- So if you wanna level up your content, editing is one of the best ways to do it. And in this video, I'm
gonna be going through a beginner tutorial on Adobe Premiere about how to edit a YouTube video. I'm also gonna be sharing
a few tips from my workflow and even some advanced insights so let's just dive into it right now. (lively techno pop music) Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell here with Think Media, bringing you the best tips and tools for building your influence
with online video, and right now we're in the middle of a four-part video series all about how to shoot,
do a thumbnail, edit, and then ultimately upload a YouTube video so you can put out better content, grow your channel faster,
and get more views. And if you actually wanna
watch part one or two, in part one, we did a whole
video on shooting content with the Canon M50 or a similar
DSLR or mirror-less camera. In video two, we talked all about getting the thumbnail ready and
we're already done with that and now it's time to
actually edit our video and so that's what we're gonna be doing right now in part three. If you missed out on the
beginning of the series, I'll link it up on the YouTube card as well as post a link to that playlist in the description below but with that, let's dive right into
how to edit in a video in Adobe Premiere. All right, so step number one is take the SD card out of our camera, plug it into our card reader, in this case, I've got an extra long one plugged into my computer
with this crazy cable so I can just easily get to it, but whether you're on a
laptop or you have a PC or some kind of a tower, you definitely need an SD card reader, capture your footage, and right now I've already
actually downloaded it into an external hard drive, and here's how I organize
some of my files. I've got my footage folder and this is all of the footage that I shot in video number one including the A-roll and the B-roll. I've actually got the music folder and we'll talk about that in a bit. The thumbnails, and we
already created our thumbnail, but that's where I would
save all the image files, and then I've actually
got my intro bumper. Now, if you don't have one made, you don't need one but this
is just my little bumper for my Sean Cannell channel. And if you actually wanna
watch the final video, I'll link to that and post it in the description below as well if you kind of wanna see
it either before or after. Definitely check it out so
you can see the final result. So what we're gonna do is
we have Adobe Premiere open and if you've never used Adobe Premiere, it's a little bit more advanced
but I highly recommend it so if you wanna do a trial, I'll put a link to it
in the description below and I use Premiere for editing video and then I used Photoshop
to edit my thumbnails. We're gonna do a new project here and we are going to name it, right. So this was a Sean Cannell is the YouTube channel I'm posting this on and it was a home office tour. So I'm gonna do that and we also, everything else here is
pretty much good to go. And what's cool about Premiere lately is that it really will understand. In the past, you could select
certain sequences and projects and this might sound kinda crazy but you'd have different frame rates and you maybe need to know some technical details ahead of time. What's cool about Premiere now is you don't need to know
those technical details, you can just drop your footage in and it'll know how to
interpret it for you. So here is the Premiere homepage. It says right over in the lower
left: Import media to start. That is our first step or we ultimately could drop the media right on the sequence place here and then that's gonna fill
in these windows up here with other content once we do that. So I'm actually gonna
select all of my clips and just drop 'em
straight into the sequence because now right now, it's
importing all of our footage from what we shot at the Canon M50. All right, so now the footage is actually all in the timeline, right now in the lower
very left-hand corner you can see that it's conforming the audio which actually means that those waveforms are kind of showing up on
here, so here's what I mean. If we wanna make our two
main kind of visuals here a little larger, this is our
first layer of video and audio, and here's what I want you to think about. Right now on the screen, we can see some of the preview footage and if you remember in video number one, we talked about A-roll and B-roll and so essentially if this is your A-roll which is your layer video number one here, maybe we wanna pull in some B-roll, here's all of our B-roll clips but we don't need the audio on there so I just unlink the audio. Now I've got that clip released so I could be talking in the A-roll here but then it could show the
B-roll while I'm talking, so makes sense? So there's the B-roll clip,
there's the A-roll clip and I'm able to just drag and drop and move things all around
