Adobe Premiere Pro - A Complete Guide

1. Intro: Whether you're looking to grow as a video editor, cinematographer or Youtube, Adobe Premiere Pro is the ultimate solution to creating quality videos. Hi, I'm Colleen. And in this course, I will be guiding you through everything you need to know on getting started as a video editor in Adobe Premiere Pro. This course is for you if you recently purchased Premiere Pro and are not sure how to get started, or maybe you've had Premiere for a while and the complex nature of it has left you frustrated and gravitating more towards eye movie or Canva to edit your videos. Hey, maybe you just need a refresher Either way. By the end of this course, you will have all the tools and knowledge you need to step confidently into premiere pro and move past the tech to focus solely on the creativity that comes with video editing. So without further ado, let's get into our first lesson. 2. Lesson 1 What Is Premiere Pro: What is Premiere Pro? Premiere Pro is a video editing software that's part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. In Premiere Pro, you can cut together your video, add transitions, graphics, sound effects, color correct, add music, and export your video into almost any format. Premiere Pro is comparable to Final Cut Pro Avid or Davinci resolve, and it's a step or two above movie or other free video editing platforms. If you're looking to edit a movie, music video, TV commercial, tutorial, or Youtube video, you can find everything you need. Within Premiere Pro, the pricing does vary depending on what option suits you best. But Adobe does offer student discounts on their monthly subscriptions. If that option applies to you, check out the next chapter to learn about what you can expect when you open up Premiere Pro. 3. How it works - Workspace Tour: The first thing to understand about Premier Pros display is that it's made up of panels and workspaces. The interface is made up of panels that are organized into a layout and saved as a workspace. Premier Pro comes with nine factory default workspaces, assembly editing, color effects, audio libraries, graphics, metalloging, and all panels. Depending on where you are in the editing process, you may prefer to change your workspace to suit your needs. Premier Pro makes customizing your workspace easy. You can move, add or delete panels as needed. And when you're done, just go to Window and select Save as new workspace. As a professional video editor, I rely heavily on my work spaces, So I have everything I need in front of me and anything I don't need isn't wasting any space. And the next chapter, we'll explore how exactly you set up your first premiere pro project. 4. Setting Up A Project: To create a project in Premiere Pro, we're simply going to click New Project on the left hand side here, you'll want to name the project and select the place it's going to live on your computer or hard drive. These are both important steps. It's understandable that you want to just dive right into video editing, but trust me when I say multiple untitled projects, living on your desktop is going to lead you down A very dangerous, I would suggest making a folder on your hard drive titled Project or whatever you want to name it, then making another folder within that folder titled Project. And that will be where your Adobe Premier Pro Project will live. I know if you hear me say project one more time, you're going to explode. But organization is an important part of video editing, so it's best to start with this small habit to set yourself up for success. Now that you've got your project set up, let's take a look at how to properly import everything into your project. 5. Importing Assets into Premiere Pro: A few ways that you can import videos and other assets into Premier Pro. One option is to locate your project panel and double click inside the window. This will initiate a folder opening up for you to select your assets. Another option is to select File, then Import, and that same window will pop up for you. A third, and my personal favorite option is to simply drag and drop the footage into the project window from your folder location. You can also drag and drop the entire folder, thus creating a bin containing that footage. Bins are essentially Premiere Pros name for folders and they're a great way to keep your project neat and organized within Premiere Pro. Once your footage, graphics, music and more have been added into their appropriate bins, you can color code footage to your liking to keep things even more organized. You also have a couple options when it comes to viewing your footage. And you can even open a specific bin into its own panel if that makes editing easier for you. Now, I know you've been patient, so let's finally dive in into the actual editing already. 