It's Jordy here for cinecom.net! And welcome to Creative Tuesday!
Today we're having a look at five not-so-obvious tips...
...to speed up your editing workflow inside Premiere Pro.
And the first one is a very small thing but it can really mean something big.
When you have to make small adjustments to each clip, for example a color correction,
you then have to manually select each individual clip,
move over to the Lumetri panel, make your adjustments, go back to the timeline,
click on the next clip, etc.
You're losing tons of time here, so here's a super fast way to do that.
First up you want to head over to the menu on top, select Sequence...
...and on the bottom enable Selection Follows Playhead.
Then press the arrow up or down key to jump from one clip to another.
So, during a color correction process...
...you can just leave your mouse in the Lumetri panel and jump to the next clip,
select it automatically by pressing your arrow keys.
We got four more awesome tips,
but I first would like to thank Videoblocks for making this video possible.
And you can even see this as an extra tip to the video,
because creating logo animations or filming at unique places takes tons of time.
And with Videoblocks you have unlimited access to a huge library...
...where you can download such templates or stock clips with a single click.
And what stands out the most is their unbelievable low price.
And, on top of that, you can even start a 7-day trial completely for free
by clicking the first link in the description below.
Alright, let's move on with tip number 2.
If you are mixing audio your timeline will probably look like this.
But when you are making basic edits you might want to change your track Height to something like this.
And every time that you wanna switch between these tasks, you have to adjust your timeline.
But did you know that you could save your timeline layout as a preset?
Well, here's how to do that.
In your timeline you will find this Tool icon up here
and that will open up a menu from which you can save the current layout as a preset.
You can give it a name and even assign a shortcut to it.
By default there are no shortcuts assigned to it,
so you'll have to navigate to the menu on top, select Edit...
…and then on the bottom click on Keyboard Shortcuts.
You can use the Search bar here to find the track Heights preset
and assign a custom shortcut for it.
And after you've stored multiple layouts in your Timeline Presets,
you can simply swap between them with a press of a button,
making you switch between audio mixing and basic editing blazing fast.
Now, I was first thinking not to talk about shortcuts,
as it's just too obvious with the title of the video.
But there's one thing that I do like to share with you, guys.
An action that you're probably performing a lot,
it’s cutting a clip and closing the gap.
And this can all be automated through the shortcuts.
And I'd like to share my personal workflow with you, guys.
From the keyboard shortcut window I'm going to search for Ripple Trim,
which will show me two options.
One is to close the gap on the left of your playhead and the other one to the right.
What I will do is set the left or the previous edit to the key W,
and the right action or next to the edit, to X.
Finally I would search for Add edit
and change that shortcut to C on my keyboard.
For most this might seem weird, but we are actually using an assort to keyboards layout,
which means I now have these three actions next to each other on my keyboard.
Cut and remove the stuff on the left,
Cut and remove the stuff on the right, and normal cut.
When I'm editing long sequences like these tutorials,
I can just go blazing fast through it by only using these three keys.
And that brings us to the fourth tip.
You can make your own transition templates, for example...
…a simple shape that comes in, covers the video and goes back out.
You wanna position such a transition over two clips and make sure that the cut is completely covered.
Every time when I want to use this transition,
I need to fumble in my timeline to find that point again
when the cut of my two clips are completely covered.
So, here's what I'll do.
In a timeline where I have created that transition,
I add a marker into the timeline on the point where the transition completely covers the screen.
You can do so by hitting the M key.
Then I'll export this clip using the Quicktime format and Animation codec.
Then I have this clip which I can import every time again, when I'm working on a new project.
And, magically, it took that marker with it as well.
And this I just need to drag over an edit
and it will snap just in place because of that marker.
That brings us to the last tip, which is also something about the markers.
while I like to cut on the beat of the music, it's not always that convenient.
It can take up much time to find those beats and adjust your edits to it.
What I do is listen a couple of times to the song so that I know the rhythm.
When playing back the song in the timeline I tap the M key on the beat,
and that will create this series of markers in the timeline...
...on which I can snap my clips to and thus edit a lot faster to the beat.
Now, we have another video with five more of these blazing fast editing tips.
You can find that video by clicking in the cards up there,
or going in the description below to find that link.
Thank you so much for watching...
...and stay creative!
Hey guys! If you wanna edit even more faster inside Premiere Pro,
then the Palette Gear might be something for you.
It are a bunch of buttons, dials and knobs which you can customize through these magnets,
create your own custom layouts and then just start editing your videos through this.
Pretty cool, huh?
You can find out more about it in the description below.