Premiere Pro Guru: Mastering the Timeline

Premiere Pro Guru: Mastering the Timeline

1h 34mBeginner2014-06-25

Authors

Jason Osder

Jason Osder

Documentary Filmmaker, Associate Professor of Media

Course details

The Timeline is the heart of the Adobe Premiere Pro editing environment. It is where we make our most crucial editorial decisions and where we keep all of our finishing steps organized. This course focuses on making the most of the Timeline during all phases of the editing process. Premiere Pro Guru Jason Osder will help you master navigating, marking, and adding new content to the timeline, as well as controlling your tracks better with keyboard shortcuts and features like snapping, locking, linking, and labeling. Plus, learn to make more precise edits and save time with track presets.

Learning objectives
Understanding how the Timeline "thinks"
Creating and adding new content to sequences
Controlling the Timeline: snapping, locking, linking, and more
Saving and managing track presets
Adjusting timing with Timeline markers
Achieving precision with traditional three-point editing

Skills covered

Shooting VideoPremiere ProVideo EditingVideoLimited SeriesAdobe

Concepts

Introduction

  • Welcome
  • Exercise files

How the Timeline Thinks

  • The Timeline as visual instructions
  • The Timeline and the program viewer
  • Experimenting with the Timeline
  • The Timeline and workspaces

Timeline Fundamentals

  • Measuring time on the Timeline
  • Navigating through the Timeline
  • Marking the Timeline
  • Creating a new sequence
  • Adding content to a sequence
  • Understanding rendering

Taking Control

  • Track control area overview
  • Snapping
  • Link sources
  • Expand and collapse tracks
  • Track labels
  • Locking and unlocking tracks
  • Source patching and track targeting
  • Toggle track output, audio mute, and solo
  • Sync Lock

Advanced Timeline Control

  • Adjust display settings
  • Saving and managing track presets
  • Customizing track headers
  • Sequence settings

Tools and Techniques

  • Tools and the Timeline
  • Deleting with in and out points on the Timeline
  • Adjust timings with Timeline markers
  • Call up source footage with Match Frame
  • Achieve precision with a traditional three-point edit
  • Getting a precise time-stretch edit with a four-point edit

Conclusion

  • What's next
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