Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how I edit
my YouTube tutorial videos with Adobe Premiere Pro. Now when I make my YouTube
videos I record with my phone, which also has audio. And then I also use a microphone,
like this Blue Snowball microphone. And then I also use screen capture recordings,
which will pick up the audio from this mic. I also want to say that I came up with this way of doing
things, so some of it might not be the best way. But if you know a better way of doing any of the
things I've shown in this video, go ahead and drop a comment below. That'll be helpful for
everyone who watches...and me too! Alright, let's get started. So usually when I record I end up
with three files. I've got kind of a talking head video, this part goes at the beginning
and the end of the video. And I record this with an iPhone 11. While I'm recording this, I also
record my voice with a much better microphone, which is the Blue Snowball mic. And then I have
screen capture footage, which I'm able to record the audio at the same time for this. Okay,
so first I'm going to open Adobe Premiere Pro. And then I'm going to come over here to new project.
I'll say this in the same folder just to make it easy. And then I'll type the title of the video.
And my setup for the sayings is okay as is. So we'll say OK. All right, now I'm going to open
my Finder back up, I'm going to select all my files and just drag them right down here
to create a sequence. And now you can see we've got the three pieces. I've got my iPhone footage,
I've got my screen capture, and then my iPhone audio, which is from my Blue Snowball mic.
So I'm going to drag this underneath my iPhone footage. And the reason I do that is because this
audio should match up. And to synchronize them, all we have to do is select both,
right click, and then go to Synchronize right here. We'll choose the Audio track channel 1
and say, OK. It'll take it a second, and then it'll synchronize it.
I'll zoom in right here. Okay, now for whatever reason, my Blue Snowball mic does not record very
loudly. I need to increase the gain of all my audio tracks. So I'll select all with CMD A or
CTRL A on a PC. And I'm going to right click, and then choose Audio Gain right here. I'm going to
put it at 14. I've tested it, that usually does pretty well. Now I'm going to delete my phone
audio. So to do that, I'll hold ALT or OPTION on PC and just click that one, and then delete it.
Then I can select my footage and the audio from my Blue Snowball mic, right click and choose Link.
Okay, so this is lined up nicely. Now my footage is recorded in 1920 by 1080. So my sequence should
also be 1920 by 1080. So I'll check that now. And it is, right here: 1920 by 1080. So we'll say OK.
Now I usually increase my video footage so that I can cut out these pieces up here at
the top and over here. And honestly increasing the size of your footage is probably not the best
idea because it lowers the quality. It's best to shoot footage as a higher resolution than 1080p.
And then you can decrease it to fit the screen. But for my YouTube tutorials, I'm okay with the
quality. I'll click on my footage, then under the editing workspace, I'm going to come to
Effect Controls, and then just hover over the Scale section and increase it a little bit
just until those things kind of go away. Then I'm going to move it down a little bit with the
vertical positioning. Okay, and this is looking pretty good. To play the footage and audio back
I always use the spacebar to just play and stop. And I always cut my footage using the audio. So I
can see there's nothing good up to this point, so I can just cut that out. I can see there's another
big space here that I'll just cut out. So I'm going to increase my view a little bit. I'll get
right here to where I think the audio is going to sound good. I'll just test it by hitting spacebar.
Okay, and that's exactly where I want to cut. So to do that, I'll hit CMD K, that's CTRL K on a PC,
which will make a cut and then it'll also highlight part of your footage,
and then I'll hit OPTION Delete or ALT Delete on a PC to delete that part of the footage.
Now as you're playing by hitting spacebar, you can also hit L on your keyboard to speed it up.
When you hit spacebar again it will reset it. By the way, doing that does not speed up your
actual footage but I'll show you how to do that in a minute. Okay, so I'll click here.
And I'm going to make another cut with CMD K, that's CTRL K on a PC.
And I'll make some other cuts so the video is separated the way it should be.
Now you'll notice on the screen video, I've got a lot of empty spaces like right here and here.
And I always cut those out because they really are blank spaces where I'm either
trying to find my place or whatever, and it's no good. So I've got to cut all those out.
But I try to record my talking head footage as good as I can, so there's very few cuts in it.
