- This is the complete
updated Adobe Rush tutorial, updated to include all the latest features since our last Rush tutorial, so that you can learn how to edit videos with Adobe Premiere Rush
step-by-step in just a few minutes. Hi, it's Justin Brown from Primal Video where we help you grow an audience and scale your revenue with online video. If you're seeing value in this video, make sure you give it a thumbs up, it really makes a big difference. And all the links to everything
I mentioned in this video, you can find linked in
the description box below. So let's jump into it. So Adobe Premiere Rush is an awesome, truly cross-platform video
editing app from Adobe offering a seamless experience to edit your videos down
across multiple devices with support for all the major
platforms including windows, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iOS and Android. So that means that you can
shoot your videos on your iPhone or your Android mobile and you
can start editing on the go with your phone or with your tablet. And then you can finish
up over on your windows or your Mac computer when you get home. Or you can even start your
editing on your computer and continue editing on your
mobile on the way to work. So it really is an amazing program. And in this video, we're
gonna do a full tutorial and walk through taking
you through step-by-step, exactly how to edit videos with
Rush, our favorite features to improve your video editing workflows and how to use Rush like a pro. So we're gonna be following the Primal Video editing process
to help you reduce rework and save time as we go. So stick around to the end and I'll link you to
a downloadable version that you can print out
and you can follow along next time you're editing., Now for this tutorial, I'm gonna be taking you
through using an iPad, but the process is exactly the same no matter which device or
computer you are using. The only difference will
be if you are on a phone that the icons or the
buttons are along the bottom, instead of on the sides, but the icons and everything
are exactly the same. So it's gonna be really
easy for you to follow along no matter which device you're using. So the first thing you
wanna do is to click this, Create a New Project button in the middle to create a new project. So we're gonna come up here to videos and we're gonna select
our primary video footage which is this one here, nine minutes, 10. We'll tap on that to select that clip. We're gonna come down the
bottom here to project name and give this project a name. Let's call it Justin Edit. And then you wanna come across
this little settings wheel on the right hand side, press on that to select the format of the video you're gonna be creating. Now this is something
that you can change later. So we're gonna start off
here with a 16 by nine or widescreen video, but let's say that later
we wanna repurpose it for Instagram stories or a
nine by 16 portrait video. We can come back and we can swap this out and Rush does an amazing job at reformatting all of our video clips so that it fits on the different formats. So I'll cover that one a little later on. So we're gonna select 16
by nine and widescreen, and we're gonna go, OK. The last thing I wanna make
you aware of on this page is down the bottom left-hand corner we've got checked sync
with Creative Cloud. Now if you're only gonna
edit on with this one device and you're not gonna edit and switch between different devices or different computers with your edit, then you need to have this one ticked. But if you do want your project
synced to the Adobe Cloud so that you can use it
across multiple devices, then make sure that is ticked. So I selected that primary video footage. We've got a project name. Now I just wanna hit Create
down the bottom corner. It'll go through and
quickly prepare our media so that we can edit it down. And here we are in the Adobe
Rush primary editing interface. So I'll give you a quick
rundown on where everything is and then we can jump
into the actual editing. Up in the top right-hand corner we've got our upload progress bar. So you can see that little
blue circle that's filling out. That is our clips that we've told Adobe that we wanna synchronize
our clips up to the Cloud. So that's showing us the
progress of our uploads. Next to that is out redo and undo button, if we make any mistakes
and wanna undo or redo. Next to that is where you
can submit a feature request or you could report a bug with the app. And then the layout of these buttons here is where it's a little bit
different on a smartphone. So I'll show you what that
looks like in just a second, but the first one here is where you can add
in all of your graphics and motion graphics and stuff. The next one is your effects panel. We've got all of our transitions
and all of that fun stuff. Below that is our color grading tools. So we've got presets and all of our controls to
dial in the look and feel of our video. Below that is our speed control
to speed up and slow down our video clips. Under that is our audio for
all of our volume levels and audio enhancements and filters and those sorts of things. And below that is the transform panel where we can crop and rotate and make those sort of
basic edits to our clips. That's a great freeze frame
