Tools for Adobe Premiere Pro Editors

In this Premiere Pro post I’ve brought together tutorials, plugins, Premiere Pro extension panels and other tools that can help make your editing life easier. In this My Canadian Studio episode Mathiew Morano and Eric St-Martin walk through a proxy editing workflow in Premiere.

In this Adobe booth presentation from Mixing Light colorist, Robbie Carman you can learn to think like an editor and work like a colorist whilst using the Lumetri colour panel in Premiere Pro. Robbie covers a lot of ground in his presentation, including the new features coming soon to Premiere Pro.

Josh from Retooled.net has a great 12 minute walk through of how to correctly work with 5.1 audio in Premiere Pro when receiving a final sound mix from an audio engineer to add into your final timeline for delivery.

You may have success doing it other ways, but this is how we recommend for both working in Premiere, exporting from Premiere, and screening your final exports back in Premiere.

Rampant Design has a great series of tutorials for Premiere Pro called ‘Ask Rampant‘, in which CEO and VFX artist Sean Mullen tackles viewer questions on things like How do you Speed Ramp in Premiere?, or how to do you ‘jump, bump and slice’ to create high energy effects? In these longer tutorials Sean walks through all of his techniques in detail. It’s a great series.

Premiere Pro Useful Apps

One of the great things about working with an application that encourages third-party developers to create useful tools for it, are the useful tools third-party’s create! In Premiere you can get to these add-ons and extensions under Window > Browse Add-ons…

You can download ‘Add-ons’ from the official Adobe site and see what’s available for each of the Creative Cloud apps. At the minute there are a fair-few extensions for Premiere, but most are in-app outposts of paid for services. Click on ‘My add-ons’ to manage (ie install/uninstall) your add-ons. These sync via Creative Cloud.

Mamoworld recently released a set of three extension panels for Premiere Pro including Beat Edit, Quick Importer and Still Exporter. The short video above will give you a decent overview of what each one can do, although quick importer seems to be the most useful. All Mamoworld tools can be bought through AEScripts.com. The Editing Essentials Bundle costs $139.

Another useful application that’s recently been created is Post Notes from editor Lucas Harger and developer Zach Williams. It’s a simple but powerful little app that lets you create to-do lists and notes inside of Premiere. The app costs $10 and they still have a ‘long list of features’ that they’re hoping to develop in the future as well as whole other utilities for editors who cut in Premiere. So the more people who buy it, the faster that will all happen!