Today, we are back on another Adobe Premiere tutorial.
And we are focusing on workflow - editing faster & easier with shortkeys or my new toy
Loupedeck CT.
We will talk about why you will invest in a controller for Video Editing.
And then I will show you how I program my Loupedeck CT to fit my unique editing style
- which is 360 VR videos, and massively long YouTube Tutorials ABOUT 360 VR Filmmaking.
If you are looking for investing in the Loupedeck CT as a Videographer, this will be a great
review and tutorial for you.
If you just want to learn some of my Premiere workflow tips & tricks for 360 VR editing
and program it with shortkeys and your old school keyboard - this will be a great tutorial
as well.
We have a lot to cover, so let's go!
Loupedeck CT - $549 Worth it?
So, some background stories, why I end up getting the Loupedeck CT.
If you are a long time followers of CreatorUp, you know recently I am upping my YouTube game
by releasing EPIC tutorials or reviews every single week.
Some of them are 35 minutes long.
This is on top of my full-time job as a 360 VR director and post supervisor.
Spending almost 12 hours a day in front of a computer makes me really rethink how I can
improve my workflow.
I did try before with this thing, a controller.
I end up throwing this into a trash can.
Mainly because it is really hard to program, and it is not responsive.
And then I found Loupedeck CT - which build on the same concept as a DJ controller, like
the Ableton Launchpad I have right here.
In fact, the build quality of Loupedeck CT is so high - it can be used LIVE with Ableton
for DJing.
Why does your boy know anything about DJing?
Let me be honest with you.
This thing is not gonna replace your keyboard, at least for video editing with Premiere.
If you have 10+ years of experience in Adobe Premiere editing like your boy here, and expect
this will improve your editing speed immediately.
Well, it is not gonna happen.
In fact, it will slow you down at the beginning until you rebuild some muscle memory with
the controller.
Think about it as an instrument - like a Piano.
It takes time to learn and master.
But when you do, you play beautiful music.
If you don't make a living with editing, I don't know you should invest $500 on a control.
The money will be better spend on a better Graphics Card or a faster SSD drive.
If you have those already, and you are a professional video editor or content creator, I will suggest
combining your Loupedeck CT with your keyboard and mouse, and slowly program it to your liking.
With patient, after a month or so, you will have your own template that you feel very
comfortable to play on - and your editing will become fun and FAST.
And that is exactly what I am going to show you in this tutorial - my way of thinking
and how I make Loupedeck CT to fit my editing style.
If you don't have the Loupedeck CT, you can just replace it with keyboard shortcut.
So you can still follow along.
Program Loupedeck CT for 360 VR editing The best way to learn how to edit faster with
a controller is to use it.
If you are a musician or DJ, you know exactly what I am talking about.
So let's open up Premiere and check out my template and shortkeys on 360 VR video editing.
BTW, I will provide my template to download in the description below, FREE with love.
Don't forget to share this on your social media and give me a like.
As you see right here, I align my Loupedeck CT against the left side of my keyboard.
I will go so far that I will use a 3M Dual Lock to lock the Loupedeck and the keyboard
together on the table, so they stay in the exact same location every time I edit - so
I can develop muscle memory.
This is the trick I learned in my DJ career.
If I have multiple controllers on deck, I need to get to them without looking so I can
focus on the music and the audience and using touch and muscle memory to control everything.
You should do the same for video editing.
My Loupedeck will look a lot different than yours b/c I customized it.
Let's focus on 360 VR related controls in this session and 2D video editing in the next
session.
Again, you can replace them with keyboard shortcut if you don't have the Loupedeck.
I do audio edit a lot basic on music - that is why my production goes so well with the
music.
To do that, I change the Audio Height using this nob a lot.
So I can see the waveform, find my edit point, and reduce the height again when I am done.
To program a nob to do that, it is very easy while Premiere is running.
Tap the Loupedeck logo right here to bring up Loupedeck Configuration.
Click the nob you want to program.
Let's say Video Height.
Go to search, type in Audio and it will show all the audio-related actions you can program
on a nob.
Just drag and drop on the nob - and you are ready to go.
There is a display on the controller to tell you what that is, right here.
So if you forgot what that nob does, it will tell you.
Close that and go back into Premiere.
I use the Select Clip and Zoom in the timeline a lot, so you see them here.
