so the last couple of weeks have been playing around with Instagram stories
but I don't do it the regular way I shoot everything with my phone I then
put it into premiere edit it and export it back to Instagram today I'm going to
show you my workflow and kind of how I do that so why would you shoot this way
in the first place well by putting into Premiere Pro you can edit it properly
you can put in clips from other sources like a drone you could add in music you
could add in effects transitions pretty much anything you want you can be
completely creative now it's actually a lot easier to do than you think so how
does my workflow work well I shoot during the day I kind of think about
what it is they want to make a story about and then I film clips just video
clips based around that story the important thing that you have to do
though to make it flow nicely is you've got to think about your transitions how
one shot is going to lead to the next shot and that kind of thing so a couple
of transitions that you can do that are pretty straightforward so I use the
front-facing camera most of the time because it's just easier so you can see
yourself this is one transition that's a pretty straightforward one so you'd
start off with the phone on your chest and then you kind of bump out just like
that and then you can finish the clip by just
bumping back in it creates a pretty seamless looking transition the another
straightforward one is to cover up the lens of the camera and then remove it
and start recording your clip and then finish by covering it back up another
more popular one that you might see in some other videos is the spin transition
so the way this works is you would let's say put the camera facing down or facing
away from me so you'd spin in and then that's the
start of your clip and then to finish the clip you'd spin back out again so
those are the transitions that I use most of the time you can pretty much mix
and match them all together the chest-bump with a spin it doesn't really
matter when you put them into premiere you can merge them all and it just kind
of works so I shoot all the video clips of me throughout the day me talking to
the camera with the transitions I film a little bit of b-roll as well if you're
not familiar with what b-roll is it's kind of slow-motion clips things
happening around you in the environment that you're
shooting your story in so for example I'll show you some b-roll now
once I have all my footage of my story done for the day I import it into
premiere and from there I will show you now how we edit it so this is my story
here so this is the story that I shot on the 13th some purpose of me talking and
then some drawing footage and that's pretty much it so once I've imported
everything I'm not going to show you exactly how to edit that's a completely
different video but basically this is my story here it's all ready to go it's all
done it's ready to export the most important thing after you've employed
all the clips into premiere is to make sure your sequence is set up correctly
to have it set up correctly so that Instagram can display it properly your
frame size is gonna be 1080 white and 1920 high so that's just kind of the
opposite of what a normal widescreen would be so normal widescreen movie 1920
by 1080 in this case it's 1080 wide by 1920 high which gives you an aspect
ratio of 9 by 16 that's what you're looking for so once you've got
everything imported you've added a date you've picked all your music and
everything like that you're just gonna go ahead and export it so export the
sport media and as you can see I've added widescreen bars to that that's
gonna be a widescreen sequence that someone would turn on their side the
rest of it is just shot as regular you want to make sure again that is 1080
wide by 1920 high and then export it to wherever you want
once it's exported it will look something like this
so this is all exported ready to go you can scrub through it there and see the
whole story is finished once I've done with that
I then airdrop it if you're using Android maybe you could put on an SD
card but in my case I airdrop I airdrop directly to my phone drop it to my phone
there and that just sends it straight to my phone I've already done it it's then
on my phone ready to go and now I will show you what we do on the phone to put
it back into Instagram ok so we have the video now on our phone if we were using
an Android phone as I said you could put on a memory card maybe you can put it in
Dropbox Google Drive then download it that way in my case I
have an iPhone so I put it through airdrop and it's on my phone it's ready
to go so as you may or may not know Instagram story's only allows you to
post 15-second clips or record 15-second clips we've exploited the video from
premiere it's close to 2 minutes so we need to cut it down into 15-second Clips
there's a really great app for that which I'm going to show you right now
you want to go into the App Store and you want to download the app called cut
story I've downloaded it already you want to open it up go into the video
camera rom and you want to pick the story so in this case is this one here
it's already done make sure that that's the right clip hit save it's going to
give you an option now as to how you want to cut it up so if you want to go
snapchat or Facebook or whatsapp in my case Instagram stories is only 15
seconds long so we have to cut that down into 15 seconds so if we tap 15 seconds
it's going to cut down the video from however long it was in to 15 seconds
segments so now if we go back into photos you can see it's cut the story
down into 15 seconds segments so that we can now just go back into Instagram and
you can just select the segment and basically one by one you go through
select your segments and upload them in order and that's it so that is how I've
been shooting my Instagram stories the last couple of weeks I hope it's helped
you out I hope you taught you something if you liked what you saw today give me
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