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welcome everyone to our course this

course is an introduction into video

editing using premiere pro it will take

you from the very beginning of opening

premiere pro to the very end of

exporting a finished project my name is

will bartlett and i've been

professionally editing since 2004. i'm

the founder of an established video

production company in toronto and i've

edited well over a thousand projects

we will cover everything from the

various panel windows

file organization editing clips together

working with audio and titles color

correction creating sequence presets

keyboard shortcuts exporting and much

more

while you make your way through this

course our team will be available to

answer any questions you may have just

reach out to us in the comments section

and again even if you don't have

premiere pro you can still take

advantage of this course by downloading

a free 30-day trial from adobe's website

thanks for enrolling in this course and

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rating and a review

okay so let's start creating a new

project

this is our welcome screen when you

click on premiere pro

we're going to be creating a new project

or you can open a recent project if

you've started one in the past you can

check out new features and so on so for

us we will go to new project

and a new window opens up so we have our

name here we will title it

video editing course

our location is set to

the folder we created in a previous

lesson

so inside projects

inside premiere pro

we will go to choose

and this is where the project will be

saved video rendering and playback

right now i have it set up to opencl

if you have a graphics card that can

utilize the mercury playback engine and

you have what's called cuda installed

this is from nvidia it's a free download

and if your graphics card can support it

i would highly recommend using it and

selecting your playback engine to

mercury playback cuda for us we'll just

stick with opencl

video audio capture that's all fine

let's go to scratch disks

any captured video from tape which most

likely you won't be doing but any

captured video will be set to the same

as project captured audio the exact same

video previews same as project

audio previews

project autosave and the cc libraries

so these are all defaulted to same as

project and i would highly recommend

keeping them always to same as project

you can change them if you'd like but

basically what this means is all of

these things

will go and be saved in your same as

project location

so that everything is organized

efficiently in one spot

this is the default windows layout

panels when you first start up this is

probably what it'll look like

i like to customize it a little bit so

we're going to move some things around

the bottom left here we have our project

window

this is our main window this is where

footage gets imported

we have our tools section

we have our

timeline this is otherwise known as a

sequence this is where our clips will be

placed after a sequence has been created

and then we can start moving some

footage or audio around to start

creating an edit

over here is our

meters showing our audio once we're

playing back a sequence that has audio

in it here's our program monitor this is

our

main

visual representation of what's

happening in the sequence we have our

source panel

if we were to import a file

and then double click it it would open

up in source for us to view

we have in another tab here effect

controls

if we were to import footage

drop it in our timeline

and then add an effect to it it would

show up here

okay let's go down to our effects right

here this is where we can browse through

and go through different effects

we can apply video effects transitions

and the exact same for audio

for now i think we'll leave it at that

and in the next one i will start moving

some panels around to create our own

custom workspace

okay guys welcome back in this one we're

going to be moving around different

panel windows in order to create our own

custom workspaces

i'll set it up how i like to edit so

let's get started

i like to keep the timeline at the

bottom

this is pretty standard in most editing

programs

i like to bring the project window up to

the top left so in order to do that we

click and hold

and drag it now before we let go you'll

notice that depending on where i place

it

it'll be highlighting different areas

if i wanted to sit on the right it would

be here if i wanted to place it below

the top windows then i would place it

here

so for example i want it on the top left

and beside

all the windows so i'll place it right

here

so let's try it again

click and hold so if i wanted it below

all of these

we would leave it right here

and now it's place the window below all

of these

if i wanted it on the right side of all

of those i would place it here now it's

aligned the project panel window to the

right side of all of the other panels

same thing let's click and hold

let's bring it to the right side

now it's on the right side let's click

and hold

and

we'll set it up right there

in order to expand the panel to see a

little more

if you go to the

just on the edge you'll see it changes

from an arrow

into the left and right arrow and if you

click and hold

you can actually drag it and make it as

large as you want

let's leave it around there

okay

let's go to our tools section

when it highlights we know that that is

what we are working with

i like to place my tools

at the top

then we'll click here we'll wait until

we get the two arrows click and hold

and drag

so now on the right side we have our

tools

and we have our audio below it

for our media browser i tend to not use

this as i prefer to import and locate

footage in a different way so we're

going to close this panel

our info tab we don't need to worry

about

okay and now we have our effects tab so

we're going to click and hold this

and we're going to bring it up

and keep it

right beside our project panel window

we will open it up just a little bit

now i like to keep my program monitor

to the right side of my effects panel

and i have my effect controls on the far

right side so let's click and hold

and we will place it on the left side of

the effect controls panel

which brings all of these tabs to the

right side

the reason why i like the program window

in the center is because this is our

main playback and instead of turning my

header eyes always trying to view the

playback

if it was on the left i'd be turning to

left to try to view the playback always

this way it's right in front of me and

it's easy to see

we can go over to metadata

we can close that as well we do not need

that

we have our source

which i actually like to place

in the program window and to do that

instead of here you go right to the top

where it forms a line as if it was a

part of the tabs

and then you can see

now it has a tab

so let's bring our program to the front

of it

so that's our first tab and then we have

source as the second

we have our effect controls beside it

and then we have audio clip mixer beside

that

let's go down to the bottom left again

we can close markers we don't need that

and we can close the history as i do not

like to work with history as well

so now we have our timeline panel that

stretches the whole length we can click

and drag this so it fits a little more

nice

now this is generally the setup i like

to edit with you can change it to

whatever you'd like but for our purposes

this is what we will be working with for

the rest of the video course

let's go to window

workspaces

and we will

save changes to this workspace

that is listed as the editing tab

okay to open up different windows if for

example you do need the metadata tab or

the media browser tab

then you can go into window and you can

find whichever one you want to open up

the info history

and so on

okay the next thing we're going to do is

set up premiere pro in order for it to

be optimized for your system

let's go up to premiere pro cc

preferences and general

so let's go to the general tab

inside the general tab we have several

different options that we can change

i've already optimized my setup so

i will show you which ones i've changed

i've changed timeline mouse scrolling

from vertical to horizontal that means

when you're working in your timeline or

sequence you can use the mouse scroll

wheel to move from left to right

throughout your timeline

instead of

it's set up to vertical

where if you use the mouse scroll wheel

it'll go up and down through the layers

i find it to be a little more efficient

to use a horizontal so let's keep it at

that

the next thing is if you have any of

these checked you can remove them

i believe this is normally checked this

is normally checked and i believe

default scale to frame size is also

normally checked

the reason why i do not like to have

these selected is because it can get

annoying when you're rendering previews

and it immediately jumps your cursor to

the beginning of your timeline and most

of the time you do not want to do that

or once you've finished playing the end

of a timeline

it jumps to the start as well

default scale to frame size you can

leave on if you'd like this basically

means that

any footage that you bring down into the

timeline will default to the size of

your frame meaning the resolution will

auto scale to fill up your frame

okay so the next thing i believe i

changed is the still image default

duration

i like to set mine to like five or ten

so we'll send we'll change it to 10

seconds

that is the length of a photo or still

image that is imported into your

sequence it'll appear as 10 seconds long

now you can stretch it to whatever size

you want but this will save a little bit

of time down the road as it'll always

default to 10 seconds

okay let's go to appearance

now i like to edit on the far left side

where it's the layout is the darkest i

find this easiest on the eyes once

you're editing for several hours

so we'll leave it at that

let's go to audio

now i set

all my default audio tracks to mono

the reason being sometimes you import

audio from a camera into your timeline

sometimes it's frustrating having to

figure out how to separate the audio

from the stereo track in order to get

two separate channels so this way

everything you bring in even music

you'll it'll show up as two different uh

channels

okay and if you have any audio plug-ins

that you prefer to work with from

let's say pro tools or another audio

program you can find them in here and

then they will show up inside premiere

pro to use

okay let's go to audio hardware

i don't think i change anything in this

i leave it as is

if your audio isn't working then you can

troubleshoot by going to the device

class and

changing the setting here if you have

others

you can also go to default input or

default output and change those

okay let's go to auto save

i highly recommend that you

keep this checked and you increase the

versions to 40 and reduce the

automatically save every

certain amount of minutes to five this

means it saves more often and backs up

more files

in an editing project in a five minute

period you could probably do a few

hundred clicks

and that is a lot of

changes you've made to your project so

if more than five minutes goes by

you could be losing a lot of time if

something were to uh like your system

crashes or the power goes out so

save more often

make more backups and

this is great

okay the next thing is our capture

window this is if you're capturing any

footage from a tape this will probably

be removed at some point in the future

as

tapes aren't really used anymore

such as like mini dv tapes or hd tapes

okay control surface

again you don't need to worry about this

this is similar to this device control

same idea

label colors

we can get into this a little later but

basically you can rename all of these

and create custom very vibrant colors

to help you edit

go to

label defaults i would keep this the

same when you change the names here

those will auto update

okay let's go to media in here we have a

thing called media cache files

those are temporary files that premiere

automatically creates and stores in this

location you can change it if you'd like

and what they do is they help

premiere pro play back more efficiently

by saving temporary files called cache

files

if you'd like to save your temporary

files beside the originals check this

box however i don't think that makes

much sense so i keep it unchecked media

cache database

so this is where it is saved from time

to time i would highly recommend

cleaning this up as they are temporary

files and the next time you open your

project if you did clean it it'll just

create them again so

if you know you've finished a project or

several projects and you won't be

opening them anytime soon then i would

highly suggest cleaning them because it

will free up space

on your hard drive and these files do

get pretty large so let's clean now

everything else i would keep the same

memory

now this is your ram your random access

memory installed on your computer so on

my mac pro i have 26 gigabytes installed

i have it set up right now to five

gigabytes reserved for other

applications that means that 21

gigabytes are free for all of the other

premiere pro programs right now my

system is optimized for

performance

instead of memory i would recommend

keeping at least two to three gigabytes

free

for other applications this is when

you're changing to a different program

or you're browsing the internet

while editing it leaves a little bit of

memory so that you can use the other

programs and they won't be sluggish

okay let's go to playback

in here if you have external monitors

set up you can set it to automatically

default the playback to that monitor and

it'll be full screen a lot of

professional editing places set it up

like that to their color correcting

monitor

okay we don't need to worry about sync

settings or

the titler or trim

okay so that is all of the options we

have in our preferences window inside

premiere pro let's go to okay

backing up footage is incredibly

important as that's why the term two is

one and one is none came to be a term

that everyone in the film industry knows

you can bet that any successful or

established production company will have

backups of all of their media on

separate hard drives raid systems or

even backed up on an online cloud

service

all it takes is one fire

a car accident a spilt drink or simply a

malfunctioned hard drive and all of your

company's media could be gone forever if

it's not backed up

every time you capture new media content

immediately make a copy of it to another

hard drive to avoid the potential of

your media being lost or damaged

it can cost thousands and thousands to

fix or get digital content from a

damaged hard drive and most of the time

you'll only be able to save eighty to

ninety percent of the content which

could ultimately leave you with gaps in

your finished video

okay so let's command tab out of

premiere pro

in this folder i have some stock footage

clips that i filmed as well as some

music that i created in our bottom

window we have

our folder where i'm recording this

video course in in order to edit

efficiently it's very important to have

an organized folder structure so i will

walk you through how i was trained in

the film industry with how my folder

structure should be and if you prefer to

use a different way that's totally fine

but this is the way i was trained the