In VR, there is a button you click a lot, it is this toggle VR display button.
To turn your preview windows into an immersive view.
Like So.
I can program a button or a short key to do that quickly.
But I found that it is not necessary in a real production situation.
It is as easy to use your mouse to click it as tapping a button.
So we are not wasting a button on it.
This is the kind of logical thinking you need to do to decide what goes on the Loupedeck
or your keyboard, and what is not.
As you see on my Loupedeck, there are 2 VR related buttons there.
They are crucial for VR editors.
This is a stereoscopic video shot on the Insta360 Titan.
Right now, you only see monoscopic.
How do we know if the stereo is correct and there is no vertical disparity?
We need to quickly switch between Anaglyph and Left / Right eye.
Without shortkeys - here is how you do it.
You right click on the video, scroll down to VR Video, go to settings and open up VR
Video Settings.
In here, you choose your Stereoscopic View dropdown to pick the setting and hit okay.
That is a 6-step process.
With Loupedeck, you tap here, to bring up the VR Video Settings immediately.
Choose your eyes, and then tap confirm button on Loupedeck.
It is a 3-step process with minimum mouse movements, and you can quickly switch between
view, and it is very fast.
Again, Adobe should really make it into a 1 button operation.
This feature request has been sitting in the queue for more than a year now and still,
not there.
So this is the next best alternative.
Another essential feature is to increase your VR viewing windows by getting rid of the VR
Video controls.
As you see right here, this takes up lots of space.
But we also need them to fine-tune the degree for panning in VR rotate sphere - for horizon
leveling, stabilization, transition, object removal, and literally everything.
So the way to switch back and forth without shortkey is right-click, go to VR Video and
uncheck Show Controls.
I can tell you, before Loupedeck, I just live with the smaller screen and never change that.
It is a 4-step process, no way I am wasting my time on that.
With Loupedeck, it is a tap of a touchscreen.
Look at that, so convenient!
Okay, let me show you how to program the touchscreen.
Tap the Loupedeck logo again, in search bar type VR.
You see all the VR controls you can program.
It has a lot.
Some of them are even for VR headset editing.
I will let you explore the best way to use all these.
To program, just drag and drop the action onto any touchscreen button, and that's it.
If you close the Loupedeck configuration, you see the display change right here as well.
No need to restart Loupedeck or Premiere to take effects.
Amazing.
The scroll wheel is probably the best feature of Loupedeck.
You can slow scroll to find edit point, fast scroll to jump tho clips, tap the center to
play the video, and tap it again to stop playback.
You can swipe right to go to a different scroll wheel.
And here, you can have the fine control to scroll in 1 frame or 5 frame to find the perfect
edit point.
Swipe left to go back to the previous wheel.
This playback control is ridiculous, and I have clients just take control, and they love
it.
Return business to justify the cost of Loupedeck.
As a visual effect and 360 VR, or VR180 editor, we use the Effect Controls and Effects panel
a lot.
So we need physical buttons just to smash that and switch back and forth.
The default Loupedeck circle button 4 and 5 above the scroll wheel is set in and out
point.
I much prefer my old school keyboard way - which is I and O. As I said, if you have muscle
memory on some of your shortkeys, you should keep it that way.
Free up the button to do program into things that will speed up your process.
To me, it is to bring up Effects panel and Effect Controls panel.
As you see the first clip right here, we need to level and reorient the footage.
We select the clip, tap 4 to bring up Effects panel, open up Often Used folder.
And here is another workflow tip.
Organize all your often use effects into a custom folder.
So when you need them, you tap 4 and Often Used folder is already open up.
You just pick your effects and drag and drop.
Very fast.
Now tap 5 to go to Effect Controls panel.
And you can start immediately to adjust your settings.
To assign these to your Loupedeck, open up the Loupedeck configuration again, search
for effect, and find those actions to drag and drop onto the circle button.
If you hover your mouse on the circle button, it tells you what they are if you forgot.
Program Loupedeck CT for Ultra-Fast 2D editing
So I have a really unique editing style that ensures speed and accuracy for all my super
long tutorials on YouTube.
To do that, I want my right hand on my mouse and left hand on my Loupedeck with minimum
movements.
The shorter distance your hands or your fingers need to move, the faster you can edit.
In here, I have E button as Add Edit, so my thumb can tap it and cut.
