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Jump Start 3
You can see which audio clips go with which video clips
either by listening through to them or taking a look at
the Media Duration to give you a clue (Image 1).
Image 3: Drag your new Merged Clip onto the timeline, everything should be lined up. Mute the audio tracks of the original AV clip.
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This will allow you to sync multiple cameras with a Here I have Camera A in orange on tracks A1 and V1,
single audio clip, all in the timeline itself, without using Camera B in pink on Tracks A2 and V2, Camera C in blue
the multi-cam workflow. It is important to also record on tracks A3 and V3, and the “good audio” on track V4,
audio accompanying the video clips. This will allow you in green (Image 1).
to use the scratch audio from the AV clips (those from
your camera) to sync the external audio. STEP 2: RIGHT-CLICK and select “Synchronize.” Make
sure to select “Audio” as the Synchronize Point.
STEP 1: Put all of the AV clips from your different Now all of your clips will be lined up and synched
camera angles on different tracks. These should all have together (Image 2). You can mute or disable the audio
scratch audio tracks attached to them. Also put your from the AV clips and only focus on the good audio.
“good audio” on its own track.
Image 1: All the clips on their own separate tracks Image 2: All the clips are now synched up, tracks A1, A2, and A3 are muted
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Image 2a: This section of the Image 2b: “Q” cut and ripple delete.
green clip needs to be removed.
Image 1: CMD/CTLR+K slices down through only track targeted layers. Image 3a: This section of the Image 3b: “W” cut and ripple delete.
yellow clip needs to be removed.
CUT ALL AT PLAYHEAD: SHFT+CMD+K (MAC) Q deletes what’s between the start of a clip and the playhead,
SHFT+CTRL+K (PC) and ripples everything after the clip (Images 2a / 2b).
RIPPLE TRIM PREV. EDIT TO PLAYHEAD: Q W trims the tail end of a clip. It deletes what’s between the
playhead and the end of the clip and ripples everything after
RIPPLE TRIM NEXT EDIT TO PLAYHEAD: W the playhead (Images 3a / 3b).
Image 4a: Green clip needs to be longer Image 4b: SHIFT+Q extends green clip to Image 5a: Green clip needs to start Image 5b: SHIFT+W extends green clip
and reach the blue line (Playhead). the right, overwriting half of orange clip. earlier, at the blue line (Playhead). to the left, overwriting half of pink clip.
STEP 1
Go to the Button Editor “+” icon at the bot-
tom left of the Program Window (Image 1).
STEP 2
Image 1: Open Button Editor
Drag the Loop Blackback Button into your
button bar (Image 2).
STEP 3
Enable the Loop Playback Button (it should
turn blue, Image 3). By default, this will loop
playback on the entire timeline.
Image 2: Add Loop Playback Button to the button bar.
SELECT A SECTION TO LOOP PLAYBACK
STEP 1
Put your playhead at the beginning of the
section you want to play back and press “I”
to set the In Point.
STEP 3
With the Loop Playback Button enabled,
press the SPACEBAR or the Play button in
the Program Window.
STEP 4
To clear the In and Out points, RIGHT CLICK
in the grey area next to the time indicator
Image 5: Clear In and Out Points and select “Clear In and Out” (Image 5).
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BASIC CORRECTION
INPUT LUT
Choose from the pre-loaded LUTs of upload your own .cube file
to quickly add color to footage shot in log (flat profiles).
WHITE BALANCE
Adjust the temperature and tint of your image to make it warm-
er, cooler, or take away/add green.
You can use the eyedropper to pick an area of pure white in your
image and the white balance will be adjusted to reflect that.
TONE
These are the basic control you’ll see with most of Adobe’s other
softwares. Make exposure changes to select parts of the image,
like lowering the highlights or increasing the shadows.
AUTO SETTINGS
Click “Auto” to have the program adjust these basic settings for
you. You can always adjust later if needed.
CREATIVE
LOOK
Cycle through Lumetri Looks, which act like filters on the image.
You can change their intensity with the Intensity slider.
ADJUSTMENTS
Add haziness with the Faded Film slider, sharpen your clip, and
add vibrance and saturation.
SHADOW/HIGHLIGHT TINT
Add a tint to your highlights or shadows by dragging the middle
pointer around the color wheel.
TINT BALANCE
Adjust how much of the tint added should be given priority to the
shadows vs the highlights.
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Lumetri Color
Panel Cont.
RGB CURVES
Place points along the curve to adjust the luma values of either
the entire clip or individual red, green, and blue channels.
