Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one in every of our knowledgeable contributors to share a tip, software, or method that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t reside with out. In this text, Jarle Leirpoll shares a sooner strategy to create tough edits and assemblies in Premiere Pro.
Many editors nonetheless edit the old fashioned method—mimicking the way in which we used to work when slicing celluloid movie:
- Open a clip within the Source Monitor,
- Set out and in factors,
- Put it within the timeline,
- Repeat for every clip.
This is a very sluggish strategy to edit video!
Every bin in Premiere Pro can be utilized as a storyboard, the place you’ll be able to organize clips within the order you need them in your timeline. This is a quick, visible, and intuitive strategy to get your clips within the desired order.
While it’s attainable to make use of the Freeform View to rearrange your clips, I discover the Icon View handiest and dependable. Select Icon View by clicking the Icon View button within the bin, or by hitting Ctrl/Cmd + Page Down. Move the clips to the specified order.
With your clips in kind order, choose the primary clip, maintain Shift, after which click on in your final clip to pick out the whole vary of clips you wish to add.
Check that the playhead is the place you wish to insert your clip choice, and hit comma (,). Now you need to use Top and Tail enhancing (which I’ll cowl in my subsequent Insider Tip) to trim off the undesirable elements of the clips.
Note: You’ll must guarantee that the bin view is about to User Order—which is Premiere Pro’s default—in any other case you’ll not be capable of rearrange any clips. Also, if you happen to’re working with a big assortment and wish some extra room, don’t neglect you can undock the bin window.
