3 1/2 hour beginner video editing course

hello and welcome to video revealed i'm colin smith and welcome to your video editing boot camp here because you need to learn how to edit a video in adobe premiere pro and that's what we're going to cover here in 11 separate parts this is for beginners i'm going to have chapters down at the bottom and i'll have detailed links show up here with a deeper tutorial so anytime there's something where i have more information like color or effects or masking or something like that that will pop up this is meant to give you everything you need to create your video if you're a beginner this is everything you need to know so take a deep breath go get a cup of coffee i'm going to hold your hand through the whole thing we're going to cover 11 separate parts including file setup and media management user interface and customization media import and organization editing skills markers and transitions audio effects and masking color titles and graphics exporting and then some troubleshooting tips at the end you're going to be fine take a deep breath i've got you covered let's get started with part one if you're coming to video editing from a phone if a phone is the first piece of technology you've learned then the the most difficult thing to understand is media management on a phone especially on an iphone you don't manage any media it just does it in the background here you're responsible for managing your media and this is the number one thing you need to learn and do every single time you start a project if you don't you're going to pay the price i get comments every single week where people think they've lost their media they haven't they just don't know where the heck it is you're responsible for managing your media and that way you'll feel more confident that if something comes up you'll know where your media is so let's talk about your computer very basically and i've i got tutorials here's one of those detailed tutorials about working with computers that are a little bit slower just because you want to edit a video doesn't mean your slow computer is going to be fast if you're trying to push things if you're editing 4k video proxies here's another one you can go use proxies instead of that you can only use the power of your system that it has available if this is a really cheap uh ultrabook you're going to be able to edit maybe hd that's about it with not a lot of effects it has to be a 64-bit operating system both mac and windows the mercury playback engine can run in software or in hardware if you have a graphics processing unit this is a gpu card in your computer and it's either nvidia or amd or intel if it has a minimum of two gigabytes of memory you're going to play things better in premiere pro if it doesn't doesn't mean you can't output a video just means you need to set your expectations things might be slower next up is disks speed and if you don't have enough room on your computer you can use external drives and there are tons of external drives these guys here this is a a my passport port western digital this is a giant drive tons of room on it it's inexpensive but it's really slow it spins at 5400 revolutions per minute rpm 5400 rpm don't edit on this you can back up on this this is a 7200 rpm drive this is the minimum that you will need now maybe your computer has a 5400 rpm drive in it um that might be a little tough to edit again you're going to have a lot of i have to have a lot of patience if it's a 7200 rpm drive great if it's an ssd great if it's an ssd in your computer great it's going to be fast if you're connecting these connect them through usb 3 as a minimum or thunderbolt so that's your computer next up is your media you finished shooting now you need to do something with your media and this is a place where a lot of people get screwed up they think that their media imports from here into premiere pro just by bringing it into premiere pro it doesn't you need to copy this media at least onto your computer if this is a really important job this is a paying job then you should be backing it up in at least another place so here's the card i just recorded a few things uh quickly on my camera just so i would have something to move i'm going to insert this in my computer and i'm going to show you the crazy folder structure that this card has so the card comes up here and by the way i'm using uh something called director file manager and i'll have a link to this if you're a mac user you're probably used to this i prefer this uh layout so here's the card the card you don't even see the videos you see these folders so if you click on this one you'll see another folder another folder another folder a freaking other folder and then finally we get to see the clips so that's how deep this folder is that's the way camera based cards record most of them do some will record an mp4 and that's great this isn't a bad thing this is just something you need to be used to if you're backing this up you need to take this whole avc hd folder and copy it don't just go to the clips and move them because there's lots of other extra information in there you're going to screw things up if you peek inside and just grab the video files you need to move the whole folder over or you can convert these files i'm going to show you that really quick so i'm going to launch media encoder and this is part of premiere pro this is like the rendering engine inside premiere pro you can export out of premiere pro by itself or you can send it to media encoder which we'll we'll get to later but i want to show you how smart adobe technology is if you use the right methods so you'll see here there's our camera card there's the same folders and watch that remember when i open the other one i had all of these folders but media encoder seized the clips right away that's because premiere pro and media encoder understand the card based folder structure and it just hides it for you if you use the media browser and not import so we're going to import the stuff in in step two but right now i want to show you this media management this is stuff you do have to know so you can convert these if you want you can drag them over to here you can have them as separate files or you could even stitch them together if you want now i don't want to stitch them together i want them separate but this way you can create new files that is just a single file and here you could create like a youtube hd format or you could create something of a higher quality like quicktime 422. again we'll cover export and formats later the important thing here is that converting to a better format doesn't make your video any better so if you've shot in avchd which is a very compressed format and quicktime is is less compressed it doesn't mean your video will look better it might play smoother in your computer but it also might be quite a bit larger like we're talking five to ten times size in the file size that it takes up so i just wanted to show you you can convert that giant structure to clips if you want i'm just going to close media encoder and not update those so again i would take that whole folder and copy that and then paste it somewhere where create a project folder for every single thing and don't put stuff on your desktop don't you're only going to cause problems if you do if you have two hard drives like i do in this computer then obviously put it on your second drive if you don't then at least create a projects folder or a media folder or maybe the name of your of your company on your main drive so this is my home drive here and i'm i'll create a new folder here and there it is and i'll call this my projects and inside there i'll create a new folder for that project so for this new project i'll call this my show and this is where i would paste in my media now you could create a media folder in here that does make sense so create a new folder and i'll call this video i'll also create another folder in here and i'll call it audio another folder in here sound effects images logos all right so now i have folders sitting here and they're empty this is where i would copy that folder into here now i'm not going to use these files i've got different files that i'm going to use so i'm going to start copying those into this folder so you can see i i've set things up similarly over here and i have converted this particular file to quicktime so just to show you the difference in file size this is one gigabyte at 4k with h.264 the hd is 14 gigabytes in size so imagine i'm copying this from my card i'm copying this from my hard drive to hard drive but this is what you need to do now start moving stuff to that project folder and again it could be on a fast external drive as long as it is fast and it's connected by a usb 3 and don't plug it into a usb 2 port it should be a usb 3 port again there's my tutorial on on working with your computer and making sure things are fast now one thing i'll do because i realized i have a video folder and that's a little bit too generic instead i want to have an interview folder and i want to have a b-roll folder what is b-roll well b is secondary footage the main interview here or if this was the person talking on camera so this is my a role and that's my b-roll when i go to my screen so the same kind of thing b-roll is great for you to add in and cut away okay so so i'm going to put the interview in there and i'll create a new folder in the video folder and let's just call that b-roll and for that i've got some video over here b-roll and i'll select that copy that and i'll paste that in there all right so here's my b-roll there's my interview now let's grab the logo and then there's a whole bunch of images in here all right so i think that's and i've got some music and i'll copy that so let me create a new folder for that music and i'll paste that in there all the folders that i'm creating on my computer will show up in premiere pro when i import them except for blank folders if they're empty they won't show up but all of the structure in here will show up all the stuff that's in here and i don't have my sound effects in here but i think you get the the idea i would normally uh place them in there okay so let's close this up and look at our whole project so there's the show there's each one of the folders i guess i could have put my music in the audio so my music and audio images logo sound effects if i had them video with b-roll and interview okay the next time i create a project i would create a new folder here and do the same thing a lot of people will create the folder structure and just leave it as a blank folder copy that folder and paste it in kind of like a template idea so it's always the same all right now that you have your stuff organized on your computer and i would back this up if this was a paying job that whole my folder would now be going to another drive like i said something like these drives or they're really inexpensive drives like 50 to 80 dollars with multiple terabytes that you can back things up okay so that is i think that's everything in step one backup and medium management [Music] all right we're now going to look at the interface and customization the most critical thing to understand is the files you just copied and moved over at no time will they ever go inside premiere pro a lot of people think importing means you take a file you copy it and you put it inside premiere pro you don't they're links everything is linked to the original media if the original media is moved then you will have a broken link showing as missing media everything is linked and you can see that when you open up premiere pro if you've created other files here's some other files that i've been working on a lot of people think that this is a file it's not it's a link word does this photoshop does this these are just recent documents you've worked on if you happen to at the end i'll show you some troubleshooting tips clear the cache and this list is is blank a lot of people think if it's blank here then premiere pro deleted my media premiere pro does not delete the media you know how you know because you went to all the trouble to make those folders so you immediately go to those folders and then you see them and you know all your stuff is still there it's the people that came from a phone that didn't manage media that see this blank and they think everything is gone it's not gone premiere pro does not delete your media go find it where you put it in your projects folder see see how you're building up that confidence oh yeah hey premiere pro you don't know where it is i know where it is okay so this is the first screen you get you get you you have your recent projects you can create a new project or you can open something that isn't in this recent list the recent list is just the last i don't know over 10 or 12 recent files so let's create a new project in the upper left so click new project and you'll get a dialog box box asking you where that project is well we need to find that project so i'll browse and i put it in my home directory and i called it my projects there it is there it is so i'm opening up the my projects folder and the my show folder and what you can do is i do this all the time is i'll select the my show select that and copy that and then open that up because i don't want my project to be in my projects i want it to be in my show those are the folders that we created before and i'm creating a new project file there so remember i copied that so i'll paste it so let's just look at these top two areas the name of the show is my show it can be anything you want and the location is in the my projects my show folder so you could name this my show two three four whatever next up is the rendering and i talked about this at the beginning about a gpu i have a rtx 5000 in here and that's the one i'm going to use that's the default if you're on apple then you might see metal as an option in here if you've got a powerful gpu use that premiere pro does a good job of anticipating that and selecting that if you get an error that the driver doesn't work you have two options update the driver which you can do on the windows side on the mac side you just have to wait for apple or just disregard the warning it doesn't mean premiere pro is broken it just means it can't use your gpu because it's either an old uh version of a driver that isn't compatible or it's just such a slow card it makes no difference for that you can you'll be sent to mercury playback software only everything is going to look fine when you export this has nothing to do with the export quality everything's going to look good even on a really slow computer this just means you might have better performance with a gpu well you will the rest of these you can leave the same the scratch disks you want them to be same as project same as project turn everything to same as project because premiere pro will be creating files in the background for you um automatic backup files and and it will cache things for you so just leave all of this stuff where it is as the same project ingest settings do not turn this on this is only if you're working with proxies like i said got a full tutorial on that so i'm going to leave all of that click ok and now i'm in a blank project if we go back to the folder you'll see there's my project inside the my show folder premiere pro is going to create a auto backup it does does this automatically but you should also turn on backup to the cloud you're not backing up your media you're backing up the project files which aren't very big at all in the edit menu on windows the premiere pro menu on the mac preferences auto save and you can see i've got automatic saved projects turned on it automatically saves and you can change this to however often you want the maximum project versions and save backup project to creative cloud this is very useful i don't want to turn that one on i've got a tutorial here about why i don't turn that on so now my stuff was is going to be backed up here and in the cloud doesn't mean my media is is messed up but if something goes wrong with this project remember we backed up the card where's my card you backed up the card here and you backed up the card somewhere else so at the at the very worst you've you take let's say i backed up my media here and i've got my project in the cloud and this computer blows up no problem i got a cloud recent version i've got my media i can recreate every single thing just by opening that project and pointing to this media very nice click ok and the first time that premiere pro saves it's going to save an auto backup you'll see an automatic folder all right so let's look at the interface the great thing about adobe is that they have a lot of common conventions between applications so if you've used something else like photoshop or indesign there's a lot of similarities there's a move tool and there are panels and customization so let's have a look at that each one of these is a panel you'll see a blue line around something when you click on it this is what is in focus it is unbelievably important in premiere pro to understand what panel is selected if you don't have the right panel selected you won't have the right commands available so keep an eye on the blue line every one of us even long time editors have the wrong panel selected but at least we know what to do you go to export something out hey how come ah crap i gotta go select my my timeline okay panels are also stacked up so this list is actually multiple panels stacked up one behind each other and you can close any of these by clicking on the hamburg menu and choosing close panel if you accidentally make a mess and change things completely up at the top you've got a bunch of workspaces and the first workspace you'll probably see is this learning space editing is where you want to go to most of the time if you've completely made a mess and and let's say you moved this panel over here and it looks like a mess and oh my goodness premiere pro looks like a mess double click on the editing workspace and it resets now for me i've turned off a dialog box for you when you double click on a workspace it will ask you if you want to reset that workspace there's also a checkbox there to tell premiere pro don't ever show me that again i know what i'm doing when i reset the workspace so i can reset that workspace it's always going to look like this a nice familiar way to look in the window menu workspaces you'll see again all of the workspaces you have now don't be confused by this one this this is one i made to emulate an imovie kind of uh interface with very very similar um layout but these workspaces are saved in here and you can also add more so you can save a new workspace you can edit the workspaces and you can turn this on it's probably on by default import workspaces from projects you may want this on or off i always turn it off because i don't want someone else's workspaces in my copy of premiere pro and that's what will happen if i open somebody else's workspace and they created a layout of whatever they want now i've got that in my project i don't want that so i turn that off if you want that turn it on it is a good way to share a workspace with someone else you can edit the workspaces and here they are and you can rename them you can also move things down here to don't show so i could move my um imovie one down here to not show and now it's not going to show in that list at all if you get to a certain amount then you'll see a little pop-up menu in here so that's where they exist if this panel gets closed again you can double click on editing it's going to reset that workspace okay so what i tend to do is i turn off some panels that i don't need like info history you might like this i tend to know what the heck i did in the last little while but history and you can set how many things are in that list uh history is a good thing to leave on for beginners it will show you all the last operations that you have i'm a pro i'm turning it off markers will leave those up you can reorder these by dragging them around and something that happens quite often is the the project tends to move around so if you come back over here this is the project panel and you don't see where your project is it probably got moved around so i like to have it tucked over on the left hand side so each one of these has a specific job this is where your media comes in and this is where you edit your media which we'll get to in the next section but all of this stuff is customizable if you go to the color workspace you'll see a different workspace if you go to effects and audio and graphics adobe's done a really good job of organizing the layout just for the stuff you need to do so if you're editing graphics go to the graphics workspace because it's going to show you things like the essential graphics panel all right here's some other conventions