How to Edit a WEDDING FILM in Adobe PREMIERE PRO

hello welcome to my video on how I edit my wedding films good old YouTube dad is back today we're gonna talk about how to edit a wedding film from start to finish in Premiere Pro show you the back end of my premiere now before anything starts I want ya look at the timestamp this video alright it's long I get it but if you really want to invest in being able to understand and know how to edit wedding films or edit films in general and Premiere Pro please PLEASE carve out the time to watch this whole thing because it's gonna be so informative for you and give you knowledge that you wouldn't be able to find really anywhere else without paying for something or piecemealing a bunch of different tutorials together throughout youtube so i kindly ask you stick with me watch it all the way through and learn a bunch of stuff okay we're in this together squad fam and I'm not here to abandon you because I'm your YouTube dad and I love you and I want what's best for you let's get into it [Music] this video is sponsored by music bed the music licensing platform that has been my go-to for everything wedding films and filmmaking in general when it comes licensing music and using these guys for seven years and I'm so pumped that they reached out to me to do a sponsor video having been a musician for most of my life music selection is a very critical important part of the process for filmmaking for me so I really care about where I'm licensing my music it really made me upset when I realized I couldn't just like use Bon Iver all the time on all my wedding films licensing radio hits and big indie artists isn't a reality for most small business people like us all of their music is a small independent artists that are indie as well and there's just so much nuance and diversity within their library that I always find exactly what I need for my films so if you ever seen any of myself on YouTube or any of the films that I've put out into the world pretty much all of it has been music bed music every time I go to the website there's brand new music and always fun stuff to look forward to now to prove my love for their music I'd wanted to do a low montage for you of dancing to my favorite tunes or their website dance jam sequence let's go [Music] you donated music you don't be listening to it you know all right let's set it so the first thing I do when I create a wedding film a little obviously a film it and I back up all my footage in multiple places after I have backed up all my footage and it's on a drive normally a best-case scenario I will dump all that footage onto the hard drive the solid state on my laptop to be able to do a workflow like that but in the middle of wedding season that doesn't always happen so sometimes I work off these drives this isn't a Thunderbolt Drive I'm always making sure that I render my footage in premiere and play it back I'll show you some of those details how I increase the efficiency of that in the software after that I go straight to music right away I want to select music to lay a base for the film and set the tone now for years I selected the music myself because I thought I was the best decision maker on this but quickly realized that I wanted to include my clients in this process as well so what I do is I actually go to music feds website and I curate a favorites list always every time I go to music dad's website I always look at their banner look it's my friend Roland you need to go listen to Roland Louis's new album it's unbelievable please go listen to Roland no matter how busy I am I always put when I pull up the website I see this and I click the new music and I go and listen to all of it and if there's anything that stands out that I really like I go ahead and give it a little heart give it a favorite after I've listened to all that music I can go to my account and my music section and I have a favorites list over here and this is literally all of the favorites that I've picked on music but and I usually like to go to most recent because that's fresh and exciting and interesting and helps me creative so all these are hearted and what I can do is I can go this little add project add to project button and I can pick a project that I've created so the couple's name and I can add a little note about why I like this song so I might be like cinematic edgy vibe dynamic different adjectives that they can see it see notes about each song and why I like it I can save that song to a project and when I go over to the projects tab I will find that couples project which is the one I'm showing you today Christina and Nick and I can view all of the songs here and so what I do is I usually compile 8 to 12 songs and I send them an email with a URL to this project so it's a beautiful layout of all the songs and I say I go ahead and say hey pick your favorite or a couple favorite songs from this list and we'll go from there and so I just love that to be a collaborative effort I love for the clients to have a say in it because nothing's worse than delivering a project and people even like I I love the film but I just I can't do that song like that's just the worst thing to hear after you've worked your tail off to make a film so I love collaborating with clients on the front end on this this gives me the power to choose music that I like and I'm willing to work with and will allow me to to be and feel creative but also gives them the power to make a decision as well if I really