You can use Adjustment Layers in Premiere Pro to apply the same effect to multiple clips on the Timeline at once. Effects applied to an adjustment layer will affect all layers below it.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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You could use this to apply a color correction to all clips at once or even apply the “Transform” effect to change the position of layers.⁣
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Use combinations of effects on a single adjustment layer or you can use multiple adjustment layers to control more effects.⁣
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These behave similarly to adjustment layers in Photoshop and After Effects⁣
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1. Click the New Item button in the Project Panel.⁣
2. Choose “Adjustment Layer…”⁣
3. Adjust video settings if necessary and click OK.⁣

Apply effects to it as you would any other clip.⁣

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Step 1

First, duplicate the video clip you want to enhance and place it one track above the original clip.

Step 2

Select the bottom most video clip and increase the scale until the black bars are gone.

Step 3

Apply the “Gaussian Blur” effect to the bottom clip.

Note: If you’re getting black edges in your background video clip, increase the scale some more or check the “Repeat Edge Pixels” box for the Gaussian Blur effect.

Optionally, you can decrease the opacity of the background video clip.

You may need to add a black Color Matte below the background video clip if you have other clips in the tracks below. When you decrease the opacity, you’ll want a solid background beneath these clips to darken it.

Optionally, you can add the “Drop Shadow” effect to the top most video track.

That’s all there is to it!

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Simply adjust the Amount and Size. Then, animate the Evolution over time until you achieve the desired effect.

Turbulent Displace

Let’s say I want to make some underwater text come to life and add a bit of motion to it. First go to the Effects panel and search for,”Turb“. From here, I find “Turbulent Displace“.

I’ll click on the effect and drag it to my text clip I want to have the effect.

Now, I’ll select the text clip and go to the Effects panel for it. From here, you’ll see the Turbulent Displace effect for the clip. I’ll start by animating the Evolution so I can see the effect in action. Place the marker at the beginning of the clip and click the stopwatch next to Evolution.

It should be at 0 for now. Next, move the marker toward the end of the clip and increase the Evolution. You’ll want this to make several revolutions so hold Shift to rapidly increase the amount. Preview the clip after adjusting and change the Evolution amount depending how fast you want the effect to happen.

Now that we have our Evolution animated, we can adjust the Amount and Size. Increase or decrease these values depending how strong you want the effect to be. The Amount adjusts the distortion amount, Size adjusts the area of distortion, and Evolution changes the turbulence over time.

I ended up choosing 15.0 for the Amount, 20.0 for the Size and 31×300.0° degrees for the Evolution. Now that’s the effect I’m looking for!

Use this effect to your imagination.

Here are just a few other examples:

Vlog Intro Text

Drawn Graphics

Trippy Video

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Using shortcut keys for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro is useful for an efficient workflow. Let’s take a look at some of the ways you could use shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

The top keys I frequent most are V for the Move Tool and C for the Razor Tool. I also use Ctrl for making Ripple Edits all the time.

Ripple Edits

To temporarily toggle the Ripple Edit tool for trimming down a video, make sure you have the Move Tool active and hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac). The cursor will turn yellow letting you know it’s active. Once you trim the video clip, it will automatically fill in the gap without you having to readjust the video. Once you let go of Ctrl or Cmd, the cursor will turn back to the normal Move Tool (red).

For an even faster method, move the Playhead over the area you want to cut and press Q. This will trim the clip up to the Playhead and ripple delete the rest.

For trimming the end of a clip or everything after the Playhead, press W. This shortcut affects all tracks.

Note: If you’re trying to ripple edit footage and it won’t budge, check for grouped clips, audio tracks, or other video clips that are stuck. Re-adjust those clips or lock the tracks you don’t want affected by the ripple edit.

Cuts

To make a cut, simply press C and click wherever you want the cut to take place. If you want the cut to affect all tracks, hold Shift and all the tracks will be affected.

For more precise edits, move the Playhead over to the cut point and press Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) + K to make a cut.

Press Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) + Shift + K to affect all tracks.

Deleting Clips

When you press Delete, it will simply delete the clip but leave a gap. Press Shift + Delete and the track will ripple delete closing in the gap.

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Ever want to display your video in full screen? Coming from Sony Vegas, I remember there was a button on the preview window for viewing full screen. Click that, and the preview window would enlarge. Adobe Premiere Pro also enables this ability and can be done with a simple shortcut key.

To view the preview full screen:

The ` (Accent key) is typically located above the Tab key or just left of the numerical 1 on the keyboard.

Use the Spacebar to play your video. Or you can also use the Shuttle Keys J (Shuttle Reverse), K (Shuttle Stop) and L (Shuttle Forward) to play your video.

Got a second monitor? Simply drag the Program monitor window to it and when you toggle full screen, it will display on that monitor. You can continue editing on your primary monitor with full screen enabled.

Mercury Transmit

You can also use Mercury Transmit to send video frames to external video devices. I personally found playback to be more choppy when trying this but it may work better for external video cards transmitting to a TV or monitor. It’s probably because all (3) of my monitors are on a single video card and I still had the Preview window open in Premiere. I’ll need to do more testing with this.

You can enable it from the Edit > Preferences > Playback… window. It gives you the option to choose what monitor(s) you’d like to use. There’s also an option to “Disable video output when in the background” which will stop transmitting a video preview when Premiere is minimized or not the foreground application.

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Adobe Premiere Pro allows you to hide files in the project panel, including bins. Now there are a variety of reasons you might want to use this. Especially if you have quite a few files you’re working with. Perhaps you want to focus on a specific set of assets. You can hide everything but those specific assets.

Or perhaps you’re sending a project off to another editor. You may not want to confuse them with extra video clips in the project panel that doesn’t pertain to their task.

Or maybe you’re working with a client over your shoulder. Hiding clips may be handy to keep them from asking to watch all the extra clips you have.

To hide files in the project panel:

• Select all the files you want hidden
• Right-click and choose Hide

To reveal hidden files in the project panel:

• Right-click anywhere in the project panel and choose View Hidden
• Click View Hidden again to re-hide those files.

Add a keyboard shortcut and you’ll be hiding clips in a flash.

Simply go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and type “hid” in the search. Scroll down to Project Panel and from here you can add a shortcut for both the Hide function and the View Hidden function. Click to highlight the shortcut for the command you’d like to set a shortcut for and press in the shortcut keys you want to use. I went with Ctrl-H since it wasn’t currently used.

Now all you have to do is type in the assigned shortcut key(s) to View or Hide hidden files.

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1. Press and hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key.
2. Select one or more clips in the timeline and drag them to a new location.
3. After dropping the clips, they are duplicated.

Clips can be dragged horizontally or vertically.

You can also duplicate just the video or audio portion depending on what you select.

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Ever think about alternate ways of selecting color in Photoshop? Could there be a tool that allows us to precisely select a certain color? Like a color wheel? You bet, it’s called, “Coolorus”. Coolorus allows you to choose colors from an easy to use color wheel. It offers different Color Schemes, Color Modes, has the ability to work with Background or Stroke colors, and claims to be faster than lightning and bug free unlike other color pickers. It’s the “Adobe extension everyone has been waiting for”. Available for Adobe Flash and Photoshop for both Mac and Windows as an extension. 

Features:

Color Modes:

Coolorus has both a full spectrum and simple color mode.

Color Schemes:

Right now, you have the ability to try it out a couple days before v1.0 is released by the end of this week. Once v1.0 is released, there will be a very small charge for this extension, nothing more than $10 bucks. So if you’re looking for a better color wheel to use in Photoshop or Flash, give Coolorus a try! http://www.coolorus.com

Share your thoughts on this extension below!

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