• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Workflow Advice – I usually use AE

  Posted by Andy Engelkemier on January 24, 2012 at 3:24 pm

  I usually work with 3D renderings assembled in AfterEffects, so Premiere feels a bit foreign to me.

  I’m getting everything to work fine, but often I feel like I could just been more efficient in my workflow if I had known about something I was missing. Hopefully one of you Premiere experts will read this and help me out a bit with something I might be missing.

  I’m editing a 1080p HDV clip. The camera quality was pretty good, but it’s 1440×1080 with a non-square aspect ratio. I’d like the final output to be AVCHD 1080p so that it has square pixels.

  Other than plain old fades, the only thing I’m doing here is adding titles and timecode. I’m matching a previous video that was done for the most part.
  I found that you can’t fade the timecode effect in/out if it’s applied to your actual video so I’ve created a new transparent video and place it over my original.

  I’m trying to set this up to be easily changed because my didn’t give me in/out points. We’ll review at the end of the week, and then change. This is already in the plans.
  So I put the original file, full length, with the running timecode in one sequence, then I’ll take clips from that into the newer video. That way, the time code stays in sync throughout even if I stretch a section, and even if I retime it.

  So here’s my first problem. I’m working in “final timeline” and I want to add only a clip of “original video timeline” which has the timecode. From original content I just double click the video and it opens in a new window. I can set in/out points, and just drag it to my timeline. Since this is a timeline already I can’t do that? The only way I know how to get this in is just drag a new copy onto the timeline and start trimming.

  Is there a way to speed that process up? It seems a bit clunky. I don’t think there’s a way I can avoid a nested timeline really because I need that running clock to match the time of the video. I’ll be jumping, so only showing things like the first minute, then jumping to ten, then to 12, etc. That’s why I nested/precomposed/whatever Premiere users call it.

  Andy Engelkemier replied 14 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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