So you've just opened Adobe Premiere Pro and you're feeling super overwhelmed,
I mean how many menus do they need in this program. Well don't worry I'm going to
show you how to use Adobe Premiere Pro from start to finish in less than 20 minutes.
Everything from importing your clips
adding titles and exporting and to make it harder for myself
let's add a timer. So before we open up Adobe Premiere Pro and start this
tutorial it's always good to have some great organisation, so we've created some
folders here which help organize your clips and your video and all your assets
so we've done that here. Now let's open Adobe Premiere and show you how you
import your clips. When you open up Premiere you'll see this window pop up
you want to click new project which opens up this box. Here we have the file
name which will be the file name of your project. For us this is called tutorial
underneath you can see the destination that this project is being saved to
click browse to select one in the next tab we have scratch disks and this
basically means that premiere is going to look for our video and audio files in
this destination, by default it usually sets itself to the same as your project
file but just in case you can manually select the folder again if you like and
it makes the program run much faster once that's set you can click done so
this is what you first get when you open Adobe Premiere
but let me explain what each bit means. Now your screen may not look the same as
ours Premiere can sometimes open a different layout but you can reset that
by going to 'Window' and then reset workspace area that should fix it for
you. Now we're ready to begin. Each part of
Premiere is split up into sections in the order that we all work so we start
over here in the media bin this is where we import all of our video, music, sound
effects and graphics and things like that. We already made our folders earlier
of all of our assets already inside them so we're going to drag and drop these
folders directly into the media bin as you can see it's kept the assets in
the correct folders so you don't have to create folders in the bin this is just
much faster and a more efficient way of staying organized it's important to stay
organized when editing ok so let's select a clip and start
putting an edit together. Double click on a clip that you want and it
opens in this section above the media bin now we're going to be working here
this is where you preview clips and select which part of the clip we want to
see in our edit, so to do that we have to make an In-point and an out-point we can
do that by using the keyboard shortcut 'I' to mark in and 'O' to mark out just
remember 'I' and 'O' and you're good to go. That's pretty much the main core of
video editing. You can see here this grey bar that's just been made since creating
those points this is now the selection of video that we will see on the
timeline now we could go ahead and manually create a sequence for this
video but if we just click and drag our clip from the preview window to our
timeline here Premiere will automatically create a sequence using the same
settings as our video clip this makes it much easier to work with especially if
you don't know much about frame rates and resolutions and if you don't we'll
be teaching you more of that later on now we have this clip on the timeline
and it's created a sequence you'll notice that we have a sequence file in
our media bin but it has the same name as the clip we just cut, we want to
rename that so we can stay organized which you can do by double clicking if
you want to be even more organized you could create a new bin here to contain
the sequence
we also have this second window that's opened with our footage on it again this
is our final output window anything we create on our timeline will show up here
and this will be our final video so what if you just want the video track without
the audio in our preview window we have these icons here if we hover over this
film strip we'll see it's a drag video only click and drag from that icon and
we will bring just the video clip on its own into our timeline. Now let's do the
same with a couple of other Clips and get a basic edit going same as before
select the clip you want create an in and an out point with I and O and click
and drag from this icon to put it onto the timeline without the audio if you
want the audio then just click and drag from the video preview itself
So as within any project in real life you need the right tools for the job I'm
going to show you how they come tools work we can continue to make cuts on the
timeline we don't have to get it perfect in our preview window if we hover over
to the ends of the clip you can see you get this arrow up here we can drag this
in and out to shorten or extend the clip we also have the razor blade tool and
you can hit C on your keyboard to bring it up the razor tool splits our clip
wherever we want so we could make a cut here and then select the end and hit
backspace to delete it next we have our ripple edit tool which you can hit B on
your keyboard to activate it works like our first tool with the arrow appearing
at the beginning or the end of our clip only now when we trim the clip all of
the clips after it will automatically move into place so we don't have to
manually move them to fill the gaps now let's continue to create more of a
sequence we're going to speed this part up so you don't get bored of watching
we're just using the same process as before okay so here's our sequence we've
put together now let's give it some life by adding some music we can't provide
you with the music we're using because you need a license for the tracks that
you use but everything we've got here is from epidemic sounds which has thousands
of royalty-free music and sound effects that you can use in your project we'll
leave a link in the description we use the same process for audio as we
do with video select it in your media bin and make your in and out points on
the part of the track you want to use and then just drag and drop it into the
timeline in the audio section so our timeline is coming together really
nicely now we've added our music but let me show you how to add some sound
effects in I mean we've got trams and traffic here so let me show you how we
can add those types of noises into this project so we found some nice sound