like a song and I feel like it fits I will highly suggest that and most of the times my clients really trust me and so they'll go with that song usually so I send that off once I get the music back then I start building the Premiere Pro project so last year music bed announced their subscription-based model which was an absolute godsend for me because before I was buying 1 to 2 licenses per wedding film and their $50 a license usually for for weddings and so that started to be a cost that was adding up throughout the year spending nearly you know a thousand dollars on music music licensing and like don't get me wrong that's still a crazy affordable price for music licensing you're talking about thousands and thousands of dollars for radio hits so it's still very affordable but they made it even more affordable with their subscription model and with their with the personal model for subscription it starts at $9.99 a month so if you're just making films for yourself only ten bucks a month and you can start having access to that for the wedding subscription it's 50 $9.99 a month with so if you're doing you know dozen to 25 to 40 weddings a year it's a no-brainer to get the subscription and you get unlimited downloads of non royalty-free music now what I mean by non royalty-free music is they do not take away the rights to the artists that they are picking and the handpick indie artists that are up and coming and really working hard in the industry much like you are as a creative the artists that are featured on their site are also making money which is really cool I love being able to support them but then you get access to really download whatever you want so recently since I have the subscription-based model I've been adding more than two songs which I normally did in years past I've been adding three or maybe four songs finding songs that are in the same key and kind of blending them together so it's it's a really cool opportunity what's really amazing is music that is offering you guys my audience if you are wedding filmmakers or even if you're just doing it for YouTube or personal work you can get a month free of their subscription plan I would highly recommend that you take them up on that that you go to music bed get that month free and use the code all caps eric floberg and you can get going on that now let's open up a premier project and let's get this bread let's train this grain let's I almost said Putin that gluten does that make me a traitor we're shooting that gluten baby alright so when you pull up premier you can select a new project and so I will title this Nick and Christina so you get your interface of premiere and what I like to do is I like to just import all the footage a lot of people like to organize their footage by putting it into folders and subfolders like b-roll a roll ceremony speeches dances breaking it up that way what I like to do is it just gives me ease of mind to just dump all the footage in one folder and then I import it into premiere from there so obviously go to import wedding film with Christina and Nick here now there's this a little bit different because we shot a formal ceremony in a small Catholic Church that they did with their family so I put that in a subfolder but all of their wedding day was literally just put in this wedding folder I highlight all by command a and hit import so obviously is going to take a little while but all this footage is imported then I like to organize it within premiere all the footage is imported now if you go down to the bottom under those thumbnails you can click new bin which is basically a subfolder within the project so what I like to do is I start I like to start organizing the footage with bins so I'll create a bin and I'll say getting ready and then with the getting ready footage I will start putting all that footage into that bin so if you click this little section right here you can go to media start and it will chronologically order all of your footage all of this footage here down through will say here it's getting ready so I highlight all that if you just click one hit shift and click the last one you drag it onto the getting ready folder now I won't do that for everyone because you recognize how that works now so I will do that into like six different folders of getting ready ceremony portraits reception speeches late night you can organize that however you want I usually do about six bins and it just really helps me find footage when I need it secondly after I've made all of my bins I'm gonna go ahead and import all of my audio so I can make it Bend for audio just click that little icon again and I will create an audio bin if you double click it it opens up a new tab in that window so your bin opens there's nothing and it's been so I will go to file and import or you could do command I and I will go to the wedding audio folder for Christine and Nick where I dumped all of the audio for the day so that is my task camera quarter that I'm plugging into a speaker that is love mics that I'm putting on people throughout the day that is a handheld recording device that I put on the microphones for speeches and I plan on doing more of that in the future teaching you how that audio stuff works but for now I will just highlight all this audio and I'll import it into that audio bin so now I have all my audio in one place I have all my footage cold and put and organized into different bins and all that's organized within Premiere that's I like to do it that's