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.
Tag: Premiere Pro CS6
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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 – 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.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Warp Stabilizer
Premiere Pro CS6 brings the stabilization power of After Effects CS5.5 and later right into your timeline. If you have a shaky clip, you can edit it into your sequence, apply the Warp Stabilize effect, and continue to work as Premiere stabilizes the edited portion of the clip in the background. This effect, which gives results formerly only possible from advanced tracking and stabilization methods, lets you smooth out your clips effortlessly. In this video I demonstrate the results from both smoothing motion and completely removing motion and show you some of the more advanced options in the effect.
The Warp Stabilizer, while not a replacement for well shot footage, will be a welcome addition to all editors and is a great new tool in Premiere Pro CS6’s arsenal.
Credits: Thanks to John Gumaer for doing the intro sound design.
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Premiere Pro CS6- New Audio Setup Part 2
In Part 1 of this series I cover using standard tracks. In this video I cover how to layout multi-track mono splits for 5.1 workflows. I show you how you can layout splits given to you by a mixer and the best way to set up your tracks and audio mixer panel in Premiere Pro CS6 to insure your tracks are output correctly.
Credits: Thanks to John Gumaer for doing the intro sound design.
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Premiere Pro CS6 – Adjustment Layers
Borrowing from it’s sister application After Effects, Premiere Pro CS6 has added the hugely powerful concept of Adjustment Layers directly into the editing environment. This new feature is an amazing advancement for tasks such as color correction, but its uses are infinite.