When editing an interview for a doc, I’ll go through it and choose all the good parts and chop those and raise them to the channel above. Now I have a selects timeline, and an interview timeline. Then I start piecing together the interview in the correct order on a main timeline and add broll over it. I have a selects timeline, interview timeline with good bits raised, and a main timeline. Very helpful.
Hi Aidin! Useful video 👍 For my next edit i’ll try to do the 2 sequences tip. I always do: 1. WATCH all footage. 2. SELCT-IMPORT the clips to cut (I was two entire weeks doing this on my last trip to Australia). 3. INTERPRET the 120fps and 60fps clips. 4. PROXIES. 5. Add SONG (song guides the edit). 6. Do the SELECTS and put them on the timeline (but not all selects because I do one timeline, so I do the selects as I go through the editing). 7. Do the mountage of clips (I try to be inspired🤞not crazy transitions, I use movement and speed ramping with cuts). 8. SOUND EFFECTS. 9. COLOR correction.
That tip to use the master clip is truly amazing. I always used to do this by messing around with adjustment layers to create a similar process. But this gets annoying really fast when you have to cut between lots of different footage. Thanks a lot man! One trick I use a lot personally, is to put all the footage I'm about to edit on my SSD temporarily. Premiere edits much more smoothly off an SSD because of the faster read times and speeds. After I'm done editing, I'll place the footage back on my HDD. (because I don't have lots of SSD storage) Saves a ton of time, and even eliminates the need for proxies for me a lot of times.
Some of these tips are so simple yet completely game changing, like the double timeline thing.... wut.... Definitely gonna adopt a few of these techniques!! Thanks!
Wow this was one of your best and most helpful tutorials yet! Lots of super useful information and very relevant tips. Definitely gonna be referring back to this many times!
Great tips there! One thing I like to do when I'm editing a video with multiple video interviews is to create a sequence for each speaker and as I go through the clip, I cut and raise the ones I think I might need to the Video layer 2. Once I I have done this with all the interviews, I go and do a second pass and raise the ones from Video layer 2 to 3. I then create a "Main Interview" sequence where I bring all of the ones on Video Layer 3 and play around with them in the edit. Nice way to quickly find soundbites.
Organising my files before editing was a huge game changer for me.I know it sound pretty boring but it makes your life so much easier on post. Other thing which I think is so important is just catch the flow. Be present and don't think on other things but on the story that you want to tell.When you're in that creative flow it's amazing how many creative thoghts appear from nothing. Great video Aidin as always!🔥
Great Tutorial - the idea of using double Timelines sounds like a lifesaver for me and am certainly going to mark the music before starting to edit anthing in future. Very helpful, thank you.
There's a lot of thing I've learned from this video, use the sequence wisely, use the marker, use the snap tool, shortcut (I, o, a, b, p, +, shift+ etc... Thanks a lot brother
I make every shortcut needed on the left side of the keyboard so i can keep my right hand always on the mouse ! I feel like it's more comfortable for me.
My favourite purchase is my Razer Naga Chroma (latest one is called Trinity) and basically going into the software and changing all the buttons as keyboard shortcuts for Premiere Pro. Zooming in and out of a timeline, ctrl+K for cut, X for select clip, apostrophe for delete selected clip. I have one for Effects controls, one for select speed of a clip. It's all so useful and comes up all the time!
Thanks for the great tips! One super helpful tip I learned from That Icelandic Guy was how to remove the audio pops with one keyboard shortcut for the whole project.
Always a good day when you upload, Aidin! That editing B Roll was insane! I'm not a Premiere user anymore, but these ideas can definitely be applied to my workflow in Davinci Resolve. 🤙
Great video! Came up on my recommendations. Subscribed. As an editor, I use bins a lot, I hate working with another editor to see a messy timeline or project folder. Bins allows me to show broll, main clips, audio, transition sounds, etc. Also exporting as a .aaf and bringing it into davinci resolve for colour grading.
i began to take editing seriously from the lockdown beginings only, im a slow learner, and at first premiere seemed really confusing to me(even tho many consider it to the easier compared to other editing softwares) but now im begining to kinda enjoy the tough desicion making process of making choices between the clips.
