( "Beautiful Dream" from Soundstripe plays, link below)
Hi everyone and welcome to
Premiere Gal! If you've never use
Premier Pro before and you want
to start using it
this video is for you.
So let's get into it.
To get Premiere Pro,
first you need to sign up for an
Adobe Creative Cloud account.
If you're an individual, it costs
$19.99 per month
for a Premiere Pro CC.
But if you're a student or a
teacher you can get all creative
cloud apps for $19.99.
So after you register, download
the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop
app and after it's downloaded
open it up and log in with your
Adobe ID that you created online.
And this is where you can install
Premiere Pro on your desktop
computer or any other apps that
you have in your Adobe Creative
Cloud plan. After Premiere Pro is
downloaded.
Open up the Premiere Pro app and
here is where you will be
prompted to create your first
project.
So first choose a name for your
project and save the project file
into a folder on your computer.
Premiere pro will default to your
computers documents folder as the
save location.
But if you have a hard drive
smaller than 500 gigabytes I'd
recommend getting a portable
solid state drive (SSD).
Because videos can take up a lot
of space and solid state drives
are much faster than external
hard drives and because it's
portable
it means you can take your files
with you if you travel and work.
Also it may seem obvious to say
but file organization is the most
important part of editing.
I actually use a folder system
template for each project I do.
I've included a link to download
this template which you can use
in your projects and to follow
along with this tutorial.
There are three main folders in
this template I have "01 Project Files"
which is where I save the
Premier Pro project in any other
project files I work on for the
project like Photoshop or After
Effects files.
Then there is "02 Media" which
is where I store photos videos
graphics and music.
And lastly I have a folder here
called "03 output" which is where I
store all the exported versions
of my video which we will get to
later on.
So let's save the project into
"01 Project files, into the Premiere
Pro project folder and so this is
what Premiere Pro looks like.
Down here is the project panel
and here is where you put all of
your media files your video
photos music and audio. To the
right is the timeline where you can see and visualize all your
files in time.
And above that is where you can
watch what is in your timeline
And to the left,
there are a couple of tabs.
The first tab here is the source tab is
where you can preview clips from
the project panel and in the
effects tab is where you can add where you can preview clips from
effects and animation to your
files.
So now that we're inside of
Premiere Pro the first step is to
import the media so you can start
editing. In the media folder you
downloaded from the project
templates.
I've included some stock video
files that you can use in this
tutorial. To import all you have
to do is drag this video folder
into the project panel.
That's it.
But if you're importing let's say
from an AVCHD camcorder you
first need a copy over the
contents from the camcorder's card
to your project folder.
Then you can go to the media
browser which is near the project
panel and find the folder that
you imported the card contents to.
And then once you're in that
folder you can hit "cmd+a" on a
Mac or "Ctrl+a" on a PC to
highlight all the clips and then
you can right click and select
import and the project panel here
is like your home base and
Premier Pro.
It's where you can see all your
media, the photos, the videos
everything that you've imported
and you can search for media
using the search field. You can see here that we have the video
clips from the video folder here
and if you double click on one of
the video clips it will appear in
the source panel or you can preview it and play it back.
You can also expand this
project panel out to see all
sorts of information such as
resolution, duration, frame rate
and much more.
And you can also move the
description column over so you
can see it better next to the
clips and add reference notes so
you can have more detail on the
clip.
You can also change it to the
icon view so you can use a visual
reference to identify your media
and increase the size of the icon with the slider.
Also at the bottom of this panel
you can create new bins to organize your media and you
click on the new item icon where
you can create a
whole lot more such as
adjustment layers, color mattes,
captions and we won't get to all
of these in this video but we
will get to sequences which leads
us to the next section on
timelines.
When you go to select the new
item icon from the project panel
and select sequence it will open
up a new sequence panel and the
sequence basically creates a
timeline from which you can start
building your video.
There are tons of sequence presets
to choose from so be sure to
select a preset that best matches
the frame size and the frame rate
of your footage.
Since I use a DSLR, I'm
going to select DSLR 1080p 30
frames per second.
I have a whole playlist on how to
customize and make specific
sequences for social media
platforms including square
sequences which I'll link to
below.
So here I'm going to call it
rough cut but you can call it anything you like.
Like "my first video" and after
it's created it will appear in
your project panel here and it
will also open up as a timeline
to the right.
It's called a timeline because of
the time ruler at the top which
will help you see how long your
video duration is and make edits.
There's also a timecode here on left upper corner of the
timeline that shows you where the
play-head position is and this
here's the play-head and as you
move it you will see that the
time code changes here and then
to the left of the timeline is a a toolbar
with tools that can
help you edit.
