Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography right here on
AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace and in
today's episode I'm going to give you
three techniques for editing the video
and Adobe Premiere Pro that will save
you a ton of time, specifically when it
comes to syncing audio to video...
So here is the scenario....
the first one is if you
have a really cool audio track with some
beats to it, and you want to make your
cuts line up with those beats to the
music.. so boom boom boom.... you want to
cut every single time....
so I'm going to show you how
to do that automatically.
it's pretty cool, the second thing I want to
show you how to do is to automatically
align audio tracks from different video
takes....
so maybe you have a camera A and a
camera B and they both have audio and
you want to synchronize them...
you can do that with automation...
or if you have an audio recording only...
and you want to sync that to a video
recording... maybe have an external audio
recorder,
you can also do that automatically, and
then I've got a bonus technique that
I'll show you that helps you apply
attributes to a bunch of Clips all at
once, so let's dive into Adobe Premiere
Pro right now, and what I'm going to show
you how to do first is something called
automate to sequence...
now here's the scenario,
I've got this really cool audio
track... listen to this...
Okay so it's not so cool, but it's some
great stock music and what I want to do
is.... I want to have some b-roll
automatically edited to those beats...
so boom boom boom boom on the beat...
I want
those to cut automatically so here's
what I'm going to do...
the first thing I want to do is add some
markers to my sequence, where those
beats are....
now you can add a marker to a sequence just by
hitting M...
the M key....
so I'll hit the M key right now...
that puts a marker right
at the beginning of the sequence....
you can see that right here...
there's a little marker there,
and then what I'm going to
do is... I'm just gonna play this audio
clip, and on the beat I'm going to hit
M just like I'm playing an instrument...
bumo bump bump bump...
and so I'll do that right now,
and then once I have that done
it will start again.
Okay..
So I just fast forwarded through that so
it wouldn't take a bunch of time but
again I just hit the M key on the beat
and there was one little section here
that goes a little bit faster you can
hear it.... so I put it up bap bap bap on
the M key... to add a bunch of little
markers there. Okay... so now you can see
that we have these markers on the
sequence here... now one thing that's very
important to note... that when you're doing
this make sure you don't have a clip
selected... because then it'll put markers
on the clip... you don't want that, you want
the markers on the sequence..
So make sure there's no Clips nothing
selected when you do that, okay?
The next thing we want to do is put the
playhead right back to the very
beginning of our music, and then make
sure we unselect that.
Now we're gonna go find some b-roll that
will go to this... so
I've got a little folder here called
BRoll... and what I've done here is I've
gone to each of these little clips and
I've set an in and an out point, so every
single little clip here has an
in-and-out...
that's just the segments of video that I
want to have played when I automate this.
Now another thing to remember here is
this has audio and video, so if I play
just a short clip you can hear some
audio that's pretty useless... I don't want
that audio when this goes onto the music,
I just want the video. Alright...
so here's how it works...
what I'm going to do remember,
I have an in and out set for
each of these already.
we've already done that to my b-roll,
I'm going to go and
select all of these clips, there's a
bunch of Clips here...
I don't know how many.
then I'm going to go up to clip and
then there's this little thing here
called automate to sequence...
I will click that,
and then I have some options so the
thing I want to do here is I want to use
the sort order... in other words that is
the order that they appear in the list
over here in my b-roll bin.
I could do that, or the selection order
that's the order that they're going to go on the
timeline, so if you want to do this
manually... you can select them one at a
time hitting and holding down the shift
and click, click, click, click and getting
all those and you can sort of do the
order... or you can just do it by the sort
order of the bin...
what I'm going to do now, the placement
is going to be at the unnumbered markers,
that's all those little markers that we
put on our sequence... those are all there,
and then the method... we want to use an
overwrite edit because we don't want to
have a cut in our music, and throw them
in between that.
We just want to put it on top of the music...
so that's an overwrite...
it's going to go over that now,
the other thing we want to do is how
long is the duration of each of these
things... or we're going to use our
in-and-out range...
so I've made these in an outs...
about five to ten seconds, something like that...
if they're too long, that's okay...
it'll just start at the end, and end at
the next marker.
if they're too short that's okay...
we can go in and tweak that
a little bit.... but you want to have an
in-and-out, and then the other thing I
wanted to do here at the very bottom is...
it will say do you want to ignore the
audio, or ignore the video, or ignore
neither of those things...
So I want to ignore the audio so
I don't want to have the audio go to the
timeline because I
want to use the music...
that's the whole point.
I want to get rid of the audio
from my b-roll and then I just want to
use the music and put the video on top
of that...
so I'm saying ignore audio, don't
use that now... here's the magic...
all I'm gonna do is hit OK...
boom... and check this
out, I will click play,
and so it's awesome, it's automatically
cut each of those little chunks of B roll to
the markers that I've put on my timeline.
Now I'm gonna fast-forward over here
because there was a little clip that had
some really fast beat thing nearn..nearn...nearn..
nearn...nearn.. kind of thing.... and I hit the
M key to try to match those... and watch
how fast this goes... and it's done
automatically.
It works all right so that's technique
number one....
if you need a refresher just rewind
and hit pause look at all those different
menu options...
Practice this... and you'll be doing it all
on your own.
The second technique allows you to
automatically synchronize audio
and video.
Now this is great if you have
an audio track from a mobile audio
recording device, and then you have a
video that doesn't have great audio and
you want to take one, and use that over
the other one.
