Notes
Notes
Uses of Text
If you are creating a video project that includes text, using Adobe Premiere Pro text effects can
give your project a more professional and exciting look. Text effects can be used to opening
titles, on-screen dialogue, ending credits, and lower thirds.
To add text, navigate to Window > Essential Graphics. Use the Text Tool (T) to type your text.
This will be one layer of your text effects project. You can select the Text layer in the Edit tab to
view its properties.
Adobe Premiere Pro comes with some pre-animated text templates within the Essential Graphics
panel. Navigate to Graphics > Essential Graphics to browse through the templates. Once you find
one you like, drag it to the timeline where you want it to appear.
Within the Effects Controls panel, you can center the text with the Align and Transform tools,
change the font using the Text tool, and adjust the color or add a drop shadow with the
Appearance tool.
Uses of Text :Text Reveal
A text reveal hides your text under an object, like a wall as it gradually appears.
Import your video footage and add it to your timeline.
Use the Type Tool to type the words you want to appear over your clip.
Use the Selection Tool to place your text where you want it.
On the timeline, match the length of the text layer to match the video clip.
Select the video footage on the timeline, hold down Alt or Option, and drag the clip to the
V3 track to create a duplicate.
Navigate to the Effect Controls window, open the Opacity tool, and select the Free Draw
Bezier Tool that looks like a pen.
In the Program window, draw a rectangle around your text.
At the bottom of the Program window, adjust the Fit to 100% to get a better view of your
work.
In the Effect Controls window, choose the Mask feature, and adjust the Mask Feather
value to match the sharpness of the border you’re creating to the background.
With the duplicate clip selected, click on Mask Path in the Effect Controls window. This
will show you the mask you created.
Click on the stopwatch button next to Mask Path to create your first keyframe.
Press the right arrow key on the keyboard 5 times. This will move the clip 5 frames
forward. Adjust the mask position to line up with your reference edge. This will add
another keyframe. Repeat this process until you reach the end of the clip.
When played back, your text should gradually appear across the footage.
Each Audio Track Mixer track corresponds to a track in the timeline of the active sequence
and displays the Timeline audio tracks in an audio console layout.
The Audio Track Mixer contains a certain number of audio track sliders that directly correspond
to the number of audio tracks available in the Timeline. When you add a new audio track to the
Timeline, a new track is created in the Audio Track Mixer. You can rename a track by clicking
its name. You can also use the Audio Track Mixer to record audio directly into a sequence’s
tracks.
The Audio Track Mixer represents the tracks in the active sequence only, not all project-wide
tracks. If you want to create a master project mix from multiple sequences, set up a master
sequence and nest other sequences within it.
The Audio Track Mixer is hidden by default in most Premiere Pro workspaces. To open the
Audio workspace, click Windows > Audio Track Mixer.
Transition
A transition is an effect added between pieces of media to create an animated link between
them. Transitions are used to move a scene from one shot to the next. Premiere Pro provides a
list of transitions that you can apply to a sequence. A transition can be a subtle crossfade or a
stylized effect.
Stabilize a clip
Step 1: Import your media.
Bring the video clips you want to stabilise into Premiere Pro. You can do this in one of three
ways:
Select File › Import from Media Browser.
Right-click the file in the Media Browser and select Import.
Drag the file from the Media Browser into the Project panel or drag the file from the
Media Browser into a timeline.
If you already have an existing sequence, drag the clip you want to stabilise into the Timeline. If
not, right-click and select New Sequence from Clip.
Step 2: To maintain good performance, split your clip into the smallest working area.
Warp Stabilizer is a memory-intensive and time-consuming operation. While it lets you continue
working in Premiere Pro during processing, it will be a little slower. Once Warp Stabilizer
completes the stabilising stage, Premiere Pro returns to the normal state. To help with this, first
identify the shaky portion of the footage and then split the clip to isolate those shaky parts. Then,
run Warp Stabilizer only on those shortened clips.
To split clips, move the playhead to the points in the tracks where you want to make a split.
Make sure the channels you want to split are highlighted. If you want to split the audio with the
video, make sure the audio track is highlighted too. Splitting and moving the video without the
audio may cause your audio to go out of sync elsewhere.
1. Select the ‘Effects’ tab and select ‘Audio effects’. Search for ‘Denoiser’. Unsurprisingly
this reduces background noise.
2. Drag the effect to your clip in the timeline.
3. Under the ‘Effect Controls’ tab click ‘Edit’, under custom setup for ‘Denoiser’. Don’t be
afraid to tweak the values here, but I’d suggest starting with a ‘Reduction’ of -17db and
an ‘Offset’ of 10.
4. The ‘Lowpass’ effect can also be useful. Search for and drag the effect to the clip as we
did with Denoiser. Then click edit. I’d start with a cutoff of 200hz, but again, you need to
find the right settings for your audio.
2) Reverb
When you talk in a large room and your voice echoes slightly? That’s reverb, or reverberation.
The Reverb effect can be great for conveying a sense of space, either to reinforce a visual or to
subtly hint at something that wasn’t in the shot.
1. Select the ‘Effects’ tab and select ‘Audio effects’. Search for ‘Reverb’.
2. Drag this to your clip in the timeline.
3. Under the ‘Effect Controls’ tab, to the right of ‘Reverb’ is a preset button. You’ll find
options like small room, large room, and church.
4. If you want more control click edit and / or adjust your ‘Individual Parameters’.
A useful tip is to watch the Individual Parameters change when you select a new preset. This
gives you a feel for how those changes sound in practice, and how the parameters combine. Also,
don’t overdo a Reverb. A subtle effect is often best.
3) The Equaliser
Bassy audio getting you down? Large variation in the audio quality or balance between separate
tracks? We can sort that out quickly and easily with the Equaliser or EQ effect.
1. You know the drill by now. Select the ‘Effects’ tab and select ‘Audio effects’. Search for
‘EQ’.
2. Drag the effect to your clip in the timeline.
3. Under the ‘Effect Controls’ tab, to the right of ‘EQ’ is a preset button with options like
Bass enhance, warm presence, high enhance and loudness.
4. If you want more granular control click ‘Edit’ and you’ll get a pop up box with an audio
wave and adjusters for the different frequencies. The wave will be a straight line by
default, but as you adjust the different frequencies, or select different presets, you’ll see
the line shift to reflect your changes. So if you emphasise the bass, for example, the left-
hand side of the line moves up.
After setting up the microphone and adjusting the preferences, you can specify where your audio
will record to on your drive. To do this, go to Project Settings > Scratch Disks. Then go
to Captured Audio and select where you would like these audio VO files to record, whether you
want them to save in the same area as the project, your documents folder, or a custom
location. In the above example, I leave them in the default path. Notice that there’s a subfolder
created with the title Adobe Premiere Pro Captured Audio.
You can
find a voice-over record button in your audio track header area. If you don’t see
it, right/control click on the header and select Reset Layout. Make sure you select the correct
track when pressing the record button. If you simply press the voice over record button, the
recording will start from the current playhead position.
You can select In and Out points on your timeline to control the duration of the the recording.
Remember to rename your files each time you record a new voice over, otherwise it will
revert to the last name you typed in with a simple number on it.