Guides
The Premiere Pro parts nobody enjoys, explained
Captions, zooms, chapters and B-roll, written for editors cutting YouTube, Shorts, Reels and TikTok. Every guide includes the manual way first — so it's worth reading whether or not you ever install the panel.
Guides
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How-to8 min read
Cut the pauses and the 'um's without re-listening to the whole recording
Premiere has no one-click silence remover, but it has two different manual methods — one for 'um's, one for dead air — and they're not the same technique.Workflow8 min readCut a weekly upload without redoing the same hour of work every time
A concrete Premiere Pro workflow for a weekly YouTube upload — six passes from raw footage to a finished video, in the order that survives a deadline.How-to8 min readAdd YouTube chapters without watching your own video twice
YouTube drops a chapter list entirely if you break one of its four rules. Here's the exact manual method for building chapters in Premiere Pro.How-to8 min readBreak up a talking-head shot without digging through your B-roll folder for it
A locked-off talking-head shot needs cutaways or it loses the viewer. Here's how to place B-roll in Premiere Pro by hand, timed to the transcript.Workflow8 min readRun four client channels without any of them noticing you have three others
Four clients, four deadlines, one week. Here's a concrete Premiere Pro workflow — project templates, transcribe-first triage, and a hard revision loop.How-to8 min readStop keyframing every punch-in by hand
Premiere has no auto-zoom button — only Scale and Position keyframes you set by hand. Here's the full manual method for punch-ins timed to the words.Comparison10 min readMatch the Premiere Pro AI editing extension to the edit you actually do every week
AutoCut, Captioneer, CaptionX, AutoPod and Backstage Cut all promise to automate part of a Premiere Pro edit. Here's what each actually does and costs.How-to8 min readGet captions that hit on the word, not a second after it
Premiere's built-in captions land in blocks, not words. Here's how to get word-timed animated captions on a Reel or Short — by hand, and the faster way.Workflow8 min readCut the episode and the clips in one sitting
A repeatable Premiere Pro workflow for cutting a long podcast episode and the vertical clips that come from it — chapters, silences, captions and zooms.Try it on the video
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