(magical jingle)
Hey everybody, welcome into this Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial, brought to
you, as always, by tutvid.com. My name is Nathaniel Dodson, and today we're going
to take a look at the ripple delete tool - some of the cool things you can do with it,
and just why it's so powerful and important for you to know how to use here in
Premiere Pro. Everybody hates intros, I think this one is long enough, so let's jump into
Premiere, and get this thing started. Alrighty, here we are in Adobe Premiere Pro. Just
to kick this thing off, I have a cheesy, 1990's style ad for this fictitious airline. I've
applied this VHS overlay effect - just a bunch of different elements on screen; from the
voice over to music track, and multiple video clips to give us a relatively realistic working
environment, so we can really learn about ripple delete, and why it's so cool.
So, let me just show you, if you're not familiar with ripple delete. What it does, why it's
so great. So, we've got these two clips here of an airplane wing, and then an airplane
taking off. And maybe we're looking at this, and we want to - I'm going to zoom in here
by hitting my plus button on my keyboard - we want to cut this clip right here. So, we
would take our razor tool, right? And we would make the cut. And then we would take
our selection tool, and we would select this piece in the middle and hit the delete key
to get rid of it, and we could drag the other clip back. And just like that, we shorten the
clip, and we have our edit. Well, part of the nice thing about the ripple delete tool is,
right over here, you can see - well, ripple edit tool, technically, I should say. Note the
hotkey, the letter 'B.' If we use this, we can simply grab the end of this clip, drag back,
and it deletes and flows the entire video track right back in one fell swoop. So, the
ripple edit, or the ripple delete tool, as I like to think of it, is just such a great time saver.
It's such a fast and easy way to work. And there's lots of really cool hotkeys that we're
going to cover. Like this hotkey that just cuts the clip automatically back to where the
playhead is. I'm going to show you how to do that in just a moment. But I'm going to
leave this video here. Let's zoom out a little bit, and look at the video on our timeline.
And the first thing I want to show you, and something that you do really want to keep
in mind as you're using ripple delete, is that as you use this tool - I'm going to grab it
again, here - let's say we want to take this clip right back here. So this clip right here.
Let's say we want to take that clip, and we want to cut it back like this, right? Well,
you can see it flows everything downstream on your timeline back into it. And this
would also, by the way, go, if we had, let's say a video clip up on this track. And also,
another clip up there, right? And then we come over here - let me grab my ripple edit
tool. Let's say we flow this back; you can see everything gets bumped back down.
That's something that's really important to keep in mind as you're using this tool,
because you can really start to mess things up, and not know what's going on. I'm
going to delete these two clips because we're finished with them. What I like to do if
I'm working with something - working with a project, let's say, and I want to just make
sure I'm isolated, in this case, I want to perform a little ripple delete on this audio track,
just to show you that yeah, we can ripple delete that too. But, we're mainly going
to be ripple deleting our video track. So, first and foremost, I'm going to lock up - I have
this VHS crop and special effect thing that I've applied - so I'm going to hit the little
lock icon here for both of these adjustment layers, and I'm going to lock up both the
audio layers, as well. Well, actually, let me show you here. I'm going to unlock just
the voice over layer. You can see that this piece of video - this is as long as the voice
over track right beneath it. You can see, the cut lines up. So, what's going to happen if
I take my ripple edit tool - and I cut this back. Well, you can see, it's just saying, yeah,
that's not happening buddy. We can't do that here. So you're going to have some
funky, weird limitations and things you need to just get used to. Now, if I lock up the
voice over layer, all of a sudden I can cut that back, and everything is going to work
perfectly. So, for that reason, generally what I'm going through if I'm rough cutting
something, I try, for the most part, when I can, when it makes sense, to just lock
up the other elements that I know I'm not going to be ripple deleting. But, we do want
to ripple delete our audio. I'm going to unlock the audio track. In fact, I'm going to
lock the video track. And let's take a look at this, right where this cut is, I think we
have a little bit of repetition. Let's just give this a little listen. [music and ruffled voice]
So, you can hear there's that repetition where it says, "more flights to more cities"
twice. And then right here, where it says, "than any other airline!" So, we want to take
our ripple delete tool. You can see, it's the yellow arrow. We've got the ripple edit tool.
I'm going to just pull this to right about there, and by the way, I have snapping turned on.
That's the little magnet icon. And that means I can basically place my playhead like that,
and then when I just pull this back, it's going to snap to that. And now the audio just
collapses back in. [music and ruffled voice] And that sounds perfect. Now that we've
got that sorted out, let me zoom out just a little bit. We are going to unlock the
underlying soundtrack - the music here. I'm going to grab my regular selection tool,
and just collapse and trim the edge off, just like that. And then I'm going to lock up both
of these tracks. Both audio tracks; we're done editing them. And I'm going to unlock
the video track. At this point, I want to use ripple delete and just cut this, sort of how I want
it to be, so the video changes a little bit with the soundtrack. So, I want the first cut in
my video to happen right here on this part of the soundtrack, where there's a lull in the
soundtrack there, right? So I want it to go from this passenger jet leaving clip to this
next plane taking off extremely close clip. So, what we'll do here, I'm going to just line
this up, maybe right there, about with the middle. Now, there's something cool you can
do. You don't even have to leave the selection tool, you can hold down your CMD/CTRL
key, and you get that yellow arrow when you just hover close to the cut of any video
clip. You can see that there, I can just pull this back, ripple delete that right back. Boom!
