Premiere Pro Tricks

Adobe Premiere Pro Tricks, Tips, and Hacks

Premiere Pro Tricks

Scaling Your Work Area Window

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Every once in a while I see someone post that their Premiere Pro work area is above their OS menu bar and they can’t adjust the window to pull it down. Because when you scale the window by clicking and dragging a corner the top of the Premiere Pro work area window stays anchored in place. You can see how that looks in the GIF below.

So, imagine if that top of your window was someplace above your top dropdown menu and out of reach of your mouse pointer. Pretty frustrating. This literally happened to me today.

I have a fix for you. Just hold down the OPTION key (or the ALT key for Windows) and then click and drag the work area. And now the whole window scales from the center. When my Premiere Pro work area was stuck up above I did this and was able to make it small enough that I then could access the top bar of the work area to reset it into place.

Here’s a GIF of what it looks like when you hold the OPTION (ALT) key and scale your work area window.


Adobe Premiere Pro Best Practices

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Just wanted to make as many people aware that Adobe has posted a Premiere Pro User Guide Best Practices on their site and it’s chockfull of great information that can benefit the beginner and the experienced Premiere Pro video editor.

Adobe Premiere Pro Best Practices

I’m posting this here so I’ll remember it too. Because it’s a great resource for making sure you Premiere Pro editing is fast and efficient.

External Headphones Plugged in but Audio Plays Through Speakers?

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So you want to edit in Premiere Pro with your headphones plugged in, but after you plug them in the audio still plays out of your speakers?

So you go to your Premiere Pro Preferences and then to Audio Hardware and change your default Audio Output to External Headphones. But then 30 minutes later you want to listen to your audio through your speakers and you have to go through the process again?

Or perhaps you remember how it once use to be when it just worked automatically?

Here’s how I fixed this problem on my Apple Mackbook Pro, running MacOS Mojave 10.14.5. If you’re on Windows OS I’m sorry but I can’t help you right now.

Step 1: Plug in your headphones into your computer.

Step 2: Open “Audio Midi Setup app” This is found in your Applications Folder inside the Utilities folder.

Step 3. Once that is open click the “+” button on the lower left hand of the app window and choose “Create Aggregate Device.”

Step 4: After creating the Aggregate Device go to the lower right-hand panel and click the box next to “External Headphones”, then click the box next to “Macbook Pro Speakers”, and finally you’ll probably want to select any audio inputs you want. You get the idea. I believe it may be important that you select your headphones first in the order. If you don’t you can rearrange in the grey window above by dragging the colored rectangles.

Step 5: Closeout of the Audio Midi app and open up Premiere Pro.

Step 6: Go to Preferences, Audio Hardware, and in the “Default Output” choose “Aggregate Device”. You can also set “Default Input” to what you want too. Click Ok and you’re done!

Now if you open up your Audio Hardware preferences again in Premiere Pro and unplug your headphones and then plug them back in you should see your Output Mapping change at the bottom of your window.

Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling

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Here’s a great Adobe Premiere Pro tip!

Did you know you can change how your timeline scrolls in Adobe Premiere Pro when you are in playback? There are three choices. Page Scroll is the default. Then there is Smooth Scroll and No Scroll. I have no idea why you might use No Scroll if you do clue me in ok?

If you having trouble visualizing what I am talking about here’s what the default behavior, Page Scroll, looks like. When the CTI gets to the far right your timeline advances and yout CTI enters from the far left.

Now watch this. Here’s how you change your Timeline Playback Scrolling behavior. We will change it to Smooth Scroll. In your Adobe Premiere Pro Preferences (I’m on a Mac) find “Timeline” towards the bottom. Then a panel will open up.


And here’s what Smooth Scroll looks like. Your CTI stays smack dab in the center of your timeline.

Finally, if you are interested, here’s what the No Scroll Option looks like. You CTI (Current Time Indicator), or what some people call your “Play Head”, move out of your view.

How to make a ne​w sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro

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Transcript:

hey friends I’m gonna show you a bunch
of ways to start a new sequence in
Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro works best
when your sequence settings match the
settings of your footage so I’m gonna
show you two ways that I feel is the
best way to set up your sequence in your
timeline. as you can see I have a bin
full of clips I’m just gonna take my
first clip right here and I’m going to
drag it right over here where it says
drop media here to create sequence. boom
new sequence created now you’ll notice
that the sequence name is the same as
your clip that you have here that I
created it from. what I do is I’m gonna
drag that out of my bin and I’m going to
rename it to something that is logical.
I’m gonna call it edit version zero one
and I’m ready to go. second great way to
create a new sequence would be to take a
clip from your footage bin drag it over
to the new item icon down here below and
drop it and now we have another new
sequence. as you can see yet again the
sequence has been named the same as your
clip so let’s pull that out of the bin
and rename this we’ll call this
edit version zero two. great that’s the
best two ways I feel to set up your
sequence now I’m going to show you a
couple more you can always go down to
the new item icon down here click on it
and you’re going to get a bunch of
options top one is sequence create a new
sequence you can rename it right here
you have several presets to choose so
choose the right one and hit OK then
drop your footage. here’s another way go
to file new pull down to sequence and
click.
yet again you have your preset settings
that you can choose from click OK
let’s say you start a new sequence by
using the command in keyboard shortcut
and let’s just say that you choose the
wrong preset and then you drag your clip
onto your timeline it’s going to give
you a warning saying clip mismatch best
thing to do is change sequence settings
unless you chose that preset for a
specific reason all right that’s it I
sure would appreciate a thumbs up a
subscribe a comment anything have a
great day

Zoom to Frame Premiere Pro Keyboard Shortcut

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Are you the type of Premiere Pro video editor that likes to zoom all the way in your sequence to make really fine cuts? Are you tired of hitting the equal key (=) to zoom all the way in? We all know about the Zoom to Sequence keyboard shortcut the “\” key. But in keyboard shortcuts, there’s also Zoom to Frame that is unmapped by default. I’ve mapped that sucker to “option+\” and now I zoomed all the way in where I want to make those sweet sweet precise frame by frame cuts in Premiere Pro.

First you need to map that function in your keyboard shortcuts.

Then use it to zoom all the way in on your awesome sequence.