6. Basic Editing in Premiere Pro: Obviously using Premier Pro to edit video of some sort. How you do that is using the timeline and a sequence. You can create a sequence easily by dragging a clip into the empty time line window. From there, a sequence will be created in the timeline and it will show up in your project bin as well, with the name of the clip matching the name of the sequence. What's important to note when you create a sequence this way is that the settings of the clip will match the settings of the sequence. This includes the aspect ratio and the frame rate. If you decide to create a sequence manually, this could be by right clicking the project window and selecting new sequence. You'll want to make sure the aspect ratio and frame rate match the footage that you want to use. If you have multiple, various kinds of footage at different frame rates or different aspect ratios, I would recommend creating a sequence that's 1920 by 1080 aspect ratio and a 23.976 frame rate or a 29.97 frame rate are relatively standard settings when it comes to exporting your sequence, which we'll touch on in a minute. Now that you've got your sequence, you can drag and drop clips into that sequence. This is where the real editing begins. You can trim the ends of clips by hovering over the ends and dragging. You can stack clips on multiple tracks, and you can even do the same with audio, just in the opposite direction. You can add video and sound effects and even transitions using the effects panel. And you can add text and shapes using the essential graphics panel. You can move video and adjust opacity using the effects controls panel. You can also control the settings of any effect you place on a clip by using that same effects control panel. This is the time where you can use your creativity to edit the video however you'd like. The best part about working in premiere as a beginner is getting to test out all the tools to see what works for you and your video. When you're done editing your video and you're ready to get it out of Premier Pro, you'll select File, Export Media. And then you want to make sure that you're exporting that sequence to the right area. You may have created an exports folder in your project, or you may just want to throw it into your project folder somewhere. Either way, make sure you double check where you're going to be exporting this file to. Because the last thing you want is to go through a full export and come to find out you don't remember where you export. Settings will always depend on where you're going to be putting this file. But if you're exporting it for a website or for Youtube, or for any social media platform, Premier Pro has some default settings that can help you if you are confused about which one to select. Me personally, I added a lot for Youtube, so I like to make sure that my format is an H 264, which is a very easily readable format. And as far as the preset goes, I like to scroll down and find the Youtube ten ADP full HD setting. And I select that, and that gives me a very nice export for my Youtube video. If you have Adobe media encoder installed, you can select Q to add it to your media encoder Q. If you don't have that, no worries. You can always just select export to then which the file will begin exporting. Now in the next few chapters, I am going to be taking a slightly deeper dive into some of my favorite tools I like to use when finessing my video in Premiere Pro. 7. Lumetri Color: You're going to color, correct, or color grade your footage in Premiere Pro. The lumetric color window is how you'll do it. Now, you may want to change up your workspace in Premiere Pro when you are doing color to make it a little easier for you. You can do this by customizing your own space, like I have here, and just pulling in the lumetri color window. Or you can always just select the color tab, and that will give you everything that you need to color. In Premiere Pro, the most basic way to affect the exposure, contrast, temperature, and saturation can be done by selecting the clip and adjusting the levels within the basic correction window. If you want to get real specific with your color and make sure that especially your whites and your blacks look okay. This is where the Lumetri scopes window will help you if I'm doing a basic color correction on my footage, I like to first make sure that my whites are just touching the top of the graph and I like to make sure that my blacks are touching a little bit more comfortably to the zero mark. I will also slightly play with the temperature just to take a little bit of that yellowy green out of my footage. And one trick that I have learned over time in lumetri color is to take advantage of the curve section. You can use curves simply to level out the blacks and the whites of your footage, as well as the mids. But I like to use curves on the graph just below that one. And I'll click some points to identify this yellow mark here. And I will bring that down. And what this graph specifically is, is hue versus saturation. So you'd be selecting a hue that's any color within your video and then you would be adjusting that hue saturation. In this case, I am just lowering the saturation of any yellows in the shot, and that helps with making the wall behind me a little less yellowy green. Going back up to basic correction, you can also adjust the shadows and the highlights just to add a little bit more contrast to your shot. And just like what I did in the curves window, you can see your work by selecting the check mark here and clicking that on and off. Or if you want to see all the color correction that you've done, you can go to Effect controls and find the Lumetri color effect and click on or off to see your before and now, while you can do a basic color correction in Premiere Pro using lumetric color, if you're looking to color grade your footage, that means adding a grade onto your footage. You can do that pretty easily. Also using lumetric color, maybe you found a sample pack of lots that you would like to try out and see how they look on your footage. You can see right here input Lut is a section in this window in basic