one is this double arrow idea wherever you mouse in between something you'll see double arrows so you can resize things so typically i'll leave everything where they are but sometimes if my timeline has so many tracks in it i need to see it then i'll make that area larger the same with the program monitor you can make that very large or you can make the source monitor large and we'll show you what those panels are for in a minute now while we're also talking about the interface and customization back in the preferences so again in the edit menu on windows the premiere pro menu on mac we can go look at our preferences and there are a ton of preferences uh in premiere pro we're not going to go through all of them i encourage you to to poke around in here uh but there are some uh things that are really useful um how do you want things to open which we'll get into once we have some media in here there's that workspace reset warning i have that turned off you can turn off that project loading error dialog box and the system compatibility issues again you have an old computer with an old graphics card and an old driver and you don't want to be bugged about it turn that stuff off and just keep working doesn't mean you're going to be fast but at least you won't be bothered by some dialog boxes i also have turned this off show project in bin i don't want that name so my stuff will just have the name of the the bin a bin is another name for a folder um you can call it a folder or bin i'll probably call it both things as i'm working on here but you'll see each one of these has a different set of preferences like how bright do you want the interface how bright do you want the controls there's audio settings in here which we'll get it into an audio we already looked at audio save capture settings we don't use because we're not capturing from tape anymore but there's lots of stuff in here um media settings and you can see down here i'm using my nvidia and my intel card to speed things up media cash which we'll get into at the end clearing in cash is something that you're going to have to get used to if you've got problems sync settings timeline so this i think is is worth exploring the timeline preferences when we talk about transitions video and audio transitions you can set a default duration for those you can show you can have the mouse scrolling vertical or horizontal so if you have a a squirrel mouse or even if you have a track pad with two fingers on then you can set the scrolling of the timeline that when you scroll it goes left and right or up and down so sometimes you have so many tracks that that you're not really going left and right you just want to go up and down so you can change that right now it's it's set on horizontal you can snap the playhead in the timeline when snap is enabled this might be something useful to new users um i don't like that because i like to freely move my my timeline and when i want it to snap i hold the shift key and move that and it snaps which will do in a bit but you might want to turn that on and explore that okay now the last customization again is in the edit menu or the premiere pro menu on the mac and that's keyboard shortcuts and here you can map any kinds of shortcuts you want now this is really for beginners so you're probably mostly going to go to menus and and not use a lot of keyboard shortcuts but i want to show you here that if you end up becoming more familiar with premiere pro and there's an operation like duplicate doesn't have a keyboard shortcut you could make a keyboard shortcut or enable something on and off okay now the last is the tools we talked about the panels we talked about these little menus oh yeah there's also these uh wrenches which you'll see everywhere for customization but there's also the tools in here and this is the move tool it's the same keyboard shortcut of photoshop indesign illustrator it's the v key and if you want to um if you're wondering how do you remember that well think of this move move with the v key it's the move tool there are selection tools for track selecting there are editing tools for ripple editing and rolling ripple editing rate stretch razor blades slip and slide tools pen tool hand tool and type tool we'll get through all of those but this is the uh this itself is a panel so if i resize that you see that changes again you make a mess of things you can reset that so that's the premiere pro interface it's fairly easy to understand that it's panel based and things are in focus and there's lots of little drop down menus where you can customize things so get used to that and once you get more advanced customize that uh as you see fit you can turn a whole bunch of panels off if you want i got a tutorial on how to make premiere pro simple where i shut every panel off i close every panel that isn't useful for an absolute beginner but we are going to concentrate on the default interface that you're used to i don't want to confuse matters i think for brand new users you should be looking at the way premiere pro comes out of the box okay we haven't even started editing but all of this is incredibly important if you just try to jump into editing you'll lose your media or you'll close a panel and you'll not know why premiere pro looks the way it does this is how i teach it's not about pushing buttons it's about why i'm going to teach you why so now you should feel confident about taking your card making some folders backing everything up and opening up premiere pro and starting a project next just as critical is importing all right how are you doing so far okay good all right let's talk about importing and media management probably the most confusing part of premiere pro book we're going to make it very easy there's one keyboard shortcut that i want you to get used to and this is on north american keyboard so you can get to it again you can go into the into the uh keyboard shortcuts if you're using a non-north american keyboard and find out where it is it's maximizing a panel remember we talked about the panels one useful thing is to be able to take a panel that seems kind of small and temporarily make it very very big do something in there and then make it back to the same size so it's not obscuring things and that's the tild key it's the little squiggle key above the tab key whenever your mouse is over and you don't have to click with the mouse wherever your mouse is over when you hit the tilt key it makes it larger so you'll see that down here i'll move my mouse tap the tilt key tap it again and it's the same as going to the little hamburg menu and choosing maximize panel group is just a little bit easier so that's going to be important when we're starting to work with a bunch of media so a lot of people will drag and drop stop doing that remember i showed you that the card file had a whole bunch of folders in it well drag and drop from your desktop you're guaranteed going to break things if you do that premiere pro uses a lot of extra information called metadata that's written into those folders and the structure of the files so dragging and dropping you might have been used to using that for many many years especially mac users for premiere pro it is the worst habit that you have it is bad you need to break that habit and don't use file import that's also bad instead use the media browser media browser is very intelligent remember i showed you the media encoder where it peaked into all of those folders and all you saw was the video files it just said don't even pay attention to those guess what the media browser does the same thing so if you are looking at your card that you've copied and you look at that avc hd card the media browser will only see your video files and that's what you import it's so much easier we don't have that we just have a bunch of of folders that we created and bring brought in but that's still fine so it's down here at the at the back it can change its location depending on sometimes it gets all the way over in the left here i like it to have it second and when you click on it it brings up this browser for files now i've created some favorites here where i get to my stock from art grid and art list and my footage and my show with all of my demo files on it there's each of the drives that are connected in here so again if you're on editing from a secondary drive you can get to that here you can also click on the little drop down menu and jump right to your home directory and this is the same for both mac and windows so with my directory i'm going to find my files over here on the left so you can see it's already getting a little bit crowded so i'll tap the tild key and i'll remember those double-headed arrows and drag this out this is getting much much easier to see oh in fact remember my projects were there there's my show i could twirl this down and look at my show there so there's all of my files and there's my premiere pro project now i don't want to import that i want to import everything else so if you hold the shift key and click or select all control a on windows command a on the mac or you can hold the control key on windows the command key on mac remember i didn't put anything in there i should have but i didn't and i'll select those folders there and i'll right click and choose import i'm not importing the project because that's going to be a problem you can't import the project that's already open okay so it immediately closed it brought the project panel in the front so if we go back to the media browser that's where i was and this is where i am media browser if you have to import three things it will import one if you do them one at a time and it will send you back to the project it's premiere pro's way of saying hey this is where your files are and it has them selected for you so i'm going to tap my tilde key and make this smaller now and go back over to my show and there's my video and there's my b-roll and there's my interview and all of that stuff in here okay immediately after doing this you know what i'm going to do save control s on windows command s on mac yes there's auto save but don't trust it i surprised when i get a cry from help from someone who says i lost my work i was working for 90 minutes and i didn't save well there's an auto save don't trust it why just don't just don't ask why just don't freaking trust it i save constantly when i make my project i saved i imported the media save control s command s it's in the file menu save just like anything else ctrl s command s save save save save save save please for the love of god save save save especially when you're about to do something tricky oh my goodness a tricky edit or apply effects or chop stuff up save save save save okay so all of our files are now loaded in here and there they are there's all our images there's our audio there's our music now there are different ways to look at things in this folder here in the project panel down at the bottom you'll see these three different ways of viewing things list view icon view and free form view and right now we're just looking at the folders themselves so if we open one up and we look at it we can see this view if i tap the tild key the freeform view allows me to even move this stuff around so if i wanted to organize things on a certain way i could do that like oh those are my interesting files there these guys should be together over here and you can change the size of these if you want and i've got a whole tutorial on freeform view it's very useful for storyboarding i never use it but icon view is also very useful and this also has a resize and premiere pro has something called hover scrub media browser has this too so as you mouse over and i'm not clicking with my mouse i'm just mousing over and you can see a preview of what this looks like this little button here will help you sort this so right now it's just using the order that i'm using so this is a lot like the freeform view where i can move it around but let's say you wanted this based on the names that this was shot alphabetically and you could choose name and now it would sort based on that name which it it already is but you could uh sort it based on video type the media start so it's depending on on the media start time for each one of those lots of different ways to organize these and then of course the list view and you'll notice the list view has got a bunch of headers here with lots of information i like to scooch this guy over here the video info so i can look at my frame size because i tend to work with a lot of different uh frames sizes and frame rates and you can see all of this is uh 25 frames per second this is a bunch of art grid uh stock that i brought over and there's even more all the way over here lots of great ways that you can organize this information now you might be wondering where is our media where's the rest of our our stuff premiere pro has a new way of working premiere pro opens things in new panels so if we go back to the the uh the whole project that's where it is when i opened up my b-roll that's where that is when i opened up video that's where b-roll and the interview showed up you can close these by clicking on the little hamburg menu and close those or you can leave them up and i could leave this one in icon view and this one in list view and they're the same files here as the same files here so if you're wondering why these get larger well that if i open up audio and then music there's all of my music files uh showing up so you can reorder these again you can close them i think this is actually useful because especially in not too complicated projects you know i've got all my music in my music folder doesn't matter if that opens up all of my b-roll available so all of the stuff is there uh and again depending on how you want to organize it so i'll collapse that back down again and if you wanted to you could create your own bins so that's what this folder is down here creates a new bin which is a folder so i could call this places and right now it's empty and if i double click on it it's empty if i go to media browser and now i'll go back to let me make this larger so now i'm back in media browser and i'm looking at the files on my hard drive and it can take a little a few moments to draw all of the thumbnails here most of these are h.264 files so they take a moment to redraw the thumbnails so if i want to import a file i'll right click on that file and import it you'll see that it's in the places folder and if i go back over to my show and in places there it is this is an easy one to get mixed up with sometimes i have the wrong folder selected or open when i go to the media browser and import and it's the wrong thing so if you're wondering well how do i find that well what what if everything was closed up in here you can search so i can search for mp4 and that's where that mp4 file is i can search for my wav files dot wav files and they show up so this is a quick little search field and if you want you could click on this create a new search from the query so this is now going to search for wave files so when i double click on that it shows up in here so if you're used to working with things like smart playlists and itunes you could create a smart playlist and you don't have to put everything in there the playlist will show you everything based on that artist wherever they are same thing here this is now it's in this list so if i close this up you'll see it has a special icon beside it and anytime i add a new dot wav a new wave music file in here or audio or dialogue or whatever it will also show up in that folder it's not duplicating it it's just a pointer a link to where that is in my project i don't use these guys i'm going to delete that i'm not deleting my media in fact premiere pro will alert you whenever you're deleting media that you're used in a timeline it will always alert you hey you're deleting something that is in a timeline oh boy that's really good because sometimes you think you know did i did i use that i'm not sure oops i won't get rid of that okay all right so our media is in here let's go back to our okay here here's a perfect example of huh where did my video go i think it's lost and people will say premiere pro deleted my media no look at the darn search field ah i left the word wave in there i'm gonna get rid of that oh there it is okay so there's my video of jonathan van belsen and uh jonathan's got a great show uh photos and travel and we're gonna look i interviewed him and uh he's got a just a fantastic travel show he's a great writer okay so if you double click on this clip it loads it into the source monitor and the source monitor will show you the video and if you click here you'll see the audio so i can see the recorded audio file and that's the video file sometimes i will use this to find a point for instance you can see where each one of these segments is changed as he says certain words so he's he's listening to me i'm actually on a zoom call i'm watching him remotely and i'm directing him with questions and he's answering them so each gap is me asking him a different question so i could use this to help identify different areas of the interview so this is not in the timeline yet we don't have a timeline and this is the next important thing and that's making sequences or timelines it's the same thing a sequence has a specific setting of a frame size a frame rate and audio settings and it's up to you to pick the correct setting that you need what i always do is i'll create a sequence that's based on the output so if i know that i want to go to 29.97 or 25 frames a second i'll make a sequence based on that for new users you can almost always simply create a new sequence based on that clip so you'll see right here it's 2997 and if i right click on this clip there's new sequence from clip and when i select that it creates a new sequence based on those that clip setting all of the settings will be act the same it will name this the same too so that's one way of doing that and and i don't think if you're working with a bunch of h.264 files and you're shooting on a on a dslr this is a fine way to do it i'll show you the other way and that's in this little page icon down here this little new item i do not go to the file menu new for any of this and the reason being is that if you have remember i told you about a panel being selected if you have the wrong panel selected and you go to the file menu some of those choices will be grayed out the little new item icon will never be grayed out so i always go down here to create a new sequence so this is a manually created sequence and you can see there's a bunch of choices here and dslr 1080 30 is an example and there's 4k and red versions in here so you could use this as a method here are the settings for that one it's using an edit mode dslr and you can change this if you want there's the frame rate and you can change the frame rate there's the size square pixels no fields this is not interlaced and the rest of that you can leave that the way it is now when i click ok you can see that sequence showed up here well why did that one show up here and that one showed up there this one showed up in the folder of where that was so that's why it showed up there you can drag it out so now it's out so two different ways of creating sequences you can always copy the contents of one sequence into another sequence or you can go back to the sequence so if we go to the one i made if you go to the sequence settings you can make some changes in here you can't change the channel format but you can change the other settings so again i think that's good i'm just going to delete that and that's what this lit the one i made manually i can just click here in the trash and i'm just going to select this and rename this interview and you can see it renames in here so now i've got his clip in the timeline as soon as i add something in the timeline it shows up in the program monitor the program monitor is what your final video will look like the source monitor can be used and some people don't even use it it can be used to preview a clip before you put it into the timeline you don't have to use it i find it's useful like i said by sh by looking at the audio wave and finding in and out points okay so this is an interview if we if we play this you can see there's lots of setup going on there's lots of me talking born in the netherlands when i was about 10 years old my parents decided it was time to move there's poor parts in here where jonathan uh corrects himself and he feels that he could have delivered that better so he'll stop and he'll start again of course i want all of those out so we're going to have to chop all of that up and that'll come up in our editing skills but i want to explore the timeline a little bit more customizing the timeline by default you get three video tracks and three audio tracks and a mix track the