premiere pro Premiere Pro Editing Tips & Tricks Thread

[benwubbleyou]

This is a thread to share editing tips in Adobe Premiere Pro. I know I am not Taran, but I have been working in Premiere for about 6 years now and just want to share some of the stuff I have come to figure out through my time in the software.

 

Feel free to add stuff onto this.

 

 

 

Sometimes you will want to label a clip and then it labels all your clips and you will be like WTF.

It’s possible you checked “Display the project item name and label color for all instances” in the project settings. If you deselect that it will let you label parts of a clip like normal.

 

With the select track and all tracks tools you don’t have to actually select a clip to start the selection, you can click before it to begin your selection. You can also press shift to choose clips on only one track.

 

You can use the audio mixer panel to mute and manage volumes of your tracks without using keyframes if you just need the whole track to be quieter as a whole.

 

You can stack timeline windows above each other instead of keeping them as tabs. This is known as “pancake timelines”

 

If using ‘j k l’ is not precise or fast enough you can press shift along with ‘j k l’ to go up in small increments. This is helpful for going through speaking at a reasonable pace.

 

If you have audio that is acting stupid, right click the audio and select “render and replace”. Sometimes this fixes any issues because Premiere is dumb.

 

You can do color and effects on one section of a clip in the timeline or on the entire clip in the project panel. You choose this by selecting either the master or the clip in the effects or lumetri panel.

 

If you are copying and pasting clips from timelines you can select which channels they go to with the track highlighter on the left.

 

You can reorganize all the icons on basically everything. This is handy if you are looking for a feature you can’t find(like multicam in the program viewer because for some reason they hide it).

 

You can change multicam angles in the right click menu while selecting a clip.

 

You can also flatten a multicam clip so that you are editing the original clip rather than a nested structure by right clicking the section and selecting flatten in the multicam menu.

 

You can organize your tiles by using the two arrow icon thing in the project menu and selecting what you want, but if your files are in list view you have to select the tabs. This took longer than I’d like to admit.

 

You can create in and out points in the project viewer simply by moving your mouse over the clip from left to right, pressing i and o for your in and out points, and then you are good. This only works if the project panel is active though, so make sure it is, or else you will make an in and out point on your timeline and look like a dumbs.

 

You can’t copy and paste effects in the effects controls panel using keyboard shortcuts, you have to right click them, one at a time. And it is stupid.

 

If you have a second monitor and want to use it as a program viewer, instead of moving the program monitor to the second window, enable mercury transmit and select your monitor in the playback section of preferences. It will now act as a native screen with no controls or anything. This lets you keep a small program monitor on your main screen and a nice large preview on your second monitor. This is great when you have clients around.

 

If you cut your audio already and want to edit your whole clip instead of just one portion in audition or whatever, select the master clip and render and replace to audition instead.

 

You can stack adjustment layers like nodes on the timeline to try different looks if one lumetri isn’t cutting it. It’s better than stacking lumetri effects on top of each other.

 

If you throw warp stabilizer onto a clip that isn’t the same size as the timeline, you will get an error. You can fix this by nesting the clip. It sucks but it works.

 

Sometimes if you try to stabilize a 60fps clip in a 24fps timeline you will get super weird stuttering. You can fix this by going to the project panel, select gate clip and interpreting the footage as 24fps. Then speed up your clip back to 60fps with math. Nest your clip, then apply warp stabilizer.

 

You can downres your footage to make playback faster by changing the dropdown. You can adjust the paused resolution as well as the playback resolution.

 

You can maximize any panel with the ~` key.

 

If you send footage to Pluraleyes to sync and when you get it back in premiere and there are weird diagonal lines on clips and none of the footage is syncing right; then you probably used the wrong frame rate for your sequence to send to Pluraleyes. Set the sequence setting to the highest frame rate of whatever footage has it, then send it to Pluraleyes, have it sync, then change your frame rate back in Premiere when you reimport your synced footage.

[emosun]

holy textwall batman.......

6 minutes ago, benwubbleyou said:

You can’t copy and paste effects in the effects controls panel using keyboard shortcuts, you have to right click them, one at a time. And it is stupid.

Yeah you can. ctrl c ctrl v works fine ...

you can also just copy and paste attributes so you don't have to do it one at a time. 

[benwubbleyou]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

holy textwall batman.......

Yeah you can. ctrl c ctrl v works fine ...

you can also just copy and paste attributes so you don't have to do it one at a time. 

I have had nothing but issues with it, but it's good to know it works for someone. I have had issues copying effects like lumetri and warp stabilizer though.

[emosun]

6 minutes ago, benwubbleyou said:

I have had issues copying effects like lumetri and warp stabilizer though.

Well yeah you can't copy and paste effects that need to analyze the frames and expect it to work.

 

there's not a lot of tips and tricks that involve fixing errors that can be shared between machines. Premiere is it's own meme of errors that happen that don't occur with other people.  I have plenty of odd errors that i get that i know how to fix that you will never encounter becuase you aren't running the same version of premiere , the same version of windows , the same hardware , the same extensions , ect....