correction. So you can click the down arrow, select browse, and select the let that you would like to test out. You'll select open and there you have it. That is one way to add a let onto your footage. Another way that I prefer to add a let onto my footage is going down to the creative tab, find the Look section and do the same thing. Hit Browse, find your effect, and add it over your footage. Now you selected it. The difference here is that you can adjust the intensity of that let here in the creative tab versus just applying the lot as is in the basic correction. Color correction in premiere, Pro can get a lot more advanced. And I do encourage you to play around with the other settings that you may have seen in premiere to get a full sense of everything that you can do. For now, I hope this gives you a nice little peek at what you can do to manipulate your footage without even having to leave Premiere Pro. 8. Creating Text with the Essential Graphics Panel: The Essential Graphics Panel in Premier Pro is the place to create all text, any shapes, and even motion graphics without having to open after effects. You can select the type tool and then click directly on the screen. You can see that automatically opened up the edit section in Essential Graphics, and all the settings for you to adjust your text have laid out before you. You can also see that that text is now in your timeline for you to move as needed if you need it only in a certain spot on your timeline. This is where you can adjust. Now I just want to show you one other way to create text. That is by finding the essential graphics panel. Select Edit, and then in this area here, you'll select text. You can select vertical text, rectangle, lips, polygon, or from file where you can import an image of your choice if you'd like. But we're going to select text and we'll do that same thing. My name is Colleen. Okay. Now you can see this is probably relatively familiar. You know some of these things just by working in maybe photo shop or even in Google Docs. You see things like font size is here. The type of font that you're going to use is here. Personally, this is my font. But then you can see up here in Align and Transform. These things aren't important too. This is where you want to align your text. If you so choose, you can adjust the opacity of your text, you can adjust the rotation of your text, and you can adjust the scale of your text. Is almost the same as adjusting the font size, but it is a little bit different. You can adjust only one section, maybe I want it to look like this. You can adjust the spacing between the top and bottom lines. You can adjust the spacing in between the letters. And you can adjust, of course, the color. You can adjust the fill, that's the actual color of the letters. You can adjust the stroke if you so choose to add one on there. You can add a background to your text. You can adjust the opacity, the scale of that background. And you can even, and you can also add a shadow if you'd like. Again, being able to adjust the opacity, how big the font is, how far it goes out, the size, the spread, the distance of it, the angle of that shadow. It's very customizable, you'll see because this is one graphic text layer, but yet there's two different font sizes within it. You can see that if I were to select all, the font size is going to come up null and void because I have two different font sizes in there. And this is where if I wanted to make the text a little bit smaller, I would use the scale up here. Now if I would also like to create a shape maybe underneath that text, it's a very similar situation. You would come up here and select Rectangle, for example. You want to make sure that on the timeline it's living underneath your text, assuming that you want it to live there. And from there I hit the V Toll to make sure that I'm in select mode, meaning my normal arrow is showing. And I'm just going to manipulate the size and shape of that rectangle just like the text. You can change the color of it. You can change the opacity, the scale, the alignment. There's very similar settings when it comes to creating shapes in premiere. 9. Animating Text and Graphics in Premiere: One thing I just want to touch on briefly, is that you may want to animate this text or this shape. In Premiere Pro, you don't need to go to after effects to do it. You can do it right here in Premiere Pro. And I will show you how over in the effects panel, you will see a section four motion. And this is where you can adjust where your graphic is going to live. Specifically, you want to utilize this if you're thinking of animating your shapes or your text. And you can animate it using keyframes. For example, maybe I want the rectangle to fly in from the left, coming in right. This is how I could do that. Right here next to position it says Toggle animation. And once you turn that on, it's going to give you an option to add or remove keyframes. We'll put one there and we'll put one here. This will be where our graphic is now. We want this to be how it looks like. At the end of the animation, we'll click over to our other key frame, and maybe we'll move that out of frame. Now if I were to play this, you can see that the rectangle has entered the frame. And maybe I want to do something similar for my text, maybe I want my text to fade in. Now you can just find a fade in transition in the effects panel. You can definitely do that. But if you didn't want to do that, if you wanted to be