The masking tools in Premiere Pro leave a lot to be desired, in this tutorial, I explain how you can easily use After Effects to create masks for Premiere Pro. I discuss simple masking scenarios as well as more complex scenarios involving tracking.
Category: Editorial
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Adobe Anywhere and What it Shows Us
Well the news from IBC has started to roll out, and the first thing that I’ve seen that has really shown promise of being a game changer: Adobe Anywhere. The premise is fairly simple, you have a server computer that hosts your media. You log into your Adobe Anywhere account and instantly you have access to your material on your server computer or any storage that it is attached to. The media can be in the next room or thousands of miles away, and in theory, it doesn’t matter. You can work with full resolution HD material, wherever and whenever you please. The amazing thing is that you can access all of this media from Adobe’s big three video apps, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Prelude.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Dealing with Problematic Stereo Audio
In this video, we go over what it takes to use only one channel of a piece of Stereo Audio, while still keeping it panned to the center.
With dual system sound so popular, you may have one microphone recording to one channel and another microphone to the other. This will leave you with a piece of stereo audio, that you only want to use half of. In this tutorial, I go over the best way to get rid of the channel that you don’t need, while maintaining audio in both the left and right channels.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Sky Replacement using Warp Stabilizer, Three Way Color Corrector, Adjustment Layers & More
In this tutorial I talk about some basic compositing techniques that let you do a sky replacement right within Premiere Pro CS6. Using tools including the Warp Stabilizer, Three Way Color Correction Effect, and CS6’s new adjustment layers we create a basic sky replacement right in the edit.
You’ll be surprised how easy this technique is and how much flexibility you have to perform effects right in the timeline.
Thanks to the NLE Ninja for giving some great tutorial suggestions that inspired this tutorial and more to come.
Credits: Thanks to John Gumaer for doing the intro sound design.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Advanced Trim Tools and Slipping and Sliding via the Keyboard
In this video we explore multiple ways of slipping and sliding via the keyboard. It may not be exactly how you expect, especially if you are coming from Final Cut Pro 7.
I don’t mention this in the video, but if you you want to slip numerically via the keyboard, you should use the method where you select the two edit points on either side of the clip for a slip or slide as shown in the video. Then, you can type thing s like +15 or -10, to slip numerically with your keyboard.
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Switcher’s Guide to Premiere Pro – Rendering, Why it’s better in Premiere Pro…almost.
First off, if you want to know the logic behind what your sequence settings should be and when to render and not render, see these two posts, Sequence Settings Part 1 and Part2.
This post is intended to be a look at the differences in what will require rendering and re-rendering in FCP vs. Premiere Pro.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Adobe Mercury Transmit
Adobe has introduced a totally new playback engine in Premiere Pro CS6. What does that mean to the end user? It means no more AJA, Blackmagic, Matrox, etc. sequences needed for third party playback to your broadcast monitors. You still need the cards obviously, just not a branded sequence to play back with them. It also hopefully means an end to playback issues seen in previous versions.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Toggle Full Screen
In this quick Premiere Pro CS6 tutorial, I go over the basics of using the new Toggle Full Screen feature. This feature lets you quickly toggle your primary or secondary monitor to become a full screen display for the video you are editing. It’s particularly helpful when editing on a smaller resolution screen or on a screen that is not connected to an external broadcast monitor.
Credits: Thanks to John Gumaer for doing the intro sound design.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Hover Scrub
Premiere Pro CS6 brings about the addition of a beautiful new thumbnail display. This feature, which includes the ability to scale your thumbnails from very small to large, also includes a new feature known as Hover Scrub.
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Premiere Pro CS6- New Audio Setup Part 1
The audio track setup in Premiere has been completed reworked in CS6. Stereo and mono tracks are no longer, having been totally replaced by standard tracks, that can hold both stereo and mono audio. In addition to the new track behavior, Premiere Pro CS6 has been given a new audio meter that is scalable to be anywhere from tiny to as large as full screen.
