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One of my personal heroes is Steve Prefontaine. An American middle and
long-distance runner who tragically died at age 24.
He once said something like "somebody can beat me
but they are going to have to
bleed to do it".
When I edit YouTube videos I want to be like Steve.
I wanna be as efficient as it gets. in fact I have a five step formula that I use all the time.
If you're video creator of any kind you know that looking into the lens it's not
easy to speak as fluently as in front of your dog, or cat, or horse. you get the point.
And either you're a youtuber, film editor, or anyone who has to deal with
editing talking heads, you know what I'm talking about.
Recently, I've had a chat with Michelle from the channel Ride On Cycling.
My goal when working with creators is to make them run in their editing software
as fast as Steve Prefontaine. if that's your first time here my name is Piotr Toczynski.
You can call me Peter. This channel is all about mastering film editing
so you can craft stories that resonate with your audience. Stories that can
eventually make a difference in their life. So without further ado, let's get to
the juicy part. Everything we'll talk about here should be possible in any
editing platform. But since Premiere Pro is the editing software of my choice
that's what we'll use for our example.
The whole process is based on four
shortcuts and on duplicating sequences. The first step is to create a sequence with
all your talking head footage. It's best to shoot in chronological, structured
order so you don't need to reorder anything here for now. make sure you
synchronize your sound before you get to the cutting. Second step is to assign two
custom shortcuts that will make things fast and easy.
Go to 'Edit', 'Keyboard shortcuts'
and search for 'Add edit to all tracks'.
Ctrl + Shift + K, or command + Shif + K
is not very handy so we need to assign something else that works
better for us. Since we'll be using this shortcut very often it's best to assign
one letter to it. In my case it will be 'D'. So I will delete the shortcut
and add another one which will be 'D'.
Now, there is a warning 'The shortcut D is
already used by another application command select clip at playhead. This
comment will no longer have a shortcut.' Since I'm not using this command very often
I can live without it. Next, we'll search for 'Ripple delete'.
Once again we need to assign something handy in my case it will be a letter 'F'
since I don't use 'Match frame' command very often and I can assign something
else to it. When you're done with these changes make sure you save it as a
keyboard shortcut preset. So click 'save as' and give it a useful name.
This way you'll always be able to go back to Premiere Pro default settings
Pro tip here is synchronizing this keyboard shortcut preset in your Creative Cloud.
To do it go to 'File', choose your Adobe ID and choose 'Sync settings now.'
And here you have the option to upload settings.
Synchronizing settings with Creative Cloud.
If you want to control what's being synchronized, go to 'Edit',
'Preferences' and 'Sync settings'. Here you can choose what do you want to
synchronize. This way you can have the access to your keyboard shortcut presets
from anywhere in the world. for example on Vanuatu island or in Croatia.
I'm going with my wife and my son to Croatia this year. Third step is using four
keyboard shortcuts so you're left only with potentially usable takes. So before I
will show you this process in action, let's focus on separate keyboard shortcuts.
First is 'Q'. It trims the left side of the clip to the playhead
by ripple deleting. The second one is 'W' and it does the same for the right side of
the clip. 'D' adds the Edit point to all tracks where the playhead is at the moment
and last but not least, 'F' will ripple delete selected clip.
Now, to recognize what parts of clip may be usable before we even play the clip
we want to have a look at waveform all the time. Also, we want to have scrubbing
enabled so it's something like this.
We're hearing what's going on by scrubbing the playhead in real time.
If you have scrubbing disabled go to 'Edit', 'Preferences', 'Audio' and check the checkbox
play audio while scrubbing.
Okay, so have a look how this process looks in real time.
Now, there are things you may do during
the recording, to make the process a little easier. First of all record one long
file rather than separate files for each take. At least for me that's much easier
And I will not forget to hit the record button. You can visually mark the good
take in the camera. Usually it will be the last take. There are two ways to do it
First method. Clap your hands after the
good take. It will be visible on audio waveform. The second method
is covering the lens with your hand for a few seconds. Then, when scrubbing the timeline
you will visually see the good take. So, we'll end up with the sequence
that has all potentially usable takes. But we still need to choose the right ones.
And these are steps 4 and 5. I always want to have kind of a history of my
project in one file. That keeps me organized and lets me go back in the
process if I need to. So, before any major change to the timeline, I like to
duplicate the sequence. And that's what we'll do here. Just right-click on
the sequence and choose 'duplicate'. I will call the sequence we've just worked on
'Selects' and duplicated one will be our first 'Rough Cut' since this will be
the sequence with the core of our content. And finally step number 5 which is
choosing the right take. Of course, we'll use a shortcut 'F' to ripple delete unwanted takes.
The last editing tip is to use labels in this workflow. For example,
when you screw up a take or something unexpected happens it can still be
useful if it's especially funny. So to mark any clip that can be useful, even if
it doesn't add up to the content, you can mark it and label it with any color you want.
I use keyboard shortcuts for labeling and I've talked about it in my
video on the topic, so check it out.
Tell me in the comments what do you struggle with
in your editing workflow.
If you've found it useful, I'd love you to hit that
subscribe button and share with your filmmaking friends.
Film friends. Is it the word? Movie friend? It was Peter,
until the next time shoot and edit like there is no tomorrow.
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