Video Editing Tricks I Wish I Knew When I Started...

[@PremiereGal]

Thanks Valentina, Becki, Josh, Javier & Ian for sharing tips with me :)

[@DavidLindgren89]

Great tips from all of them! 🙏 But I think my favourite is from Ian at 12:14. I do this all the time with my clients and it helps me soo much. Before I did this, it got messy really quick 🫣

[@JavierMercedes]

Thanks for having me on and so cool to see Ian! Glad to be apart of this!

[@LearnHowToEditStuff]

Thanks for including me, all of these are great tips - editors take note!

[@PremiereGal]

📒✏️

[@Olufemii]

Thanks for having me Kelsey!!

[@PremiereGal]

Mogrts for the win Josh! :)

[@marykirmo]

So great. Definitely feeling like a pro these days! It is truly wonderful that all of you share these videos. My “pro-tip” is to check these channels whenever there’s an update to the software. That’s how I stay with the curve. All of you have something slightly different when an update is coming and you get the sneak peek ahead of time. I feel far less blindsided by changes this way and I know I’m always at max efficiency in my work flow. Thanks again for this great video!! (I’ll be back for that audio piece I’m sure).

[@PremiereGal]

❤

[@SlaterMGFX]

Working Back to Front was one I learned early on......Game-changer. These are all great from folks I've learned so much from over the years and a great refresher.

[@buckkahlerinstructorvideop2222]

Loved Ian's comments on dealing with client notes! That alone was worth the watch!

[@anaoicar]

When people start editing, PLEASE, please learn how presets work and use them, this will HUGELY improve your editing and if you don't want to pay/make them yourself, there are lots of free ones online!

[@urbanvegsa1928]

What are presets?

[@paulidevoss7249]

Love this, especially the way the Editing community shares and supports each other ❤ Javier’s tip reminded me of another handy way you can move blocks of clips around on the timeline. If you select the clips and copy them (Command+C on a Mac) then Shift+Command V will INSERT PASTE those clips where the play head is on the timeline. This will also push everything down on the timeline too as it doesn’t overwrite. Hope that’s useful for someone out there!

[@sandyplans]

8:14 OMG the colour grading for the whole source is AMAZING!!! The amount of time that would have saved me is CRAZY!!! THANK YOU!!

[@t.ticklesfpv]

agreed!

[@Diego24fps]

Glad you introduced people to conversion LUTs - it's such a necessary skill in my opinion. One thing I like to do is apply the LUTs in the "Creative" tab instead. This allows me to make exposure and temp/tint adjustments to the camera original footage BEFORE it goes through the LUT, which I prefer to do vs applying the LUT in the "Basic" tab and making adjustments on top of the LUT (which risks losing image data due to clipping)

[@manuelf.aguinaga7463]

What's the difference between adding a LUT in "Basic" vs "Creative"?

[@kevinportier9504]

Change corrections from the back… Sooo simpel!!! Never thought about it… 😱 thanks for al of the tips guys!

[@sandro-nigris]

Fantastic Premiere Gal and guests! These are GREAT tips!

[@mauriciocebada2863]

These tips are pure gold. Thank you so much. You're AWESOME

[@RobbyHuang]

Lots of great tips! Mine is Ripple Trim, Ripple Trim, Ripple Trim! Seriously though, if I could tell beginner self what to learn first it would be ripple trim. I cannot overstate how transformative learning about it was for me. It makes editing an absolute joy and gets what's in your head to the screen faster than anything else.

[@PremiereGal]

Ripple Delete is one of my favs -- so many tips, originally this video was 30 minutes, I'm thinking of sharing some extra tips to my Patrons :)

[@SlaterMGFX]

Hi Kelsey. Looks like the blog post for the Log to Rec. 709 is no longer posted on your site. Is there a link? Thanks.

[@captcrow]

Thanks Kelsey, great tips from all. The tip on edit source video color was great. It would have saved me a ton of time on last project. Thanks again and keep rockin it Gal👍👍👍

[@dawoodiqbal]

Thanks for sharing . Really thankful to you for sharing nice and new content every time.

