In this video, I'm going to show you an easy way to cut to the rhythm
of the beat within Premiere Pro utilizing a technique called automate to sequence.
This essentially allows you to create markers on your timeline
and then in your project bin you can create your in and outs and Import
that footage directly to the timeline, to those markers.
I've already imported my music track down here, and I want to move my play
head to the beginning of the timeline and start creating my markers.
Now, it's important to create a marker right here on the very first frame,
because when you import your footage,
it uses that very first marker as the first place to insert the footage.
You can click this little icon to add a marker, but you can also hit
the letter M to create a marker, which I think is much faster.
So now that we have our first marker in.
Well, I want to do is actually listen to the music.
And I'll hit M as the music is playing and create my markers that way.
[Music Playing]
I think I'll leave it right there.
Now, before we import these into the timeline, we want to make sure
that they start at the right place and that's creating our ins and outs .
Now, you may be familiar with this, so if I were to double click on a clip
that brings it up in the source monitor, say, I just wanted to create
my in when they're kind of throwing this glowy ball up
so I can hit I on the keyboard to create my In Point.
And as it goes away, I'll hit O To create my outpoint.
So when I drag this clip down to the timeline, there's my IN there's my OUT
in order to do it.
The fastest way, I think, is to open this up and use your icon view.
Currently, we're looking at our footage bin in list view.
But if we go to this icon, it's icon view.
I'll click that.
But I want to make this window full screen.
And I can do this by hovering the mouse over this specific
bin and hitting the tilde key on the keyboard.
So I'm going to hit that to make these even bigger.
I'm going to go down here to adjust my size of the icons in the thumbnails.
Now, we have a lot of room to work with to set our ins and outs
in the footage been all you have to do is hover scrub on the footage
and use that same process of hitting I to set your IN and O, to set your OUT.
Let's say I want to have her running up and so I'll hit I on my keyboard.
It's really tough to see if you don't know it's there.
But down below is the play head.
So notice where I'm moving the mouse.
Right here is the play head on the clip.
So anything that's blue will become your clip.
So there I created my in point.
So I'll go about right here and hit my outpoint.
Now, the beauty of
automating your sequence, the way that we're going to be doing it,
you don't necessarily need to set out points
because the out points for these clips are basically going
to be cut off by another clip coming in by the next marker.
So if I go to this next clip with this guy, let's say we want this little intense
shuffle that he's doing.
I'll just hit I move on to the next clip, her doing these hand gestures
where I want to start. Move on to the next clip.
I'll continue on with this technique until this clip right here.
Let's say, for example, you want it to end and out points on the same clip.
In order to do that, let's say I want to do one part,
this throwing ball and another one where they're kind of dancing
like this back and forth.
I'll create one IN and OUT Point surrounding that ball throwing motion
and then to create another instance of an IN and OUT Point.
All I need to do is right click and duplicate that clip.
So now I have two instances of this clip.
But on this second clip over here, I can move the play head
over to where they're dancing back and forth and create my new IN Point.
I'll hit I notice that the line has changed down here.
These two are now the same clip, but they start at different times.
This clip starts right here where they throw on the ball.
This clip starts where they are dancing back and forth.
There's also a different way to do this technique and instead of
going to duplicate, you could go to make sub clip
and you could just restrict the clip to the subclip boundaries,
whichever way is best and most efficient for your workflow.
Once you have your ins and outs set, the next step is to order the clips
in which you want them to appear on the timeline.
So if I were starting over here from the left, this will be the first clip.
This will be the next clip coming in and so on and so forth.
Now that I have my clips organized,
I'll hit the tilde key to restore the bin to its original size.
Move my play head to the very beginning of the timeline again,
because when I go to import these, it's going to start it from wherever
the play head is with all of your footage in the right order.
I'm going to highlight all of my clips.
I can do that by hitting command on Mac or control on Windows.
And now we want to bring up our automate to sequence window.
You can do that by going up to clip, automate to sequence or even better.
There's an icon right here by the magnifying glass automate to sequence.
I'm going to click this one for ordering.
We want to do selection, order for placement.
We want to make sure that we're using our unnumbered markers.
We want to overwrite the edit.
And for this specific example, we want to ignore the audio if you didn't do this.
It may paste the audio over your music layer.
And if you do need to import it with the audio, just make sure
that the track targeting for that music track is turned off that way.
The audio from your clips doesn't paste over your music, but for right
now, I'm going to ignore my audio so I don't have to worry about that.
So I'll hit, OK.
And immediately we have our clips down here on the timeline.
There may be a little bit that you need to adjust.
That's not too hard to fix in the final product. Looks something like this.
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Until next time.
My name is Harvey Mercedes,
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