that we're looking at there. I don't know if that one's any better. Let's leave it on that one. But this image that we're seeing, the big image at the top
is our playback monitor, preview monitor, where we're able to see what we're actually editing. And below that, we've got
all of our controls to take us back to the start of our clip or even jump across to the
end of our clip as well. Let's go back to the start. So the next one across from
that is our re-format tool. This is where we can change up our project if we wanna do a portrait
version or a four by five or even a one by one. This is where we can
reformat our video projects. And again, I'll dive into this one more a little bit later on. Let's go back to 16 by nine. Now on a device with a larger screen, you can grab this little handle
on the right hand side here and move it up and down to
adjust how big your timeline is versus your playback monitor. And then these big area
down the bottom here is our timeline, which is where all our
editing is gonna take place. And across on the left-hand side, we've got our scissors to make it cut. We can duplicate a clip
with the next button, grab trash trashcan to delete a clip. We can press the next button here to expand the audio wave forms or the visual representation of our audio so that that's bigger. So we're gonna be editing videos with a lot of spoken pieces in it. Then using the audio wave forms you can quickly see when you're speaking and when you're not. It's gonna make the editing a lot quicker. The button below that will switch to a more
traditional timeline view. You can see we've got
different layers in here as you would see in applications
like Adobe Premiere Pro. Now this is where I
normally like to leave it, but if you want a cleaner
interface or a simple interface, you can turn that back off. I'm gonna go ahead and leave that one on. And the last tool down the bottom here is your multi-select tool. So if you've got multiple
clips in the timeline that you wanna select, then
that's what that tool does. And if you wanna see all
of our project assets and video files and things that we've added into this project, that's what this little
button up here does. And if we press it again, it disappears. And if we wanna import anything
into our timeline, media, we wanna capture a video on
our device, create graphics, audio or voiceover, that's all
done under that plus button. And if we wanna go back
to the home screen, then we just press the little home button in the top left-hand corner. It's ready to go ahead
now and reopen this up and let's jump into editing this down. I guess we're gonna have
primary video footage in the timeline here. We can pinch to zoom on the
screen to zoom in and out. We can tap and swipe across
to scrub through our footage. And if you've got multiple
clips in the timeline here, we can tap and hold on the
clips and we can pick them up and move them around or
change the order of them. But we're gonna start
off here by trimming down our primary footage and
removing all of the bad takes or any of the mistakes. So we're gonna zoom in here and I'm gonna come back
across to the start. And I'm gonna find where we actually want this video to start. So to do this as with any video
editing application or app, there's a couple of different
ways that you can do it. We can scrub across
here and find the piece where I actually nailed the intro. It's unlikely. It was the first go. So let's just say that
this is where I did nail it and we want the video to start here. We can just come across and press the pair of
scissors here on the left to cut out clips into at this point. You can see now we have a
left clip and a right clip. With the left clip selected
the one that we don't want, we can just press the trash
can and that is removed. So that's one way that we can do it. I'll just hit undo in the top
corner here and undo it again. Another way that we can
trim our clips down instead is to grab this yellow orange handle, the thick bit on the left
or the right hand side of our clips. So if I go ahead and tap and hold on that and drag it across to the right, then we're actually changing
the start time of that clip. So I can start it just about here. Right where I start talking. And when I let go, our clip is now gonna start at that point. So we're now gonna have video starting at the right point. Let's come across to the end of our video and let's do the same with the end. So I find the piece where
we want our clip to stop. We can just grab that end
handle and swipe that across. And our video is now gonna
finish at that point. And likewise, if we wanna
remove a bad take in the middle, let's say I made a mistake here. We can, again, just use the
scissors to slice our footage at that point. Let's remove this bad
take in the middle here, this section here. Let's come back over here
and add in another cut. Let's say here. And we wanna remove this
section in the middle. We can just press the trash can. And that clip is removed
and the gap is closed up. If you wanna go through now and remove any of the bad takes, any of the mistakes in your
footage so that you're just left with all of the good stuff. And obviously you can use a mix of these two methods as well. I guess now that we've
removed all the bad takes, all the mistakes, I'm gonna
zoom out and the next step is to import any B-roll or overlay footage that we wanna use in our video. Now I'm also gonna switch back