[@TenthElementGraphics]

12:12 Ian just blew my mind 🤯 Can't believe I never thought of this.

[@JLaren]

Hi Gal. Your videos are high vibe, pro quality, and you've earned another sub. Cheers ;)

[@Karanganda]

Thanks

[@johnstirzaker6281]

Thanks, Kelsey, as usual, great tips, some reminders some revelations. One tip I discovered while working abroad this summer is;- if you highlight a clip and press. cmd - shift - e, it disables the clip, do it again it enables, I found this very useful to quickly turn off overlays to check what I was hiding or find edit points. Probably in the instructions somewhere but I had never found it.

[@EyeLensWeddingVideography]

My Tip! Warp stabilization on slow motion clips! In order to do this what you would need to do, is to do your slow motion first. Once you do your slow motion, Nest it. After you nested you can now apply warp stabilization to it. highly recommend to start out 20% first and go lower from there for the best results. And you will be surprised how stabilize your footage can look in slow motion. Tip 2. Applying slow motion to 24 frames per second footage. Right click on the clip that you want to do slow motion on. click on speed/duration after you put in the percentage that you want whether it's 50% or 40%, you want to go down to time interpolation change it from "frame sampling" to "Optical flow" then hit okay. This is not something that you want to do all the time. This is something you can do as a just in case. Because sometimes you will get artifacts to show up in your footage. Main thing is to always make sure you film it correctly using 60 fps or higher.

[@chivalries344]

Very nice tips in this video. Thanks! Here's a "fun fact" tip to help gauge volume ajustments for sound instead of guessing by ear, fiddling with faders or control bars: The dB scale is not a linear one. It's logarithmic. It was established (science) that an increase of volume of 3 dB will be perceived as double the loudness. Following that rule you now can work with a precise scale as multiples of 3s.

[@olaleyeoluwole3442]

Amazing tips. Your friends are also creatively great creators I have been following for years, especially Gina's Aputure series. Keep up the good work.

[@PremiereGal]

She is a genius at lighting!

[@olaleyeoluwole3442]

@@PremiereGal Absolutely. Lighting Legend

[@patrickdelahanty6700]

Thanks. This was very helpful for basic stuff I've not learned. You are a genius.

[@wheystedmusic]

As a music producer and an audio engineer I just wanted to touch on the audio part: Going up to 0db in the audio will not cause distortion. The whole -6db of headroom is based on analog gear that was used and would start distorting within the gear of above -6db. Now a days you can push your track up to 0 (assuming peaks are not going over 0, if you have a lot of dynamic pitch in a track put a limiter around -.10 to -.5 db. And then gain stage down to desired loudness. Hope this helps 🙂

[@PremiereGal]

I love tips like this, thank you for sharing!!

[@scalingwithvideos]

Last one with client notes is going to save me tons of time. Oh my god! Never thought of it like that. Thank you!

[@octaviaholiday]

I LOVE this!! Everyone in this video is SUCH an inspiration. ❤❤

[@chriswallace2298]

A MAY. ZING . You had me at the promo. Love Valentina and Javier. You should do these collaborations more often. Please. Also. brava on using Storyblocks. Ever thought about interviewing them about their product? Thank you . Thank you.

[@HowNOT2]

Thank you!!!

[@ianbarclay7929]

Super clear and insanely helpful as usual. One of the very best channels to learn from. Do you have any educational course content available? Nice hat too!!

[@philipsimiloluwaalabi2581]

Thank you so much...this was of great help !

[@DeanAllman]

Thank you! This was excellent.

[@himanisharma-7]

Amazing 🎉🎉Thanks gal🤗🤗

[@AutumnHathaway]

You're such an inspiration Kelsey! ✨✨And sharing the love with your community is so great to watch with tremendous tips.

[@PremiereGal]

Thank you so much!!