I think the screen footage, having a lot of cuts in that, is a lot less noticeable than
in your talking head footage. Okay, so I'm going to move the beginning of the video
all the way over to the front. I'm just going to CMD X or CTRL X on a PC, then move my playhead to
the beginning, I'll hit the plus key to zoom in, and then I'll paste. So you can see it's really
short, it's right here at the beginning, then I'll hit A to select everything after that point,
and then move it over, so it starts in the right place. It looks like a good place to cut the
screen footage is here. So I'll do that and delete the extra. And you'll notice the screen footage is
pretty small, so I need to increase the size of that. So I'll come up here to the Scale. And I'll
just type in 150. And now my screen footage is the right size. I usually fade my talking head
footage into my screen capture footage. So to do that, I'm just going to click right between them,
you'll see a little red line there. And then I'm going to hit CMD D or CTRL D. And that will put
a Cross Dissolve in and that's the normal default transition for Premiere Pro. Now
you can change your default transitions, but I'm pretty happy with the Cross Dissolve.
So here's what it looks like with the fade started. Alright, I'm here in Adobe Illustrator.
So I'm going to move over to where I think the next cut will be. It's probably right here.
I'll just test it. And yes, this is where it'll be. So hit CMD K, that's CTRL K on a PC. And I'm
going to cut right over here to where the audio starts up again. Now for this piece that I want
to cut out, there's a way to do it so that it'll push all the footage over to the right,
right up against this other clip. And to do that, I'm gonna hit OPTION Delete or ALT Delete, which
is known as Ripple Delete. Now, if you have a list of things you're talking about in your tutorial,
you can add numbers and different graphics from Illustrator or After Effects and put them into
your videos too. So I want to show you how to do that. Normally, to do a number or something,
I'll make an edit by hitting CMD K or CTRL K, I'll hit A to move everything over to the right
over a little bit. And then I've got some numbers that I've already created.
These are just PNG files. And I'll just drag one right into my timeline, it comes in really big. So
of course, we'll have to resize it. So I'll just pull this down...so something like this. So your
footage will be going, and then you'll have your number, maybe some audio that says '#1,'
and then once it ends, you can just cut that and get rid of the excess piece, so it'll play
like this. And of course, you can click on it and add your default transitions by hitting CMD D or
CTRL D, to just kind of get it to dissolve in and out. That's a little much so I'll undo. But let's
say you want to speed up parts of the video. Okay, so I'm going to speed up this part all the way to
here. The thing is, you don't really want to speed up your audio, it'll start sounding really weird.
I'll use my eraser tool by hitting CMD K or CTRL K there. And I'm going to cut it over here too. I'm
going to hold OPTION or ALT and click on just the audio and get rid of that. And then we're
going to squeeze this in so it plays really fast. I'll hit R on my keyboard, which will
bring us over here to the Rate Stretch tool. And now you'll want to get right on the edge of this
and move it over, so it speeds up that footage. So now when we play this, it starts moving really
fast. If you want to speed it up even more, you can do the same thing - hitting R and moving it
to make it even shorter. Now you might notice that it sometimes doesn't work. You'll want to
zoom in closer on the footage, and then most of the time we can get it to work that way.
So after everything's done, you've got the whole video the way you want it, you'll want to Render
it. So to do that, I'll go to the very beginning of the video or press the Home key and hit I for
'in'. In and Out is what you'll be setting. Then I'll go to the very end of the video, you can also
press Enter on your keyboard, and then press O for 'out.' So we have our 'in' and our 'out.'
You can see the difference on your timeline, you'll have these two little blue bars up here
and a part of it that's just a little lighter gray. So once you have your In and Out selected,
come up here to Sequence and choose Render In to Out. And this will usually take quite a long time.
But once it's done, then you can go ahead and go to File > Export Media. Now I only change
a few things here. I change my Output name. I just click on that make sure it's the correct
name and that it's going to be saved in the correct place. And then I make sure that
these two are checked. I want both the video and the audio. And my format is always H264.
And then I hit Export. And that's it. All right, if you liked this video, please click on the
Like button and I'll see you in a couple days with another graphic design video. Thank you!!