- [Roberto] Hey everyone, it's Roberto
and in today's video, I'm gonna be doing an absolute
beginner's tutorial for Adobe Premier Pro CC.
So I'm using the 24 teen version of Adobe Premier Pro CC
but most of the this will translate to any version
of Adobe Premier Pro that you might be using
simply because we're gonna be doing the most
basic things you can do.
So let's get started with a new project.
So one of the first things we're gonna want to do
is label our project and we're just just gonna
call this Tutorial for Beginners.
And you don't need to worry about any of these
complicated setitngs when you're just starting out
because they're not going to apply to you.
So you just hit Okay and the program will load up.
Okay, so the first thing we're gonna want to do here
is we're going to analyze the control panel here.
And this is our timeline where we're gonna be editing.
This is our overall project bin.
Over here, we have the Effects Panel for our different
video effects whether those be video or audio effects.
We have transitions, like cross-fade and so on
and that's where these things are located.
Now you can get a different or general layout by going
to the workspace.
I'm using the editing layout, but there are a lot of
different layouts you can do and you can even make
custom ones or a new workspace, but to start off
the defaults are usually best.
So one of the first things you need to do is
you need to import a media into your project.
You can do that by going down here to the project
panel and going right click import,
or you can go up to File and you can go to Import
and do it that way.
My preferred method however, is to simply go to
my Finder and for you guys using Windows,
this will be Explorer and to simply drag
my footage into the project panel.
And so you can see that that imports it directly
and we have our footage.
Now before you can work on the timeline,
you notice that the timeline says it has no sequences.
We need to add a new sequence to the timeline
and there's a couple of ways we can do that.
We can right click here and we can do new sequence
from clip which is my preferred method and that will
create a video sequence and you see it adds
it to the timeline.
Now we're gonna undo because we can do that
some other ways as well and I'm just gonna
delete this sequence.
So another way we can do this is we could just
drag our media onto the timeline and it'll do
that as well.
And it'll create a new sequence.
One of the things you used to have to do
is you used to have to create a new sequence
which you would go to New Item down here
and you would hit Sequence, and then you get
this Options dialogue and you'd have to
know what your sequence was going to be
and what settings do you use.
For example, I'd record my stuff on a Nikon D3200
as you guys already know.
And I usually record at 1080 P 24 frames per second,
so I would find my camera settings here under digital
DSLR and I would create a new sequence that way.
And that's what I believe I did for this video as well
so I'm just going to create a new sequence that way.
So now you know the different ways that you can
create a new sequence to be able to edit
on the timeline.
So if we were to drag our footage over here,
it takes up the fact that I did the exact settings
for my Nikon camera properly with the proper size,
resolution, and frames per second.
So that's why it does that.
Now if I don't want to edit this entire clip on
the timeline, and I just want pieces of it, what I can do
is if I double-click on this, it'll open up
in the source monitor here.
So the source monitor is where you create
what's called subclips.
So what that is, is you can scrub through your
footage and let's say you just want
a certain part of it.
You just want a couple of seconds of the footage.
You can use the input and the output settings here
which is mark in and mark out,
so I'll set the, this is the beginning of a clip.
And I can just play it through and let's say that
that's what I want.
So I can stop there and now that's the part of
the sequence that I'm gonna create.
Now I have a couple options here.
I can either drag this directly onto the timeline
now and it'll just have the portion of the clip
there and I'm dragging this onto Video Track One
and you can see that it has just what I selected
from the clip there.
So that's definitely one option.
But let's say I want to get a bunch of different clips
from this footage and I don't want to have to
do all that stuff one at a time.
And I can go ahead and I can scroll to another
part of the video and I can make another subclip.
(background instrumental music)
So we'll just label this 02 Clip
and again, creates it in alphabetical order.
So now I've got my two clips here and I can
drag them onto the timeline and I can
arrange them however I want.
So now I have both of my clips here
and it goes from one clip directly over to the other.
So that' one of the basic things you're gonna wanna
do for editing is your ability to create subclips.
So again, this is the basic way you edit.
So we, let's set the inpoint, outpoint for the whole thing
the whole five minutes.
And if we drag that over onto the timeline,
we have the entire thing from beginning to end.
If we wanted to cut just on the timeline and not go
through and make our individual subclips,
what we could do is we could go in here and we
could pick out our individual areas and we can use
the razor tool and we can make our cuts.
So let's say that I don't want any of that
footage.
i just hit there and I use the razor tools and it cuts out
the parts that I want or at least makes the selection
for them and now that I have this highlighted
I can hit backspace or delete and I can right click
and hit Ripple delete and now I don't have
that footage that was in between there and I transition
from one thing to a whole different part.
So that's really convenient.
And if I want to label areas that I want to
make my cut, I can use markers here
which I can use with shortcut M and so if I want
that transition to be different between the clips
I can just go ahead and delete that right where
my marker was and now I know it's going from
that to that right away.
So another thing you could do is you could go through
the timeline.
You could make all your markers and then you could
do all your cuts that way.
So that's pretty cool.
Let's go ahead and just get rid of this for now
to make things simple.
So what if you want to just trim your footage
and have it end at a certain place?
Like lets say I'm good with it ending right here.
Well, just for the sake of argument,
I could put a marker there just so I know
it's exact and I can just trim using
I make sure I have a shorcut V for the selection tool
and I could just trim here.
And now that's where the footage will end.
Same thing.
If I want to end it earlier.
If I want it here, I can just do that here
with trim.
I'll ripple delete to close up the gap
and now I control where my footage begins
and ends.
And if I want to have it start here, no problem.
I can do the exact same thing and I can trim it.