way i do it is we have a main folder

which is called

the project that you're working on so

video editing course you can ignore the

recordings window so i'll just gray that

out for now

now inside i've created a premiere pro

folder

that is where i've saved this premiere

pro project now i'll show you how to do

that in a minute okay so inside this

folder

we will have a

music folder

we will have a footage folder

we will have a

projects folder

inside our projects folder

will be

our premiere pro folder which is where

our premiere pro project exists

inside footage

will be all of our footage so let's

highlight them all

so we can either click and drag them all

or click hold shift click the top

then either right click and go to copy

or command c

and then inside footage double click

and either right click and paste or

command v

okay so now we are copying over all of

the stock footage clips that i filmed

the reason we are duplicating the clips

into this folder is so that

if you ever need to pass on this project

to somebody else everything exists in

one folder

it is very easy once you're starting the

project to have everything collected and

placed in the the appropriate folder

it is very difficult six months later a

year later to try to find where all the

assets are to your project

okay so let's go back

inside music we will do the same thing

we will click and hold copy it

go into music

and paste all of our music

okay

now inside our projects window

we have our premiere pro we can also

create

after effects if we are doing anything

in after effects

or photoshop if we're doing anything in

photoshop

now any files that we create in after

effects

or any project files themselves will be

placed in there and the same goes for

photoshop same goes with premiere

so right now in our premiere pro folder

we have our video editing course project

and our autosave folder

if you have any other files such as

images

we can create

an images folder

essentially

the goal is to have everything nicely

organized

and once we are in premiere pro we will

actually create the exact same folder

structure so that in premiere pro you'll

be able to know exactly where files are

because it has the exact same setup as

on your hard drive

resolutions can be any size however

there is a standard when it comes to the

resolutions that the world has adopted

for example on youtube when selecting

the quality of the video you can see

various options that the video can be

played in

these are all different resolutions if

the uploader added a video to their

channel in full hd resolution then in

the quality settings you would be able

to choose 1920 by 1080 or 1080p

youtube will automatically create all of

the smaller standard resolutions such as

720p 480p and so on

1920 by 1080 resolutions have an aspect

ratio of 16 9

where 16 represents the width ratio 1920

compared to 9 the height ratio 1080

so hd footage has a width of 1920 pixels

and a height of 1080 pixels

going higher than hd resolution you will

have uhd and dci 4k

uhd

ultra high definition is intended for

television viewing and has a frame size

of 3840 by 2160

this resolution is a direct multiple of

1920x1080 and therefore has a 169 aspect

ratio

dci 4k

digital cinema initiatives 4k has been

the film industry standard resolution

dci 4k has a resolution of 4096 by 2160

making it have an aspect ratio of 256 by

135 which is a little wider than uhd

a sequence refers to the area in an

editing program where the editing will

take place

such as the trimming of clips the clip

order the footage audio and music

different programs have different names

for a sequence for example in adobe

after effects they refer to a sequence

as being a composition in other programs

it may be called timeline in any case it

means the same thing

it is a panel window in the program

where the actual editing is completed

a sequence will have several different

layers or tracks that are the

placeholders for your footage or audio

and as needed you can add or remove the

tracks

typically when a new sequence is created

there will be one or two video tracks as

well as a few audio tracks so that you

can immediately start inserting clips or

audio files to begin your edit

okay so the next thing we need to do is

create a sequence

that sits in our timeline panel

to do that we go to file

new

sequence

we can pretty much select any one we

want here these will all work fine

they're just presets

but i like to create my own presets and

i will show you how to do that

right now we have this selected we'll go

into settings

editing mode hdb 1080p now this is a

preset that has been created let's go to

custom

our time base this is dependent on the

footage you have so i will be working

with 23.976 footage so

that is what i will create the sequence

with

now we don't want that we want to create

a 1920 by 1080 with a regular pixel

aspect ratio so let's change our frame

size here

to 1920

and then we'll change our pixel aspect

ratio to square which is 1.0 which means

each pixel is as wide as it is tall

so it's square

that creates our 69 ratio

which is what we want for high

definition footage

we want a progressive scan

display format

23.976 that's great audio 48 is fine

video previews now

this depends on your system i like to

use quicktime

and then i like to use

h264

and the width is 1920 by 1080.

now you don't need to select maximum bit

depth or maximum render quality you can

do that but this is all previews so it

won't affect the actual export of your

project

to save our

1920x1080 preset we go to save preset

we'll call it

1080p

for progressive

and then we will call it 23.976

now we can add some more details if we'd

like but for now it's fine we will go to

ok

and now once it loads you will notice

that at the bottom it creates a custom

folder

with our new preset created

from here we can create new presets if

we want so

for our purposes let's just create them

all right now

let's go to we'll click on this we'll go

to settings

everything will be the same we can just

work off this so frame size

right now we'll create a 720p one which

is higher than standard definition

quality but lower than full hd

so frame size will be 1280

and

this will be

720

so we have 1280 pixels

wide by 720 tall

aspect ratio will be the same and now

you notice because it's we've changed

this this has also been changed so let's

go to save preset

we'll call this one 720 p

23.976

and once again

once it loads

in the custom folder you will see the

720p

preset so now all of these will stay the

same for 4k

except for the frame size

which will be changed to

21.60

by

38.40

and you'll notice that this hasn't been

changed to the full 4k resolution it's

because we have h264 selected we need to

have something else selected because

this is the maximum that we can use with

h.264 in our video previews

so in order to change it let's go to

animation or apple prores so we'll go

apple pro s422hq

and then we'll be able to

enter in what we'd like

3840 by 2160.

okay let's save the preset we'll call

this we can either call it 4k hd

or 2160p

so i like to use 4k hd

23.976

okay now we will create a

standard definition preset

okay so let's change our vertical to 480

and now with a square pixel aspect ratio

we can set this to

640.

now

some people like to set it up as

ntsc 0.9 if you do that then you'll need

to change this to 720. to maintain this

it does the exact same thing

it's just using a different pixel aspect

ratio

so i like to keep things always square

so

6 40.

let's go to

save preset

we'll call it

480p

23.976

if your footage is a different frame

rate such as 29 or 30

then it's as simple as going to settings

and changing your time base to whichever

frame rate you'd like to work with

for us we will be working with

hd footage so we will click on 1080p

click ok

and now you'll see that at the in our

timeline our sequence has been created

okay we can go into our project window

click on our sequence that we just

created

press enter

and then give it a name you can call it

whatever you'd like for our purposes

we'll just call it 1080p

edit and you've noticed that the change

here has happened

in this lesson we will talk about

importing footage and maintaining an

organized folder structure inside

premiere pro exactly the same as what we

created in an earlier lesson in our

finder window

up here in our project panel window this

is where we will be importing all of our

footage there are several different ways

of importing footage so i'll walk you

through a few of them the first being

file

import

the next we can go right click

import

or what i like to do is simply double

click here

so you left click twice

and our import window will open up

then we can navigate to our video

editing course

into our footage

and

we can bring in all of our footage

we'll click the top

hold shift click the bottom and then all

at once we can import all of our footage

premiere pro will

analyze all the content and begin

importing it into

our project panel window now premiere

pro has loaded everything inside the

project panel window

now we can begin to

organize and down here there is a new

bin this just means a folder just like

in your finder window on your desktop

so let's click on the icon and drag

into the new bin

now it's ready for us to start typing a

name so this is our footage folder and

on our desktop we named it footage

so we will do the exact same thing

footage

let's close that up we can create a new

folder

we'll call this one

music

another way of importing is you can go

to command tab

over to our finder window

we can select all the music that we want

to import

we can click and hold and then command

tab back into premiere pro

while holding and then let go into the

music folder

now we have music inside here we have

footage inside here

if we go to our finder folder

you'll see that we have

images projects music and footage now

because we don't have any images we

won't create that folder and we don't

need to create a projects folder because

this is just our project file for

premiere things that we need to import

are music and footage because we will be

working with those

okay let's go to premiere which is

command tab

if we open up our footage folder

and leave the mouse on one of the items

we can see a few other details

if we click and drag here

to expand that panel window you can see

a few other details here and if we use

the scroll bar here we can find a lot of

other information such as media start

media end duration in point out point

and some more video information

over here right now we have it listed as

list view we can also use the icon view

this way

if you're inside the footage folder for

example it'll show you thumbnails of the

footage

if you leave your mouse over one

and drag without clicking you can

actually watch a preview of the footage

which is nice

if you know the specific name of your

footage you can click and find it such

as let's try wide view

wide view

and then this it finds it very quickly

for you

let's close that

let's open that up

we see the audio picture showing the

waveform which is a visual presentation

that these are audio files that do not

have video

we can search by name if we'd like

we can create more bins

so you understand if we create a bin in

here

and close it it's still and go back to

the list view it still

gets created in here

it's just when you double click it it

just opens up another window so that

it's easier to see what you're doing

rather than doing everything in the one

window

we don't need this so what we can do is

either

press delete on the keyboard

or we can press this button here

okay so there's a few other options we

can

make everything larger if we'd like

same goes with this

okay so if we wanted to create a new

item for example we could click here

and then we can create a new sequence

and a whole bunch of other options that

is the same thing as if we right clicked

and went to new item

having all the assets in your project

imported and organized into folders is a

very very efficient way of editing and i

would highly recommend always creating

your footage folders that match how you

have it set up on your desktop or on

your hard drive if you have a project

you're working on and six months later

you need to hand it off to somebody else

it makes it very easy if everything is

already organized inside one folder

and then inside premiere it's the exact

same way

another reason why it's important to

have

everything organized into folders is if

you're working with multiple different

cameras and cards inside your footage

folder

you would have

card one

you could have card two if you have

multiple days you could have day one and

inside day one you'd have card one card

two card three and so on and then inside

premiere pro it would look exactly the

same you'd have a footage folder you'd

have day one day two inside day one

you'd have card one card two and so on

having this match how it is set up on

your desktop or on your hard drive is

extremely important for example

let's click this clip

and

we'll hold command we'll click this clip

and this clip

we will right click and we will make

offline that means that this footage

isn't inside premiere pro and premiere

pro does not know where it is in order

to find those

we can because it's in the same folder

on our desktop or in our hard drive we

can right click we will link media

we will click and drag to make it a

little larger

we will locate the footage

display only exact name matches to just

finding the one

we will click ok

and then this footage has been found

now for the other ones

simply click that click on this right

click

go to link media

locate

it found one of them

you click ok

and then now both are online because

it's in the same folder it found both of

them very easily

okay so let's bring this panel back

and make our program monitor a little

larger

the next thing we will do is start

adding footage and music to our 1080p

edit sequence

so let's go to our project panel window

you can see that we are working inside

this project panel window because it's

highlighted in blue

if we would work down here

now it's blue this is blue this is very

important sometimes when you're not in

the right panel window and you're trying

to do something it will not work

so

okay now we have selected this panel

window

we can go into footage

let's make it a little larger

now we can click this one

or this one

and this one let's say

and we will click and hold and drag them

down

now all of these files do not have audio

so on the

video

v1 this is where i've placed them and

because there's no audio files no audio

has been added

if you imported a clip that does have

audio

when you drag it down you will also be

adding audio

okay so now let's go to music

and just like the same thing

we can actually remove that

okay so let's use the song

discover

we will click and drag it

and you can see because in our

preferences we set it up as

bring all audio in as mono it has taken

the stereo track and split it up into

two mono tracks

it still sounds and works exactly the

same

but now we can easily if we wanted hold

alt or option and click and just get one

of them

if we wanted

but together without holding alt option

we can select both channels at once

because they are joined together if we

right click we can go to unlink

if we want them separate

okay so let's bring our files down right

to the beginning of our timeline rate at

zero

okay so now that we have audio if we

scrub you'll hear the song

[Laughter]

