Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music

Learn how to cut a music-based slideshow or video montage with Premiere Pro CC.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Essential Skills for Cutting to Music

• Optimizing audio files for import
• Viewing and reading a waveform
• Prepping your music bed
• How to change the duration of music with editing
• Placing markers on the beat
• Cutting to the beat vs. cutting with the beat
• Locking and sync-locking audio

2. Creating Music-Based Slideshows

• Preparing your images for import
• Importing and organizing images for the edit
• Editing to markers
• Editing with the Automate to Sequence command
• Adjusting the size of images
• Adding movement to images, with keyframes

3. Refining Your Cut

• Replacing images in the Timeline
• Changing clip order
• Refining edit timing
• Adding transitions

4. Editing a Musical Montage

• Determining the tempo of the music and the strategy for the edit
• Quick-cut editing
• Timing action: Slip edits
• Targeting action: Match frame
• Quick trimming techniques
• Adding and trimming sound bites
• Using effects to add sizzle

5. Mixing Music and Primary Audio

• Planning your mix
• Mixing levels with track automation
• Using keyframes and the Pen tool to mix

6. Enhancing Music

• Using an EQ effect to enhance music
• Retiming music with Premiere Pro
• Retiming music with Audition
• Using other effects in Audition
• Changing the pitch and key of music with Audition

Conclusion

• Next steps