HUE/SATURATION CURVES
Isolate a specific range of hues, luminances, or saturation values
to adjust. Select a range by placing three dots on the line. The
left and right dots indicate the boundaries of the range and the
middle dot is dragged up and down to change that value.
HUE VS SAT
Adjust the saturation of a specific hue range.
HUE VS HUE
Adjust the hue of a specific hue range.
HUE VS LUMA
Adjust the brightness (luma) of a specific hue range.
LUMA VS SAT
Adjust the saturation of a specific luminance range.
SAT VS SAT
Adjust the saturation of areas that are over or under-staurated.
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Lumetri Color
Panel Cont.
COLOR WHEELS & MATCH
COLOR MATCH
This section can help you match the clip you are working on with
another clip in your sequence.
COMPARISON VIEW
Pull up this view to choose which part of your sequence
(reference) you want to match to.
FACE DETECTION
If there is a face in both the clip you are trying to correct and the
reference clip you are using, turn on the Face Detection setting
to more accurately match up the skin tones between both clips.
HSL SECONDARY
KEY
This section will let you isolate a specific color or color range
and change the hue, saturation, and luma values of just that
specific range of colors. You can use the eyedroppers on the clip
itself for a more accurate selection.
REFINE
Decreate noise or blur.
CORRECTION
Add secondary “basic correction” to a selected color range.
VIGNETTE
Add or subtract a vignette, including how much you want to add,
where the midpoint is, and how round or feathered the vignette
should be. This can create emphasis for the middle subject in
your clip or get rid of wide-angle vignetting in some lenses.
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Looks
WHERE: LUMETRI COLOR PANEL
& PROGRAM MONITOR
Under the “Creative” tab of the Lumetri Color Panel, click the
drop-down menu to open up the Looks Premiere comes pre-
instaleld with.
You can also change the intesity of the look by using the
intensity slider located directly underneath (Image 3).
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW DIFFERENT LOOKS APPEAR ON THE SAME CLIP:
Image 4: Selecting multiple clips with a marquee box STEP 3: Right-click on the clip and go to Label > Select
Label Group to select all the other clips in that label group.
While holding down SHIFT, deselect the one clip you already
applied the Lumetri Color effect to. Press COMMAND (CTRL)
+ V to apply the effect to every clip in that label group.
Adjustment layers help you add effects to regions of the timeline as a whole. If you already know that everything you’ve
shot was with the same camera and at the same time of day, you can apply an adjustment layer across the entire
timeline. Adjustment layers only affect the tracks underneath them, not above them.
STEP 1
Click on the icon of the page with the upturned
corner on the bottom right of the Project Panel and
select “Adjustment Layer” (Image 1).
Make sure your new adjustment layer is set to the same dimensions and frame rate as your sequence. Press “OK.”
STEP 3
Drag the adjustment layer onto your timeline, above every track that you want the adjustment layer to affect. Here in
this example, there are already 5 tracks of video layers so the adjustment layer will go on the V6 track.
STEP 4
Extend the length of the adjustment layer across the top of all the footage you want it to adjust.
STEP 5
With the adjustment layer selected, move the sliders in the Lumetri Color Panel to add color correction. Or copy/paste
Lumetri Color (or any other effect) to the Effects Rack of the adjustment layer by using the method on Page 9.
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Create a Subtitle
WHERE: TIMELINE &
ESSENTIAL GRAPHICS PANEL
STEP 1: Put your playhead where you want your first Image 1: Type Tool Image 2: Typing in Program Monitor
subtitle to begin. Select the Type Tool or press “T” on
your keyboard (Image 1).
STEP 5: With your subtitle selected in the timeline, Image 4: Effects Workspace
find it in the layers stack of the “Edit” tab of the Essential
Graphics panel and click on it (Image 5) to open up the
options for that graphic.
Creating Master
Text Style
WHERE: ESSENTIAL GRAPHICS PANEL
Image 2: Re-naming the Master Text Style STEP 8: Give your Master Text Style a name (Image 2).
I usually go with something descriptive about the font
and what the text will be used for.
Updating Master
Text Style
If you want to change the style of your text but you don’t
Image 4: Modified Master Text Style name want to go into every subtitle and change it one-by-one,
updating the master text style will save you time.
Image 1: Many graphics are available in the Browse tab of the Essential Graphics panel.
CUSTOMIZE A GRAPHIC
STEP 1
Image 2: Searching for a graphic from Adobe Stock
In the search bar of the Browse Tab, enter what type of graphic you’re
looking for. Here, I’m looking for a free title graphic, so I type “title” and
check the “free” box (Image 2).
STEP 2
Drag the desired graphic onto your timeline.
