6 MISTAKES New FILMMAKERS Make & How to Fix Them in Premiere Pro
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are you hiding in the bird yeah just like dive-bomb meat flew so close to me and then on my shirt I think you dropped it [Music] in this video I'm gonna go over Hallman filming fields I see time and time again from people who are new to video and how to fix them in the editing room so let's often - Premiere Pro and get at it.
So I'm in Premiere Pro and the first help that someone's new to video is this do you see it the crooked horizon line when you're filming and you're trying to capture something it's really easy to overlook making sure your horizon line is level so if you film something that's obviously crooked when you get into the editing room here's how to fix it to make your footage look better and one thing I like to do before I adjust my horizon line is turn on my safe margins on my program window if you don't see this icon you can go over to the right of your program window here click on the button editor it's this plus symbol find the safe margins icon drag it on to the program window like so I'm gonna click on it to activate it it's in blue that's how you can tell it's activated and there we go now we have our safe margins up that we can use as a reference next I'm going to go up to the effect controls window and scale this footage up just a little bit to a hundred and ten I'm gonna go to the rotate option and move it to the left just a little bit and as I'm rotating this clip I'm lining up the bridge line so this parallels the safe margins straight line okay minus five looks nice and straight now I'm gonna adjust the position to bring this clip lower just a little bit and there we go by zooming into your footage just a little bit so your aren't seeing quality loss and by rotating our image we can quickly fix the crooked horizon line okay so let's say maybe you were filming indoors with tungsten light and you set your white balance to an indoor lighting setting then you went aside and you forgot to change your white balance to daylight or 5600 Kelvin so you have this shot you really like it but it looks super blue because you shot it in the wrong color temperature well to fix this we need to use luma tree color correction let's go up to window and click on luma tree color and there we go there is our luma tree color window let's go to our temperature slider and drag it all the way to the right to add orange into our footage awesome there you go correcting your color temperature is that simple okay so this next filming fix I'm going to show you is something that you may already know about I see people use this effect on shaky footage but they don't use the effect correctly or they use it when they really shouldn't if your footage is really shaky and you just throw warp stabiliser on it it might make your footage worse so first I'm going to show you a clip that's just too far gone warp stabilizers not gonna save it it's just gonna make it worse off and then I'm going to show you another clip that's handheld a little shaky but can be smoothed out really nicely with warp stabilizer used correctly.
Okay so first I want to show you a clip that's too shaky for the warp stabiliser effect it was shot handheld it's bouncy it's just not good let's add warp stabilizer onto it and as you can see warp stabiliser just made this clip look even worse let's look at another clip that was shot hands held it's just a little bit shaky by adding the warp stabiliser effect on this particular clip likely we're gonna be able to make this clip look better and less shaky I'll put warp stabilizer on this clip in most cases when you use warp stabilizer you'll have to adjust the settings lately usually I'll bring the smoothness down to around 30 or so with this particular clip I'm gonna change the result tab to no motion and I'm gonna change methods its to perspective and there we go the shot now looks very stable whenever you have shaky footage that you want to make less shaky in some cases the clip will honestly just be better off without warp stabilizer on it looking shaky the way it was shot it's better to have shaky footage than super warped weird footage okay next we got to talk about something that it's even hard to spot in the moment when you're a pro film maker especially if you're on the go and you're filming you're outdoors and you're changing lenses quickly so you can get that perfect shot and that is a dirty sensor or dirty lens and when you're filming and you're just looking at the little camera screen you're probably not gonna see that footage when you get back to the editing room however check it out what you shot on a bigger monitor ah that's when you see it and it's so frustrating it really is but if that happens there is a way to remove that speck of dust or whatever's on your lens or sensor in the editing room so let's hop into it and I'll show you how you see it I'm gonna change the view of this clip from bit to 200% so we're nice and zoomed in just scroll over and up on our program window and there's that that spot do you see it it just sits in the exact same part of the frame and it's a little bit darker than the rest of the sky we'll go back to fit so we can see the entire frame I'm gonna head down to my timeline and click on this clip hold down alt or option on the keyboard and drag it up so I can create a duplicate layer on the to track next I'm gonna go up to the effects window and type in dust and there we go under noise and grain we have to dust and scratches effect we'll drag that on to my duplicate clip and the reason I made the dupes kiss is because I want to show you the before and after alright now in the program window I'm gonna zoom in to 200% again so I can get a really good look at this dust spot and now what I'm gonna do is under effects control and the dust and scratches effect click on the pen tool and then when you use the pen tool to draw around this dust spot like so and I'll make sure that the shape that I'm creating around the stuff spot is connected by clicking around and lastly on the first point I made cool ok back under the dust and scratches drop-down menu where it says mask feather will highlight that and change the mask for 30 to 35 next we'll change radius to 50 and because this is a heavier effect it's still gonna take a few seconds for the effect to actually take effect cool okay look that dust spot is gone the dust and scratches effect has done an awesome job now we're gonna talk a little bit about composition and that's all old can of worms all on its own when you're starting off as a filmmaker or a video person generally you want to use the rule of thirds to compose your footage the rule of thirds looks like an X's nose grid and basically what you want to do is have your subject or your focal point in your image fall on one of the four quadrants or on one of the lines of the rule of thirds grid the first thing that we're gonna do is import a 1920 by 1080 rule of thirds PNG file they were gonna put over this footage as a reference.
