- [Roberto] Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake
of robertoblake.com, helping you create
something awesome today.
Welcome to another Premiere Pro tutorial.
Today we're gonna be going into Instagram stories,
and how to make Instagram stories
through video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro.
I'm gonna show you guys exactly how you can do this.
With Instagram stories, you get 15 seconds
to make pretty much whatever you want.
I'm gonna show you how you can go ahead
and do that a little bit fancy in Premiere Pro.
So, let's go ahead and go to file,
and let's go ahead and create a new sequence,
and I've already made a custom sequence
for Instagram stories.
I made this 1920 high, and it's going to be 1080 wide.
This is basically the reverse of HD video.
So it's basically turning it tall, vertical instead.
Vertical video is what you want to do on Instagram stories,
instead of a traditional horizontal video that
we do for wide screen.
So, that's what you're gonna want to do.
You can actually change that here in settings
whenever you make a new sequence,
and you can see that's how I approached it.
So 1080 is your horizontal.
920 is your vertical, yep.
It's exactly the opposite of HD.
So, we're gonna go ahead and click okay here.
This gives us a new sequence with our video tracks,
and what I'm gonna is I want to kind of show off
the Zhiyun crane.
You guys saw I did a review of that,
or rather an unboxing of that recently.
So, let's go ahead and get some footage.
Alright, so I've got my in and out points
that I want for that.
That's two seconds of footage.
I don't want the audio.
So, I'm just gonna drag the video here to the timeline,
and I'm gonna tell it to keep my existing sets.
I don't want it to change to match the footage.
I want to keep my existing settings
so that I can go ahead and adjust this.
Now, a trick for filming, by the way,
is when you're not filming with your phone,
and you film with a camera, if you really know
that you're gonna do Instagram stories,
you could actually just turn your camera vertical,
and you could get amazing footage.
I'll probably do a video about actually filming
Instagram stories with a DSLR.
So, definitely stay tuned for that,
but in the meantime, what we're gonna do here
is we're gonna click on this video,
and we're just going to expand it so that
it kind of fits with our frame here.
So, that's what you're gonna want to do,
and you're gonna want to pick your videos
carefully based on what will look good there.
So, as you can see, that actually works out
really well for me.
I'm gonna go ahead and pick another clip here.
I'm just gonna see how this ends up looking.
I think this is actually gonna come out pretty okay.
Alright, not bad.
I kind of actually want this to be
a little bit closer here, 'cause I want it
to feel different.
Alright, so that's pretty good.
There's some more footage that I want of this.
Actually, this is probably perfect,
and I already have good footage here.
So, I'll go ahead and bring that into our timeline.
This is perfect.
So, we'll go ahead and make that bigger.
We'll move and adjust this.
Great.
And that fits with what we're doing here
for this Instagram story.
Alright, and let's go ahead and we can figure this out.
Alright, so you can see that that's actually
pretty ideal overall in terms of
what we would want from this.
Alright, so we've got some pretty good footage here already.
Let's go ahead and grab a few more quick clips.
Alright, and I'm just gonna arrange these a little bit
different here, and I think that that's
pretty much all we need.
So I think I have the complete timeline
of what I would like to actually be here.
So, that's actually solid.
I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna put
a dip to black transition here at the very end,
just because that's normally what I tend to do,
and I like that.
So this gives us just under, or right around,
let's go ahead and trim that a little bit,
and we'll go ahead and we'll trim
this transition down a little bit, too.
Want this right at about 15 seconds.
It can probably just stand a trim here
just a little bit to make sure.
Alright, so we've got 15 seconds of really good footage
for our Instagram story.
That is perfect.
Now what I want to do is I want to add some music to this.
So, I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna go
to my music library, and I'm gonna pull up some music.
(hip hop music)
Alright, I found the music that I want.
I'm gonna go ahead and drag that to an audio track.
I'm gonna use the cut tool.
I'm gonna use this razor tool,
and I'm gonna cut that, and then I'm gonna use
exponential fade to just kinda fade it out here,
and I think this is going to work perfectly.
(hip hop music)
Yes, that actually works out perfectly.
That is exactly what I need.
So, I'm gonna save that as my Instagram story.
This is just great.
I'm going to use control M.
I'm gonna go to export this, and so in terms of the settings
I absolutely would want to save these settings.
In this case, I've already made a preset
called Instagram stories, and what that does
is it makes sure that this is our 1080 by 1920.
I have my target bit rates and everything
set here for good quality.
You can tell this isn't gonna be a very large file at all,
and I'm just gonna save this as an Instagram story.
(computer keys tapping)
Alright.
So I'm just gonna hit export,
and this is gonna go over to Adobe Media Encoder.
It's gonna render in the background.
It's literally gonna take seconds,
and that's pretty much it.
So now you know how you can edit your own Instagram stories.
This didn't take very long.
Again, if I wasn't showing you guys how to do this,
I could have probably done it in all of like
two or three minutes.
In the future, I think I'll show you guys
how to edit Instagram stories on some phone apps,
because maybe that could be helpful to you.
So, if that's a tutorial you'd be interested in,
definitely let me know.
I'd love to show you guys how to edit Instagram stories,
and Instagram videos for your mobile devices.
So, if you guys have suggestions about that,
or apps that you want me to review,
let me know in the comments section.
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Take care.
(hip hop music)