Adobe Premiere Pro Tips

  10 of the most useful Adobe Premiere Pro hints.

Professional editors use Adobe Premiere Pro for everything from YouTube videos to Hollywood blockbusters, so Adobe Premiere Pro tips are in high demand right now. Premier Pro is one of the best video editing applications available, and it's used by professional editors for everything from YouTube videos to Hollywood blockbusters. However, because it is a complex piece of software with many capabilities not immediately apparent, it might be intimidating at first.

Read these ten tips for Adobe Premiere Pro if you want to edit like a pro. They'll help you gain confidence, speed up your workflow, and make better videos. Of course, if you don't have Premier Pro yet, we recommend that you do so right now. Check out our list of the finest video editing software if you need even more information and inspiration.

1. Use adjustment layers in Premiere Pro.

You might paste the effect onto each clip to apply the same effect to numerous clips—for example, to apply a uniform colour grade across a scene. However, this might add to the workload because you must change the effect on each individual clip to make a difference. This can be avoided by using adjustment layers.

Click New Item > Adjustment Layer in the Project browser to add an adjustment layer. It'll end up in your trash can. Drag it to the top of the timeline, above all the clips you wish to impact, and then apply effects to it. These effects will be applied to all of the clips below it.

2. Color-code your clips in Premiere Pro.

Clips are organised into bins in Premiere's Project browser, which work similarly to how your computer organises files into folders. You may color-code your clippings to offer an added level of organising. Right-click on a clip or a highlighted collection of clips in your bins, then select Label and a colour.

This colour will be used to identify the clips in the bins, and it will also appear on your timeline. You can assign colours to different sorts of shots or give each scene in a project a different colour (such as exteriors and interiors, or wide, medium, and close shots).

3. Keyframe your effects in Premiere Pro.

The majority of Premiere's effects can be keyframed. This means that instead of choosing a single set of effect values, you select particular locations in the clip to set the values for, and Premiere produces a progressive transition between them.

Toggle animation for an effect by clicking the clock icon next to it in the Effect Controls panel. The controls to the right of this can then be used to add and jump between keyframes. Keyframing allows you to fine-tune effects. You may keyframe a colour effect to have a clip change colour over time, or you can keyframe the Motion of a clip to make it zoom in as it goes.

4. Tip for Premiere Pro: Easily sync audio.

You might manually line up two clips—for example, a video clip with camera audio and a separately recorded boom mic—and synchronise them by matching to a clap. However, there is a faster, automated method.

Place both clips in the timeline, then select them both, right-click, and choose Synchronize from the menu. Select Audio in the pop-up box. Premiere will analyse and align both audio recordings. After that, you may unlink and erase the audio from your camera, merge your video with your desired audio, and drag the merged clip into the bins to use later.

5. Tip for Premiere Pro: Break up large clips.

When you have a longer clip, such as an interview or a drone flight, you may find that it has numerous usable shots. It's easy to lose sight of where the best parts of the video are located. You can get around this by duplicating the clip within your bins and saving separate in and out positions on each replica.

Set in and out points around an useable area of the clip in the source monitor, using the I key for the in point and the O key for the out point. After that, drag it into your bins. A new version of the clip will be released with these in/out points. To choose another portion, rename it and alter the in/out points on the original clip.

6. Time remapping in Premiere Pro.

You can change the speed or duration of your clip by right-clicking on it and selecting Speed/Duration. However, you can only choose one pace for the entire clip. You can change the speed of the clip as it progresses by using time remapping.

Select Show Clip Keyframes > Time Remapping > Speed from the context menu when you right-click on the clip. Then, with the pen tool, create keyframes and the selection tool, adjust the speed of each keyframe. You may create intriguing time-ramping effects by altering the clip speed at various moments.

7. Edit keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro.

You can speed up your work by learning the keyboard shortcuts in Premiere. Many of the fastest editors don't even use their mouse. Premiere features a page where you can view and adjust all of the shortcuts. Click Premiere Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts on the top bar.

This page depicts the layout of your keyboard, along with a description of what each key does. To see what additional keys perform alongside the modifier keys (Shift, Alt, Cmd, etc. ), click on them. Drag the function from the commands menu onto the diagram if you want to add or alter shortcuts.

8. Masking in Premiere Pro.

Masking can be used to apply effects to a specific area inside a clip, such as brightening a person's face. To begin, duplicate your clip and place it on a layer above it. Then, in the duplicate clip's Effect Controls panel, under Opacity, use the pen tool and draw around the region you want to mask.

Any effects you apply to this clip will now only affect the region covered by the mask. Premiere may follow motion and change the mask automatically for moving subjects; to do so, tap the play icon next to Mask Path. Mask Feather may also be tweaked to give it a softer edge and help effects blend in more easily.

9. Quicken your performance in Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro can lag because video editing is a computer-intensive process. There are a few things you can do to improve its performance without spending a lot of money on new hardware.

Making proxies—lower-resolution reproductions of your clips—is one option. Select Proxy > Create Proxies after selecting your clips in the bin. These proxies can be used to modify files, and then the Toggle Proxies button (which can be added to the Program Monitor toolbar from the menu opened when you click the + sign) can be used to go back to the original files.

Changing the playback resolution is another option. Change Full to 12 or 14 in the Program Monitor by clicking the dropdown box. The preview video's quality will suffer as a result, but rendering will be faster.

You can also give Premiere a larger portion of your computer's memory. Click Premiere Pro > Preferences > Memory on the top menu, then lower the figure next to "RAM reserved for other apps."

10. Timeline nesting in Premiere Pro.

Your timeline can get cluttered and difficult to manage while you're working on a large project. Timeline nesting is one way to get around this. This entails sequencing the creation of distinct components of your project. For instance, each scene could have its own sequence.

You can then drag entire sequences from the bin into a single master sequence. Each sequence will display as a separate clip in this window, but you may still edit them by returning to respective timelines.