size of these tracks can be changed remember that double arrow if i mouse up a little bit and drag this up i can drag this and increase the size you can also double click on a track to make it the default size you can also hold the shift key and change all of the tracks with your scroll wheel or trackpad if you hold the alt key on windows option on mac and scr use the scroll wheel you can change just that track and i use this a lot so you can see the same thing down here it's the same kind of waveform down here at the bottom and i can see those same areas of where i was talking there's a zoom bar down at the bottom where you can zoom in and out i never use this what do i use instead i use just a few keyboard shortcuts that i think are essential to understand the backslash key which on a north american keyboard is above the enter key or the return key takes me out to 80 zoom so it doesn't fill the timeline it opens up the timeline and gives me a little bit of an area on the end so if i need to drag a new clip on the end i've got room i use this all the time well what if you want to zoom in well that's what the plus and minus keys are at the top of the keyboard so i can zoom in and out and if you're used to editing you will be using those keys a million times a day over and over again you can use the scroll wheel and add alt on windows option on mac and and scroll in that way that's another option uh to do that but this is the one thing you'll be doing constantly in video editing zoom out what are you doing zoom in do something zoom out move over here zoom in zoom out zoom out and in fact the backslash key is um it's really two operations so let's zoom out so that's one backslash i'll go over to this part and i'll zoom in one two three four five zooms so i hit the plus key and this is not the plus on the on the numeric keypad if you have a number pad this is at the top of the keyboard board so i zoomed in four times i'll go out with the backslash key i'll go over here and i'll hit the backslash key again so because it remembered four times in the backslash key took me all the way out i moved over took me all the way in as if i hit plus four times that's that's useful keep that in the back of your your mind the other thing you can customize is if you go to the little wrench here and you can customize whether you're looking at uh video thumbnails or not whether you want to show key frames whether you want the name of the file and i've turned on the audio names typically the audio file doesn't have its name set up so this is ways to customize the timeline and how you want it to be viewed so you can choose to show the audio waveform or not and there's also the hamburg menu over here where we can change how the audio waveforms look so if i turn that off then you'll get a stereo audio waveform and there's no right or wrong some people like it one way some people like it both facing up this way which is the default it's easier for you to see quieter waveforms like on a boom mic okay you can also right click in this header and you can customize this so if i choose customize i can now change what these buttons are so i can take some out i can delete them i'd say leave those the way they are the audio ones same thing this divider divides between the audio and the video so if i right click down here and customize then i can change what i'm looking at audio wise so what you could do is you could drag this little guy and now you've got you can cut a little whatever size you want led meter on that track alone you can also go back to customize and you can drag things in or out or reset the layout if you want to go back to that layout so this timeline so the the sequence panel and this panel are directly connected the source monitor is not so this is independent this is showing you what you're editing one last setting that i want to show you i should have showed you when we set up the project this is in the file menu project settings general this is turned off by default but i suggest you turn it on display the project item name and label colors for all instances with this on if i rename that clip it's going to rename in the timeline the default is to not do that the default will keep different names throughout there's no right or wrong some people like it not being the same i want one version of the file to be named exactly the same in my project panel and on my timeline so that's why i keep it on all right next step we're going to talk about some editing skills okay so you still with me great excellent you've got your stuff imported and if you need to import more things now remember the the media in the project bin is linked to the stuff on your hard drive but it's not dynamically linked it doesn't update so if you add more things to that the folders on your hard drive you still have to manually re-import them there is an automated way it's a paid product i've got a tutorial for it it's called watchtower all right so we've got our stuff in premiere pro now we're going to start editing that's how much work you have to do before you even start to edit but now we feel confident we know where our clips are if something happens we're backed up we could recreate this whole thing with a backup project in our backed up media so as i mentioned before we've got our clips here was it quite what was the question okay and it doesn't make sense to have this in one giant clip we need to cut it up into pieces i'm going to show you two ways of doing it one way is to make sub clips so this is still a link to the original master clip it's just easier to work with it's like you have a separate clip can i make a a confession here i'm too lazy to make some clips i cut the stuff on the timeline that's another way of doing it let me just show you my method so i'll go back to the beginning and because i'm zoomed all the way out i'm not as accurate so i'll zoom in plus plus so i just hit plus twice on the top of the keyboard to zoom in and i happen to know we talked a little bit here so all of this stuff is probably not useful i'll move my playhead here and then i'm hitting the spacebar to play when did i fall in love with travel and i'll move ahead because in this example i i any time you have something somebody in an interview where you don't have a second person asking the questions you have to build the question into the person answering the question uh so we had to work that out first and i know he started about here i fell in love with you notice that there was a little pause so i'm not going to cut exactly where he talks i'm going to cut at this point here so let me show you two ways to do this the first way is the hard way the second way is the easy way the hard way is to grab the razor tool cut this grab the move tool click on this hit the delete key select this and move it back that's a lot of operations let me undo that instead i'm going to use this is another keyboard shortcut you really should use it's the q and the w key this is a ripple edit ripple meaning like ripples in a pond when you throw a rock something that starts here has an effect outside of that so a ripple edit means you're editing here but it affects everything else and in this example we want to remove the start and ripple everything to the right over to the left and there is a ripple edit tool ripple edit tool here and when you when you see it change to the to the orange if you click and drag it moves everything or if you just tap the q key because the q is on the left side of the keyboard on a north american keyboard the q key if i tap q boom it does the same thing so that's ripple trim previous edit uh to play head and and what you're doing is you're you're trimming it to where the play head is so that's why you play it to where you want sure no worries you hit stop and then hit q so this works perfectly with one track if you have more than one track all of the tracks will move if you want that to happen great if you don't you have to lock them and i'll show you that in a little bit so this is where he starts talking the first question i fell in love with travel i think right from the get-go from the trip to canada back in the day uh the whole airplane concept was great um i didn't really travel much so now i'm waiting for him to finish answering and pause for the next one i there's two things i can do first of all editors should listen to every single thing they've they've been handed so you watch everything and this can take a lot of time but it's the only way you know of the content that's in there i happen to have listened to this already and to make this faster there are three keys jkl and they're right beside each other on a numeric north american keyboard so if you hit the l key it plays if you hit it again it's it plays faster so i can speed up my listening outside of canada until i was about 17 i went to europe and i think i was getting there one more time turn my phone off okay sorry so here he's found that his phone is on so that whole thing we're not even going to use so i'll play a little bit forward i have i got it there we go so now he's taking that whole question so i don't need the first stuff again so cue buh-bye i just ripple trim that whole piece off now i don't care about that i'm going to hit play from this point i have always loved traveling ever since that first airplane right from europe canada when i was young kl so it's always been in my blood i think so i hit k to stop and l to continue playing and the reason why these are set up this way is because the keys are right beside each other so it's like it's it's if you had a hardware shuttle and you're shuttling back and forth so i'm going to get a little i'm i'm leaving a little space there okay so now i have the first clip this is where i want to cut it so i'll hold ctrl shift or command shift k and that cuts everything it's like going in to get the razor blade and cutting but it's incredibly accurate because it's exactly where the play head is so this is my first clip now i'll show you up here if we were doing this with sub clips it would be very much the same way again we can zoom in or hit the plus and minus keys sure no worries i fell in love with travel okay so and i think i think that was it right i have always loved travel no that's where he starts right there so i've identified where i want that to start here there's no ripple trimming in here because rippling is about more than one clip and the source monitor only shows you one clip at a time so i'm going to set an in point and i hit the i key or you can hit this button here to set an in point so that's where he starts talking i have always loved traveling the same keys first airplane right from europe canada okay so he's finished right there now i'll either click on this or hit the o key for an out so now we have an in and out so if we zoom on here and look that in and out is the same as this in and out they're not connected they're they're separate this is a different in and out point i'm doing this two different ways you would only do it one way so if you wanted to make a sub clip from this you could go to the clip and make a sub clip you can see it's a keyboard shortcut there command u or control you hit that keyboard command or you can right click and there it is and you have to an option to restrict the trims to the clip boundaries restricting the trim means you can't go past that you've cut the trip the the clip and it's almost like that's the clip and you don't have more in this example it doesn't matter but sometimes you want that you can easily change this by editing the sub clip right click edit sub clip and turn that back on so that's start travel and maybe i could number it and you can see it looks different than the master clip that's a sub clip i've got a whole tutorial on working with sub clips if you want to work with that but basically you'd do the same thing you'd go through this and start chopping it up into pieces i'm going to do that right now really quick and not use sub clips my wife does choosing a location is so watch this i'm going to hit the q key and and it moves back it doesn't disturb this clip because it's it's just ripple trimming the previous clip i can see about here is where he ends you know it was on the list command or control shift k to put a cut in there well traveling is something that's very very dependent on the way this back and forth traveling is really bucket book my airfare and away i go command or control shift k and again i'm using the scroll wheel remember in the preferences i showed that the scroll wheel or the trackpad is horizontal zooming that's the default that allows me to stay zoomed in but quickly move around so i'm using one tool the whole time the move tool and using keyboard shortcuts to make it faster i have hundreds yeah there are there are certain places which so right there he pauses cue i'll go to the end talk about the experiences that i've had in certain countries command or control shift k and you notice i'm always giving myself a little breathing room at the end now i'm using the left and right arrow keys when i want to get very accurate the left and right arrow keys move one frame at a time and i notice he i want to find that spot where there he he has a a good expression on his face q oh and by the way i should have mentioned this before is this is track targeting the q and the w key only work with whatever you have selected so if i don't have that one selected on v1 then ripple trimming just won't work we'll talk a little bit more about v1 and v2 in a second so that's target or that's trim but still with the same mandates command shift k scroll down move to that beginning q move to the end command shift k q q now my first trim there i could actually hear me saying something in the background so i trimmed it again command shift k or ctrl shift k q to other people as i'm sure you you know by now ctrl shift k there's a lot of dead space there well thank you i do appreciate that um so i think it's about here well writing is something again i'm using the arrow keys q really really helped me when i do the writing for the show space q sure arrow keys q end of the going very very well numbers are good backspace so there's all my clips all my cuts but now i've got my interview cuts and typically it's a good idea to call this selects it's very standard thing to do these are all the selects the selected clips that you're going to use and you use them somewhere else at this point a lot of people will create a new blank timeline but what i'm going to do is i'm going to duplicate this one and i'll leave this one intact because it's just a clean reference point it's it's so easy to create multiple timelines multiple sequences it's a great way to work so over here i'll right click and choose duplicate select that and call this rough dash zero one so this is the first one when i double click on it it opens beside here so just like these panels that we're open we have a timeline on on panels here so there's a rough one there's selects and i can close that off so now i'm going to start uh fine-tuning this edit and adding some b-roll adding some music and things of that sort oh yeah and what i would have done a few times now save uh as soon as i finish cutting all those save duplicate and open that up save save save save save save you're not saving different versions you're saving this same project my show project you're saying saving the same one all right so let's talk about adding uh clips to this so let's go to my videos this is the b-roll i'll open that up i'll make this a little smaller so i've got b-rolls and i've got i'm going to close places i got music b-roll and i also want the images because i'm going to use that because he talks about plus plus plus i'm going to zoom in now when he's looking down that's not a very good way to start so i'll trim that just before he opens his mouth cue i have always loved traveling and we're going to put a transition in here i'll show you transitions more later but i want this to start uh to up from black so if you move the mouse to the edge when you have the move tool it's the trim tool and if you click you'll add a trim point so this is just a regular trim point and the keyboard shortcut for default transition like i said we'll look at transitions more detail in section ctrl d on windows command d on mac is a cross dissolve so now it just always love traveling ever since that first airplane and you know what i would do save okay airplane ride from europe to canada when i was young i i just really it got into my blood i enjoyed nature program i enjoyed so we now have a problem we've got this jump cut here and that's not something you want jump cuts suck and it drives me crazy to see folks on youtube do that i'm going to get on my soapbox for two seconds here jump cuts are not a style people don't say gee i love jump cuts when you watch a movie if there are jump cuts it's a it's meant to indicate a an expanse of time that's happening if it's just a regular interview from this and you have a jump cut it's considered wrong it's an error i don't care please don't comment that you think jump cuts are good they're not they just mean you're a lazy editor okay i said it all right so how do we fill that fix that so we're gonna fix that with some b-roll and in this example i've got a still image and this is the canadian coast this is an image that uh jonathan sent me so i'm going to drag this over top of that edit and when you drag that in you see that it has a duration and if i use move my playhead over top you'll see it by default still images have a duration of five seconds you can change that bigger smaller we can make this a little bit bigger i'm holding down alt or option on mac and using my scroll wheel now this kind of doesn't make sense because it chops always been in my blood i think chops the top of the uh choosing a location is the lighthouse so we're going to get into effects a little bit later but let's talk about changing the position of this frame because photographs don't necessarily well they're not always 16x9 in fact the default format for most cameras is four by threes or almost square to change that you select the image or the clip and go to the effects controls and this is probably twirled up for you so twirl down motion and you'll see position scale rotation these are the default settings that every clip has so if you want to change the position if you click and drag over these numbers this is the left to right movement and this is the top to bottom this is x and this is y so i can drag this up now when it plays oh uh it's always been in my blood i think but it's a little bit boring it's just a static image instead we want to give the impression that this is more of a motion this is more like a video it's a motion picture so that if you do a fake scale it gives you the impression that the camera is pushing in so this area here and this duration here are tied together so here's what i do i don't go to the end of the clip because even though i'm on the end of the clip i don't see it anymore so whenever i'm adding keyframes i move my i set my keyframe and then i move them what the heck is a keyframe a keyframe is a number it's a scale number like 100 scale or 50 so it's half the size or 200 percent it's twice the size or it's a position of where something is every single uh object has a position and scale and opacity setting so there are no keyframes here and if i don't add a keyframe then it won't change keyframes animations happen when you have two keyframes so we're going to set one scale property and then another scale property the difference between the two is the animation this makes so much sense when i just do it for you so this is where i want the frame to finish so i'll click on the stopwatch you'll see it will turn blue and this little diamond shape will show up so instead of moving this i'll drag that to the end so at the end of this clip it will be whatever that is there a hundred percent and over here let's actually zoom out so i'll zoom in here first that way you don't really see it it's a little bit of a teaser did you catch what i did wrong see this this is the kind of thing that that i screwed up okay i thought i was going to change position but i'm actually changing scale i didn't set a scale keyframe this is just me being honest i do this 25 of the time oops so let me do it right i'll just reset this back add a scale and drag that back over to there and now i'll scale that in so all i'm doing is i'm mousing over this clicking and dragging or you could just type a number in so let me scooch that up and that's the kind of animation that we're going to have i'll select these drag them on the front so there's two position keyframes and two scale keyframes and this is what it looks like i think choosing a location is is the interesting part of it so now we don't have a jump cut we have b-roll let's play