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MediaStorm Guide to Selecting Clips in Premiere Pro Without a Mouse

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:November 18, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Last week, a friend asked if there was a way in Premiere Pro to select more than one track at a time using only the keyboard. The answer is yes. The keyboard shortcut D will select all clips under the playhead, so long as the respective tracks are highlighted. In the example below, you’ll see that Video 3 is not highlighted, so when I press D, clips on that track are not selected. If you’d like the ability to toggle your audio and video tracks on and off without using the mouse, you can create a custom keyboard shortcut key for each. Open the Keyboard Shortcut window (Option-Command-K)…

MediaStorm Guide to Adjusting Output Volume in Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:November 12, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers’ experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post.

Let’s say you’ve mixed your audio and for whatever reason it’s consistently a little too low or a bit hot. Sure, you could return to your timeline and remix again, but that’s time consuming.

Premiere Pro 2014 offers a quick and elegant solution.

First, open the Audio Track Mixer. (Note that this is different from the Audio Clip Mixer.)

Open the disclosure triangle on the top left side.

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MediaStorm Guide to Automatic File Renaming with Mac Yosemite (10.10)

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:October 27, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers’ experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post.

The new free release of the Mac operating system, Yosemite (10.10) offers an easy way to automate file renaming straight from the Finder.

Previously, you needed to write an Automator script or purchase an additional application.

To begin, simply right-click the Finder files you’d like to rename and then select Rename [x] Items… from the contextual menu. X represents the number of files you have selected.

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MediaStorm Guide to Premiere Pro Search Bins

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:October 16, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers’ experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post.

A great new feature in the most recent update to Premiere Pro (2014.1) is the ability to create search bins.

Search bins act like smart folders, allowing you to filter your assets for specific criterion. This is enormously helpful for locating similar items that are otherwise scattered across your project.

There are three ways to create a smart bin:

Click the search bin icon at the top of a Project Window

Right-Click in the Project window and select New Search Bin…

Select the menu File > Search Bin

You will then be presented with the Edit Search Bin window where you can enter your search criterion.
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Talkin’ Rough Cut Blues

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:October 7, 2014

Currently, I’m smack in the middle of a long and complex rough cut. And that fills me with unease. I struggle to embrace the uncertainty of it all, even though I’ve been here before, literally a hundred times. This is what I tell myself: A rough cut is a sketch. It’s an early attempt to conceive the future. As such, it's clunky, inelegant and mechanical. The weakness of a rough cut is perhaps most evident in scene transitions: how you connect one section to the next. If you’re like me, you feel a great urge to immediately fix these problems. One could spend hours trying to make them seamless. God knows, I want to. Intellectually, I know that there’s no need to finesse these details when soon I'll be rearranging whole sections. Or even deleting them altogether. It’s more important at this stage to just keep moving. Emotionally, it’s much harder to…