Check out the link below you can download it for free use it for whatever you want it's a really helpful tool for making sure that your compositions looking good okay so I've imported that and I'm gonna put it on the b2 track on my timeline there we go and I want wills eyeball to sit on the top-left quadrant on the rule of thirds grid here so the first thing that I'm gonna do is adjust the positioning in my effect controls panel on the x-axis here that will move the y-axis down a little bit and the next thing I'm going to do is scale into the footage by bringing the scale to 120 well adjust the position a little bit more so that wills eye sits nicely on that top-left quadrant now personally with footage I films I don't like to scale into it too much because if you scale in too much you start to notice quality loss in your footage I won't scale in more than to 125 and if I'm scaling it into my footage I'll watch it on a bigger screen to make sure it's still looking good and there you go by scaling in your footage a little bit and adjusting the position accordingly using the rule of thirds grid as a reference that shots now composed a lot better I will admit when it comes to filming on the go especially when I'm doing YouTube videos I this is one of the things I usually overlooked in the moment and that is covering up logos so in this next filming bail fix that was hard to say I'm gonna show you how to hide a logo and this is something that has saved me more times than I'd like to admit let's get into Premiere Pro and take a look ok let's say you film something like in this case you filmed someone's hands typing on his keyboard and you didn't notice that logo in the background that you really shouldn't have on your footage but you can't go back and refilm it you got to work with the footage you've got so first things first I'm gonna go down to my timeline hold alt or option on my keyboard click on the clip that's currently on the beat one track and drag it up and I've created a duplicate of that clip now we'll select the clip back on the v2 track and go up to the effect controls panel and where it says opacity let's select the pen tool bring it over to the program window and we're gonna draw a rectangle around this logo like.
So next we're gonna check mark inverted and can't see this yet but what we've just done is created a cut out a rectangle cut out of that clip cool okay now let's go back down to the timeline and select the clip that's on the v1 track by clicking on it we'll go back up to effect controls we want to move the position of this first clip that's underneath the second clip around until we no longer see that logo but instead we just see that black the screen and while in some cases it can work really well for you to use part of the clip to mask out another part of the clip but we're having some trouble here see I really want to use the black part of the screen from the clip on video track 1 but the sizing of it's currently just not working for me so another trick you can do is go back up to effect controls and uncheck uniform scale now this is gonna give you the option to scale just the height of the clip or just the width of the clip will scale the width to 170 will leave the height at 100 we'll move our position around a little bit more and check that we've dragged the width of the clip on the v1 track out so that we're still using the black sheer color of the screen but we're no longer seeing that logo in the effect controls window under opacity and the math drop down menu where it says mask feather we'll bring that to about 40 just so the edges of this clip feathers so clip 1 and clip 2 blend nicely together and I'll scrub through the timeline to play that back beautiful there we go we have math local out and now it doesn't look like it was ever there at all awesome and there you go thank you so much for checking this video out I hope you enjoyed it if you did give us a thumbs up because that lets us know that you liked it and to see more videos like this one about filmmaking editing and all the travel that we're doing then subscribe to our channel we're putting new videos out weekly so with that I'm off have yourself a lovely rest of the day and we will see you next week thanks for checking this video out okay I'm gonna stop talking because I gotta go
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