Proxy has help me th most so far. Wow, I didn't even think of the other things you mention that could help me speed up my editing process. I will implement your excellent advice as soon as possible. Thank you!
These tips were actually really good. I'm sure a lot of us knew a good bit of this but there are some things that I'm excited about trying. I haven't used a selects time line. I'll try that. And I've been using nested sequences but haven't been using them as a muted back up, so I'll give that a go for sure. Awesome video. Thanks for making it. 👍
Golden tips!!! 👏👏 I still struggle to make selections of my footage (learning to let it go haha). Other subject not related: I loved an "old" video of yours, outside showing "how to" do some shots and manage problems in the field. I'd like to see some more in the future 😊 Thanks for sharing! I always learn something new here. Kind regards!
Wow, this video is so accurate I've come to a similar process in about 4 years of edditing I've just added 1 more thing in the select process ; I have multiple categories on the select timeline : Gold, Better, Nice depending on the clip quality and video purpose In this way I know which clip using first and which clips use for filling or others
FilmSensei (YT) was right when he said you were a rising star a few years back. Would be cool to have you on his Livecast too. I like your select timeline combined with making composition shots beforehand in order to speed up my editing process. Thanks for the tips!
Good video and great channel. Question: Is there an advantage to using a Selects Timeline over cutting down your clips and putting them in bins? The advantages I see in bins are 1) It shows you which clips have already been placed on a timeline, and 2) You can organize your select clips into different bins.
This tutorial helps me a lot! I've been suffering from the clips all day long and I'll try your techniques in my projects. Thanks a lot Aidin! BTW the intro cinematic is on fireee :P
making my own keyboard shortcuts and obviously select timeline and interpret footage,,, one of the most important though keeping the sequence neat and making Bins,, actually i have one more don't trust premiere keep saving project,,, Btw this video is so good bro❤❤
Can you do a video on how you organize your ideas on paper? How do you structure it and how you apply afterwards? (or maybe just show us some of your notes!)
Hey man. Today I become a new subscriber here. I had one thing about speed up- You placing markers and text overlays as a note for parts of timelines. You could hold alt- press on markers and make them long-markers and put text (like name\description)/ After- you could press the "wrench" button !Near program monitor! and chose, i don't remember the name of that thing- "show overlays" or something with overlays. So, when you done that stuff- you will see the names of markers on the program monitor. I use that instead of creating text on timeline.
It's interesting that I was just editing something in Premiere before I decided to take a UA-cam break and I ACCIDENTLY discovered how to make notes on my markers by double-clicking on them just like you did at 1:35. I thought "Oohh how useful! Now I won't forget what I made a marker there for when I'm comping. :P
4:15 yes if i nest a reverse clip and want to make it slower it looks choppy asf, great tips man couldn't find any solution for that so grateful to have this video in here 6:57 sick this is golden.
1. Use notes 2. Use markers 3. Interpret slowmotion clips to desired framerate Create proxies 4. Use 2 separate sequencies 5. Color grade MASTER tab to apply on to whole clip, not just individual cut 6. Use nested audio, or nested video to not fuxk up your clips 7. Batch the process X. Watch tutorials to prevent your hair loss and time loss (this is my bonus :) ) Here you have it dude 👍
Really cool Aidin 👏 i edit with edius from grass valley, but i think it is similar 😉👍🏻 thanks for the good and useful tipps 👌 best cinematic greetings from a small 😉 german filmmaker 🇩🇪
It feels like you're one of the developers of these softwares hahahaha. I thought I knew some decent amount but you keep suprising me with your knowledge. That's really good, it helps you be more efficient when doing post work.
Straight game changer with the colour grading *master* just spent 10 minutes colour grading A-roll to a ~30 minute interview, this process used to take at least an hour :'(
Out of personal choice, I wouldn't use the master tab for grading. If I want sightly different grades on the same sequence, it would be much harder to go about that. I prefer using adjustment layers and copying over the right clips where appropriate. However, the better choice in my opinion would be to grade entirely in Resolve - the colour workspace in there makes me wonder how I ever used Lumetri, and the workflow for grading clips is far more intuitive.