all I like to be organized that's how I start now the first thing after I've organized all my footage in my audio I'll go to the Audio tab after I've made music selection my music selection was put in my audio folder so that is within the audio bin now I will find that song that I want to start with and I will drag it into the project so that's always the first thing that goes into my project to set the mood of how I want to start like I said music is a very important integral part of my editing process so that is always how I start the film I either do that if I have an idea in my head of how I want to start or I will go to my pen and notepad and I will straight up listen to all the audio throughout the day and I'm literally going pen and paper to this thing and I'm listening to all the audio throughout the day so I'm listening to all the speeches on a wedding I'm listening to the first look I'm listening to the ceremony and their vows and I'm literally going to the audio file and I'm timestamping what people are saying I'm literally writing a timestamp of important things that are said in speeches in vows and starring them and making note of it so that when I go to make the edit I can refer back to this audio list to start building a story and building a narrative in the film montage now when I first started doing wedding films I did a full long hour hour and a half long edit with a full ceremony getting ready at the beginning full ceremony in two portraits into reception all the details all the speeches all the dances from start to finish I came to realize that that was way too laborious and a friend said you should start doing montages people will pay the same if not more for a jam-packed edit with speeches with music that's all tied together you can watch it in 3 to 6 minutes and you can pass along via email share it on social media and your friends and family will actually sit down and watch it you don't have to pull out the popcorn and make it a movie night every time you do your wedding film so that's how I go about editing my films and is a very integral part of that because this is really the backbone of all the films is the speeches in audio throughout the day and so really what I leaned into a lot is important people speeches and the couples of the house and so I kind of let that thread the narrative throughout my films and it's always a good reference when I'm constructing that montage so now let me know all of the audio that I want to use for the wedding day and I made note of that I have my music set in place I start to think back of my school days of when I wrote essays now your teachers always talk to you about having an intro and a body in a conclusion or a hook and a rising action and a climax and a falling action and a resolution this is basic plot and storyline composition you learned it in English class if you went to school and you recognized that every story needs some sort of beginning middle and KC nice Dan talks about that a lot same thing applies for wedding films you need to have some sort of hook at the beginning of your film if you want people to watch it now you have to recognize that your films are marketing for your own brand so if a complete stranger is watching your video you want to suck them in and any way possible that will keep them watching for the whole five six minutes of your film so that means that you need to make a hook right away you need to make something that's interesting it's going to grab their attention and then you can start telling a narrative then you can start telling something sequential with a timeline so what I like to do is I brainstorm about what's different about my couple and I create something like that I built this project so you could see how I got started with a project but I'm gonna go ahead and pull up the actual finish edit from Nick and Kristina's wedding and you can see how I kind of piecemealed the beginning together [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so Christina and Nick were those clients that really fell in love with my work and we're really personal and made that known in our first meeting so I really wanted to dive deep with them get to know them get to know their preferences their style all that good stuff so we had dinner like we invited them over for dinner before their wedding and got to know them and I realized they had a life in the city here in Chicago but they were having their wedding out in Princeton Illinois which is just like kind of in the middle of nowhere and farmland because that's where they grew up so that was meaningful to them but there was still part of me that wanted to include the city somehow since it was such an integral and special part of their life now and moving forward because I think they don't really want to leave that plus there was this component of her dad on her wedding day her dad is in really bad health right now she wasn't sure if her dad was even going to make it to the wedding day and I know you're watching this Christina so thank you so much for trusting me with your your vision and being open about all of this stuff on the wedding day I was out filming Nick getting ready and when I came back inside the Christina was in the middle of reading her letter to her dad and so I caught the last end of the moment and I just felt like I needed to kind of have a redo on that so I asked them to film in their apartment and I recorded audio of her reading her letter to her dad and so I used it as this