Refining Your Edit: Preparation
Lesson 14 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete GuideAbba Shapiro
Refining Your Edit: Preparation
Lesson 14 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete GuideAbba Shapiro
Lesson Info
14. Refining Your Edit: Preparation
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
In this lesson, the instructor discusses the process of refining video edits in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. He covers topics such as customizing the interface, using markers, different types of edits (lift edit, extract edit, roll edit), modifying edit points, ripple edits, slipping and sliding, J and L cuts, and replace edits. The instructor also provides tips on trimming clips and using keyboard shortcuts to streamline the editing process.
Q&A:
What does it mean to refine an edit?
Refining an edit refers to making adjustments to the timing, content, or placement of video clips in order to improve the overall quality and flow of the video.
How can you customize the interface in Adobe Premiere Pro CC?
The interface can be customized by rearranging and resizing panels, saving custom workspaces, and setting preferences for different tools and features.
What are markers used for in video editing?
Markers are used to indicate specific points in a video timeline, such as important moments, changes in content, or sections that need further editing or attention.
What are lift and extract edits?
Lift edits remove a selected portion of a video clip and leave a gap in the timeline, while extract edits remove a portion of a video clip and automatically close the gap.
What is a roll edit?
A roll edit is used to adjust the timing of a cut between two edit points without changing the overall duration of the sequence.
What are ripple edits?
Ripple edits are edits that automatically adjust the timing and position of surrounding clips when a portion of a clip is trimmed or removed, in order to maintain the overall timing and flow of the video.
What are slipping and sliding edits?
Slipping edits involve adjusting the in and out points of a clip without changing its overall position in the timeline, while sliding edits involve moving a clip horizontally along the timeline without changing its in and out points.
What are J and L cuts?
J and L cuts are types of edits where the audio and video from different clips overlap, allowing for a smoother transition between shots and a more seamless audio experience.
What is a replace edit?
A replace edit is a type of edit that allows you to replace a specific portion of a video clip with another clip, without overriding or deleting the original clip.
How can you trim the beginning or end of a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro CC?
There are several ways to trim the beginning or end of a clip, including using the trim edit tool, razor tool, or keyboard shortcuts such as delete or ripple delete.
Lessons
Understanding Editing: Bootcamp Overview
07:25 2Understanding Editing: Overview
25:25 3Understanding Editing: Video Examples
25:07 4Tour The Interface: Digital Video Workflow
16:38 5Tour The Interface: Project Panel
12:28 6Tour The Interface: Choosing Your Shot
07:18 7Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
10:31 8Tour The Interface: Video Tracks
05:26Tour The Interface: Edit Markers
08:46 10Building a Rough Cut: Cut Planning
21:46 11Building a Rough Cut: Selecting Media
25:01 12Building a Rough Cut: The Edit
30:50 13Building a Rough Cut: Edit Points
13:43 14Refining Your Edit: Preparation
10:29 15Refining Your Edit: Making Cuts
25:19 16Refining Your Edit: Using Markers
16:31 17Refining Your Edit: J and L Cuts
15:57 18Refining Your Edit: Replace Edit
05:04 19Working with Audio: Overview
17:43 20Working with Audio: Levels
13:36 21Working with Audio: Music
10:00 22Working with Audio: Mixing And Syncing
14:50 23Transitions: Overview
13:44 24Transitions: Effect Controls
09:31 25Filters & Effects: Overview
18:05 26Filters & Effects: Using Multiple Filters
22:18 27Motion & Animation: Motion And Animation Overview
09:40 28Motion & Animation: Movement With Still Images
26:56 29Motion & Animation: Picture In Picture
10:57 30Motion & Animation: Motion Effects
17:08 31Titling & Graphics: Overview
27:11 32Titling & Graphics: Advanced Tools
11:03 33Titling & Graphics: Roll And Crawl Effects
08:01 34Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop
12:17 35Speed Changes: Overview
21:12 36Speed Changes: Stills And Variable Speeds
06:23 37Color Correction: Overview
07:39 38Color Correction: Lumetri Scopes
11:32 39Color Correction: Contrast
21:37 40Color Correction: Advanced Tools
15:12 41Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip
07:45 42Finishing: Prepping for Output
14:53 43Finishing: QC Edit Points
24:56 44Sharing & Exporting: Overview
29:05 45Sharing & Exporting: Size And Quality
24:46 46Ingesting Media:
28:39 47Ingesting Media: Transferring And Importing
31:15 48Media Management & Archiving
26:10 49Multi-Camera Editing: Overview
14:26 50Multi-Camera Editing: Creating A Sequence
20:04 51Multi-Camera Editing: Switching Multiple Cameras
15:31 52Multi-Camera Editing: Finalizing
12:37 53Creating Timelapses: Shooting Strategies
18:04 54Creating Timelapses: Editing Images
14:21 55Creating Timelapses: Importing Strategies
18:47 56Creating Timelapses: Animation
05:58 57Advanced Editing Techniques: Take Command Of Your Timeline
22:36 58Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions
07:57 59Advanced Editing Techniques: Keyboard Shortcuts
12:00 60Advanced Editing Techniques: Preference Hacks
21:15 61Thinking Like an Editor: Editing Choices
31:55 62Thinking Like an Editor: Telling the Story
23:50 63Special Tools: Warp Stabilizer
17:59 64Special Tools: Morph Cut
06:56 65Special Tools: Green Screen
20:16Lesson Info
Refining Your Edit: Preparation
What we're gonna look at today is we're gonna talk about refining your edit. And by refining we're gonna maybe we may wanna customize the interface a little bit. I wanna talk about that to make it work better for you. Maybe some markers so you can know where to put things. We're gonna do different types of edits. Lift edit and extract edits. We're gonna learn some modifications that we can do. There's something called a roll edit that you would do between edit points to adjust the timing of when a cut happens. And we'll also look at ripple edits and slipping and sliding. All terms which are jargon that you don't understand now but hopefully you will understand by the end. And something called J and L cuts which is really one of the most powerful types of edits that you can use. And you see it on television all the time. And then what if you wanted to replace the shot without over-riding it, what a replace edit would be. So that's the idea of what we're gonna do to bring your show to th...
