Hi everybody, welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography right here on
AdoramaTV. I'm Mark Wallace and you're
watching Part 2 of my series on Video
Editing Basics. In this episode we're
going to focus on working with the
timeline. Introducing how the timeline
works. Now in episode 1 some people asked,
do you have to have an internet
connection to use Adobe Premiere Pro CC
and the answer is absolutely not. You
only need an internet connection to
download the product and use the
Creative Cloud features, like team
projects and Creative Cloud libraries,
and things like that and you also need
to make sure that you connect to the
internet once every 30 days with
Premiere open so it can validate your
subscription, but other than that you can
edit all day long for weeks at a time
with zero internet connection, and to
prove that we're going to record all
this with my Wi-Fi turned off I have
zero connectivity to the internet right
now. We're going to start by opening
Premiere and get into our project that
we created in the last episode my first
project is what we called that. If you
haven't seen the first episode make sure
you watch that to understand where we're
headed. So I'm going to click here on the
start menu, right here this is my first
project. I will click on that it's going
to open and we're going to start where
we left off. Alright so we're going to be
talking specifically about the timeline
and how that works but there's one
gotcha I need to mention before we start,
and that is the blue box.
Beware of the blue box, so in Adobe
Premiere Pro CC 2017, which is what I'm
using, when you click on the source
monitor over here there's a blue box
around that, when you click on the
program monitor there is a blue box, when
you click down here on the timeline you
can see this blue box, when you click
over here on your project files there is
a blue box, that is telling you where
you're working inside of the application.
It is context sensitive, so the shortcut
keys, and when you hit different shortcut
keys, they behave differently based on
where you've clicked. So if you're in the
source monitor and hit the spacebar your
source clip will play but if you're on
the timeline and hit the spacebar well
your project will play and so it's
important to be aware of
blue box because it's easy to make a
mistake if you lose track of where you
are inside of the workspace. Speaking of
the workspace let's talk about how it
works. Our objective is to go down here
to our project panel, this is where all
of our source footage is, all of our raw
uncut ugly babies. What we want to do is
we want to take these and we want to
move them to our source panel. So to do that
we just double click and what you'll get
is you'll get that clip inside of this
we can set in points and out points.
That's the specific part of the video
that we want to use. We want to take that
from our source monitor put it down here
over onto our main timeline. You want to
chop up this timeline and make it all
pretty in make sure it's got music in
all kinds of perfect audio and that is
going to show up in our final project up
here in our program monitor. So from the
left, up, over, up and that's going to be
how we work through this project. So what
we want to do is, to start understanding
the timeline. So I'm going to get rid of
these clips that I put on the timeline
last week, just by dragging over them and
hitting the delete key and now they're
gone. We need to understand what tracks
are. So when you record video you're
really recording two things. You're
recording what we see, the video track
and what we hear, the audio track. When we
put those on the timeline we can work
with those independently. Not only that
but we can start adding more and more
videos. So we can have a video and then
we can put another video on top of that
to maybe add some flavor or show
something specifically. We can add a video on top
of that or a clip or some text whatever
and so the video clips are on the top of
the timeline. If we look at the timeline
right in the center there's this
dividing line and then above that you'll
see V1, V2, V3, those are our video clips.
Under the center line there's A1, A2, A3,
those are our audio clips. So if you
have a video clip, so we'll get something
like this and I will drag that down.