opportunity for another hook for the film so that's what I ended up doing now consequentially in that meeting where I hung out with them we we talked about how Nick proposed and the story of how I proposed to my wife and Christina sent me a video of the security camera footage in their apartment that I shot in with them of Nick proposing so they gave me the footage of their proposal and then I had all this footage of them hanging out like being in love in their apartment and so it felt like this perfect combination of okay this is where their story started with the proposal and I'm gonna integrate them living in this space as well so that's what I did for this hook so that's obviously different than most wedding films you've probably seen just because again I love this concept of leaning into what makes me different standing out from the crowd creating a hook that's going to make people go this is totally different than anything I'm used to and then all the sudden you're just planting seeds in people's brains of this is this is higher quality than what is the norm which is true you're really going above and beyond to make it different I'm not afraid to use cell phone footage security cam footage if it's going to be meaningful and it's gonna stand out in the story that's way more important than you having perfect flawless log footage that's just my opinion a lot of people might be in the high-end market and they do that thing and nobody wants that and that's fine but I am willing to make the risk and creative risk for my clients to do something it's just gonna make them absolutely Ball and that's what's happening here and that's what made this opening so special one more example one of my favorite films and I have shared this on the channel before Ellie and Tyler's wedding in Yosemite I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that that wedding was in Yosemite and so I started with a crazy montage of Yosemite I Tyler take you Elizabeth in my life i Elizabeth take you Tyler to be my husband promise be faithful to you in good times in bed and in sickness and in health and to love you and honor you all the days of my life [Music] then once that montage was done I create started creating a more linear timeline more linear story of how everything unfolded which started in Chicago they had a small ceremony there and then they packed and got ready and left for California to go out to Yosemite and then I introduced that scene but I wanted that hook I wanted people to know this was an epic adventure wedding in Yosemite and that's how hooked people into watching that one before I started telling the linear story so that was the same case here we got the hook we got something it's really interesting and then I started telling a linear story now this is where creativity starts this is where your film is going to be your own and that there's only so much I can teach you in the editing process that you can absorb and learn and use and replicate for yourself but your own creative touch and your own creative mind is what's going to develop your own style and your own voice so you can't just lean on the exact things that I'm telling you here definitely use them as fuel for your own creativity and any tips and tricks or skills that you learn here yeah put them into practice but make it your own now something I didn't show and this is that when you drop in a clip into your timeline Premiere will automatically adjust the project file to the dimensions of that clip so if you shot the day in 1080p you are going to have a in 1920 by 1080p timeline if you shot in 4k it's going to do a 4k timeline and so something I do that's a bit different is I like the 2.35 to one aspect ratio you may be thinking what is that you seen those youtubers were like no I'm gonna cut to my b-roll and then go when they put those bars in the top of the bottom they're cutting to a 2.35 to one ratio to make it look more cinematic now the reason for that is anamorphic lenses create that format that really widescreen cinematic look if you've seen like the moment anamorphic lens or any Hollywood film like ever they have that widescreen look so that's something I like to incorporate as well with making it look more in the past I used to put bars on top and bottom but then realized in my premiere pro sequence I could literally change the dimensions to be those exact dimensions so for this video I shot most of the day in 1080p so I made the sequence 1920 which is the width of normal 1080 footage but I crammed the vertical into 8 15 so 1920 by 815 and that's the 2.3 5 to 1 ratio and so when you make that change up here in the sequence settings you'll need to make sure that you hit custom up in this top editing mode and then make sure it's 1920 by 8:15 and it will make the change down here as well and making sure that the timeline is in 23.976 24 frames per second once you hit OK then it will reformat your project to be that widescreen look so what's great about this as well is if it gives you the option to move your footage so it gives you a little space to move it up and down so if you put some footage in this sequence now that's 1920 by 1080 you can go over to this little motion tab over on the left in your effects controls panel and you can take the vertical placement and rock it up and down and move your footage if you go too far you start getting black on top and bottom but you can move it to the exact spot that you want so it's a really cool way to kind of work with footage