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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

Final preparation


Choice is as much about rejection as it is about selection. In this section, you'll review your image choices inside a maximized Project panel, then copy and paste your final selection across to a new bin (the Montage Bin file). You'll finish this section by doing the same with your selection of subclips created in the previous task.

Engage Thrusters

Create a final selection of your clips by following these steps:

  1. It's time now to select and reject the media needed for your video montage.1. Use Shift + 1 to make the Project panel the active panel, and move up one level to show all the bins if necessary.

  2. Use Ctrl + I or command +I to open the Import window. Browse to your Images folder on your designated video drive and import your images.

  3. Use Shift + Accent to maximize the Project panel.

    Tip

    If the Shift + Accent key doesn't work for you, make sure you review the Music Markers Matter task, Classified Intel earlier in this project.

  4. With the Project panel at its maximum size, make sure the Icon view is selected (lower-left corner of the Project panel) and review images for duplications or images that say nothing new in comparison to the other images. You can expand the size of the icons by using the Zoom tool at the lower-left corner of the Project panel.

  5. Select the images you want using Ctrl + click or command + click. Press Ctrl + C or command + C on the keyboard to copy these files to your computer's clipboard.

  6. Minimize the panel using Shift + Accent and return to the main Project panel area by clicking on the small folder Icon in the upper-right corner of the Project panel.

  7. Press Ctrl + / or command + / (forward slash) to create a new Bin file and call it Montage_Name (where Name is the montage you are creating). Press Enter, and then Esc to exit the rename function.

  8. Double-click on the Montage folder to open it in a separate panel.

  9. Confirm whether this panel is the active one by looking for the gold border, then press Ctrl + V or command + V to paste your images into this bin.

  10. Repeat steps 3 through to 9 for the video subclips stored in your Video Bin folder, so you have only your chosen subclips and chosen images in the Montage Bin file. See Classified Intel at the end of this task for information on how to review video clips inside the Project panel.

  11. Close the Montage Bin file when you are finished by clicking on the red cross in the upper-right corner of the window.

Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing

At the end of this task, you should now have all the assets you want to include in your montage saved to one specific Bin. This is important as it will allow you to quickly and easily automate these clips to the Timeline in the next task; however, you need to be sure that only those clips you want to include are added to this Bin. You can add more at a later point if you want to, and subtract some, of course, but you will be making life easier for yourself by only copying across the bare minimum at this stage in the project.

The new keyboard shortcuts covered in this task are as follows:

  • Ctrl + C or command + C: This shortcut allows you to copy clips to the computer's clipboard

  • Ctrl + V or command + V: This shortcut allows you to paste clips from the computer's clipboard

Classified Intel

To review video clips in a project Bin, place your mouse cursor over the video clip and move it left or right to invoke hover scrub, a new feature in Premiere Pro CS6. Click inside the icon if you would like to review and even adjust the In and Out points of that clip or subclip. Hover scrub can be toggled on or off by pressing Shift + H on the keyboard.