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Premiere Pro CC is one of the most professional video-editing products on
the market. You can collect your pictures, videos and sound files, place
these in time and edit these by applying adjustments, effects, pieces of
text and amazing transitions. This product is available under subscription
plans only.
Premiere Pro opens with its Home Screen page, showing your most recent
projects under Home and, on the left side, the New and the Open
Project buttons to browse for any existing project or start from a new
one.
When starting with a new project set its name, where to save it and all
its main properties, such as the time format to use, between seconds as
Timecode or number of video Frames. When you go to OK, the new project
opens on the main interface, made by several windows that may change
according to the workspace chosen on top, from Learning to Libraries. In
this video we will use just the default Editing one but you can recover
any missing panel from the Window tab on top.
To edit your own project, you mainly use the project Timeline at the
bottom, showing the several Sequences of the current project on each tab.
Each Sequence is an independent video built from the several media files
(or clips) placed and modified in time by using the editing tools on the
left side.
In addition you use the Program window above to preview such content and
the other panels on the left to browse for additional samples and effects.
In order to start editing, use CTRL (or CMD) and N to create a New
Sequence inside the project, defining its video and audio properties. You
can either pick any ready template under Sequence Presets or go to
Settings and choose Custom on Editing Mode.
In this case adjust the video frame time rate on Timebase, the video
resolution on Frame Size and the audio Sample Rate. When you go to OK, the
new Sequence appears on the project Timeline with no clips inside.
To add clips just drag and drop these directly on the Timeline, from any
of your computer folders or from the Media Browser panel on the left. All
the Sequences and files inside the Project are collected inside the
Project panel, where you can double-click on any to preview it on the
Source panel above, checking either the visual frames or the sound
waveform.
Use the player at the bottom to playback and pause and use Playback
Resolution to adjust the preview quality.
Inside the Timeline all these clips get placed and extended in time, shown
as blocks within rows called Tracks. Video Tracks collect pictures in pink
color and video frames in violet and blue. Whereas Audio Tracks welcome
sound and speech in green color or in blue if the sound is part of a video.
Use your mouse wheel to move through time and hold down the ALT key
to zoom in and out around your pointer.
The Program panel above works just like the Source panel preview seen
before, with the difference that this one shows the Timeline content where
its blue marker is placed and so the result of your modifications and
corrections on the clips. You can click or drag on the Timeline to move
its marker and change the video frame to check on the Program panel.
In case the aspect ratio of the current Sequence is not correct for your
clips, you can resize it automatically by going to the Project window,
right-clicking on the Sequence and using Auto Reframe Sequence.
To edit the clips on the Timeline you can use the editing tools on the
left. Enable the Selection Tool to move any clip in time by clicking and
dragging it, on the same Track or in another one. Videos with audio have
frames and sound grouped together, unless you right-click and use Unlink
to make these independent.
In case visual clips overlap in time, Premiere always shows in front all
the clips placed on the highest Video Tracks, in respect to clips inside
lower Tracks in position.
To resize any clip length in time, just drag from its edges. This cuts
part of its content in case this is a video or a sound file. To preserve
content, you can enable the Rate Stretch Tool to stretch and shorten clips
in time by changing their speed rate. Shorter clips are played faster,
with a speed rate above 100%; whereas stretched clips get slower, below
100%.
To split clips in multiple pieces, use the Razor tool instead.
To cut, copy and paste, just use CTRL (or CMD) and X, C and V. You can
cut any clip to remove it quickly. To come back and undo, either use CTRL
(or CMD) and Z or the History window.
On the left side you can manage the content of each single Track. Use the
eye button to hide and show visual content; the Mute button to mute the
audio content and the Solo button to mute all the other Audio Tracks
except the current one. You can also make recordings with the Microphone
button and block any modification on the Track with the Lock button.
At the bottom, next to Master, adjust the volume level of the whole
Sequence, especially when the deciBel meter on the right shows red levels.
To add or remove Tracks, just right-click on any empty space.
When selecting any clip the Effect Controls panel shows all its properties
and effects available for it, depending on its kind. On visual clips you
get the Motion section to adjust position, size and inclination and the
Opacity section to adjust the clip transparency. Whereas on audio content
you can adjust the Volume properties and use Panner to balance the left
and the right stereo channels.
From the Effects window you can drop on the clips visual and audio
effects, including Lumetri adjustments and color grading. These effects
get listed inside the Effect Controls panel with their options, as seen
for the basic clip properties. On each property you can use the Reset
button to come back using default settings and the fx icon to hide the
changes or the effects applied.
From the Effects window you can also add visual and audio transitions to
introduce or end clips in time. Just drop these on the edges of any clip
or between two adjacent clips. The transition is shown with its name and
can be adjusted in speed by dragging its edges and in properties from the
Effect Controls panel. To remove the transition, right-click on it and
use Clear.
You can enable the Type Tools to drop pieces of text and titles on the
Timeline. Just click and drag on the Program window to create a red text
box to delimit the text distribution and then type in. This piece of
text is shown as a pink text clip inside a Video Track, that you can
edit just like the other clips. Just make sure to get it on a top Video
Track in order to avoid overlaps with other visual clips.
To manage the piece of text you can enable the Selection tool and move,
scale and rotate text on the Program preview directly. In addition, with
the text clip selected, you can either use the Effect Controls or the
Essential Graphics window to adjust the text opacity, font, style, size,
color or add any effect.
The Essential Graphics panel also collects several Motion Graphics
templates under Browse that you can directly import on the Timeline.
These are special text clips including visual effects and multiple titles
you can select and adjust under the Edit section.
Another similar window called Essential Sound can be used to apply
advanced audio effects, such as audio equalizer and Auto-Ducking. Check
this out!
To save your Premiere project just go to File and then to Save As. This
is saved in a .prproj format, which can be opened at any time to edit
any of its content and options.
Whereas to render and export the Sequence made, just open it on the
Timeline and go to File, Export, Media... to open the Export Settings
panel and set the render options on the right side. On Format choose the
video format such as H.264 for .mp4 videos and, on Preset, pick any ready
template to use, including HD and 4K settings for Facebook and YouTube.
Set name and destination folder on Output Name and, at the bottom, the
video and the audio settings. By default these match your Source files
imported, unless you uncheck these properties to customize resolution,
frame rate or audio codec.
The other panel, called Source, allows to crop the final video by resizing
the rectangle on the preview.
At the bottom, you can drag the markers to select the part of the video
to export instead. Then, go to Export to start rendering!
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