[Music]

okay so depending on how fast you scrub

through it that's how fast it will play

the audio

if you want to just play it in real time

then you hit spacebar

or

come up to our program window and hit

play

you will also notice that now we see the

footage because it's in our timeline on

video track one and the eyeball is on

if we turn the eyeball off

then we no longer can see it

let's go to the beginning of our

timeline

and hit play

[Music]

okay let's go a little further so we can

see a cut this is just clicking and

dragging

this timeline cursor

or we can simply click where we want it

to show up

so for now we'll place it right there

we'll hit play again

[Music]

okay and that is the basics of creating

an edit we have music and we have three

video clips playing one after another

and together it makes the video much

more interesting because we have music

in our edit

okay let's go back up to our footage

folder

now if we want to just have this we can

close it here

let's click and hold and we'll highlight

all three of those clips

and then we can press delete on our

keyboard

and remove those those do not delete

from your hard drive or from your

project window those only get removed

from your timeline sequence

okay so let's add all of our clips into

our footage

by clicking and holding all of them

or we can simply click and drag

the footage folder and it'll bring all

of them in

we have now placed all our footage

one after another into our sequence

click and drag and delete all of those

and again that only

deletes the clips from the sequence they

still exist up here

in this lesson we will talk about the

different layers inside premiere pro in

your sequence

right now we have a bunch of clips in a

row as well as

one song that is showing up as two mono

tracks

we have this line here which separates

our video tracks from our audio tracks

and we have our master audio which is

all of the audio tracks being fed to a

stereo track which is our master the

master track audio is represented here

on the right side when we play back in

our sequence

so let's bring our timeline cursor to

the beginning

we have on video track one this is

selected as blue we can enable all the

tracks if we want

or just keep this one selected this is

important when you're copying and

pasting clips into your edit because if

this is just selected then when you copy

command c

let's say over to here

it'll paste it on that track because

that's what's highlighted if it's v3 and

v1 isn't selected and you command v

paste the footage

then it gets pasted to the top

so for example let's highlight those and

delete them if we wanted this clip

command c to copy it

if we wanted that

to show up right here then we can go to

v2

and then it pasted on that track above

this track

in video editing your top layer much

like photoshop or after effects or any

other editing program your top layer is

the layer that is seen

and anything below it will be hidden by

the item above it so for example

this clip here is on top of these clips

so what we see

is this clip

if we were to turn that clip off so we

can't see it then we see now what's

below it

so once again if we turn now this layer

off then we have nothing because both

layers are turned off

if we turn this one on we see this layer

and because this is above it if we turn

it on then we see this layer and the

same thing goes with right here

we have this layer

which is above this next clip so if we

were to turn this one off

we see this clip below it now the same

thing works with as many layers as you

want to go so if we for example want to

take this clip

and click and drag it

and place it right there then now we see

this clip if we hide it we see this clip

if we hide that clip we see this it's

all stacked and whatever's on the top is

what we see

so let's turn those back on in our edit

we now have three clips

it'll play from here to here and then

it'll start playing this clip from here

to here and it'll start playing this

clip from here to here

then there will be a black spot here and

then it'll play again so to show you

what that does

let's click there play it

[Music]

[Music]

okay

so now you can understand kind of

if there's no clip then you're not going

to see anything

and if there's clips on top it'll change

to the next clip that is seen

okay so let's take this clip we can move

it back into the spot and this is a

duplicate so we will delete it

okay so the next thing is

audio

now in the layer system of the audio

tracks

it does not work the same in the sense

of if there's a audio clip here and

another one under it it'll only have

this one

heard

in the audio sections below the video

any audio clip that is present will be

heard

for example

if we take a different music track

let's try

this one we'll click and hold and we

will drag it down here which means it's

going to create a new track by itself so

now we have four audio tracks a1 through

a4 and we have video tracks one through

three so now that we have this song on

a1 and a2 we have this song on a3 and a4

now you're gonna hear two songs at once

even though this one's above it so in

other words in the audio sections it

acts differently than the video in the

video the top layer will only be seen

but because it's audio you'll hear

everything even if it's stacked

[Music]

