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Need CS6 workflow advice on editing short testimonials
I need advice on a Premiere CS6 workflow, I’m coming from FCP7.
I have several short clips of customer testimonials.
Each must be trimmed at the beginning and end to get 10 seconds of the best part, which means that there may be speech just before the in and out points.
I need to edit them in a manner where I can fade between them without mixing the audio before the in/out points.
If I capture a single frame snapshot of the in/out points, and extend this for 12 frames, I’d be able to transition nicely.
However, that’s really a pain. I’m using NeatVideo, and have to render the clips before I can capture the single frame or it will be have artifacts.
And if I need to make a change in length (by customer request), that would mean starting from scratch, and it’s difficult to drag to get just 12 frames.
I’d tried the ‘frame hold’ command, but … it never seems to hold at the out point, only at the in point.
And there doesn’t seem to be a way to extend a freeze frame to the left of the in point and also to the right of the out point using ‘frame hold’ from the instructions I’ve seen.
Is there a workflow where I can rapidly edit this in CS6 – creating freeze frames at the in/out point that can be extended?
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Hit the “camera” icon at the bottom of the Program Monitor or Source Monitor to grab a frame you want, save it (whatever format you prefer), and then import it and use it as a source. You can make it as long or short as you need.
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Jim – that’s what I’d done, but I was hoping for a faster more flexible workflow.
What if I could copy and paste the clip back into the timeline twice. Once for the 12 frame freeze at the beginning, and once for the freeze at the end.
I’d only need to get the ‘frame hold’ command to work at the out point – which I cannot figure how to accomplish for some reason as it always holds at the ‘in’ point of the clip no matter which option (in or out) that I choose?
Any idea on why I’m having such a problem with a hold on the out point?
And is there a simple way to extend a clip by exactly x number of frames (or if I get my idea above working, to quickly set the length to x number of frames)?
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Copy the clip. Right click, frame hold out, right click, speed/duration, set duration.
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Paul – unfortunately, when you change the duration of the clip like that, it changes the out point.
I even tried reversing the clip (to hopefully make the out point the in point), and CS6 insists on keeping the out point before the clip was reversed.
I can however, drag from the left side to shorten the clip without changing the out point. But, as there’s no visible indication (maybe I’m missing it) of the clip length, it’s a bit of a pain to trim to an exact number of frames.
For changing a freeze frame clip that begins at the in point, your technique works perfectly.
Using you suggestion of a copy (for in and out) saves the hassle of making a subClip!!! I’d thought that a copy when changed, would change the in/out of the original (glad I was mistaken).
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Paul – unfortunately, when you change the duration of the clip like that, it changes the out point.
I even tried reversing the clip (to hopefully make the out point the in point), and CS6 insists on keeping the out point before the clip was reversed.
I can however, drag from the left side to shorten the clip without changing the out point. But, as there’s no visible indication (maybe I’m missing it) of the clip length, it’s a bit of a pain to trim to an exact number of frames.
For changing a freeze frame clip that begins at the in point, your technique works perfectly.
Using you suggestion of a copy (for in and out) saves the hassle of making a subClip!!! I’d thought that a copy when changed, would change the in/out of the original (glad I was mistaken).
One other issue: If I used a subClip, I could drop a ‘dip to black’ transition on the areas between the 12 frame clips.
I can’t do that with the copies for some reason?
Is there a workaround?
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Don’t know why that’s not working for you. I even have the hold mapped to Command H then Command R to get to the duration dialogue. Set it to out, set the length and I get exactly that.
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