Hello this is Mike Russell from MusicRadioCreative.com.
If you've watched my channel for a while you'll know I do plenty of Adobe Audition tutorials
but as I start doing more and more video I'd like to show you my journey with Adobe Premiere
Pro.
Let's get started.
Take a look at my screen.
This is the splash page you get when you first start Adobe Premiere Pro.
Now It's part of the creative cloud subscription which is why i'm utilising it more and more
but it can be very daunting if you've never edited video before.
I'm gonna show you how to get started.
Click new project and then just give it a name down here so for instance Mike simple
as that.
Don't worry about any of these to get started just click OK.
Now, another daunting screen comes up if you've never done video before well the first thing
you want to do to quick start is cancel this completely.
Don't worry about that and you'll get the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace.
Now there are lots of different windows I'd like to go into more detail as I create more
Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials but first of all I wanted to just bring in a few videos
I've shot on my Canon 60D camera and drag this one in.
Now you simply drag and drop here into the bottom left project window.
That will import your file and very shortly it will be there and available to use.
There it is.
Now how do you get it from the project window into the timeline?
Clicking and dragging won't work.
By the way if you hover and move this you can actually see the video that you've shot.
If I want to get it in the timeline or multitrack as we use to in audio editing I need to right
click that clip and then select new sequence from clip that will create a brand new timeline
there you can see with 3 video slots and 3 audio slots.
Now I'm very simply just going to trim this clip.
It's really easy to do that you can hover over the start and the finish and you'll get
that red arrow there so if I want to trim that maybe to where I start panning the camera
which is about here.
Let's trim that right the way down there and then at the very end will just trim it in
a little bit coz there's a camera shake at the end and then pull that to the very start
of the timeline and then I'm simply going to show you once I've trimmed everything and
I'm happy with the video.
That looks pretty good to me.
I'm going to go into the file menu making sure that the timeline window is selected.
Then I'm going to go to export, media and then I need to select formats.
Now this is where you can get stuck again.
There are so many formats for video.
It can be quite confusing.
It's not like the wav and mp3 world of audio.
So the best one to use if you're exporting for use on somewhere like youtube is H.264
OK select that format and then very kindly Adobe Premiere Pro provides you with plenty
of presets here for everything from Android phones to tablets, iPhones, Apple TVs, but
I like to go for the youtube format that obviously is gonna be optimised for uploading to my
youtube channel and I select Youtube HD 1080p because that's the I want the maximum quality
there and then just under 24 frames per second which is that kind of movie style video format
that we're use to watching in cinemas.
And then to export it you simply select export making sure you've given it a reasonable output
name so you could give it anything like just Mike will do.
Save, export and within moments you'll have your Youtube video ready to drag and drop
into Youtube and upload.
I hope you enjoy this very brief introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro.
I will still be doing plenty of Adobe Audition tutorials on my channel but I wanted to introduce
you from an audio world into video especially if you're taking full advantage of the new
Adobe Creative Cloud subscription that gives you software like Premiere Pro.
So if you want to see more tutorials in Premiere Pro I'll be making them as I go along and
as I learn myself.
So when I learn a new trick in Adobe Premiere Pro or I want to know how to do something
i'll learn it and then create a video for you.
If this sounds like something you'd like to see more of simply leave a comment below this
video and let me know your thoughts.