This one pretty much explains itself. In CS6 you couldn’t use your keyboard to zoom into your source and program monitors. In the video we demonstrate how to set up the keyboard shortcuts for this new feature.
Category: Premiere Pro
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Premiere Pro New Features – Smart Render for ProRes and Preview Files
Export speed has always been a bit of an issue with certain codecs in Premiere Pro. A lot of this was improved in CS6 with the addition of Smart Rendering.
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Premiere Pro New Features – Match Source for Certain Exports
Exporting from Premiere can be a bit of a manual process. There are so many settings to get right in the export dialogue, and so many ways to screw the settings if you adjust them all manually.
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Premiere Pro New Features – Symmetrical Transition Trims
In Premiere Pro CS6, when you trimmed a transition, it would pull from one side of that transition leaving the other side in place.
I personally found this a bit odd, because typically I wanted an to make an adjustment to both sides of the dissolve. Now, in the new version of Premiere, that is the default behavior. Watch the video for tips and tricks, including how to trim asymmetrically if you need to.
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Premiere Pro New Features – Trim to Zero Duration
In this video we go over the new feature that allows you to trim a clip to zero duration. In other words, you can trim a clip to be removed from your timeline.
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Premiere Pro CS6 & After Effects CS6 – Complex Masking using After Effects directly with Premiere Pro
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.
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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.