Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the premier video editing programs for professionals, featured as part of Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications and used to produce many Hollywood films.
Adobe has designed this program specifically with professional video editors in mind, offering several features not found elsewhere.
Editing
Premiere Pro is an advanced video editing program with an expansive library of features designed to increase content creators’ capabilities in digital video production, such as creating high-quality video for Youtube, social media platforms and broadcast media platforms.
This program features various editing modes that make working with clips and scenes simple, transitions and effects as well as an efficient media browser to make finding files and folders effortless – even complex folder structures such as P2 or XDCAM media can be simplified with this powerful media manager!
Auto Reframing is another incredible feature offered by Adobe Sensei that makes video editing simpler: this technology automatically analyzes a video clip and determines whether it should be square, vertical, or full screen reframed – saving marketers valuable time from manually reframing clips themselves.
Import and export sequences easily using this program. Clips can be added quickly through various means – drag-and-drop in the source monitor or overwrite/insert buttons in preview monitor, for instance – as well as editing shortcuts like marker in/out, moving frame by frame, lift/extract.
Premiere Pro is an advanced software suite from Adobe that integrates seamlessly with other products like After Effects and Audition. It boasts many useful features like Dynamic Link for smoother workflows and seamless project transfers between Encore and After Effects; additionally, Premiere Pro can support a wide variety of file formats like H.264/HEVC/MOV files.
Color grading
Color Grading is one of the core components of video editing, helping you shape the final look and mood of your video, often subtly conveying important messages to viewers. Color Grading is an artful practice which often requires experimentation to find just the right look for each project.
Adobe Premiere Pro offers many tools for color grading and correction in its Lumetri Color panel. These include basic correction controls such as temperature, tint, exposure, highlights/shadows contrast saturation white balance. Furthermore, advanced tools like curves, color wheels and slider arrangements provide advanced tools for fine-tuning colors.
The Look-Up Table (LUT) Window allows you to import presets that instantly change the colors of clips. These presets typically emulate certain looks or techniques such as film stock or photography styles – plus there is a vast array of free LUTs online!
The Scopes panel is another tool designed to show analyses of luma and chroma as waveforms, making adjustments easier as you go. By using it you can evaluate changes as they’re made; using it may even help avoid mistakes that could compromise the quality of your finished product, such as under or overexposure, while it may even help correct specific areas within a clip – which comes in especially handy when trying to match shots captured using various camera settings.
Audio
Adobe has taken steps to meet the sound syncing needs of video editors by developing time-saving features for sound syncing. One such time saver is its fast way of merging on-camera audio with high-quality off-camera sound that you recorded simultaneously using boom mic. Also helpful is creating track-based submixes (like audio buses in DAWs) with individual tracks being routed directly into effects for individual tracks, which allows video editors to remove unwanted room noise by routing these tracks directly through effects — an effective solution when trying to clear up unwanted room noise for instance!
Premiere Pro’s Essential Sound panel contains many tools for optimizing audio clarity and enhancement, such as de-essers, filters, noise reduction or noise suppression features to remove any unnecessary sounds from clips.
There are also handy tools available for editing audio on a clip or track level, such as tools that enable volume adjustments for individual clips or all tracks in sequence. Furthermore, you can mute or solo individual tracks or change the track format (which determines how many channels make up an audio signal).
Premiere Pro’s audio features are powerful enough for professional-level sound productions, from adding effects across stereo or 5.1 surround audio clips in stereo mode or surround mode, including changing left/right channel balances. Furthermore, changing track formats within Sequences automatically updates existing clips that match that track type type.
Transitions and effects
Add video transitions to your edit for visual interest and build to an emotional climax in your clip, giving viewers a sense of movement from scene to scene. However, be mindful not to overdo it as too many transitions could distract viewers from paying attention to your content.
Premiere Pro offers an impressive variety of audio and video transitions that allow you to create unique effects for your videos. They can be found in the Effects panel under Audio Transitions and Video Transitions; default transitions include cross-dissolves and dip to black effects; however there are numerous others as well.
Some transitions also feature an adjustable border that you can alter in the Effects Control panel, including changing its color and width as well as lengthening or shortening its duration.
Premiere Pro makes it easy to copy and paste transitions between clips in your Timeline by offering this functionality via Edit > Copy in the Effects panel or Ctrl+C (Win)/Cmd+C (macOS). When copying, Premiere Pro copies the default transition settings to edit points on clips that share similar properties (such as video transitions with video tracks and audio transitions with audio tracks). However, only certain transition types ( video to video tracks or audio transitions with audio tracks ) can be copied between clips in this manner: video transitions must match up; audio transitions cannot be copied across.
Touch-friendly interface
Adobe Premiere Pro is an ideal way for beginners to video editing to learn their craft. While its learning curve may seem steep at first, Adobe provides detailed tutorials and a vibrant online community to assist users. Furthermore, this program supports multiple operating systems so users can work across desktop computers. Furthermore, its features help support multi-project workflows, media management, and search options – perfect for newcomers!
Adobe offers a new user interface that’s optimized for touch and trackpad operation, with larger bin thumbnail controls that make scrubbing through and setting in/out points simpler as well as expanded multitouch gestures and customizable workspace bars to easily switch between tools. Furthermore, they have unveiled the Lumetri color panel to support HDR work as well as profiles for Arri Raw and Dolby Vision profiles.
Additionally, this program supports numerous professional video formats, such as Apple ProRes and RED RAW, as well as third-party VSP plug-ins. Furthermore, advanced text tools enable you to easily create unique styles and layouts; additionally, its spell checker automatically checks spelling in multiple languages.
This program makes adding subtitles or captions easy with just the click of a button, using machine learning technology to transcribe audio files into text. This feature makes videos more accessible to people with hearing disabilities while expanding audience reach; additionally it can add visual appeal by animating titles and illustrations directly onto clips.
Subtitles and captions
Subtitles and captions help your video reach more viewers and ensure they understand it, making their addition easy with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Assuming your timeline contains all of the footage that needs to be subtitled or captioned, navigate to the Captions panel and click the + icon. Premiere will create a small clip in your sequence in your caption track which corresponds with its timing in real-time – you just type your words here before moving the playhead around until your text matches up with dialogue in real-time.
Once you’ve created all of your caption segments, once in the Essential Graphics panel you can create a Track Style which applies to all of them in sequence – saving both time and helping maintain consistency across caption tracks. This saves valuable production time.
When ready to export, select your caption file format (we suggest CEA-608 or CC1) from the Captions tab of the Settings panel. Alternatively, you may choose whether to integrate captions directly into your video (Quicktime file), create a sidecar file with captions attached separately or leave them out completely from your final output.
Titles allows you to access and customize text options such as fonts, styles, colors, positions and more in an easy and accessible interface. Premiere supports many fonts as well as providing control for kerning, leading, crawling texture opacity among many other settings.