We're going to get to how I did that in
a little bit, we can see that on our
timeline here we have two things. So
I will zoom these a little bit and you
can see that we have a video up here,
that's our video track and then down
here we have an audio track. We're going
to get to audio in a later episode so
don't worry about what all these little
saw-tooth thingies are, we'll talk about
that in a different episode. So audio and
video. If I get a different clip and I'll
drag this on, you'll see that now we have
a video clip above this other video clip
and an audio clip below this other audio
clip. If I move my playhead by clicking
and dragging you'll see that the video
that is on the top hides the video
that's on the bottom. So things that are
on the top hide things that are on the
bottom for video. For audio it doesn't
really matter because it just sort of
mixes all together again we're going to
get to audio a little bit later. So it's
important to understand we have
different tracks that hold different
things on the video, the things that are
on the top will hide the things that are
on the bottom but we can do some really
creative things and we'll show you later
how you can show multiple things all at
once, it's really really cool. Okay I'm
going to again select everything delete
it, so we can start working from scratch
what we want to do now is start working
with our clips and adding those to the
timeline. So what we'll do is we're going
to go down here to my first project here,
this is my project panel into the
footage bin that we created last week
and I'm going to double click on the
first video clip and this is just me
talking and what I need to do here is I
need to set the start and the end of
what I want to use. I won't want to use
this entire section of video I just want
to use a small portion of that, I only
want to use a clip of that, and so I need to
set something called the in point
to tell Premiere where to start, and the out
point to tell Premiere where to end.
In other words, start here and end here, just
take this portion of this whole video so
to do that in the source monitor we'll
play this by hitting the spacebar,
remember my blue boxes around the
source monitor. I'll hit play.
"Well it looks.." okay we're going to start
with me saying "well it looks". So I'll go
back by clicking and dragging this back
a little bit. "Well it look" okay that's
where you want to start ,so I need to set
an in point. The way I can set an in
point is down here there's this little
squiggly here, that if I click on it will
mark the in point. There's a much easier
way, that's just to hit 'I' on the keyboard.
That's what we're going to do from now
on. 'I' that sets the in point the start.
Then I can play "it looks very beautiful
behind me but the other side the road
where I'm going there is a massive storm
that I'm about to ride into". Ok I'm
hitting the spacebar by the way, to stop
and start and stop the video. So I've
said "there's a massive storm I'm about
to ride" into I need them mark the out
point. So I can click on this little icon
right here to mark the out, or do what we
always do which is hit 'o' for out. So now
I have an in and an out point. If I want
to review that I can click this right
here, go to the in and then I can hit play
by hitting the spacebar, "Well it looks
very beautiful behind me but on the other
side of the road"
That looks pretty good. The other thing you
can do to move around to go to your in point
and your out point, because you're going to
start doing that a lot and you'll see me
do that a lot. Instead of hitting these,
clicking on
these icons here's you go to the in
point or the out point you can use your
up, down, left and right arrow. So in the
source monitor if I hit the left arrow
it takes me one frame at a time left, if I
hit the right arrow one frame at the
time of the right. So I can really figure
out exactly where I want to set
something. If I want to jump to the end
point I can hit the up arrow, that takes
me left backwards in time. If I hit the up
arrow again it takes them all the way to
the start. If I hit the down arrow it takes
me to my next point which is the in
point on my timeline. If I hit the down arrow
again it takes me to my out point. If I hit the
down arrow again it takes me to the end.
So up, up, up, down, down, down, so you can
really quickly zip around and so you can
be playing this. "Well it looks very
beautiful", not sure that's right hit the
up arrow.
"Well it looks very beautiful", okay that's
good. You can see how you'll start using these
quite a bit. All right well now that we
have this clip what we want to do is put
it on the timeline. Now we can just drag
that right down on the timeline and it's
there. We only have that section, there's
a better way to do this and I'm going to
be showing you that. So I'm going to move
my playhead on the timeline right into
the center of this clip. Now I'm going to
get a different clip so the second clip
here is a clip of my motorcycle. I've
already made an in and out point for
this so it's just my motorcycle. Not
doing much it's just sitting there but
I'm going to use this tiny clip to show
you a different way to put things on the
timeline. So if I click on this in the
source monitor and then drag it over to
the program monitor over here, you can
see that there's insert before, insert,
and insert after. If I click insert
before. Drop that on 'insert before' on the
timeline down here. I'm going to zoom in
on this timeline here by hitting the
plus key. You'll see that that clip is
before me talking, "well it looks good".
