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How to created edited clips to assemble into several different output movies
Hi, I’m very, very new to Premiere Pro (CC 2014, on a Mac). I did some editing back with Premiere 5 or 6, 13 or 14 years ago, but then I took a rather large hiatus.
I am wanting to make several movies. Let’s say 5. I have about 250 clips, each a few seconds long. These 250 clips stand on their own. They aren’t related to each other. Ordering of the 250 clips isn’t important. I’m just wanting to take, lets say 50, clips, slap them together, and call that one of my 5 movies.
So, what I’m wanting to do is edit each of these 250 clips……… adjust contrast, cropping, motion, etc. and end up with a single clip that is “ready to go”. Do this 250 times, and have 250 clips that are “ready to go”. Then, I want to create the 5 movies by just dropping 50 of the clips into a timeline and having a final movie.
What’s the best workflow for me to use for this? I want to do it in a way that insures maximum quality and causes me a minimum amount of accounting headache. I could, I suppose, have 250 projects, each resulting in a output movie that I then load into 5 additional projects for the final output. But, I’ve been reading about nesting and stuff like that and I’m wondering if that will work for what I need. I’ve tried (again, remember that I haven’t done much with Premiere for years!) adding various effects to media that I’ve imported, and I can’t actually add an effect until the clip has been placed onto the timeline. If I could make 250 “mini” timelines and have those results stored away somewhere and then combine the 250 “mini” timelines into 5 bigger timelines that would work well also…
Anyway, I suspect that what I’m asking isn’t rocket science for those in the know. Can someone point me in the right direction? Many thanks!
Kirby
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Premiere Pro CC 2014 now lets you add effects to source clips (aka “Master Clips”) so if you can do all of your adjustments with effects you can skip the need for throwing single clips on a timeline of the headache that comes with nesting a lot of things.
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Thanks for that, Angelo!
I’ve spent most of the day ‘making sequence from this clip’ping and getting everything taken care of that way. (I’ve made it through about 60 of the clips so far).
I was very intrigued to read what you had said, and immediately tried it. I loaded a source clip, and one of the effects that I really need (Warp Stabilizer) doesn’t seem to want to apply itself to a source clip. Other effects, such as Transform, seem to work exactly as you had said.. but not for WS. Maybe I’m just missing something? Thanks!
Kirby
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A quick Google search on Premiere cc 2014 master clips finds this very educational overview by the well regarded editor and teacher Larry Jordan. I highly recommend his tutorials, and also you can find other tutorials that are quite in depth on other major paid training sites. Thanks for asking the question, as I hadn’t started using master clips for this, and I also had a project this week that could have benefited from them. By the way, be cautious of reusing titles, another issue you might encounter. You can end up changing the original if you try and reuse it without duplicated it first and renaming it!
The link to Larry’s article on master clips is here. I recommend subscribing to his free weekly newsletter, as you can then find out when he is bringing out new Premiere training clips. He is primarily a Final Cut Pro guy but does a lot of Pr as well.
https://www.larryjordan.biz/premiere-pro-cc-2014-master-clips/
Richard Harrington, a Cow contributor, also has a lot of great Premiere training, some of it free, on Cow and on Lynda.com
Good luck. I came from FCP 7 and really have loved the stability and capability of Pr. It takes a bit of getting used to, but so did FCP.
Al
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