a little bit more customized, you can come over here to opacity, make sure that your text is selected in the timeline Toggle animation adds a keyframe, you'll add another key frame. And on this keyframe, we're going to make the Opacity zero. Now playing it, look at that. We've animated right here in Premiere Pro. And of course, it can get a lot more complicated than this, but for now, you know that animating in premiere Pro can happen. It is possible, and it's relatively easy. If you want to make it a little bit more professional looking, you are able to alter your key frames just a little bit by selecting on the key frame that you want to alter, right click. And then you can even select the very first one and select out. You're basically easing out of that zero opacity and easing in to full opacity. You can do the same thing on your shape. Can select ease in and ease out. And you may not even be able to notice the difference, but it just adds a little bit more ease into the animation versus just having it be animating. Animating, stop, if that is appealing to you. I would definitely look into utilizing that for your key frames, just to add a little bit more finesse into your animations. 10. Sound Editing - Using the Essential Sound Panel: Cleaning up your sound in Premier Pro, you have a couple of options that are varying in complexity. A newly added feature in premiere is the essential sound panel. It turns audio editing into a simple and almost fun process. So I've selected the audio workspace to give us a more audio friendly layout here. And you can see on the right hand side is the essential sound panel. And we have these four buttons. Each button, when you select a clip and you select one of these buttons, it's going to attach a tag onto that. So let's say I want to clean up my dialogue. Well, I'm going to select my clip, specifically the audio, and then I'm going to hit the dialogue tag. And that's going to open up a whirlwind of options for me to clean up my dialogue. Now, luckily, premiere does offer presets for you to choose from and try out. We can try out this balanced female voice preset, and that's going to make a few adjustments. Now, depending on the severity of the cleanup of your audio, you may want to toggle off and on a couple of these options to see if they work for you. A couple that I would particularly be looking into is the reduced noise filter. I would toggle that on and see what it's like if I raise it up and down and see if that helps. There's also reducing rumble and humming. If those are things that you're hearing in the background of your dialogue. There's the DS filter if you have a lot of sounds that are really like hitting in a funny way from your actor. And there's also reducing reverb, which is a super helpful tool if you're talking in an echoe room and you don't have an external mic with you, you're going to want to play with that one as well. You alter the dynamics. That's a super helpful tool for just bringing up some of the clarity in your voice. It can help take the more quiet moments or the more loud moments and just balance that out a little more evenly. You can also add an EQ filter, and that does give a few presets for you to try out as well if you're looking for a little extra clarity in your audio, if you want to get funky with it and you want to be adding reverb, you can do that here in the creative section. You can also adjust the volume at the very bottom, if you, so outside of this panel. You can also adjust the audio in your clip just by lowering and raising the bar that is defaulted on your timeline. That will raise it a little bit depending on how severe you need it to be raised. If you needed to be raised a little bit more, you can hit the G button on your keyboard and that will bring up gain. I would recommend adjusting the gain either in plus three amounts or in negative three amounts. So 36912 or negative 36912. If you need to lower it, that's just kind of the most effective way to raise or lower audio, because our ears tend to hear audio changes in decibels of three. Not only can you clean up your dialogue using the essential sound panel, but you can also adjust music as well. We'll select the music piece in this timeline and we can hit the music tag again. You can see some presets that are available to you to test out and see if it helps. The sound, if it helps when you're mixing the sound of the music with the sound of the dialogue. If you want maybe a more balanced mix of that, this will definitely help you with that. But it's all a little bit of trial and error. 11. Sound Editing - Using the Audio Track Mixer: Now, while this is an effective way of cleaning up your dialogue and your music, and all the other audio that you have in your timeline. There is another way to adjust your audio. One way that I prefer to clean up my audio, the effects that I apply onto my clips are usually pretty track wide. They cover the entirety of the whole video rather than me needing to apply effect onto one single clip. And so if I want to apply an effect onto the entire track, and maybe you do too, I would go to the audio track mixer. This may not automatically be in your workspace. You may need to add it in by going to Window and then audio track mixer. Once this is up, I will select just a couple things. One thing I'd like to add is when you just saw the clarity section of the essential sound panel, I can achieve a similar effect by going to amplitude and compression and then going