C and D as 1 frame micro-adjustment to find the edit point.
My index finger will tap the B for ripple delete or A for just a regular delete to leave
a space for inserting graphics.
I also copy and paste effects a lot from clip to clip.
So I have the 7 as Copy - like Control C but with just a button.
And 8 as Paste.
You can not paste effects with just a regular paste.
So here is another big time-saver for you.
You can copy and paste all the effects, animation, audio edit, and lumetri color grading from
clip to clip.
So I set the Function key plus A as Paste Attributes.
So my hand does not need to go anywhere to do copy and paste attributes.
If you don't have Loupedeck, make sure you make this shortkey on your keyboard for paste
attributes - to save you a ton of time of copy and paste.
Let me show you everything in action NOW.
So I have a first clip colored and adjusted VR leveling and even the audio level set.
I hit 7 to copy.
My thumb hold Fn, and my index finger tap A on the next clip.
I can select what I want to copy over to the next clip.
For fast edit, I control my playhead with my pinky and the scroll wheel.
Find the edit point, tap E the cut.
Tap B to ripple delete.
Use my ring finger to tap the center of the scroll wheel to see the edit and move on to
the next cut point.
The whole process without me to move my hand at all - just my fingers.
This is my editing secret to push out 35 min long tutorial every single week.
I hope you do not copy it exactly.
But if you do, please give this video a like and give me a shout out to thank me for saving
you quality time.
So if you tap 2 it will jump into Color page where you can color grade with Lumetri Color.
It is very powerful but I don't use Premiere to color.
Because Premiere sux in coloring and generate banding and artifacts with Lumetri - especially
for highly compressed 360 footage.
Every professional will tell you to use Davinci Resolve - which is every Hollywood production
house use.
And it is FREE.
So I will save the coloring part in Davinci Resolve, coming up very soon.
Loupedeck will work with Davinci Resolve with Macro and shortkeys.
We will cover that in my coloring tutorial on Davinci Resolve next.
But I do want to cover audio editing and sound effects, which is very important for a great
cinematic piece.
The trailer you saw on this video, the video editing is very simple.
But the sound design, as you see right here, is what makes it so powerful and cinematic.
Let's just watch it again!
... So, if you tap 3, Loupedeck will have a dedicated
Audio editing page for exactly that.
Let me quickly show you.
Audio Editing with Loupedeck CT
Right off the back, you can control the audio level by selecting the audio clip and just
turn your wheel.
In here we have a voice over coming in.
Let's add an audio fade by selecting the end or beginning of your transition point.
Tap this button.
Boom!
You add a constant power transtion.
It is that easy.
Now we need to dip the background music so we can hear the voice over.
So we need to add keyframes.
Click the pen looking icon on Loupedeck right here and click the timeline to insert keyframes.
Now you can use the scroll wheel to select keyframe.
Tap the center of the wheel to switch to the volume of the selected keyframe.
Turn it to drop the volume.
Tap it again to switch back to select keyframe.
Select the next keyframe and drop the volume.
If you change your mind of the keyframe location, you can use the Audio KF Horizon nob to move
the keyframe left and right.
Crazy convenient.
So right now, the audio level is boring.
We want to add easy ease, or curve adjustment in the volume so the audio will drop more
natural.
Just like animation.
You can hit Ease In curve or East out curve directly on Loupedeck like so.
Drag the handle and find the best ease amount.
Btw, you can program the same thing on any animation in Premiere with Loupedeck.
That is a lot more complicated course, so I will save it for my next animation essential
tutorial on Adobe Premiere.
If you use GoPro FX Reframe plugin to do reframe of your 360 video footage and do speed ramp,
this will be a great tutorial for you.
I will teach you how to edit like GoPro with Loupedeck keyframe fine control.
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Wow, I hope you enjoy this Premiere editing workflow tutorial.
I demo it with Loupedeck, but all the buttons you see on Loupedeck CT is available in Adobe
Premiere Shortkey menu right here.
You can program them accordingly on your keyboard or your gamer mouse as well.
You just have to do it.
Time is money.
If you can not afford Loupedeck, at least use shortkeys.
If you like workflow tutorials like this and want me to review other control panels or
more tutorials in Adobe Premiere and After Effects, please comment below and let me know
what you want to learn next.
And I will make them for you.
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