this back it's always been in my blood i think choosing a location is is the interesting part that looks okay i mean i could tweak that all i want but that basic idea of jumping to something else having it move and remember we can have some nice music in there so that it's not just he stops talking and then there's an image it's going to make sense in a little bit and then we can keep doing that on the list so let's put in some video now this gets a little bit trickier because we've got an audio track to bring in and a video track and that's where track targeting and source patching start working now the number one area that people get screwed up in premiere pro is source patching if i click on a clip and i'm going to use this clip here you'll notice i'm going to make my tracks a bit smaller you'll notice v1 and a1 show up if i go to the images you'll see a1 disappears there's no audio in an image so a1 just disappears there's audio in this clip and video in this clip but if i accidentally turn off v1 i cannot bring in video premiere pro expects you to know that and quite frankly this is what i found is that for whatever reason sometimes you didn't even touch it v1 just goes woohoo and it shuts itself off no problem just make sure v1 is turned on again and then you're dragging it in some people call this importing this isn't this is just editing so if you don't have these in the right spot so if you have them both a1 and v1 and you try to drag this in on another track it's going to overwrite that track so we've just deleted what was there it's gone we don't want to do that you could protect this by clicking on those locks and now it's protected but then the next time you want to chop this and edit it and move it you have to unprotect it so that's not a good workflow it's better to actually track target source patch and track target and for track targeting if you right click in here and choose targets follow inserts and overwrites then you don't have to move that too because typically you would turn these off and turn that on but when you have this set up correctly when you drag it in and make sure your mouse is up to a v2 and a2 now we've just dragged in a separate clip and i'll hit play on this it was and how it has more elephants than i've ever seen anywhere including africa and so forth i started exploring it oh yeah i forgot he's talking about elephants here and i'll show you in another cut in a second that i actually dropped in uh two elephant clips in there but again i'm hiding that jump cut traveling is the way you travel is really now that clip that i just brought in is too loud we'll cover audio a little bit later but basically you're you keep doing those same things you're you're adding parts in you're you're dragging in more clips and then basically we book it book my airfare and away i go i got some more camels here there are there are certain places which stand out primarily because of now this is all using the mouse but you can be more precise if you use the source monitor let's show you that let's put this clip right here in this b-roll i'll double-click on it and load it in the source monitor i'm not going to set any in and out points i want this whole clip and i want it to start about there so because i've already got my my track targeting source patching is set up for for v2 and a2 and i have this clip loaded in here you've got these two buttons in here insert and overwrite and if you zoom all the way in and look at this the difference between the two is insert moves everything down so it inserts it and it's like a ripple edit everything will move down for a b-roll we don't we don't want that we want the b-roll not to disturb the interview so that's what this button is right here and you can see they're both the keyboard shortcuts are they're beside each other on the keys there's the comma key and the period key so i'll click on the this one the period key and you can see it showed up right in the in the right spot and i um talk about the experiences that i've had in certain countries i find when you're traveling you you okay so you just keep doing this and doing this and doing this until you end up with let me open up my previous edit okay so never look back [Music] i have always loved traveling ever since that first i'll just show you each one of these little b-rolls so yeah it's always been in my blood i think choosing a location is is the interesting part of it there's no and i'm just going to go to my window menu go to the audio track mixer and i'm just going to prime a reason as to what location i would choose it just you hear about some place let's look at this it has more elephants than i've ever seen anywhere including africa and so forth so i started exploring it and next thing you know it was on the list so let me show you what i did right there with the elephants so i've got two images that image that image and remember if we go to the effects controls you can see there's the motion that we had same thing here and i've got a cross dissolve in the middle remember i added that that fade up from black when you add a cross dissolve to the lowest track it's like fading up from black in in this example the cross dissolve are between two of these clips and so forth so i started exploring it and next and to do that i'll delete that all i'm doing is selecting the edit point just like i did before command d on the mac control d on windows so forth i started exploring it and next thing you know it was on the list traveling and you see the end of this clip is at the beginning of this so the edit is really hidden in here and if i want to turn any track off you turn on the uh turn off the eyeball and that track is now hidden so this is the jump cut it was on the list traveling so that jump cut is hidden not by this covering it but the elephant ends at that point was on the list traveling so your b-roll jump cuts don't necessarily have to be over top of an edit they just have to seem natural that the the b-roll ends when the next uh cut starts so let's look at a few others in here now this one i've got several images and they're they're all doing the same kind of basically we book it book my airfare and away i go there are there are certain places which stand out primarily because of of experiences that i've had for example i was in the valley of the kings and i was taking photos illegally which i didn't realize at the time i was being chased by guides up or guides from the the site up into the mountains and i ended up crawling into an abandoned um cave or i guess it was an old tomb and suddenly there were was noises behind me and i realized that there was either a bear living in a cave in egypt or it was a people and sure enough it was a family living there and they were very hospitable gave me something to drink which resembled poi if you've ever been to hawaii it was just awful awful thing so a couple of things are happening there we've got these images and i picked them because they help reinforce his story about the valley of kings so this is a bunch of images he sent me from there and the blending of two and i could take those transitions out if i wanted to there's it's it's there's no right or wrong you might like them as jump cuts i like them fading in uh to each other very nicely and then we've got the music just naturally it dies or it was a people and sure enough it was a family living there and they were very hospitable gave me something to drink which resembled so let's talk about dropping in the music so let me get rid of these tracks and the music is right here so i'm dropping in those clips now because there's no audio video dragging him in is very easy here about some place for example three years ago i had the pleasure of going to sri lanka which is a country that i would never have thought of of going to but i was talking to some folks who are from there they were showing me some pictures about how beautiful now i don't have enough so i'm gonna select this first clip after i click on it i'll hold the alt key on windows oops the option key on mac and drag it over there so i've just duplicated it option or alt clicking dragging after you start dragging copies any media so now this is the same music that that continues on i find when you're traveling you you experience cultures and that to me is the real real key entire travel process right from the guide that i meet through friends of his people that just live in situations 99 of the world is extremely friendly i have not experienced any real issues with people anywhere i've been i find them to be the same as you and i just you know enjoying their life as best they can trying to eke out a living and knowing a different culture but still with the same mandates oh that's a nice positive message thanks jonathan i like that people are just nice all over the place okay let's keep going a couple more of these to see what i did so i just don't have that uh need anymore um well difficult is in in the sense now the next uh b-roll image is he's talking about i'll cue it up and it helps to illustrate the point of what he's talking along and you you're in uh azerbaijan on your way to georgia and the guide has to drop you off in azerbaijan and you have to walk a kilometer through no man's land with your luggage and then go through customs in georgia and then you do the same going into armenia uh it's a little uh a little different a little um scary so uh no dissolves in and out it's it's more of a straight cut almost like you're you're going to a separate scene but that scene really is an illustration of the landscape of what he's talking about all right and another one here you know very very um obedient and it was fine there was no real problem they're doing their job my wife okay and and you you just keep going on with that and uh you know refining it as you you go on adding that b-roll in there now i want to talk about white triangles you'll see this clip here has a white triangle on it at one side that white triangle is showing you that you have media end that's the end or the beginning of the media there's normal beyond it but this one there is there and if i keep dragging you'll see that eventually i'll reach the limit and another white triangle will show up um i have to be honest that i i never thought about those for 20 years until i was at an event and i made a a just a quick comment about oh everybody knows what they are and a ton of people had no idea what those are so the white triangles are not special you don't lose them some people say i lost my white dragons you don't lose them they you have to keep dragging a clip out to see the media start and end and you won't see those on sub clips that's completely different but that's what they are they just tell you you're at the end of the clip and of course all of the the interview shots are smaller cuts so we'll never see those uh white triangles there now you can mute a track also so if i was playing if i hit the m button um i've muted that track through my mind it was fine there was no so let's say i don't want to go to a lot of trouble to remove those tracks but i don't want to listen to them i'm focusing more on um on what he's saying so you can mute those or i could have used the solo key no real problem no they're doing their job and the solo key will only uh play back what that track is and i could solo two or three or 10 or what have you if you add the shift key to any of these locking viewing on and off shift-click will unlock all of them or mute all of them or solo all of them so shift click and then shift click again will turn all of those off this is really useful if you've got 10 20 or or 50 different tracks how many tracks can you have it's unlimited let's just go up to the top here and i'll show you we've got quite a few tracks and i've got a title over here which i'll use in a second but these tracks can be anything you can add still images video graphics animations on any of the tracks and if you want to scroll up i'm holding down the ctrl key on windows the command key on mac and using my scroll wheel or changing the preferences remember our preference is scrolling uh scroll wheel is horizontal you could have changed it but i want to show you that i could delete this track delete track i right click delete track to make a new track all you have to do is drag something up there so let's go back to our b-roll and if i wanted to i'm going to turn off audio because i just want to show you adding a track if you drag something above tracks it will automatically make a track for you this is so useful that way you don't have to know how many tracks you're going to have before you start the default is three and three but you could end up with 30 and two if you want very easy to work with that this is another one that's useful and that's selecting forward let's say i i didn't like i didn't like that the music died here too quickly in a cave in egypt or it was a people and sure enough it was a family so i want this clip here and i want every other clip on what's that a2 i want to select everything from there all the way to the end of a2 and move it to where the playhead is well what i can do is i can grab this select track forward and by default it's two arrows so it selects everything but if i hold the shift key down then i'm track selecting forward that so you you can't move it with that one but i could select it then get the move tool and move it back and what i've just done if we zoom out and look i'm moving that whole track but the the difference is i didn't have to zoom out track select forward is really useful if you're if you're zoomed in and you're working on a bunch of things but you don't want to have to zoom all the way out grab the move tool select everything zoom in and move it back track select forward one track or multiple tracks i like that one i use that one a lot now you can just move a clip if you want and you can see some of these clips i've moved in this edit there's actually a hole in here because i wanted a gap in what was happening in countries i find when you're traveling you you so i have that gap because the music's filling it up and the ambience of this clip so when you click on a clip you can move that clip anywhere but beware that when i drag it over top of here and drag it back i've just deleted that it's still there i can drag it out but there's there's no way to protect the clip you're dragging on you drag on something and it will delete it same with going up and down if i drag that up it's going to delete that that clip there so but you can easily trim those so trimming is this red tool and like i said if you want the ripple trim tool that's the orange one the problem you have to watch out though if i ripple trim this you see it won't let me because it's other media is affected so i'm gonna have to lock everything else and just unlock this clip now i can ripple trim this and it's changing the whole time you won't really see that unless i move out so i'm ripple trimming this and i could trim it backwards if i want and all the rest of the clips are protected the ripple trimming it's best to lock the other tracks and then ripple trim that that track now admittedly that's a very advanced kind of thing most people would just be trimming and moving clips um on the on the timeline with the regular trim tool now one last thing working in the timeline and that's moving things up and down uh you can freely move anything up and down the one thing to be careful about is when you're moving a track with audio and video one of those could uh delete adjacent tracks so you have to be careful what i tend to do is turn this button off here linked selection so right now when i choose these clips here the audio is also selected and sometimes i don't want that audio to be selected i just want this clip here so i'll unlink the selection select that now that those are selected i could freely move them up and down i can use the option key or the alt key on windows the option key on mac and i'm using the up and down arrow to move this up now if i go down and then back up i've cut a hole in that let me show you how to fix that this clip here i can actually delete that and drag that back some people like to leave this off all the time some people like to leave it on i leave it on and turn it off when i need it when i need to just select one of the other now you can temporarily turn that off if you add the option key on mac and the option the alt key on windows so now i have that on if i hold the alt or option and drag this i'm just selecting that if i just select it without the option or alt i'm selecting that so depending on how you want to work you can do it that way all right so i mean that this is it's like drinking with a fire hose i mean there's a lot to learn and i've got a ton of tutorials about ripple trimming and and lots of things to edit and you really got to get your feet wet because what i would show you here is not necessarily what you would use in your everybody's your edit everybody's is going to be a little bit different but the same principles apply you're starting with a timeline you're dropping things in the timeline and you're chopping them up okay all right let's go look at markers and what are we looking at oh yeah markers and transitions markers and transitions in the next section okay you still with me yeah let's get into a shorter part this time and that's markers and transitions so markers uh some people swear by them use them a lot uh they're very useful i i use them primarily to remember a place that i need to come back in the timeline that's really all i use them for but let me show you um what they're about okay so a marker there's a markers panel and again if you've closed it you can go to the window menu and call up markers you can also as i mentioned before double click on the editing workspace and here's one of the dilemmas i can't see it in here but i do have the double-headed arrow so if i click in here it's way down there so it was there it's just so far over there's a limit to how many things will show across the top of that of the project panel with everything open so there's the markers there's nothing there yet there's two ways to apply markers i'm just going to zoom in again hit plus plus if i have nothing selected and tap the m key then i will have added a marker and you can see the marker shows up now adobe has a really powerful technique in that if you want to change the name of the marker and the duration if you tap m again when you when you have the playhead over a marker it opens up the edit marker dialog box and this is very useful um so if you just hit m it'll show up so we could name this uh writing i think that's what he's talking about at this part you can add comments you can also change the duration and you can drag this over or you can type in a number you can change the color of the markers and this is a comment marker the rest of this stuff don't even worry about it chapter markers were back in the day when you could create dvds with adobe programs you can't anymore and the rest had to do with uh web technology especially flash which flash is now dead so really it's just commenting that you're worried about so when i click ok the marker shows up the the more i zoom in the longer it will be because i can see it and at this point i can drag that marker out if i want okay pretty simple you can add as many markers as you want so i could hit mm over here and add another one and do whatever i want now if a clip is selected and you tap the m key you'll add a marker to the clip and if i open this clip by double clicking you can see there's the marker same thing hit m again and i can add it so you can have clip markers and you can have sequence markers and they can have a range or they can just be a specific marker very useful for a lot of points to me when i'm editing my show and i've i've said something wrong and i have to go back and correct it and i've got a tutorial about replacing uh dialogue i'll i don't want to stop and go to all the work to find the the right word and place it and i'll just hit a marker and i'll type in the word replace with and then i'll move on and then later on i'll i'll see that now there is a markers menu and down at the bottom you'll see ripple sequence markers is turned on you want to make sure this is on zone by default remember when we were ripple trimming you trim and then the everything from the timeline moves down well if you have timeline markers you want those to move with it or maybe you don't if you don't turn that off you can also have sequence markers included with copy and paste so when you're copying from one sequence to another one it will paste in the markers or not again you can turn those on or off and there's a lot all of the same kinds of commands that you can mark an in and out mark a selection um because these are not just markers the the i and the o key in