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How to Add a Border to a Video Clip in Premiere Pro

October 22, 2021 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

I’ll be first to admit that this should be way easier than it is. And perhaps I’ve missed something along the way. But it should be easy to add a border around a video clip or a still image in Premiere Pro.


So here are two Premiere Pro tips that will show you how to add a border to a video clip. The first one is using a video effect called Grid. The second is using the Essential Graphics Panel.


As always, you’ll need to be working inside a project and have some footage. My project setting is 1920×1080, and my footage is also 1920×1080. I’m also working in Premiere Pro 2021.

Adding a Border to a Video Clip Using the Grid Effect


Find the video clip you want to add a border to in your sequence timeline and then go to your Effects Panel (Shift+7) and locate the Grid effect in the Video Effects folder > Obsolete folder. By the way, you can search “Grid” in the search field next to the eye-glass, and it should pop up.


I know this is an obsolete effect, but let’s live dangerously, shall we.

Drop that effect on your clip.

Open up your Effect Controls panel (Shift+5)

In the Grid effect change the Anchor to 1920.0, 1080.0 (Note: This needs to be the same size as your video clip)
Set Corner to 0.0, 0.0
Set Border to what thickness you want
Set the color to what you want
And change the Blending Mode from None to Normal.

And now you have a border attached to your video clip. If you scale and change the position of the clip, the border should follow and size dynamically.

I learned that this doesn’t work great for clips where the project settings are different from clip settings. For example, if you are working with a 1920×1080 project but using a clip that’s 1280×720.

Adding a Border to a Video Clip Using The Essential Graphics Panel

Now I’ll show you the second way you can add a border to a video clip.

I’ll skip the setup stuff because I know you have your smarty pants on.

It might be slightly helpful to turn on “Snap in Program Monitor,” which you can find by clicking the wrench icon in the program monitor.

Open your Essential Graphics panel

Add a rectangle shape. Turn off fill and then turn on stroke. Give some more width to your liking and color it as you wish.

Change the Anchor Points of the rectangle shape to -5.0, -5.0

Change the position to 0.0, 0.0, and now your rectangle should be at the top left corner.

Now drag the lower right corner of your rectangle down to the bottom right corner of Program Monitor. You don’t need to be exact just yet; we will zoom in and place it just right.

Zoom your Program monitor into something like 200% and use the position bars on the bottom and right side of the program monitor so you can see the bottom right corner.

And now click and drag that corner of your rectangle into place.

Ok, you are nearing the end.

Reset the zoom level of your Program Monitor.

Make sure your essential graphic layer is the length of the clip you are using.

To make this stick to the video layer, if you want to change the scale or something like for a picture in picture effect, we need to nest the clips together.

Select both clips. Right-click and choose Nest…

And now, if you scale down the nested sequence that you just created the video and the border should scale nicely together.

There you have it. I hope that helps you.

Filed Under: Effects, Sequence, Titles, Uncategorized

Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling

July 1, 2019 By Premiere Pro Tricks 7 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Sequence, Timeline

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

May 24, 2019 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Sequence, Uncategorized

How To Rename Your Audio Tracks in Premiere Pro CC2018

March 24, 2018 By Premiere Pro Tricks 8 Comments

Have you tried to rename your audio track in your Premiere Pro timeline and found the menu option greyed out? Well, you can rename your Audio Tracks in Premiere Pro CC2018 by Right-clicking the audio track in your sequence and choose “Customize” from the drop-down menu and this will get you in to the button editor. Then click on the “A1” button and drag it down on to your track from the button editor menu. Now click OK to exit button editor. Now you need to right-click your audio track again and choose “Rename” it should no longer be greyed out.

 

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Filed Under: Audio, Sequence

How to Overlay Your Clip Names in Adobe Premiere Pro

February 22, 2018 By Premiere Pro Tricks 5 Comments

UPDATE: Adobe has moved this effect to “Obsolete” which means someday it will disapear.

Have you ever wanted to overlay the name of each clip in your sequence timeline? I can’t say I have, but I know it could come in handy if someone ever wanted to see the filename of each clip you used in the edit.

Just add an Adjustment Layer on the video track above the clips in your timeline. Then find the “Clip Name” effect in your Effects list (Effects > Video Effects > Video > Clip Name) and drag it on to your Adjustment Layer.

Now head over to your “Effects Control Panel” and find your “Clip Name” Effect. Change the “Source Track” to the Video Source Layer with your clips on it. In my case, V1.

Now you can see each clip name overlayed above your video clip. Export that sucker and send it to your client for some really great micromanagement! Just kidding.

Filed Under: Sequence, Timeline, Video Clips

Using Markers Shortcut

January 15, 2018 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

Add Marker Shortcut

When you want to place a marker and then add something to that marker hit the “M” keyboard shortcut twice. The first “M” sets the marker and hitting the “M” a second time opens that marker up so you can edit it.

Filed Under: Keyboard Shortcuts, Marker, Sequence, Uncategorized

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