How To Use Photoshop Files in Premiere Pro CC Tutorial
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In this video editing tutorial, Alli shows you how to import and work with Photoshop CC files inside Premiere Pro. You'll learn how to work with a Photoshop logo with various layers and use them inside Premiere Pro CC more efficiently with dynamic link.
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Hey, what's going on, I'm Alli in this tutorial we're going to work with a layered Photoshop logo in both Photoshop and Premiere Pro. Let's hop into the Primer and get started.
In Premiere Pro we have this mountain time-lapse clip and we're going to be placing a client logo over the top of it. I'll hop over to Photoshop. We have our multi-layered logo, the sun, the mountain, and the client's name and their slogan, four different layers. Let's hop back into Premiere Pro and import this logo. I'll go up to my project panel and selecting import, I'll select the logo PSD file., open and here we have a few different importing options for this logo. We can import it as merge all layers so that would merge all four layers. Click the drop-down menu. We also have the option for merged layers, individual layers, and a sequence. So let's look at what each of these does if we were to choose to merge all layers press OK. Drag this logo down onto the V2 track here, and side note this logo is currently too big and the dark blue of the logo interferes with the dark mountain that sits behind it. We're gonna fix that and have one layer that contains this entire logo with the client's name and slogan. I prefer a different option that I'm going to show you in just a second. I'll just press command + c on my keyboard to undo importing that logo. We'll just import the logo again as I want to show you what import as merged layers does here. This gives you the option to check or uncheck any of the individual layers.
Let's say we don't want to include the slogan. We will uncheck that and press OK, then drag that logo onto the timeline. This gives us the logo with the client name and no slogan, all on one layer. Having all of the elements of your logo in one layer reduces the clutter but most of the time I do prefer we'll just import the logo again. Import as individual layers so again here we could deselect any of these individual layers if we wanted to. I want them all selected press ok and here we have a bin that contains each one of these layers here. We'll just select them all and drag them onto our timeline, and as you can see, they definitely need to be stacked on top of each other. So I'll just zoom into the timeline. I'll drag each of these layers on top of each other and extend the duration of them. The reason that I like each of these to be on its own layer is that this allows me to manipulate each layer on its own. I know the size is a little larger right now. We're going to deal with that coming up.
First, drag the timeline up a little. Let's say that I want the sunshine layer to have a cross dissolve on it, making sure that my cursor is at the beginning of this layer. I will select it and press command+d on my keyboard, or ctrl+d if you're on windows, and there we go. We have a cross-dissolve, going to select the cross dissolve on the end and delete it because I only want it starting at the beginning. Just so you know the reason that my cross-dissolve didn't affect every single one of these layers is that I don't have the v2, v3, v4, and v5 track selected. If I did have and I added a cross dissolve, it would affect every single one of those layers. I'll just undo that and deselect those tracks and scrub through so I like the sun part of that logo dissolving in like that.
Next, I'll select the client name logo and on my keyboard. I'm going to hit the right arrow 10 times, go over to effect controls and under motion where it says position click on the toggle animation to add a key-frame, I'll bring my play-head to the beginning of that layer. Let's move this over a bit and drag the x-axis position all the way to the left. I've got mine now at like -696, so that we can't see it anymore, and this has created a second position. You can see the key-frame right here. If you haven't worked with key-frames before, we have the first position set where we dragged our client name off screen and we have the second position here where it originally was. So I'm going to click the space bar to play this through and the client name swipes in there. I'll select the client name again go up to these key-frames, select them both, right click, choose temporal interpolation and select ease in. Play that through and ease in, that's what it says it does it makes the position of the company name moving in ease in a little smoother.
Next, I will select the slogan again, go over 10 frames, go up to the position, click the toggle go to the beginning of that layer, and instead of starting the slogan off from the left side, I'm going to actually do the opposite. So we'll drag the position all the way to the right so we can no longer see it select both of those keyframes, right-click again, choose temporal interpolation and ease in. I'm pretty happy with that and I want this logo to be the length of the clip so I'll just select all of those layers and increase the duration of them.
Once you're happy with the way that each of the layers of the logo shows up on the screen, what I like to do is nest my logo because I'm not a big fan of clutter when I'm editing, and nesting allows you to easily access any of these individual layers of your logo if you need to. So let's select all of those logo layers, right-click, and choose nest and call it logo. Now all of those individual layers are within that one nested layer. If we wanted to access any of those individual layers, we could double click on the nest and we'll go back to the other sequence.
For making sure that our nested logo is selected on our timeline, let's go up to effect controls and let's adjust the scale to 55. I want the position of this logo to be a little bit higher up so we will adjust the positions y-axis just a little and I have my cursor in the middle of this logo. I'm going to press the toggle animation button side scale, bring my cursor to the beginning of the logo and bring the scale to around 50. Now the logo scales in nicely.
Now I want to show you something that's super cool and is super easy to do because all of the adobe apps are dynamically linked, so premiere pro and photoshop work really well together. Let's say that your client wants to see their logo in white. Let's double click on our logo nest, I'll right-click on the height, layer > choose edit in adobe photoshop that brings us over to our logo with all four layers in it, and I'm going to quickly select each of these elements and make them white. So I'll grab my text icon to select the height, click on this double arrow icon where these colors are to flip them so that white is in front and that makes our first layer white. Do the same thing to the second layer. The other two layers aren't texted layers so I'll grab my selection tool, select them, grab my paint bucket tool and select each of them to make this entire look of white. Now I'm going to press command+s on my keyboard. If you're with windows, press ctrl+s to save what you've done. Hop back to Premiere and check. That's how easy it is to make changes or adjustments to your photoshop file and have those changes be applied back in Premiere Pro. We'll go back over to the clip with the logo and check this out.
Lastly, I'm going to show you what the last option does. I'll right click in the project panel and import the logo where it says import as click the drop down menu choose sequence, and again we could deselect any of the layers if we wanted to. I don't want to so press OK. This option has made a bin for us and it has each of the individual layers in it as well as a sequence. Let's double-click on the sequence here so the sequence option is great as well because it creates a sequence with each of the layers already stacked, so you don't have to manually do it the way we did before. If you're going to choose the sequence option what you can do is just select all of those layers press command, see your control+c on your keyboard to copy them, go over to your clip just move that over deselect the v1 track select the v2 track so that the first of the layers shows up on the v2 track and above press command v or control v on your keyboard to paste. We could drag these out again and there you go. That's how you can easily work with a Photoshop multi-layered logo in premiere pro. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you're into film-making and gear reviews, subscribe to our channel because we release weekly videos about both/
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