e next level. And let's just hop right in. And what I've done is I've slugged in this interview. I've just focused the interview on his travel. I didn't wanna spend the time about when he was a kid. Just kind of a promo thing that he can use to say, oh how exciting is it to go on these tours. So I put it in. I cut to the different cameras to give us a little bit of variety but I wasn't really selective about being really precise on that outpoint or that inpoint. So you'll hear overlapping audio or maybe even entire chunks of video that I wanna move. And that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna start with just generally trimming and all the different ways you can trim the end or the beginning of a clip. It's just like if you were in a Word document and you wanted to lop off the last sentence or you wanted to add a new sentence at the beginning when you're telling a story. That's all we're doing with our trimming. So I'm gonna play and as I play this we'll go along and we'll make some decisions and we'll talk about why we're making those decisions. And then we'll move this edit forward. So we still wanna keep the opening so I'll just position my play head. Hit the space bar. I've seen a lot of your work. Real pretty stuff. I've seen a lot of your work. Real pretty stuff. So obviously I have some redundancy there and I can either just kind of get the feel for the rhythm when I do that. So if I wanted to trim off the head, there's a lot of different ways to do that. So I couldn't, let me go ahead and zoom in here. So normally you have your selection tool which is the V key. Think of it as the arrow, okay? That's your selection tool. It's pretty standard in all Adobe applications that the V key is your default, your ready position. Okay so if for some reason you start moving things and the cursor's not working, it's probably 'cause you maybe hit another keyboard shortcut by accident and you're no longer seeing that selection tool. But as the default when I put that arrow over an edit point, do you see how it changes to a little red bracket? That's a trim edit tool and I can grab the edge of a clip and pull it and make it shorter and remove that chunk. All I did was basically I sliced it off. And again there's five or six ways you can achieve the same results. And you're gonna decide what works best for you. I'm gonna show you some basics and then also some more advanced techniques that you might like because it saves you a few steps. Instead of five steps it's two steps. But basic trimming is whenever you're in the regular selection tool and you move to the edge of a clip, and I'm gonna zoom in just even a little tighter, depending on which way that's pointing, that's the part of the clip that you're trimming. So if I wanted to I could make this longer too. I could make this shorter. So it's a trim tool that allows me to remove part of the clip and I can be very precise with it. Another way that I could trim this, I'm gonna go ahead and hit undo, is I could razor blade this. Basically cut the clip in half and just delete the front half. The net effect is going to be the same, again it's your style. Now you can do this by switching to their blade tool and we have a whole slew of tools here that you can work with. And there's a keyboard shortcut for all of them. If you forget the keyboard shortcuts, the beautiful thing about the engineers at Adobe, if you hover your mouse over it, it will tell you what that tool is and what the keyboard shortcut is. So in this case I want to cut our razor blade. This is the razor tool but you're cutting so C. They're very intuitive on how they choose these keyboard shortcuts. So if I hit the C key, do see how that turns now to a razor blade? And wherever I put that razor blade it's gonna cut. It doesn't necessarily wanna cut where the play head is but I can snap it to the play head. So if I cut it, and let me go ahead and switch back. V key to my selection tool. You now see there's an edit point here. And I can select this clip and do whatever I want with it. I can delete it. I can relocate it if I wanted to. Now if I delete the clip and I'm just gonna use the delete key. Now, I wanna just throw in again, because people have different styles, maybe you don't remember what the key is to do something, delete is pretty easy. But sometimes it's like, I think I know what I wanna do, and I wanna do it to this specific location. Try right clicking or control click. You'll get a drop down menu that might even tell you what you wanna do and you can see there's definitely some options. There's something called a ripple delete which we're gonna talk about in just a moment but I could go ahead and I could cut that out. If I hit cut it's gone. SO if you don't remember the keyboard shortcut or you don't necessarily look at the dropdown menus, just try right clicking. It a lot of times helps you a lot. But if I select that and hit delete it removes the clip but it doesn't change the position of anything else in my timeline. Okay, a lot of times you don't want things to shift. Because it would throw off timing. If I did wanna close that space after the fact, I can select it again and then once again hit delete. So it closes the space 'cause I selected the empty area. We saw we could also do that with the trim and then I could, again, select that empty space. So that's a delete or a cut. You saw there was something in the drop down menu called a ripple delete. Okay, it does exactly what you think it