STEP 3
Select your new graphic in the timeline and use the options in the “Edit”
tab of the Essential Graphics Panel (Image 3) to customize your graphic
to your needs.
Image 3: Edit controls of new graphic.
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Essential Sound
LOUDNESS
By selecting “Auto Match,” the clip each clip is adjusted to match
common broadcast loudness requirements
REPAIR
REDUCE NOISE
Get rid of unwanted noises in the background, like microphone
noise or wind.
REDUCE RUMBLE
Reduce low-frequency noise in the 80-Hz range.
DEHUM
Hum is noise that consists of a single frequency. Electrical cables
that are too close to audio cables can cause this noise. 50-Hz hum
is common in Europe, Asia, and Africa. 60-Hz hum is common in
North and South America.
DEESS
Reduce high-frequency “s” sounds like those created by saying
words with s-sounds that are close to the microphone.
REDUCE REVERB
Remove the room reverb when recording in echo-y rooms.
CLARITY
DYNAMICS
Compress or expand the dynamic range of the recording.
EQ
Reduce or boost select frequencies. You can choose common ones
from the drop-down menu, including Old Radio and Podcast Voice.
ENHANCE SPEECH
Emphasizes certain frequencies and compresses the voice to give
a more polished sound.
CREATIVE: REVERB
You can add reverb to make it sound like your audio was recorded
in different types of rooms, like a church or auditorium.
CLIP VOLUME
Change the volume of the entire clip or mute it. For other ways to
change clip volume, see Page 7.
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5: MASTER VOLUME TRACK Image 3: Expanding the master track to reveal the volume line
To change the volume across your entire timeline, expand
the master volume track on the bottom of your Sequence
Panel (Image 3).
This method uses the Hard Limiter effect, so will not allow the audio to clip (go into the red).
7: AUDIO TRACK MIXER
Go to WINDOW > AUDIO TRACK MIXER and control the levels of each track in your timeline
by sliding the Volume controller up and down on the left side of each track level (Image 5).
Image 5: Control volume levels of each
track in the Audio Track Mixer
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STEP 1
Go to WINDOW > ESSENTIAL SOUND and the Essential Image 1: Select just the dialogue audio by holding OPT (ALT) and dragging.
Sound Panel should appear on the right of your screen.
STEP 2
Select all of your “talking” audio (blue clips on track A1) by
dragging a slection box around them. It’s ok if any linked
video clips are selected too, but if you want to temporarily
unlink them, hold down OPTION (ALT on PC) while dragging
Image 2a: Tagging as Dialogue Image 2b: Tagging as Music
(Image 1). In this example, we are going to make the music
(green clip on track A2) louder, only during the intro (purple
clip on track V2) and outtro (red clip on track V2).
STEP 3
With all your “talking” clips still selected (Image 1), CLICK
the “Dialogue” button in the Essential Sound Panel (Image
2a) to tag these “talking” audio clips as “Dialogue.” Image 3: With the Ducking option checked, select the Dialogue icon.
STEP 4
Select your music clip (green clip on track A2) and tag it as
“Music” in the Essential Sound Panel (Image 2b).
STEP 6 Image 5: Where there was no dialogue, the volume of the music increased.
Use the sliders to choose how sensitive you want the
ducking to be, how intense you want each fade to be,
and how quickly you want the fades to occur. CLICK the
“Generate Keyframes” button (Image 4) to activate ducking.
Now the white volume line in the middle of the audio track
has keyframes applied (Image 5). If you want the ducking to
be more severe (Image 6a) or the fades to be faster (Image
6b), adjust the sliders and RE-CLICK “Generate Keyframes.” Image 6a: Higher duck amount Image 6b: Higher fade speed
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Rendering
RENDERING WILL HELP YOU SMOOTH OUT YOUR
VIDEO PLAYBACK AND SPEED UP YOUR EXPORT.
To see which areas need to be rendered, look at the
colored line indicator right underneath the time display
on the timeline. If there are areas of yellow or red, those
may need to be rendered for faster playback (Image 1).
Image 1: The region in the yellow oval needs rendering.
STEP 1: Select the area you want to render by setting
in and out points. Place your playhead at the beginning
of the area and press “I” on your keyboard.
As you are rendering, you will also see how much time
you have left on your render and the percentage it is
finished (Image 3).
Image 3: The region is rendering from the left to the right. Exporting
STEP 1: Go to FILE > EXPORT > MEDIA or press CMD
+ M (CTRL + M on PC) in order to pull up the Export
Settings Window.
You can also click on the name of the file next to “Output
Name” to change the name of the file and the destination
of where it will be located on your drive.
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-Valentina