okay

so let's delete that

and that is a basic understanding of the

layer systems

if we wanted to add more tracks we can

simply click

and bring it up and let go and it'll add

another track automatically or we can

right click

add tracks or delete tracks

and in this one we have video tracks at

one we do not want to add any audio

track so i'll click and drag that or

change it to zero and

we want to add let's say four video

tracks and it'll be placed after video

four meaning

right here

so now we have

v567

and if we scroll up on the right side

here we can see the eighth track that he

created in a previous lesson i was

talking about the horizontal scroll

in the preferences window

which is right here

if you set this to vertical

you can use the scroll on your mouse to

go up and down

however i find it much easier to use the

to use that function as the horizontal

scroll because

let's just change it back

because when you zoom in which is the

plus on your keyboard

and it'll zoom in right to where your

cursor is

so if we're zoomed in very far here to

make fine edits

it's nice to be able to use the scroll

wheel to scroll along

to wherever you like to edit it makes

things a lot faster

let's press the minus on our keyboard a

few times to go all the way back out

another way to zoom is by

clicking the bottom here

and holding and stretching it to

where you want it to be

okay in this lesson we will talk about

the playback resolution quality and why

it's important to understand it

now there's two things we have our

exported final video quality which

should be as high as possible and we

have our playback which is our preview

resolution quality this is represented

in this area right here which is select

playback resolution this is all

dependent on what footage you're working

on and how powerful your system is if

you're working with a newer system with

a lot of memory and a lot of processing

power then you might be able to get away

with using full

which will change the resolution and

quality when you're editing however if

you have an older system or if you're

working on a less powerful laptop then i

would suggest keeping it at a quarter at

a quarter resolution it still is very

easy to see what's going on and it

actually doesn't make that much of a

difference so i tend to always just keep

it at a quarter from what i can tell i

don't see any difference between half

and full so to save some processing

power even on a powerful system it might

make sense to just keep it on half

so for our purposes we'll keep it on a

quarter always

sometimes when you have text created in

your project the resolution of the text

while you're editing doesn't look that

great if you don't like the way it looks

you can always improve the quality

however then you will need more

processing power on a stronger system

in this lesson we will talk about

picking selects or choosing selects and

we will talk about what that is and why

it's important

okay so let's open our footage folder

and if we double click on one of these

clips in our project

window it'll open up the preview of it

in our source panel now this is

different than our main editing program

monitor in our program monitor it's

black right now because we have nothing

in our timeline

but in our source panel this represents

clips that we have selected in our

project panel window for example if we

double click on another clip

it changes here but this is still black

because there's nothing down here

same thing with music if we were to

double click on this clip

it shows our stereo song that we have

imported

okay so let's go to

this clip for example now the idea in

editing is not every piece of footage

that you film will be perfect so the

idea of choosing selects means that you

will be selecting the best clips you

have so that in your sequence in your

edit you are working with only the best

of the best you're not going to be

confused by parts of your footage that

are at the beginning or the end that are

not useful and once you can organize and

kind of filter out all the unwanted

parts of your footage you'll be left

with just your selects okay so to start

picking selects we can do a few

different things

my workflow is i typically create

another sequence

so go file new

sequence we will create another 1080p

sequence because we are working with

1080p footage we will call the sequence

name

all

footage

we will go to ok

and then inside here

we will drag down

all of our footage

then

we have our original sequence which is

our edit

in our edit will be where we place all

of our selects that we collected

from our footage all footage sequence in

other words as we're going through and

watching all of these if there's parts

of the clips that we don't like we will

make a cut in the clip

and then we will only copy over the good

parts that we want in our actual edit

so let's get started with that so let's

zoom in a bit we have our footage folder

selected and our timeline highlighted in

blue we can click on the plus on our

keyboard

a few times until we're as close as we

want we can hit the space bar

and

it looks like around i'd say there

when this part

starts to be coming closer to the right

side of screen that's where i'd like to

start on this clip so we don't want

anything on the left to be brought over

to our edit so we need to make a cut

point to split this clip into two clips

so how we do that is we need our cut

tool or our razor tool

depending on the version you are in it

might be called cut

so if we go over here to our tools

section we see our razor tool here which

has the keyboard command of c so we can

either click that and then we can see

that we have a different cursor type if

we go back to our original one now we

have the original cursor or if we press

c on our keyboard

it changes it to the razer tool as well

so if we click

on the clip in this spot

it will cut the footage in that area now

we can do as many different cuts as we

want

and basically that's how you cut footage

let's command z to undo those

just leaving the one we'll press v

which is our selection tool

to bring back our original cursor now we

will zoom out just a bit

and now we will play

and we are looking for the end of the

clip

so that's good for that it's i'm just

kind of picking it randomly here just

for the purposes of what we're

learning here so let's go c

cut there go back to v

click there

and now we're going to copy it so we can

either right click and go to copy

or we can while it's selected press

command c

then we go over to our edit

and because this is at the beginning of

our timeline and we have v1

selected

it'll paste right here so we can press

command v or we can simply paste the

item

now we can paste as many times as we

want because it's a copied item so we

could if we wanted the same clip back to

back we can do that we don't want that

however so we will delete those four

and then if we watch this back we can

see

the trimmed clip that we brought over

from the all footage sequence that is

now part of our selected clips

so now let's go back to all footage

let's continue going through this

that's the same clip so we can we don't

want any of that let's scroll over

we'll

click and drag on the timeline cursor to

scrub through the clips or we can simply

press play and watch it in real time

sometimes it's a little faster to just

scroll through to quickly find a spot in

the clip so whatever works for you

so i think this section is fine so what

we'll do is we'll press c

we'll cut there

and we will

command c

and because the timeline cursor is at

the end now

we can

copy and paste it into this section if

your cursor was here and you tried to

paste it

for example

it will trim the clip where you paste it

which is not what we want so if you have

moved the timeline cursor and it's not

at the end

you can simply press the down arrow on

your key to go to the end or the up

arrow key if you want to go to the

beginning so for us we want to paste

this after this clip so we'll press the

down arrow that'll bring us to the end

of this clip our next edit point and

we'll press command v

and now we have

this clip

which turns into this clip

now the idea for select is we would go

through all of our footage it takes a

little bit of time but it ends up being

a lot more organized and this is a very

non-destructive way of editing because

all of your footage

still exists on this sequence and can be

referenced at any time

if you were to only edit with your

footage here you could go back and bring

all your footage back again but then

every single time you need to get an

extra clip you'd have to go back to your

footage folder open up a new sequence or

drag all this stuff down into this

sequence at the very end it's just a lot

more efficient if you have all of your

footage here as i said before this is

what's known as non-destructive editing

so once we have all of our selects

picked

i'll just do this quickly

pick this one

copy it over

and the more you do this the faster you

will get

so

i like the reveal kind of right

there and i like it until it shows

that

so

we'll copy it

okay i like the reveal of the background

past the green leaves

you take that clip from there

to right there

we can copy it over

we'll take that one

from right there

command c command v

we'll go to the c tool

and cut it

and then take it to right there select

it command c

command

v

sometimes as you'll notice it'll auto

save by itself every five minutes

i like the beginning of that so we'll

take that clip

and we'll end with the wide shot

revealing the whole tree

command c command v okay so in our all

footage sequence

you can see that when we move the

timeline cursor this number changes

because we have our footage set to at

the very beginning

wherever we move this will tell you how

long this duration is so right now it's

three minutes four seconds and seven

frames

you'll notice that our selects are only

57 seconds so we've trimmed

about two minutes off of

all our footage and now we have our

selects which is a lot more organized

it's a lot more efficient this way

because now we're only working in our

edit with this footage

so when we start making creative

decisions on when the next clip will

show it makes it a lot easier than

having to on every single clip at this

point delete the parts we don't want

in this lesson we will talk about

utilizing the source panel window

to start let's go into the project panel

window

double click on one of the clips

this will open up the source panel

window

using the timeline cursor in the source

panel window

we can scrub through

and watch this clip

or we can play it

we can use the different buttons below

such as add a marker

to place a marker on this clip that's

separate from in the timeline where we

can also add markers

we can select our in and out points

we can go to the in

go to the out

or move one frame at a time

at the end here we have export frame

this is how to save a picture from

inside premiere pro

and then we can

name it

choose a format such as jpeg or png

choose the path where it's going to be

saved

and whether or not we want to import it

into the project click ok and then this

image will be saved to your computer

okay so what we can do is go to the

beginning

and scrub through the clip

and i like that as the starting point so

we can either hit this button here or

press i on our keyboard to mark the end

point

you'll notice that now the endpoint

starts here

then we can click play or scrub through

and i like that as the out point

maybe a couple frames earlier

then we can either click this to mark

the out point or click o on our keyboard

once we've marked our in and out point

we can click anywhere on the image and

hold and then drag down into the

timeline such as

and it'll bring just the in and out

portion that we've selected

and we can click and drop it on any

layer we want

let's delete that

or we can simply bring down the drag

video only

and then it's the exact same result

if this footage did have audio attached

to it then we can choose to

simply just bring the video portion

alone

just the audio portion or if we do here

it'll bring both

there are a couple other options which

are a little more advanced

but basically you can insert or

overwrite footage into your timeline

directly

such as

my timeline cursor exists right here in

the middle of this clip

so with our in and out selected if we

were to insert it you can see that it

placed the clip in the middle of those

two clips it actually cut it and

inserted in between

the other option is the overwrite

feature

with our inner note selected

if we press this button

depending on where our timeline cursor

is in our edit

it will

place the clip that we've selected

and

remove any part after

this section for the duration of this

clip

for example

our timeline cursor used to be right

here

and we used to have the second portion

of the clip here however

overwriting the clip deleted what used

to be there and pasted the new portion

the source panel window is just another

way of selecting clips and bringing them

into your timeline i tend to use the all

footage method of choosing my selects

however a lot of editors choose to

highlight their clips in the source

panel choose or select from here and

drag them into their edit either one

works

another thing you'll notice in the

source panel as well as the program

monitor

that

there is an area here that says fit this

is the select zoom level

of this window so for example if we go

into source

select here and go to 150 percent

it will zoom in on our footage and we

can use the scrolling areas

to move around in the clip

let's go back to fit

the same thing works within our program

monitor for any footage that we have

down here

so let's go to this clip here

fit

change that to 400 percent and then it

zooms in quite a bit and we can

move around and see where we need to go

let's set that back to fit

you can also see a representation that

our time code cursor is at 26 16 which

is the same here those two numbers

represent the same thing this number on

the right side is the total duration

of all the footage or content we have in

our edit

okay in the next lesson we will go over

some basic editing such as trimming and

moving clips around

okay welcome back so in this one we will

go over trimming clips and moving clips

around right now we have several clips

in our timeline and if we press the plus

tool on our keyboard we can zoom in and

if we click the timeline cursor and drag

it to the beginning we have one clip

here

if we click the

down arrow it'll bring us to the next

edit point

and so on

if we click the up arrow it'll go

backwards and do the exact same thing

change to the different edit point

if we select this clip for example

we can click and hold it and move it to

wherever we'd like

we can take this clip

move it up there if we want take this

clip move it here

we can highlight all of these clips

and move it around and we can basically

move them anywhere we'd like

at any point in time

and it'll create a completely different

result with the order of the clips

just as quick as that

the next thing we can do is further trim

the clips depending on if the edit calls

for it for example if we have a song

that calls for faster edits meaning it's

more upbeat it's a faster song then the

video portion might want to have faster

edits

okay so we'll go into the music folder

we will double click on discover that

opens it up into the source panel window

we can click play

and that is a slower part of the song so

if we look in the waveform we can see a

much louder part

so let's go to the second half here to

maybe

right there we'll make our in point

we'll click play

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

okay so that's the end of that

we will click on this mark out button

now we've selected an in and out which

is about the second half to

about the 60 mark okay then we want to

bring this audio portion that we've

selected down here so we can click here

and move it right there now you'll see

this portion that i've selected

doesn't equal the length of all our

footage so let's say all we wanted was

this in our final edit we only wanted

this part so what we have to do is trim

all of these clips or remove some clips

so that our edit is only this long

now

when we export the videos we can just

like this set in and out and only output

this part

but for our purposes we will

move some clips around and clean up the

edit

okay so let's bring our timeline cursor

to the beginning

that changes this back to the program

monitor

we have

our music in place

now we want to listen to the music and

find points

where it would be good to transition to

the next clip

so let's play it and i will show you how

to search for those

okay right where i stopped starts

another bar of music so what we can do

is

click and drag and select all of these

and simply

click and hold and drag right to the

point here and then it'll trim this clip

another way we can do that is let's go

back by pressing command z we can go

down to this clip without selecting

anything and move the cursor over until

we see this symbol we can click and hold

and trim that clip by dragging then it

makes a blank spot in our edit we can

click

and highlight the blank spot and press

delete on our keyboard

and it'll shift all of the other stuff

after it over now sometimes that doesn't

work if you do have other edits after it

or certain audio files after

and in that case you might have to do

our original way which is

click and drag everything

and then move it over

let's listen to this and find our next

point after this

so at this point it's about where the

full part of the song starts and this

would be a good point to transition into

faster cutting so what we can do is trim

that clip

click there and delete

and then re-watch here

that would be another point that's a bar

of music so we can click that and drag

it all the way to there

and then

since now we have an open space we

actually can open that up because we

know this point here is when all the

music starts up

by selecting nothing just clicking here

you can press m on your keyboard or this

button here

and it'll set a marker right here so we

always know in the edit this is where

that part of the song is now if we

wanted we could also do it on this

we could also do it right here by

selecting it and pressing m now that

exists in there so

if we are moving our music around

then we know that's always where it is

so this is helpful if you need to move

some clips around and still maintain

where that change in music is for our

purposes because we aren't going to be

moving this audio clip further down the

timeline we can just reference this

okay so let's watch this again

okay so

in my opinion i think

at this point the edit should start

speeding up and the cuts should be a lot

more frequent so what we can do is

throughout the edit we can just make

other markers while listening quickly

and this is a very fast way and a great

technique in order to find your edit

points and make quick edits

accordingly so what we can do is we're

going to play the music and tap m

every time we want an edit change to

happen and it's going to place a marker

and then we can use those markers

as

places to move clips to

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

okay

so that brings us to the end of the song

now i am a drummer so i find it pretty

easy to press m at the right spot if

that doesn't work for you you can always

just nudge the clips over a little bit

select different parts and move them as

you need to try to find the edit points

but if you are able to do that then this

is a really great time saver so now we

have our markers set up

we can zoom in and without even watching

our edit

we can actually as simple as this just

click this

and you'll see the

white spot that shows up right here

that means that this is snapped to place

and the reason it snaps to place is

because we have the snap tool enabled

right now

and that is enabled by pressing s

so if we press s it turns it off if you

press s again it turns it on we can also

click it on and off because the snap

tool is on if we click and drag here

it'll snap to that spot you can kind of

see it snapping to the line here

it also snaps to the marker in here

okay

so what we can do is this is the

leftover from this clip so we can delete

that

this is our next clip so what we can do

is take this and bring it right there

so it snaps to that

then now we have this part so we can

either trim it to that part

and it'll snap right in place

and then we just keep doing that until

we have all our edit points so there's

that

we'll bring that all the way to there

click and drag bring the next one

which is right here

and then we can drag this one

make sure it's lined up

drag this one

okay and just like i said before you can

select this area the empty spot if you

have clips after it press delete and

it'll just bring them all over so that's

also a faster way to do it

click that

delete

click that

just make sure

delete

and

there's our last one now we don't have

enough clips right now to fill the rest

of the song so what we can do instead is

we'll have one two three four

clips that are shorter

and then we'll have these ones a little

longer so what we can do is

let's make this one

two markers long

and we'll do this one as well two

markers long

two markers long

two markers long

two markers long and our last one

to the end

okay so now that we've filled our edit

and

our edit points match our markers

i can tell you without even watching it

that this will look pretty good because

we've picked the best parts of the clips

and we've edited them two markers

without even watching it now the only

thing that we can change is the clip

order and that obviously depends on

watching it and making creative

decisions so for our purposes this is

fine so let's have a look at this we'll

watch it from right here

[Music]

[Music]

okay so pretty good and that was a very

quick edit and that was editing to music

instead of visually editing and i should

note that we aren't working with

interview footage or anything with

dialogue so this is just a straight kind

of montage using some fall footage that

i shot added to some music i created in

pro tools

[Music]

all right so in this lesson we will

start exploring the effect controls

panel as i showed you in an earlier

lesson if you click on a clip in your

timeline

then you will get these options and if

you don't click they go away so if we

for example

let's go to a wide shot here say we

wanted this clip to be zoomed in just a

little bit with this clip selected

you'll see that these show up now

we can mess with the time remapping of

the clip which is the speed of the clip

we can change the opacity which means if

this clip was here and we had a

different clip underneath

we can adjust the opacity of this clip

which will start revealing the clip

underneath it so to give you an example

of that let's move this clip underneath

we'll take this clip

we'll go to opacity

and we can start lowering the opacity

and the clip below it will start the

show until it's all the way

this is a very important tip now it may

be different in your version but in this

version by default it creates what's

known as a keyframe that means that

this point in time

on that clip it's

locking in

a hundred percent if we were to

highlight that keyframe and delete it

it's still highlighted so in order for

the entire clip to show up with the

adjusted change let's say of

20

sh that means the bottom clip is showing

through

then because we never adjusted this

the keyframe shows up

and the whole clip will be 20

however if we were to come back to this

clip later and forget we did that and

adjusted this

then we've created a second keyframe so

this is

not a great thing because

from this keyframe all that keyframe it

will animate from 20

to 64

and that's not what we want so to get

around that let's undo

so that we're right back to where we

started we can click on the clip go to

opacity

it's defaulted to a hundred percent and

it has the stopwatch enabled so to get

around that we simply click it and then

it goes away so now no matter

what we do to this clip at any point in

time

throughout the whole clip it'll always

stay like that

stopwatches are used in order to set

keyframes so that you can change the

animation over time so for the opacity

the majority of the time you will not

need to change the opacity unless let's

say you're

at the very end want to fade out but if

you want to do that there are

transitions inside premiere already that

you can just apply and it'll do that in

a couple clicks as opposed to making a

bunch of keyframes and changing the

percentages

let's keep that at 100

let's move this clip back here

let's bring this clip to back down

and

re-select the clip

inside the motion tab

the default is set to 960x540

which is half of 1920

and half of 1080.

these represent the center points of the

clip so if we were to move the position

the 960 which is the horizontal parts of

your clip

we would move this

and dependent on

your center point of the clip which is

960 half of 1920

it'll start to move the clip

okay so we can click on the reset

parameter button to bring us back to 960

or we can do the vertical

and move it wherever we would like

let's reset that if we wanted to scale

in on this clip this is where we would

do that

we would simply click and hold and drag

right or left to

scale in or scale out

now if we scale out you can see that we

are revealing the black parts around the

clip now so if we did have a clip below

it then we would see the clip now on the

outside layer this can be a cool way of

creating some intermediate effects

inside premiere pro

let's set that back to 100 percent and

instead of clicking and dragging you can

also

type

in the number that you want so that's at

110 which means if we position the clip

we have a little bit more to play with

before the black is revealed

let's reset this

so

if you didn't like let's say this grass

area

then what we can do is you'd scale in

about half of it

so because we went to about half

we can move the whole thing right

by about half

which should bring us to about here so

let's bring the position to the right

and let's go back on the left side there

just until the black isn't shown

and it's not enough so we want to go to

about here let's say if we were wanting

to crop this off

so let's zoom in just a little more

and bring it more to the right

and that's close enough

so if we wanted to

lower this now we can also do the exact

same by clicking on and holding on the

horizontal

and going down

until just the black part isn't shown

so now when we play this clip

it'll be cropped in a little bit

[Music]

now keep in mind

this is a 1080p sequence which is

1920x1080 that's full hd this clip is

full hd so

when you scale in you will lose a little

bit of resolution so on an hd timeline

working with hd clips i would never go

more than maybe 115 or 120 percent okay

so let's reset both of those

the next thing we have is the rotation

this is pretty straightforward it's zero

to 360.