and out that's also in the marker menu you're marking an area so there's markers and then there's an in and out point which is also you're marking that area you can clea clear that area out by control shift x or command shift x on the mac in an in and out point uh is useful if you want to export out or copy out one little uh segment of that area i won't go on too much about markers because like i said i have a whole tutorial uh about markers that that's much more detailed let's talk about transitions because uh when they're used tastefully they can be uh very good so as i mentioned before at the beginning of this i was born i wanted to put a transition in here so if you move your your regular move tool to the edge of a clip it turns to the trim tool and if you click in here you'll add an edit point ctrl d command d and now there's my i was born in the netherlands cross dissolve if you select the cross dissolve and go to the effects controls you will see the control for that cross dissolve so you can dissolve quicker or later and you can also do that here the one thing to keep in mind is if you're zoomed out you can't easily click on the edge of that watch watch my tool change see from here to there now i can edit that so you have to be zoomed in at a certain point to be able to edit that transition is there more than cross dissolve there is but yikes from a taste point of view let me just show you one other one that i like to use and this is another way to hide a jump cut if it doesn't make sense for you to go to a b-roll you know this is much more narrative but if if you need to to cut these points and you make it quick is here again this is another jump cut it's not and you can see it's absolutely disturbing i i just they drive me crazy instead of a dissolve which i'll show you what a cross dissolve looks like it's not cross dissolved doesn't look good because their face is is uh dissolving into their own face and it's just way distracting but a dip to black is really good so let's go to our effects and you'll see in the effects there's audio transitions and video transitions twirl that down and you'll see things like motion cube spin don't use that really bad yucky dissolves there's a cross dissolve dipped to black and instead of going all the way down here this is kind of like the same search that we did for importing our media if i type d i p dip there's dip to black so i don't have to go all the way down on the right you'll notice that this is also gpu accelerated if you have a fast enough gpu if you don't it's still going to be fine but there is a little boost in there so now you can drag this all the way over and drop it in so watch this [Music] and if you want to shorten that because i think dips to black should be really short [Music] oh not that short it's not if you double click on it you'll get an actual number so let's say 20 20 frames and the way to read this is hours minutes seconds frame so obviously you don't want this to be hours it's now 20 frames it's not boom it hides the jump cut and it just it's a cleaner way to work so if you have to have jump cuts at least put a dip to black you can have a dip to white instead a dip to white is the same as a dip to black except it dips just a creative idea you can't change that color it's either or dipped white or dipped to black now i want to show you adding that to a bunch of clips so i'm going to grab a new sequence and again i'll just let's uh images and i've got that folder full of images so watch this i'll drag that whole folder into the timeline backslash key and now i've got a bunch of images and they're just cutting one after another again i'll double click to make that a little larger there's a keyboard shortcut that i told you about command d on the mac control d on windows which is apply the default transition if you select more than one clip and hit that now you're blending between each one of these if you add movement on top of that remember the scale and position on top of that so this is my example with music so each one has a little scale and or position change with a dissolve over top of music pretty simple and it just brings it to life we've also experienced these pan and skin kind of examples and if we click on any one of them we'll see the keyframes here now i've got a tutorial about more natural animations i'll link to that there and that will give you smoother animations if you want but this is a separate sequence from our rough cut but if we wanted to we could bring that in right to here so let's say that we want the images in here we want everything to move down including the music so i'll hit command shift k control shift k i now cut everything from top to bottom regardless of how many tracks i've got as long as they're not protected this is the the sequence here i'll drag this in and i'll hold down the control key or the command key see how that adds those little arrows and it pushes everything down and now we've got our images showing up inside so this is a nested sequence and you can see it's colored green and that's different from this everything in this images i guess i should have named one something different if you double click on this you'll see all of the images in here so this is a sequence nested into another sequence this is really useful i've got a tutorial about how to use this in a creative way so you can apply transitions on a single clip you can apply it on multiple clips if you apply it on its own clip like this over here and i hit control d command d it actually puts a transition on the beginning and the end of the clip for you so if you don't have an edit point it puts them on both if you have an edit point it'll show it'll do that so if you have the white triangles and you drop in a transition you'll get a warning that because there's nothing after the triangle it will have to duplicate all of the media again i've got a whole tutorial about that in the white triangles all right transitions editing keyboard shortcuts and uh again you can go through all the transitions just be tasteful be judicious don't just use any of them don't use the page peel dear lord and spinning weird ass stuff it can make your stuff look really cheap and distracting if you start using uh lots of those okay so that is markers and transitions uh let's go have a look at audio in the next part all right so you keeping up good learning lots i hope wonderful thanks for sticking with this now let's get into the subject of audio audio can be a bit of a tricky subject especially if you've recorded the audio yourself and it's not very good and you have to fix it if you've got good audio then the work in premiere pro is a lot easier so let's look at both of those fixing audio and also just enhancing audio there's a whole bunch of effects that come inside premiere pro to help enhance audio boost it make it louder and remove things like echo and noise so we're gonna look at that and uh the two different mixers that are in premiere pro okay so let's talk about the tracks because right now we've been dealing with stereo tracks if we go back to our other sequence you can see that this track has two of these waveforms in it and this one also has two waveforms these are called standard tracks a lot of people will call these stereo tracks but premiere pro just calls them standard because a standard track in premiere pro can contain both stereo and mono in one track it's not right or wrong or good or bad it's just the capability let me show you what it looks like when we have a mono track in here here's a mono clip and i've opened it in the source monitor you can see there's only one waveform i also want to show you i've got no tracks down here for audio but if i drag this in a new track will be created for me and if i open this up you can see premiere pro created a standard track for me it did not create a mono track when i dragged a mono clip in and it'll play and it'll be in the middle and this is another thing a lot of people don't understand is they hope that there's a if they add a mono track you can hear it in both ears that's what mono is these are stereo earbuds you've got stereo headphones or stereo speakers when you stick a mono track in it plays equally on both sides it sounds like it's in the middle if you wanted to i'm going to delete this track and i'll right click and choose add tracks if i choose add track it'll make another stereo or standard track i'll choose add tracks i want zero video tracks and i want to show you that you can add a 5.1 surround sound adaptive or mono we're just going to add a mono and we'll add it after audio one click ok and you'll notice that it has this little speaker icon and a standard track doesn't so if i drag this in here this is now a mono clip playing in a mono track the little stick the little speaker is a way for you to see whether you're using mono or st or uh standard tracks to be honest in premiere pro i just let premiere pro make all the tracks for me i don't have recommendation i mean i don't have requirements for things like mono but just to let you know worlds like the broadcast world there are a lot of workflows where there's they don't want anything but mono tracks in but for a lot of new users just let premiere pro create the right track next up is the idea of volume and you'll see that our audio tracks have these lines and if you mouse over you'll see that the volume level is 0 db over on the right i'm just going to play this so you can see my phone more than a couple of times picked up by the microphone so you'll see that it starts down here at the bottom and goes to zero these are all minus numbers so you don't count from zero to a hundred uh in premiere pro for audio in fact in in most digital uh settings audio is always calculated at the top being zero because if you go past zero then it will crackle and pop and distort and you don't want that you want it fairly loud but not popping uh above that so these lines are your volume controls if you want something louder you just drag that up or drag it down another way to do this is with the audio clip mixer and you'll see that when i move this up and down it's going to move that up and down now the interesting thing about the audio clip mixer is it has to do with where the playhead is so you can see this is audio one audio one a one this is audio two i don't have a fader in here until the play head is over top of it now i can do that so the you can either move the line or change the fader for a per clip but i wanted to tell you that that's a lot of work the balancing of the audio can be done inside premiere pro fairly automatically but if if i was going to give you my suggestion i use a separate program called alex audio butler and i have a whole tutorial on that you literally drop it into the mixer and you let it do all its work it uses artificial intelligence and it just makes the whole audio track the balancing it doesn't do things like remove noise or reverb but it balances things perfectly it's as if an audio engineer worked on your track but we're not going to i'll show you applying that in a second but but there's a lot of tools in premiere pro so let me get rid of this mono track for now and also go over to the window menu and show you the audio track mixer so the audio track mixer controls the volume of the whole track so if i change this it's not going to change that line that's because you're looking at clip information so each one of these clips has its own volume setting the track itself is on top of that so if i turn this all the way down and hit play you won't hear anything as i turn it off protection and it saved my phone more than a couple of times so it's an easy way to overall adjust the whole track i've got uh tutorials on automating that so you could actually add automation so the faders are moving up and down that's way beyond a beginner's course but that's one of the options up at the top you'll notice a pan knob too so if i play this and we pan echo all over the place and it actually smears together that's what you hear when you hear room tone so that's the ability to pan from left to right so you can place audio sources all over the stereo spectrum it sounds pretty cool now below all of the tracks is another track and that's the mix track that's what this is here it's the mix track up in the track mixer you'll also see the same mix track this controls everything and you can see it goes above zero i would recommend you never touch that volume instead you you let you work on the tracks themselves and leave that at 0 db otherwise you could end up with something being too quiet or too loud on the way out it's it's just best to leave the mix track alone so let's talk about working with effects so listen to this clip so to sum up this review i love this phone case and i definitely recommend it i love it because of the bulk that it gives my phone and it's so you can hear there's a hiss there's uh in there and this one audio echo all over the place and it actually smears together that's what you hear when you so that clip of me i recorded using the microphone on my dslr so you can hear it bouncing all over the room so let's go have a look at the effects the effects are in this line here they might be hidden behind in the and you look for your little double arrows and if we look into the effects you'll see audio effects and troll that down and they're divided into categories uh amplitude and compression so you've got things to amplify the sound and then you'll notice some things that you you might not be familiar with a de-esser what is a de-esser well sometimes some people have it's called sibilance they have too much of a sizzle on their s and this can remove that it's very useful there's compressors delay and echo a bunch of filters modulation noise reduction and restoration oh boy well let's look at this one denoise and just like the other effects with this clip selected if i double click on this watch what happens in the effects controls it shows up in here you don't really see much you've got to click on this edit button and now you'll see what it does so let's just play that so to sum up this review i love this phone case and i definitely recommend it i love it because of the bulk so you'll hear the the noise the hiss is completely gone it does affect the voice a little bit but not enough that you would recognize this in fact on my show i re remove the hiss of my fan on my laptop and there's a projector on the floor behind me projecting that image on the wall there's a lot of fan noise and i have a boom mic right above me so i add that uh to my track mixer actually let me play this and i'll turn it on and off so to sum up this review i love this phone case and i definitely recommend it i love it because of the bulk that gives my phone and it's actually so it's very simple you apply it and you can you can turn the amount up or down now i do want to give a shout out to a company called accusonos this is actually their technology inside premiere pro so if you want more advanced fine tune controls for working with audio i'll have a link in the description to accusonos okay so let's go listen to this guy and let's stick the d reverb on there same thing i'll double click edit uh audio echo all over the place and it actually smears together that's what and there if if you click on this little presets there's a couple of choices heavy or light reverb i'm going to choose heavy reverb reduction that's what you hear when you hear room tone and that's why it's so difficult to be able to fix that and you've got a slider i can turn this down because it's not a simple reflection it's actually a bunch of of sound waves smearing together by the time they you can turn it all the way up hit all these surfaces and then get picked up so you're walking a fine line between changing the audio quality over overall there's a certain tonality that happens it's almost like a metallic kind of effect if you push that too far and you really have to set your expectations you're never going to get the sound of audio on a busy city street to sound like somebody recorded it in a quiet recording studio that will never happen way too many people think that you can push a button and do that you can't you know what hollywood does when they record on the street they re-record everything later and they match uh the the speaking that that takes a lot of work to do that you don't want to do that but this can really save you if you've if you have been given uh a file that that you have to fix or maybe you recorded it poorly you can fix it with things like d reverb okay so you can add all of these effects so look at more of the effects so you can add reverb you can add other things in here like distortion these are useful fill left with right and fill right with left you remember i showed you the two waveforms sometimes for whatever reason you recorded on your camera but the recording only put the voice or the dialogue or something in one side you can use this to fill the other side that's a useful one and there's others for stereo imaging you can expand the stereo you can also shift the pitch that is adding an effect to a clip you can also add it to a track so in the window menu if we open up our audio track mixer if you twirl this little thing down it's easy to miss that twirl that down and then move over to the right and you can see you've got a number of slots in here click in here all of the same effects i just showed you are available as a track effect so we could go to the noise reduction denoise double click on that and let's choose light noise it's actually a two piece case so there's more protection so that's going to eliminate the noise on the whole track instead of one effect for each one of those tracks the benefit to doing it in the track is you can change one effect instead of changing it over and over again because if you did apply this to let's say 50 different clips you now have to change that in 50 different places it's way easier to do that in the track mixer and this is also where i would add alex audio butler so i have a whole tutorial on that where i would use it for voice double click on that tell it to use a constant source and natural that's what you're hearing with my voice you're hearing accusonus remove the noise and then alex audio button about audio butler balances all the audio compression levels automatically for me uh i i love it fantastic i also want to show you the workspace up at the top that adobe gives you and here it is it's called audio and when you click on that it opens up the audio workspace and what you'll get is this new panel called the essential sound panel adobe has done a really good job making this easier for you when it comes to a bunch of audio effects applied so let's go back to our rough mic a rough edit and i'm going to um apply effects to to these clips um and i'm going to use the essential sound panels so what the essential sound panel wants you to do first is to select a clip or clips and then tag it so i showed you a tool before called these the track select forward remember it's the a key that selects it if you hold the shift key down it's going to select all of these audio clips for me so tap the a key hold shift and click so now i've selected all of the audio clips for the interview now in the essential sound i will choose whether this is dialogue music sound effects or ambience and i'll choose dialog and then pick a preset like balanced male voice and hit play into photography at a very early age and realize that the world is and you'll notice here reduced noise is a possibility so i could click on reduce noise it's quite the place to take photos and to explore and if we open up repair by itself there's reduced reverb too so they put them all on a slider so this is adobe's way of simplifying all of the effects it is a good way to work again i try to to keep on the track mixer because what you've just done is if you've you've applied one of the tracks and we go to the effects you've applied denoise vocal enhancer graphic eq dynamics processing and de-esser one two three four five times let's say you had 50 clips while you do the math that's a lot of effects that are applied now if you stay in the essential sound you can move those sliders and affect all of them so that's one way to work um again i prefer to do this all in the uh the track mixer so if i want to remove that up in the top right clear audio type and hopefully they're removed yes they're removed i'm going to go back to my editing workspace and open up images remember this was our slideshow okay the last thing i want to talk about quickly is voiceovers recording your own voice directly into premiere pro when you do that you're going to want to use headphones or earbuds or something because if you don't the microphone will pick up the rest of the audio and it will create a problem so the room needs to be quiet and you're only