Edit Faster with Premiere

[binky VS bunson]

I use Premiere Pro CC to edit my vids.... love the program, but there has to be faster ways to edit. Anybody know of some tutorials, good ones, or something that will improve my editing time as a whole?

 

[GamingRack]

Setting 'hotkeys' can help with speeding up editing so you can quickly execute commands without having to click into menus and same as everything the more you do it the better/quicker you get at it.

 

[Freshly Finished]

what is it that you are currently having time issues with? what takes you the longest and what would you like to speed up?

 

[PumpkinJunk]

I have the same problem, but I'm very new to Premiere Pro still. My problems are mostly to do with text and overlay images and copying / transforming them. Hopefully as I get used to it, it'll work faster.

 

[Freshly Finished]

I have the same problem, but I'm very new to Premiere Pro still. My problems are mostly to do with text and overlay images and copying / transforming them. Hopefully as I get used to it, it'll work faster.

well text. all you need to do is press ctr T or cmd T (on a mac) and hit ok, then your text window will appear, make the text how u want it and then press the X (no save needed) once u hit the x, the Text layer will show up in your project folder and you can drag it over top of any clip you would like. as for images, you can just drag and drop them over your clip and transform them with the effects control box. what kind of transformations are you trying to do? copy paste is still the same. click the layer, ctrl C ctrl V

 

[PumpkinJunk]

Transforms: all I need to do is move the text or images around, and change their size. But I have several of them in multiple layers. I can't transform one on a lower layer unless I move the one on the higher layer out of the way first, then transform the lower one, then move the higher one back. It's a big pain, and I haven't found a way around it. Also, selecting isn't easy either. I often double click on something in the program window in order to select it to transform, but it doesn't select. So I have to double click again.

As to the text, I'm starting to get used to it a little big. I think it'll get easier in time.

 

[Freshly Finished]

Transforms: all I need to do is move the text or images around, and change their size. But I have several of them in multiple layers. I can't transform one on a lower layer unless I move the one on the higher layer out of the way first, then transform the lower one, then move the higher one back. It's a big pain, and I haven't found a way around it. Also, selecting isn't easy either. I often double click on something in the program window in order to select it to transform, but it doesn't select. So I have to double click again.

As to the text, I'm starting to get used to it a little big. I think it'll get easier in time.

ok, so thats pretty simple. I have attached a photo to this post. Transforming in premiere is not exactly like Photoshop, you cant really just click a layer, have boxes appear and resize it. look at the photo i attached. Fist click the layer you want to transform. (no double click), then go to the effects control, (witch may be in the top left of your screen or something as i have made my own custom set up a little easier for me lol) then you have the transform functions in there under "Motion" u will see size, position, and rotation. For position, i labeled for you the on on the left is to move it left or right, and the one on the right is up and down. also, if you want, you can actually click the word "Motion" and you will be able to move and re-size it right in your viewing window, (if you want ur usual "shift click" to keep perspective right, make sure u mouse click the corner and then press shift or it will just dissapear). I hope that helps a little and if u have any other questions or need some help/advice, let me know

 

[PumpkinJunk]

Thanks! I'll definitely give that a try![DOUBLEPOST=1461583128,1461536549][/DOUBLEPOST]While I have your ear, I'll ask another question, if that's okay?

My videos use two comic characters, Max and Maury, and I overlay them on top of my video with word balloons and text. It's a long process, so I thought I'd take a pic of a character, the word balloon, and the text, and make a Nest out of them. Then when I want to use it again, I just copy the Nest and place it in my timeline. I'm getting two problems.

One, the nest gets copied into the Video AND Audio tracks, even though if contains just video:

Two, when I edit this Nest's text portion, it changes the original text in the original Nest as well, even though I'm editing the copy.

Any ideas?

Or is there a better way to have three elements (two pics and a text) easily copy and paste-able?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Freshly Finished]

Thanks! I'll definitely give that a try![DOUBLEPOST=1461583128,1461536549][/DOUBLEPOST]While I have your ear, I'll ask another question, if that's okay?

My videos use two comic characters, Max and Maury, and I overlay them on top of my video with word balloons and text. It's a long process, so I thought I'd take a pic of a character, the word balloon, and the text, and make a Nest out of them. Then when I want to use it again, I just copy the Nest and place it in my timeline. I'm getting two problems.

One, the nest gets copied into the Video AND Audio tracks, even though if contains just video:

Two, when I edit this Nest's text portion, it changes the original text in the original Nest as well, even though I'm editing the copy.

Any ideas?

Or is there a better way to have three elements (two pics and a text) easily copy and paste-able?

Thanks for any help!

Hey, Ok, so if you want to delete the audio layer, simply right click the layer, click "unlink" then delete the audio layer. seccond, unfortunately yes, when you coppy and paste a nest it will edit the original as well. I currently have not found a work around for this but I will look into it in the next couple days when Im putting together my next edit and keep that in mind to see if i can come up with anything. hope that was somewhat of a help :/. does the text in the word balloon always change? or does it say the same thing, is it something you could make into a .png in photoshop, then only have 1 layer to put overtop, or maybe, just the character and text bubble into a .png then just overlay the changing text in premiere?

 

[PumpkinJunk]

I can delete the audio layer, but why do I have to? There was no audio in the Nest!

As to the text, yeah I can do it that way, but it's more steps than I'd really like to take. I'd like this process to go as quickly as possible. I've gone from three videos a week down to two because of how long it takes to do this stuff in Premiere Pro CC. My videos are better, which is why I'm doing it. But the time sink is crazy.

Here's the best solution I've found on the net so far. I only tried it once to test, we'll see how it works in practice:

Copy the nest.
Drag the new nest to the timeline.
Open the nest.
Double-click the text to edit it.
Before you change the text choose New Title Based on Current Title.
Edit the new text.
Use Replace clip from bin.

Three more steps than I'd want, but still the best option maybe.

Does Premiere Pro CC do macros? Maybe I can automate some of this.