Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography
right here on AdoramaTV
I'm Mark Wallace.
Well this is the first part
of a multiple part series
on the basics of editing video.
This series is for anybody
that wants to learn
how to import and edit videos
and then share them with friends and family
either on YouTube or Vimeo
or on your Apple TV
or your mobile device,
whatever that is.
This is the series for you
and so unfortunately
I can't teach you how to edit videos
in about 8 minutes.
It takes a little bit of time
and so we're going to spend
the next few episodes
going through all of the different things
that you need to know
and I'm assuming that you don't
know anything about editing video.
So this is an absolute beginners guide
for editing video
and we're going to do all of this
in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Now if you don't have Adobe Premiere Pro CC
that's okay, you can download a free
30-day trial from Adobe.
It’s really, really easy.
All you have to do is zip
over to adobe.com/creativecloud.html
and then zip over and click on the free trial,
a little link there.
What you want to do is make sure that you
download two things
and maybe even three.
The first is Adobe Premiere Pro.
So you want to make sure you download that.
You also need to download this little thing
called Adobe Media encoder.
We're going to get to that in later episodes
and then you may also want to download
Adobe Lightroom.
That's optional but we are going to be getting
into a little bit of the integration
between Lightroom and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Now when you click on the download button
what you're going to see is that Adobe
will ask you to create an Adobe ID
that's okay, it's absolutely free
and you need to do that to use
all the features
of the Creative Cloud applications
and so make sure you do that.
Alright so I'm going to assume that
you've installed everything
onto your computer
and you're ready to go.
One thing I want to point out
is that I am editing on a laptop.
My video files and all my projects
are stored on an external hard drive.
In fact I've got two of these
because one is recording the video
that I'm making right now
and the other has the video
that I'm going to be editing in the video
that I'm recording.
So I've got two external hard drives
and I highly recommend if you're editing video
that you do that,
you store all your files
on an external hard drive.
Alright well now that we're ready to go
let me go over sort of how
Premiere Pro is set up,
the interface itself.
The interface, now we're just
going to dive in here.
I'm using, by the way, a project
that I created. This is a real project.
It is called My Muddy Adventure.
You can find this on YouTube
I've attached the link to this file
in the description of this video,
so you can click that.
It's about a 17 minute video
if you want to watch that.
The reason I'm using this
is that is because this project
has everything that we need to learn.
It has a basic video edit
so all the different elements of video and audio.
It's got music, it has transitions
between different clips,
fades in and fades out.
It has titles and it even has
some basic, simple animation
and so we're going to learn
all of that stuff in this series
and so this project is perfect for us
to peek in and see how it was done in real life.
I'm going to dissect that
and do it ourselves
on a much simpler project.
Let me show you this interface.
Really the interface is set up
in four major parts
on the left-hand side
there is a window.
This is our source monitor,
it's a monitor that shows us the clips
that we're editing.
In other words the raw ingredients.
So this is where we say,
this is where I want the video to start
and where I want that to end,
the different clips.
On the right of that
is our program monitor.
This program monitor shows us
our entire project
and so it's our completed film.
Everything that's been happening,
everything that we're doing
shows up on the right
and they're independent of each other
so we can work a little bit on our source
make sure we have that
just a little clip selected
and throw it on to our main timeline.
So let's show you the timeline.
The timeline is where everything happens,
it's sort of the heartbeat of premiere,
of any editing application actually.
The timeline is a linear representation
of our entire project.
So if I zoom in here.
I'm zooming in using the plus key
and zooming out
using the minus key.
You'll see that there are little blocks
and these blocks represent different items.
They represent either a title
or a video clip, or an audio clip
or a transition, or an effect,
so each little thing that is in our video
shows up as the block
and you can see, it gets sort of
complicated looking
and this is sort of a simple video,
so don't be put off by
all these little blocks here
but let's zoom in really, really close
and I'm going to play
just the very, very first part
of this, the first 15 seconds or so
of this video
and I'm going to make this big.
I'll show you what this looks like.
Here we go.