listening to your voice so i've got earbuds in i don't have my uh audio playing so let's go look over here you'll notice the little microphone icon before i click on that right click in the same area and choose voiceover settings and here you can see what you can name this so i can name this colon vo i could pick the microphone that i'm using i can choose a pre-roll and a post-scroll uh i'll turn the post roll off the pre-roll will count in three seconds and then it will start automatically recording and you'll see there's the level right there and that's because it's it's i've picked the right microphone if you don't see that level then premiere pro doesn't know um what your settings are you need to go to the preferences audio hardware and pick your your uh microphone so i'm going to move this right here and i'll push this button it's going to count down and then i'll start recording my voice so these are some beautiful images that uh were taken by jonathan uh through his travels through the years and when i hit stop you'll see it's recorded my voice i'll just solo that that s button is for solo so these are some beautiful images that were taken by jonathan and if you look over on the left hand side remember i named mine voiceover and and there it is so uh it's recorded a new clip and put it inside there notice i did not start recording my voiceover at the beginning i do get comments by some people who try to do what i just did and instead of the voice over recording where where i have the playhead the playhead jumps back to the beginning i think you're just using an older version of premiere pro if that happens because adobe changed this in the last few versions that it will record where the playhead is so if i need to move further down i just hit record again and keep going and it will add another win i don't think you're using the right version you if if you are and it's still a problem hit the i key for an in point and it's going to record from that in point but it shouldn't be a problem so that gives you a good you know basic idea audio can be a whole course on its own but that gives you a basic idea like i said i've got lots of tutorials with many different um advanced looks at things like automation noise removal and a whole tutorial just on alex audio butler that is unbelievable trust me the comments i get back from some people that use it they they're like me wash your hands of audio no more problems i'll just drop it in every single time and it just works all right so uh i think we covered everything we need to and uh next up we're gonna talk about effects okay let's move on to the next section which is a lot of fun and that's effects you can easily overdo things with effects in premiere pro there's a ton of them some are useful some are crazy and there's lots of ways to apply them use them reuse them and save them let's go have a look in the effects not the effects controls the effects controls will change the effects let's go to the effects and go to video effects and they're also just like the audio effects they're divided into categories things like the adjust category where you can change things like levels if you're used to that in photoshop blur and sharpen color correction [Music] distortion so here's a clip right here if you have the clip selected and double click so let's just put turbulent displace on this and look at that we've got this kind of warpy kind of look going on you'll also notice that it doesn't play back perfectly well it's kind of stuttery but you still get the effect some of these have this little badge some don't turbulent displace is not accelerated the the export's going gonna look fine so uh just playing it back is going to be cpu-based instead of gpu if you don't know what that is just your export will look fine it just might not play back smooth and it might take a little longer to actually render that when you're exporting it so typically when you add an effect it has a bunch of settings in here turbulent displays has a bunch of turbulence effects like how is that turbulent what is the setting here you can see you've got twists and bulges and then how much you're doing it and you can add keyframes that's what these stopwatches are so you could add a keyframe for the amount for the size and warp the heck out of something very easily you could also save effects so selecting the name of the effect including motion and opacity you can right click and save this as a preset you can copy you can paste this once you've copied it somewhere else you can also just select it and delete it or turn it off so it's it's very easy to work with the effects they're all non-destructive meaning that when you apply them you haven't changed the video until you export it that that video can have the effect applied or taken off let's keep going that was the distort category you'll also notice uh and there's you can generate gradients ellipses flares i've got lots of tutorials on all of this convert something to black and white there's a whole bunch for vr video here we're not really going to cover that there's things like green screen green screen keying i have a whole tutorial on that this is removing noise with dust and scratches or adding noise like hls auto i've got tutorials on that and then there's a whole obsolete category in here it's best not to use those because eventually adobe stopped shipping those obsolete effects it makes them obsolete for several versions for you to finish up your work and then eventually you'll install a new version and they'll be gone there's others for basic 3d so here's one that that's fun to play with where you can swivel a clip around either horizontally or vertically and you can tilt this it's got some uses definitely a bunch of stylized effects in here uh glows embosses time effects echo effects i've got a great tutorial on using this in a very stylized way to give you jumpy crazy kind of video transform effects crop is is a good one to use crop does exactly what it says so if i turn the crop up it starts chopping that out so you could easily crop this video up into multiple pieces you could crop videos put them side by side i've got a whole tutorial on creating split screens using crop and transform and then there's some effects that are transitions that you could apply and others that really aren't that important like these utility ones or time code and stuff so let's just create a blur effect on on this video and i want to show you how we can animate it over time animation happens when you have keyframes which i'll show you in a second that change over time so we'll go to the beginning of this clip and instead of hunting through if we just click in here and and type blur there's gaussian blur because the clip is selected i'll double click and apply it and gaussian blur is pretty simple just has an amount and if you turn that up you'll see it start to blur you can get rid of the dark edge by turning on repeat pixels what i'm trying to do is uh recreate an effect of a camera being out of blur and then going into focus called rack focus so we'll start by blurring this let's blur it quite a bit at the beginning right now there are no keyframes if i click on the stopwatch i've added a keyframe so at the beginning the clip is set to be blurry by 90. i'll move forward and i can type in a number i can drag left and right and you can see it creates a keyframe if i click this reset button it resets it back to zero so now when i go back to the beginning and hit play that's what it looks like it's a very useful effect very uh interesting idea where you start blurry because it's always interesting to tease people you tease them with a little blur and then you focus in if you want this to be slower you just drag the keyframe slower and now it's going to be slower you can select both of these and move them around so you can change it so that it's blurry until here and then starts to unblur but let's keep that at the beginning next up is saving this and reapplying it and and what i want you to understand is the duration between the clip and the effects control panel this duration here left and right and the duration of this clip are directly tied together when you move this playhead to the beginning you're at the beginning of the clip when you move it beyond the clip now you're beyond the keyframes for that so i want to apply this same effect to this next clip here and this clip you can see is much longer but i want the blur to be the same between the two now you can just do this by selecting this copying and pasting so this clip the gaussian blur i could copy select this and paste it and it's going to be the same blur and there's nothing wrong with that that works but you can also select the clip instead of having to select the gaussian blur just select the clip with the effects copy that go to the next clip and you can use the edit paste attributes or you can use the keyboard shortcut or you can right click and choose paste attributes and here you can see a list of everything that's applied to the clip i copied and gaussian blur is one of those so when i click ok i've now done the equivalent of that this is also really useful if you need to paste attributes to a whole bunch of clips too which could also be size information too not just effects now i want to show you one other way to save this and that's to right click on the effect or effects you can hold the command key on mac control key in windows and click on as many effects so you could create a whole stack of effects and save it as a preset and i'll call this rack focus and you have three options scale anchor to the in anchor to out so remember i showed you the second clip was longer if i choose scale the second clip is longer so it will paste in the blur but it will move the keyframe and scale it based on the clip i'm going to choose to anchor it because i want it to be the exact same anchoring will keep it exactly the same and start it at the beginning anchor out is if i had a different effect going out i could also write a description click ok and now if we look at our effects and twirl down presets and there it is so that was the clip that i copied and pasted it on i can now drag that over and it's the same thing i've applied that so very useful uh you the one thing i will tell you you should do is right click on the presets and export your presets and find a place if you've gone to a lot of trouble to tweak a bunch of things occasionally premiere pro if you have to reset premiere pro which we'll talk about at the end you could lose those presets so it makes sense maybe once a month right click on that and just export your presets and just keep a whole bunch of them in there in case you have to import them later all right let's talk about masking now and isolating an effect on this guy so let's add the blur on his face so same thing as before we'll grab the blur apply it i'll turn that up and you'll notice three choices here this is an elliptical mask a polygon or a pen if i click on the ellipse it's going to keep the effect just in that area and we can resize this mask so that it's around his face if you move to the middle you can change where this is on his face and you could do things like feather the mask you could expand the mask so it's larger or smaller and now when when i deselect you see the blur is just on his face if he moves too far then you're going to have to add keyframes for the mask path there are controls here to track forward track one frame or track backwards forwards or one frame forwards if you click on the little wrench you can tell it whether you're tracking position rotation or position scale and rotation and turn on or off preview if you had preview is off by default it's much faster to calculate i i want to set your expectations this tracker is not very accurate many many times it will actually lose what it's tracking so if you're trying to track his face and you don't have preview on and it takes 5 10 20 minutes you might be sitting there waiting thinking that that that gaussian blur is tracking perfectly only to find out when premiere pro is finished it's the gaussian blur is like way back over the other side and that's just the state of the tracker it's just not that good let me just show you quickly how you can manually track it's a pain but at least you could do it if you click on the mask path and by the way the mask is constantly becoming deselected i hear this all the time my mask i lost my mask you didn't lose it it just became deselected so click on the mask path there's a key there's a keyframe there we'll move ahead he's not moving that much but i just want to show you you can move this and it adds another keyframe and it adds another keyframe so you can manually track it what you'll notice is that if something is moving quite a bit the tracking is going to not be as accurate we're way too used to hollywood style it's called rotoscoping when you when you cut someone out of a background that is really freaking hard really hard i'm not talking a little tricky i'm talking unbelievably hard i've got a tutorial about working with masks in something like after effects if you really want to pursue that then use mocha in after effects or even better mocha pro which is a separate program you have to buy and it does amazing rotoscoping it's still really hard i just want to set your expectations you're not about to import any video push a button and remove the background and rotoscope it ain't going to happen but let's get fun let's get uh let's add something to this guy here i want to track this and i'm going to add mosaic effect to this and we'll make this a little bit bigger and the effect i want i'm going to grab this shape and what i'll do is i'll follow him all the way to the end as if the mosaic is trailing behind him now there isn't a nice little handle here so you have to click and drag and then drag and hold the shift key i wish there was a handle there's not so let's add a mask path to this and you see how the mask became deselected as soon as i added a keyframe this is just one of the peculiarities that will frustrate you you add a keyframe it deselects the mask yikes here's what i'm going to do i'm going to use the scroll wheel or you could use your track pad and i'll move backwards and then i'll hold the shift key because that means i'm moving in one direction and you can see how it's adding keyframes if you tap the tild key to make this bigger or maximize this frame then you can see it a little clearer now i'm not following him in you know the perfect shape that you would expect and again that would take rotoscoping you know if i really wanted to to be accurate i would have followed his body but he's pretty small i i just want to give you an idea of what this kind of thing looks like when an effect changes based on an isolated area all right so now you can see the mosaic follows along as he comes in and that could have been any effect that could have been a blur or a color change uh it could have revealed something else so have fun with effects let's talk about a very useful effect and that's warp stabilizer warp stabilizer will stabilize your footage and it will also scale the footage because uh it's well i'll show you i'll turn scale off and show you the why that that works so you can see this camera is moving a little bit and i want it more stable so i'll select the clip and in my effects i'll i'll type warp st there's warp stabilizer double click and it's going to start analyzing this in the background you can continue working while this is going on this and it finished that quick it this is dependent on the power of your computer a really slow computer it's going to take longer a very long clip it's going to take even longer okay so now if we look at this you can see it's much more smooth and i'll turn this off so you can see it as an example and that's back on if you look at the warp stabilizer settings you can see you have smooth motion or no motion this is smooth motion i'll show you no motion in a second you can also look at the framing so there are several choices stabilize stabilizing crop stabilize crop and automatically scale so let's just stabilize and crop and now i'll play this back actually let me just stabilize and this this gives you a better idea of what's going on so the black edges are because to stabilize this it scaled it down and it's moving it around so when the original camera operator jerked the camera to the left warp stabilizer converts it to the right and it's not just changing x y position it's doing incredibly calculations because no one moves a camera a lens perfectly on a subject at 90 degrees your your your you've got some yawn move like this and rotation and it's removing that so now when i put scale on you don't see the black bars but the video is scaled up so if you want to do what the professionals do if they know they're going to stabilize something they actually shoot a little further away that way when it crops and zooms it's going to look good now let me show you no motion so in this clip there's very little motion but what i want to do is emulate as if this was shot on a tripod so let me turn off warp stabilizer and show you lots of movement there so warp stabilize smooth looks like this if i change the motion to no motion you can see it's it's restabilizing it now look at this i'm just going to make this larger look at that now that looks like it was shot on a tripod that's really useful if you can't carry a big tripod with you yet you want these shots maybe this is a travelogue and you want nice solid shots you don't want them moving around so stick your elbows into your sides if you're shooting with a dslr or anything you're bringing to your face but if you stabilize that by sticking your elbows in holding that tight you'll still move around warp stabilizer no motion now it looks like you carted a big old tripod all day the last thing i want to show you with warp stabilizer is if you've added a clip to a sequence that doesn't match the pixels warp stabilizer needs to have the exact same pixels and frames and everything so watch this this one there's a lot of motion i'm walking around boom boom boom if i apply this i'll get a warning warp stabilizer requires clip pixel aspect ratio to match fix by nesting oh that's good so i'll remove the warp stabilizer on there right click and nest this and i'll call this c walk and you'll see it'll change green a nested sequence is a sequence that's in that's been brought into a different timeline so it's nested inside now when i add warp stabilizer it's going to stabilize it it takes a little longer okay for this clip all right and it's done now i also picked this clip because i wanted to show you every single time that i'm stepping down it's blurring and it blurs because the shutter speed and the movement of my foot hitting and the camera jiggling that blur is actually in the footage what you will find sometimes that when you stabilize something you'll see blur sometimes in the footage you might think it's an artifact added by warp stabilizer it isn't it's in the footage you don't see it as much because the footage is moving around and your brain doesn't recognize it because it's part of what we see because we see moving footage all the time but as soon as you stabilize it now it sticks out it doesn't mean that the warp stabilizer is wrong it's just now doing something that isn't natural so you have to pay that price after effects actually has a way to remove that blur okay so again this is a just a beginner's uh look at effects they're easy to apply save reapply and adjust and change uh over and over again i have countless tutorials on different ways of using effects that you can check out all right so next up oh yeah let's uh next up we're going to talk about color okay are we ready for the next section hopefully you're doing okay you've had a few breaks and you're starting to have this stuff seep into your brain let's talk about color which is both fun and infuriating it is a fun uh subject because we can really play with the color very easily in premiere pro it can be infuriating uh when you're trying to balance something and it just does not work so let's talk about balancing color and getting creative and then also talk about scopes because it takes years and years and years to to really be able to see color correctly and i wouldn't even put myself in that category and one of the problems in in working with color is everything is relative so if you're looking at a clip that looks bright if it's near a whole bunch of dark clips it might look bright but it's not really bright based on the overall luminance or how bright the clip is that's why premiere pro has scopes and the scopes will help you recognize um where where the color is and and if you have any problems i have a whole tutorial on how to read the scopes they're very powerful your brain is also influenced