if you didn't frame it exactly how you wanted it for the sake of showing you kind of all the ins and outs the starting of a project I'm just going to open a new sequence here so you can see basically what we just did settings you go to custom making sure that this is 8 15 1920 by 815 now the next thing I do after I've put in music created hook on the project sometimes I'll do this before just depending on how I'm feeling I don't do it the same exact way every time but it kind of follows this format after I put in the music kind of done that hook thing I will go down to this new item section at the bottom of the footage in the bins and I will make and adjust lair so it's gonna with the settings that we just made some 1920 by 815 at 24 frames per second you're going to make that adjustment layer and it will create that adjustment layer and whatever panel you are in on the audio panel right now so I don't want it in there I'm gonna put it in the wedding panel so go down here adjustment layer settings are right boom just made a new adjustment later I'm going to drag that adjustment layer to my sequence and I'm going to extend it all the way I usually extend it to about six minutes because that's usually how long my films are this adjustment layer is where my LUT is going to sit a lot is a short for lookup table this is what I apply to my footage to give it that look to give it those colors that contrast a certain look and so I'm not going to share which LUT is because that's coming in the future and I actually have some exciting plans of what that will look like and hopefully I will have something available for purchase sometime in the near future I will go over to this section over here which is limit recolor over to the right and I will go to the basic correction tab and right here it says input LUT I will select my my go to LUT so once I select once I select that LUT it's going on that adjustment layer so that adjustment layer was highlighted and it's going right on there so I'm just gonna throw a piece of footage in there so you can see what it does to that footage so I have a piece of footage on there now with the LUT applied so you can see when I toggle off the look here if I delete that layer right there or in it make it not visible you can see the original footage that with my flat profile and if I apply it you can see the color that it puts on the footage now I don't want it to look that intense and so I always dial back this LUT to about 30 to 50% opacity so it's not super strong so I go over to this little section in my effects control effect control panels and I take the opacity and I bring it down to about 30 percent so that LUT is applied to all my footage across the board on my film as I edit it I'm a simple man I shoot on a flat profile on Canon cameras a lot of people will shoot log profiles which is way more intricate with color grading with adjusting a curve and then applying a lot afterwards maybe even going into scopes and doing fancy stuff with that I'm not about that life I like simple editing so I like an adjustment layer overall I footage with a flat profile I put the light on the adjustment layer opacity down and then I will at the end you'll see I go through all the clips and I go through the basic adjustments and add contrast and saturation and exposure adjustments and do it really simple really similar to photo editing which is primarily what I do as a wedding and portrait photographer awesome so I'm back to my sequence of the full edited film so you can see this perspective now now after I have chosen my music listen to all my audio cold all of my footage and put it in bins and organized it put an adjustment layer with a lot overall of my footage created a hook I am now ready to start with a linear timeline of telling the story of the day so made my hook put in a title I'm a simple man again I just used like this legacy title up here file new legacy title brings you up to this page very simple text like Gotham I like menthe Sarat Helvetica maybe keep it really simple so then I start moving into a linear section of storytelling so in this film specifically I set the scene I said that at the scene showing that it was a rainy and foggy day that Nick was getting ready and hanging out at his parents bar and that christina was getting ready at the venue with some of the details if you're shooting footage in slow motion you're either shooting in 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second or 120 frames per second it's very important that you know how to slow that footage down and post if you're shooting 30 frames per second you're gonna want to right-click on your footage or your clip or I've set up a shortcut where you just hit s and it brings you to the speed panel to the speed panel and if you're shooting 30 frames per second you have a 24 frames per second timeline you want to hit 80% because 80% of 30 is 24 if you're shooting 60 frames per second you want to make sure that number is 40 percent because 40 percent of 60 is 24 now my camera when I shoot 120 super slow motion it formats it and plays it back in 30 frames per second so whenever I slowed down 30 frames per second footage I always slow it down to 80% you're not doing 20% because that's what you would think it would be that's only if it's playing back at full speed so most of the time it's it's slowing it down to 30 frames per second you slow it down to 80 frames per second just a little tip for you so I start doing a linear timeline