Would love to see a video about actual camera movements while in the field.
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I followed some advices from Peter Mckinon like use smooth navigation in the timeline. I also use a lot of keyboard shortcuts (mostly ripple delete) for my videos as well. Thanks for sharing, great content!
How did I not know about the master clip....... Damn... I set super easy shortcuts for making a clip split at my playhead(I have mine set to "enter") and then another to ripple delete my selection(control+enter) that way I can super easily make cuts and delete anything I don't want in between. Works especially great for when I'm editing talking head bits(I say 'um' and 'alright' a lot😂) Eager to try some of these tips out!
very cool tips! I have to try this interpret footage thing next time. The last one I do similar, but i dont nest the clip, i dublicate it on the timeline and drag it up on the last layer, which is not visable. i set this layer up when i start the edit so i dont have to nest the clips everytime and dub it there. that saves some time too. just click the clip with alt and drag it up, now u can pre-compose in AE too :) thank you for your tips aidin! helped me a lot! greetings from germany. :)
9:02 Gonna destroy this clip😂 The *shuttle slow right* comes in handy when trying to speed up the timeline. (interviews😂) tapping shuttle slow right multiple times will speed up the play-head. while pausing and playing the video will take it back to normal speed. the inverse applies to Shuttle slow left setting shortcut (R)-> Shuttle slow right (E)->Shuttle slow left makes it easier (to me) than the defualt "shift +j" "shift +l".
That SELECTS sequence idea is genius. It's going to make editing so much more efficient. Thanks Aidin!
You can alt click a marker to split it to cover an area of the timeline also!
What! We're all learning something new out here haha
@@AidinRobbins Yes Aidin hold down the For Mac Ox command key for alternative windows to split the marker to mark a specific area
Awesome
When editing an interview for a doc, I’ll go through it and choose all the good parts and chop those and raise them to the channel above. Now I have a selects timeline, and an interview timeline. Then I start piecing together the interview in the correct order on a main timeline and add broll over it. I have a selects timeline, interview timeline with good bits raised, and a main timeline. Very helpful.
That cinematic sequence was 🔥🔥
Thanks man!
Editing effects to the "master clip" was SUPER helpful👏👏 you just saved me so much time in my editing 🥲 THANK YOU!!
Hi Aidin! Useful video 👍 For my next edit i’ll try to do the 2 sequences tip. I always do:
1. WATCH all footage.
2. SELCT-IMPORT the clips to cut (I was two entire weeks doing this on my last trip to Australia).
3. INTERPRET the 120fps and 60fps clips.
4. PROXIES.
5. Add SONG (song guides the edit).
6. Do the SELECTS and put them on the timeline (but not all selects because I do one timeline, so I do the selects as I go through the editing).
7. Do the mountage of clips (I try to be inspired🤞not crazy transitions, I use movement and speed ramping with cuts).
8. SOUND EFFECTS.
9. COLOR correction.
Same here, exept I put the song after ; I choose it based on the video rythm, to rythm it up a little bit
Depends of your format of course
You have helped me SO much! Thank you for not advertising a bunch of products before giving me that workflow fire! I appreciate you.
Haha glad this was helpful!
That first Broll tho ... love it !
Super helpful tips. Isolation has given me time to finally teach myself premier pro!! Will be trying some of these tips this week
The intro sequence was 🔥👌 Sooo good!!! Still have to watch the rest now 😉
Great tips overall. Once my timelines became more detailed, labeling the clips with (many) different colors was a lifesaver
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That tip to use the master clip is truly amazing. I always used to do this by messing around with adjustment layers to create a similar process. But this gets annoying really fast when you have to cut between lots of different footage. Thanks a lot man!
One trick I use a lot personally, is to put all the footage I'm about to edit on my SSD temporarily. Premiere edits much more smoothly off an SSD because of the faster read times and speeds. After I'm done editing, I'll place the footage back on my HDD. (because I don't have lots of SSD storage) Saves a ton of time, and even eliminates the need for proxies for me a lot of times.