Let's give this a quick listen, and watch. And that looks pretty good. Now, one thing I
may want to do is - the cut happens, or the change in video happens, right there early
on in the break in the video. So, you can see, obviously it's at the beginning of the lull in
the voice over. And we want this to happen really as we get out of that little break in the
voice over. So that's just a very fine change. Now, we could hold down CMD/CTRL and
re-ripple edit, like that, right? But, it can be just as fast as you're working with this, to
hold down the CMD/CTRL key, and just click straight on a cut in your video. That's
going to select a cut point in your video, and simply hold down your ALT/OPT key and
use your arrow keys. This will allow you to quickly roll where the cut is, and move and
edit, just like that. And be able to get a very, very precise change in a video cut very,
very quickly. So now, if we play through this. You can see, as the voice over continues
to say "covering the skies," so on and so forth, that's right where it cuts to this next
clip of this plane taking off. Now, we want this plane taking off extremely close - we
want this clip to play til about somewhere over here. A saxophone is going to begin
playing in here, let me just it a listen. And actually, the saxophone, I don't think,
begins playing til over here. Yeah. Alright, so, we're going to - we've got this second
clip here on the plane turning on the runway. Let's just splice that in, we'll bring it in,
I don't know, over here. Maybe we'll move it here at the end, where we're approaching
the lull in the voice over again. Now, check this out, this is a cool trick. You can select
a clip, and you can use the ripple, I forget exactly what it's called, ripple to next marker,
or something like that. Basically, what it's going to do is, note where your playhead is -
where you've placed your playhead. We only have one unlocked track here. And it's
going to cut from here to the end of that selected clip and ripple delete it back. And all
I have to do is press the letter 'W,' you can see, we get a perfect ripple delete. Now,
this I don't think is a default hotkey. So, up under your Premiere Pro menu, if you're on
the PC, this would be on the edit menu; and we would go down to the keyboard shortcut
editor, and I'm going to search for "ripple," and there it is. Ripple trim next edit to
playhead, that's what I was looking for. You can see, it's kind of a mouthful. And that's
the letter 'W,' because 'W' is on the right side of the keyboard. And I've set the letter
'Q' to ripple trim previous edit to playhead. And basically what that does, is if we've
got too much head on a clip - so maybe we want to trim from, or the playhead is here.
We want to lop off the entire area before that to the cut in the clip. I can hit the letter 'Q'
boom! And we lop that right off. Now, that wouldn't make as much sense for this clip,
because the plane is basically moving out of frame. So, I'm going to undo that. But we
will use that 'W' hotkey again, because right over here where the saxophone kicks in,
I want it to kick to this really, you know, airy shot. It feels big, and you're floating through
air, right? So I want it to - when the saxophone kicks in, and the music drops, if you will,
I want to cut to that clip. Let me just listen to get the exact point here. So, right around
here, where the saxophone is going to come in, I'm going to hit the letter 'W,' it's
going to trim the plane turning on runway clip down. And now, let's just see if we got
the effect that we're looking for. [music and ruffled voice] Maybe it's a little late, so
we can select - whoop! I didn't mean to do that. We can CMD/CTRL click on the cut,
not on that little line. We'll drop a little temporary keyframe. And then, ALT/OPT and
just slide that - maybe make it a little bit earlier, or something like that. There we go,
something like that looks cool. And, by the way, you can also just CMD/CTRL and hold,
you don't even have to click the little cut, you'll get what's called the rolling edit tool;
and that's that double arrow, and you can click and drag and adjust exactly where
a cut takes place as well. If you don't like using the ALT/OPT key. And that might
actually be a little bit faster to just hold down CMD/CTRL and adjust your edit that
way. Maybe I'll actually pull it just a tiny bit further. So there you go. You afford
yourself the opportunity to do something like that by going ahead and making that
change. And I think what'll I do - this clip will probably hold for about ten seconds.
Eh, maybe not quite ten seconds. Let's choose to make the cut here, we can always
adjust it. So, I'll hit the letter 'W,' you can see, it's going to make that cut. And we're
going to have our next clip come into play here. I'm going to play through this and
see what it looks like. Now, here, this is key. Right here, where the voice over says,
"settle in and enjoy your flight," at this point, when the voice over is saying that, I would
like the airplane to be taking off. So, the airplane actually takes off a little beyond there.
So we'll move back here, and we'll just guess. We want to chop off the head of the clip,
probably to about there. Let's hit the letter 'Q,' and let's see what this looks like now.
[music and ruffled voice] Maybe it can be cut just a little bit more. So we can simply
use the ripple edit tool, hold down CMD/CTRL, and just cut it back just a little bit
further. And I can see here, right there, it says, "settle in and enjoy your flight,"
it's just as the plane leaves the ground. And I think that is about perfect. So using the
ripple edit tool, it can be super duper effective. It's a lot of fun to do. It's really
powerful. It's such a fast way to just go in, hack, and chop, and clip, and adjust the
edit, and the length and the timing, and duration - just everything about your video
clips, and even your audio, as we saw we did here. The ripple edit tool: super, duper
powerful, with some great hotkeys to back it up. I can't do enough tutorials on this
tool, because it's such an essential tool for here in Adobe Premiere Pro. And yeah,
there you have it. So, I'm a bit of a 90's child myself, so we got a little, you know, the
90's vibe there with that, admittedly, maybe a little cringe-worthy advertisement.
But it was a lot of fun to play around with. I hope you enjoyed the video; if you did,
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around with the ripple delete tool; and messing around with some of the hotkeys;
and maybe the rolling edit tool. And just, you know, all the different stuff that we
messed around with here, in this tutorial. Ladies and gentlemen, that's it!
Get it? Got it? Good!
Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com, I'll catch you in the next one.