to dynamics. From there I'll select Dynamics, and then I'll go to the preset, and I'll select soft compression. It just adds a little extra clarity to my dialogue that I'd like to add onto my entire track. One other thing that I'd like to add is the denoise filter. And again, this will apply the noise effect through the entirety of your track. Now by track I mean track one as one that you can see down here on the timeline. Each track is correlated with each panel here up in the audio track mixer, So circling back to the noise filter, I'll click on that and I'll just add a really bare minimum. I don't have a ton of noise that I need to clean up, but if I did, I would definitely want to also be testing out these other presets as far as where the processing of the noise filter is focusing. Is it focusing more on the lower frequencies, like is there a very low like a lawn mower? Or is there something that is in the higher frequency that maybe you want to take out? It's the same exact thing if I wanted to add on D reverb, which I really only need to add it if, again I'm not using an external mic. I have a lot of that reverb coming from an echoeroom. I'll do the same thing. I'll maybe add it around here and I usually will put it on the mid frequencies. But again, you're going to want to test out a couple different options to see what sounds best for your dialogue as far as music goes. If I decide to add music to a track of mine, then I want it to be relatively quiet. Again, this is of course, depending on what you're editing. The volume and mixing of music and dialogue in a Youtube video is very different from the music and mixing in a feature film. It definitely depends on what you're creating. But for me, I'll lower the music to around the negative 30 mark, and that usually works for me. And then I like to make sure that my dialogue is hitting around the negative six mark on the audio meter. Sound editing can be as simple or as complex as you'd like to make it in premiere Pro. And there are lots of other tools that are worth exploring to make your sound the best that it can possibly be. Again, a deep dive into sound editing is a more advanced feature, but now hopefully you understand the basics of how to clean up your sound in Premiere Pro. 12. Pro Editing - Organization in Premiere Pro: If you are going to be handling multiple clients or just multiple projects, you're going to want to have organization nailed into your head very securely so you do not falter and end up with missing files, needing to relink things, and just overall messy looking projects. There are two sides of organizing as a video editor, one is within Premiere Pro and one is outside of Premier Pro. I've touched on this a little bit in the setting up the project lesson, but let me just go over it one more time. Here, within Premiere pro bins are a key step towards having your project be very organized. Personally, I like to have two main folders, the sequence, the materials, what are you editing with and what are you editing it in. I think that having too many bins or too many folders can lead to you getting a little too lazy. And it's just at least easy to throw everything into materials and then all your sequences into the sequence folders. However, within the materials folder, you can get a little bit more specific with things like a footage bin, a graphics bin, a sound effects bin, a music bin. You can even number all of your bins so that they stay in the same order, thus keeping you organized even more so when you are working in Premiere. And you can do that outside of premiere as well. When you are making your folders in your hard drives, It seems like such a small thing, especially if you're working on many smaller projects. But knowing and understanding where all of your assets live in your project is going to be very helpful for you to move quicker through each project. Now on the flip side, you want to make sure that your organization outside of Premier is also impeccable. Probably even more so than when you're inside of Premiere. Because how you organize everything outside of Premier is going to dictate how Premier is linking its files to your folders in your hard drive. And if you decide to organize that stuff later, it's going to cause a lot of relinking issues because then Premier is going to say, hey, where are these files? They were in this folder. And then you have to go and manually relink everything to say no, now it's in this folder because now I finally decided to organize my files and we don't want that. So again, I try and make things as simple as possible. Me personally, I like to have my project. In this case, I'm calling it test project. You could call whatever you want. If you have a specific client. I would have your client then have each project individually listed. And then within that folder, I would have an exports folder, a materials folder, and a projects folder. A folder for all your projects, a folder for all of your materials. That could be footage, graphics, music, anything you could just all go in there. And a folder for all of your exports. Everything that you are exporting out of premiere. This is about as simple as it gets. And I think it's better to start with simplicity when you're organizing to help ingrain that habit into your head, rather than trying to have this amazing, complex organizational system that you just can't seem to get consistently right every time. 13. Pro Editing - Shortcuts in Premiere Pro: Anybody