to the more advanced view. I just personally like it better and I also think it better
represents this next step to show you how it all works. Now, we're gonna come across
to the end of our video here so that we're importing
our clips to the very end, and you wanna come up to
the top left-hand corner to the blue plus button and we're gonna add in some
media, some other files. And I've got three video files here that we're gonna use in this project, and select all three and hit add. And those will be added into
our video right at the end. So if we zoom out a little bit here, we can see we've got those
clips in the timeline, and maybe we'll just adjust
this playback area here by just pressing and
dragging down the side. Just so our playback monitor
is a little bit bigger. So with these three clips at the end, we can actually pick them up and we can move them on
top of our video track. So that while I'm still
speaking underneath, we're now gonna see these
clips playing over the top. Now these are just like
every other video clip. If we zoom in on them, we
get a bit more control, but you also have those
orange handles on the side. So it's just a matter of
selecting from these clips, the pieces that we want to use. So let's just say we want
the start of this one here, where the movement
starts, comes into focus, keeps panning back and let's say we wanna
finish it about here. With that clip selected, we're gonna come and press the scissors to split our clip at that point and then we can just remove
the second piece there by pressing the trash can. So we now have me talking on screen here and then we cut to this
shot of the switch pod and iPhone and then back to me talking. So we do the same with
this next clip here. Let's find the piece of
this clip that we want. So I think in this shot
we have two attempts, at Caleb putting the tripod down. I think I missed the first one. So we're gonna start this clip around here so I can grab that left handle and I can slide it back to
that point to our clips. Now we're gonna start there and we can just hit play and play through till around there somewhere. So we can again, add the scissors, select the second part of the
clip there that we don't want and hit the trash can to remove it. So you wanna go ahead now and bring in all of your B-roll or overlay footage, trim it down and then pick it up and move it to where you
wanna have it in your edit. Now don't worry about remembering
all these different steps in what order to do it in. You can download a copy of this process ready for you to use in
Rush or any editing software at the end of the video once
we wrap up this tutorial. So we come back to the stop. The next step then is to
add in any text or titles into your videos. So for this, you can
either come up to the plus and add in graphics or you can come across
to the graphics tab here and select Add Graphic. They'll both do the same thing. And there's lots of templates and presets and stuff that you got access to in here. Just under titles, you can see that we've
got a button here for more and there's a lot more in here
that you can bring in and use in your projects and obviously
customize up as well. So we're gonna back out of this here and we're just gonna pick a basic title. Let's pick this first one here. Now we can select on it and
drag it down into our timeline. And then that title appears. Now to edit that title, we just need to double tap
on it down in the timeline. And then the panel will appear
where we can edit this up. As you can see we've got two items here for the two lines of text, one
for title, one for subtitle. So I'll select on title
and double tap on it in our playback window. And down the bottom you can see that we've
got editable text now. So we can type in Justin Brown. We can change the font here. Let's find Oswald our Primal Video font, and we can change this to bold. We can change the size
of this text on screen. Let's make a little bit smaller. We can adjust the character spacing, so you can really dial this
in to match your branding. And we can change the color,
we can change the outline and all of that fun stuff
down the bottom here too. So that's looking pretty good. Let's go back and let's actually remove this second piece of text
'cause we're not gonna need it. So let's double tap on it. Let's just delete the text out of it. And we're gonna leave that one as blank. To the text, just for this title, let's have it as Justin Brown. Now with that title selected, let's say that we wanna
move it down to the bottom 'cause it's currently covering my face. We wanna come across
to the transform panel and then we can grab the vertical position and we can move that down. Likewise if you wanna move
it across a little bit, we can use the horizontal position to position this title where we'd like it. Now, titles will behave just
the same as any other clips. If we wanna change where the
title starts and finishes, we can again tap on it and press and hold and move it to where we want it to appear. But you don't start to zoom in and lengthen or shorten the amount of time that it's actually on the screen. So if we want it to finish around here, then we can make it that long. So it's me talking at the
start, title appears until here where it disappears. Now this title that we picked
was just a basic title. There are transition
