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Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot
Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot

Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot: Take your video editing skills to new and exciting levels with eight fantastic projects

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Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot

Chapter 1. Creating a Movie Montage – the Easy Way

A movie montage can be used for a variety of purposes; from creating a preview of a wedding video to setting out a trailer for your next film project. Essentially, it's a bunch of clips placed on the Timeline, usually accompanied by some "mood" music that gives an instant taster of the full product. This might sound easy enough, but it's a simple explanation that hides a terrific amount of work needed to create a well-executed montage.

The secret (like most things in life) is in the timing. Premiere Pro CS6 has a number of tricks to help with this and to smooth out the movie montage workflow.

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Mission Briefing


Your objective in this project is to place a music file on the Timeline, create markers to the beat, organize a rough running order of your clips and photos, and then automate the whole thing to the Timeline, creating edit points at each of the Markers. You'll then fine-tune your sequence using motion effects and the default Adobe transition (Cross Dissolve). At the end of the project, you should have created a Timeline that looks as busy as the following screenshot:

Why Is It Awesome?


A movie montage is a lot of work, but what if you could create the basics with just a few mouse and keyboard clicks? Using Premiere Pro's built-in ability to automate clips to the Timeline is just what this project will teach you to do. Instead of manually dragging or sending a clip to the Timeline, then fiddling around to get it on the beat, you'll use Timeline markers to work out where those beats should be, and subclips to create a little army of media material to send to those beat markers. In all, you should be able to create the basic starting point for a movie montage in a fraction of time it would take to do it manually. Along the way, you'll be introduced to a great editing function, the trim tool, and learn how to alter the flow of time with the Rate Stretch tool.

A secondary objective of this project is an attempt to persuade you to use the keyboard shortcuts as much as possible. As useful as the mouse is, it can often lack a degree of accuracy when it comes to video editing. Sometimes, it is the easiest way to do something, but other times, it's a workflow that can slow you down. Sometimes, it can even ruin the look of our project through microscopically inaccurate edit decisions that irritate audiences on a subliminal level. Assign the keyboard shortcuts now, and you will be glad that you did.

At the end of this project, you should have the skills and knowledge that will make creating a movie montage a joy to complete, and not an intense labor of video-editing pain.

Your Hotshot Objectives

The project will be split into eight parts; each one teaching you an essential Premiere Pro CS6 workflow. This project will benefit you more if you follow each task in the following order:

  • Streamlining Premiere Pro CS6 – organizing your media and the interface

  • Music markers matter (placing beat markers on the Timeline)

  • Subclips tame video clips

  • Final preparation (the selection and rejection of your clips)

  • Creating a running order

  • Fine-tuning the edit

  • Correct aspect ratios

  • Finishing touches

Mission Checklist

Before you launch Premiere Pro CS6, you need to make some initial preparations. Begin by gathering together all the various assets you want to include in your movie montage. Assets can be any kind of media that's being used on the Timeline, such as images, audio, and of course, video.

Your first task is locating a musical clip for your montage, and you'll need to think carefully about what sort of music you should use. Most wedding montages will make use of a slow melodic beat, while action montages will have a faster tempo (although you can turn this idea on its head by showing your action sequences in slow motion).

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For an example of music used in a counterintuitive way, take a look at the following aerobatic video edited in November 2012 by the author of this book, at tinyurl.com/cnfvjng.

Whichever creative direction you decide to go in, your next decision should be where to obtain the music from. If the montage is for some kind of public consumption (and let's face it, if it's not why are you bothering?), then you will need to source a clip from one of the many copyright-free sources available on the Internet. Don't even think about using music of your favorite band unless you have a license to use it, which is unlikely.

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In the UK, creators of wedding videos can apply for an MCPS Limited Manufacture License; this allows the video maker to use most popular music in their films but for distribution on DVD only. The license assumes, the DVD will not be used at public events, and so it doesn't cover the video being uploaded to YouTube or video-sharing websites. Variations on this type of license are available in most countries around the world.

Pond5 was used as the source of copyright-free music for this project ("i like" by SimilarD at www.Pond5.com, and also, search for item 10768631). This evocatively inspirational musical arrangement costs just $10, lasts for four minutes, and proves in keeping with the material being used in this movie montage. When tracking down the optimal musical arrangement for your movie montage, remember to consider the overall duration; a preview of wedding footage should be around 3 to 4 minutes, while a film trailer will only need to be 60 to 90 seconds. If you have very specific requirements, you might need to consider creating your own music, with pre-composed loops from sources such as Video Copilot's ProScores (tinyurl.com/blp88p).

Note

Pond5 has recently developed a plugin especially for Premiere Pro CS6. Known as a Partner Panel, this plugin will allow you to browse and sample (sometimes even before you buy) video and audio clips available from the Pond5 website.

The next screenshot shows the Pond5 Partner Panel docked to the left-hand side of the interface, with the song "i like" (recommended for this project) highlighted—with the Partner Panel open, just clicking on the file you want will import a sample copy into your Project panel for you to add to the Timeline and try before you buy.

Go to www.pond5.com/adobe, where you will find a short video tutorial on how to install the plugin. This video also contains a short demonstration on how to use the plugin inside Premiere Pro CS6, and how to create a docked Partner Panel.

Once you have your music, and with it a clear idea of how long the montage will last (the length of the music clip), you will need to gather together enough assets needed to fill that time effectively. These assets will be the video clips you have previously captured or imported using Premiere Pro CS6 or other applications. You may also want to consider using still images, such as photographs, drawings, and any compositions you have created in other applications, such as After Effects.