you can spin it all the way up to 360

and then it starts becoming

one full rotation plus

24 degrees

two full rotations plus 204 let's reset

that

let's say you shot your footage slightly

off balance then you can adjust it by

working like that and then scaling in a

little bit

to make up for it

i rarely work with the anchor point so i

would

leave that as is and the anti-flicker is

okay if you're trying to remove some

flicker in your your footage however

there are far better plug-ins out there

so if you do need to remove some flicker

i would suggest spending you know

between 50 and a couple hundred dollars

and getting an actual plug-in that is

meant to do so it performs much better

the next thing is your time remapping

now

i normally don't do anything up here in

the effect controls

instead how i work with time remapping

is i use the rate stretch tool which is

r on your keyboard so you press r

and then you have your right stretch and

if we zoom in a little bit

we can go to the end and

trim the clip in the same way we would

with our regular tool however because

we're using the rate stretch tool

it actually is speeding up the clip

so if we go back to our regular tool

which is our pressing v on the keyboard

if we right click and then go to speed

duration you can see that the rate

stretch tool by bringing it all the way

to here we've

sped up the clip to

177.77 percent if we wanted to bring

that back we can go to 100

and then it'll bring us right back to

where we started you can also slow down

footage but i wouldn't really do that it

tends to not look that great i would go

to about 92 at max for

23.976 footage so what we can do is

right click go to speed duration and

change that to 92 percent

and then it makes the clip a little

longer which if you need to fill in a

little gap that is the way to do it so

if we were to go to speed duration and

then set it to like 40 percent to show

you

it makes the clip very long and that's

because it's very slow now so the

playback will not look that great

[Music]

it looks very jagged and it looks like

your computer is having a hard time

playing it however that's not the case

it's just because there's not enough

frames in a second to make it play

smoothly let's press command z

to go back to original setting we can

confirm it by going to speed duration

and that it's a hundred

we can also right click speed duration

and we have a few other options we can

reverse the speed which will play the

clip backwards if there was audio

we can click this to maintain the audio

pitch when changing the speed of the

clip

and if we click this it will ripple edit

and all the clips after will move with

it so for example

let's change this to 150 and because we

have this selected

you can see all the rest of the clips

move to where it was let's undo that

go to speed duration and do the exact

same thing without that selected

and you'll see that now there's just a

gap

let's undo that

in this lesson we will talk about

transitions

transitions are a great way to change

from one clip to the other and it adds a

lot of production value because instead

of just cutting to the next clip you can

have creative fades such as crossfades

dissolves or you can have a fade that

dips to black to white and then back to

the new clip or you could have

purchased transitions or ones that

you've created in after effects that are

meant as colorful animation designs that

when placed between two clips creates a

very cool

look that transitions between one to the

other

in order to add a transition there are a

few different ways you can do it you can

simply right click

and go apply default transitions

and that right away created a cross

dissolve in between these two clips and

this is what that looks like

okay without it it looks like this

it just straight cuts let's move this

over

another way we can do it is by going

into our effects

panel go into video transitions

dissolve and you can see the one that

has the colored outline

that's the one that is set to default in

order to change that you can right click

another one and create it as the default

transition i would recommend keeping it

as cross dissolve as that is the one

that is mostly used

okay so you can click on this

and drag it down to where you'd like it

and that's the way it goes

now the reason why it's adding it on

this clip and not this clip is because

when we were picking the select the clip

actually starts here so for example if

we were to create it on this clip if we

move it up we can see that there is more

to play with on this side whereas

on this clip

there is no more this clip has some more

to play with so

let's bring that down let's bring that

back to how it was

and because this clip has more to play

with on this side as well

when we add a transition it'll balance

in the middle of both

so let's go to cross dissolve drag it

down and you can see that now it's

directly in the middle as opposed to on

this clip where it only goes on the

right side that's because this clip has

more to play with on that expanding this

way but this clip doesn't have any more

to play on this side

now to further go into transitions if we

want it longer we can put the mouse here

until we get this symbol

click and drag and then we can make a

longer transition or a shorter

transition now a shorter transition will

look like this

and a longer transition will look like

this

okay so that's just to taste you can

make it as long as or as short as you

want

this one

will look like this

it's pretty much the same thing it just

happens

earlier because it's showing more frames

before the clip actually starts

because there's more clip to work with

and then

simply

click and drag

or apply default transitions

or

because this is selected

we can also press command

d and that'll add across dissolve

okay so if we zoom in a little bit

and if we hold shift we can affect one

side of the transition without affecting

the other let's hold shift and move the

cursor

right until we see the symbol change at

the end

and then we can move this

and then

you can see that the right side

is longer than this side so if we wanted

to change this if we did it without

holding shift

it would extend the right side

by the same amount

let's undo that so what we can do is

hold shift

and drag it then it only affects this

side

if we only wanted a very fast one frame

transition we can do it the same way we

can hold shift

and bring it all the way down

or if we wanted two frames like that we

can do it that way as well

if we want to remove a transition

we can right click and go to clear

or we can select it and press delete

and just to clarify with the command d

approach you have to have the cursor

in the middle of the two clips in order

for it to work

if you try to do it over here

it will just not work you need

to apply it

command d just like that

now you can without

holding shift just drag it from the

beginning if you want to get it to two

frames one on either side very fast

okay so right now it is highlighted we

can click away to verify that

we can delete it if we don't want that

there

now there are other

transitions such as dip to black

we just click that drag it there and

what that does is

okay we can go to dip to white

some other transitions you can do are

more animated such as slide

where

it'll actually

slide the clip

or split

for example we'll do it on this one

now you can see it turned into red here

that means it takes more processing

power and it may not play back perfectly

the yellow line

means that it will it should be able to

play back

a green line means it's fully been

rendered and it'll have no problem

playing back

okay now even though it's red

it is set to a quarter so it had no

problem playing that however sometimes

with it being selected as red the system

will be a little sluggish and it will

start to look like it's skipping frames

and and lagging a bit if that's the case

you'll

just have to stop start it over again

and either render that selection or you

can simply just try to play through it

again if you do find that your system is

making a lot of red points because

you've added a lot of transitions or a

lot of layers or you're working with

very large footage like 4k or higher you

might need to render more often premiere

pro should have no problem playing most

footage again if it does cause an issue

then what you'll need to do is render to

do so you can render it a few different

ways you can render by selecting

everything

and go render selection

you can render just the audio the audio

doesn't really take much power from your

system so

it's most likely not needed rendering in

and out is if we just wanted to render

this one part so we can go right here

press i

go right after it press o so that we set

this as our in and out

go to sequence and render into out

now this is our rendering box that pops

up you can check out the details if we

want

and rendering the frames that's done now

and now you'll see that it's green that

means it has been rendered it'll have no

problem playing that section now

in most of your edits you will want to

add some sort of title or opening

graphic that adds production value and

establishes what your edit is for this

one it's basically just a montage of

some fall footage so an appropriate name

would be fall 2015

so in order to create a title we can do

it a few different ways let's make some

room here in our project panel window

because this is where the title will be

created

let's close down footage let's close

down music let's create a folder called

titles

and because now we have two sequences

it might make sense to also create a

sequences folder and let's

select both of those and drag those into

the sequences

if you do need to pass this on to

another editor

having it organized like this makes it

very easy to find things okay so inside

titles we have nothing right now so we

need to create a title

to create a title you go up to title

new title then you have a few different

options here so we're just going to want

to default still it won't be moving at

all so default still

this new title window will open up we

want it the width and height of our comp

so that's fine 1920 by 1080.

our time base is fine and pixel aspect

ratio is 1.0 which is correct

we can then name it we'll call this

intro title

okay so this is our type window we have

some different presets at the bottom we

have the properties on the right side we

have some different tools on the left

and some options to align on the bottom

left

okay so with our type tool selected

we can click and then start typing

if we go back to our selection tool

on the right side here we have a few

different options we can change this to

bold

we can increase the font size

we can change the aspect ratio

we can change the kerning

the tracking

the small caps

and a whole bunch of other stuff such as

the fill color

and so on

so for our purposes we will leave this

at zero and zero

we don't need anything else at this

moment

so with this selected

we can click and hold and move it

wherever we would like whichever

area of the frame feels good for the

title so for this one we can

move it to roughly the middle

to about there

and just to be safe and make sure that

we are in the center

we can use the center alignment tool

which is the horizontal center

and that'll snap it right to the middle

if we did want to snap it as well to the

vertical center we can use that as well

but

we do not want to do that in this case

so i'm going to click

hold

shift and bring it all the way down and

if you hold shift if you try to move it

left to right

it'll snap to the middle

okay so that's in the center

now this background is just showing you

a preview of where the timeline cursor

is if i lower this

then you can see that the timeline

cursor is over this clip and that's the

frame we see so this is just a visual

representation if you don't want to see

that you can turn off the eyeball and

it'll look more like photoshop

so when that's done you can click the x

up here

as you don't need to save it

it creates this title here and now you

can save so command s

and that'll save your project with this

new title now let's place this new title

in our titles folder

and if we go in here we can find our

title

i like to place titles on

v3 or v4 so let's place that on v4

let's bring our timeline cursor to the

beginning or press home on the keyboard

and make our view a little larger

and we can also make it a little bit

larger by

dropping our effect controls to a

smaller frame we can also move this in a

little bit more

now that we have a title in here it's

defaulted to 10 seconds like we set it

up in the

preferences which is right here

if we want it shorter than 10 seconds

we can make it whatever we want let's

bring it to 6 seconds and drag it here

so now for six seconds we will have this

on screen

now let's zoom in just a little bit

now because our edit point to the music

was right here

you can see that right here

let's trim our

title just to that spot now in order to

have the title fade in at the beginning

and fade out at the end we need to add

two transitions

the quick way to do this is if you

select the clip

and press command d

it will automatically create one at the

beginning and one at the end at the

default length

if you simply only want it on the one

side

let's undo that and then without it

selected you bring your cursor to the

beginning

and you make sure

that track

is selected here

you turn off this one because we don't

want it to fade here

and then you press command d

and then it will only create it on this

one because this one isn't highlighted

if you wanted to add a transition for

the audio because both are selected you

can do the same thing you can right

click at the beginning and go apply

default transitions and then there is

your constant power

fade in

in premiere pro it's called constant

power essentially just means a fade okay

so if we undo that

we can also do the same thing by having

the cursor at the

beginning and going command shift d

and then that'll do the audio

adding shift makes it happen on the

audio without shift it'll happen on

video

we can

increase the length of this

and then our title isn't showing up

because we have a crossfade let's enable

that again let's turn that one off

and let's see what it looks like so far

okay so when it changes to the new clip

the title disappears which is a cool

effect and the transition happens at the

beginning now you'll notice

when we were playing

the quality of the letters was not that

great so we can increase it a little bit

but it'll act a little slower

when we play it should be okay though

but you'll notice the letters do look

better now

let's save that command s

let's increase the fade in

go to the beginning and see what that

looks like

great now if we wanted this to stand out

a little more we can add a drop shadow

so if we go up to the effects window we

can go to video effects

and then we have a whole bunch of

options here now we could go through one

by one and try to find what we're

looking for or we can simply at the top

here type in what we want

let's type in drop for drop shadow

and then anything that has drop in it

shows up so right now drop shadow that's

great we can see that it's under the

perspective tab

let's click and drag the drop shadow

down to our intro title and then it

added a slight drop shadow now because

this is selected

we have some more options now in our

effect controls we've added a drop

shadow

okay so if we click here nothing shows

up if we click here here's our drop

shadow

so we can increase the opacity to 100

percent

we increase the distance

to a little bit

and we can soften it up by about 20

pixels or so

now without it that's what it looks like

and with it that's what it looks like so

it just adds just a little bit of a

black edge and makes the text pop off

the screen a little more the other

options you could do shadow only which

sometimes gives a cool effect depending

on the uh

the softness

or the opacity or whatever the case is

or if you have or if you have other

effects layered

on this title

another thing we can do is add colored

backgrounds to add behind our title

instead of the footage to do this we go

to file new

and then color matte

in color matte we want it the same as

our comp size and the same time base and

the same aspect ratio so let's go to ok

then we have this option for choosing

our color so right now our text is white

so let's choose something that will look

good as a background for white

and since our theme is fall let's keep

it towards yellows and oranges and

and off greens

so what we can do is maybe

something like that

choose name for a new mat

we'll call it orange

and then that'll be placed inside our

titles folder which is good for

organization

we'll bring this down to here

just below

let's zoom in a little bit and we'll

trim it

to our new spot here

and we will trim it

so it matches the length of our title

now let's go to the beginning of our

timeline and hit play

great okay so that looks a little cheesy

and it's not much to it but you get the

idea you can add different colors behind

text another thing you could do

is

go to crop

and you can apply a crop onto the color

map by clicking and dragging it down and

letting go

now with this selected you can see that

the crop has been added inside the

effect controls panel

and now if we go to the top part click

and drag the percentage

to roughly let's say there and then

feather the edge which will be this edge

to there and then further adjust the top

and if we do the same thing to the

bottom

we can start to get a really cool

effect going that just shows this now if

we wanted we could go to the right side

again

and the left side and almost make just a

little bit of a background for the text

if we don't like the left and right

happening we can reset those

so it's more of just a banner

if we want

to have a less

feather

we can do that as well

and you can get some really cool effects

by simply just adding a crop

to a color matte and by feathering it

just a little bit you can also animate

all of these with the keyframe

so for example

if we wanted

the beginning to be a full frame shot

meaning the entire frame is filled with

orange what we can do is go to the top

and the bottom and make those back to

zero

and because we've clicked the stopwatch

and we're at the beginning

at the beginning we now have two

keyframes one for the top one for the

bottom but you can see it here on the

sides

and then if we go over to

let's say

[Music]

one and a half seconds which is one

second 12 frames

we can create

two more keyframes

or

if we undo both of those

we can click and drag and it'll

automatically create a keyframe when we

start to drag

now let's do it the first way so let's

undo that

we'll click two keyframes and then on

those keyframes you can see that we are

on the keyframes because that is blue

if we were off of it they wouldn't be

blue

okay so the color may be different in

your version but

when the keyframes are highlighted or

when you're on it they will show up like

this and if you're not they'll be blank

so let's make sure we're on that

and then

we can adjust this back to where we

liked it

the only difference is

now we have a keyframe at one second and

12 frames for the top and another one

for the bottom

and then at the very beginning we have

another two keyframes that are set to

zero so over time this will animate from

zero

to these percentages which are

let's make sure we're on our keyframe

which are 72 and 12.