graphics, there's overlays, there's animated text and
titles in here as well. So lots of cool stuff
that you can easily add into your videos. So you wanna go ahead and
add in all of your text or titles throughout
your videos in this step. And the next step we're gonna
be adding in any effects or transitions onto our videos. So let's say that for instance when our B-roll clip here just appears, we might wanna have some
sort of flash or effect that happens at that point. So it's not just a hard
cut between me talking and this clip appearing. So let's select this top
clip here, our B-roll. We wanna come over here
to the effects window. And then in here we can just select which transitions we want. So if we select the first one here, this is like a cross dissolve. The next one here is a dip to black. So you can see that as this happens, it fades out of one and
then back from black. We've also got a dip to white. So this is more like a camera flash that'll dip to white and then back. Now we can adjust how long
that effect or that transition is going to go for. You can see this little slider
at the top here duration. We can shorten that down. So 0.31 seconds. If we play through that, it's gonna be a quick little flash and then that's gonna be shown on screen. So it's really easy to go
through and add in transitions and those sorts of things into your clips just to add a little bit more polish. But we'll say don't go overboard with some of these wipes
and slides and things 'cause you could quickly make
your video look rather tacky. Now the other place that we'd like to add some sort of effect is where we've got a hard cut
in our primary video footage. So, if I've made a mistake
and we've had to make an edit, instead of just having
a hard jump cut between, what we'll normally do in
this case is to zoom in on one of the clips just a
little bit to make it look like we've actually changed
up the shot a little bit or changed up the camera
angle even a little bit. So let's come back to the start here and I'll show you what I mean. So we've got our first
clip here of me talking and then there is a cut to here. So, instead of having
that little jarring cut, let's select that clip. Let's go over to the transform panel. Let's come down here to scale and let's increase that a little bit. And I'll say don't go too far with this. Depending on how you've shot it, you could actually be losing
a little bit of quality, but just a minor short change can add a next level of
polish to your videos and break it up and make it more interesting
for your viewers, all while hiding some of
your mistakes as well. So this second clip now is zoomed in. So if we scrubbed through the first one and then jump to the second, you can see that it's slightly zoomed in. Now one way to really sell this
effect is just to make sure that you're keeping your
eyes in the same position. So yeah, they're not quite
lined up at the moment, it's a little jarring. So if we come back to this second one that we're adjusting here,
let's move the position so that our eyes are a
little closer at lining up. So something like that. It's a little less jarring and looks a bit more professional. If you wanna go through
now, add in any effects, any transitions or any of
those zoom cuts or jump cuts to all of your footage in your timeline. So when that steps down, the next step is to import any music that you wanna have into your videos. You wanna come back up to the plus again, you know, in here there
is a button for audio. So in here, there are some
tracks and some sound effects and things that you can use in your videos that are included with Adobe Rush. But I would strongly recommend
that instead of using these, you're actually purchasing
and licensing your music from places like Artlist
and Epidemic Sound. Those are our top two picks and where we get all of
our music and sound effects because they make managing
the licensing thing much, much easier. And you're much less
likely to get caught out with not having the correct license for where your videos are going if you're using a dedicated service. And again, we've got links if you wanna check those out down in the description box below. So instead of coming
into this audio panel, I'm gonna press plus and
I'm gonna choose media because I've already transferred over a couple of music
tracks onto my device here, so I'm gonna choose files, I'm gonna choose import from files and navigate through to where
I had copied these over. So I'll pick this one here and then we just need to
hit Add down the bottom. It's gonna go ahead and bring
that into our editing project. And again, just like any
other clip, we can tap on it, we can pick it up, we move it around. We've got those handles on
the start and on the end if we wanna make adjustments to our clips. So in this case here,
we could shorten it down so that it finishes
when our video finishes. We can split and remove sections just as you would with
any other video clip too. So under that cut, we
don't need to cut in that. But now that you've got
your music files in, now's a good time to go back through and play through your
video in its entirety. And you might find that you're
making minor adjustments to maybe make some edits
or some cuts to the beat or tighten up your edit
based on how it feels and how it flows with the music in there. So all of this should
