6 Awesome Premiere Pro Tips & Tricks
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Hey everyone what's going on. I'm Ali and I'm gonna show you six awesome things that you can do in Premiere Pro. If you're new to Premiere Pro, you probably don't know about these tips tricks and time-saving techniques. Even if you are a premier Pro Pro you may not know about all of them so let's hop in there and check them out.
So let's say you've got a clip on your timeline; as I do here and you remember that you shot another Drake clip a little before this one and you want to find it to add it to your edit. Well let's right-click on the clip on your timeline and then click on reveal in the project, and there you go that clip will be highlighted wherever you've saved it with. Premiere Pro has made it very easy for me to find the clip I knew I shot before it that I wanted. It's right there. Another similar thing you can do is, let's right-click on that clip again on our timeline, and instead of choosing to reveal in the project, choose reveal an explorer. If you're on a Mac it would say reveal and finder and the clip is highlighted wherever it's located on your computer and there you go you know when you've got your edit cut and you're ready to color correct, and you have a clip that you've cut up and used in multiple parts of your edit. Instead of individually color correcting each of those cut parts of that clip, let's look at a super-efficient way to color correct them all at once. If you don't already have a luma tree color open, we can open it up by going up to the window and selecting Lumetri color. I'll just make sure the clip I want to color correct is selected on my timeline next in the luma tree color tab click on master.
Now when you've made your color correction adjustments, the entire master clip will be affected. When I hover over another part of this footage of my timeline, it too has that same color correction applied to it. This is indicated by this little FX symbol with a red underline on your clips. If you want to adjust or turn off the master color correction as one of the cut clips of that master clip selected on your timeline, just double check in the gloom the tree color tab that master is selected and adjust or turn off that color correction. Before I found out about this next time-saving trick I would spend way too long creating a rectangle background for my titles and trying to make sure my title was centered within it.
Let's look at how to very quickly create a proper looking background for titles. I'll start by grabbing the text tool and typing my name on the program monitor. Next, let's open up the essential graphics panel. If you don't see it again, you can go up to window and select essential graphics next let's go over to the Edit tab, and under appearances checkmarks background and a background comes up that by default is set to 75 percent opacity. Let's bring the opacity to 100% by dragging the slider to 100 and underneath the opacity slider, we can increase the width and height of the background shape simultaneously.
I'll bring the border to around 21 in size and I just want to get a closer look at this so let's go to the monitor and change fit view to 150 percent scroll over to see how that borders looking okay it's a little thicker than I prefer. So making sure that my text layer is still selected on my timeline and in my essential graphics edit tab, I'll decrease the size of the border to around 12.5.
Next, let's look at a newer feature in Premiere Pro that makes lining up titles or logos very quick. Let's say you have a clip of two people on screen, and you're gonna have a lower third title show for each of them with my current text layer selected. I'll just hold down option on my keyboard and drag this layer up to create a duplicate of it, and on the program, monitor drag to duplicate over to the left grab the text tool. I'll type will Bartlett grab the selection tool again and now I'll try and line up both of these so that they're the same distance away from the edge of the frame. It's really hard to just eyeball this and try and do it. Don't worry, there is a better way to go to view, and oh we can't select the option we want yet because we have to click on the program monitor. So it's selected there we go now when we click on the view we have the option to click on show rule which brings up these measurements on the sides of our program monitor. If you bring your mouse over top of the left sides of the program monitor and you click and drag a ruler line will appear and you can use the measurement on the side as a quick guide to decide where you'd like to place this ruler line. I'll drag another line over to the right and I'm doing this quickly for the sake of this tutorial but the idea is to bring the second line to a position that will leave the same amount of outer space as the first guideline.
Now clicking on the top of the program monitor we can drag down again to create a horizontal guideline and now we can use these guides to adjust our lower third titles an even quicker option is to go back up to view and click the snap-in program monitor. If we move our lower thirds title, it will snap to a specific part of the ruler making it very easy to quickly align your lower third title. Let's say you have a dialogue clip in your project panel that you'd like to drag onto your timeline sounds simple enough. Sometimes the footage just doesn't bring down the audio with it. There's a reason that happens and a solution. So let's look at how to solve that right now. I'll drag this clip of me onto the timeline and why oh why is the footage coming down without the audio? This used to frustrate me to no end because I didn't know the solution that I'm going to show you in just a second. So I take the long route and right-click on the file choose a new sequence from the clip and then make an entirely new timeline just to copy and paste the clip with the audio into the timeline. I was working on there's a much more efficient way of getting that audio with your footage and it's simply to make sure the source path track you would like to use is active on your timeline. Currently, we don't have the a1 or a2 source patches selected. Let's click on them so they're in blue and now when we drag down our clip the audio comes down with it now when you have a ton of selects on your timeline and a ton of spaces in between each of them. Let's get rid of all of those random gaps really quickly. Now currently you may be clicking in the open gap in between each clip to select it then pressing delete to remove the gap and this could be quite time-consumingly painful if you're working with lots of footage and lots of gaps. So a very quick way to remove all of those gaps is to make sure your timeline selected which is indicated by the blue border around it, and next go up to sequence and click on the close gap and there you go. No more gaps in between your clips.
There are six awesome things that you can do in Premiere Pro which why are you most excited to use let me know in the comments below. I find myself using master color correction all the time.
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