should. It deletes in and then ripples everything to close the space all in one step. So I could select ripple delete, boom, one step. Undo this again. You can also use a keyboard shortcut. And they vary from Windows to Macs and they vary from full keyboards to partial keyboards. It's a little crazy. But if I have that selected, oh I had the wrong thing selected, there we go, boom. And this is where I, having all these shortcuts in my head, it's option delete on a Mac but I'm gonna show you another trick to say, ah, I don't remember all these shortcuts. I wanna know a shortcut. And this is something I like to do. If I'm doing something 15 - 20 times in a row, I should figure out what the shortcut is for that. And as a matter of fact, I keep a pad of paper and I write it down and I'll say, I'm doing this over and over again, this insert edit thing. What is the keyboard shortcut? And then I'll know to look it up and try to remember it. Don't try to sit there and remember all the keyboard shortcuts 'cause only remember the ones you need. So the beautiful thing is that there're two places to find all the keyboard shortcuts. One is in the help menu. If you go to the help menu and you click on keyboard and you're hooked to the internet it will take you to the web page. And I believe I am live. And this will show you all the keyboard shortcuts. You can print this out for both the Windows and the Mac side. So here we go. Default keyboard shortcuts, Windows, Mac. I wanna find out what ripple delete is. I can go here and I can say, ripple. Let's see, find that. I didn't search the page right. See I can edit beautifully but trying to use a web browser. Here we go, ripple delete. So it's shift delete on a Mac. Shift forward delete, which Mac users don't know about what a forward delete is. I use both by the way. To me it's a machine, that confuses me either way. So shift forward delete will remove that element and close the space. But the lesson here is not what the shortcut is, it's how to find the other shortcuts. So if you just go to that drop down shortcuts it will give you this printed out. It's great, or just search it at the time. If you're not connected to the web you can, let me just make sure that we're inside of Premiere. You can go under keyboard shortcuts and on a Windows machine it should be under file at the bottom. Okay, on a Mac it's underneath Premiere Pro. Keyboard shortcuts, it brings up this dialogue box. Which allows you to not only find them but also to modify or create your own shortcuts for shortcuts that don't exist. So there's a lot great little things that they've hidden in there that they haven't had a shortcut for but if I wanna just find something like, oh I don't remember how to remove an inpoint. I type in, in, and I can look down and I can scroll through and these are all the things that would have in. And under my sequence we have, let's see, it should be mark in. Here we go. Mark in is I, and so I wanna remove that. Try out. When in doubt, jump to another solution. Here we go. Option O, clear out. So if I typed in clear in. So I could learn what these things are. So it's very useful to go to the keyboard shortcuts and just type in what you want and see if there's a shortcut and we'll look later on in the customizing towards the end of the course about modifying some things. And as we go through I may add a keyboard shortcut here or there.
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a Creativelive Student
I've never even tried video editing before this class. I opened the program once and panicked. After only 9 lessons I was able to throw a short video together (basic of course, but still pretty cool). I wish all of my teachers growing up were just like Abba. He goes over everything without dragging anything on for too long. He repeats things just enough for me to actually remember them, and he is funny. He keeps it fun and shows that even he makes mistakes. I can't even believe how much I have learned in less than a quarter of his class. I have a long way to go and am very excited to learn more. This class is worth every penny and more! I was hesitant on buying the class because I have CS6 and he works with CC, but I have already used what I've learned in his course to create a video. The first 9 lessons were already worth what I paid for the entire course. Thank you, Abba! You are an awesome teacher! You have me absolutely obsessed with creating right now! I highly recommend! You won't find this thorough of a course for this decent price!
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Just bought this yesterday and cannot stop watching!!!! What a FANTASTIC teacher-- just love the way he explains everything. For someone like me (who has a zillion questions) it is perfect. As soon as he introduces a feature, he explains several aspects in such a way that's easy to grasp and remember. So, so happy I got this. Thank you Abba and CreativeLive!
a Creativelive Student
I am only on lesson 19 and I am so glad I bought this class, so worth it and Abba packs so much information into these lessons its crazy. I will for sure have to come back and watch again when I need to remember to do stuff or need a refresher. He is funny and quirky and a great teacher. I so recommend this to anyone wanting to become a better video editor!! I am coming from being self taught and using iMovie and he makes it so simple and understandable. Can't wait to learn more :)
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