be an iterative process where you just going through, you might be swapping
some of the clips around. You might be making minor
tweaks and adjustments just to dial in that edit. Now that we've got our music tracks in, it's now time to adjust our audio levels. And this is something that Adobe Rush makes really, really simple. So we're gonna come back
across to our first clip here in our timeline. Now the first piece of primary
footage, we wanna select that and we wanna come across
to our audio panel. Just pressing the audio
button there on the right. Now in here, we have the ability to
either increase the volume by grabbing this little slider
on clip volume up or down, depending on how loud or
quiet the original file is. So we can either do this on an individual clip by clip basis. As we're showing you here
just with one clip selected. But if we wanna do this across
all of our primary footage, let's just back out of this now. We can come down to the
bottom left hand corner to this arrow select
tool, clip select tool, and we can tap on all the
different clips in our timeline that we wanna make these
audio adjustments to which is all of our primary footage here. Then we come over to the audio panel and in here now when
we make an adjustment, it's going to flow through
to all of the different clips that we have selected. So really powerful. But one of the more powerful
features inside of Rush is under this advanced dropdown panel. And in here, you can see
that it's already classified that primary video footage as voice. You can see we can
change the type manually from voice to music or other. So it's already classified
it as someone speaking. So in here, all we really need to do is select this little
checkbox here, auto volume. And that's gonna go ahead and automatically set the volume level based on this being someone speaking. So it's gonna set it to the
correct audio level for us. There's also some cool stuff in here like being able to reduce the echo or even reduce background noise if you're filming in a windy
environment or something. You've got some awesome
features like that in here too. So in terms of setting
the volume level now on our primary core and video
footage, that's already done. Now we're gonna adjust
the volume on our music. So we're gonna turn off
that multi-clip select tool, and we're just gonna
select our music clip here. And again we've got our basic controls to increase or to lower the volume. Typically in a video like this, you would have the music volume much lower so that you can hear
everything that's being said. But again, under that
advanced dropdown menu, you can see that this is
classified automatically our music as music. And again, we can select auto volume and that's going to lower that down. So you're still able to hear it, but it's not gonna interfere
or it's not gonna overpower the spoken pieces in this video. And in my experience, this
actually does a really good job. And there's also one other
really cool feature here, auto duck or auto ducking. And this is where it's
automatically gonna go through in any areas where it's
saying in this video where I stop speaking. So you've got spoken pieces and then you've got
pieces with no talking, it's gonna boost the music volume up for those quiet sections and then lower it back down automatically once I start talking again. So it's a cool feature
but it's not something I really use too often. So I'm gonna turn that one back off. So now that we've got
our volume levels sorted, the next step is to color grade or fix the colors in our videos. You wanna come back to the first clip and make sure that is selected. Then instead of being on the audio panel, we wanna come up to the color panel. Now in here, there is a
ton of presets as well. So think of these like Instagram filters, you got things like
cinematic, film, Kodak, Fuji. So lots of presets and things in here. Obviously if you find
something that matches the look that you're after, by all means, start with that or use that. But you can also come across
then to the edit panel and you can customize these up. And really tweak and really dial in the settings that you want. So I'm gonna go back to
presets. I'm gonna go none. So we're just back it
out raw original footage. And I'm gonna go across to edit. I'm gonna do some basic
color correction on this. So the first place I would say to start is with this exposure slider. You wanna either brighten
or darken your shot using this one first. Then you wanna adjust
the contrast slider next to add a bit more contrast or take it away if there's too much contrast in your shot. From there I'd say to come
down to color temperature and you wanna adjust this one. You can see if we move it to the left, we're adding more blue. If we add it to the right, we're adding more yellow or orange or more warmth into our shot. So we wanna dial in our
color temperature here, our white balance and
correct any issues from when we might've been filming. And then I'd like to
jump down to the vibrant. And add a little bit of that. And you can see that if we add a lot, that will look a little sunburned, but really just boosting some of the colors in the shot here. Obviously, if we go the other way, we're going black and white. So back to middle and
