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Adobe Premiere Pro | The 'Default Scale to Frame Size' Preference Option
The 'Default Scale to Frame Size' preference can cause some confusion as it is not always obvious how it works, and how it affects footage in your project. In this brief Premiere Pro tutorial, Andrew Devis explains what effect the preference has on your footage and why things may not always seem to act in the way you think they should when this preference is or isn't selected.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
The temptation is always to choose the easiest tool in the box when sometimes another tool will do an much better job! In this Premiere Pro tutorial Andrew Devis will show you how to avoid using the dreaded brightness & contrast tool and damaging your shot in the process! Andrew will show you the correct tool to choose so that the full dynamic range is preserved and your shot looks great when you need to brighten it or change the contrast.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 106 Multi-Camera Work-flow
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through the new and improved multi-camera work-flow in Premiere Pro CS6, which includes the option to use as many cameras as your system can cope with! Andrew shows how to use three clips in this tutorial, how to set them up with a synchronizing point and then how to trim footage back into the multi-camera sequence if the synchronizing points weren't in a good place. He then shows how to change between cameras and how to modify the edits created.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 89 Export 4: Media Encoder 1
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the Media Encoder to render out several different versions of a Premiere Pro sequence using easy to find and select presets. Andrew shows how to add sequences without even having to have Premiere Pro open and then change the preset to another one of your choice and add extra outputs to suit your customers' needs.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 99 Ultra Key Part 2
The Ultra Key in Premiere Pro is a way of quickly and efficiently 'Green/Blue Screening' or 'Chroma Keying' footage elements shot against a colored background. In this second tutorial, Andrew Devis goes on to show how to use the Ultra Key settings and how you can use presets to help understand how certain parameters work. Andrew goes on to show how to deal with edge issues and then how to use another effects to simulate a 'light wrap' effect which brings the color of the background into the edge/alpha channel of the keyed object. Andrew finishes by showing how to deal with parts of the matte that have become semi-transparent during the keying process.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 86 Export 1: Dynamic Link
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to get a sequence from Premiere Pro into either Encore or After Effects using the 'dynamic link' function. Dynamically linking a sequence to either Encore or After Effects will mean that any changes made to the sequence in Premiere Pro will be automatically updated in the program it is linked to (Encore or After Effects). Andrew demonstrates both a simple 'drag and drop' as well as a menu driven approach to setting up dynamic link.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 93 Time 2: Time Remapping
Time remapping is hands-down the most powerful time changing effect in Premiere Pro and also great fun to work with once you know how to use it. In this tutorial Andrew Devis shows how to vary the time of a clip, how to ease that change, how to ease into a hold keyframe and then ease back out again. He then goes on to show how to make the whole clip carry on to play backwards and how to ease the change between playing one direction and the next.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Adding and Removing Tracks
In this Premiere Pro quick tip tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how easy it is to create new audio (stereo, mono and 5.1) and video tracks in your timeline with almost no effort at all.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Custom Workspaces in Premiere Pro
Have you ever wanted to have one panel in another place on your screen? Or maybe move your tools from the top to the bottom? In this Premiere Pro tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to customise your workspace to meet your own specific requirements and then how to save that workspace so that you can recall it quickly and simply, to use whenever you need. Learn how to create multiple different workspaces for all the different tasks you undertake in Premiere Pro so that editing becomes ever more intuitive. NB: This is particularly invaluable when more than one person uses your machine and you want to re-set the workspace to your own exacting standards after 'they' have messed it up ;o) ...
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro: Matching Cameras & Composit Elements in AE
In this colour correction tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the tools in After Effects both to get excellent colour matching result in After Effects and also to provide information that can be copied into Premiere Pro to more quickly and intuitively achieve better colour matching in Premiere Pro than can easily be achieved with the present set of tool in Premiere Pro (recorded with CS5.5).