here in the timeline. And so I'm actually gonna
delete this because of the order and I'm going to sort this by name to get all of the files
in the order I shot them 'cause they were in
some kind of crazy order when I first dropped
them into the sequence. And now, when I take these
all into the sequence, here's the cool thing. The main video should just
be all the way through here. So this is all the main video
that I shot, here's my outro, and what I'm doing on the timeline here is I'm using the hotkeys minus and plus to zoom in with
plus, minus to zoom out. See that? So I can zoom into the edit, and so now, if I actually go to here, this was on the B-roll clips. I'm gonna move those off to the right and here's the deal. I actually don't need any
of the audio on these clips and so what I did is I right
clicked, I clicked unlink, and so just to clean it
up, this is the way I do it is I just taking this waveform
to delete all that audio. This is all B-roll clips, makes sense? So those will go in later
and what I'm gonna do is start with the A-roll, the audio here. I'll turn this up a little
so you can hear it and-- Creating, all right. Setting up your home office
in a way that, all right. Now, one of my biggest tips
when it comes to editing is watching the audio. Obviously, none of this matters so I can just drag and hold
and trim that clip down on the left because I'm
restarting and messing up and it looks to me like I'm
actually starting right here, so let me see. Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell here and in this video, I'm gonna be doing a home office tour with a bunch of cool
home office design ideas, whether that's ergonomics
from the various chairs and ways of-- All right, messed up again. So now I'm gonna look at this one. If you're looking for some
home office design ideas, you're gonna love this video. Now, check this out. There's a hotkey called L and I realize this is a beginner tutorial but you're kinda seeing
inside of my workflow, so ways I go faster is pressing
the L button to speed up. My name is Sean Cannell and I've been a full-time entrepreneur for over four years now, freelancing well before that
and working from a home office. So in this video, I'm
gonna be breaking down some of my favorite design
and inspirational images and various posters and things like that, as well as my charging stations and a couple other cool features that I think will give
you some great ideas for your home office. Now, a tip there is having
a strong hook in your videos and that was the hook,
that was the opener, right? So now, I'm actually gonna drop in from my file folder the bumper and if you've got one of these created, what you can do is just have it start right after your intro ends. Coming up. (text clanking) (camera beeping) Boom! So there's the intro, very nice, and now I can cut into the video itself. And the main thing I do
is I just work through from left to right basically on the edits and I try to look at the waveform to see when I maybe got the intro right. So it looks like I probably restarted. Hey, what's up. Hey, what's up, Sean Cannell here. There you go. (laughs) Okay, four tries. Okay, so now that we're into the edit, let me recap a few things. First of all, I press spacebar to start and stop the video playing in Premiere so I can edit. Secondly, one of the cool
things about Premiere is that you can edit while
it's playing the file so once I hit spacebar
and it starts to play, then I can trim, delete
clips, and move things around and it's playing in real time. This is kind of advanced so if you're just starting out in editing, don't hesitate to realize you're gonna probably go
a lot slower than I am. A little tip right there, one of my favorite features is
I can right-click in between and say ripple delete and then just boom! Bring it all back nice and clean. So if we replay this. For home office, coming up. (camera shutters) (camera beeping) Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell here. Boom, and now we're going
into the actual video and so now you can see what I'm gonna do is go through the rest of
the edit of the A-roll. I'm gonna be just trimming
through all of the clips, bringing 'em back, and then
we'll do B-roll after that. So when I'm editing my A-roll, what I like to do is if possible,
shoot the video in order. So I shot the intro first, I
shot through the rooms linearly so when I drop all of
that in the timeline, all I'm really doing is actually cutting away
my mistakes, my restarts. And the way I'm doing that is I again, I typically press spacebar to get it to be playing for me in real time. If I wanna edit a little bit faster, I use the hotkey L on my keyboard. I'm editing on a PC. And that speeds it up so
I can edit even faster. And then the two other
tools that I'm using are the main cursor tool which if you ever wanna get back to that, you use the letter V on your
