Premiere Pro Guru: Mastering the Timeline

Learn about the shortcuts, techniques, and special features that will help you to navigate, control tracks, and edit more precisely in the Premiere Pro Timeline.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. How the Timeline "Thinks"

• The Timeline as visual instructions
• The Timeline and the program viewer
• Experimenting with the Timeline
• The Timeline and workspaces

2. Timeline Fundamentals

• Measuring time on the Timeline
• Navigating through the Timeline
• Marking the Timeline
• Creating a new sequence
• Adding content to a sequence
• Understanding rendering

3. Taking Control

• Track control area overview
• Snapping
• Link sources
• Expand and collapse tracks
• Track labels
• Locking and unlocking tracks
• Source patching and track targeting
• Toggle track output, audio mute, and solo
• Sync Lock

4. Advanced Timeline Control

• Adjust display settings
• Saving and managing track presets
• Customizing track headers
• Sequence settings

5. Tools and Techniques

• Tools and the Timeline
• Deleting with in and out points on the Timeline
• Adjust timings with Timeline markers
• Call up source footage with Match Frame
• Achieve precision with a traditional three-point edit
• Getting a precise time-stretch edit with a four-point edit

Conclusion

• What's next