Premiere Pro Guru: Mastering the Timeline

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

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Exercise files

1. How the Timeline Thinks

03 - The Timeline as visual instructions
04 - The Timeline and the program viewer
05 - Experimenting with the Timeline
06 - The Timeline and workspaces

2. Timeline Fundamentals

07 - Measuring time on the Timeline
08 - Navigating through the Timeline
09 - Marking the Timeline
10 - Creating a new sequence
11 - Adding content to a sequence
12 - Understanding rendering

3. Taking Control

13 - Track control area overview
14 - Snapping
15 - Link sources
16 - Expand and collapse tracks
17 - Track labels
18 - Locking and unlocking tracks
19 - Source patching and track targeting
20 - Toggle track output, audio mute, and solo
21 - Sync Lock

4. Advanced Timeline Control

22 - Adjust display settings
23 - Saving and managing track presets
24 - Customizing track headers
25 - Sequence settings

5. Tools and Techniques

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

Conclusion

32 - What's next