So now let's place some video in
the timeline.
There are a couple of ways to add
clips to your timeline.
Not one way is the correct way so
the first way that I used is to
select a clip from the project
panel and then just drag it into
the timeline.
You'll see that the top layer
here is for video.
There's a video layer 1, 2, and 3
and below the middle line is for
audio so you can see there's also
an audio layer 1, audio layer 2, audio layer 3
you can add your video and audio files to to any
layer that you want and if you
add more than 3 tracks in your
timeline it will automatically
create a new layer, such as v4, v5 and so on for you.
If for some reason only the audio
layer is seen in the timeline or
the video payer is not seen and
you can see the audio only.
Make sure that your audio and
video source patching is turned
on.
And I actually have a full
tutorial thats free already on
what Source Patching is.
So if you're having this issue
and you want to learn about
source patching be sure to watch
the video link in the description
box below.
So if your video has audio it
will automatically come with it.
If you hit the space bar it will
play it and you can see what is
in your timeline from the program
panel directly above.
You can also de-link the audio
from the video at any time you
can hit control+L on a PC
Or command+L
on a mac to de-link them and you can
delete the audio track or the
video track from each other if
you like.
Then you can use the Razor tool
to cut a clip at any moment.
Make sure to turn the snap tool
on so that way when you move the
play head to the location to make
a cut the Razor tool will snap to
the play-head and cut perfectly there.
Once you make a cut,
then you can select the portion
of the clip that you do not want
any more and simply press the
delete key to get rid of it and
of course you can click and drag
the clips to anywhere in the
timeline as you like.
The second way to add clips to
the timeline is by first double
clicking on the clip from the
project panel and then from the source panel you can scrub to the
moment you want the clip to start
and press "I" to mark in and then
scrub to the moment you want it
to end and hit "O" to mark out then
click anywhere on the video and
drag into the timeline.
So once you use these methods to
add multiple video clips into
your timeline you can also reduce
the duration of clips in the
timeline by setting the play head
as a cut point and then you can click the end of the clip and
roll it back in to meet the play head.
So it shortens the clip like so
tool to draw a rectangular
marquee around multiple clips at
once in the timeline and you can you can also use the selection
move them together.
And if you ever need to increase
the timeline size just move the
scroll bar at the bottom like so.
So now onto the next step which
is adding effects and transitions
to your clips in your timeline. If
you right click at the beginning
or ends of clips or at any cut
point you will get a drop down
menu that will enable you to
apply a default transition and
Premiere Pro's default transition is called a cross dissolve which
if you add it to the clip it will
actually make the clip fade in or
fade out.
Let me play it back from the
program panel here and you can
see that it dissolves from black
to the full image.
Now let's apply another cross
dissolve to the last clip at the
end and click the end of the
transition to drag it out to be
longer or shorter in duration.
You can also select the
transition and from the effects
controls panel up in the upper
left you can control the duration
of the transition as well.
Once you're ready to start
editing your first Premiere Pro
project on your own.
I'd recommend using assets from
Envato Market.
There's tons of music, sound
effects, editing templates, and
stock video that will help you
complete your projects.
If you go to the links in the
description box below it'll
include some of my favorite
templates and stock video that I
use.
There are of course lots of other
transitions and effects you can
apply.
So when you go to the effects
panel you will see that there are
many folders of effects.
You can also search for effects
so let's say you wanted to add a
white transition.
Just search for wipe and then
once you find it you can drag and
drop the wipe transition between
clips and if you play it back you
can see that the video
transitions to the next video
with a left to right wipe in the
program panel.
If you select the transition you
can also reverse it to be right
to left using the effects
controls and of course make it
faster by reducing the size of
the transition. For effects,
let's say you want to make a clip
out of focus to and to in focus over
time you can search for a Gaussian Blur
and drop it on the clip
you will see that nothing happens.
That's because you actually need
to go to effects controls.
And here you can find the effect
and add blurriness.
Let's say 75 and then if you want
it to change over time to be
In focus you have to use what is
called a key framing and keyframing
is a way to create animation.
You need to set a "point A" as a
starting point of the animation
and "Point B" as the end.
So let's create our "point a" by
clicking the stopwatch icon next
to blurriness and now just to the
right you can see that this
created our first keyframe.
Point A.
Now move the play head forward
let's say about 1 second and it
could be however much you want it
doesn't have to be one second and then to set our point B.
Do not click the stopwatch again.
Instead you need to change the
value of the blurriness that you
want to change it to.
So let's change it back to 0.
And when we do that it will
automatically create a keyframe
at the play head and that is our
Point B.