Some of these tips are so simple yet completely game changing, like the double timeline thing.... wut.... Definitely gonna adopt a few of these techniques!! Thanks!
Glad you learned something!
Wow this was one of your best and most helpful tutorials yet! Lots of super useful information and very relevant tips. Definitely gonna be referring back to this many times!
Thanks dude! Glad it was helpful 👊
Great tips there! One thing I like to do when I'm editing a video with multiple video interviews is to create a sequence for each speaker and as I go through the clip, I cut and raise the ones I think I might need to the Video layer 2. Once I I have done this with all the interviews, I go and do a second pass and raise the ones from Video layer 2 to 3. I then create a "Main Interview" sequence where I bring all of the ones on Video Layer 3 and play around with them in the edit. Nice way to quickly find soundbites.
Organising my files before editing was a huge game changer for me.I know it sound pretty boring but it makes your life so much easier on post. Other thing which I think is so important is just catch the flow. Be present and don't think on other things but on the story that you want to tell.When you're in that creative flow it's amazing how many creative thoghts appear from nothing.
Great video Aidin as always!🔥
Great Tutorial - the idea of using double Timelines sounds like a lifesaver for me and am certainly going to mark the music before starting to edit anthing in future. Very helpful, thank you.
Many techniques I already use and many that I don't yet and I will definitely take into consideration. Thanks Aidin!
There's a lot of thing I've learned from this video, use the sequence wisely, use the marker, use the snap tool, shortcut (I, o, a, b, p, +, shift+ etc... Thanks a lot brother
Great tips! Another tip with markers is you can use them on your audio to cut your videos in time with the music (for the cinematic parts) 🙌🏻
Yes!!! Very helpful when also marking an action on a clip and lining it up with the marker on the audio.
Using bins help me a lot. Especially with different cameras or different days. I typically have bins for each day and another bin for sound design.
I make every shortcut needed on the left side of the keyboard so i can keep my right hand always on the mouse ! I feel like it's more comfortable for me.
Dude! The master color option just SAVED ME
Aidin's thumbnail game is so strong! Really enjoyed the video man, I really learned a lot
Thank you! Glad you learned something new!
A lot of golden nuggets in this vid! Thanks!
My favourite purchase is my Razer Naga Chroma (latest one is called Trinity) and basically going into the software and changing all the buttons as keyboard shortcuts for Premiere Pro.
Zooming in and out of a timeline, ctrl+K for cut, X for select clip, apostrophe for delete selected clip. I have one for Effects controls, one for select speed of a clip.
It's all so useful and comes up all the time!
Great tips..putting effects on the master is a master tip & it has changed the flow of my edits
Thanks for the great tips! One super helpful tip I learned from That Icelandic Guy was how to remove the audio pops with one keyboard shortcut for the whole project.
*That beginning edit sequence instantly made me SMASH that like* 😁
I use davinci resolve 16 but still watched the whole video and I must say most of this tips also work on davinci thanks for this amazing tips 🔥
Always a good day when you upload, Aidin! That editing B Roll was insane! I'm not a Premiere user anymore, but these ideas can definitely be applied to my workflow in Davinci Resolve. 🤙
Glad you enjoyed dude! For sure, most of these should be adaptable to other programs as well!
Great video! Came up on my recommendations. Subscribed.
As an editor, I use bins a lot, I hate working with another editor to see a messy timeline or project folder. Bins allows me to show broll, main clips, audio, transition sounds, etc.
Also exporting as a .aaf and bringing it into davinci resolve for colour grading.
Great work and explained very well Aidin......
you change my life man thanks
Great video!!
Thank you!
Blowing my mind.
Thank you Aidin, these are some great tips. Much appreciated.
Glad you learned something!
i began to take editing seriously from the lockdown beginings only, im a slow learner, and at first premiere seemed really confusing to me(even tho many consider it to the easier compared to other editing softwares) but now im begining to kinda enjoy the tough desicion making process of making choices between the clips.