then just up a little bit and that's looking pretty good. So if we turn that off now, this is what it looked like before and this is what it looks like after, just from tweaking a
few of those settings. Now, obviously we just set
this on this first clip here. So what we can do is we can come up to these three little dots
here and press on that. Then let's choose create preset. Then give it a name. Let's call it JB, hit Save. And now for the next clip, if we wanna apply that
exact same color grade or those same settings, we
can come over to presets and we can choose your presets. And we've got the JB one listed there. So both of these two
clips here now are set up exactly the same. So we can just go through them and apply that preset to any of the clips that we want that on. And likewise, with any of our B-roll or overlay footage as well, we can go in and tweak
the colors on those two. So you wanna go through now
and do any color grading or any color adjustments on your video. So once that's done,
your video is complete. Now to share this out or save it out, I just wanna come up at the top to share. And usually what I find here
is that the default settings are usually pretty good. That based off the
settings that you've used in your primary footage, that you've been editing in your timeline. But if you wanna customize things up, you can come over here to quality settings and instead of just leaving
it set to automatic, you can actually choose some
other presets in here as well. So I suggest just
leaving this on automatic and then you just hit Export
and your video will save out. There's a couple other quick things I wanna show you back
here on the edit tab. One of them that I've mentioned
a couple of times already, let's say that now that
we've finished this video, we wanna make a version for
IGTV or a portrait version. We just come back up to
this switch format button and let's switch out
project two, nine by 16. And what you'll find then is
Rush has down a pretty good job of reformatting our video automatically to fit in this new format, has
scaled everything up for us. You will wanna go through
and make minor adjustments to things like the title there. Now it looks pretty small. So I wanna select that title, come over to the transform button and we can scale that one up and we might even wanna
move it up a little bit. Likewise we'll come across to any clips that we did make an adjustment to. So this one here was one
that we zoomed in on. So we can again, adjust
the position of that and zoom in a little bit on
this one and reposition it. So we can go through
manually really quickly and just make sure that
everything is positioned the way that you'd like. Now there's a cool new feature
in here for this as well where it will automatically
auto reframe your shots for you. So let's just take this
B-roll clip at the top here, and let's come across and
enable it for this clip. It's gonna automatically
reframe that shot for us. So with that clip selected, we wanna come across to our effects, come down the bottom to auto
reframe and turn that on. And it's gonna go through
and analyze our clip and reposition it and
adjust the framing for us. Now this works really well
when there is a face on there. It will do its best to keep the face in
the middle of the frame and make sure it's not cropped out. But if you do find that you
need to make any adjustments, you can just press Adjust Frame and you can manually reposition this and it will then go back
through and reanalyze your clip. So let's just try it here
on this little clip here, where I'm off to the
left, then select on that. Let's turn on auto reframe. So you can see straight away it's moved me into the center of the frame and let's have a look really closely. It's also going to reposition the frame as I move my head around. So you can see the background here moving a little bit as well, but as my head is staying
in the same position. So you can actually reframe and reposition and animate that movement
seamlessly in your videos all based on what's happening in this. This is an amazing feature. And again, once you're happy with that new version of your video, just come across to share
and you can save that out. Now for those of you that are
using Adobe Premiere as well, you can easily transfer this Rush project over into Adobe Premiere if
you've got it enabled and set up to be synced to the Adobe Cloud. So we go back over to
the home button here, press the three little buttons. You will wanna make sure that
you've got sync turned on for this and it's gonna go ahead and upload your projects to the Cloud. And then over in Adobe
Premiere Pro on your Mac or PC, you've got this little button here, Open Premiere Rush Project. If you select on that one, then you get to choose your
synchronized Rush projects. So if we select on this
one now just an edit. It's gonna go ahead and
it's going to open up that exact same timeline for us now to edit in Adobe Premiere. So another super powerful feature. So that's a complete walkthrough
in Adobe Premiere Rush. So now it's your turn. Make sure to grab your copy
of the Primal Video method which you can use as a checklist
next time you're editing to follow along with the exact
process that we just used for this walkthrough. Just click the link on screen
now to download your copy. It is packed full of tips
to save you a ton of time and rework when you're editing next.