[@michajabonski8365]

In audio section, better is to export sequence to adobe audition [dynamic link] and make side chain [vox and music]. Of is always good to enhance te vocal and make correction. Javier Mercedes and Timeline Shifts tip is amazing!

[@casualsadi3144]

New sub here and also new to video editing . discovered your channel lately and it helped a lot understanding basic things which I thought was really complex :D !!!

[@tiffanyeddy900]

Super helpful!!! Thank you!

[@gringodave]

👍👍👍 Audio tips!! Thank you! 👍👍👍

[@RobbSutherland]

Some great tips. When you refer to audio levels, what about when the music is the focus? So an intro? Or in my case, whilst a GoPro is focussing on a desert road? Something where there is no dialogue to mask.

[@t.ticklesfpv]

i must say. thank you for making such informative and interesting videos. the creativity and humor bring a level of fun to the videos that other editors can truly appreciate. it makes learning fun, as cheesy as that sounds. so big thank you.

[@t.ticklesfpv]

PS THE LUTS SAVED MY FREAKING LIFE Thanks+++++

[@shayxie8318]

1) We shoot raw also, and my shopmate starts his color correcting in the Source panel. You can drag+drop a lumetri effect onto a clip in your source panel, which is really helpful if you have a long clip that all needs the same thing. Grab any of the presets from your Effects, drop it onto the clip, and then tweak as needed. 2) When you're going through a long interview or a script or something with audio, again in your source panel, change your view to Audio. That way you'll see exactly when your audio is, and you don't have to scroll and scroll and scroll looking for the next bit. Set your In and Out points, and grab exactly what you need. It saves so much time!

[@shayxie8318]

and that's what I get for pausing to leave comments without watching the whole video :D

[@BloodBoughtMinistries]

Source color tip is really nice!

[@OldFashionedWays]

amazing video with great inforamtion as always appreciate. thanks

[@mohammedalgomaty2173]

Thank you for this video am having a hard time finding tips this useful

[@TacticalShazli]

Incredible tips! Thank you all very much! Love it!

[@jmanchester]

The collaboration tip 👌

[@ThatMakesSenseToMe]

Editing client feedback back to front is GOLD thank you thank you

[@drone78]

Epic episode ! Merci beaucoup 😊

[@asamhatre2021]

Hi, Amit from Dubai, Thanks for Tricks and Tips

[@dannir7]

About that first tip (setting in and out points and looping the area between them) - if you want to loop entire clips, select the clip, press X on the keyboard and the in and out area will be set automatically to the duration of that clip

[@PremiereGal]

great tip! 🎉

[@georgef345]

I've been using J cut and L cut without knowing it had a name lol. Useful to learn that it had a name. Thx!

[@promotionoutfitters]

Super bomb tips

[@BigAl444]

Great tips as usual. One thing I can't figure out is when I have a large shoot to import and sync audio. Is there a way to either import each clip on it's own layer or a quick way to sort them like that after the import? There has to be a way to do this.

[@StevenSmith-nq5xe]

Move over, Marvel Universe. The Gal Universe all-star cast was a fun surprise, and the tips a tremendous help. Thank you!

[@PremiereGal]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@valentinavee]

Thanks for having me! Super useful video.

[@44Bdogg]

Thank you so much for those tips

[@bryankjones]

Greetings @Premiere Gal. Question: What are your thoughts on using the Ducking option to ensure that the background music doesn't overpower the main audio track?

[@PremiereGal]

It's great, but in my videos I don't have music tracks dip in and out often, so auto-match is enough for me.

[@croquemitaine5923]

Great video :) thank you for all these amazing tips... I loved particularly the one from IAN it makes a lot of sense

[@PremiereGal]

it was a killer tip!

[@AM2PMReviews]

so nesting is like a compound clip?

[@moondrums]

Very helpful. also love how you incorporate the other content producers to share their tips. Your channel has helped me lots!, So has Javiers'. Thank you. And you are right I constantly feel like some of my edits and content are ehh. You know? It's important to collaberate with others.