okay so let's get started right now in

our sequence 1080p edit we have

a song created we've added a transition

at the beginning and it sounds like this

okay to further exaggerate that if we

clicked and dragged the audio

and moved it to the start time here

so in other words we've trimmed the

audio to here the fade still exists and

now it sounds like this

okay so let's reset that and we're just

going to extend the

fade a little more so it happens more

gradually

[Music]

great

okay so to show the waveform of the

audio track

the way you do that is you go over here

with your mouse cursor

and you simply just scroll

and it opens up and reveals the audio

waveform or you can close it by

scrolling the other way

that works with any layer

and it's the same thing with video if

you want to see a video thumbnail

then you can go here

and

open it up a little bit let's close that

okay so let's reveal the waveform of

both tracks

you can see here in the waveform that

this is the loudest part of the song and

that's where we made our fast cuts

if we did not want the audio to get

louder at that point even if our song

does do that

using this line and adding a couple key

frames we can actually change

the volume there and make it more

consistent

now visually you won't see the

difference in the waveform unless we

were to export it and bring it back in

but because of the key frames that we

will be adding you will hear a

difference

so what we do is you hold command

and then you can see the plus symbol

i'll let go

command and you can see the plus that

happens one more time

there's no plus then the command

so with that

right there

right on this line

you find where you want to make your

first keyframe so this is the point

where just before it starts getting

louder so we're going to make one right

there

i'm going to do the exact same thing on

the bottom one which is the other

channel of the

stereo track

and then on this one right when it peaks

it's going to be right there

and then we're going to do the same

thing on this one

and before this

and after it

we haven't done anything so far we've

just added keyframes but they aren't

doing anything so what we need to do in

order to make the second half

as loud as the first half

is we need to take this

and simply click and drag it down until

the decibels go low enough that we think

it'll make a difference and sound like

the first half

so i think

five decibels let's try 4.8 should be

fine and we'll do the exact same thing

for this one

and the result of that is the audio

drops

just under five decibels on each track

[Music]

okay and that

compared to what it used to be

so it's just a little louder originally

so if we hold shift command z we can

redo what we did

[Music]

if we wanted to exaggerate that

we can go to let's say -12

and you'll get a better example of what

it's doing

in order for audio to be heard such as

dialogue in interview footage you have

or a voice over for example when you

have music and in this

is right at zero

it's going to be very difficult to hear

the dialogue audio so in that case you'd

want to use that technique so let's say

you wanted the voiceover audio to start

right here

you'd make a keyframe there and there

and roughly there and there and then you

would do the exact same thing

bring it down

probably

around minus 12 to 16 somewhere there

depending on your music and how loud the

dialogue is

and then when you play it the music will

drop and at that point that's where your

dialogue starts and with dipping the

audio you'll be able to have the

dialogue come through and that's really

the only way to work with dialogue and

music

so you'll notice that it was playing

around minus 12 now so that gives about

12 decibels of audio for your dialogue

to be able to be heard if you have sound

effects it's the same idea you would

create a folder for organization you'd

call it sound effects you may even put

that folder in a master folder called

audio and have music and sound effects

in it

you would then grab your sound effect in

this case we'll just use a song for an

example

you bring that down and place it where

you want in your edit

you will use the razor tool

and then delete the rest you could even

highlight press command shift d

so it fades in and fades out and then

move this around where you wanted it so

for example if it was a build up sound

effect you could place it right here

when the sound gets louder and then it

would emphasize the starting point to

the faster edits and overall it would it

would make the edit much more impactful

another cool window in premiere pro is

the audio track mixer because we have a

sequence set up

if we go to the audio track mixer

now we have a whole bunch of tracks that

represent all of the tracks down here we

have a1 a2 a3

all the way to our master

if we see that here a1 a2 all the way to

master

exactly like a mixing board we can

adjust all of the fader volume levels to

whatever we'd like and it will only

affect that one channel so if we wanted

only channel one to be quieter

we can lower it to whatever we want if

we want both to be lower

being set both to the same or to reset

those to zero we can press and hold

option

click

and it'll default it back to zero

if we wanted to lower the entire

audio of our sequence we can go to the

master

and then lower that by what we want

normally to give myself a little bit of

headroom and to avoid some peaking

i can lower the master volume level

and i normally set it to about minus 1.5

or minus 2.

and another cool area inside premiere

pro that a lot of people don't know

exists

is if you click on this little tiny

arrow here you can actually

have inserts and sends where you can

apply different plugins that affect the

entire track so if you have a whole

bunch of audio on one track you can

actually apply for example a high and

low pass which gets rid of any low end

frequencies or high end frequencies that

you may not want and it'll affect the

entire track

so this is great if you want to apply

something on the master channel for

example

so again how i found that was

in the audio track mixer there's a

little tiny arrow at the top left you

click it and then this opens up if i go

to the master channel

the very top are all inserts and these

are all sends i have yet to use any of

the sends for our purposes we only need

to insert plugins or essentially add

plugins to add effects to any of our

tracks so on our master track we can go

to the top here click on the arrow

go to filter and eq

add an eq

then we will right click go to edit

and then this

track effects editor will come up now

this is pretty standard this will look

the same in pretty much any recording

software you have a whole bunch of

different areas you can have your high

your mids and your low and then you can

adjust these to taste to remove or add

certain frequencies

okay so we're going to reset it

so now what i normally do is once i have

all my dialogue and my edit is near

completion you can

start playing around with these

to cut

or boost certain frequencies that make

your audio sound better now because 99

of the time any music you add will be

already mastered you don't need to go

crazy with these

you can actually probably get away

with

leaving it as is and only doing the

effects like the high and low pass eq on

just your dialogue so let's say if we

had dialogue on channel three and four

we'd find

three and four

and right here we'd go filter and eq eq

pass

edit

and we just remove a little bit of low

ends

and then a little bit of the high ends

this will get rid of any camera hiss

sound that was created when recording

and this will remove any subsonic sort

of frequencies where you can't really

hear it but if you had a bassy system

then a lot of annoying sounds would

probably show up so this prevents that

if you want some reverb on your music

track or let's say you had some

dialogue you wanted to add some reverb

to

we can go to our the track we want to

add reverb to which is channel one and

channel two so in channel one and two we

will add some reverb

we can either go to one of these which

is a preset or we can edit

and basically just mess around with all

of these settings until you get

a sound that you like and then from

there play around with the mix level in

order for it to be more in the mix or

less in the mix

so i normally

would set that to around you know 20 or

so

and then i would do the same thing on

the second channel so that it happens in

both the left and right

if you find 20 is too much put it to 10

or 15.

there are also some noise reduction

plug-ins such as

d-clicker crackler

denoiser

these are okay it really depends on the

audio you have so if you have some audio

that has a couple crackle sounds in it

you could try using this to remove a

little bit of it they're not perfect

depends on what you have but you can try

those out

and the last thing here would be on your

master channel once you're done your

edit and your you have dialogue and you

have all of your sound effects and your

music added and you're ready to export

i would recommend

going here and adding a special

then a mastering plugin and this kind of

in a sense

glues everything together and makes all

of the channels work nicely together it

adds a little bit

of reverb if we go to right click and go

to edit

and then the subtle clarity is a preset

that works great

you can see it boosts a little bit at

2000 you can also add a low and high

pass like we did with eq if you'd like

and then you just would simply lower the

volume here

and it does the exact same thing

as we did in the eq

now the only thing i would change is the

reverb amount 20 is a little high for

the master channel you'll definitely

notice some reverb the idea with adding

reverb is you really don't want to be

able to hear it you just want it to be

enough that it is doing something but

not enough to be actually heard now i

know that doesn't really make sense but

in the mastering world it's just a way

to kind of glue everything together just

a little bit and again it's not enough

to really be heard but essentially it's

not done to add reverb it's just done to

kind of blend things together a little

bit better

so i normally set that to about five

percent

the exciter is great this boosts a

little bit of the high end

the widener at about 30 percent is also

great this creates a wider stereo field

which means when you have audio and

you've panned it left and right a little

bit this creates a bigger sound

your loudness maximizer this increases

the overall sound of your master channel

by 15

and your output gain is set to zero you

can boost it a little bit if you want

but zero is fine

in this lesson we will talk about color

labeling

this is a great way to

visually organize all of your files

inside your sequence such as all of your

footage or all of your audio and

separate them from other things such as

effects you created titles and so on

to get started let's go into premiere

pro preferences

and let's go down to label colors

now i like to create very vibrant colors

if we go into here

let's create one that's pure red

we'll set that to okay

we'll call this

best take

we'll call this one

good take

we'll call this one usable

we'll change the good take one to

a nice blue color we'll change

usable

to

something like that which means it's not

great but it's usable then i normally

create one that's pure black that's

called

not usable

then

we can create one for let's say

pure white

which will be

titles

we can create one that's

pure green

that are effects

and then you have two more if you want

to create some other ones but that's

typically what i do you don't have to do

exactly what i did but it just really

helps with organization and i'll show

you why so let's click ok

you can see that it's changed all our

clips to white

now if we go into our all

footage remember these are global

settings the labels are global

settings so any sequence will be the

exact same so what you can actually do

is

when you're picking selects if you've

set up your labels when you go through

let's say this is the clip you like you

can right click here go to label

and click best take or good take or

whichever one you want to do and then it

is very noticeable how different it is

in the other clips visually just very

quickly you can tell that that is a clip

that you want to grab let's say you're

going through and this is your second

select

you right click

go to best take

and you're going through and this clip

is good it's not the best but it's

definitely something you want to use

so you can say good

and you're going through and this clip

you don't want to throw it out

but

it's not something you think that is

your best tag or even a good take but it

might come in handy set it to usable

so once you've gone through all of your

selects

you can actually

click one hold shift and then just go

through all of them and just check all

of them

copy go over to your

other timeline which is your main edit

and paste them and then all your selects

already labeled with what you consider

the best to worst is

that's another great way to edit

in our edit

we've already selected these as our best

takes so we can label them red

they're all red

now we know this is a title so we will

go label title so now it's white

this is a color matte so that that's an

effect

and after a while when you start having

dozens and dozens of different things

it's very easy to find out what

something is so you could create another

one that's called interviews and make it

you know purple color for example and

then when you look at this on layer two

you'd have

all of your purple clips and then

underneath would be all your best b-roll

clips which are red and then you'd have

your effects clips above which are your

you know green clips and then your your

white intro clips are above that and

then your title clips which are white

are above that

in this lesson we will discuss

nesting and what it is

okay so nesting is basically

a sequence inside a sequence or a

timeline inside the timeline they all

are the same thing depending on the

program you use for example after

effects calls it pre-composing and that

basically means that a composition that

you create or timeline

exists within another composition or

timeline so in premiere pro they're

called timelines and sequences you have

a sequence inside your timeline window

so when you have a sequence inside

another sequence it's known as nesting

so

for an example if we wanted

all three of these clips to appear

within a sequence in other words nest

them so that they show up in one layer

we select them all

right click

go to nest

call it what we want we can say intro

sequence

click ok

and then you'll see here that it says

we've created a new sequence called

intro sequence we'll put it inside our

sequences folder and then you can see

what happened it created a nest

in our timeline

and it looks the same visually however

if you open this up it opens our new

sequence that has our three inside it

now the benefit to this is you can still

adjust these however you like but

now you can also

play around with

the scale and everything

by only using one layer because they're

all inside it

so for example

we can

go up here and type in

fast which is

fast blur

we can drag it down

and then we can

blur the whole image

and everything gets affected so that's

very powerful

okay so at the beginning

it's at the 43.