So you can see that that's a pretty clean and
pretty smooth and if I want to edit more precisely,
I can use the zoom tool here, shortcut Z
and I can zoom in.
The primary tools that you're gonna be using when
video editing are gonna be the selection tool
to be able to move things around and to be able
to trim.
You're going to use the razor tool to be able to make
your edits and cuts and you're gonna use the zoom tool
down here.
There are a lot of other tools that you can use
in editing but these are your primary ones
just for linear editing.
If you're not going to do speed ups or slow downs
this is how you're going to be working.
And since this is a beginner's tutorial,
that's what we're gonna cover here.
I'll do more advance video editing tutorials
that will show you how to use some of the other tools.
So one of the last things we're gonna cover
to wrap up here is we're gonna cover transitions.
So what I'm gonna do is right here in
this video, actually let's go ahead and get rid
of all of this here
and let's make a new subclip.
Alright, let's make a new subclip and let's start
with this and end here.
(background instrumental music)
Alright.
So we've made our new subclip.
Let's drag it on to the timeline.
And let's say we want to make a cut here,
and transition.
So, what we can do is now that we've made
a cut, we can drag over one of our transitions
from the Effects panel, and we've used Dip to black.
So what's gonna happen is at this point in the video,
it's gonna dip to black and it's gonna fade back in.
So that's actually pretty cool.
Now in this case, what I'm gonna do is
now that I've made my cut, I want that transition
to pick up somewhere else.
So I want it to pick up here, so I'm just gonna
trim and this just for practical example of how
you would do this, I'm gonna ripple delete
so now I want the transition to be from
you know, the laughing and smiling to the
smoking here.
So that's an appropriate place to make a transition.
So I'm gonna use dip to black right here
and then when I push the play button
you can see that transition.
Now let's say that I want the transition to be
a little longer.
I can just click on it here and I can drag
it out so that transition just takes place
a little longer and is really smooth and slow.
So you see the kind of look that creates.
So again, this is just a very basic tutorial to teach
you the main ways that you're gonna edit
in Adobe Premier Pro as far as general footage.
So now you know a little bit about the layout
and the workspace.
You know how to make subclips and you know
how to edit on the timeline,
how to create a project.
The last thing that I'm gonna show you here
is how to export your project.
So there's a couple of things you can do.
You can go to File.
And you go to Export and you click on Media.
This is gonna present you with a few different options.
So the best way that I usually work by far is when
I say Mass Sequence Settings.
And what that's gonna do is it's going to match everything
in terms of your frame rates, your you know,
overall resolution.
It's gonna match all of those things.
But sometimes, it doesn't do it exactly the way
you want.
For example in this case, it's picking the
Mpeg encoding format which is not what I want.
This was done in H2 64, so that's what I want.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna keep it
that way.
I'm gonna use this preset called Match Source
High Bit rate and what that's gonna do is
that's gonna mean that's gonna be in high quality
when I upload it to the web and it's gonna be using
the same codec as my camera.
If you want to know that your stuff is matching,
when you look at the summary here,
you can look at the fact that it's all
19x20 and you can just kind of match up
the different settings and you can see that
they're the same.
And you can see that you know, we have Match Source
selected and that all of this is consistent with what
our camera settings are.
So that's how you're gonna wanna do that.
And your choices are you can export which is
going to do it right here in Premier Pro
or you can go to qeue which will send it
to Adobe media encoder.
I always send it to Adobe Media encoder because if I
want to keep editing and working on other projects
in Adobe Premier Pro, what Adobe Media Encoder does
is it renders the video for you in the background
so that's happening and it's using up computing
power, but you're able to keep working on
other videos while this is happening.
So if you have a lot of work to do,
this is what I would prefer to do.
If you're going to walk away set it and forget it,
you can just hit Export and do it right here
in Adobe Premier Pro.
The other thing is, you want to go here
and you want to change your output name
to whatever you want it to be,
whatever you want to name this file.
So if we were just to gonna do this
as like, you know, example MP4,
we would do that and we would just hit qeue
or Export and that's how it would happen.
Now there are other presets you can use here.
There's ones for different
devices, if you're gonna do that.
There's some for YouTube, you know,
but again, I prefer to keep this as in high quality
as I can, so I don't use those presets.
I just kind of go with either the match source
high bit rate or I do a custom preset.
So that's just my particular approach.
You can do whatever you think works,
but as a beginner, I would recommend doing
either match source high bit rate or if you
know your specificly going to do it
for YouTube, and you want to trust the program,
go ahead and use the setting for YouTube
1080 P HD and that should work out fine
for you as well.
There are some additional settings here,
but you really don't need to worry about these
as much.
If you wanted to just import the final output
video into your project for whatever reason,
you can check this box.
That's something I used to do but I don't
really worry about it now.
Don't worry about used previews.
Again, this is only for stuff that was
already generated in Premier Pro.
You're a beginner.
I wouldn't worry about that.
Maximum rending quality is something that
you could check out if you want.
Personally, I usually don't use it because it takes
longer and I haven't seen that the quality difference
is that significant, so I don't check that.
I don't use frame blending because I don't
trust it.
But again, you can do whatever you like
where that's concerned.
If you feel that that's something your video needs.
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this Adobe Premier
Pro basic editing tutorial.
If you have questions, please leave those in the comments
section below.
If there's another video you'd like me to
produce on Adobe Premier Pro,
definitely let me know that as well.
I hope I covered at least some basic things that
will help you get started.
If you feel a little intimidated by the application,
I know my other video was a lot more
advanced, but that's because it was specific
to my video editing on a typical day for YouTube
and because people requested that video.
So I hope this absolute beginner's tutorial
is what some of you needed to be able to do
some very basic editing here.
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