Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music

2h 7mIntermediate2014-11-19

Authors

Abba Shapiro

Adobe Consultant and award-winning Writer/Producer/Director

Course details

Cutting stills and video with music is an essential skill for any editor. So join Premiere Pro guru Abba Shapiro in this course, as he shows how to cut a music-based slideshow (still images with music) and cut a music montage (video clips with music) in Premiere Pro CC. Learn how to read an audio waveform, place markers on beats, and fine-tune the timing of your cuts. The course also introduces several workflows to reduce the time it takes to create a music-based edit.

Learning objectives
Changing the duration of the music with editing
Placing markers
Cutting to the beat vs. cutting with the beat
Preparing images for import
Adjusting image size
Editing to markers
Trimming sound bites
Adding effects
Mixing audio levels
Retiming music
Changing pitch and key

Skills covered

Shooting VideoPremiere ProVideo EditingVideoLimited SeriesAdobe

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Essential Skills for Cutting to Music

03 - Optimizing audio files for import
04 - Viewing and reading a waveform
05 - Prepping your music bed
06 - How to change the duration of music with editing
07 - Placing markers on the beat
08 - Cutting to the beat vs. cutting with the beat
09 - Locking and sync-locking audio

2. Creating Music-Based Slideshows

10 - Preparing your images for import
11 - Importing and organizing images for the edit
12 - Editing to markers
13 - Editing with the Automate to Sequence command
14 - Adjusting the size of images
15 - Adding movement to images, with keyframes

3. Refining Your Cut

16 - Replacing images in the Timeline
17 - Changing clip order
18 - Refining edit timing
19 - Adding transitions

4. Editing a Musical Montage

20 - Determining the tempo of the music and the strategy for the edit
21 - Quick-cut editing
22 - Timing action - Slip edits
23 - Targeting action - Match frame
24 - Quick trimming techniques
25 - Adding and trimming sound bites
26 - Using effects to add sizzle

5. Mixing Music and Primary Audio

27 - Planning your mix
28 - Mixing levels with track automation
29 - Using keyframes and the Pen tool to mix

6. Enhancing Music

30 - Using an EQ effect to enhance music
31 - Retiming music with Premiere Pro
32 - Retiming music with Audition
33 - Using other effects in Audition
34 - Changing the pitch and key of music with Audition

Conclusion

35 - Next steps