Now when we play it back you can
see it goes from blurry to
focused over time from point A to
Point B and basically you're just
animated the blurriness to change
value over time. You can apply the
same keyframing method to any
effect you apply to a clip as
well and you can apply key
framing to the motion controls
up here at the top.
And this leads us to motion.
If you ever want to change the
position, scale, rotation or
opacity of a clip in your
timeline you can do that here and
there are two ways to do it.
One you can hit this little
rectangle icon here and then you
are free to move the clip in the
program panel and you can use the
transform bounding box here to
scale it up or down. If you do not
like this method,
you can actually change the
numerical values more precisely
in the effects controls panel
here.
There is no correct way because
it's all based on your personal
preference and of course you can
adjust the opacity here to make
the clip transparent or not to
undo any changes you make here
and the effects controls panel
just click on the reset button
right here on the right.
There are so many different
there's also effects that you can purchase and if you look at my
effect's panel you will see that
I have a ton of effects that you effects that you can apply and
may not have and a lot of these
effects I use and most of my
videos one of which is the film
impact transitions.
I have a full tutorial on how to
use film impact transitions and
I've linked to it in the
description box below.
Next, what if you want to add text
your video.
Click on the type tool from the
toolbar and then click and type
in the program panel and you
create a text you will see that a
graphics layer was also added to
the timeline. To edit the text
further you need to use what is
called The Essential graphics
Panel which is a new addition to
Premiere Pro as of April 2017.
So first you need to go and
select the selection tool.
And then go up to a window and
select a Essential graphics to open
up the panel.
Alternatively you can select a
workspace here at the top.
And in this case you would select
graphics to open up the Essential
Graphics Panel.
So from that panel you can change the text font and you can also
use these alignment tools here to
recenter the text horizontally
and vertically.
So it's right in the center.
I'd recommend clicking and moving the toolbar panel to be closer
to the Essential graphics panel so
so it's easier to access and then
when you click on the pen tool here
in the toolbar and hold you can
see that there are other shapes
to choose from.
Let's select a rectangle and draw
1 in the program panel just by
clicking and dragging, the default
color is red but you can remove
this file if you want by checking
the box or changing the color by
clicking the color box and you
can also add a stroke and adjust
the width of that stroke as well.
You can use the selection tool
from the toolbar to move the
shape around the program panel
but if you want it to be
completely centered I would
recommend using these alignment
tools.
You can also select this new item
icon from within the essential
graphics panel to import clip
players such as photos.
You can also import movie files
or logos like ..png files or .psd
files.
Let's add in the Premiere Gal
logo then from the panel here you
can resize it manually by typing
in a new value and you can use
the selection tool to move it
into the place that you like.
There is really so much you can
do with the new essential graphics panel
and I have a full course on how to use the essential
to animate
the layers, to make shapes respond to
text size, and how to save them as
motion graphics templates (.mogrt). So I'd
encourage you to watch it and a
link to the full course below.
If you want to alter the exposure
contrast or the color of your
video image you can open up the
Lumetri color panel by going
up to window.
Lumetri Color and here you
can perform basic correction to
make adjustments to the images
such as the exposure, the
contrast, the highlights, the
blacks, and whites, and much more.
I have a full free tutorial on
how to use the Lumetri color
panel with the Lumetri scopes
which is another window you have
to open it.
That helps you read color and
light through graphs.
Definitely watch this you can
understand how color correction
works in Premiere Pro.
So after you add all the clips to
your timeline as well as the
transitions and effects you can
export your video to share. To do so,
Go to file > export > media and here
in the export window double click
here and select a destination
where it will be saved.
In our case I'd recommend saving
it into the output folder from
the template folder I gave you.
As for file format, Premier Pro
makes it pretty easy with presets,
for example, if you're sharing to
a specific platform it has
presets for a variety of
resolutions.
Since I primarily use youtube I
can choose YouTube 1080 because
that is the size of our sequence
we setup in the beginning of the
tutorial.
There's also a publish tab so
if you want to login to the
social platform you are
publishing to.
You can add a description and a
title and then premiere pro will
auto publish the video to the
platform for you.
Then at the bottom of the export
window you can export here to
export using Premier Pro and so
that's all there is to it
to get started editing in
Premiere Pro. And if you want to
learn more on how to create more
effects in Premier Pro you can
watch more of my youtube
tutorials here on this channel
for free.
And if you want to master
Premiere Pro Essential Sound and
Essential Graphics you can take
my 2 hour courses at Pluralsight.
Thanks again for watching you
guys and I'll see you on
Wednesday for my #WhatsWednesday video
on what do camera lens hoods do?
And on Friday for a #FridayFX
tutorial to learn how to
create a cinematic look in your
video.
Thanks again for watching and
I'll see you all very soon.