and I really like to start introducing voices after I've set the scene so in this circumstance I just went right into their first look and Nick's vows now I am NOT going to get into the nitty-gritty in specifics of this film and how I put all this stuff together like I said earlier this is up to you and your creative endeavors you can go do that you can figure that out what I like to do is I start stacking footage I like going up and down on the rows that I have here stacking footage and placing it in line with the beat of the song if I if you ever see me do anything that's a bit tricky with a stylized look like earlier in the the hook at the end of it we saw this kind of double exposure thing happening with their silhouettes and the tree I will stack two pieces of footage on top of each other right here and I will decrease the opacity of one of them so this image right here on top is their silhouettes so if I got rid of the bottom one you can see it's their silhouettes but it's their silhouettes at 40% opacity which I changed in the effect control panel over here and now you have this blend of them and the tree now have you ever seen any kind of flickering that I have in my films I literally go to the clip and cut it I will cut it apart and match it to the beats of the music and I will manually do that there's no preset that I do that changes that I will literally go in and I've made all fancy shortcuts which I'll get to in a second but I believe the standard shortcut and premiere is C for the cut tool if you hit C you can start chopping up clips with that cut tool and you can start moving stuff around to add that kind of flicker effect so I'll just show you a quick example of what that looks like here so if I wanted to do that flicker effect here I would cut this in multiple places and I would remove sections of the clip so that when I play it back you'll see well I have to remove this lower layer you'll see now obviously that's not where you would do that that was just showing you how that works but I do that at really heightened moments like on the dance floor to get kind of that flicker film kind of look that comes to shortcuts on the keyboard there are a bunch that I like to use I'm probably not going to get to all of them but C is one of those really important ones C for the cut tool if I put any other footage that's smaller or larger than my sequence size like if my timeline is in 19:20 by 8:15 and I shot a clip in 4k it's gonna be really zoomed in so if I drop a 4k clip into the timeline I just hit the question mark and forward slash button and that will bring it to the correct size if you need to make any more adjustments on that you click the clip and you go to the scale button on your effect control panels and you can zoom it in or bring it out if you need to and then obviously adjust its position up-and-down if need be as well because you have that adjustment something that I custom mapped is our for render if you hit R it's going to render the whole project from your in and out points so if I just want to render a certain portion of the film say the first minute I can have it from the start here if I right click drag my cursor all the way to the left right click I can say mark in the one minute mark I can hit mark out now this whole section is what's going to be rendered custom map hit the R now it's going to render rendering is just allowing your computer to understand and interpret the footage to be able to play it back for you at the speed that you need it to playback at without like glitching or slowing down throughout the project you're gonna want to render this stuff so it plays back nicely and you can also go to this little panel here and play it back at half resolution or 1/4 resolution so that it's not chewing up as much memory on your computer and it'll play back nicely so that you can watch all your footage the way you need to now to do your own keyboard shortcuts you can go up to the premier Pro tab up here and you go to keyboard shortcuts now this will bring up your whole keyboard and what you can do is you can search up any kind of effect in Premiere so if I wanted to go to duplicate I would type in duplicate DUP and duplicate comes up now D is the shortcut for duplicate but if I wanted to change that I click that right here and I can change it to P which I don't want to do but you get the idea I changed my R to render I've only done this for a few things but if if you want to go nuts with these go nuts it can really help your workflow if you start becoming fluent and using it that way one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts that I made for myself is M for mustache C now ladies I know you could probably program yours L for legs and that you for underarms is your YouTube dad being a YouTube dad again this is where all the magic happens for you you need to figure out how you are going to comprise your story and there's only so much I can teach on that there's a there's only so many tips and tricks that I can give you on how to make it awesome and ultimately your awesome might be completed for than my awesome and that's why you can watch my films that's what you can watch other people in the industries films and you can get inspiration from them and start replicating or using the same skills and tactics and things that they do in order to stand out and look different because I'm nitpicky about certain things I will throughout the film kind of color and edit how things look along the way