Learn Premiere Pro CC In 40 Mins | CRASH COURSE FOR BEGINNERS
New to editing? Want to learn Premiere Pro? This is a big one! 40 minute Premiere Pro CC for beginners crash course!
Follow along by downloading the video editing footage below via the links! Enjoy!
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LINK TO FOOTAGE:
https://mega.nz/folder/tmwFhTqD#XPN8CC5h4VfNNnBa3qZudQ
MUSIC (Download the watermarked version for the purpose of learning, or purchase the watermarked free version if you'd like to use it):
https://audiojungle.net/item/upbeat-energetic-pop/22893492?s_rank=2
GENERATED CAPTIONS:
go ahead and open up premiere pro when it starts up you're going to see the home screen or the start screen and this might look a little different depending on the version you have so to get started let's go to new project then you'll have the new project window that comes up we can go ahead and name our project then we will save where we want the project to be so for me this folder is fine i have created a premiere pro mini course folder so it's always good to place your projects within a folder for organization i'll talk a bit more about that later on underneath that within the general tab you'll see an option here and based on the graphics card you have on your computer you might only have this option which is software but if you have a good enough graphics card you can select this and i would recommend it this is the cuda version on mac you might have something called metal and either one is great we'll click ok now premiere pro has started up yours might look a little different than mine because i've customized some of the windows so if you want to customize your windows when you click on any of the panels you'll notice that they highlight in a color so that means that you're working within that specific panel so on this one we're in the program monitor if i click here we're in the project if i click here in the sequences timeline area the effect controls and so on if you hover the mouse in between the panels you'll see it changes and that means you can move it around make it larger reveal more things within specific panels and that works the same for every single one and you can also do it going this way if you'd like to do that next if you go up to a specific panel and click and hold in the name and drag it you can actually move it to different spots inside premiere pro to customize the way the panels look just to give you an example we can move it to this side so now the program monitor is over here i prefer this setup it's more of a classic premiere pro setup from years ago and i've just gotten used to it and i would recommend setting it up more similar to this where you have your wide sequence timeline at the very bottom and we'll talk more about what that is in a minute and if you don't have specific windows you can go up to window and then enable which ones you want and on every panel you'll see three lines so if you click that you'll get additional options where you can close for example or undock it and undocking means you're putting it into its own panel so for me right now i'm not going to have lumetri color open i'm not going to have the essential graphics and we'll keep it on effect controls and move that over and the last thing i'm going to do for the setup is going to go up here where it says effects and i'm actually going to bring that so it's within its own panel so this is the setup i like project effects program effects controls with tabs of audio mixer and the source and then the entire timeline at the bottom and then we have our audio meters and then all our tools okay so moving right along before we start importing footage and editing i want to talk about organization for a second so in the description of this video i've left a lot of links where you can download the footage that i'm actually going to be working with in this project and you'll also find the link for the music track i'm going to be using so i'd recommend following along and downloading all of those files so i've created a folder called premiere pro mini course now for you you can name it whatever you'd like so i have put all of the footage into a footage folder and the music in the music folder and you can see here that the project we created in premiere pro was saved into this folder as well so i would recommend keeping everything well organized as it will help you as you become a better editor since i've already done that let's go back into premiere pro inside the project window this is where you're going to be importing everything there's a few ways to import you can right click import you can go up to file or you can simply just double click however i find the easiest way is to simply grab the folders and then command tab on the mac or control tab on the pc over to premiere and then simply drag doing it this way with the folder selected will import everything in the exact same way okay so now we have all of the footage and now we have the music track as well i'd always recommend having a game plan going into your editing project before you start your editing so the music track i chose is an upbeat more fun type of song it's great for summer style footage or action sports and that sort of thing and the footage is very similar so if we double click you'll see here in the source monitor that the footage opened up and we can actually scrub through and see what this clip consists of so it's all kind of adventure type of footage knowing that this is the type of footage we're gonna be working with it made sense to have more of a fun upbeat song so now that we have a theme in style for this edit we then need a place to be able to put all the footage and start editing in order to create a sequence we need to know the type of sequence we want to make so we can find that out by going down into the footage and you can see here that the frame rates are 23.976 25 29 there's 30 so it's all different kinds and since these are just a bunch of random clips they do have different frame rates so i tend to like to shoot in 23.976 or 24 frames a second so we're going to create a sequence at that frame rate and for the resolution if we keep scrolling over here this is 4k we have 1080 which is hd and this is 720p so it's a little under full full hd so since the lowest resolution we have to work with is 720p that's what we're going to create a sequence with so let's go to file new and sequence if this is the first time you're opening premiere pro you're not going to have a custom area for presets i've already created that ahead of time so you can just go into the digital slr or any other one that has a 720p option and here's 720p at 23976 so that's the frame rate and that's the resolution so let's click that let's go into settings and everything else looks good so we can name the sequence we'll call it summer fun edit and click ok then a sequence was created down here you can see that there's v1 to v3 and a1 to a3 those represent the video tracks and the audio track so when we drag footage down here if it has audio the audio will go down here and the video tracks will go here alright so let's start bringing down footage into our sequence let's go up into the footage folder and what i'm going to do is click on the top one i'm going to hold shift and click on the bottom one so that all of them are selected and then i'm going to click and hold and drag all of the footage right into our sequence now if we scroll through this you can see that we have all of the footage here so right off the bat when you click on a clip let's say this one for example you can see that the audio is attached to it and in some cases you don't want that to happen so what you need to do is either press option on a mac or alt on a pc and click and then you'll select just one of the files and then with that selected if you click near the top and drag it you can move it independently i'm going to go to edit undo and put that back and in this case we don't need any of the audio from the footage since we're going to be putting a music track so in the same way that i just taught you we're