[@PremiereGal]

Making a film takes an army, collaboration is natural to the creative process!

[@chriszayachkowski]

Great tips! 👍

[@OneMinuteCritic]

Such a great video!! Thank you for this!!

[@hero_on_youtube]

I thought Nesting was some advanced technique, thank you for proving me wrong. It's so simple. Thanks.

[@PremiereGal]

Nesting can feel intimidating, but it's actually quite simple!

[@tamirmadar2412]

7:59 wow!

[@May1rain]

Great video, Thank you!

[@Sunnykr275]

Amazing 🙏🏻👏🏻

[@andremayer2013]

10:56 - I swear I didn't know that, really happy to find out, thank you!

[@PremiereGal]

That's awesome 🎉

[@b0tterman]

I do the client notes a bit differently. I make a copy of the sequence and use that for time stamps while just doing the notes on the copy timeline.

[@PremiereGal]

Also a good tip! 🎉

[@juvenilejusticeboard-iii-ei5gl]

thanks for the video, it worked for me

[@BuddyBearCreator]

You ROCK !

[@iTAX_GAMING]

Very helpful maam thankyou❤

[@pratapsinghakarki7022]

i love you Premiere Gal i need after effects gal too!!!

[@PremiereGal]

We will need to make an Ae version of tips too!

[@RolandMillington]

Great tips. So wonderful that everyone shared such great insights. For the audio side, I suggest that working with the mastering filter is best done on the master output buss ("Mix" in the Premiere audio mixer). What I might do in the instance you are encountering would be to either use a multiband compressor on the track and push it up in the frequency ranges germane to your source audio. A couple other things that might be helpful to note would be using something like Yoolean Loudness Meter (they offer a free version, vst2 and vst3, au and aax formats, but the paid version is really worth it) to indeed be able to visualize your audio track. Along with that visualization is the understanding that consumers often hear our audio in stereo spaces. Pushing specific channels into a wider area of the audio spectrum frees up the focal room for your voiceover. In the same way that we make edits with directional-based audio to match it up to a voice capture with the actor/source onscreen left or right, we can push audio further out to the left and right in the stereo spectrum, and open up space for the main vocal.

[@PremiereGal]

I used to add the Mastering effect to the Mix level but the subtle clarity preset made the music sound "Tin" like. So our team started adding it to the dialogue layer as the preset is intended more for vocals. If you have a preset you'd recommend for the mix level let me know :) 😊

[@RolandMillington]

@@PremiereGal My usual chain used to be compress with a multiband compressor in the master buss, followed by multiband EQ and a loudness maximizer. Steinberger's Master Strip (Cubase/Cubasis) is really great for not just adding in the multiband compression but also a stereo imager to expand or contract the stereo spectrum across the frequency bands. At the tail is a loudness maximizer. The typical starting point for voicework is the "subtle touch" preset, which is pretty transparent. From there, I follow my ears. I put that in front of a subtle -.1 db brickwall limiter and then filter everything through the Yoolean Loudness Meter, which has some good metering presets, not the least of which is a metering preset geared towards KZbin. Now, all that being said, AI will probably replace every last bit of it. Plug in wonky audio, and it comes out the other side like you recorded it at a major studio. LOL Adobe's podcast enhance is really unreal for what it does in such a short amount of time.

[@drivefitnessuk]

Thanks for the video! great content as always.. I'm struggling a little with audio though.. On a tablet or a phone it can sound like the backing music is overpowering the dialogue, while it sounds perfect on a laptop.. I know the reason is because of the mono to stereo conversion on a phone, but how do I get over that? any tips or tricks would be amazing... Thanks!

[@srsparanormal4606]

Fantastic!

[@othnieldoesart]

You deserve more subscribers 😊

[@poeticgeenetikstv4672]

Hey yo Gal, Does premiere Rush o Pro work on any Samsung phones...Preferably the S 20 ULTRA.

[@RickyBobber]

Holy crap. Very helpful thank you!