Andrew shows how to use both the right tool and specific colour channel views to visually match the channels to achieve the best results quickly and effectively. Use this to match footage from different cameras as well as matching elements to be composited into your composition so that they look as if they really belong together.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 92 Time 1: Clip Speed/Duration
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows another of the time options inside of Premiere Pro (having previously shown the rate-stretch tool in an earlier tutorial). Starting with the Speed/Duration option Andrew goes through the various ways to apply it and the advantages and limitations that it has.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 90 Export 5: Media Encoder 2
In this second tutorial on Media Encoder, Andrew Devis shows how to create preset groups for customers to ensure that you always export the same file types and minimize the risk of choosing the wrong presets when outputting multiple different sequences. Andrew also shows how to customize a preset to meet specific needs such as different frame rates or frame sizes etc and save that preset and add it to a preset group for the customer you created it for. Andrew then shows how to quickly select a smaller portion of the sequence so that you can test your output settings on a much smaller section of the sequence you want to export.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Understanding the 'Source Panel' tools
Understanding the Source Panel is essential for a smooth and professional editing work-flow. In this video tutorial you will learn about the key features of the source panel, how to edit your clips to select just the parts you want to use, and which keyboard short-cuts to use for maximum speed when editing.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Using Markers To Pace Your Editing
In this short Premiere Pro video tutorial, you will learn the principle of using the beat of your soundtrack to pace your editing to produce either a safe or an uneasy feeling with your production. You will learn how to apply markers and how to use those markers to guide your cuts in the timeline.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Using Workspaces in Premiere Pro
In this brief tutorial, Andrew Devis introduces some of the 'built-in' workspaces available in Premiere Pro to make your task of editing quicker and more efficient by giving you all the panels you need with the most effective layout in one simple action, rather than having to search for the panels and play around with the layout of Premiere Pro to get the feel you're looking for.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro: Capturing & Batch Capturing from miniDV tape
In this tutorial for Premiere Pro, Andrew Devis demonstrates how to capture footage from miniDV tape from a camera connected to a computer via a firewire or iLink connection. Andrew covers the options to record straight from the camera, using the in to out button and how to batch capture logged clips.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro: Sweetening Audio with Parametric EQ
In this advanced Premiere Pro tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the parametric equaliser in Premiere Pro and for CS5.5 in Audition and for CS4/5 in Soundbooth. The parametric eq is a simply and effective way to affect a whole series of frequencies in you audio to quickly and efficiently sweeten (or un-sweeten depending on what you want to do) your audio. However, the work-flow for CS5.5 and above and CS5/4 (and probably CS3) are different and so the tutorial starts with the work-flow for PP/Audition CS5.5 and above and then at 13:30 onwards looks at the work-flow for CS4/5 and Soundbooth including showing how to balance the volume level. Andrew also shows how to apply parametric eq directly in Premiere Pro even though this is a much less efficient way of applying the effect.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 80 Audio 10 Stereo to Dual Mono
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis deals with one of the most common problems when dealing with audio in Premiere Pro - how do you change a stereo clip into a dual mono clip? Andrew will show how to change your preferences so that any imported clip will be seen as being dual mono in Premiere Pro as well as how to change a clip that is already imported into your project. Please note that it is not easy to change a clip AFTER it has been put in the timeline. However, Andrew goes on to show one option for muting one channel of a stereo pair in your timeline which can in some cases be helpful.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 83 Audio 13: Gain Options
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through the right-click gain options for audio waveforms in Premiere Pro. These often overlooked options are very powerful when used to either maintain the relationship between clip volumes or break that relationship such that the volume of each of the clips in amplified to the maximum. Understanding these options will give you some quick and powerful tools for dealing with problem audio in your projects. Note: Gain should be sorted out before changes to volume for best results.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Color Correction 2: Primary Colour Correction
The fast color corrector is one of the main (and fastest to render) color correction tools in Premiere Pro's arsenal of color tools and an essential tool for all video editors to master. In this tutorial Andrew Devis will show you how to remove a color cast from a video clip manually and with automated tool. Andrew will then show you how to use the automated levels controls to get the right contrast balance for your clip.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 82 Audio 12: Audition Tips
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows some work-flows for processing audio from Premiere Pro in Adobe Audition. First, Andrew shows how to use powerful but simple EQ tools and then how to make sure that the volume is maximized whilst not going into 'the red'. Andrew then goes on to show how to match the volume of multiple clips with an automated function in Premiere Pro.
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Using & Creating Title Templates
Premiere Pro has quite a few title templates that we can use and modify to quickly create professional looking titles. In this short tutorial Andrew will show you how to find and modify the standard templates, and then how to turn your own title creations into templates that you can use across all your projects.
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