we can click on the stopwatch make a

keyframe there

go a little further

to right okay it stops there

we can create another keyframe

or we can simply just start dragging and

it'll auto create

back to

zero

so from the beginning it's blurred

and it becomes in focus

okay so let's watch that

okay so that's just one example of

nesting you could do this with several

different layers you can do this with an

unlimited amount of layers and turn them

all into one

if you want it inside here you could

still nest again

and you can do that as many times as

you'd like

in order to make editing more efficient

in other words if you were to try to do

this blur effect you'd have to do it

three times whereas doing it this way

you just nest it and then you just do it

once

in an earlier lesson we built this intro

title

now lower third titles are created

pretty much the exact same however

you may have a few extra layers of text

so let's create a lower third title for

example

okay so let's get started another way to

create a title quickly instead of going

to title new title and default still is

by simply pressing command t

from here you can name

your first layer in your lower thirds

this one can be called

will

and then we will go to our type tool

we will call it will

we will make sure that it's selected

we will change it to the font we want to

use

we will roughly put it in the spot

okay

then it

was created right here

then we will create another one command

t

we will call this

ovc masters

and we will do the same thing and

because my timeline cursor is over this

one we can see the preview of that

let's call this ovc

masters

okay so let's make sure that's selected

once again

change it to the font we want to use

we will bring it underneath

lower the size a little bit

okay

then we will drag that one down here

we will go back into the will one by

double clicking and then if we wanted

we could

add a last name

to make it

fit a little better

okay then we'll go back into the ovc one

by double clicking

now because

will is above it it's not going to show

it so in this case we'd have to do that

and then it would show up

so ovc masters

okay now

i don't think that looks too great so

instead what we'll do is

we'll play around with it a bit we'll

lower it we'll play around with the

kerning

maybe change the color

make it like a like a blue

and okay so that's good

we'll go into the

will one

we'll change this color to

okay

and then from there we will create

a new color matte

we'll create it like an off-white

call it off white

then we'll place that inside our titles

we'll put this one inside titles

this one inside titles

and then we will take our

off white one

we'll drop it below

so now it's covering the entire screen

on this layer we will crop it so that it

makes just a nice little border

in order to do that we go into our

effects panel

type in crop

we'll drag that down

and then we will bring that down to

roughly

let's try there

we'll go to the right side

then we'll try the bottom

and maybe we just need a little bit on

the outsides

okay

then what we can do is on this layer

we can go into opacity

we'll get rid of the keyframe so we

don't have any keyframes

then on opacity we will drop it down

just a bit so you can see

a little bit of what's going on behind

and try maybe

74 75 percent

so now that is a basic lower thirds

title

if we wanted to

add a little bit of production value to

this

we can

select all of them right click go to

nest

call it

lower thirds title

click ok

then we have this on one layer and

because it's a title

we'll label both of these white

and right now it's not doing anything

it's just sitting there so to add some

production value we can animate it in

and animate it back out

so this is on v4 so we will turn that

layer on

then we will press the up arrow to make

sure we're at the very beginning we will

go into motion of this layer

we will create a keyframe under position

and

960 is the default

so we need to remember that number

so we will move it

all the way off screen you can see this

starting to go off screen

we will keep going until it is all the

way off

then we will go with the keyboard on the

right arrow roughly let's say 16 to 18

or 20 frames so one two three four five

six 7 8

16 17 18 we'll try we'll type back in

here 960.

okay and then we'll go to the very end

so in order to do that we press the down

arrow

and we'll have to go back

one frame

in order to show the last frame because

if we actually press the end it isn't

the final frame it's actually the start

of the next frame so

let's go to the end and then back one so

always at the end if you want to see the

last frame of this video if you go to

the end

it shows nothing because it's the next

frame so you need to press the left

arrow to show the last frame if we go to

the beginning you see the beginning of

this because it's the very start of the

frame if we zoom all the way in it's the

very beginning in order to show the last

frame of this we need to go back one

okay

so in order to see the last stream of

this

we need to press down and then back one

frame

there it is

now because we've already created

keyframes we have two at the start we

don't need to worry about this anymore

all we have to do is continue animating

so

again we'll remember 960 and we will

take this

and drag it off screen again

and then we will go back once again

about 18 frames

by using the left arrow this time

and

now we will type in 960 again

to bring it back

that automatically creates a keyframe so

we have one key frame where the

animation is

off screen

doesn't exist even though it's the first

frame because we've pushed it all the

way off

then we have this frame

if it wasn't highlighted that means we

wouldn't be on this frame

okay so at this second keyframe we're

back at the original position

so it animates in

and then through all this time it stays

there

and then from this keyframe which is the

same keyframe as this they're just both

set to 960.

then this one goes back to where it was

before all the way out

so let's watch what that looks like

okay so essentially to establish

somebody speaking you'd show the clip

have the person here speaking and then

you'd have this title to establish who

they are and this is known as a name

title or a name key or a lower thirds

title

in this lesson i will teach you how to

create a freeze frame which in premiere

pro is called a frame hold

in this example we will use our intro

sequence we will double click it to open

up our nested sequence

and on our bottom layer we can see that

if we scrub through it we have moving

footage now sometimes that's what we

want but

if we don't want that if instead we just

wanted a slightly blurry freeze frame to

use as our background image then to do

that we find the frame that we'd like to

make a freeze frame of which i think

that's nice

then we right click and go to

add frame hold

then from here

it'll be playing and then all of a

sudden it'll just stop

so in this case we don't want the

beginning part

and then we can move this to the very

beginning

and because it's a frame hold no matter

how long we create this it acts just

like a still image basically exactly

like this we could create that as long

as we want and both will show up for as

long as we make them

let's undo

we'll stretch this to that so now for

the entire beginning we have a still

frame of the image

we can then go in

and add what's called a fast blur

and slightly blur the image

to make this a little more prominent

all right in this lesson we will talk

about some other keyboard shortcuts that

are useful to save you some time the

first keyboard shortcut that i find

super useful is the nudge by one frame

so in order to do that you click on

whatever you want to nudge and then

press command and then left arrow

and it moves it one frame at a time or

command right arrow

this works on anything

the next one is the select all this is

pretty similar to anything such as

highlighting things on your desktop so

that's just command a

and that selects everything then you can

move everything at once

the next thing is the cut and paste

which works just like using let's say

microsoft word essentially you select

something command x cuts it

but also copies it and then command v

paste it

to create in and outs

it's the same as working in the source

monitor

you place your timeline cursor in your

sequence where you'd want the end point

to be

so if this is where you want the

endpoint to be you press i

and then at the end you press

o

this is the area that will be exported

when you go to

file

export media

another super useful command is

pressing a on your keyboard

which brings up this tool called track

select forward tool

this tool is super useful because let's

say you just wanted to move

everything after

this clip

so in this case

i would lock the audio so that the audio

is unaffected and then i would simply

click here

and drag

or click here and drag

anywhere you click it highlights

everything after

and if you press

shift plus a

it'll do the opposite anything before

that

so let's press v to go back to our

regular tool

command s to save

and we'll adjust this to show the rest

of the tools

another really great keyboard shortcut

and tool

is the slip tool which you can find by

pressing y

or going over here

this is a very useful tool because

in your edit when you have a clip before

and after

you can simply press y click and hold on

a clip and then drag left and right by a

certain amount of frames this is plus

one second and four frames or we can go

back 21 frames

so

if i were to go let's say three seconds

ahead

without affecting anything before and

after i've slipped the clip and now this

part

is what was originally three seconds way

over here so in other words

if i were to undo that

and drag all this open

by slipping i'm actually bringing the

portion here all the way to here

when i slip

well if i go the other way

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so that's very very powerful