by color around you and a typical colorist will be in a neutral room with neutral lighting and very few of us have that if you've got sunlight pouring in that's affecting you if you've got fluorescent lights they're green and colored walls lots of things so trust the scopes so the the first place to start in premiere pro is the color workspace it's an excellent place that gives you all the tools you need let's go have a look color workspace up at the top and just like before double click on that workspace and it's going to reset everything for you now when you when you open up your scopes the first time i think that's the default you actually have three different scopes and i think there's there are too many um like i said i've got a detailed description of of these but let's turn off this vector scope turn off the waveform and use this rgb parade rgb red green blue parade because there are three of them and the reason they're side by side is it's easier to isolate just the green or the blue or the red it doesn't mean the red is on the one side and the blue is on the other side it just means they've been moved apart and they're actually squished together because they're they're inside a 9 by 16 a 16 by 9 panel but it's easier to to recognize them so trust me i also want to show you the numbers 0 to 100 or on the right zero to 255 which is 256 levels that's just two different ways of reading color digital or just uh zero to 100 whatever you're used to the top is the brightest the bottom is the darkest and the middle is the mid-tone if something is below zero it's going to be totally black if you push more stuff down then more of it will be black usually that's not a good thing it's very specialized if it's all up at the top then it's going to be very bright so it will change based on the clip so i'm going to move my playhead and you see the difference here look at that all the way up at the top that's this very bright sky over here as opposed to this guy which is very medium and blue okay so over on the right hand side is the luma tree color panel and these are the choices that you have basic creative basic creative curves color wheels secondaries vignettes i have a whole playlist where i go deep inside let's concentrate on some simple things like like the basic section with neutralizing this so when i open up basic it gives us simple tools if you come from adobe lightroom you're going to love this this is a lot of the exact same things where it takes a setting and puts it on a slider and the first thing you'll see is an input lut don't use this this is only for people who shoot with a specific camera and they're shooting raw raw or log and they need to apply a lot that's probably not you probably not me keep going there's a white balance selector and that's this eyedropper here this is an easy way to balance something so if you see something in the clip that should be white and it's it's hard to know if these buildings like that is probably off-white let's say that this part of the boat should be white so i'll grab the eyedropper and click on that part of the boat and you'll see the settings changed and you'll see this has jumped so now the red is lower and if you click on the little effects you turn this on and off so you can see it's a cooler image and it is more neutral even though the red is lower it is neutral because this was shot um a little bit redder and it most likely was the time of day but you can neutralize that you don't have to but the reason basic and the white balance selector is at the top is because that's the typical workflow where you will balance a clip first then you will get creative after that fact i'm going to reset this by clicking up here and show you what happens when i move these manually so notice that they're moving like a teeter-totter the green is pretty much staying the same but blue and when i move this to blue the blue is moving up when i move this to the orange the red is moving up i want to show you a color wheel because this is very simple color science this is really simple let's go down to the color wheels and look at them and you can see there's blues and there's that orange red they're the opposite so when you increase blue you're actually decreasing that orangey red that's the way color works you don't have to know the science behind it you just have to recognize that hey if i've got too much blue move that slider away from the blue and you'll see the red show up so if you were forcing this into not a neutral but into more of a golden hour kind of look you could do that and then the green and the magenta are just the opposite we go back to our color wheels there's green and there's magenta they're the opposite from each other it's just easy to have these on sliders again if you come from lightroom this is going to make a lot of sense next up notice that there isn't a lot at the top although this is a bright daylight shot it was just shot at a darker exposure so we could change the exposure don't push it too far because you're going to blow it out but here we could push that exposure up go up to the top and turn this on and turn this off you can also use things like contrast which is pretty simple you drag this up and you can see the contrast is increasing double click on any of these to reset them then there is highlights and whites shadows and blacks the highlights are near the top the whites are right at the top so you can push that and stretch it out and you'll notice the scope as i'm doing that the the the scope is stretching the waveform out you're increasing the dynamic range it's as if you you shot it differently instead of shooting that that range again here's the shadows and closer to the bottom is the black so you can push that all the way to the back below that is saturation any time you start working with the contrast and pushing the contrast you've also increased the saturation so if you want that great you could saturate it even more or you could pull that saturation down and i'll turn the effect off and on off and we thought that that was bright before and now you look at it now it looks bright that's the idea of everything being relative and a great colorist would look at that and they would instantly know you would if you asked them to draw a picture of the scopes they'd probably get it right that's not you and me that's somebody who is a colorist as their job they can recognize these things doesn't mean they don't use scopes they still count on the scopes and look at that okay so let's talk about creating a look here's our wheel guy he's again and then we'll apply it to different clips and i'll show you an interesting way to do that so this is overly green it's very blown out it's very it's shot in a specific way it's gritty if we wanted to push this more towards the magenta maybe not that much do we want to lift the blacks a bit maybe we'll lift the blacks or lift the shadows but push the blacks down and then i'll go to the creative section and in here we've got a whole whack of different luts and looks i've got a whole tutorial on this if you google lutz l-u-t look up table is what it stands for oh my goodness you will find thousands of them that you can load into premiere pro and play with them and you can load them easily by clicking on the drop down clicking browse and then finding that locally but there's a ton of different ones in here if you if you click on the right arrows it's going to preview them before you apply them and you can see there's a bunch here that are based on on different um film stocks i want to get something that's a little bit warmer there we go gold heat click on that very extreme there's the before there's the after you can see it really stretches out and it gives this very stylized look now these were shot with the same camera what if i wanted to apply them here well as you saw in effects i could save a preset i could copy paste attributes but let's talk about using this as an adjustment layer back over in our i might have to open this up a little bit back in our project this little button here i'm going to create a new adjustment layer click ok it becomes selected i'll drag it to a track above and i'll drag it out right now it's it's not doing anything because i haven't applied an effect an adjustment layer if you apply effects to the adjustment layer it affects everything below it so let me select that first clip there's the effect the lumetri color effect which by the way the color settings that you do are based are actually creating a lumetri color effect so i'm going to instead of copy that i'm going to cut that and then i'll select the adjustment layer and paste that so now that's going to be applied to all of those clips on the adjustment layer it's great because it you can easily change the one adjustment layer and it changes the look of all the effects now the last thing i want to show you is a master clip effect versus a clip effect so let's i want to make this uh very obvious so let's go back to our basic correction cool this down change the exposure and crush the blacks and make this less green okay so we have this luma tree effect and you'll notice in the effects controls there's this right hand section and a left hand section this is the master clip effect so i'm going to take this and cut it and again i could save a preset or copy it but i want to remove it completely because let's imagine this clip is cut multiple times so that would mean one two three four five effects that i have to apply to this or if i click here and paste this in as a master clip effect it's now applied in every instance of this and you can see there's a special badge down here with a red line underneath it this is what i do for my show so when i take this clip into premiere pro i already have because i have the same lighting same camera and set up i already have a preset saved and i apply it as a master preset because then i chop it my uh every time i go to my talking head it's cut cut cut cut cut so master clip effects can save you tons of time can you change them you can but you have to be careful watch this if you go back to the lumetri color you'll see the right hand side is always selected if you want to change it you have to click here then make a change and now it's changed every one of these if you go back to the lumetri color panel it will always re-select the right-hand side so you have to keep that in the back of your mind because if you don't you'll forget you're doing a master clip effect change you'll click on the lumetri color panel you'll change the clip effect you'll wonder why that effect didn't change for all the other clips because you actually added another lumetri color effect on top of it it's a little tricky one so with you know great responsibility comes great power you know you've got the power of the master clip effect but you have to be very conscious of of always uh editing the master and not the other one okay so uh how are we doing great color we could go on for days and days and days i have a whole playlist of all the things you can do with color but now you have a basic understanding of of where the color panels are what the scopes are and and how to change them and effect them all right next up let's talk about titles and graphics okay we're on to titles and graphics now and uh usually this is the point where the video editing and all the rest of the stuff is done and now we're starting to dress it up with some graphics and titles and things like that there's a ton of titles that come directly inside premiere pro that you can download either paid or free with one caveat their adobe just calls them mogarts and so does the whole industry motion graphics templates mogarts for short the after effects mogurts some of them that are very complex can be slow so if you did buy a bunch of these and you're wondering why they're really slow well it's slow because after effects is slow if they're made in premiere pro then they're usually a lot faster i've made a ton of titles that you can get and i'll have links or you can go to the videoreveal.com store and and buy them but i've got i like titles that are built in premiere pro because they're much faster so let's show you how we can build a simple lower third how titles work how we can save them load them in then i'll show you where you can download a bunch of free video revealed titles so up at the top in our workspace there's a graphics workspace i want to show you before we click on that here's our tools right here specifically the text tool and the shape and pen tool when i click on graphics those tools will now be over here just a little bit closer because you can draw right directly in this window on the right hand side the essential graphics panel opens up and this is where you can choose load a bunch of titles which we'll look at in a second this is where i've saved all of my titles uh you can also jump to adobe stock the edit button is where we create them so there's nothing here right now you can create by using this little new item and create new text rectangle ellipse or from file is a clip and the from file can be a still image it can be a graphic a transparent graphic a logo photoshop file illustrator file it can even be a video and it will be inside the essential graphics panel and you can manipulate it there i want to show you the simple tools underneath the pen tool so if you click and hold and you'll see the pen tool for drawing shapes rectangle tool and ellipse tool i'm just going to grab the rectangle tool and click and drag a rectangle as soon as i drag it on the right in the essential graphics you'll see a bunch of settings that show up i still have the rectangle tool so if i click on anything i'm going to be making new rectangles so you might want to grab the selection tool which is the move tool and some of the settings are the alignment for instance if i wanted this aligned perfectly in the middle and the middle now it's absolutely in the middle of the frame this is great when you're creating a big title you can also use these to align things vertically or or horizontally with other objects right now it's it's going to align with nothing because i have nothing selected it's aligning to the actual frame itself these are the position controls if you look to the effects controls you'll notice a few things first of all there's a new setting called vector motion vector motion only shows up when you have an essential graphics title adobe calls these premier graphics they call them mogurts motion graphics templates when they're outside of premiere pro but once you import it they'll call it uh premiere graphics here's where our motion settings are with position there's the vector motion with position and then there's the shape with position which one is right well there is no right or wrong it depends on how you're working with it the position of the shape uh can be animated or it can just be a position and then you can change the overall position with vector motion the good thing with vector motion i have a whole tutorial on that is it's infinitely scalable so you can blow things up and have text look huge and it will never have those jagged edges on that but let's stay over here on the right hand side so each one of these is going to come in on a layer and you can change the order by dragging them up and down there's colors down at the bottom if you click on the fill swatch you can pick a new color just like any typical adobe application you can add a stroke onto this you can click on the plus and add another stroke and change that color and make that larger and that shows up like that so lots of ways to customize this you could put a drop shadow on here it's very useful and if you wanted to animate this that's where we're going to go over to the effects controls twirl down that shape and now we can animate any of these properties and if you're if you looked at the if you remember the key frames from my effects it's the same thing i'll select set a position keyframe move further ahead and i can either drag these numbers or move it around here and now it's going to move on the screen if you go part way in between and drag that over there now you've added three key frames so lots of ways to animate this and play around with it so let's import a logo into this too and remember i could choose this and choose from file there's also a graphics menu where you can you can choose new layer from file it's the same thing you can also drag over to the essential graphics panel i'm just going to search for the logo so there's the photo and travels logo it's already imported in remember when we started so i can drag this into this essential graphics panel and now it's another graphic that i could animate and change any way i want and this can be any graphic that you're dropping in and any number of different graphics and you can have them all animate um and change the stacking order so we could put this over top of it or we could put it below it however you want to work depending on the on the uh the graphic that you're making however you're doing these titles all right so let's create a lower third uh for jonathan and we'll have some a little bit of simple animation and then save that as our own mogu you'll notice down in the timeline when i made that original shape it created this here what's important to notice is that it won't show up in the left-hand side the old titler in premiere pro used to create premiere titles and put them in there but the new premiere graphics only show up on the timeline that's why backing these up is essential if i've gone to all the work to create something i'll immediately back it up in two places locally and as a library i'll show you that in a second so let's get rid of these and actually let's grab the type tool and click and i've already copied his name so when i paste his name shows up down at the bottom same as the other shape with the addition of font information that you can have styling but one thing that's great about uh type in the essential graphics is this button here to turn on a background and you can change the overall opacity and the spread or the distance from the actual object so the longer the name the the bigger the background so this is easier than drawing a shape and then typing a name and aligning them the background just moves with that in one object very nice and you could click on the background and we could change it to any color we want i'm going to leave it as a dark blue against the white type so in the effects controls i'll twirl down the text i don't need the source text but we're going to change the position so the way that i like to animate is i always like to go to the second position or the resting state uh of the animation so i'll typically hit the playhead and then hit the playhead again as an estimate of how fast i want that title to move um so i just found that was good so i'm going to click here to add a position keyframe that says that this title at this point is in this position next i'll drag this back to the beginning of the title and i could either type a number here i could click and move it here it's just a little bit easier you don't want the title you want it to move smoothly into the side you don't want it to go so i think it's easier to drag the position x coordinate to the left and if you add the shift key to that you'll drag it quicker so i'll put that out and this is south africa or canada yeah i'm just going to move this up to v3 so it doesn't bump into anything else move it over here and move to a different country right now it's just sitting there and when it ends it disappears i'm going to extend this amount what i wanted to do is to hold for a while and then back out i want to show you a typical error that happens in animation where you think it will do one thing and it'll do the other thing it's a real simple fix okay so let's let's look here so it starts on the left to move to a different country new zealand south africa or canada and we here's another one of my tips i want the title to go all the way out at the end and what some people will do is they'll move the playhead to the end the problem is if you do that it disappears so what i do is i move the playhead earlier and i'm if i copy this keyframe remember that keyframe is already on the outside so if i copy that copy paste i've now pasted that keyframe so it exits out if i want this at the end i'll just drag that to the end ah that makes it better so now it goes canada and never look back but i want to show you one of the errors we have three key frames here we need four let's find out why so here it is that's because it's we've already set the next keyframe to exit out of the frame so as soon as it comes in it's going out so if we duplicate the second keyframe it's going to hold very simple we'll select that keyframe copy and paste now it's going to hold between these two key frames to move to