Hello, welcome to this new tutorial dedicated to Adobe Premiere Pro, one
of the best video editors you can use to make professional videos by
combining media files and adding effects, transitions, adjustments and
great pieces of text. It is part of the Creative Cloud bundle for both
Windows and MacOS under a subscription plan.
As you open Premiere Pro its Home Screen shows up with the list of your
latest projects made. On the left side click on Open Project to browse for
others you have or go to New Project to start from a new one. At this point
the Import page opens, where you can set the project name and its location
on top and select the first media files to import on it.
Click on Create to switch to the main Edit interface, as you can see from
the top left corner. This is the place where you build your video with
the timeline at the bottom and the several panels that change depending on
the workspace chosen from the top right corner.
In this video we will stick with the default Editing workspace, but you can
always retrieve any panel from the Window tab.
Any Premiere Pro project collects several independent pieces of videos
called Sequences. In this video we will work with a single one for
simplicity.
Make sure to set the correct video and audio options from Sequence,
Sequence Settings... Pick the right template from Editing Mode or select
Custom to set the options on your own including frame rate, frame size,
pixel aspect ratio, sample rate and much more.
To import other media files just drag and drop these inside the sequence or
switch to the Import page to select these and import them from the Project
panel on the left.
All these files are collected within the timeline as blocks called clips.
Videos and images inside Video Tracks (with V letter) in blue and pink
color respectively. Sound files inside Audio Tracks (with an A letter) in
green color, complete with their sound waveforms, such as one per stereo
channel.
To check your timeline content use your mouse wheel to scroll in time and
hold down the ALT (or the Option) key to zoom in and out around your
cursor.
The Program panel above shows your sequence content where the blue playhead
is placed. Click once on the timeline to check different frames or drag it
to show frames sequentially. Whereas use the player to playback in real
time, adjusting quality with Playback Resolution in case this results
laggy.
Now let's see how to edit clips with the Selection Tool on the left.
Click on any clip to select it. Drag it to move it in time or in another
track. Video frames and audio are linked together by default - to make
these independent just right-click on these and go to Unlink.
In case clips overlap in time the Program panel above shows the clip on
the top video track in front of all other clips lower in position.
To adjust the duration of any clip just drag its edges. This cuts content
from video and audio files unless you enable the Rate Stretch Tool (or R
key). With this tool you extend or shorten any clip freely by changing its
speed rate instead of its content. So extended clips will be played slower
with a rate lower than 100% and shorter clips will become faster with a
rate more than 100%.
To split any clip enable the Razor Tool (or C key) and click on it!
You can cut, copy and paste any selected clip by right-clicking on it. Go
to Clear to remove the clip definitely.
Use CTRL (or CMD) and Z to undo. You can also open the History panel to
manage all your actions made.
On the left side you have several buttons to manage each track. With the
eye button you can hide and show the track content; with the Mute (or M)
button you can mute any audio track and use the Solo (or S) button to play the
current audio track solo by muting all the others.
You can also click on the Record button to record from your microphone.
From Edit, Preferences, Audio Hardware... set the input source to use and
then click on the Record button to start recording on such track.
With the lock button you can prevent any modification on the current track
so that you can't move or edit any of its clips inside.
With the Mix track at the bottom you can tune the master volume such as the
audio level coming from the entire sequence. This is very useful in case
the Audio Meter on the right shows red levels of distortion.
To add or remove any track just right-click on any empty space on the left.
To adjust the clip content you can open the Effect Controls panel on the
left. This lists all the properties for the clip selected, depending on its
kind. Images and video frames show Motion to set position, scale and
inclination as well as Opacity to set any transparency level. In particular
you can uncheck Uniform Scale to correct the aspect ratio of the clip and
remove its black bars if you have them.
On audio clips you can adjust volume level and channel panning between the
left and the stereo channel.
Click on the fx button to hide or show your changes and use the Revert
button on the right to reset a specific property.
From the Window tab you can open further panels to adjust the clip content.
With Essential Sound you can select any audio clip to apply audio
adjustments between an audio Dialogue, Music, Sound Effect and Ambience.
Open Lumetri Color to apply color corrections and color grading. Add color
filters, correct brightness and contrast, make adjustments, set color
curves and HSL. These properties will also be available from the Effect
Controls.
To add special effects and transitions you can open the Effects panel in
the bottom left corner. Browse for any video or audio effect and drag it
onto any clip to add it, correcting its properties from the Effects Controls
panel while checking the preview. To remove this effect just right-click on
it and go to Clear.
You can also add video and audio transitions to start or end a clip or go
from one clip to another with special effects. Pick any and drag and drop
it on any clip edge or between two adjacent clips. You can also drag the
transition edges to adjust its length and so its speed rate. Make sure to
select it to set its properties from the Effect Controls panel. To remove
it, right-click on it.
With Premiere Pro you can also add vector objects such as regular shapes,
custom drawings and pieces of text.
Click on the Shape tool and hold on it to select the regular shape to drag
and drop by clicking on the preview. Whereas choose the Pen tool to make
custom drawings, dropping straight segments by clicking on the preview and
Bézier curves by clicking and dragging. Close the drawing to apply it.
Enable the Type Tools to drop horizontal or vertical pieces of text. Click
and drag on the preview to drop a text box that will delimit your text
inside. Click elsewhere to apply.
All these vectors are collected within pink clips that can be edited like
the media clips just seen. With the Selection Tool you can also select each
single vector drawing from the preview to move, scale and rotate these as
you need.
The Effects Controls on the left shows all the properties for this vector
clip, grouped by single drawings inside. This allows you to adjust text
properties, fill and stroke color, add outer or inner stroke, apply shadow
or use Mask with Shape to extract a new shape from an overlapped region
made of two vector objects.
Consider that most of these properties are collected inside the Essential
Graphics panel as well. This also includes a Browse section where you can
drag and drop outstanding text from templates ready to use.
Now let's see how to save and render! To save your project and all of its
sequences go to File and then to Save As... This saves as a .PRPROJ file that
you can open any time.
Whereas to render the final video resulted from your sequence open the
Export page from the top left corner. Set the video name, where to save it
and pick the right Preset for video and audio options. You can fully
customize these at the bottom, including frame size, frame rate, audio
format, sample rate, bitrate and much more. Make sure to click on the right
checkmark to match the same properties of the sample files used.
On the right side check the content you are exporting. On Range pick
Entire Source to render the entire sequence or choose Custom to select
the specific part of the video to export by dragging the blue markers you
see above. Finally click on Export to export your video!
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