So there is a title, some crazy music,
a motorcycle.
We have me talking, and there you go.
So that's the first ten seconds
but let's look on the timeline
and see what happens.
So we'll see here
that on the timeline,
this is a representation of time,
so we're moving forward in time.
We have something here
that is called the time indicator.
This line right here.
This shows us our current time.
It's also called the playhead.
So we can drag that around
and that is how we move through
the timeline.
The timeline is broken up into frames.
Each one of these little dots here,
each one of these little lines here
is actually a frame
and a frame is each
of the individual pictures in the video
So you might shoot 30 pictures per second
or 60 per second,
so when you put them on the timeline,
we can see each one of those individually
and that's how we chop things up.
So on the timeline we can see that.
We can move through that.
I'll zoom out here a little bit
and notice that we have things stacked
on the timeline.
So this first thing right here
this little white thing,
that's a title
and notice it has a little weird block
right here that says cross dissolve.
That means it's going to fade in.
So as we move forward in time
notice over here on our program monitor,
we have a title fading in
on top of a video.
The video is of the motorcycle
and we also are hearing
some music.
That's this little thing right here
That is a music track
so we have a title
and a video and a music track
and as we play forward,
we notice that the title goes away.
So as we move forward
we'll see the title go away.
There it goes, you can see
that on the timeline
and then we'll see that as we go forward
that our music is going to end
and we're going to have a new title
that comes up.
There it is our new title comes up
and then as we go forward
that title is going to go away,
and now it's just a video and me talking,
so that's basically how a timeline works
we have all these different things
on the timeline going in order
but the nice thing about Premiere
and other editors like this
Final Cut Pro is that you can edit
things in a non linear fashion,
in other words you can put things on a timeline
and if you don't like the way
they're arranged, no problem,
you can shift everything around
and move it back
and forth and trim it and stretch it.
You can do all of that stuff.
We're going to do that in the next episode
that is how our project is made up
and how it works
and so we're going to really
have a lot of fun with this.
Okay so now that we understand the workspace
and we understand sort of how it goes
and at a high level.
Don't worry we're going to learn
more specific things about this
workspace as we go forward.
Let's keep going.
Let's actually create our first project.
We can do this from scratch
so I'm going to go to Premier.
I'm going to say new project
now when you first open project
or first open Premier,
in fact, I'll do that right now.
I'm just going to open Premier
from scratch. You'll see this little dialog
right here and it's going to ask you
some things. So we will open a new project.
So click on new project
and then it's going to have a bunch of things
here that look really scary
and you don't know what to do with them
right now but that's okay.
So let's name this.
We're going to name this my first project.
Always give your projects some kind of name,
something that's descriptive.
Then we need to choose a location,
a physical location on our hard drive.
So I'm going to put this on an external hard drive
so I'm going to browse
and I'm going to put
this on my two terabyte Orange drive.
This hard drive right here
in my videos folder
and then I'm going to create
a new folder and I'm going to call
this my first project
so you can put yours anywhere you want
but I highly suggest
that you put it on an external hard drive
if you have one
I'll choose and then I will say
ok everything else don't worry too much
about video and audio, and capture
Alright this is what project, Premier looks like...
Your very first project, it's just sort of
this blank canvas, there's nothing there.
The first thing we need to do is get
files in to premiere so that we can
start working with them. So what I've
done is.. I have on my external hard drive
I have a folder called footage with a
ton of video footage. Now I highly
recommend if you're shooting video you
figure out some way to organize your
footage because before you know it's
going to become chaos! And so I have some
folders here. I have one that's called
Africa and then I've got things that are
broken up by country, I've got South
Africa, I did a bunch of stuff there so I
have these broken up into different
events that I did
I've got Europe and some other things
the other thing I have is this GoPro
footage, and you notice that it is by date
Now I'm using Adobe, I mean GoPros
quick application, and it automatically
takes GoPro footage and puts it into a
nice folder by date format. So that's
where this came from and inside here you
can see that I've got different GoPro
hero cameras, so it's really nice and
organized and I really, really, like that.