going to hold option or alt on the pc and we're going to click and drag somewhere that's not on a clip down in the audio section and we're going to highlight all of just the audio from there we're going to press delete on our keyboard and that will wipe all of the audio from all of the footage next we'll go back up into our project window into music and we'll click and drag our music right where our audio from our footage used to be and then we'll place our cursor right at the beginning and then we'll come up here to our program monitor and we will make it larger we'll hit play up here audio jungle okay and that will go through and play the whole thing if we'd like we can skip to this area and hit play here and you can see that a bunch of clips were stitched together in each piece of footage that we're using in our sequence here and as i progress through this edit i'm definitely going to be removing some of the clips and i'll teach you that in just a few seconds before we get to that if you look over here you'll see that at the top of our audio meters it shows two red dots now and if we click those go away so if we play again audio jungle you can see that when the loud music came in the red dots showed up again so that's called peaking and that's something you want to avoid all the time in your edits so the best way to get around that is to either select your audio right click go to audio gain and then just reduce the audio a little bit so minus three decibels we'll see if that solved it audio jungle okay so gotta do a little more we'll do again another three so it goes to minus six and you could see that that was no longer peaking there's no longer red so that's a good level for now now really quickly i just want to show you another way of bringing footage into the timeline if you want to do it very specifically and not just select all the footage and bring it down you can go into a specific clip let's say this rollercoaster clip and you go to the source window and you can move through the clip and let's say you wanted to use just that so you can press mark in and then you can move to the end of that clip and then hit mark out and then if we go up here and click and drag into our sequence then we will have just that clip so i'm going to delete that if we wanted to bring just the video we'd click this symbol and just audio would be down there so that's another way you can bring footage in in a more specific way all right so moving right along down here in our sequence if we go to where the v1 is that's our video layer one if we go just the top we can click and drag and make it larger this will reveal thumbnails of the footage we have in our sequence and you can see that for the audio it's similar if we drag those down you can see the waveform and at any time we can zoom in and out by pressing the plus and minus on our keyboard so if we zoom in you can see that by scaling this it also makes the waveforms bigger on our audio channels let's zoom back out a bit so in premiere pro and in most editing programs there's going to be a bunch of layers and let's say if we take this clip and move it above you're then going to see this clip instead of the clip below now if we turned off this entire layer by clicking this button here you'll see this clip below and if we turn it back on then it goes back to this clip so whatever footage is on the top is what's going to be shown all right so let's drag this clip back and you can see it kind of snaps that's because the snap tool is on over here if you click that off then it won't snap in place so let's turn that back on so it snaps in place and we'll bring it back down and we will zoom out a little bit all right let's grab this sunset clip here and drag it to the end and we'll zoom in to this area and scrub through it to show you what it is now in this piece of footage that we downloaded there's two clips stitched together and you can actually see if we hit the arrow keys we can go frame by frame there's actually a fade between them so i'm going to leave the cursor right there and i'm going to go near the end and you'll see the symbol change on my mouse and then i'm going to click and drag so it trims the clip right to there as you can see we just have that clip if i go to edit undo let's say we just wanted to split these two clips up and still keep the second half so in that case we can use the razor tool and click right there we can also click kind of anywhere we want and it'll make splits in the clip so i'm going to undo a few times and then let's go to the spot we'd like to cut which is just before the fade and then just after the fade and we'll cut there as well then let's go back to our regular tool we will select the part we do not want and we can either delete it by pressing delete on our keyboard or right clicking and going to cut now we have this clip at the end and this second clip so that's the basics of moving clips and trimming them all right so let's go down here and go right back to the start we'll zoom out a bit then we'll bring those two clips back into our spot now a quick note if you find the playback is choppy while you're watching the footage you can change the resolution playback to either half or a quarter or potentially even more depending on the footage you're working with and your system so for me i'll just keep it at full all right next we're going to go through all of our footage and pick selects of the best clips that we'd like to use in this edit so since this song is two minutes long we can't use all of the footage so we're going to need to cut out at least half of the footage we have to work with and most likely a lot more if we want to do a fine cut edit and fine cutting edit just means you're using the best of the best and then the edit will be a lot more interesting so i like to edit in a non-destructive way which means i don't like to delete clips from my sequence i'd rather just separate them for organization and in case i need to grab clips later on so let's mute the audio we'll zoom in and we'll start going through and picking selects and i'll show you what i mean so with the audio muted we're not going to hear any of that when we play the idea here is we're going to play through watch and with our razor tool make cuts and pick out certain clips that we'd like to use so let's go to the beginning here we'll scrub through maybe we'll cut there we'll cut there so we'll go back up to our regular selection tool and drag that up and maybe we'll just use the end here as well all right so from this piece of footage we've selected two clips within it and then moving on we have some clips of somebody walking and then we'll go right to that spot make a trim there and i like that whole section we'll take this end piece as well and keep in mind i've been editing for many years so i'm going to be able to choose which clips i like best a lot faster than someone who's just starting out and we're just going to go through all of the footage and pick all the best takes and to edit a little quicker you can go between the main tool in the cut tool by pressing v or c so i'm going to press c trim there back to v c and then back to v great so we'll put that up that and we might use that as well now it looks like this clip is zoomed in a little bit and that's because it's probably a 4k clip and we haven't talked about that yet so when you click on a clip if you go to the effect controls up here all of these options will show up if we click and drag on the scale here you can see that there's a lot more to work with at 32 there's still black bars 33 you can see a little bit of black bars as well so at 34 there are no black areas around the frame and that completely fills it so that's the size for this specific clip within this sequence this one is 4k if we go to right-click in properties you'll see that it is a 4k clip because it's 3840x2160 now as you're scrubbing through you might notice that the clip or playback is lagging a little bit and that's because it is quite a large clip 4k is a very big resolution compared to 720p and
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