This is done all the time....
or if you have several cameras and
you want to synchronize them, so that
they're playing all together...
so you can edit between those.
Sso let's do the first one really quickly,
so what I have here is....
I have an audio track,
this is just me
talking here on AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace.....
and in this episode... okay that
was recorded on a Zoom H4 recorder I
believe, and then the other thing I have
here is video of me and this was
recorded at the same time...
okay and so this video was recorded with a little
Osmo pocket so the audio the built-in
audio wasn't very good, so I used an
external audio recorder...
so let's synchronize those,
so what I'm going to
do is I'm going to take my video with
the not-so-good audio track,
and put that on my timeline.
I'm going to keep the existing settings.
I'm editing this in 1080p,
even though I shot it in 4k, and
then I'm going to take my audio track,
and then I'm just going to put that on
the timeline... it doesn't matter where it
is, just as long as it's on the timeline,
then I'm going to select both of those,
right click, and say synchronize...
then it's going to ask me what I want to use
to synchronize these clips,
I want to use the audio...
I'll use the mix down channel...
hit OK... it is going to go through
and process those, and look now they are
synced.
So if I play this back...
Hi everybody, welcome to another episode
of Exploring .... the audio and video is
synched... now what I want to do here is,
I'll just go in right at the end point,
I'll use my little razor tool to trim
off the first part of that.
We don't need that part...
then I'm going to go into this track here.
I'm going to unlink them, and
I'm going to delete the bad audio track.
I'll move up the good audio track, select
both of those, and then link them just
like that...
Hi everybody, welcome to
another episode of Exploring Photography
right here.... alright, just like that I have
great audio from an external recorder
synced to great video from my video
camera, and it works just fine.
Let's talk about the second scenario,
or you might have three cameras or so
and you want to
synchronize those so that they all play
together, and you can edit between them.
It works the same way, so I'm going to do
here is I'm going to delete what I just
did, I have three cameras that I've used
here... I've got a GoPro that I used for
B-roll, I've got an Osmo Pocket that I used
for B-roll.... and then I have a Sony camera
that I used as my main camera.
'.. at least at a basic level the next thing'...
so I want to synchronize all those things.
So all I have to do is I'll take my Sony,
that's the master camera... I'll put that
on the timeline, I'm going to use my
existing setting...
this again editing in 1080p,
then I'll take my Osmo pocket...
I'll throw that... it doesn't matter where...
on the timeline....
then I'll take my GoPro boom...
and I'll throw this on the timeline.
Now I want these... if I play this right now,
him sitting this way, the audio is all
crazy... and so what I'll do is, I'll
highlight everything... right click - hit
synchronize...
I'll use the same options as
before and hit OK... and blam everything is
synced now.
What I can do is... I can do
exactly what I did before...
I'll take these two clips...
I will unlink the audio in the video,
I will delete the bad video,
I'll get a razor tool, and then I will
just slice everything.
Okay.... all right, so now what I can do is...
I'll hide these other ones... you can see
there's our first camera angle....
I'll put this on here...
Second camera angle is synced,
Here's the GoPro camera... and so then I can
go and edit through these, and it'll be
just fine.
Now that's not the best way to
do that, if you're doing multiple cameras,
that's just a really down quick and
dirty way you want to use multicam
editing if it's possible...
but in a pinch...
the synchronized option works really
really well... alright let's talk about the
third thing that can save you a ton of
time, so this is Copy and Paste Attributes.
So look at what I have here
I've got a 4k timeline, but I shot some
video from a Mavic, and I use two
different 4k formats, and so you can see
here on this first clip that we've got
black bars because it's the wrong aspect
ratio... so that's the same with the first
the second, and the third clip, but then I
fixed everything so it's in a normal
aspect ratio on the rest of these clips,
so I need to fix these first for video
clips, and so I don't want to do those
over and over... one at a time, and this
really will impact you, if you have let's
say like 30 or 40 clips, and you have to
do the same change to all of those.
So here's what I'm going to do,
I'm going to open this first clip,
and I'll just make some changes....
it doesn't matter what changes you make...
you can make these...
automate it as well,
so I'm just going to scale this up to 100
so that it fits my 4k format...
and then I'm going to add some..
I don't know, some really wacky color
processing just to make this really
obvious...
so I think what I'll do here is,
I'll put a really giant vignette on
there...
I'll make it less round, I'll take the
midpoint way down... I'll tick the
feather okay...
So you can see that I've added something
to this alright?
So now what I want to do...
I'll go back to my editing workspace is,
I want to apply this wacky effect to
everything else here... it looks like I've
also changed okay, yeah, there it is...
So I want to apply this to these other three
Clips...
so all I have to do is go into edit,
and then I'll say copy, and then I will
select these three clips right here, that
I want to copy all of the changes that I
just made.
I will go to edit I will say Paste Attribute...
then I can choose which attributes to
paste... so I wanna paste the
motion.. so that's the scaling...
the size that I did...
I want to also paste the
effects, so that's all the stuff I did
with the vignette...
You can also choose or not choose other
things as well, but those are the ones I
want to paste... so
I'll hit okay,
okay just like that now,
look all of these other video clips, also
have that same wacky effect added to
them... and I just had to do it to one...
copy and paste all those attributes.
So those are three techniques that could save you
a ton of time, specifically the audio stuff.
I hope that helps you out, and I
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