• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Random editing in Premiere CS5.5 ?

  Posted by Nicolas Raspail on October 16, 2012 at 12:15 pm

  Hi all,

  I’m currently working on a promotional teaser for the launch of a clothes brand.
  I have footage taken from multiple cameras and in very different locations.
  I’d like to try the process of random editing – partly inspired by John Cage’s methods of writing music – after having sorted the rushes. I’d then take out whatever works and build on this base and around it (if it ever gives concluding outputs).

  Do you have any idea how this could be achieved ?
  I’ve been searching around the web and I didn’t find anything.
  I was thinking about scripting my way through it, but it seems even PP CS6 doesn’t have that feature yet.
  Or I could maybe use a plugin in AE (like Video Copilot’s Twitch) to randomly show/hide the footage with masks, but that’s not pretty at all.

  Any help appreciated.

  Thanks in advance,

  Nicolas.

  Tero Ahlfors replied 13 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Gabriel Sanchez

  October 16, 2012 at 8:04 pm

  When i have different kinds of footage and want to make a very quickly edit job, i do it in multicamera mode, it´s not exactly a random edit but a “kind of”, and it won´t take you so much time to have something “edible” if you make the edits according to music beats.

  Regards
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  Tero Ahlfors

  October 17, 2012 at 4:00 am

  Just hover scrub and put random in/out points in the clips and automate it to the sequence.
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  Nicolas Raspail

  October 17, 2012 at 9:11 am

  @Gabriel : Thanks, that’s what I was thinking of doing as a second option.

  @Tero : What do you mean by “automate it to the sequence”, please ?

  Thank you for your answers.

  Cheers,

  Nicolas.
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  Gabriel Sanchez

  October 17, 2012 at 9:58 am

  I´m going to respond him if you allow me, Teros: automate to sequence is an option to place in the timeline several clips at a time. You can do it by clicking in the “Automate to sequence” button, the third from the lower left in the proyect pannel if i remember correctly. You can place the clips secuentially in the timeline by his order in the bin or by selection order, you can use preset transitions or not, and they can be placed in previous timeline markers as well, all at one time.
  But as Teros said, you need to mark in and outs previuously in all the clips, and you have to choose an order to place them, so perhaps it´s more time consuming and not so ramdomly as you wanted. The multicamera option needs more hardware performance as it uses 4 video tracks at a time, and if your footage is AVCHD it could be jerky, but with a good machine it will be easy and very quick.

  Regards
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  Nicolas Raspail

  October 17, 2012 at 10:17 am

  Thanks for the quick reply !

  I’ll check both methods out.

  Thank you guys.

  Nicolas.
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  Tero Ahlfors

  October 18, 2012 at 6:55 am

  I forgot you don’t have the hover scrub feature in CS 5.5… But yes you can automate clips from the project bin like Gabriel said before.

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