So what i'm going to do is, the first
thing in Adobe premiere we need to do, is
to import our video footage, and so what
I recommend that you do on the left hand
side the lower left hand side of your
screen, you'll see that there is a
project and that is where we're going to
be putting all of our media. Now what we
can do is start creating bins, bins are
just a fancy word for folders, alright so
I'm going to create a new bin and I'm
going to do that in my project here by
creating, clicking on this new
bin icon, and I'm going to call this
'footage', once I have that done I'm going
to create another bin and I'm going to
call this one 'music' and then I'm going
to create another one called 'sequences'
and I'm going to do that, so I can keep
all of my different elements separated
and make them easy to find, and so I
highly recommend that you create these
and one more called 'stills' for your
still images photos, and so it's also a
good idea to save your project
frequently, so command or 'ctrl s' to save.
All right now I'm going to double click
on footage and then I can right click
and say import and then navigate to my
folder to import files there's a
different way to do this, it's much
easier just go to your finder or Windows
Explorer and then go to the footage that
you want to import so I'm going to go
here to this folder right here
The seventh, I'm going to click on these and then
just drag them over and drop them into
that window and then it's going to
import the files so they're in there so
now if I double click on that you'll see
I have a video that's right here alright
so importing is really easy,
so either right-click say import
navigate and then choose the files or
you can just drag things in, and the nice
thing is if you have a bunch of folders
like all those folders I showed you with
my GoPro footage in dates you can grab
all of them and then drag it into your
footage and it will keep all the folders
exactly like they were on your hard
drive so that's why it's really
important to keep things organized,
because if you do it on your hard drive,
then you can drag it in, and it's going
to keep it organized inside your project.
So again I'm going to save my project
now what we're going to do is we are
going to start, and we're going to put
our very first clip on the timeline. So
to put something on a timeline you need
what's called a sequence. You need to
create a sequence so what I can do here
is I can go back to my sequences and
then I can create this new item and then
I can say sequence. Now as soon as I do
this, my mind is just going to start
melting, because I have so many different
choices and presets I have no idea where
to begin, I do!, but I'm pretending I'm you,
where do you begin?
Well these all represent different file
formats and frame rates and resolutions
and codecs and all kinds of things that
you don't need to know about at all to
edit video at this point. So I'm not even
going to use this I'm just going to hit
cancel there's a much easier way to
create a brand new sequence and make
sure that all the settings are correct.
All you have to do is take your footage,
that is from your main camera the one
that you're using most in this instance
it's my GoPro. So I have that loaded in
here I double clicked it, and so I'm just
going to drag this by clicking, dragging
it over here where to the timeline
should be, and letting go 'blink!', and now I
have a sequence and that sequence is all
set up it's absolutely correct.
It matches everything, unfortunately it has a
weird name, the name matches, the, the actual clip, and it puts it in the root
folder, so you have to go in here, you'd
have to right-click rename that, so I'm
going to rename this, I'm going to call
it 'main timeline'. There we go and then
I'm going to drag that into my sequences
folder so that it is in the right place.
Ok, that's all there is to it so now we
have this clip it looks pretty cool if I
play that looks pretty good except for
I've got too much on the front so I can
drag this on the left to get rid of that!
Drag it over now I've got this clip here
Ok, so I actually have a video it's not
fancy but look what we can start doing
here. So maybe I want to take this and
add a clip in front of that I can just
zip over, I'll grab ah, this is my picture of
my motorcycle and I'll say let me give
you five seconds of that, and put it down
there and so now all of a sudden here's
a motorcycle and then it goes to me and
I can do all kinds of other things I can
put in transitions and music and all, all
kinds of stuff. So how do we do that well
that's what we're going to do next week
We're going to
dive in and we're going to do nothing
but work on the timeline we're going to
learn how to set end points, and out
points, and transitions, and get things on
the timeline, and move them around, and
shorten and stretch, and do all kinds of
fun stuff! So don't forget to join us for
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be awesome I'll see you then.