Premiere Pro Editing Basics

      Summary

I was given the following two videos so I could learn about the editing process. I watched both the videos and took notes on what keyboard shortcuts to use and when he explained different things in the videos.

       Original Video

       The Process:

1:01 Cutting Out The Questions:

2:48 Cutting Out Redundancies and Unnecessary Information

7:55 Cutting Out Ums and Pauses

15:47 Shifting Video so it Starts with B-Roll

16:38 Adding B-Roll

18:36 Three Point Editing

21:12 Adding Stills

26:06 Zooming in on Stills

29:28 The Morph Cut

32:06 The Audio Mix

36:10 Adding Music and Color Correction

Video 2:

1:24 Organizing Your Interviews

13:00 Cutting Out Ums and Pauses

 Shortcuts:

  • V – Selection tool
  • Q – Cuts everything to the left
  • W – Cuts everything to the right
  • Cmd, K – Makes a cut
  • \ – Shows the entire timeline
  • Home – Moves cursor to the beginning of the timeline
  • I – In-point
  • O – Out-point
  • A – Selects all tracks forward
  • ; – Lift (leaves a gap)
  • ‘ – Extract (fills the gap)
  • Cmd, D – Fade in
  • B – Ripple edit tool
  • Up Arrow – Moves cursor to the left edit
  • Down Arrow – Moves cursor to the right edit
  • Left Arrow – Moves cursor to the previous frame
  • Right Arrow – Moves cursor to the next frame
  • Cmd, Shift, D – Cross fade
  • Number Pad – Moves cursor to a specific location on the timeline
  • A – Selects all tracks forward
  • Opt, X – Clears all in-points and out-points
  • Shift, 3 – Select the timeline

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