You are in mid-edit, when you discover there’s a typo in a Photoshop image. Or, a missing keyframe in an After Effects comp. Or, a still image that needs a quick repair.
Here’s a keyboard shortcut that makes quick work of fixing a file:
Cmd + E (Mac) — Cntrl + E (Windows)
The file opens in the program that created it. Save it, and it’s instantly updated in Premiere.
Cool – and quick.
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This technique is great when one shortcut just isn’t enough.
Here, I’ve assigned THREE! shortcuts to the same menu.
I use both Premiere and Final Cut on a regular basis. And if there’s one thing that drives me nuts it’s trying to remember which keyboard shortcuts apply to each program.
Premiere provides an amazingly elegant solution: You can assign more than one shortcut to the same menu item. In fact, you can assign more than SIX!!
Open Keyboard Preferences.
Find the shortcut you want to modify.
Click just to the right of any existing shortcuts, then add your new choice.
NOTE: I was able to do this six times, with six different shortcuts applied to the same menu choice!
To delete a shortcut, click the small “x” next to it.
To save your modified shortcuts, click OK in the bottom right corner of the Keyboard Shortcuts panel.
Very, very, VERY cool!
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Change one preference to make trimming smarter… and faster.
Check the top option to enable “smart” trimming in Premiere.
Recently, Adobe added a preference setting that makes timeline trimming much faster and easier, but this preference is turned off by default. Here’s what happens when you turn it on.
Open Premiere > Preferences > Trim (Edit > Preferences > Trim on Windows).
Check the top box (“Allow Selection tool to choose…”) to enable this option.
Now, when you hover the cursor over an edit point:
If the cursor is just to the left of the edit point, the cursor switches to the Ripple trim tool, allowing us to adjust the Out of the out-going clip.
If the cursor is just to the right of the edit point, the cursor changes to the Ripple trim tool, allowing us to adjust the In of the in-coming clip.
If the cursor is centered over the edit point, the cursor switches to the Roll trim tool, allowing us to adjust both the In and Out settings at the same time.
Press the Cmd key (Control on Windows) to switch between Ripple and Trim modes.
This “smart” selection of the correct trim tool based upon its position relative to the edit point is a huge time-saver when trimming.
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The Option (Alt) key is the secret of a fast split edit.
A split edit is used when we want to see one thing, but hear another. These are used constantly in drama when someone is talking, but we want to see another actor’s reaction before the first speaker has finished talking.
Premiere makes creating split edits easy – you just need options…
With the Roll trim tool selected, press the Option key (Alt on Windows). Then drag either the video edit point or the audio edit point.
Ta-DA!
A split edit.
There are other ways to create a split edit – but nothing is faster than this.
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An edit where the video precedes the audio is called an “L-edit” because the two edit points form the shape of an “L”.
An edit where the audio precedes video is called a “J-edit” because it forms a rough letter “J”.
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There are three different ways to zoom into audio in the Source Monitor.
Four different controls over waveform display in the Premiere Source Monitor.
The Source Monitor can tell us a lot more about our audio than you might, at first, suspect. It all relates to “zooming” and here’s how it works.
Double-click a clip in either the Project panel or Timeline to load it into the Source monitor.
Then, looking at this screen shot:
Click the waveform icon (left-most arrow) to display the waveform.
NOTE: A waveform is the visual representation of the volume of the sound. Bigger waveforms are louder.
To zoom into a portion of the waveform, drag one of the white dots (second arrow from left). Or, type [plus] or [minus].
To increase, or decrease, the display height of a waveform, drag the thin light horizontal line (third-arrow from left).
To magnify the size of the waveform, drag the small gray dot at the top right of an audio channel (arrow on right). Each audio track has this control on the right.
NOTE: These last two options only change the waveform display, they do not alter the audio itself.
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To reset a clip back to its normal display, simply load a different clip in the Source Monitor. The next time you display an altered clip, the waveforms will be back to normal.
The out-going clip is highlighted in blue, allowing trimming via keyboard or mouse.
Hidden within the Premiere timeline is a powerful trimming tool: Dynamic Trim. This feature shows the last frame of the outgoing clip and the first frame of the incoming clip, allowing you to easily trim between them.
Here’s how it works.
Double-click an edit point to display the Dynamic Trim window.
Click the left image in the Trim window to ripple trim the outgoing clip. (The blue bars highlight the left side.)
Click the right image in the Trim window to ripple trim the incoming image. (The blue bars highlight the right side.)