Im gonna rock the SELECTS seq! thanks
You are a hero - most of this is common sense stuff that I don't do
Proxy has help me th most so far. Wow, I didn't even think of the other things you mention that could help me speed up my editing process. I will implement your excellent advice as soon as possible. Thank you!
Cheers Aidin! I’ve been on an uploading spree since the lockdown haha. I’ll take your advice for future projects 🙌🏽
Hell yeah, glad I could help out!
These tips were actually really good. I'm sure a lot of us knew a good bit of this but there are some things that I'm excited about trying. I haven't used a selects time line. I'll try that. And I've been using nested sequences but haven't been using them as a muted back up, so I'll give that a go for sure. Awesome video. Thanks for making it. 👍
Glad you learned something new!
Golden tips!!! 👏👏
I still struggle to make selections of my footage (learning to let it go haha). Other subject not related: I loved an "old" video of yours, outside showing "how to" do some shots and manage problems in the field. I'd like to see some more in the future 😊 Thanks for sharing! I always learn something new here. Kind regards!
Wow, this video is so accurate
I've come to a similar process in about 4 years of edditing
I've just added 1 more thing in the select process ; I have multiple categories on the select timeline : Gold, Better, Nice depending on the clip quality and video purpose
In this way I know which clip using first and which clips use for filling or others
Thanks Aidin for short tips, I am Harmoelchannel from Bali-Indonesia
FilmSensei (YT) was right when he said you were a rising star a few years back. Would be cool to have you on his Livecast too. I like your select timeline combined with making composition shots beforehand in order to speed up my editing process. Thanks for the tips!
Wow dude thanks for this video, it's very useful!
Good video and great channel. Question: Is there an advantage to using a Selects Timeline over cutting down your clips and putting them in bins? The advantages I see in bins are 1) It shows you which clips have already been placed on a timeline, and 2) You can organize your select clips into different bins.
multiple timelines was major for me
Thanks Aidin.
This tutorial helps me a lot! I've been suffering from the clips all day long and I'll try your techniques in my projects. Thanks a lot Aidin! BTW the intro cinematic is on fireee :P
Thanks dude! Glad this can help out with those long edit days haha
making my own keyboard shortcuts and obviously select timeline and interpret footage,,, one of the most important though keeping the sequence neat and making Bins,, actually i have one more don't trust premiere keep saving project,,,
Btw this video is so good bro❤❤
I love this channel dude!
This is SO helpful thank you! Picked up some great tips that are going to speed up my workflow. :)
Amped to hear that!
awesome tips bud! Nice work.
Can you do a video on how you organize your ideas on paper? How do you structure it and how you apply afterwards? (or maybe just show us some of your notes!)
just what i needed
great stuff. Absolutely fantastic
Thank you!
GREAT TIPS
WOW! I have never seen a video that helped me this much for years!😍🙏 Thank u Aiden! Keep up the great work
Hell yeah, so glad to hear it! Appreciate the support!
Excellent advice! Thanks 😉
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank You, Great Tips.. 👏👏😊🙌
thanks Aidin
Great Tips 👍 thanks man.
Hey man. Today I become a new subscriber here.
I had one thing about speed up- You placing markers and text overlays as a note for parts of timelines.
You could hold alt- press on markers and make them long-markers and put text (like name\description)/
After- you could press the "wrench" button !Near program monitor! and chose, i don't remember the name of that thing- "show overlays" or something with overlays. So, when you done that stuff- you will see the names of markers on the program monitor. I use that instead of creating text on timeline.
Great video ! Thank you a lot !!
Thanks a lot dude!
Love it! My tip is just to organise your footage before you start, simple but effective
100%!
It's interesting that I was just editing something in Premiere before I decided to take a UA-cam break and I ACCIDENTLY discovered how to make notes on my markers by double-clicking on them just like you did at 1:35. I thought "Oohh how useful! Now I won't forget what I made a marker there for when I'm comping. :P
Thanks so much for this video.
Thanks for watching it!
4:15 yes if i nest a reverse clip and want to make it slower it looks choppy asf, great tips man couldn't find any solution for that so grateful to have this video in here
6:57 sick this is golden.
