How to clean up your timeline in Premiere Pro

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Weird Stuff I wish I knew when I started with Premiere 16:39
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Project 2 - Wedding 2:46:34
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Audio 2:27:17
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Final Class Project 8:20
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Shortcuts 33:06

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142 lessons / 16 hours 34 quiz questions 10 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor.

I am here to help you learn Adobe Premiere Pro and to show you the tools you need to become a successful video editor. Premiere Pro is the industry standard used by professional designers to create stunning, high class videos and, after completing this course, you too can become a confident, skillful and efficient creator of stunning videos. 

This course is aimed at people who are completely new to Premiere Pro. 

If you are self taught using Premiere, this course will show you techniques you never dreamed were necessary or possible and will show you efficiencies to help speed up your workflow.

The course covers many topics - all of them on a step-by-step basis. We will use real world video editing examples to work through:
  • An interview
  • A wedding video
  • A short commercial
  • A documentary
  • Social media advertising videos
  • YouTube ‘how to’ videos
  • Talking head footage mixed with screencasts and voiceovers

We will work with text, animation, motion gfx, special effects and we will add music to our video.

We will learn how to do colour correction, colour balancing and also how to create amazing video transitions within our movie. Technical ‘guru’ topics such as HD v 4K, frames per second, exporting work, fixing up bad audio, balancing and synching audio will all become manageable tasks for you. Best of all...I will show you amazing shortcuts and techniques to speed up your workflow.

Throughout the course we will work on mini projects and I will be suggesting assignments which will add value to your portfolio.

Start your Premiere Pro training now and fast track your career as a video editor.

* Please note, you have full permission to transform and upload any work using footage of Daniel as a part of this course. 
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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Hi everyone, just a little short video on tidying up our Timeline. We're going to go from this messy thing we've created, to this; beautiful. Deleting all the unused tracks and just shrinking down the audio. Just to make it a little bit more manageable, let me show you how. 

Just a little Segway; Segway is the word? I don't know. A little extra thing, just to get us reset, because our Timeline is starting to look pretty messy, right? Remember the Tilde key or the Grave key. Got lots of audio tracks, some of them we don't need, video tracks we don't need. Some are big, some of them are small. It's just a nice way of now and again to go, let's reset, it's getting looking pretty. 

So what we're going to do is. first of all, delete the audio tracks that I don't want, these two. Now let's decide -- I've decided I don't want those, so I'm getting rid of them. I've got a Saved As version from earlier, so I can go back to it if I need to. I've got these empty tracks though. To clear up the empty tracks you need to right click on this side, kind of near, where this is, just anywhere in this empty area, it's a bit weird. Not that side, this side. 

So you right click, go in this one that says, look for the one that says Delete Tracks, with an S. Delete track will kind of do what it sounds like, you might want that, but you can right click any of these tracks, and go to the one that says 'Delete Tracks', with an S, and there's this other option to say delete all empty audio tracks, and video tracks, let's click 'OK'. Just kind of tidies it up. You can add them back by right clicking and saying 'Add Track'. Just a nice way of tidying things up. 

The other thing you can do is go up to this little spanner. It doesn't really matter if you're in the big view or the small view, but go into here and just say, let's just 'Minimize All Tracks', and just tidy everything up, look at that. We'll make the things bigger, that we need, and things smaller if we need them, but anyway that's our little, kind of-- added a little bit. 

If you want to get rid of these markers, we can go up to 'Markers', and let's just go and 'Clear All Markers'. Where is it? 'Clear All Markers', because I don't need them anymore. That was just a good helpful, getting started bit, to try and time the music. All right, that's it, you'll learn to get back to work. Just a little tidy up exercise, back to work.
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