Dear all, welcome to this new guide dedicated to Adobe Premiere Pro, the
ultimate video-editing solution to realize unique projects with great
effects, motion graphics and nice transitions with full control. This is
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When you open Premiere Pro its Home Screen page shows up with all your
latest projects made. You can browse for others with Open Project... on the
left or go to New Project... to start from a new one. In this case set
name, location and time format to use. You can choose Timecode to use
seconds or Frames to use video frames instead.
When you go to OK the main interface opens, showing several panels
according to the workspace chosen on top, from Learning to Libraries. In
this video we will just see the Editing one but if you miss any panel you
can find the full list from the Window tab.
At first your new project does not have any Sequence. These Sequences are
independent pieces of videos you create by combining pictures, videos and
sound files on the Timeline. To create one use CTRL (or CMD) and N,
selecting any ready template from the left to fix video and audio
properties easily. You can also switch to Settings to customize these
options, choosing Custom on Editing Mode to set your own frame rate under
Timebase, resolution under Frame Size and audio Sample Rate. Then go to OK.
At this point you can import your own files by dragging and dropping these
from any folder or from the Media Browser panel on the left.
All these files imported are shown on the timeline as colored blocks called
clips. You can move through time with your mouse wheel and zoom in and
out if you hold down the ALT key as well.
All visual content like pictures and video frames is collected inside
Video Tracks in pink and blue color respectively; whereas audio content
is shown in green color with Audio Tracks at the bottom.
All these files are also listed inside the Project panel on the left. You
can double-click on any file to check its visual and audio content on
the Source preview above.
Whereas if you want to check the current Sequence content you can use the
Program window. This shows content where the blue marker is placed in time.
So you can click on the timeline or drag it to move such marker and
check different frames. To playback all in real time with audio use the
player buttons, adjusting quality with Playback Resolution.
If you find out that the Sequence is cutting parts of your video or it is
showing black bars you can right-click on it from the Project window and go
to Auto Reframe Sequence to resize all automatically.
Now let's see how to edit the timeline clips with the editing tools at the
bottom and several panels on the left.
With the Selection Tool enabled click and drag any clip to move it in time
or in different Tracks. Video frames with audio are always moved together,
unless you make these independent by right-clicking on these and going to
Unlink.
In case clips overlap in time Premiere shows all clips on the top Video
Tracks in front of all the others placed on lower Tracks in position.
To adjust any clip length just drag from its edges. This removes content
in case the clip is either a video or an audio file. You can avoid this
by dragging edges with the Rate Stretch Tool, changing the playback speed
instead of cutting content. In this case you increase or decrease speed by
shortening or stretching the clip.
Whereas enable the Razor tool to split the clip in multiple pieces.
You can cut, copy and paste any selected clip by using CTRL (or CMD) and X, C
and V. You can cut clips to delete these quickly. To undo use CTRL (or CMD)
and Z or the History window on the left.
Next to each Track you have several options to manage its content. You can
use the eye button to hide and show content from any Video Track; the Mute
button to mute any Audio Track and the Solo button to mute all the other
Audio Tracks except the current one. You can also enable the Record button
to start recording from your microphone on the chosen Track and the Lock
button to block modifications on any clip inside it.
At the very bottom you have the Master Track, where you can adjust the
volume level from the whole Sequence. Make sure to avoid red levels from
the volume meter that can cause distortion.
To remove or add Tracks, right-click on any empty space.
You can adjust the full properties of any clip by selecting it and going to
Effect Controls in the top left corner. Click and drag on values to edit,
use the Reset button to revert these and the fx button to enable or disable
the changes made on any property.
This properties shown here change according to the kind of clip chosen. On
visual clips you can adjust position, size and rotation under Motion and
the transparency level under Opacity. On sound clips you can adjust the
volume level and the balance between the left and right stereo
channels.
In addition you can open the Effects window to browse for several visual
and audio effects you can drag and drop on clips directly. These will be
added as extra properties you can adjust while checking the preview.
From the same list you also find visual and audio transitions to begin and
end clips with nice effects. You can drag and drop any transition on a
clip edge or between two clips. This is shown as a simple block with its
name that can be moved, stretched or adjusted in properties just like
other clips. Consider that the longer the transition is, the slower its
effect will be. To remove the transition right-click on it and go to Clear.
You can drop pieces of text with the Type Tools. Click and drag on the
Program window to define the region where the text can spread. Then type in,
adjusting text properties, font, style and color from either the Effects
Controls or the Essential Graphics window. Moreover you can use the
Selection Tool to move, scale and rotate the text container directly.
This piece of text is represented as pink title clip on the timeline that
can be moved and edited just like other clips. Make sure to place it on a
top Video Track to keep it visible over other visual clips overlapping.
Besides these basic pieces of text you can open the Essential Graphics
panel to find advanced text templates that include animated text, credit
rolls and subtitles. Under Browse choose any template and hover over these
to get a quick preview. Then drag and drop any on the timeline to import
the text clip ready to use, modifying any of its components from the Edit
section above.
In addition you can use the Essential Sound panel to apply advanced
corrections to your selected audio clips. First of all set its correct
type between Dialogue, Music, SFX Effects or Ambience and then use its
dedicated options to adjust sound that include audio ducking, equalizer and
reverb control.
To save your file go to File, Save As... This gets saved as a .prproj
file that includes all its Sequences, clip properties and placement on the
timeline.
Whereas to export the final video select the right Sequence and go to
File, Export, Media... On the left side under Source you can crop the final
video or adjust its aspect ratio to match with your footages. At the
bottom you can drag the markers to select which part of the Sequence needs
to be exported.
On the right set the complete video properties. Select the file format
(such as H.264 for .mp4) and pick any ready Preset, including HD and 4K
templates for Facebook and YouTube. At the bottom you can fully customize
the video properties such as resolution, frame rate, audio format, codec,
sample rate and bit rate. If you are not an expert you can simply click on the
checkmark on the right to match the video properties with the source files
you are running on the Sequence.
On Output Name click to set video name and destination folder and then
go to Export to render your final video!
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