and but I won't I won't do everything and the same goes for audio I will change audio levels so if you look over to the right over here you have levels you have it showing if your audio levels are peaking or not if it's getting into that red section and peaking you obviously need to tone it down so there's a couple ways to do that you can either go over to your level or over here in the effect controls panel you can create keyframes where it goes down in certain parts so if something peaks at a certain point or someone speaks really loudly you can create a keyframe here with this little icon add or remove a keyframe at a certain decibel to lower or raise the volume of that clip so that's one way to do it you can only max out at 6 DBS above zero so if you need to really boost that up I like to go to the effects panel over here and use parametric EQ parametric equalizer I drag it on to my effects panel which is here and if you go to the little edit section you can raise the DB level over here to raise the volume of the clip but a lot of times when you do that synthetically you start getting hisses and different things so I like to go to the section where that hissing is happening so finding the Hertz of where that's happening you can go down to this number heat down here not the decibels but the number under that and that's increasing the intensity of the spike that you want at the certain Hertz so if it's it's spiking at you know 11,000 Hertz you can find that spike it'll be really hissy in your ears and you just drop that down and get rid of it really good technique I've learned from my buddy Mike who does audio stuff and never would have known this otherwise really cleans up your audio makes it sound very nice now that's my other plug that I have got a switch hats because I can't I can't work my headphones with my cool hat swap it over to my mango Street merch shout out to Danielle Rachel here I have my Sony WH 1000 XM threes and a fan of the name but I'm a fan of the headphones if you want to generally listen back to audio at their Bluetooth so you just turn them on and you can connect to bluetooth on your computer but that doesn't work in Premiere Pro if you want to use bluetooth headset bluetooth headphones in Premiere you need to go to preferences and audio hardware and then change your default output to your Bluetooth device in order to hear everything highly highly highly recommend these headphones they're noise canceling you could edit in an airport edit anywhere not be distracted hear exactly what you need to hear make sure your audio isn't peaking it's amazing you don't want to do the whole bluetooth workaround they all so have a passive eighth inch cord that can run from the headset to your computer just like normal headphones these are linked in the description feel free to check them out can't recommend them enough so like I said I will throughout the film kind of if something's way out of whack I will go over to the luma tree color panel I will change audio to make it sound or look better in the moment because that's just going to help me be more creative insane if I do that along the way and so like I said I have my adjustment layer with my LUT across everything but I go in here to change a bit of white balance or exposure contrast highlights shadows all that good stuff saturation and if I absolutely need to I can go down to the curves section and mess with the curve if anything's out of whack or I can really mess with the colors in an image so if I don't like this green back here I can change the saturation of the green I can make it look more green you do that by touching this little dripper and bringing it to a color that you want and it will select three points and that middle point is where you place the dripper so I want to really increase the orange or red that's obviously ridiculous on her skin that kind of stuff don't need that but I did that with a green I boosted the green saturation a little bit this next one is hue you can change the hue of a color so if orange is looking too red or magenta you can make it more green same thing you just use the dripper and move it up and down and luma you can change the brightness of a color so you select that dripper bring it on to something bring the brightness up or down to your preference really cool to be able to isolate all of your colors and manage it well in those panels but yeah that's what I do as my last pass so that's really kind of where I want to close this here is going through my last pass of visual and audio I'll go from start to finish on the whole film after I've cut together the whole thing and I will check all of my audio first so I will go into all of my audio files into the parametric equalizer listen with my headphones intently looking for if it's spiking or not over to the right here and make sure that all of those levels aren't working well to make sure that all of the really big climactic parts are nice and loud but not peaking and some of the quieter parts are still being heard but not as intense as those climactic parts then after all of my audio is done I will go through and individually on every clip go through and add contrast and go through the basic corrections of making that clip look exactly how I want it if the lot isn't doing its job on the footage now I'm shooting with a flat profile and a a LUT at 30 to 50 percent opacity so a lot of times it needs more contrast so I'll crank up that contrast slider or the black slider down here