1. Use notes
2. Use markers
3. Interpret slowmotion clips to desired framerate
Create proxies
4. Use 2 separate sequencies
5. Color grade MASTER tab to apply on to whole clip, not just individual cut
6. Use nested audio, or nested video to not fuxk up your clips
7. Batch the process
X. Watch tutorials to prevent your hair loss and time loss (this is my bonus :) )
Here you have it dude 👍
14k views!?! wtf youtube... The editing and tips were amazing.
Thanks for your videos and channel! You've got a new subscriber!
Very helpful tips Aidin, you should do an updated video on your colour grading workflow :)
Maybe soon!
Keep the good work up man I love the videos
Glad to hear it! 🙌
Brilliant!!! Wish I had your talent
An excellent and informative video Aidin. I do keep thinking about switching to da Vinci but the just looks mega complicated. Thanks
Sooo dope
Really cool Aidin 👏 i edit with edius from grass valley, but i think it is similar 😉👍🏻 thanks for the good and useful tipps 👌 best cinematic greetings from a small 😉 german filmmaker 🇩🇪
1. Good writing ideas structure pacing, transitions
2. Use markers between 2 shots
3. Interpret to 24 fps proxy preview
4. Use select timeline
5. Effects master clip switch to master
6. Nested sequences
7. Batch editing process
Thanks !
Maaan you are underrated!! Good job. Would love to see a video on the premiere pro and after effects workflow. Stay safe bro
Appreciate the support!
It feels like you're one of the developers of these softwares hahahaha. I thought I knew some decent amount but you keep suprising me with your knowledge. That's really good, it helps you be more efficient when doing post work.
Huge tips. You just saved me hours of work.
Sickkk, so glad to hear it bro!
I make short cuts for everything like ( nest, adjustment layer, transitions, audio gain...
Thanks😀😀
good video, help very mucho bro
I like your advice, I'll try it in my videos. Thank you...
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Straight game changer with the colour grading *master* just spent 10 minutes colour grading A-roll to a ~30 minute interview, this process used to take at least an hour :'(
Glad I could help! It's a time saver for sure!
Out of personal choice, I wouldn't use the master tab for grading. If I want sightly different grades on the same sequence, it would be much harder to go about that. I prefer using adjustment layers and copying over the right clips where appropriate. However, the better choice in my opinion would be to grade entirely in Resolve - the colour workspace in there makes me wonder how I ever used Lumetri, and the workflow for grading clips is far more intuitive.
Would love to see a video about actual camera movements while in the field.
I followed some advices from Peter
Mckinon like use smooth navigation in the timeline. I also use a lot of keyboard shortcuts (mostly ripple delete) for my videos as well.
Thanks for sharing, great content!
How did I not know about the master clip....... Damn...
I set super easy shortcuts for making a clip split at my playhead(I have mine set to "enter") and then another to ripple delete my selection(control+enter) that way I can super easily make cuts and delete anything I don't want in between. Works especially great for when I'm editing talking head bits(I say 'um' and 'alright' a lot😂)
Eager to try some of these tips out!
Efficient keyboard shortcuts for talking head shots are KEY
dope intro man!
very cool tips! I have to try this interpret footage thing next time. The last one I do similar, but i dont nest the clip, i dublicate it on the timeline and drag it up on the last layer, which is not visable. i set this layer up when i start the edit so i dont have to nest the clips everytime and dub it there. that saves some time too. just click the clip with alt and drag it up, now u can pre-compose in AE too :) thank you for your tips aidin! helped me a lot! greetings from germany. :)
9:02 Gonna destroy this clip😂
The *shuttle slow right* comes in handy when trying to speed up the timeline. (interviews😂)
tapping shuttle slow right multiple times will speed up the play-head. while pausing and playing the video will take it back to normal speed. the inverse applies to Shuttle slow left
setting shortcut (R)-> Shuttle slow right (E)->Shuttle slow left makes it easier (to me) than the defualt "shift +j" "shift +l".
fire content as always
Thanks dude!
really really nice video here :)