Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes video editing, graphic design, and web development programs. There are many skills to learn but the effort you put in will be well worth it. This collection of More Than 450 tuitional video guides will soon get you up to speed. Use this app as a “Video Referencing Library” where you can come back for a refresher lesson or search for how to do something new. App features: ** Edit the video title, subtitle and keep your own set of user notes. ** Move the video around it's group and even change it's group. ** Make videos your favourites and give them your own rating ** Search by title or notes ** View by favourites or rating ** View by history the last ten played or visited videos Lessons include: E1 - Preferences and Project Settings - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E2 - Timeline Scroll - Page VS Smooth - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E3 - Keyboard Shortcuts - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E4 - How to Setup a New Project - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E5 - Windows and Layouts - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E6 - Importing Media Part 1 - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E7 - Importing Media Part 2 - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E8 - The Project Panel - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E9 - The Source Panel - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E10 - The Sequence Panel or Timeline - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E11 - The Program Panel - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E12 - Basic Assembly Editing - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E13 - The Tool Bar The Selection Tool - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E14 - The Tool Bar Track Select Tool - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E15 - The Tool Bar Ripple and Roll - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E16 - The Tool Bar The Rate Stretch Tool - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E17 - The Tool Bar The Razor Tool - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E18 - The Tool Bar Slip and Slide - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E19 - The Tool Bar The Pen Tool - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E20 - The Tool Bar The Hand and Zoom Tools - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E21 - The Trim Window and Tool - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E22 - Syncing and Merging Footage - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E23 - How to Edit a Movie Assembly - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E24 - Lift and Extract - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E25 - Adding and Manipulating Video Effects - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E26 - Adding and Manipulating Audio Effects - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E27 - Video and Audio Transitions - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E28 - Native Effects- Scale Position Rotation - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E29 - Animation and Keyframing - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E30 - The Ken Burns Effect - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E31 - Markers - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E32 - Automate to Sequence with Markers - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E33 - The Morph Cut - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E34 - Masks and Motion Tracking - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E35 - MAKE AN INTRO - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E36 - Multi-cam setup and editing - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E37 - Multi-cam Advanced using Multiple Formats - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E38 - COLOR CORRECTION with Lumetri - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E39 - Sound Mixing and Sweetening - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E40 - NEW UPDATE Essentials Graphics - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E41 - NEW UPDATE Essentials Sound - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E42 - Round tripping or Dynamic Link to After Effects - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 E43 - Exporting a Project to a Movie - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 - PROXY or OFFLINE WORKFLOW and Ingest Settings Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 - Lumetri Color Panel Color Correction Grading How to create a Cinematic or Film Look with Lumetri in Premiere Pro CC 2017 A - Premiere Pro CC 2017 - YouTuber Question- How to mask and bring up the shadows on a face B - Premiere Pro CC 2017 - YouTuber Question- How to eliminate a title on video Advanced Proxy Workflow with Premiere Pro 2017 and more.
Learn how to quickly apply multiple effects to clips in Premiere Pro. Normally the best way to apply multiple effects would be to apply the effects to an adjustment layer, but if you’re wanting to only apply certain effects you need to use the “paste attributes” button. The following technique will allow you to copy multiple effects to multiple clips simultaneously, without having to create an adjustment layer. There are so many free Premiere Pro effects packs on the internet. I’m talking about transition packs, glitch effect packs, title packs, light leak and lens flares, project files, motion graphic packs, luts etc. BUT it’s time consuming to find good ones.
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In recent years, Adobe Premiere Pro has come into its own as one of the leading editing packages for everything from home videos to feature films.
Ever since Adobe gave Premiere an overhaul and added the Mercury playback engine to speed up workflow alongside an ability to add nearly any video clip to the timeline without any need to transcode it before hand, it's gained wide acceptance. Primarily from old Final Cut Pro users, for whom Premiere was easier to switch to than the new Final Cut Pro X.
But although Premiere has an excellent core set of tools, it can always be made better. And there are a wide range of plugins provided by excellent third-party developers which can provide new ways of new using Premiere and enhancing your work.
