So what are the best ways to add footage into your timeline? Let's take a look inside today's video
Hey everyone Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal! Today i'm showing you three different ways that
you can start adding clips to your timeline more efficiently the first method is using the source
panel to create your in and out points and then drag it into the timeline the second method is
using icon view to create a visual storyboard from which you can create your in and out and
drag them all into your timeline and the third method is using artificial intelligence that's
right a robot that can identify the different parts of the clips that are shaky and stable
and put them inside of your timeline for you so these are just three methods that you can choose
from and hopefully you'll find them useful not one way is better than the other as usual i put time
codes down below so you can skip ahead to review a certain section just by clicking on the time
code below without further ado let's go ahead and get into it so the first method is creating your
in and out points on your footage this is what is called creating your selects the areas of the
footage that are the most usable that you want to use in your final edit now these in and out
points don't have to be perfect because you can further refine your cuts inside your timeline and
i made a full video six ways to edit and trim your clips in your timeline so you guys can watch that
after you watch this video the first thing is make sure that you're in the assembly layout inside
of premiere pro this will make the project panel bigger for organization before you start editing
in your timeline simply double click on a clip that you want to open up in the source monitor
then from here you can play back the clip and press i on your keyboard to select your end point
which is the starting point then you can scrub to the point where you want your select to end and
press o to set it as the out point then you can click on this video and drag it into your timeline
so then you would just repeat this process for all of the clips until you get everything in your
timeline let's move on to option number two the second method is also manual but it's a bit faster
first we're going to change the view in our project panel to the icon view and then you
can rescale the thumbnails to the size that makes it easy for you to make your selects from here you
can visually see all of your clips preview them and select your in and out points just by dragging
them into the new location with your mouse so you can make your selects to all of the clips and then
you can move the clips in the order that you want them to be in your timeline so doing this creates
a really cool visual storyboard so you can see which clip goes first which clip goes next all the
way to the last clip then to place all of these clips in your timeline at once select the first
clip hold shift on your keyboard and select the last clip then drag them all into your timeline
and then this is just the starting point for your ref cut or the montage that you're working on
so this third method is rough cut which is the ai assistant editor that's available from Aescripts
now Roughcut did sponsor today's video but they did not tell me what to say they were like hey
just try out this plugin and let us know what you think of it so a rough cut the way it works
is it will analyze your footage and identify the shaking stable parts doing all of the
more labor-intensive work for you so that way you don't have to go through manually and identify
those parts so how does it work and how do you install it go to their website and you can start
by just using their trial version just hit try from the Aescripts website and this will download
a dot zxp file so you need to have a zxp file manager to install this like zxp installer so
after you have zxp installer all you need to do is make sure that premiere pro is closed first and
then drag the dot zxp rough cut file into your zxp installer i feel like i just said zxp a lot but
you get the idea so once it's installed you can open up premiere pro go to window extensions and
open up rough cut for premiere pro this is going to open up its own window from which you can drag
into the same area as a project panel so it's more easy to use then you can also select this
hamburger menu from the top of the panel to buy a license or enter your license code you can also
just move forward with this trial version because it has all of the same features as the fully
licensed version before we begin to analyze the clips first click on this gear icon here and what
this will do is it'll enable you to change the cache file location which is where Rough cut will
store all of the processed temporary files and you can also change the label color for each category
so you can see that there's red for shake there's green for stable and yellow for the scene color to
get started first we're going to select the videos that you want to process from your project panel
you can see that the footage i have here of this kite surfer here it's fairly shaky throughout so i
just want to use rough cut to identify the parts that are way too shaky and unusable versus the
parts that are ok shaky and i can use them in my rough cut so once the footage is selected we're
going to go back to the rough cut panel and here it'll show you how many clips that you've selected
in the lower left now we can hit analyze and it will begin to process all the clips identifying
the shaky and the stable parts so once it's done you're taken to an insert tab where you can then
tweak the parameters so this will allow you to say how shaky of the footage you want included
in the clips that are inserted in your timeline in this case i want rough cut to identify the
shaky and the stable parts of the clip so for each clip i can lower the threshold of the shake just
by changing this parameter and you see as I lower it down to 10 more of the shaky parts are included
so the red parts here are the shaky parts and the non-red parts are the stable parts of the clip
so you can also adjust the minimum duration of each of these regions simply by entering in a
new value but I'm just going to use the default here so then i'm going to select all the clips i
want to insert into my timeline and then i'm going to select the sequence i want them to be inserted
into and then you're going to press insert and now it'll automatically place all of the shaking
the stable parts of the clips into the timeline as we play back in the timeline you can see that the
really shaky parts are red or rose as the label color is called and let's say that you want to
remove some of the shaky parts this is where I can then select the red clips that i don't want
press alt on my pc or option key on my mac and then press delete and it will ripple delete
all of the unwanted clips in the timeline so rough cut will be useful for a lot of b-roll shots right
it's not going to be a very useful plug-in if you have a 60 minute clip of somebody sitting
still for an interview because rough cut will help you identify the great parts of shots that
have shaky or stable scenes so if you're doing a walking interview it might be useful because
it'll identify the parts that are more usable for the clip but the cool part about identifying the
shaky and the stable parts is because let's say you want to actually use some of the shaky parts
and your footage you don't want to eliminate them entirely so it gives you that option one thing
I would really like to see in the panel going forward is the ability to change the threshold of
all of the clips at once right now you have to do it individually but i'm sure that they are going
to be working on that and if you have any feedback for the rough cut team just leave a comment below
so i hope these three methods will be useful to you and I'm sure you can use all three of them in
one go so let me know if this video helped you out by giving this a big thumbs up and also be
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yeah that's it for today's video thank you so much for watching and i'll see you guys next time bye!