Table Of ContentMastering Adobe
Premier Pro CS6
HOTSH T
Take your video editing skills to new and exciting levels with
eight fantastic projects
Paul Ekert
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mastering Adobe Premier Pro CS6 HOTSH t
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Paul Ekert Anugya Khurana
Reviewer Proofreaders
Chris Bryant Amy Guest
David Clarke Aaron Nash
Acquisition Editor Indexer
Erol Staveley Rekha Nair
Commissioning Editor Production Coordinator
Llewellyn F. Rozario Nilesh R. Mohite
Lead Technical Editor Cover Work
Arun Nadar Nilesh R. Mohite
Technical Editors
Devdutt Kulkarni
Kaustubh S. Mayekar
About the Author
Paul Ekert started getting interested in video editing during the mid 90s when various
exciting but crude video editing devices came to market. He soon moved away from this
somewhat unreliable technology and transferred to MiroMotion capture cards (Miro were
later bought by Pinnacle), which took the radical approach of downloading video from a
camera to a PC's hard drive. The default software for these cards was Adobe Premiere.
In the late 90s, he started working for a computer supplier, who specialized in building
bespoke systems for non-linear editing, predominantly using Adobe Premiere with various
hardware combinations supplied by Pinnacle and Matrox. He left this firm to work in the QA
department of Pinnacle, one of the leading suppliers of non-linear editing hardware, who
were eventually bought by Avid.
In 2005, he left to pursue a career as a freelance writer. Since that time, he has written five
books on video editing, one based on Premiere Pro CS3 and another on Premiere Elements
7 (special effects based book). He also wrote one book on Pinnacle Liquid (NLE software)
and its follow up, Avid Liquid. During this time, he wrote, filmed, directed, and edited several
short films, some of which can be seen on his website. In all, he has over two decades
experience in using non-linear editing programs, in particular, Adobe Premiere. A recent
(2012) edit that was created using Premiere Pro CS6 (an airshow in Brazil using two GoPro
Hero2 cameras) can be seen on youtu.be/OoD9dSyAXC0.
He is interested in most things that come under the heading of geeky. He is never really
content to look at something and be impressed with what it does; he always needs to lift the
hood, look underneath, and work out exactly how everything works. Of late, he has become
fascinated with low-cost animation products such as iClone, and low-cost special effects
tools such as HitFilm. He also maintains a long running interest in PC hardware and is always
fascinated with various cameras; usually the ones just out of his price range. Find him at trade
fairs drooling over them!
He is also a writer of plays, films scripts, novels, short stories, non-fiction books, and the
odd poem. Examples of all these can be found on his website, www.PaulEkert.com.
During the last few years, he has felt privileged to live a life where he can create and write,
and he values the sometimes painful months he spent creating Ordinary Monsters, his first
published novel (now available for the Kindle). He believes that all writing involves equal
amounts of pleasure and pain, just like life. The trick is to enjoy and embrace them both.
About the Reviewers
Chris Bryant, after standing in line for hours to watch Jurassic Park on opening night, was
instantly hooked on motion pictures. He also realized at an early age that if you don't want
to be filmed, you needed to be the one holding the camera. One of his first paychecks
went to purchase an 8 mm camcorder, and his passion for video production has grown
ever since. He edited his first video back in high school by chaining together two VCRs to
create a thematic introduction to his Senior Project, and was a Media Arts major at Western
Connecticut State University.
He eventually went on to start his own company in 2004 (look for Bryant Productions
on Facebook) and films a range of promotional and internal training videos for
companies nationwide.
For fun, he produces short films, including The Other Half, the first place winner of the
2009 Connecticut Film Festival's "24 Hour Cup 'O Joe Filmmaking Competition". He has
experience as a voiceover artist and event videographer.
When he isn't shooting video or editing, he enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife at
their home in New York City.
David Clarke started DVC Ltd in 1995, retailing custom-built computer editing systems
using Adobe Premiere 1. DVC has expanded to deal with all the major editing programs. He
has also produced many training videos on Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore. He has
also run Premiere training courses for Buckingham Palace press office, Fulham football club,
and the BBC.
He has directed, edited, and produced effects on the epic, 6-part-adventure-based BBC TV
series Dr Who, which included a guest appearance from Jon Pertwee, his last time to play
the role of the Doctor.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Project One: Creating a Movie Montage – the Easy Way 7
Mission Briefing 8
Why Is It Awesome? 8
Streamlining Premiere Pro 11
Music markers matter 16
Subclips tame video clips 21
Final preparation 25
Creating a running order 27
Fine-tuning the edit 30
Correct aspect ratios 35
Finishing touches 40
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 44
Project Two: Cutting a Short Film without Getting Stung 45
Mission Briefing 46
Creating a story 49
Three-point edits 53
Combining three- and four-point edits 59
Refining with the Trim tool 63
Correcting various problems 67
Making pictures sing 70
Adding a movie look 73
Mission Accomplished 78
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 78
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Project Three: Protect the Innocent – Interview Edit Techniques 79
Mission Briefing 79
Getting the story right! 81
Extracting audio fat 86
Creating a J-cut (away) 89
An L-cut and a UFO! 92
Reconstructing reconstructions 97
Bringing night to day 100
Adding viewpoints 102
Protecting the innocent 108
Adding lower thirds 113
Mission Accomplished 118
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 118
Project Four: See the Bigger Picture – Edit Multiple Cameras 119
Mission Briefing 120
Organizing your media 123
Creating a multi-camera sync point 125
Activating multi-camera 129
Creating a multi-camera Timeline 132
Editing and tuning multi-camera clips 137
Creating insert clips (PiP) 140
Finishing off 144
Mission Accomplished 147
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 147
Project Five: Visual Effects – Muzzle Flashes, Laser Beams, and Clones 149
Mission Briefing 150
Organizing your project media 153
Key in the alien robot 155
Creating an army of clones 160
Creating a laser beam of doom 165
Creating a lightning spectacular (freeze frame and lightning ball) 172
Creating a muzzle flash 177
Adding sound effects 181
Adding various effects to polish the scene 182
Mission Accomplished 185
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 186
Project Six: Visual FX Using Real Media 187
Mission Briefing 188
Organizing your media 190
Adding a new 3D object to your scene 193
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Adding an explosive clip 197
Manually tracking the explosion 200
Adding heat glow and smoke 203
Adding muzzle flashes and laser beams 208
Creating an explosion tremor and flying figure effect 211
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 214
Project Seven: The Ultimate Do-over – Correcting Visual and
Audio Problems 215
Mission Briefing 216
Correcting white balance issues 218
Correcting color issues 220
Creating an isolated color effect 223
Using Rolling Shutter Repair for DSLRs 225
Using Warp Stabilizer as a virtual tripod 228
Improving audio quality of a sound track 231
Removing coughs and other disturbances 233
Trashing audio – altering the sound of a voice 236
Globally adding audio filters to your Timeline clips 239
Mission Accomplished 242
You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge 242
Project Eight: Reach the World – Export to DVD, the Internet, and Beyond 243
Mission Briefing 244
Exporting audio for refined post work 245
Creating an animated GIF 249
Assembling multiple Timelines for final output 251
Adding markers and creating an Encore CS6 compatible export 255
Exporting options for uploading to the Internet 259
Creating archive copies of your work 262
Mission Accomplished 264
Index 265
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