01. FilmConvert
We've all grown up with looking at film, and one of the best ways to give your footage that look in terms of grain and colour reproduction is FilmConvert. This clever plugin gives your footage a true filmic look and can happily work with 4K footage.
02. Magic Bullet Looks
One of the hardest things to do when working with video is coming up with a mood for your footage. Magic Bullet Looks excels at this, from a wide variety of presets that can be applied to your edit. The intuitive interface enables you to tweak the existing looks or create your own using the tools provided.
03. Colorista 2
While Magic Bullet Looks helps you create a style for your footage, what happens when you really want to work with the colour of the footage, otherwise known as colour grading? Colorista 2 by Red Giant is an excellent grading tool which has feature like the ability to work with a specific colour with the excellent key tools; this can really help you use colour to help accentuate the drama within your edit.
04. Denoiser II
Denoiser II, which is from the same Color suite as Look and Colorista 2 from Red Giant, is a personal favourite. It takes the noise out of footage, which I find particularly useful for ironing out any glitches in 3D renders. Denoiser cleans up artefacts in seconds rather than the hours that troubleshooting and re-rendering would take. It can also work with lowlight footage to help remove the telltale noise digital cameras create when working at low light levels.
05. Rowbyte Data Glitch
Often when creating a film or short you want your footage to be perfect. But what about the times when the footage needs to look like it's broken? This is where Data Glitch by Rowbyte software comes in. This brilliant tool enables you to distress your footage as if you'd put it in a microwave without actually having to place your computer anywhere near anything dangerous.
06. Separate RGB
Another way to distort your footage is also provided by Rowbyte Software. Separate RGB can be used as the title suggests to pull apart your footage by the Red, Green and Blue Channel and play with each. This can be used, for example, to create 'Chromatic Aberation', where distortions in a camera lens can create colour fringing on highlights. This is especially useful when working with VFX integration into existing shots.
07. Mercalli Pro
Having issues with shaky footage? Even though Premiere now has the excellent Warp Stabilizer built in, it's always better to have more than one option when stabilising or tracking shots. Thankfully Mercalli Pro is a full featured stabilising plugin that can use 3D stabilisation along with a range of controls. It can quickly help your handheld footage look like it was shot on a dolly. It is also excellent for helping to fix rolling shutter.
08. Knoll Light Factory 3
John Knoll is legend in VFX. As one of the creators of Photoshop along with his work at Industrial Light and Magic, he is a pioneer in the field of CGI. One of his best known gifts to the community is the Flares plugin Knoll Light Factory, which can be used to add complex lens and lighting effects to your footage. Now that we're working with higher bit rate footage as the norm, plugins like Light Factory can enhance your footage in a way previously not possible.
09. Pluraleyes 3
While it's great having plugins that can make your footage look pretty, what happens when your audio and video is out of sync? This can happen a lot, especially on lower budget shoots where the audio and video are recorded on two separate devices such as a DSLR and an external audio recorder, and it can be a pain to get the footage to sync.
Pluraleyes 3 from Red Giant takes away this pain by syncing your footage with your audio, seemingly by magic. For when the magic doesn’t quite work, Pluraleys has a range of controls to help finesse the result.
10. After Effects
Now it's time to mention the biggest plugin for Premiere, After Effects. I find it a constant source of surprise how many people either use After Effects or Premiere but not both. Now that everything's in the Creative Cloud, there really never has been a better time. Especially as many After Effects plugins are coming across to Premiere such as the previously mentioned Warp Stabilizer.
Adobe is working hard at integrating a cross-application workflow with the new text template tools coming to Premiere. These work with After Effects to create dynamic text, which would be hard to do in any other NLE. Also check out all the Adobe Creative Cloud applications for video such as Prelude, and Audition for audio work, which can drastically improve and streamline your Premiere workflow.
Conclusion
One of the great things about buying third-party plugins for Premiere, is that your purchase usually covers installation in After Effects and sometimes Final Cut Pro, Avid and Sony Vegas. So they make an excellent investment and give you rich and deep tools that can really make your video compete with the latest from Hollywood. Think we have missed a plugin? Add your suggestion in the comments.
Words: Mike Griggs
Mike Griggs is a freelance 3D, VFX, mograph artist and technical writer. He can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
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