different countries our choices were in new zealand south africa or canada weights and uh we chose canada and then it takes back to make this a little bit more interesting if you right click on that first keyframe temporal interpolation ease in temporal huh time changes so the time changes you just changed how time works and instead of it being a digital movement of perfect 0 to 100 now it eases in same thing to the next one ease out and i'm just going to move that down a little bit so now we should see it move a little bit smooth to a different country our choices were in new zealand and we chose canada and pretty nice what happens if you need to change the name and it takes longer to read and you want the title to be longer but you want the animations to stay the same this is called responsive design time and it's absolute genius by adobe look at this up at the top there's a little blue handle drag that out to the area that includes the animation this tells the title where the beginning and the end are and if you look at this you'll actually see that same shaded area here so if i drag this longer then the duration we chose canada and i've never looked back the exit and intro animation i have always loved traveling ever since if i want it to be quicker i'll drag it down move to a different country our choices we're in new zealand south africa or canada now you might notice that this area which is supposed to be the same as this area it gets a little mixed up if you drag this over it refreshes this sometimes that's a little bug but here's the other great thing about this hold the alt key on windows option on mac drag this out world traveler is that how you spell traveler i think so now we've got two titles they both animate the same but they're both independent okay like i said before i want to save this i've gone to this trouble to make this title and i want to reuse it maybe in a different show okay so you can go to the graphics menu and choose export as motion graphics template or you can right click on it you might need to zoom in a little bit more right click and choose export as motion graphics template and i'll just call this jonathan lower third you can choose a local drive or you could put it into a library so i'm going to stick it in collins library i would be careful with including a thumbnail if something like this isn't that bad but if it's a big long animated title it's going to actually create a video animation and embed that you can also warn if there if it uses fonts that aren't available uh with adobe fonts warn it if that uses effects not included with premiere pro and warn if it's uh not compatible with rush and you can put some keywords in there so i'm going to click ok and now when i go to browse and i'm browsing my templates not the adobe stock there it is drag it in and there we go so i wouldn't if i was going to save this i would you i would put first last instead of his name so i could reuse that very easily but libraries are a great way to work let me just go quickly to uh and show you that in my library here's a whole bunch of uh there's the credits at the end there's a bunch of backgrounds that i've created some other there's my special note if you've ever seen that show up in my show if i have a special note it animates pops up on screen all of that is created with premiere pro there's no after effects involved each one of those pieces is part of that animation so if you go back to browsing and you can see there's a you know a whole bunch of these effects there's a big breaking news and i've got tickers that you can use so here's a perfect one this is the travel ticker or at least write it properly and i found that very little plane flies up so this was before there was um televisions in the background it was across consequently you can buy those from the store i started to if you want a bunch of free stuff then go to the adobe stock and type in video revealed give it a moment and you'll see a bunch of my titles show up in there like the heart eyes emoji again no after effects in this at all this was all created completely with premier graphics some transitions in there and some other cool stuff there you go there's a look at titles i think they're really useful and very powerful two ways to work with them you can i either use after effects mogrits which are way more sophisticated and can have you know motion graphics in them that are are just eye-popping but you're going to pay the price of something that's going to be a bit slower or use a whole bunch of stuff right in premiere pro and make it faster okay we're on the home stretch now we've gone through quite a bit i know smoke's probably coming out of your ears but a couple of things to uh to finish up the next one is talking about exporting video all right how are we doing good good glad you're still here let's talk about export either exporting out your final or exporting out uh trial versions or in and out points there's lots of ways to do it basically you can export out using premiere pro or using media encoder media encoder is like the rendering engine of premiere pro but without all the editing capability you can run it in the background and can export a whole bunch of uh of files and queue it up premiere pro will export one at a time but media encoder will export up multiple times now adobe added a quick export and i use it now every single time i export out for youtube i use the high bitrate version that's in the top there are a limited amount of presets right now but for sure adobe's going to come up with a way for you to save your presets in quick quick export let's look at that first and also remember you have to have the right panel selected to have export things perform correctly because premiere pro can export out of the project panel and also out of the timeline and you can have multiple timelines so let's select our rough cut here this is what we want to export out in the top right quick export click on that a small menu comes up this is where it will be exported to so you can find any location there that you're exporting to below that are the presets and then here's a quick check to make sure that you're exporting the the right settings here is h.264 1080 9 1080 29.97 these are the formats that i want to use if you want to change them you can go into this menu and pick either medium or low bit rate or some other common ones think of these as youtube 4k youtube hd 720p or sd i'm going to leave mine at high bit rate and when you hit export it's going to export and it's going to render the timeline that's why everybody's export looks the same it just might take longer on a an underpowered computer but the quality will always look the same premiere pro will blend all of the graphics and the animation the keyframes video luts color all of that stuff will be rendered at the highest quality on the way out okay so that's one way to export out another is to go to the file menu and you can also use the keyboard shortcut control m on windows command m on mac export media now you can export other formats edls omf this is primarily and and aaf and xml all these are really primarily there just to export out basically another kind of universal project for other people to open whether it's going out as xml to resolve or something like that here we're exporting out our final video so we choose media and we get the export dialog box which is broken into several different sections on the left is a preview on the bottom is our timeline so we could check whether we're exporting up the right thing by going through here and you can also have an in and out point the rest of these i always leave the way they're set by default and on the top right this is where you get to choose your settings so for instance you can choose the same match source settings now this one's going to be using an mpeg preview and it's going to show you the export formats there i think it's better to choose them in here if you're going to them and you can export to many different formats here my recommendation is to always choose the presets because the presets were made by adobe engineers and they're basing it on the quality of that output so they're not sitting there guessing they're actually communicating with youtube with vimeo and getting the right settings so h.264 or 265 which is also called hevc are very popular format so i'll choose h.264 one of the most common formats viewable on any platform and once you pick a format then there are a number of presets and again these presets are made by adobe you can click on this button and and save your own presets you can also import other presets if you want but you can see they've got you covered facebook high quality mobile we've got twitter vimeo and youtube so choose 1080p right there and it's like i said it's best not to mess around with these settings over here uh the video settings let me make this bigger so we can see these settings uh so you can see if we wanted to we could change anything like the frame rate the encoding settings again i really think you should just leave these at as the presets um audio settings again use the presets captions if you're using captions this one can be useful to some where you can for instance log into creative cloud adobe stock behance facebook an ftp site twitter vimeo and your youtube account so you would basically log into youtube so i'm not signed in log in that way you don't have to do two steps where you take this export load creator studio and then upload this will take care of it for you personally i don't do this i don't want things to go live and i mean there's there's lots of settings in here to protect yourself whether it's public or unlisted or private i just don't take a chance personally but you could and then you could either cue this or export it so let's hit q and this brings up media encoder i already had it running but yours will launch if you don't and you can see it puts all the settings there that i chose and there's the location of where it is so i can click on that and change it there's a green button up here to start the queue you can change this after the fact so if i really wanted this into a different format i could choose h.265 i could choose a different format and export it out that way you can also click on it and then in these buttons at the top you can add another source you can add another output you can remove this you can duplicate this click on this so i could duplicate the first one is going to be h.264 the second one is going to be h.265 hit the button and off it goes you could also use all the same presets down here it's a little bit easier to see these down here and you can also search by them so if you click here and choose you you can see all the youtube ones very easily so you can make your own presets load presets lots of great ways to work and the last thing i want to show you is you can select multiple sequences right click and choose export media and now you'll be able to export all of these and set them in the queue all at the same time this can be really useful if you're going to be away from your computer for a while and you just want it to crunch away and export all of these different timelines you can do that so notice we don't have a preview because we've selected multiple sources but we still get the same preset menu over here and then when we hit q it will load those into media encoder and then you can start media encoder and off it goes so pretty powerful pretty easy to use like i said for beginners just choose the presets trust me on this the best quality you'll get is coming out of these presets you really don't need to tweak any of that stuff we have been through a lot and i've pointed out a couple times uh throughout this uh course about areas where you should watch out for and the last section which is coming up next is troubleshooting and this is when everything goes wrong and you really need to get some help all right we're at the final stage now and as we all know nothing goes right all the time especially with computers with files with video and one of the problems you can have and this is true of any software that uses a and that is the the cash becomes corrupt don't ask why it just does how do you know it's corrupt when things aren't working the right way so adobe has an interesting way of resetting things there's there's several different levels of this that i want to go through but the first thing i want to look at is this screen here this is the startup screen remember it has all of the different files in here that we've worked on and the next step we're going to clear the prefs and the the plug-in cache and when we do those will be gone and people freak out and think adobe has deleted their stuff remember way back in the beginning we created a folder and we named the folder and we put it in a spot that we knew where it was that should be your reassurance that even if this stuff has gone from this list you still know where that stuff is you look at the list you cleared it out i know where it is i'll load it in from there that is unbelievably important you're in control this list is a convenience photoshop does this word does this they're just recent links to outside projects or documents or stuff okay so let's reset premiere pro and i said this earlier some people this is how they start every day but it does remove all of your preferences so all the settings that you've made and the workspaces and stuff they're gone i have a tutorial about saving uh things like that workspaces so what you do is you hold down the alt and shift key on windows the option and shift key on the mac immediately after launching it you have to be really quick so i've got my fingers over the keys and i'm going to launch that right now hope so i'm holding it you'll know you're successful if you get this here coming up are you sure you want to reset the plug-in caches and the preferences and i'm going to click ok oh by the way the other thing i did was i exported my presets i don't think they get thrown away i'm just so paranoid i don't want to lose them so i exported them so i'll click ok and the list is empty i don't care because i know where this stuff is so don't worry about that next is deleting the media cache and i have this open on the desktop this is my secondary drive this demo drive is a secondary m.2 ssd in my dell and in there i have a folder that i just call adobe cache and all of the adobe applications point to this location it's super fast the cache will be by default will be on your macintosh hd or your c drive if it's really fast and big then it's okay but i tend to like it into a separate place where i've got control and it's not buried in some system library stuff but we're going to clear it out so to clear everything out you start premiere pro but you don't open a project in the edit menu preferences media cache and you can see there's where my cache is and i just browse to it and put it in that location the rest of these i leave exactly where they are this database is small so you don't have to do anything there but this is where you can click if you want to remove your media cache files like delete if you have a project open then this second option is not available the first one gives you the ability to delete unused media cache files this one delete absolutely everything from the system does this mean it's going to delete your stuff your media your projects your titles no no no no no the cache will be remade where premiere pro wants to increase performance so it starts saving things out like peak files and stuff like that so i'll click ok it's gone it's deleted click ok all my stuff is is still going to to open and export and edit fine no problem at all it's not an issue okay um the next one is if you have a problem project so if the project itself seems to be wonky and this happens if you've had the same project and you've edited that project for a long long time maybe weeks or months something is just funky with that project a really good fix is to create a new project and i'm just going to stick this on my test drive and i'll call this uh my fix see there's one of the preferences that gets reset so now i've opened a completely new blank project what you do go to the media browser and locate that project wherever it might be and i could have just clicked there you'll notice it's a project file right click and import that and just import everything now this one i haven't used for quite a while so it's missing a bunch of files that would be the same if i opened it up but if you just were finished working on this project and then imported a new project all of that project will be now imported into this new project resave it lots of times this just happens to fix so many things right away for whatever reason premiere pro is now saving things differently it's saving stuff in a different location as far as background files and a lot of those those problems go away so that's another way to fix things another problem uh people have is converting files or importing files and they're they're not getting the video or the audio and that could either be a a specific format sometimes resetting holding option or alt and shift then you can try to import them again i've heard some crazy solutions out there where a couple of people had said if they try to import one of those problem files then they get only audio or only video but if they import two of those at the same time then they get the correct format i don't know that seems crazy but if it worked for some people wonderful other people will convert the name from a dot mp4 to dot mov and that seems to work i have a whole tutorial about using a free program called handbrake that can convert to a different format that's what the professionals do got a problem format just create a new version of it a good quality version and import that that's probably the the the uh that last ditch effort now the last last last ditch effort is a script that i make free available on our store that you can download and this is a script for either mac or windows and what it does is it completely removes everything not your media won't get rid of your media or your projects it won't delete your personal information it removes all the places that premiere pro would have saved files and it's like you've uninstalled and reinstalled it's a very powerful script when i used to work at adobe we used to call this the nuclear option and when something was really bad you just ran that and now when you load it up your your workspaces are gone your presets are gone uh all the default stuff as if like i said you reinstalled everything so that's the last option that's on videoreveal.com shop it's on the store there you can download that and uh we used it for years at adobe and people are still using it i make it available but it is a run at your own risk uh of course backup backup backup always tons of backups as soon as i'm finished here i'm going over to my uh my raid and i'm backing everything up like you should have you made it all the way through fantastic kudos to you for caring so much about your craft because every one of us has to learn all the ins and outs about not just the aesthetics of of editing but all the technical stuff that goes with it because 75 of this has nothing to do with editing it just has to do with being able to work with files organize files protect them know where they are name them right export them work with titles it's just there's so much to learn but adobe does a great job of integrating everything inside one application and make it work with other applications like photoshop and after effects so easy so great for you there's a good chance that you're going to have to watch this several times especially some of the parts that that are new to you and throughout you you saw that i've got in-depth demonstrations about many of these topics so you can spend a ton of time here on video revealed learning i've actually been told by several people that everything they learn they learn from video revealed and now they actually have a job as an editor based on that and i'm encouraged by that i mean i'm not just some regular guy out of the blue i worked for adobe for 17 and a half years so i dealt with 20th century fox and nbc universal abc hollywood and i would go into these places and help them understand premiere pro as an alternative to what they were using but i also listened to what they were doing so all of this is a culmination of that information that knowledge that i've gained uh over the years and i've been working in media for 30 years now so hopefully you're going to get some great value out of this i'm very encouraged by you taking your time to go through this whole course i really do appreciate your support thank you very much and good luck

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Length: 219min 33sec (13173 seconds)

Published: Sun May 09 2021