How to Sepia Tone in Premiere

Premiere CC offers several ways to give an old style, or old film look to your footage and color grade it to have a sepia effect.

Tint Effect

From the Effects Panel:

Video Effects > Color Correction > Tint
Choose a color to Map Your Blacks
Choose a color to Map Your Whites

Lumetri Looks

Effects Panel

Lumetri Looks > Style > Back in the Day

Drag this onto a clip (or an Adjustment Layer above your clips, if you want to apply the effect to several clips on your timeline).

Better Workflow with Timecode Stamps on B-Roll

To allow clients and team members to give you precise edits on where to change cuts and music, place timecode on your footage.

The easiest way to do this without having to nest footage or calculate an offset, is to create a Transparent Video clip with the timecode effect on the clip and place it on the highest layer above all your clips.

Go to File > New > Transparent Video.

Place the Transparent Video clip on your timeline in a new layer above all of your other footage and extend it for as long as you would like the timecode to appear.

Select the clip, and from the Effects pane, drag on the Timecode effect.

Change the Source dropdown to 'Clip' and your timecode should match up with the whole sequence.

Video Editing Desktop hardware

In April 2014 I purchased a custom-configured PC desktop from iBuyPower.com

At the time this configuration cost $1,400 and was just enough to avoid paying $75 shipping.
(No monitor included.)

Processor: AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
8-Core Processor

Memory: 16 GB [8 GB x2] DDR3-1600

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 - 2GB

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme9 -- AMD 990FX w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16, 2x eSATA3, 8x USB 3.0

Main hard drive: 120 GB ADATA S510 SSD -- Read: 550MB/s, Write: 510MB/s

Data hard drive: 2 TB WD Black HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s

Optical drive: 14x Blu-Ray LG BLU-RAY Re-Writer, DVD±R/±RW Burner

2nd optical drive: 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive

Power Supply: 600 Watt - OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W

The motherboard was one of only two available that supported up to 64GB of RAM for future upgrades, the other motherboards only supported 32GB of RAM. The other motherboard that supported 64GB of RAM was the ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer.

This motherboard also supported dual graphics cards.  This means that three graphics cards can used.  If you're editing compressed HD footage (what Digital SLR's produce) or doing work in Adobe After Effects, a second graphics card can be a godsend.

To make video editing easier, I bought a ViewSonic VX2703MH-LED 27-Inch LED Monitor on Amazon for $240. The 27 inch screen size works well on my desk and also gives me a second monitor to use with my MacBook Pro when doing website development.

Future upgradability with this system:

• Boost the RAM up to 64GB (I bought 16GB to start)
• Add another video card (bought a 2GB card with my system)
• Can upgrade my main hard drive drive to a higher capacity Solid State Drive.
• Can add an additional hard drive for data or backup. 
• Can buy a second monitor for video and photo editing.

Cut When You Blink

Hollywood film editor Walter Murch teaches that the best way to create a good cut is by your blink.  Murch edited Apocalypse Now, Ghost, The English Patient, Cold Mountain, and many others.  Although he may be a little better known as a sound editor, he certainly has editing credentials.

Cut when you want to blink.

So far I've found this technique for film editing to be very helpful and insightful.  While some scenes and projects may require much more time than one blink, it can still be helpful to produce a naturally flowing scene.