Click the boundary between the two images in the Trim window to select both sides of the selected edit point. (The blue bars highlight both sides.)
Once you select which side, or sides, of the edit point you want to trim, either click the timecode numbers at the bottom or drag the image left and right.
Here’s the really cool part. Type J to move backward or L to move forward. Whenever you type K, the edit point is trimmed in real time to the position of the playhead. Press the spacebar to preview the edit point in real-time.
Close this window by clicking anywhere in the Timeline.
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Click the square in the center between the two sets of timecode numbers to apply the default video transition.
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Assign and organize clips by color in the Project panel.
Hidden in plain sight in the Project panel is a very cool organizational tool – colors! Not only can we organize clips by bins and file names, but also by color. For example, color all talking heads magenta, while B-roll shots are blue and reaction shots orange. Or change colors by scene.
While the obvious benefit of using colors is that it provides another way of organizing clips, a hidden benefit is that those colors follow the clips into the Timeline, allowing you to see at a glance where all your talking heads, for example, are located.
Here’s how this works.
In the Project panel, switch to List view.
Select all the clips you want to assign to a specific color.
Right-click on a color chip and select Label.
Choose the color you want to apply to the selected clips.
Click the top of the color column, indicated by the red arrow, to group and sort colors; click a second time and the order is reversed.
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AAF is a great interchange format – but be aware of audio
A multichannel audio clip in the Premiere Pro CC timeline.
Recently, I was working with a production company that regularly exports 16 channel audio. While editing is done in Premiere, audio mixing is done in ProTools. The easiest and best way to move sequences from Premiere to ProTools, or Media Composer for that matter, is File > Export > AAF.
As we were working on this, though, we discovered a problem: The AAF process labels every exported audio clip using a number that references the sequence audio track, but those numbers are wrong.
For example:
Sequence Track 1 audio is labeled: File Name
Sequence Track 2 audio is labeled: File Name.01
Sequence Track 3 is blank
Sequence Track 4 audio is labeled: File Name.02
While the numbers are in order, the numbers don’t match track numbers and, if a track is empty, the numbers don’t reflect the empty track.
For editors and sound mixers working on fast-turnaround, tight deadlines, AAF audio track labeling can cause confusion. Now you know what to watch for.
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Audio track labeling is based on the audio tracks in the sequence, rather than tracks in the source audio clip. This, too, is confusing if you remap track assignments when editing clips from the Source Monitor to the Timeline.
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Have you ever had that sinking feeling that you just destroyed an edit because you deleted/moved/adjusted something you shouldn’t? Yeah, me, too. Here’s how to prevent it.
Minimize the chance for errors by locking your tracks.
Click the Track Lock icon – yup, it looks like a lock. Blue locks are locked, white locks are unlocked. The default is unlocked.
Shift – click to lock all audio or all video tracks.
To work on one track and lock all others, Shift – click any lock to lock all tracks, then click the lock for the one track you want to adjust.
NOTE: When a track is locked, diagonal hash lines appear on the track.
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These locks are not for security, you can’t password-protect them. Rather, they are to help prevent mistakes.
Also, keep in mind that if you lock a video track, for example, you are still able to move its audio track, which would knock it out of sync.
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Click the “thumb” to the right of the sequence name in Timeline to set timecode.
Timecode is a label for every frame of video in a clip, or the sequence itself. It’s composed of four pairs of numbers representing HOURS:MINUTES:SECONDS:FRAMES. Every frame in a clip has a unique timecode associated with it.
Think of timecode as the address of a house, it allows us to quickly find any frame in a clip. (Timecode can match between clips, in which case, an NLE can tell which frame is in which clip by combining the timecode with the clip name and its path.)
NOTE: For those who need to deal with drop-frame vs. non-drop-frame, the difference is the last colon. If the last symbol is a colon (:), the clip is non-drop-frame. If the last symbol is a semi-colon (;), the clip is drop-frame.
By default, the starting timecode for a sequence is 00:00:00:00. However, there are times when you need to change it; for example, sequences destined for broadcast.
To change the starting timecode:
Click the 3-line “stacked pancakes” immediately to the right of the sequence name in the Timeline.
Enter the starting timecode for the sequence.
Check Set as default for future sequences if you want to make this the default setting.
Check Set by first clip if you want the sequence to inherit the timecode of the first clip you edit into the sequence.
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While it’s possible for timecode to match time of day, most of the time it does not. Don’t get confused. Timecode is a label expressed as time, not a time-of-day reference.
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