what is up ladies and gentlemen my name is Tyler Babin I'm a photographer a
filmmaker and a youtuber based in New York City I'm also a 2019 Adobe Creative
resident and today I'll be giving you guys a quick crash course on some of my
favorite tips and tricks for editing in Adobe Premiere rush you'll be able to
use all these new skills to develop your own remix trailer for the new film
terminator dark fate
two days ago I had this not a simple life no it's a nightmare never seen one
like you before almost human I am a human how do we win
by keeping your life so what you guys just watched was my personal remix for
the Terminator trailer and I'm gonna break down everything that went into
that but Before we jump straight into rush I want to give you guys an idea of
my overall file structure once you get all your assets downloaded there's gonna
be a lot of video clips a lot of music options voiceover sound effects there's
gonna be so many things you need to keep organized and in my opinion organization
is really the name of the game when it comes to any creative endeavor but video
especially so here we are and premiere rush we're gonna minimize this really
quickly so I can show you guys my overall file structure if you look at
this folder right here terminator dark fate this is where all my assets for the
edit are gonna live if we open up this folder you'll see I break everything
down into seven different subfolders there's my project files all of my
footage my audio for music and sound effects graphics any photos or stills
that might come out of the Edit and exports I always have one extra folder
called everything else for any miscellaneous project files that may
come up throughout the Edit so once we jump into Rush we're gonna want to
create a new project we'll go down to the bottom left project name and we'll
name it terminator dark Fate remix we also want to make sure that we sync with
Creative Cloud this does two really awesome things for one it auto saves a
backup that we always have access to and two it allows the project to be
accessible over all my devices that are synced with Creative Cloud so whether I
start a project on my desktop my phone or my iPad I can pick up the project
where I left off on any other device I love this whenever I get pulled away
from my main computer whether I'm on a train or sitting on my roof
I can always be working on the Edit once we have our project named in sync with
the Creative Cloud you want to go into our footage and start pulling in our
first scene so if you want to select all the clips in the order you want them
imported you're more than welcome to do that for me I know that I want all this
footage to be imported chronologically so I'm just gonna click command a to
select all and build out my first timeline so we'll click command a this
selects 39 clips and we'll go down here to click create it's very easy to get
overwhelmed whenever you see a timeline with this many different clips in it so
I always recommend to bring in your first batch at a time work on it a
little bit and then you can always bring in other clips later now remember you
only have 60 seconds to work in your edit so make sure that you're working
specifically with only the clips you want and don't make the edit too busy if
we click back over to my previous edit this is what the skeleton of the project
looks like you'll see I have two primary video tracks track one has all of my
primary footage and then track two has any cutaway footage or if I'm using
something like a flicker transition I'll have additional frames above the primary
video feed if we take a look at my audio breakdown track one has all of my main
music audio that I'm using track two is dialogue and voice over and track three
is all of my sound effects fun fact I actually love creating sound effects
inside of premiere rush itself it allows me to avoid having to go buy extra sound
packs or having to leave premiere rush I need to stay completely in the flow I'll
show you more on that later but first let's talk transitions so you'll notice
over here on the right panel you have things like motion graphics titles
transitions color correction speed and audio editing as well as the ability to
crop and transform your footage all within rush we're gonna start out with
transitions Russ has a few great transitions built
in not only does it allow me to very quickly add transitions by dragging them
down I can even zoom in and change the length of the transition what's great is
you can also use these effects on audio so for instance if we look at this audio
clip right here where the music comes in all the audio fading in and out here
take these off all you have to do is grab your cross-dissolve
and drop it straight onto the audio and drag it out for whatever your desired
length is one of my other favorite little transitions that I like to use is
the flicker effect this is when you take a few frames of footage place it above
the main a roll and allow it to one frame at a time
tick back and forth and it's a technique that I used a lot in this trailer so I
want to quickly break down how this works
if we come over to our project bin and drag in a new piece of footage it'll
automatically snap to our playhead and we can start editing it click over one
frame come down to select your cut tool and it'll make a cut you can then move
one frame forward cut again one frame forward cut again you can also just
click your keyboard shortcut the letter S to make this happen instantly I like
to cut five frames eliminate these and then every other frame delete so now we
have one frame and then the black frame another frame of the top video black
frame and so on and so forth it creates an effect it looks like this and there
you have it that's a quick and easy way to add a
flicker transition inside of rush for a more dynamic look now while we're on
this title screen of this November I want to show you how you can utilize
motion graphics templates to actually create custom titles throughout your
trailer all you have to do is go to the right hand side and click this letterbox
T once you're here you'll see all the built in motion graphics templates and
titles the rush has included feel free to experiment with these as much as you
can and I love that Adobe stock is also integrated so if you click over here
more titles you'll have tons of other options that you can click through and
find a style that works for you I love the look of this one right here so I'm
going to select it and drag it straight into my composition once we drop this
title in we can edit it to say whatever we want
all I'll do is double click and replace it with this November once we select it
we can actually scale this way down to match the other title we'll move it up
just a bit so now that we have our title design the way we want we're just gonna
drag it down into our main timeline we'll drag over our flicker effect as
well as the sound effects below and now we can delete this original title and
this is what our effect looks like
another great built-in feature of Rush is the ability to color grade all in the
program so if we go up here to our color adjustment panels and select a clip we
can make adjustments so for instance on this clip I added SL Fuji this is with
no effect this is with the effect back on it adds a little bit more punch and
grit to the footage and to me makes it a little bit more exciting feel free to
experiment with different colors and effects and see what matches the mood
you liked the most one of my favorite things is to add in a preset and then
adjust the intensity slider down here to make it a little bit more understated
so finally one of my absolute favorite things to do in rush is utilize the
voiceover feature if you look down here at our audio tracks all of them have a
microphone this allows you to immediately record voiceover directly
into the program now this is very useful if you are actually just recording audio
but I love to make different sound effects with my mouth that I can
incorporate into my edit so for instance all of the flicker effects and ramps
that you hear throughout my trailer we're all recorded in the app now this
is going to look a little ridiculous but I'll show you what I mean so if I select
the microphone down here I can make a swish effect that I can use as a ramp to
bring up the intensity in certain moments of the Edit we'll just click
record
it looks funny it sounds funny but it's actually a really cool effect now if we
pull this out we can hear how it is on its own and we can actually edit this
audio to make it sound even better if we go over to our audio panel drop-down we
can switch it over to a voice effect which gives us a bunch of different
options I want to reduce the echo a little bit and I also want to enhance
the speech by setting it to male now if we listen to it again we get a really
intense sharp ramp-up that we can use to emphasize a special moment so in the
opening that's exactly what I did you'll see here we have voiceover 5 it's a
short sharp moment but whenever you combine it with the music it really adds
to the moment so there you have it those are my five favorite tricks and
techniques to use about editing an adobe premiere rush now I can't wait to see
what you guys make I highly encourage you to take all the amazing assets that
both Paramount and Adobe have provided to you and push the creative boundaries
as much as you can experiment with different types of music in genres of
film and create something that's completely unique to you I can't wait to
see what you guys create and if you have any other questions or comments please
hit me up on Instagram and I would love to connect with you guys but for now
I'll catch you later