![]() This tip comes courtesy of someone who started as a Final Cut Pro editor, turned into a Premiere Pro editor, and then later went on to learn Avid. Setting up Avid-style “Source/Record” timelines in Premiere Now you can find that preset in your effects panel as a single effect that will take care of all that clicking. In the Save Preset dialog that opens, give your preset a name, and click OK.Next, select all three effects in your Effects panel, right-click, and choose Save Preset.Use the Scale property in the Transform effect. ![]() For the scaling of the image, apply the Transform effect on your layer instead of using the Motion Scale property.Finally, you’d Scale the video up to fit the screen with the Scale parameters.Īll in all not terribly complicated, but it’s a lot of clicks. You might also apply a Brightness & Contrast adjustment, and lower the Brightness value a bit. Then you’d go to your Effects panel and apply the Gaussian Blur, and adjust the blur amount. First, you’d duplicate the layer in your timeline. I’m sure you have received the dreaded vertical video and have been asked to simply blur the background and enlarge a copy of it. Here’s a really simple one that I use all the time. Did you know that you can take a stack of effects you’ve created specifically for a project or scenario and save it as its own preset that you can recall in the future? ![]() In fact, you can save presets for a lot of things in Premiere Pro. Restoring a saved preset Create time-saving presets that you use all the time I can even assign a shortcut key for each one if I want to Manage View Presets and assign each a preset. Now I can restore these view presets easily. So, I’ll do the same thing as above, and assign this as a new view preset. This is my layout for when I’m in the middle of an edit, I like to keep those Usage columns exposed and near my filenames: My middle-of-an-edit column layout preset Now we can do this again with some new columns. This is my layout for checking proxy files on my projects: My proxy file-checking column layout presetĬlick on the hamburger menu on your Project panel and scroll down to Save As New View Preset. To begin, set up a column layout that works for you. But did you know that you can also save this metadata layout and recall it later on? Here’s how. Saving bin and column viewsĪdding these columns to your Project panel is a good start. You don’t want to include that shot of office workers walking down the hall in slow motion twice (maybe once was already too much). It’s helpful to see if you have already used a piece of footage. This is helpful for a number of reasons, but primarily when you are using stock footage for b-roll. The “1” next to the IMG_5161.MOV clip indicates that the video has been used in the timeline.īut it’s far more interesting than that because by clicking on that usage number and selecting the usage item from the drop-down list, Premiere Pro will automatically take you directly to the spot in the timeline where you used it. If you scroll down to find a clip in your bin that has been used in the timeline, it will show a number in either of those columns, depending on whether you used just the video, just the audio, or both. Now back in your Project panel, you’ll see two new columns, one for Video Usage and one for Audio Usage. Scroll down and select Video Usage and Audio Usage in the Metadata Display dialog. You can search for it in the top bar, and check on Video Usage and Audio Usage. I have included something called Usage on my metadata columns. In the dialog box that opens, you can scroll through all of the available metadata options. To change your metadata columns, right-click on the column headers and choose Metadata Display. But did you know that you can add more metadata columns? Also, there are some helpful tools out there that will make organizing your projects far simpler. This is great because here you can sort and rearrange the columns. By default, Premiere Pro displays columns of valuable metadata in List view. My first simple, yet useful, tool for you is in the Premiere Pro Project panel. Organizing your projects with audio and video usage metadata
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