Okay I'll click control 'Z' to undo what
we just did. Go back up here to the
source monitor. Click and drag this over
to 'insert after' notice it puts it at the
end of the timeline onto the end of that
clip. Alright I'm going to undo that
again control 'Z' and notice again
I have my playhead in the center of this
clip. It's really important to know where
your playhead is because it determines
where your clips are going to be inserted or your
overlays are going to start. So I'll
explain that right now. So right now I'm
going to take this from the source
monitor, drag it over to 'insert' and what
that does is it splits my clip and drops
the other clip right in the middle. So it
took the clip of me talking, split it in
two, droped the bike right in the middle and
so now it looks something like this. "Other
side of the road.." "where I'm going". That's not so
good because what I want to do is I
don't want to interrupt
me talking. I'd rather just lay the video
on top and so we're going to do that
with a different kind of clip. So down
here on the timeline I need to find me
talking about the storm. So I'll just
play this forward "there is a massive..",
there it is, it's where I have my thumb.
"There is a massive storm..". Alright I
want to show that massive storm. So down
here in my project panel I know that
there is a clip of the storm. Here it is.
So I'll just play this.
So there's a lot of rain, lots of noise, I'll hit
an in point,
I'll hit an out point and now what I'm going
to do is I'm
going to click and drag this to 'overlay',
and what it's going to do, and notice it
puts it on top of me talking. So when we
play that you're going to hear me
talking but see the storm but you're
also going to hear this storm, that's not
so good but watch what happens.
"There is a massive storm that I'm about to ride into.."
Alright that's not really the best thing
because it's a little bit hard to
understand so I'm going to hit control or
command 'Z' to undo that. Notice my
playhead is right here where I say
there's a massive storm. On the left hand
side remember we have audio and we have
video and we can work with those
independent of each other. So I'm going
to click over here, there are these two
little icons. One says drag video only,
one says drag audio. Only I'm going to
drag the video only. So I'm going to drag
that over here to overlay, and now when I play
this clip "there's a massive storm that
I'm about to ride into.." Alright so now
we see something and we hear something
else. The other thing is this clip should be
longer "..storm that I'm about to ride.." I
can click on the timeline here ,drag that
out and now it is longer. "There's a
massive storm that I'm about to ride
into.." okay that is the basics for editing video.
Just dragging and dropping things on the
timeline and adding those together.
There's one other thing I want to show
you before we end this episode, and that
is using transitions, and so to do that
I'm just going to very quickly add
another section of video "..most right now,
these roads are really.." let's get me
saying "these roads..". "These roads
are really perilous.." okay "these roads are
really perilous" okay. So I'm going to
take that and I am going to add it to
the end of this clip, so drag over 'insert
after' okay so here I am,
"these roads are really perilous.." alright
it's your basic clip but I want to make
this transition really, really smoothly.
So what I can do is on the project panel
over here, notice that there
are other words here. These are different
tabs and so I want to click over here
until I get to my effects tab, I want to
get to video transitions, I'll click that
and these will pop up and then I want to
go to dissolve and then get cross
dissolve. That's probably the most common
video transition in the world. So I will
click and then drag that right onto the
timeline, right into the
playhead between these two clips and
watch what happens. Now this will fade
from one to the other, "..these roads.."
if I want to make that longer I can
click directly on the transition, I will
zoom in so you see that and then I can
click the edge and drag that out and
that will take a little bit more time,
"..right into, these roads are really
perilous.." so it makes it much nicer. The
other thing that I can do with
transitions to really speed things up is
if I go over here to my effects, onto
cross dissolve or any of these that I
want, right click and say set selected as
the default transition, then I don't even
need to go to my project in my effects
panel at all to add the transition. So to
show you that I'll get into a totally
different place and what I want to do is
I'm going to fade this storm in and out.
So on the timeline I will click on that
and then I will just click command or
control 'D' that's for default transition,
when I do that notice that it adds the
transition at the beginning and the end,
whichever default transition you have
defined. So now that storm fades in, fades out.
There you have it we've edited a
horrible but tiny and a useful little
video. We need to know a little bit more
about editing directly on the timeline
and what all these different tools do,
and that's what we're going to do in the
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