[@PremiereGal]

Glad it helped!

[@renanchady]

I really wanted to be your friend Gal, you are pure vibe and happiness

[@LucasPratesLP]

If you right click an audio clip and select Audio Gain, you can change the maximum decibel range the clip will reach, similar to what you did, but doesn’t need that panel open. I don’t know much about audio, but I think it achieves what you were explaining in your video lol

[@crazypabs1]

No lie, Javier's tip came in clutch on this one.

[@ToddDolce]

The color grading tips are priceless! I learn so much from just watching this channel. In regards to looping: I have a problem in After Effects AND Premiere that CONTINUES to PERPLEX me. Imagine if you will a single composition in After Effects that contains a person's BIO and List of success on top of a big 3D screen while some flashes and stars flash around it (this was derived from a previously purchased template with my edits/tweaks added of course). The clip has one big flaw though. It ends too quickly and does not allow for enough time to be comfortably digested (read) by the viewer. There seems to be no easy way in After Effects to EXTEND/LOOP JUST the last portion of it (the part that shows all of the person's stats and photo atop of the 3D screen with a few random stars flashing around it). In other words my question is this,...does Premiere have a solution that would allow me to extend by looping the last 5 seconds of the clip that contains the final look of the person's stats with some of the collateral effects that play behind it for an additional 8 seconds before fading out? It would allow the last portion to be extended (NOT FREEZING IT) so that it could be viewed longer.

[@ambiguousimpulseproduction365]

Great tips

[@BoReynolds]

Another Gem!

[@PremiereGal]

💎

[@technomage116]

You rock, thanks! I'm a medium user...here's a tip: Learn and use all shortcut keys. Try to not use your mouse to do menu items. If you keep doing the same thing over and over, you can customize the Keyboard Shortcuts easily in all Adobe products. Cmd-option-k

[@unknownorigin01]

One tip I'm sure most already know but I literally just learned it last month was: You can't add speed ramps and warp stabilizer to the same clip. Unless you do all your time remapping and then Nest the clip and then add your warp stabilizer. Then it works.

[@PremiereGal]

another reason why nesting is a lifesaver! 🎉

[@johnstirzaker6281]

Yes I just discovered one, glad its not me going mad!

[@kidnaperarthur2110]

😁😁 great

[@sayedpey4965]

It looks like the free conversion LUTs that she mentioned are unavailable. I'm not sure why she would provide incorrect information to her viewers....... Hopefully, she'll update her website soon so that those LUTs can be downloaded.

[@guiga_melo]

thank you so much

[@scottnra]

I'm struggling with 2 things. 1. when i have a timeline in 4k and other cam angkes in 1080, the size of each 4k clip is zoomed way in and I have to fix them one by one. 2. syncing multiple clips based on audio. 2 angles at a time work great, 3 or more clips at a time doesnt even give an option to sync. that would make a great couple videos. hint hint. :-)

[@PremiereGal]

if you work a lot with different sized media instead of right clicking on each clip to "Set to Frame Size" go to your Pr preferences. Click Preferences > Media > Default Media Scaling, and set it to Set to Frame Size. Or use Scale to Frame Size if you want less strain on the CPU.

[@shrey522]

You have a beautiful voice 😊

[@mr.critic]

Nesting is life 😄😄👌👌

[@PremiereGal]

hahaha, best way to describe it!

[@mr.critic]

@@PremiereGal 😉👍

[@georgef345]

Source level effects is news to me and could be very useful if I remember it's there. lol

[@HarleyBreakoutGuy]

Thank you

[@caerwyn5881]

Nested sequences were a game changer when i found that they existed. Subtitling gaming group videos went from 2 days down to 45 mins

[@PremiereGal]

Yes!

[@guiga_melo]

great

[@Dynamo_studio]

Thank you so much🤗🤗🤗 watching your videos have really upped my editing game big time👁️👄👁️

[@PremiereGal]

👏

[@alexburin2120]

большое спасибо!