Weird things the timeline does 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

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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.

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* Please note, you have full permission to transform and upload any work using footage of Daniel as a part of this course. 
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Daniel Scott

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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, this video we're going to continue on the weirdness, by looking at things down here in the Timeline, and the funny things Premiere Pro does in this little panel. The first one is snapping, it's really handy when you grab stuff, and it kind of locks into the end there. That's real handy, locks into the Playhead. Snapping is awesome, unless you accidentally hit the S key. You can try it now, tap the S key, and that all goes away. Where it's useful is, say you do want to line something up not quite at the end, but close to it, if I zoom in, you'll notice, with snapping on - tap 'Yes' - it snaps, you're like, "Stop it." So you can tap 'S' to turn it off, and most of the time though you're going to accidentally hit 'S' when you've tapped it by accident, and you're like "Oh, why isn't it snapping anymore?" 

So turn it back on by tapping the S key. The long way is, under 'Sequence', there it is there. You can 'Snap in Timeline'. So use it to your advantage, turn it off, but probably get frustrated, and hit 'S' to turn it back on. 

The next frustrating thing with Premiere Pro, is when you add, say a transition, and you try and move it. I'll show-- I'll give you a, for instance. Let's say, in my 'Effects Panel' here, I'm going to type in 'dip', because I want it to Dip to Black here. When you're at this zoom level you can adjust the end really easily. You can tidy it up, but if I zoom out and it gets quite small, and I try do the same thing, watch what happens. I go to in here, I'm like, "Okay, I'm just going to come in here and adjust the end." It can be really frustrating, and it's only because it has the transition on the end, it's not sure what to do. 

You can either just drag-- it's easy just to drag where the audio is. Does the same thing, doesn't really matter if you're dragging the video or the audio part of the clip, or just zoom in, and then it's a little bit clear about what you want to do. That bugged me for a long time, trying to work out what that was. 

Anyway, what's the next thing? Next thing is, let's say that I'm working with this footage, and I accidentally insert something, and it overlaps all of this, you're like, "Man, why is it overlapped?" okay, I'll just delete it. It's part footage, they're still linked and I'm like, "I'll just drag it out", and you're like, "They're all connected, what's going on?” You can either, obviously delete it and bring it back in, but the easier way for this, is to hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, or the 'Alt' key on a PC, and you can actually drag these. So holding down the 'Option' key I can drag this one separately from the audio, you can tuck them in, separately, and I don't often use that, mainly just fixing problems, like I just showed you there. 

Now that happens a lot, the easiest way-- instead of overlapping it, I don't know, there's the proper way and then there's the way that I do. Most of the way, if I want to insert something, and it's going to be-- it keeps going into the wrong spot, I'm like dragging it, and I'm like, insert you, and it goes. "Oh." I could stop messing around, which I'll show you in a second, but I just do this. Zoom out, so I can see the edge, and I insert it, and then I just drag it to the layer that I want. 

The proper way is to say, this one here, Source Patching, we looked at this e