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Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot

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Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Premier Pro CS6 HOTSHOt
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. See the Bigger Picture – Edit Multiple Cameras

In Project 1, Creating a Movie Montage – the Easy Way, you looked at the ways to automate the process of creating a montage edit, and then in Project 2, Cutting a Short Film without Getting Stung and Project 3, Protect the Innocent – Interview Edit Techniques, you did everything in a very manual fashion. That's not a bad thing, as most editing is hard manual work, but after all that mental perspiration, this project attempts to give your brain (and your fingers) a little automated rest.

In this project, you will learn how to take clips from nine simultaneous camera angles and get Premiere Pro CS6 to do the hard work of synchronizing them together, allowing you to perform multi-camera editing.

There are two great new multi-camera improvements in Premiere Pro CS6; firstly, the whole process of creating multi-camera editing has been greatly simplified (much to the relief of its userbase), and secondly, the four-camera limit of previous...