>>ALAN: As we wrap up our time learning Photoshop in this class,
I want to end by talking about how to video edit in Photoshop.
[IMMITATES STUDENT] Video edit in Photoshop?
Yup!
[IMMITATES STUDENT] Why not just teach us Adobe Premiere...
Sssh! Photoshop can hear you.
Like the animation unit in this class, we don't have time to learn
the individual Adobe programs that specialize in these areas. So, I didn't teach you After Effects
in the animation unit and I'm not going to teach you Premiere in this unit. We could, but then
you'd learn just the very minimum of these other programs that we have other classes that teach.
Shameless plug: you should totally take my Video I course. My goal in this class has always been
to teach you the depths of what you could learn inside of Photoshop and that includes
basic video editing. Similar to animation, Adobe has introduced
very basic video editing capabilities inside the timeline panel. So we already know the timeline
panel, so working with video should be kind of a natural evolution with what we've already done.
So in this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to get started with
a video project inside of Photoshop and then, in the coming tutorials,
I'll show you how to actually edit work with audio and export your videos for the web.
To start a video project in Photoshop the first thing we have to do is create a brand
new artboard. Now we've been working in the 'Web' preset tab with the 'Web
Large' artboard for most of our projects and exercises throughout the class.
Now while we could use a regular 'Web Large' artboard, I'd rather explore the
'Film and Video' preset tab that they give us already. Go ahead and click on Film and Video.'
That takes us then to a series of film and video presets that we can use. Now they have
either 1080 or 720. These are the pixel dimensions of most HD
videos. Now 720 is like HD of the early 2000s. We honestly need to forget that 720 even exists
for this class and for most things you do you should be working in at least 1080.
That means that the dimensions of our artboard are 1920x1080 pixels at 72 pixels per inch.
You might be thinking, "isn't that the same as Web Large?"
Yes and I'll show you the difference when we create this. So we look over here - everything
is the same as our Web Large. Let's go ahead and hit 'Create.' Now technically what we're looking
at is the same as a Web Large artboard but what it gives us are these guides. And these guides are
the title action safe lines that most videos need to adhere to and I'll explain these more as we
start to create actual content for our video. But for now just realize these guides are important.
And if for some reason you don't see them you can come up to 'View' in the menu bar,
come down to 'Show,' and check 'Guides and Canvas Guides' and that will make these appear.
Now, if your timeline panel is not open go ahead and open it now by going up to 'Window'
in the menu bar and clicking on 'Timeline.' And then we want to create a video timeline
not a frame animation, so choose this little arrow here and click on 'Create Video Timeline' and then
click on the physical button called 'Create Video Timeline.' That's going to create our new video
timeline with 'Layer 0' that we see mirrored over here in our Layer panel called 'Layer 0.' Now the
first thing I want to do is I want to zoom into my timeline so I can start to see what I'm working
with. It gives us a 5 second slug here on Layer 0 that's blank but I wanna be able to see that
a little bit better. To zoom in, we can use our 'Big Mountain/Little Mountain' icons down here at
the bottom. I'm gonna click 'Big Mountain' to zoom in a little bit and we can now see that this is a
default of 5 seconds. Remember from our animation tutorials that the little letter 'f' means frames
but this is not one frame this is one second, or 30 frames. So try to keep that in mind as we go.
Now for this project, you're going to be making a video out of the audio from your podcasts,
so it would make sense that the first thing we should do is import our podcast audio.
Now most of video editing is going to be importing content into our timeline so
we can then manipulate it and edit it. And to import content, whether video or audio,
we have two little icons here that I want to discern: We have this little film strip icon,
which is the 'Media' icon, and we have this little music note icon which is the 'Audio' icon.
And we have little pull downs next to each of these. So if I pull down the 'Media' icon, we can
see an 'Add Media' option. Likewise if I pull down the music note icon we have an 'Add Audio' icon.
So, to add our podcast audio, I'm going to click 'Add Audio,' I'll navigate to where my audio is,
and I'll hit 'Open.' Now, that opens up our audio in our audio track and if I hit 'Little Mountain'
a few times, I can zoom out and I can see the length of this podcast which is about three
minutes. This is a sample podcast that I made for this class. Now we have audio to work with,
now we need to import some video. So the ultimate goal of this project is to add visual elements
that support the audio of your podcast, so maybe, as you're introducing yourself, you
show your picture; maybe as you're talking about a certain event, you show a picture of that event;
maybe you have text that comes on screen that kind of emphasizes a certain point. And then, using
keyframes, just like we've already learned, we can animate those things to move around on screen.
This is the basis of this project. So now that we've made our video project,
we've made our artboard, and we've imported our podcast audio, we can now get started
importing visual elements using the 'Add Media' button and we'll do that in the next tutorial!