keyboard and then I use C. So C and V are right next to each other. C is for cut, that's the razor blade tool. And so to make modifications to a clip, I will either click on the
left side and drag the clip in, on the right side, drag the clip in or I use the razor blade
tool, I click C on my keyboard so I can cut apart and
then I click back on V so I can select the clip that's
just my normal cursor tool so I can click on any
clip and drag it anywhere and I just kind of do that in real time, just massaging each clip so that only the content I
want included is left there, deleting everything else
and then using ripple delete or dragging the clips to the left so that I'm quite literally
putting the video together in real time with just the essential parts that I wanna include,
removing everything else. All right, now one of the tips
we shared in the first video was when I'm in front of the video, I had the shotgun mic pointed at me but when I got the behind-the-camera, I had the shotgun mic pointed back at me but I was speaking right into it so the audio was a little bit louder so what we're gonna do here in Premiere is I'm just gonna go audio
gain minus three for now and that'll let us go a
little bit more quiet. All right, so now, let's check-- Now, just to recap what you just saw, if you wanna get to
that audio gain option, I right clicked with my
mouse onto the wav file. It opened up a tab with
lots of different options and adjustments that you
can make to your clip and I selected audio gain. That's how you control the volume to make it louder or quieter. And the reason in this case, because I'm shooting behind the camera with the shotgun microphone
right in my mouth, it's much louder than when
I'm two, three feet away from the camera when it's in selfie mode. Now, if I'm really gonna
go deep in an edit, I'm probably going to take some time to adjust all the different
clips throughout the video so they match as close as possible. If you look in the
lower right-hand corner, you'll see those green
bars going up and down. That is an indicator of how
loud my vocals really are. Remember, don't just trust your headphones because your headphone volume
could be louder or quieter. That's like a dashboard of exactly what decibels your audio is hitting. And for vocals, I want my audio
to be minus six or minus 12. I don't want it to be too quiet and I also don't want it to be too loud. Remember that as a video editor, your job is also to be an audio mixer making sure that all the
audio levels of the vocals are mixed nice and they're sounding great and that if there's also
music, that it's blending well and no aspect is
overpowering another aspect of your final project. And then, let's-- So let me tell you what
I'm doing in real time to reinforce some of these concepts. I just right clicked on the video, put the audio gain down a few decibels so that the audios mix better. I'm dragging the clips so that
the editing is nice and tight from scene to scene, adjusting
the audio a little bit more. I listen to it, I'm like, oh, it's maybe not quite quiet enough, let me change it a few more decibels. Then I was like, I'm
not even gonna include that clip at all, I guess. It's just being deleted,
so that clip is deleted, I'm skipping ahead a little
bit to sort of think through, okay, how does this story piece together, and then I'm ripple
deleting those clips down so that the whole story is
being compressed together. Okay, so for a quick update, you can see on our timeline
here we have basically, we have from the hook, we
have the intro right there, and we've gone through all
of this editing so far. Now, at this point in the video, I kinda make a joke
about this little plant so what I'm gonna do
is add a bars and tone. This is gonna add so that if it goes into my project files right over here, I can drag it in here. This is my favorite way
to add a quick comedy beep and this is just built
right into Premiere. See that? Succulent. And then right after I say
succulent, essentially. That's a nice succulent. (beeps) That's a nice succulent, beep! And then it kinda resets
attention, a little bit of humor. Go get me focused. Look at that, oh my goodness. My goodness! Delete all that. That's a nice succulent. Comic beep. Goodness, that's a nice succulent. (beeps) Got that? All right, we'll keep going. But I'm a big-- This video took me right
around 30 to 40 minutes to edit total and we are doing
some jump cuts in this video to skip through it but I wanna encourage
you with a couple things. I mean, number one, I've
been editing video since 2003 and so I've kind of developed my own style and I've gotten really fast. With the speed at which I'm editing, please don't get overwhelmed
if you're just getting started. You might wanna re-watch
this video even another time just to pick up some of the nuances that I included in there for you. So there's just a little-- Additionally, you will also
get more comfortable over time as a content creator. For me, I even kind of
remember what I said. I've gotten used to my
own style, how I mess up, how I maybe repeat
something two, three times. So when I'm pressing the L
button to speed it all up, sometimes I'm just
trying to rush to a part that I already know exists. Remember, one of my favorite ways to edit is by looking at the waveform and when I see some no audio, when I see those down blank
space moments of audio or when I see a solid
chunk of the waveform, that audio spectrum, when
I see it solid for a while but then I see a drop off, I'm like okay, that's probably the ending, that's probably where an edit will be. So all these things
I've picked up over time so I wanted this video
to be a primer for you, something to help you get
started with Adobe Premiere but be patient with yourself. Remember, practice makes progress and the more you edit,
the faster you will get. If you find yourself just
staring at your project, feeling like you're going super slow and you're just starting, it's crazy! I mean, look at how
complex this screen looks and all these different clips and all these different features and all the different hotkeys and buttons. Just be patient, pace yourself. And we'll also link to some resources in the description below. I mean, this is how I edit. I know there's some new modern features, there's some different
things that are happening. Premiere is always updating
and there's even better ways probably to edit than this. This is just how I edit. But I'll link to lynda.com. There's some good skill share courses and some good Lynda aka
LinkedIn learning courses that will walk you through Premiere or any video editing
software start to finish, learning feature by feature. But what I really wanted you
to see here is that over time, it's possible to shoot,
edit, do the thumbnail, upload a video all
within a matter of hours. This entire project probably
took me four total hours from concept to completion. If you're just starting,
that might take you 10 or 20 but I just wanted to
show you what's possible so as you get faster at editing, you'll be able to pump out a ton of high-quality YouTube videos
that can build your brand and your business faster. All right, so a quick check in here. We basically have all
of our A-roll, right? I told the story from beginning to end of walking people through the office tour so now it's all laid out in the timeline up until this point. I did shoot the outro
with a different lens, a little bit of a blurry background to kinda switch things up, just to show kind of the
full use of the M50 as a kit. Hey, thanks so much for checking in. Let me just cut to that outro. I think I can see it right on here. So hey! Again, I'm looking at the wav file, you see how much I messed
up one, two, or three times and then eventually, I
know that when I start, the last time is the time
I got it right, right? So I can always just get rid of the beginning of all
that stuff and then. So thanks for coming along with me for a quick tour through
the Think Media offices. If you wanna see any of the various decor or products that I mentioned, I'll put a complete list in
the YouTube description below so go ahead and check that out. If you got value out of this
video, smash the like button. And then also, if you have any questions about any of the home office
things that I didn't cover or something in the
background that you saw, please post those in the comments and also let me know what
some of your favorite home office decor ideas are that keep you inspired and productive. Subscribe if you're not subscribed. Thanks again for checking out this video and I'll see you in the next one. Peace! Boom! And there's the whole video. So look what we've done. We've got the whole A-roll laid down and then the next thing
I'm gonna do really quick is create the end card. So I'm gonna open up Photoshop to do this. Now, I've already spent the
time building a template which allows me to have the
subscribe button up there. Remember that when you have
an end card on YouTube, it can be a maximum of 20 seconds. So I already have this template created so I'm just going to change
the top video call-to-action that will end up on this video. I'm gonna give a link to maybe
a different video I've done, so How To Make Money on YouTube, great, and then watch another video, that one will be recommended by them so all I have to do here is go Save As, I'm gonna drop you know JPEG on that guy and throw it in a most recent file, How To Make Money on YouTube, and watch how cool this is, now all I have to do is
drop in this end card into my timeline and that'll
be the outro of the video. Ideas that keep you
inspired and productive. Subscribe if you're not subscribed. Thanks again for checking out this video and I'll see you in the next one. Peace! Now, so I've dropped
the end card in there. It doesn't need to be up
there for the entire time. I usually only want it up
there 10 seconds or so. And so now, I actually
wanna do music next. So there's a lot of
different options for music. I actually have a video
here on Think Media with some of the best free options so if you wanna watch that, click or tap the YouTube card or I'll put it in the description below but if there was one site that I feel like is the best all-around
for most YouTube creators, it's Epidemic Music and
they just have good pricing, it's very affordable if your
channel's not very large. If you have a large channel,
it's still affordable, but of course, you can afford it as your start making more money. I already pulled up, as
we saw in the beginning, the music folder. This is some of the songs I already looked up on Epidemic Music. One of the reasons why I love Epidemic is because you can really get clear on what music you want fast by just doing something like this. Maybe you say, okay, the
mood I want is hopeful, the movement of it, the
pacing, busy-frantic, no. I kinda just want it to be smooth, and then the genre is
electronic and dance. I want beats. So then what it does is
it only is showing you hopeful smooth electronica and dance, so we have old-school
hip hop beats, disco, you can see the tempo,
the beats per minute. You can actually see that
as hopeful and smooth here, the energy level. Just epidemic gives you so many details. So I spent some time
picking out some good music. Okay, and for the outro, I want
that end song to drop heavy. So I have this song that
actually has some lyrics in it and that is copyright-free though because it's off of a site when once you're paying for
it, you're all good to go. So now, when I'm also editing music, I like to do something similar. Remember how we were
looking at the waveform? I can see where the drops are based on the waveform visually, right? And I've been doing this for a while so you kinda get used to it but-- ♪ Aint tryna make no turn out ♪ ♪ Forward forward ♪ - [Sean] So that's the build. ♪ Forward ♪
- Build. (smooth electronica music) So there's the drop and that's exactly what we want for the outro,
and so it's a little loud. I'm actually gonna go
minus five on this guy and then what I wanna do
is see the exact drop. There's the exact end card, waveform-wise, there's the
exact drop right there, ish. Go back a little and this
has kinda some beats. (smooth electronica music) Nice! So I'm gonna fade that up so we're gonna jump over here
into effects in Premiere, audio transitions and constant gain. It's kinda weird. You think it'd be like
cross fade or fade in. It's actually called constant gain. (smooth electronica music) So I'm at the song, complete, so I'll finish the end card there. That's kinda it, right? So we got the music in the end, what we're also gonna do now is now drop some music in the beginning. And for this edit, I'm not
gonna go super in-depth. I would normally go back through,
maybe take out dead spots, do more editing. You can do music throughout but we're probably just gonna do music in the beginning and the end and so let's drop a little
intro song and we'll mix it in. Okay, so you also heard it there. There's the little swooshes,
little ramp ups or whatever, and if you actually
wanna see the songs I use and check out Epidemic Music, I'll put some links in
the description below so you can see those. But again, visually, here we can see this. (techno pop music) So my opinion is work
backwards from the drop and so if we want the drop
right when the logo hits, I'm gonna go minus five again 'cause it's coming in a little strong, then I can just pull this
out backwards, make sense? And then what I'll do is I'm
gonna do a little cut there, right click audio gain. I'm gonna go minus 18. So I don't want this music
to overpower my vocals. So then watch this, here we go. If you're looking for some
home office design ideas, you're gonna love this video. My name is Sean Cannell and I've been a full-time entrepreneur for over four years now,
freelancing well before that, and working from a home
office, so in this video-- So a couple of things here again. In editing, I would probably
go in and mix the audio more. I'm gonna turn this audio up a little bit. This could probably have a four. This video. And keep in mind one thing
you wanna look at on Premiere is on the right side, there's waveforms. So see these waveforms right here? You don't want that to ever
peak, so you wanna mix that, you can even get deeper into your audio if you click the audio tab and
see how loud your music is, that's audio three compared
to how loud your voice is and then you think about the human ear, if those levels are the same. Dude, people can't hear you. The music's overpowering. So you may pull the music down. I always like to default
towards the audience being able to hear the video
so I'm actually gonna make once the song gets a little bit louder, I'm gonna take it down to minus
22 here and I'm gonna mix. We'll go back to our our
editing layout here on Premiere, fade those together. Before that and working
from a home office, so in this video, I'm
gonna be breaking down some of my favorite
design and inspirational-- Great, nice, no music,
and then here we go. Some great ideas for your home office. Coming up. (techno pop music)
(camera shuttering) (camera beeps) So as that fade went up, I already had the sound
effects on my intro, boom, the drop happens and then I made the fade a little longer as you can see by, you
can just stretch it out, slide it around to get exactly where you want the quieter
part of the song going up. You could also do this with key frames. We don't even need to worry about those in this particular tutorial, and so then audio gain over here, now I'm gonna go minus 25. I want it to just kinda be a nice bed but more about the vocals of
me talking and so here we go. (techno pop music) Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell here and
welcome to my channel which is all about-- A little too fast so I'm
stretching out that transition. Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell here and
welcome to my channel which is all about going further-- I'm actually gonna turn
the intro down a little bit because of how loud it is compared to me and maybe even turn me up without peeking. I'm sitting a little further
so I'm gonna go seven. All right. Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell here and
welcome to my channel which is all about going further faster-- Okay, so at this point, we could be done. We could just export the video right now but there's a few other
things I might wanna add in, one being maybe a title
so let's just create one and I'll add a couple others later. I'm gonna go legacy title. I know there's a new titling thing on here but I'm just gonna go easy, fast, and so a really quick way
I like to title things is I just create a little
black box here on Premiere and then I'm just gonna go
@SeanCannell and this way, if you wanna give a call-to-action
to your social media, and I'm gonna use the
font that I love to use. It is black italic, and then
let's go white on that font, so now you can see that right in there. Boom, super cool, and that was it. And now that is over here
in our media library, our project and we can pull Sean in. Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell. So hey, what's up, Sean Cannell here. I could add a sound effect the same way 'cause now you're seeing
how layers work, right? So you could add sound right here. These camera clicks? Watch me, I'll mute this. (camera beeping) That's a sound effect, right? It's edited in. So if I want a little
swoosh in, a swoosh out, that's a lot of times what we do. Hey, what's up? Sean Cannell-- So then over here, I
actually do have a plugin. It's called Impact Push. I'll link to it in the description below. It kinda gives you a
nice, not just a heart. See, it gives you a motion
blur on your animations and if I click effects here, I want it to come in through the left. Sean Cannell here and wel-- Wow, that's a long journey all the way, I want it maybe from
the right then, I guess? Sean Cannell here and
welcome to my channel. There you go. So okay. What's up, Sean Cannell here
and welcome to my channel which is all about going
further and faster in life. Okay, so you see that guy and then I can make him push off as well so he comes in from the
left, leaves the left. I don't know why it actually
says right, so whatever. What's up, Sean Cannell here, and welcome to my channel which is all about going
further and faster in life. Okay, so that is basically the full edit which brings us to actually the export and so what I'm gonna do is mark out. I'm saying that I want
everything underneath this to be exported but we're
actually gonna do that in part four of this video
so I'll tell you all about how you can watch that in just a second. All right, so a few
other things that I did after I finished the edit here was I added in some B-roll, right? So the A-roll is on that video
layer one inside of Premiere and then what I did was I
added B-roll on top of that at the points where I talked about it. So I just took a few moments to do that, made a few tweaks to the
audio, and besides that, our next step now is to export the video and upload it to YouTube and that's what we're gonna be doing in part four of this series so if you wanna check
out the whole playlist and that next video, just
click or tap the YouTube card or post it in the comments below. Question Of The Day: What software are you
currently using to edit? Do you edit on your phone,
a computer, a laptop? Let me know. And let me know if you have any other
questions about editing, drop those in the comments below. Smash the like button and I
will see you in the next video. Peace. (smooth techno music)