Once you have identified the various assets you would like to use, create a new folder on your computer's designated video hard drive; the folder should have a logical name, such as The_Smiths_Wedding_Montage_2012. Once this is done, use your computer's file browser to copy and paste your assets into three separate folders – Audio, Video, Images, as shown in the following screenshot:

With these steps completed, you are ready to go.

Note

For more information on designated hard drives and the necessity of creating the copies of assets in a separate folder, specifically, when working with Premiere Pro CS6, please see Preface, Basic Video Editing Tips in this book.

Users of Mac OS should also read the section of Preface that details mouse commands on the PC, and how they translate to the Mac world.

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Key benefits

  • Discover new workflows and the exciting new features of Premiere Pro CS6
  • Take your video editing skills to exciting new levels with clear, concise instructions (and supplied footage)
  • Explore powerful time-saving features that other users don't even know about!
  • Work on actual real-world video editing projects such as short films, interviews, multi-cam, special effects, and the creation of video montages
  • Gain video editing skills that will stay with you for years

Description

Adobe Premiere Pro has become synonymous with video editing, in the same way Photoshop has become a byword for image manipulation. To unlock the true potential of this powerful software you don't need you to take expensive training courses or spend hours trying to get your footage “just right”. Work through this practical guide and truly master Premiere Pro CS6 using real footage with engaging examples.Using the included source material (available via digital download), this book will help you discover a plethora of features and functionality hidden within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 that can truly augment your skills and take your footage to the next level. By covering a diverse array of topics in a practical manner, you will gain a full understanding of how to approach pretty much any video editing project you want to tackle with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.Starting off with an entry-level project to get both new and existing users up to speed, "Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot" dives right into a series of engaging real-world projects that help you understand how you can harness Premiere Pro's full potential. With an explicit focus on practical real-world projects from concept to publication, this is the definitive guide for people who want to make the most out of this powerful software.As you progress through the book you'll encounter problems of poorly shot footage; news reporters who stumble over their dialog and camera crews who fail to deliver key scenes, leaving you to scavenge and then hide your trail. Not only will you develop a full understanding of how core features work, you'll also have a clear grasp on how to make your footage stand out from the crowd.

Who is this book for?

If you're just starting out or even migrating from existing video editing software, then this book is for you. With rapid progression through practical examples constructed to be both engaging and useful, Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is ideal for learning the sometimes complex workflows of this powerful application.

What you will learn

  • Use actual real-world examples to learn advanced editing workflows
  • Find out how you can manipulate sounds and images
  • Work with real-life effects; explosions, smoke, and exported 3D models
  • Master automatic features that save you time and help create a better edit
  • Delve into the world of frame accurate editing using keyboard shortcuts
  • Learn how the different trim modes, Ripple and Rolling, actually work
  • Speed up your Timeline workflow with the Insert and Extract functions
  • Tame long clips using the sub-clip function
  • Create frame accurate edits using the 3 and 4-Point edit technique
  • Use CS6 filters to create special effects (muzzle flashes and SF effects) and even motion backgrounds
  • Construct multi-layered effect compositions using the Nested Sequence function
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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
Creating a Movie Montage – the Easy Way Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cutting a Short Film without Getting Stung Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Protect the Innocent – Interview Edit Techniques Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
See the Bigger Picture – Edit Multiple Cameras Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Visual Effects – Muzzle Flashes, Laser Beams, and Clones Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Visual FX Using Real Media Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Ultimate Do-over – Correcting Visual and Audio Problems Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Reach the World – Export to DVD, the Internet, and Beyond Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Electric Palette May 29, 2013
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This book is an excellent source for mastering Adobe premier pro CS6. The book is written in a way that beginners will understand and will be able to follow. It has lots of examples and pictures to guide you through. The links to the files are accessible and helpful...allowing the novice to learn without having to spend a huge amount of time videoing scenes.The book is also comprehensive enough to have snippets of information that an experienced user may not know.
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Guy Langlois May 02, 2013
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This Book provides an in depth step by Step approach for mastering Adobe Premier Pro CS6 by proposing a series of small Video Editing and Mastering project. I was able to browse through each exercise and most importantly, learn how to be highly productive in a very short time frame. Each exercise bring to light the most efficient way of doing things, including organizing your desktop and data for increased productivity, maximizing the use of the most important keyboard shortcuts and suggesting methods for streamlining your workflow. Additionally, the book will also teach you the terms and language used in the industry and provide you a wide exposure to all aspect of movie making from basic montage and cutting techniques to realizing real live projects such as creating news for a local TV, learning how to edit/synchronize clips from multiple cameras, add visual effects, correcting audio problems and export to different media. A must read for all movie maker fans !
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I had a bit of difficulty downloading the supporting project files, but once accomplished this was an excellent book for learning Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The book really pushes you to use the keyboard shortcuts and it does pay off eventually. It teaches a lot of tips and techniques that I didn't pick up on with other books. If you're serious about learning CS6, I highly recommend it.
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Great book, well written and full of fun (and of course useful!) projects. By the time you finish with the book, you will not only have a much better understanding of the software, but even editing in general. Lots of little tips & tricks throughout to help tweak your skills as an editor that go beyond Premiere.The projects themselves are fun and most build upon themselves (for example, in one lesson you learn to add muzzle flashes, clones and because hey, you never know) laser beams). In the next lesson you kick it up a notch with an explosion, heat glow and explosion tremor.Of course it also goes past flashy special effects and into project-saving post-production corrections. You will learn to correct white balance, color issues and even the infamous "rolling shutter" problem with many DSLRs. That particular lesson is key for when the words "we'll fix it in post" are uttered.Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in getting more out of Adobe Premiere CS6.
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