Premiere Pro Tutorial - Tricks of the Trade Episode 1

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This is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today we will be looking at tricks of the trade in Premiere Pro. One of the more common uses of needing to copy and paste on the timeline is to duplicate a graphic element of some kind on your upper track. Now if I were to take this text that says "The World" and I wanted to say "The Dual" instead, I would copy this and press Command C and then Command V. I've covered my dollar, I'm going to Command + Z to undo that.Let's take a look over here at the inner track toggle items. The outer track, as you might remember from another lesson, have to do with footage coming in from your Source Monitor to your timeline. These determine where they fall on your timeline. There's no audio associated with this track. If I were to double click on this clip, you'll notice suddenly I have a V1 and an A1. There's audio associated with this clip.

But we're not talking about the outer toggles, we're talking about the inner toggles which has to do with copying and pasting footage that's already on the timeline. So if I want this text to fall above this image, I would be moving the inner toggles. I'm going to press V2 and deselect V1. It's always going to default to V1, so you have to deselect it. And now when I press Command V, the text has fallen above it and I can double click on it to change the words.

Another thing to mention is the forward and backward arrows on your keyboard. You press the up arrow it takes you backwards all the way in your timeline. The down arrow takes you forward on every cut that's on the main video track (meaning V1). You have multiple tracks as you'll see, it didn't stop at these other B-rolls. If I were to include V2 on that line, it would stop at every track on V2 as well as V1.

So that's another use for these tabs in addition to copying and pasting on your timeline. The option key duplicates your footage, your audio, or your video. By holding down the option key you've duplicated your clip. Just hold down the option key, click on your clip, hold down the option key, and lift up. It's duplicated. If it's audio that you're duplicating, move down and it's duplicated.

Why would you want to duplicate your clip? There are a lot of reasons. One of the reasons can be with when working with the opacity blend mode. The opacity blend mode will take footage and combine it in a new way. These are identical clips. I'm going to click on this clip and go to effects control. Here is your motion, opacity, time remapping, and opening opacity. You'll see blend mode. I'm going to say screen and that instantly lightens it. If I say multiply, that instantly darkens it. There's other things I can do when working with the same clip. This gave this a kind of a metallic feel. Just to scoot this over on a different clip, you can combine clips with opacity blend mode in an assortment of really fun ways. There's a lot of creative options for you.

Here's the world over them. Maybe I'll put it on the world instead of on the clip. Let's see how that works. Or the glow brother that's just a lighter color. The lighter color goes through. Maybe we'll say darker color and have the darker colors be blended color burn.

Hope you've enjoyed this video on tricks of the trade. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.