and that's really kind of messing with the tone curve honestly so I will make sure that that color pass is done and then I will look through it one more time and then it's time for export so if I click on my sequence panel right here and have it highlighted I can hit a shortcut command M for export and that will bring me to my export panel I highly recommend you check out Matt Johnson's videos about these things way more intelligent than I am about this and I've pretty much learned all that I need to know about technical things from him easy youtubers got a huge beard he's a wedding film maker very knowledgeable guy you need to go check him out I'll put his channel in the description it's actually pretty simple here I will rename the file usually it is the file name of the song that I put in there first because that was the first thing I dropped in the timeline so I will change that to the couple's names Cristina and Nick you got to use a plus sign because we're all hip millenials change the name of the file and make sure that it's going to a source that I want usually my desktop is where I like to put it now this is really important and Matt came out with a video about this recently if you use premiere in the past you might have noticed this struggle that your colors come out a lot more flat and less contrasted when you export there is a special LUT that can be applied to that footage so that your footage looks exactly the same as it did in your premiere project this was groundbreaking for me this year I don't have that lot on hand I will link Matt's video right here basically Adobe just gives you a lot to apply to the footage to make sure that it is exporting exactly the same color and contrast as what you're seeing in your project so I apply that hit this little checkbox and I go to my folder where I have that research right lot which is what I call it research right so research rate is applied it doesn't say it's applied it says none but it's there I promise like to make sure that my project is being exported at the resolution and the dimensions that I want I actually up scaled this whole video to 4k or just about 4k you wanna make sure that your resolution is exactly what you want i up scaled this to near 4k but making sure that your resolution is the aspect ratio that you did in the beginning so two point three five to one you can do the math by dividing that big number about a small number I like to click the use maximum render quality box just to get the best quality out of it then I go ahead and export the whole project then it's exported I upload it to Vimeo and/or YouTube and I deliver my videos through Vimeo and they can download that clip right from Vimeo in the download section at full resolution right from that platform so I don't have to deliver anything the mail unless they ordered raw footage for me which a lot of people do and I make a completely different timeline in a premiere project sequence all the footage sequentially export it as one file and down res it so that I can get it under 32 gigabytes put it on a 32 gig flash drive and a nice little wooden box and send it off in the mail to them yeah my films are four to six minutes long that's how all of them end up yeah the length of all of them end up being but these films usually end up taking me like a full work week to edit so it's not an easy endeavor a lot of times to finish it out I have to like stay up till midnight or three 5:00 in the morning just to finish it and so yeah it's it's not easy if you really want your clients to experience a film that's just to make them cry and and freak out then it's gonna take that much hard work and that really brings me to my last point is that all this stuff is great like knowing all of it is awesome and knowing all the ins and outs of editing to make sure you are at the top of your game or always improving is awesome and you should always be doing that but if there is no heart behind what you're doing and there's no service of your clients and making sure that they are getting what they deserve and what they want then you're not winning you're not doing this well you need to make sure that your clients are happy you can't just be making films that they aren't connecting with just because you want to be creative or do your own thing or stand out so much that they're not enjoying the product they're the people that need to be thought of most when you're making these and so really understanding them their story their love for one another that's is most important and that's it's most important to convey in their film thank you so much for watching this video if it was helpful to you I know everybody says this at the end of every video but honestly sincerely if this video was helpful for you please give it a like comment below any other questions that you might have or anything that you think I might benefit from I love hearing your perspective on things that I can do better with my editing workflow because lord knows I still need help with it and if you're not subscribed please subscribe and ring that little notification bell to get notified whenever I post a new video like this to help you out if I helped you at all maybe thank you to music bed again for sponsoring this video don't forget to check out the 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Channel: Eric Floberg

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Length: 50min 22sec (3022 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 16 2019