It’s not a once-size-fits-all kind of effect - you might throw the effect on there, and it becomes more shaky than before. Warp Stabilizer can be a finicky little tool. This’ll take a minute, but you shouldn’t have to wait too long.
You can also click and drag the Warp Stabilizer option over to your clip.Īfter executing the first step, Premiere Pro will analyze the clip. Open up Effects, and choose Video Effects. Scroll down to Distort, and double-click Warp Stabilizer. This task is very simple - you’re only seconds away from correcting an “unusable” shot. Cleaning it up with the Warp Stabilizer is a more common occurrence than you might think. You may have shaky footage because you were shooting handheld or you didn’t have access to a gimbal. One of the most basic must-know video editing tricks is stabilizing shaky footage. Here’s how you can stabilize it in post in Adobe Premiere Pro. Ultra cool! Adobe, you had me at keyframing in the timeline.įor video tutorials on the new offerings in this NLE, please take a look at my new course on : Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5: New Features.Shaky footage can totally throw off the momentum of your video. And let’s not pass over the new ability to create a sequence from a clip in the project panel with that clip’s exact specs. It is very easy to add them to your videos.Īdditional features such as expanded Red workflows, Adobe media encoder enhancements and integration with Adobe CS make this point release really rock solid. I can see it now: My client calls on a new job and before he hangs up I say, ‘Oh by the way, did you need close captioning with that?’ Can you say increase in revenue?!ĬS 5.5 supports 608 and 708 closed-captioned via the SCC and MCC file formats. What could be better than to have more tools to offer your clients? Premiere Pro CS 5.5 now supports closed captioning. It’s a very simple, yet powerful workflow. Once you’ve completed your audio enhances, save the file and then import it into Premiere Pro and you’re good to go. You can also send reference video to help you with your editing. In Premiere Pro CS5.5 you can send your clip over to Audition, or the whole sequence, something you could never do with Soundbooth. Audition is an extremely powerful audio tool. With CS5.5, Adobe has pumped steroids into the audio fixing abilities. In the past, Adobe Soundbooth, via the dynamic link, really did a decent job for fixing audio for me. You can also keyframe your audio to raise volume up and down. New contextual clicking on the clip allows you to access opacity, scale and any effects it may have on the clip. I’m pretty sure this is one of my absolute favorite features. In CS 5.5, Adobe now lets me do my effect keyframing right on the clip in my timeline.
Working in the Premiere Pro timeline for years has made me pretty proficient in selecting my clips, adding that affect, then clicking on the effects panel to make changes. You can double click it to open in the source monitor, drop it into the sequence, or anything else you like since it reacts as a normal clip. This new clip will contain all the audio files in it. Simply place all your synced audio with a video track on the timeline, right click, choose merge clips and this will create a new clip called “name of clip” merged. Once you synchronize your video and audio tracks you can have up to 16 audio tracks synced with a single video track. Premiere Pro CS 5.5 has a new feature called Merge Clips, which allows for dual system sound support. As long as you use the clapper and timecode you’re in great shape.
No worries though as we have been using the Zoom H4N to capture audio separately. For such an amazing camera that gets beautiful images with shallow depth of field, its audio is completely crap. Having used the Canon 7D for numerous projects now, I’ve grown to know its limitations: audio.
So what could Adobe do with their new version to make me like it even more? An editing tool made for the DSLR filmmaker. As budgets get smaller and the projects get bigger the post production specialist needs efficient tools that work smart and fast. The ability to edit multiple formats in the same timeline without any decrease in performance just blew me away. The new Mercury engine in Premiere Pro was amazing. When Premiere Pro CS 5.0 came out I really didn’t think nonlinear editing tools could get any better.