Hey everyone, welcome to my channel. My name is Victor Melchor and I'm a freelance filmmaker.
So I recently got some questions on how I edit and just how to start an editing workflow.
And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Today. I'm
going to be teaching you how to edit in Premiere Pro
for beginners.
So yeah, let's get into it. So I'm going to be transferring all my footage onto my Samsung,
T5 hard drive. And this is a really great tool.
Especially once you start making more and more videos,
you can offload your footage and you can edit off of this.
And this is something that I would recommend for everybody.
That's editing video. So now let's get into Premiere Pro.
So we'll start with new project will title this bmpcc,
4K review create and then this is what you're going to see.
So you just right click, click import’ we’ll go to the Samsung T5.
I'll just import all of this. All right.
So now I got my footage imported.
So I have my song which you can double-click and then I also just have all my footage.
So there's a mixture of my interview style talking footage and me talking about the camera.
And then I also have my b-roll So now let's look at the footage.
My name is Victor Melchor and to- Okay,
so I don't need the first beginning piece.
So this go back, press,
I for a starting point, everyone. Welcome back to the channel.
My name is Victor Melchor, which is the black magic pocket,
Cinema Camera. 4K my endpoint,
you just press. Oh, and then you just click this and drag it in and you created your sequence.
And then let's just say, I want to throw this.
One in. So there's just like random patch where I forgot what I was talking about.
So I'm going to press see, this gives me the blade tool cut it,
and then press V to go back to the arrow and then drag it and then bring it back together.
So, that's pretty much how you trim footage.
And say, if you want to undo that you just press command.
Z, however, many times you need and then say,
I want to add a song in. So I'll just throw the song in
and obviously right now the song is going to be way louder than my audio.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to just right click
it and then go to audio gain and then set gain and then I can turn it down to however low I need.
So usually around 20 will get me like the right one
and then see if I just want to move all the footage.
I can just select it all, move it over here.
And then let's just say I want to add like a nice little b-roll shot of the camera.
Drag it in my bounce just fell off.
And so I want to zoom out of the timeline so I can see a little bit more.
So I'll just do that. It's a little bit shaky.
So I'm going to add some warp stabilizer.
So go to video effects,
distort, add warp stabilizer,
and sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. It can be a little funky.
So it's just kind of a matter of playing around with it and In this case,
it looks pretty good. So, we'll keep that on.
And now I just want to add a little title. So I'll just go to the graphics tab.
Find a lower thirds go here.
And you could type the title out. So I'll just put bmpcc,
4K will select what we need will change the font to Arial and then we'll do bold italic.
So now you have a little title
and if you're finding that your laptop is struggling to edit the footage.
It's usually, because it's on full. So just go to 1/4 and then it'll play back.
Your footage pretty smoothly and also some people will color their footage at the end.
Some people, color grade, their footage at the beginning. Sometimes I'll color my footage at the very beginning
because I just get excited.
I kind of like how it looks. That just gets me more hyped to finish the edit.
So we'll just go to color and the way you can do it is you can make your tweaks here.
So for individual Clips where the color will be varying,
you can kind of do it right there. But say for this interview footage,
which I have a lot of interview footage.
Also something I forgot to mention if you just want the clip with
no audio you just click this little icon.
for video. Or if you just want the audio,
just click the audio icon. You can click and drag it there.
And if you do want to unlink the audio you just select the clip.
Go to unlink and then you're good.
Yeah, so say for this interview footage. I have so much footage and the light is unchanging.
I'm going to right click go to new item adjustment layer.
Okay, and then do that.
And then I can just literally drag it over all my interview footage,
and then I can just make my whatever color adjustments that I want.
And we're good to go. And then you can drag this over.
However, much footage is the same and you'll be chilling.
And personally, I don't really use transitions too much.
But if you do need them, you'll just go to the effects tab then video,
then transitions. And then it'll have some to choose from if anything.
I'll just use a cross dissolve, but that's pretty much it audio.
I don't really go to this tab, too often. I'm by no means an audio expert.
I just make sure my audio isn't peeking. I just try to keep it around like negative 6,
if you do need to do captions, it's right here, but I actually use the zubtitle,
it does automatic captions for you. So you don't have to type it out.
Manually. I would say, that's pretty much
it for like basic editing for beginners and I have one last tip.
Say if you want to change the aspect ratio of your footage for Instagram,
reels or Tik Tok, or something like that.
You'll just go to sequence sequence settings and then you would just basically inverse this.
So 1920 by 1080 that's wide screen here.
Just go to 1080 by 1920.
Okay, to use properly scale,
the footage, you would just go to effects and just zoom into however much you need.
And yeah, that's pretty much everything. I don't need that.
So all this command Z it a couple times and we're good.
Yeah, so say we're ready to export. Now.
I would just go to file go to export media.
I usually do adaptive high bitrate.
I'll change the name. So bmpcc4k v1.
So all these things are fine, render at maximum depth.
So what we'll do is go to vbr, 2 pass
and then we can even boost this up a little bit and then use maximum render quality and Export.
So yeah, that's pretty much it
for editing. In Premiere Pro editing is totally an art
but I just wanted to make this a short
and simple video for people who are just getting into shooting videos
and creating. Also super important tip.
I forgot to mention Premiere Pro is kind of known for crashing.
So always hit command s for saving and you'll be good.
Hey everyone, editor Victory here. My initial plan was to make a combined video on how to edit in Premiere Pro
and DaVinci Resolve,
but it was getting a little lengthy.
So I just decided I'm actually going to split these videos in two.
So next week. I'll be uploading The DaVinci Resolve tutorial.
But yeah, that's all for today. I just want to say thank
you for watching and I'll see you next week.