just find the point where you want to trim so if I want to trim at this point here hit the Q key and what that basically did was it took the whole top moved it over there it selected this area and deleted that so if that's the way you're normally doing it click select boom delete Q and W key so you can easily go through and grab each one of these so there's the Q the W key is I want to end it here so it's trimming the beginning and trimming the end so trim the beginning trim the end and you could also do this with the by hitting play so you can hit the spacebar and play and do the exact same thing to W I think you get the idea so let me just trim a few of these you okay so we drag in a folder trim them up we've got all our clips sitting here working great now what if you wanted to get rid of one of these clips well that would be a ripple delete and what you might be doing if you don't know this next step is selecting something hitting delete then selecting the gap then deleting the gap well if we just select the gap I'm holding shift and hitting the Delete key on windows the Delete key on Windows is also called the forward Delete key on the Mac and hit that and it does a ripple delete it's basically the same operation as right-clicking and choosing ripple delete you can go into the keyboard shortcuts which are much better to see in the new version of Premiere Pro but if you just type ripple you'll see ripple delete and you'll see the keyboard shortcut in there so ripple delete do that all the time in fact I don't even have to get the mouse to click in here to select that wherever the playhead is and the track targeting over here on the left if I tap the D key it's going to select it shift delete boom just like that and if you hit the up and down arrow you could find a clip hit the D key hit shift delete and get rid of it like that all with the keyboard without having to grab the mouse because if you're going to do the operation to remove it with the keyboard isn't it a lot easier to select it with the keyboard so up and down arrow hit the D key and delete it the track targeting on the left is really important too you don't want to make sure you want to make sure you're deleting the right clip so you have to select it over on the left hand side if you've got extra footage like a music track here so this is a music track here and if I select this and try to ripple delete this it's going to ripple delete that and keep this in place no problem if this is selected so if this is a clip with both audio and video and you ripple delete that you'll get rid of both of those clips if you have this selected link selection where you're only clicking on one and D selecting that if I try to ripple delete this I can't I'm hitting the same keyboard shortcut that's because this is part of that clip and you can't easily use the ripple delete on one piece and leave the other piece because it's part and can triple something that's still there here's another one this is important too if you've been editing something and let's zoom into here and I'm going to cut this with the razor blade so I've got to cut between these two clips and let's say that originally you had this over here and you had a different clip later on you remove that clip you join these back together and you realize you know what this is the same clip I'm not missing any frames in here I hate the fact that I've got an edit in here I wish I could join this through edit right-click oh look at that join through edit boom now it's one piece nice one isn't it now if you can thank the Final Cut Pro users the Final Cut Pro 7 users for something like that because they asked Adobe to make that command similar to Final Cut Pro alright next one is selecting forward in background I'm going to open up a special sequence I've got for this let's say that I wanted to select all of these clips on this here but I was zoomed in I want to find an easy way to select every single clip on that track from where I'm selecting until the end of my sequence and I don't want to have to zoom out grab the most select everything to make an operation well on the left hand side there's a track select forward and a track select backward tool so if I click this track select forward and you'll notice it has two lines to it two arrows telling me that it's going to select everything forward the V one track and V two I just want V one hold the shift key down it turns to one arrow click on it I've now selected all of these what if I wanted them all to come down to here option on the Mac ultimen doz arrow down and they all pop down and I know that this will happen through the whole timeline without me having to zoom out want to check let's zoom out all of them are gone so select forward select backwards really make sense when you you don't want to do that you don't have to zoom all the way in and select all of that stuff okay let's talk about finding a gap let's say that in your editing you you left one single frame of black in your sequence you want to check to see if there are any gaps in there but to cut the the timeline is really complex there's a lot of stuff down there I'm going to move this right to the beginning if you go to the sequence menu there is a go to gap oh look at this right here next in sequence previous in sequence next in track previous in track I've added these keyboard shortcuts they're not there by default but if I click you notice how it takes me right to that gap oh that can be so useful if you want to clean things up maybe you're playing the timeline and it's complexing and it was there a flash of black in there where does that get old thank you very much so that's a useful one and you can just add that just drag that out and fix that up now what about the next in sequence let's make this a little bit more complex by dragging in a bunch of other things on top of here okay so let's imagine that we've got a bunch of other clips and we don't know where the gap is the next in sequence so let's even drag some music in here so we've got this and I'm going to purposely put a gap in here in a track if I choose sequence go to gap next in sequence it's not going to move that's a gap in a track although the track is in a sequence a sequence gap is a complete gap from all tracks so I'm going to make one of those and hey if this is worth noting too I'm going to move my playhead just to an arbitrary position here hit the I four in Bofur out and over here I can remove and extract these these are two also useful keyboard shortcuts this will extract it and leave a hole of this will close the hole so I'm going to click and leave a hole now watch sequence go to gap next in sequence it finds it in the sequence so maybe this could be that one frame gap that you're having a problem with but that's very useful next in sequence and previous in sequence have keyboard shortcuts next in track previous in track don't but as I showed you in the keyboard shortcuts you can add it so I said that I was going to show you one that I guarantee you've never tried this next little hidden gem is beautiful for a rearranged edit it allows you to move stuff around on the track very easily I'll show you what I mean I've got an edit here with music and I've got a couple of Clips here in the end and I'm not really happy with the order of these in fact that one looks too much like like that one they're too similar so I'm going to change the position of that I'm going to put something else on the end I've got this guy that I want to move over to that one so this one should be there and that one should be over there well how would you normally do this well a lot of people will take this and move it out of the way take this move it over here move the Edit over here take this and place it down there and then lock that in that's a lot of clicking what's wrong with that you want to show you the one tool way to do that I'll show you let's undo all of that so I want this guy over there and that guy over there I'm holding option command on Mac alt ctrl on Windows and you'll see I get a little tool show up this is the rearrange edit so as I click on this and move it I'm going to move over to this clip here and I got snap on so it's snapping into here and watch they would just flip there's that one there and there's that one there to show you that again option command on Mac alt ctrl on Windows boom you can also go backwards so I can take this guy and move this rearrange edit over here I can move this guy over here and it's going to move all of those clips around if you just use the command key by itself the control key on Windows it will do the same thing but it will rearrange the whole timeline so it'll flip all of those around and it will kind of holding it so adding the Alt key on Windows the option key on Mac will solve that problem how about that one I'm sure you can use that especially with b-roll you're going to flip some around and move things around instead of constantly having to move all of those little pieces around alright hopefully you found this informative if you're new to video reveal please take a moment and subscribe you want to take your support up a notch and join us over on patreon for as little as one single dollar a month till next time I'm Colin Smith it's my job to get you looking and editing efficiently in your business [Music]

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Keywords: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Creative Cloud, Colin Smith, AdobeColin, video editing, VideoRevealed, video editor, edit video

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Length: 12min 43sec (763 seconds)

Published: Sun May 14 2017