let's undo that

another cool option is

if you click and hold this clip then

hold command and option

and then drag

to the other clip you can actually

reverse the clip so this clip is now

here and this clip's now there

to show you that again

command option

click and hold the clip and drag it to

where you want to go

the rolling edit tool is also fun to use

it makes things a little easier to do

that you click on this or press n

and what this does is basically move

your edit point

so assuming you have more to play with

you have more what's called handles on

the clip which means before this point

on your edit or after this point in your

edit you have more to play with you can

use your rolling edit to click and hold

at an edit point

and move the cut to a later time

or on a different clip let's say move it

earlier

okay so in this timeline we have a whole

bunch of clips and the first one being

this close-up of a leaf with a blue

background

our next one

is a close-up of leaves but they're a

lot more

orangey-red and there's green in the

background so so we might want to color

correct both of them in order for them

to work a little better together so to

do that

let's clear our search bar here we can

go into video effects

into color correction and then there's

two that i normally use i normally use

three-way color corrector and i also

normally use rgb curves

both are pretty powerful

sometimes i'll use fast color corrector

however the three-way color corrector

does everything this does and more

so let's apply a three-way color

corrector to this clip

by default it does nothing

and on this clip let's do the same thing

let's

okay

on this clip our goal is to

make this a little more orange so how we

do that is in our mid colors we can take

this and push that

a little more orange just a bit

so if we cycle the effects here on and

off to show you what it does

it just adds a little bit of orange to

it to the mids in this clip

okay if we compare that to this

it's a little closer

now in this one we'll do the opposite

we'll take the mids and we'll go towards

the blue a little bit

and because this is a darker clip we can

actually do it a bit on this side too in

the darks

okay

and then what we can do is brighten up

the overall clip by taking the mids in

the input levels

and just going up just a bit

okay so now if we go between the two

clips

this clip looks like it fits a little

more in with this clip

we could even go

to maybe 1.3 now they're getting a

little more yellow

okay so the difference is

that

so in this clip we could even lower the

blacks a little bit here

and we could even remove a little bit of

the highlights

just a bit so if we go too much you can

see what that does

okay

and then

just makes those clips blend a little

better and that's normally what i do i

just kind of keep cycling between these

two

or what you can do is use your keyboard

you can press the down arrow and then

just press left and right

left and right to view them left and

right which cycles between the very last

clip and the first clip

so that is the basics of color

correcting

you are basically

changing the mids the highs and the lows

you're messing with the input levels the

output levels you could play around with

the saturation a bit

and really make the color saturated

you can go to this clip and do the same

thing if you wanted you can go to let's

say 150 to push the colors a bit

now 150 is actually quite a bit so maybe

130 is about the most i do so color

correcting is essentially just

correcting the clips so that they sit

better together

in an edit when they're you know back to

back color grading however is not

necessarily correcting any footage

but it's actually

adjusting the overall color to give it a

look

so for example in cc 2015 and above

you can actually go into the window

panel and open up the lumetri color

which is an effect panel window that

looks like this so let's click that and

place it right beside our effect

controls

let's give ourselves a little more room

here so we'll move these all the way

over

okay

and for the purposes of this i will show

you what color grading can do

on a raw clip without color correction

so let's remove the color correction

and

inside our lumetri controls there's a

whole bunch of settings we have basic

creative curves color wheels vignette

and this is very very powerful so under

basic

correction

we can mess with its color temperature

we can

make it more blue

or more orange

we can play with the tint

and we get some really cool looks very

quickly just by doing that

we can

play around with the exposure of the

clip now it's important to understand

that

when it says exposure it doesn't mean

that we are changing the actual exposure

of the recorded clip

as if it was a raw clip this just means

we're changing essentially the iso but

we're doing it post so this isn't

actually changing it as if it was on the

fly recording

so i actually think that the exposure

control here actually does a pretty good

job i think it does better than

adjusting let's say the brightness or

working the three-way color corrector

and adjusting the input or output levels

okay so if we want it to be a little

brighter we can make it brighter

or darker so for this we'll keep it

about 0.1

we can add contrast

or remove contrast

i normally like to punch the contrast

just a bit around 10

highlights

again around 10

shadows

i think it looks a little nicer at -10

whites

i think

maybe around

there

the black levels

will try that

and the overall saturation i wouldn't

worry about this too much maybe you know

104 at most

and then when you start changing the

first setting in your lumetri color

panel it automatically adds lumetri

color as an effect in your effects

controls panel you can make changes here

i just find it easier here

so that's in the basic tab you can go to

the creative and further add some more

stuff such as

sharpen

you can add a ton of vibrance

a ton of saturation

you can do tint balance depending on

working with these

and you can also add the look of faded

film

really powerful stuff

okay so

that's basically using lumetri color as

a way to color correct

now if you want to add different looks

and apply different lumetri what's known

as luts

we can

use some different ones here or use our

own

so

for example we can go to the amira

and go to let's say canon 1d

or the phantom

s log 3

or we'll set it to none and we go to the

creative and then check out some of

these creative ones such as gold heat

or neutral start

and they're just like some really really

cool ones here i kind of like that one's

in a space and then if you wanted you

can you know do the intensity to kind of

knock it off just a bit or a ton more so

this could be great for show intros you

know intro sequences

just any effects throughout your edit

that you want to add a little bit of

production value to make it seem a

little more

not so raw

okay and if you don't want it on you can

simply delete it or if you want to just

kind of what's known as a being which

means just turning it off and comparing

it to it off

what's known as a being and that just

means turning it off and on and

comparing the two

okay so let's remove that

once you feel you have all the clips

matching meaning this one seems like it

fits nicely with this one based on the

colors

you go through all of them and adjust

each one at that point you've basically

onlined your edit from a color

correction standpoint in an earlier

lesson we talked a little bit about

mastering audio in the audio track mixer

by using the drop down arrow here we've

applied a mastering plugin

and set it to subtle clarity and dropped

the reverb to

5. we talked a little bit about adding

an eq

on certain clips

to use

a high and low pass to clean up the

audio a little bit so you're moving some

frequencies that are not wanted

if you have dialogue that you'd like to

kind of come through the mix a little

bit better you could

push up you know the dialogue a little

bit human voices tend to sit around

you know 2k so you could push that up

just a bit

now another thing you do at the audio

mastering stage is just like we did with

adjusting this level we would go through

and find any parts that seem to be a

little loud let's say you had some audio

of someone speaking and someone decided

to yell a little bit or talk quieter

well in that case you could make three

points

and either drop down that one spike of

loud audio

so that it's all consistent or

increase

a part where it's a little quiet and

basically you just want to do the

opposite so if it spikes here with your

keyframes go the opposite if it gets

quiet here then with your keyframes do

the opposite and you basically want to

create keyframes and do this entire

process on every single track

and it does take a long time but it

makes a big difference in the overall

production value of your audio

you now have a finished edit

you have

your intro title you have music that

fades in it changes different volumes

from time to time depending on if you

have dialogue that comes in you have

your b-roll you have it all color

corrected

you maybe even have applied a color lut

and you have it all timed out to the

beats of the song and then let's say at

the very end

you want to have some fades and on this

one as well

you want to fade it out so at the end it

goes

[Music]

okay

so now we press o

then at the very beginning we press i

that creates our in and out point for

our entire project

basically that means if we

did have for example some other footage

here

in our 1080p edit

that would not be exported because our

in and out point is set just to here

okay so now that our endnote point is

selected

our next thing to do is

export it

we can go up to file

export media or we can press command m

so let's press command m

that brings up

our export settings panel

we can move the window around we can

make it larger if we want

okay we have our source

and we have our output

so if we move this

this is our timeline length

and the blue is what we have our in and

out point set to

so if we want to set it to a spot where

we can see

our source looks like this

and our output looks identical right now

because it's just set to a pretty high

quality export if however we were to set

it to a really low quality export when

we're in the output setting this would

look much worse

than this

it's basically a reference and compares

your output to your source

all right and then in the next lesson we

will start creating some export presets

okay guys welcome back and in this

lesson we will discuss creating some

export presets

we have our export media tab open

okay up here we have our format options

if we were going to dvd we'd click this

if we were going to blu-ray we would

click this

so for example let's click dvd

then we can set it to

ntsc wide wide progressive and so on

and then in this case we'd have a little

bit of black bars

so what we do is we go to stretch to

fill

or scale to fill whichever you prefer

blu-ray we can work with the same idea

we have a whole bunch of different

presets

if we're going to the internet then we

would select h.264

and then we will create a whole bunch of

different presets that show up here

so right now

we're working with

an hd timeline with hd footage at

23.976 frames per second and so we need

to create a 1080p preset okay so let's

get started so we have right now

width 1920x1080

so that's perfectly fine

23976

progressive

aspect ratio is 1.0 which is fine tv

standard ntsc that's great

level 4.1

okay

render at maximum depth we want to check

that you'll notice that now it's changed

to custom because we've changed

something

we want our bit rating coding to be two

pass

this will take longer but it creates a

much higher quality

export

okay the next thing we want to do is

select use maximum render quality

if we're working with

hd footage 1920 by 1080

i would normally keep this at around 26

and this one can be 26 27 or 28 i

normally just keep it you know two above

so the target bit rate is 26 megabits

per second

and the maximum is 28.

okay let's go to audio

audio format is aac that is fine at 48

we want to export as stereo audio

quality high

and kilobits per second is 320 that's

great okay so that's all the settings we

want to change

so let's go up to the preset we'll click

this button right here we'll create a

new preset

we'll call it

1080p

23.976

and at 26

megabits per second

we'll click that

it has now created a preset you can

already see that i've created one very

similar to that

if we were exporting to 720p for example

we can use this as a starting point

then we can uncheck this here

we can change this to 1280

by 720

and because it's a smaller resolution

our bitrate doesn't need to be as high

so we can set this to something like

you know 16 or 18

and then we'll just do this a little bit

higher

so 18 and 20.

everything else stays the same

we go to save preset we'll just change

the very beginning to 7

20

and then we'll change this number

to 18

press ok

now we have a 720 preset and a 1080p

preset that we created

using the 1080p as a guide again we'll

create a 4k preset in order to create a

4k preset

we will change the height to 2160

we will change the width to

38.40

that automatically change the level to

5.1 which is great that's what we need

we can't have this high of a resolution

with a lower level bit rating coding

still always two pass

target bit rate

now this we need to make a little higher

so i normally do

around 35

which means 37

and we'll save that

as

either 2160p

or 4k

hd

and then megabits per second is 35.

we'll go to ok

now we have a 4k 720 and 1080.

so now we want to create a standard

definition one to do that we will keep

our 1080p as a starting point we will

uncheck this

we will create the height as 480.

we will make the width

eight five two

and then we will

stretch to fill

and that just cleans up the one layer of

pixels at the bottom

okay so it's important to understand

that

the reason why it's 852 by 480 is

because we're working with widescreen

footage that has a 16 by 9 ratio if

we're working with 4 3 footage then we

can actually work with this being 720

instead

but if we use 720

then the image gets stretched a little

bit

so let's go back to 852

and if we go to source

if we compare the source to the output

you'll see that it's slightly different

but that's okay because we are

converting high definition footage to

standard definition widescreen so it's

okay to have a little bit of a loss

we do not need such a high bitrate we

can set a max of let's say like eight or

ten

okay

and

then we will save a preset as

for

80

and we'll set that to 8

and then we'll just make a note this is

widescreen

okay so now that we've created all the

presets that we need

let's go back to the original preset of

1080p because we're working with the

1080p timeline we have all the settings

set up

audio is good video is good we're

exporting both video and audio

okay then we need to name our clip so we

can click here

let's create a new folder called

finals

you can call this whatever you want

okay we'll call it

fall 2015

click save

and then we can hit export

it's rendering the required audio files

and then it begins encoding our entire

edit

because it's hd it will take a few

minutes to export

but once it's done then you'll have a

desktop version that you can upload

directly to youtube or vimeo and the

quality will look great

if you're working on multiple edits at

once and you'd rather export them all at

the same time overnight you can do that

and it's called batch exporting or batch

rendering

at the bottom here you can cue up a

whole bunch of edits and send them all

to adobe media encoder to be rendered

all at once one after another so we have

an output name we've set our preset for

this export we'll go to q

okay so media coder is open once it

loads it you'll see here so we have

here's our edit it's h264 there's the

preset we've created this is where it's

going

and we could continuously load as many

as we want and then hit the play button

to start encoding

and it'll one by one render all of them

so we don't need to continuously keep

pressing export and export every single

time it'll just continuously go one

after another that's called a batch

export to give you an example of that

let's go back into premiere pro and

we'll set a different output

we'll press command m

to open up the export media panel

we'll call this one

fall 2015

short because it's a shorter edit

we'll save we'll cue it

and then you'll see it loads a second

one with the different name

if we click

save

it'll start exporting our video

once this finishes it'll automatically

start doing the next one this is super

handy because while this is exporting

right now we can actually go back into

premiere and start working on a

different project in fact we could even

close premiere right now and media

encoder would still be working

sometimes in editing you want to

send a lower version just as a reference

file for your client to see in this case

you don't need to send such a high

quality video that has a very large file

size to it instead we can create a much

smaller preset and also include time

code in the edit here which makes it

very easy to communicate with your

client over the phone for example

because they can tell you what time code

they want the change to happen at so to

create a lower resolution preset we can

start from the 1080p as as default

we can uncheck this to start editing but

we will also select this

so that it holds the constraint of both

of these so let's click on the height

we'll call this

360. and then it defaults the width

because we have this selected to 640. so

it keeps the aspect ratio because we've

selected this

so what we can do is

set this to about the same as standard

definition which for a smaller frame

size will have a pretty good resolution

and then

this video will only be 33 megabytes

the next thing we'll do is go to effects

under effects we can add a whole bunch

of different things we can actually add

a color lut right here in the export

preset settings so we can do

cinematic for example

day for night

desaturation so we'll turn that off for

now

we can overlay an image if you wanted to

put your company logo you can do that

here

if you wanted to just add a name you

could do that here as well

so here we can overlay time code so time

code now that that's checked shows up

here

we can move it where we want so let's

just bring it down just a little bit

we can increase the size or lower it we

can mess around with the opacity i

normally just keep it around like that

move it down just a little bit

and this makes it really easy for the

client to say hey at 16 seconds i'm not

crazy about that clip can you please

remove it and replace it with something

else and based on that you can know

exactly where and what they're talking

about

okay now that we have that all set up

let's go up to preset settings

we'll call this

360p

at eight megabits per second and we'll

call this

client

reference

time code

and save effect settings let's press ok

then here we have 360p with time code

for a client reference we have 4k

480p

720 and our 1080. so we can export that

or send it to the media encoder and

queue it up

and again this is a much much smaller

file size so let's just compare this so

this is the estimated file size that

premiere thinks this will create so 33

megabytes if we were to go back to the

1080p

it's going to be 106 megabytes so very

very very small compared to

the full hd so

for reference purposes this will be

perfect for your client

premiere pro just like any other editing

program is just a tool filled with many

smaller tools to assist you in

completing your video project

it is very important to always organize

all of your files every time you start a

new project as not organizing can result

in having many different problems such

as files in your project showing up as

offline and worse the possibility of not

being able to relink the files causing

you to have to start the edit over

titles such as lower thirds are a great

way to add production value to your

edits it establishes who the person

speaking is and provides credibility for

what they are saying

intro titles or text on screen through

the video also provides another level of

value that helps keep your audience

engaged

if you plan on selling the videos you

are making or you are being hired to

create a video you should have the

rights to the content you are including

in the video such as the music involved

or stock photos even if you are creating

a video for fun but decided to use

copyrighted material such as a song you

heard on the radio or a classic rock

song it's possible that youtube or

wherever you're uploading the video will

remove it because of copyright issues

there are plenty of royalty-free music

and stock footage or photo websites

where you can get a lot of very high

quality content for very cheap

there are even some websites that give

great content for free

a quick google search is a great place

to start

good editing is a very powerful way of

providing an engaging story to an

audience editing can break or make a

video creating an amazing storytelling

masterpiece or a slow paced disaster

that bores everyone who sees it in

regards to editing and telling a story

as a general rule if a clip in an edit

doesn't help tell the story it's not

needed

so think like someone who has never seen

the footage before if it helps tell the

story keep it in otherwise it's not

needed

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