Welcome to Premiere Pro Guru: Professional Trimming. Trim edits are those little adjustments that you make on a working cut that get all the timings right and really make your video sing. It's incredibly important and detailed work, and in this course, we'll look at a ton of tools and techniques used for trimming. This is 'Arranging Your Workspace Premiere Pro Guru' by Kerry O'Connell on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
I am conducting a series of free online training series for the latest release of our video products (Production Premium CS6).
Please feel free to join in on any of the following dates.
(Webinar access details shall be shared post registration)
12th July 2012, Thursday, 11 am to 12 Noon Making the Move to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 In this session learn how to master the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 timeline. This fast-paced session teaches you all of the core editing skills as well as advanced options like markers, subclips, time-remapping, multi-camera editing and more. Also learn how to trim with the powerful new tools in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Use Dynamic Trim as well as other new trimming controls to find the rhythm of your edit and finesse your story’s pacing.
19th July 2012, Thursday, 11 am to 12 Noon Motion Graphics Workflow with Adobe Creative Suite 6 The release of Adobe After Effects CS6 holds exciting new features for the motion graphics designer, visual effects artist, and video editor. This session will expose you to all that’s new so you can jump in and get things done. Learn what’s new in Photoshop CS6 with a particular emphasis on tools that benefit the motion graphic artists and video editor. Take advantage of new blurring and color correction options as well as support for enhanced text layout and 3D objects
26th July 2012, Thursday, 11 am to 12 Noon A Suite Workflow: Speeding up your workflow using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 & other suite components Learn how you can use the rest of the components in Production Premium to enhance your motion graphics workflow. Use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to edit your footage, Audition to sweeten your sound, Illustrator for vector sources and Adobe Media Encoder for background rendering. Take color correction and grading to a new level with SpeedGrade CS6. Learn techniques used by professional colorists to enhance the quality and look of your projects. If you are part of a mid-to-large sized company, learn how to increase your production output in this informative session.
Find some extra motivation on your next project with these 7 techniques for maximizing your non-linear editing skills in Premiere Pro.
Premiere Pro Guru: Professional Trimming Shears
Every editor has that moment when they first discover that truly awesome — often time-saving — breakthrough. It’s like a breath of fresh air, suddenly reinvigorating your work.
And while those self discoveries are always the best, they can be very few and far between. That is unless you read articles like these, which share some of the best tips, tricks, and hacks for your Adobe Premiere Pro video editing workflow.
1. Cherry Pick Your Timeline
When starting a new project, especially one with tons of footage (travel videos or documentary projects), your first step is to review all your footage. One quick tip, outlined in the video above, is to begin the process of cherry-picking your timeline as you review your footage — a technique that helps you pull out and (in a way) catalog your shots so you can begin doing your actual editing assembly after.
You can read more about the process here.
2. Creative Timeline Nesting
Another simple-yet-game-changing tip for starting off in Premiere Pro is to master the art of creative timeline nesting, as demonstrated by VideoRevealed. Nesting is a handy and powerful trick, allowing you to place your sequences into other sequences. This is handy for a number of reasons, as it not only helps with your program’s processing and rendering, but it also keeps your timeline clean and segmented, allotting for multiple uses in different areas.
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3. Time Remapping and Speed Ramping
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Want to make some truly cool, clever videos for your clients, friends, and personal reels? Well, one sure-fire technique is to utilize the slick look of speed-ramped shots. Using a technique in Premiere Pro called Time Remapping, Robbie Janney walks you through the steps to create that stylized look.
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4. Quick Motion Tracking
For all those video editors intimidated by After Effects, here’s a cool tip that allows you to do some substantive motion tracking directly in Premiere Pro. In this tutorial by Daniel Marchione, we get a primer in working with keyframing and manually creating motion for your text or graphics, without any scary After Effects work.
5. Color Grading Using Lumetri Color Panels
For those editors who remember a time prior to Premiere Pro’s Lumetri Color Panels, you understand just how much of a game changer those color controls truly are. In this breakdown, we get some actionable advice, as well as some serious color theory to help you understand and master color alteration using Lumetri curves.
For a more in-depth breakdown, here’s the full article.
6. Smooth Slow Motion
As an antithesis to the slick, cool, and clever speed-ramping techniques above, we must now dive into the smooth and serene power of slow motion. Using many of the same effects and techniques, YouTuber Kyler Holland discusses how to work with high-frame-rate footage to create a consistent and smooth look for your slowed-down clips — and how to include them in your sequences and videos.
7. Animate in the Essential Graphics Panel
The final tip is a more advanced technique — animation. Using the Essential Graphics Panel, we learn how to create some basic graphic animations, which can look surprisingly complex and professional. In the tutorial, Jason Boone breaks down the following: