LEARN PREMIERE PRO IN 20 MINUTES ! - Tutorial For Beginners

hey what's up guys Christian here for Chris car productions welcome to this tutorial today we learned Adobe Premiere Pro in exactly 20 minutes so as you can see there is a sequence playing a video in the background and this is pretty much what we're gonna be creating today so we're creating titles we're creating sequence or there's videos with transitions cuts there's audio coming up fading in and out at certain points we're gonna be looking at adjustment layers we're gonna be looking at effects so let's get started and let's explore everything you need to know to edit your awesome videos inside of Premiere alright so once Premiere loads up this window will appear and you just gonna want to select a new project so from here you want to select location where you want to save the project in and I'm just gonna pick a folder where I can save this in then you can just name the project whatever you want I'm just gonna name this Premiere Pro tutorial and then once I'm done click OK so this is gonna open up Premiere and all of its four main panels now something I want to mention real quick some of the panels could be in different places depending on what kind of workspace you have so if you go into window workspace if you want to go ahead and select editing that is the one that I'm using it doesn't change what the panels contain and what they're called but it does change where they are positioned on your work area so this is just to accommodate different needs depending on what you're doing in Premiere so the first pallet we're gonna be taking a look at is the project panel and as you can see Premiere is already telling us that we need to import media in our project panel to start so we're gonna do exactly that and there's two ways of doing this you can either double click on your project panel this is gonna open up this window that allows you to browse to the folder that you want to import or the files that you want to import I'm gonna go ahead and hit cancel because what I prefer to do is just go on finder directly just browse to the folder and go to my footage and then once I find the folder just directly just drag and drop that folder into the project panel doesn't change anything it's the same thing but most of the time I already have that folder open on my computer so it's just faster to do it this way so this is gonna create a folder inside the project panel and this is called a bin and this bin contains our footage you can see that it's nicely displayed with thumbnails and a really neat feature in Premiere is that when you go over these clips over these thumbnails you can actually scroll through them and preview what is inside these clips so once you found the clip that you want you can just double click on it and this will open it up in your source monitor now when it comes to this panel you can either minimize it or you can even dock it somewhere else you can see that as I drag around my work area some parts of it become blue but for now I'm just going to minimize it alright so now that we have selected our clip I want to create a sequence from this clip but before I do that I want to go under metadata and I want to check the framerate of this clip just to make sure that it's the framerate that we want for our entire sequence because whenever we're creating a sequence from a clip it's actually going to create the sequence based on the settings of that clip so 23.976 works for me but before I drag this entire clip into my timeline I actually want to just select only a portion of this clip instead of just dumping the whole thing in so maybe I want to get rid of the beginning here and I just want to start it from this point on so I'm gonna hit I on my keyboard and this is gonna set an endpoint for the video and then I'm gonna scroll through here and maybe I don't want the camera to just pan away I want it to stay on the car so that at this point in time I'm gonna hit o on my keyboard and this is gonna set an out point so now you can see that we only have a portion highlighted of the entire clip now once we have done that we are able to drag that portion into our timeline now there's a few buttons on the bottom here to do that but what I usually do is I just grab the image and I drag and drop it onto my timeline area so this is gonna create a new sequence as you can see here as well as in the project panel and it has the same exact settings as our clip in order to check that we can go to sequence sequence settings and you can see that everything is exactly the same as our clip I think you can simply preview what you have in your timeline by hitting spacebar and this will play through what we just imported and you can see that the beginning and end of the clip isn't there it's just a section that we wanted now I'm noticing that there's a few extra clips that we don't really need so what we can do to just get rid of them is to select the first one then hold shift and select the last one and then you can just delete that selection by hitting delete so this won't delete the physical files on your computer it's just gonna get rid of them from your bin and it will just clear up some space all right so let's go ahead and look for another clip that we like and once we find it we'll just do the same thing so we'll double click on it to bring it in our source monitor set something in and out points and then just drag it into our timeline but let's say that this time I don't want to drag both the audio and video of that clip I only want to drag the video portion of your clip or if you notice below the preview area of the source monitor there's a filmstrip icon right next to a waveform icon if you just click the filmstrip icon and drag it into your timeline will only bring in the video portion of your clip instead if you click and drag the waveform icon it will only drag in your audio portion of the clip next up we're going to look at how to trim clips and there's a few simple ways of doing this one of the fastest ways is to go to either end of the clip and dragging it in and this will shorten the clip I'm gonna hit command Z real quick just to undo what we just did so I can show you another way of trimming a clip now we're gonna bring up the razor tool and you can do this by hitting C on your keyboard which is a shortcut for it or you can go on the side toolbar here and you can select a razor tool now with this selected you can actually click on the clips and make cuts in them so you can see that if I go back to my selector tool by hitting V on my keyboard I can do the same thing that I did earlier I can trim them I can move them around so the razor tool is just a quick way to make cuts in the clips without deleting anything so these are pretty much the two main tools that you always use in your timeline the selector tool which is your regular computer error or cursor which is used to select things and move them around or your razor tool which you can bring up with C and that will make cuts and your Clips now another thing I would like to show you is how to apply transitions now again like most other things there's multiple ways of doing this but first let's take a look at the fastest way with a clip selected you can hit command D on your keyboard or control D on a PC and this will add what's called a default transition and usually with premiere default transitions or simple fades now the other way of adding transitions which is a little bit longer is by going under your effects panel now this is down here for me on this workspace for you if you have another workspace selected like I said in the beginning you might find this somewhere else so once we go there we can go under the search bar and we can just type in cross and this will bring up cross this all under the video transitions category now you can just grab that altogether and you can directly go under that folder of video transitions and find all the transitions that you need or even other transitions such as this cross zoom so you just play around with all of these and see what each of them do and if you don't like a transition you can always select that transition and hit delete and that will make it disappear so I'm just gonna add a cross this off to the end here and you can see that as I hover over my Clips you can see that I can not only just add them at the end of a clip but I can also add them between clips and what this does is it fades clips together so I can play here when you can see what that's doing is just fading the two clips and together and then fading the last clip out so we've added some transitions and now I think it's time to add a nice title in the beginning so we need to just make a little bit of room here so with my selector tool I'm just gonna move these clips a little bit forward in time then I'm gonna go under title new title and I'm gonna click on default still you can just name that title whatever you want click OK and now this is gonna open up this window where you can create your title just click and type whatever you want and then of course you can just select portions of the title change the font or really anything else that you want usually I just use neck stuff for my titles it's just a really cool font and then to Center it with the screen you can just right click on the text go to position horizontal Center and this will Center it horizontally and then right click on it again position and vertical Center and now it's perfectly centered with our screen so we can just exit this out we don't even need to save or anything it does it automatically and then if it's not under your project panel its most likely in one of your bins you can see thats in my footage bin and since i don't really want it there i'm just gonna click and drag it on to my main project bin here and then just like anything else we just drag and drop it into our timeline so you can see that it's sort of becoming very intuitive it's pretty much all just drag and drop in a way now we're gonna treat this just like any other clip so we can shorten it and we can select it and hit command D and this will add those default transitions so now we have a title that fades up and fades out but now we have a gap between the title and the rest of the clips so I can right click and select ripple delete and this will move all of my Clips forward all right so now it's time for some effects well maybe it's not the effects that you're thinking of but still it's a pretty cool stuff so we're gonna go back to the our effects panel here we're gonna type in fast color corrector this time and this again is just one example of the many effects that Premiere has but the reason why I'm picking this one is because it's one of the effects that I use the most so then what we can do is just select that effect drag and drop it onto one of our clips and nothing happens and that's because we need to change some of the parameters of that effect so in order to do that we have to go under the effects controls panel and from here we can see all the settings that we can tweak for this effect so we see this giant wheel of color and what this does is pretty much if I just drag this knob into some of these directions you can see that it's changing the all all color of our clip so this could be useful if you're trying to correct some shots that have a wrong white balance or something like that and then if we scroll down you can see that you can also change the brightness the contrast the saturation so this is just one effect of many that you can just drag and drop into your Clips it's just really cool tool to have to just do some color correction on the fly now another effect that we're gonna look at is fast blur and it's just because I already typed in fast and it's already there so we're just gonna blur out this image but what I want you to notice is that it's stacking the effects one after another so we can increase the blurriness here but what if we want to take it a step further and animate how blurry this image is so make it really blurry in the beginning and then decrease the blurriness as the camera moves out of the car so what we can do is go to the beginning of our clip which we don't see right now because it's fading from black and then we want to increase the blurriness and click on the stopwatch icon and you're gonna see that it's going to turn blue and it's gonna create a keyframe in this other section of the effects controls panel now this section is sort of a timeline for the individual Clips so you can have a better understanding of what you're doing so we're gonna move forward in time once we reach a point that we want the blurriness to end we can just bring that blurriness down to zero as soon as I do that you can see that it automatically creates a new keyframe so as I scroll through here you can see that it goes from blurry to sharp now as you can see this isn't the only property that has a stopwatch next to it and the nice thing about premiere just like After Effects is that anything that has a stopwatch next to it you can animate so you can add keyframes just like we did and animate any parameter that has a stopwatch next to it that's really exciting because you can do a lot with just animating keyframes so we've looked at how to add effects onto individual Clips but what if we want to add an effect that stretches over multiple clips so if we go back to our project panel here if we click on this icon it says new item we can actually select adjustment layer among other elements that you can create so you can click OK in this box and then it creates this new element in your project bin now if I drag and drop it onto my timeline on top of my clips and then if I stretch it over all of my clips nothing happens but that's exactly what we want because what we just created is a transparent video layer that will affect everything else that's underneath it so if I add an effect to that adjustment layer all of the clips underneath it are gonna be affected by that effect now I'm gonna add an effect called luma tree and this is just to import a lot file or a LUT file and essentially what a lot file is if you don't know it's just a preset for color grading essentially so it's just a file that contains a bunch of information that changes your footage and makes it look nice essentially and so this is a lot file specific to my a7s and you can see that it makes the footage look a lot better since I shot this in s log too so anyways that's not the point I'm sorry from confusing you this but the main point is is that we're selecting an effect onto our adjustment layer and it's affecting all of the clips underneath it so you can see the before and after as I toggle this video track on and off and by the way is a perfect time to mention this you can see that you can toggle on and off video tracks with this eye icon over here and there's the same thing for audio so pretty much you can mute a track or you can even solo a track if you just want to listen to that one track instead of listening to everything else that's in your timeline and now since this effect that we added to this adjustment layer is sort of darkened everything else up we could go back to our effects controls panel for that first clip and we can brighten it up by using the fast color corrector and then we can go to the second clip and we can always just add another fast color corrector to that second clip so that we can also brighten it up just a little bit well this can get pretty annoying if you have several clips in your timeline and you pretty much want to do the same type of adjustments for each clip then it's just much better to copy the effect so you can go on the effects controls select the effect hit command C to copy the effect or ctrl C on a PC that you can go to the next clip that doesn't have that effect and it command V or control V for PC and that will paste that effect onto that clip this is pretty awesome if you have certain parameters that you've tweaked on let's say this fast color corrector for example and you want all the shots to have that same brightness then instead of just going back to the effects panel and just you know dragging and dropping it for each one and making sure that all the parameters match this is a much faster way of just copying one effect and pasting over multiple clips and then if you want to you can always go back and adjust the individual parameters of each clip without affecting any of the other ones alright so one of the last things that we're gonna be looking at before we render this is audio so we're just gonna add a song to this sequence and then I'm just gonna drag and drop it into my project panel just like with any other thing you can double-click on it and this will bring it up in your source monitor where you can preview the song you can set in and out points so pretty much just like what we did with the video clips now you can see that the filmstrip icon is grayed out because obviously we don't have a video portion of this element so the only thing that we can drag and drop into our timeline is the audio so we're going to click on that waveform icon and drag and drop our audio layer onto our audio track mine now one quick thing that I want to mention is if you drag and drop an element over anything else that's already in your timeline it will overwrite and delete that element okay so if I go right to the left here and I scroll up with my mouse you can see that it expands the waveform for this audio layer this is pretty useful when you're editing especially when you're editing to the beat of a track but another reason why this is useful is because if you go over to the center of it where the left channel splits off with the right channel you can see that there's actually a line that you can bring up and down and this is pretty much the volume of your track so if I bring it up it makes it louder if I bring it down it makes it quieter but what if we want to fade the song up or maybe even make it softer in certain parts this is where keyframes come in handy again we can go under the effects controls panel and we can expand the volume property of this audio layer and we can make a keyframe at this point in time then we go back to the beginning and we can scrub this number all the way down to negative 287 decibels which for premiere is complete quiet so now if I preview this you can see that the audio is fading up you might not be able to hear it but you can see from the levels that it's fading up so then let's say that we want this part to go a little bit software or louder then again same thing we're just gonna add another keyframe then we're gonna move a little bit forward in time and then we can just make it maybe a little bit louder and then we can maybe go a little bit further add another keyframe and forward in time near the end and bring it all the way down now something else you've noticed what we're adding all these keyframes is that the horizontal line that represented the volume has now changed because we've keyframed how loud and how soft it gets and the nice thing about seeing this line is that you can actually click and drag it down and change the volume this way as well you can even click on the actual keyframes or these sort of points and you can move them forward and backwards in time make them louder there's a ton of flexibility this way and saves a ton of time instead of just deleting and making new keyframes you can just move the keyframes that you already made around and then again just to cut all the excess we're gonna use our razor tool and cut here in the end then go back to our selector tool up here and then click on the rest of it and just hit delete so with this we are actually done we're almost ready to render and obviously you want to preview what you have before you render just to make sure and by the way to enlarge certain windows you can hover over them with your cursor and hit the tilde key on your keyboard and this applies to the preview window as well as any other panel in Premiere so I can go to my effects controls panel hit the tilde key that will make that fullscreen go to my timeline hit the tilde key and make that full screen as well and Ottilia key if you don't know what it is which I had no idea what it was for a very long time it's that squiggly looking symbol on the top left corner of your keyboard anyways if we're ready to export we can go under file export media and this new window is gonna pop up with a lot of words and numbers but we're gonna focus on a few specific parts the first thing that we want to change is the format now in my case I actually don't want to change I want to leave it to H point 264 and if you have it to anything else just make sure to change it to that nine times out of ten you gonna want to export to H point 264 as far as a preset I usually leave mine to match source high bitrate but if you're exporting to a phone or anything else for YouTube or something like that it's nice because you have a lot of presets already set up for you now going down here you can see that the video width and height are correct 1920 by 1080 and then over here the bitrate is pretty much to the compression quality so I usually put mine to ten or twelve but just a heads up YouTube usually compresses it down to eight anyways now the output name you can name it whatever you want and this also allows you to select what folder you want to save it in to and hit save and then you can hit Q if you're doing multiple renders or different versions of this render but for us I'm just gonna hit export and that is it we have reached the 20-minute mark right on the dot concluding this long or short tutorial depending on how you see it I open it sound too confusing at times and I really hope that this tutorial helped you learn everything you need to know in order to get started with Premiere Pro and if you did enjoy the video please hit like and it's your first time on my channel please subscribe I make all kinds of weird videos of visual effects tutorials and filmmaking tips if you're into any of that check out my other videos and if you want to see more of the footage that we were using today go ahead and check out the main video where I explored an abandoned Factory in Italy and I shot it with my a 7 s on the Ronin M so it's definitely an interesting video but you know go ahead and check it out if you're interested in all that kind of stuff anyways my name is kris trini for cruise core productions I'll see you next time

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Length: 20min 47sec (1247 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 02 2015