Thumbnails on the timeline in Premiere Pro

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146 lessons / 17 hours 49 quiz questions 14 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
• There won’t be anything you can’t mask or blur.
• We will get your computer running at warp speed using Proxies, Scratch Disk & Cache management. 
• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

You owe it to yourself -  sign up and get ready to become a Premiere Pro Super Hero.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, in this video you can see, look we're going to mess around with the thumbnails. You can put them just at the beginning, beginning and end, smear them along the whole clip, like I did, I'll show you how to turn these names on and off. Oh, it's very exciting, let's jump in. 

All right, first things first, you need to have this track big enough to see a thumbnail, if it's too small you're just not going to see it. We're not going to drag this anymore, because we are super advanced Premiere Pro users. 

Who remembers what the shortcut is to just make them all bigger? You hold down 'Shift' key on Mac or PC, just hit '+', they all get nice and big, or, I've got my shortcut, remember, 'Command 1', that's what I set mine to, 'Ctrl 1' is a shortcut we set earlier in the course. We pre-defined it ourselves, anyway, I can see my thumbnail. 

Now I've only got it at one end, what you can do is, you can say-- actually you can go to this little Burger menu, there are some weird places in Premiere Pro, like, in this Burger menu there's lots of useful stuff, and here you can say, actually I want the video, the thumbnail, to be at the head and tail. So I can kind of see both sides, especially when I'm kind of, like along here, there you go, I can see the join, with it off, I can't see this one, and I have to kind of like, oh, what is this one, and kind of like scroll back. So I get it at the beginning and the end. 

There's another option in there, same place, there's one called Continuous, and it just kind of repeats the thumbnail over and over. I find this too hard, you might find this super useful if it's, maybe you're dealing with a lot of images, I don't know, just repeats it over and over. Know that you can do it, I'm going to turn mine back to 'Video Head and Tails'. The thing is, with this as well, if you change any of these settings, in this like little Burger menu here, it will change for all projects. It's not one of those project only settings, there you go.

Oh, one thing I didn't say is, you can actually turn it off. So thumbnails in here somewhere, you can say, actually, just turn thumbnails off, can you see it, "because it's not even in there, Dan, it's in here." 'Show Thumbnails', you might for some reason, just want them off. I'm not here to judge, you do what you want with your thumbnails. 

One thing that you might, I don't know, you might have seen it there, you can turn the-- I'm going to turn my thumbnails back on because I do like them, I'm going to go to my wrench and go to 'Show Video Names'. Can you see that there, you might be like, "I don't like those names there." Let's just keep it nice and clean. Turn the thumbnails off, turn them on, names on and off, up to you. I'm going to turn mine back on just for this course, because that will stay on permanently, remember. So let's turn on my Video Names, and that's it, that's all we need to know about thumbnails in the timeline in Premiere Pro.

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