effects on epidemic sounds that match the environment that we're in things
like city traffic trams and things like that we're using the same techniques
again selecting the tracks making in and out points and dragging to the timeline
where we want them you can also use multiple layers on the timeline with
both video and audio just drag your clips and place them above or below a
layer that already has something on it if you run out of layers like we have
here just pull the clip down here until you see this icon appear and it will
create a new audio track when you release so some musical sound effects
you bring into your project can actually end very sharply so what I'm going to do
is show you how to add some nice fade in and fade out to the music
so let's blend all of these sounds together with some fade transitions so
let's go into our fix tab over here and type in fade we have these options here
and we want to select the exponential fade click and drag it onto our clip and
there we go you can adjust the length of the fade by hovering over it on the clip
and dragging it in or out repeat that process if and when you need it to add
in more sounds
so we've added some transition effects into our audio but what if you want to
add some transitions to your video if you want to fade in your videos or add
some swipes let me show you how to do that with your clip selected hit command
+ D on your keyboard and it will automatically add a fade you can adjust
the duration by dragging it along your clip we can also add a fade between two
Clips by selecting them both at the same time using shift use the same keyboard
shortcut and there we go but be aware that sometimes this adds a fade effect
to the beginning and the end of the clip but you can remove one just by selecting
it with a clip and hitting delete you can also adjust the position of the fade
by clicking on it and dragging it into position okay so next up is color
correction if you want to make some subtle adjustments to the look of your
film I'm gonna show you how to do that now in this tutorial we don't have
enough time to go over in too much depth so make sure you subscribe to the
channel so we can show you an in-depth tutorial on color correction
but let's go into the basics so go over here to where it says color and this
opens our luma tree color panel if it's grayed out it means you don't have a
clip selected so make sure to have the clip selected it you want to make
adjustments to now we can adjust things like exposure and contrast and even go
crazy and change the colors in a scene but what if you want to make some color
adjustments to the whole timeline well you can easily do that by creating an
adjustment layer over here drag that onto a layer above all of your footage
and extend it to fit now when we go into the color panel and the adjustments we
make affect every clip on the timeline so this is where we can add a color
preset to give it that unique film look which you can find in the creative tab
here we're not going to go into much color grading here because it would
honestly take a very long time but stick around or subscribe to the channel and
we'll make a future video on advanced color grading you can toggle on and off
the color adjustments so you can see before and after by hitting this little
eye icon on the timeline this makes that video layer invisible and this also
works on all video layers we're going to use one of our own custom Luntz for
speed and a lot is basically just a pre-made color adjustment
you can add to color with it makes things really easy you can adjust the
intensity of the preset with this little slider here
now let's add the finishing touches with some titles to do that we need to go
into our graphics tab here and then select our text tool over here
which you can access much faster by hitting T on your keyboard
now we can click anywhere in our output window and start typing out our title
then we can switch back to our selection tool by hitting V on the keyboard and
now you can move your title into position if you want to be precise you
can go over into the properties in the graphics panel over here and then use
the alignment tools these instantly place your title in the center of the
frame and this properties panel is where you can create all kinds of custom
effects to your titles and graphics
we can also change the font down here and the font size and
letter-spacing down here we can choose the color of our text and we can also
add a drop shadow to separate it from our video a little bit more so that's
the title made but what if we want to fade it in like our video does no
problem we can just use the same method as we did earlier with our fade
transition just hit command + D or ctrl + T to add that fade and it's as easy as
that okay so let's take a look at our final
video before we go to export it
okay so that's the entire edit done start to finish but now what it's time
to render go to file export media or if you're into your keyboard shortcuts and
you should be you can hit command ctrl M in your timeline to bring up the render
window straight away okay so over here is where we select a format and give
that video a name and a destination to export to click on the blue file name to
create a file name and its destination it's really good practice to save it in
to the same destination we created at the beginning of the video just makes
everything easier to find and you may want to add a new folder in there called
renders so you want to make sure that you're rendering it with the maximum
vendor quality and then hit export and that's it now there are loads of
different file formats and render settings you can use for video and there
isn't the time for us to go through all of them in detail but we'd recommend
using h.264 in our next video we're going to go into great depth on render
settings and the best ones to use for YouTube and social media it's different
for all situations so make sure you give DAPA your watch that's our Premiere Pro
project done and dusted and we've shown you how to use Premiere Pro from start
to finish in less than 20 minutes but if you want to know more about premiere
things like export things about effects and titling make sure you stick around
and watch our next videos and subscribe to our channel because we're going to
have a ton of Adobe Premiere Pro videos thanks for watching and I'll see you in
the next video