can come on any of these platforms and throw some things together and edit it. But the speed and efficiency at which you do that editing is really what separates the pros from the Nutze pros. So here I'm going to share just a couple of the shortcuts that I use on a daily basis so that you can get used to editing like a pro. One of the first shortcuts I think it's important for you to understand is the JKL shortcut. And this also applies if you are editing in the source window as well. So whether you're in the source window or you're in the timeline, hitting L will play forwards, hitting K will pause, and hitting J will move you backwards. The great thing about JKL is that the more times that you hit J or L, the faster your speed will go. So this can be really helpful if you're needing to just scrub through things really quickly and you don't want to use your mouse, maybe you want a more fine tuned look on your footage. This is a great way to do that. This is ideal if you're working in the source window and wanting to maybe pull in and out of footage which would be hitting and on your keyboard. Well, scrubbing through footage to find out when you need to place your in and out point. Jk L is a great shortcut for that. My favorite shortcut of all time is the Q combo shortcut. I am a timeline video editor, and specifically for me, this means that I like to pull all of my footage into the timeline and then looking at the wave form as well as listening to, you know, what's on the screen. I will then cut my footage that way. And so what I do is I'll place my cut at the section of the clip I want to keep. Then I will move my playhead to the other end where I'd like the cut to be at. By hitting Q, it will take everything from the left of the playhead and shop it until the next cut. Now if I want to do it opposite, and I want to delete everything on the right, I will place a cut here. I'll move the playhead to the end of this clip. And then you see everything to the right by hitting W is going to be deleted. This makes editing and the timeline incredibly easy for me and I can speed through it pretty quickly. It is always good to double check your edits once you've made a cut like this. Just to make sure that you haven't cut off any dialogue by accident and that you're pausing is in a good rhythm with what you're looking for. But this is hands down, my favorite shortcut of all time. A couple other shortcuts to note is hitting A. We'll give you these two arrows and by selecting right here, for example, it's going to select this clip as well as everything to the right of it. This is really great. If you just need to push a few things to the side, you can select A and then push everything. If you had a lot of clips on a lot of different tracks and you wanted to only highlight the first one or one specific track, you would select A and then you would hit Shift, and that will give you only one arrow to then select, and it will select just that one. Hitting on your keyboard will reveal this little number. And this is the rolling Edit tool. By selecting this tool and then going to cut on your time line and then dragging one way or the other, it will essentially affect where that cut happened between the two clips. So if you need to adjust things just ever so slightly, that is a great tool to use. Hitting the plus or minus button while your timeline is selected, will zoom out or zoom in for you. A feature that I love in Premiere is the reveal in project Hole, which doesn't automatically have a shortcut associated with it. By going to Premiere Pro and keyboard shortcuts, and you'll find reveal in project. And you want to just make sure that it is your timeline panel and then reveal in project. I have mind set to command P and what that does is by selecting command P, it will show me what clip this is in my project window. If you have a very busy, maybe messy project or you just have a lot of footage and you need to find something, this is a very quick and easy way to do that. And the last shortcuts I will share with you are the imports and export shortcuts. Which are as a Mac User command I or command M command for import, and command M for export. So by hitting command M, it will bring up the export window, which is a small shortcut, but is very helpful when you are moving through a lot of footage that you need to export. 14. Pro Editing - Speed: The last part of this pro editing series is going to be all about some speed tips that I think will help you. One important thing that I think you should try and ingrain into your habits as a video editor is to edit with two hands. One hand should be on the mouse, one hand should be at the keyboard at all times. It can be hard to do both. It takes a little bit of coordination and practice. But 100% editing is a two handed craft if you want to gain speed, if you want to learn the shortcuts properly, if you want to be able to move through edits very quickly, using your other hand to be on the keyboard at all times is essential. So even if you're not comfortable using shortcuts yet and you want to get into this habit, just leave your hand on the keyboard. You don't even have to be hitting anything, just have it set on the keyboard, if anything, just so when you do remember that you want to use a shortcut, your hand will be right there. Anyways, another tip I can give you, that I had probably mentioned earlier, but I'm going to touch on that again, is to customize your workspace within Premiere Pro. Utilizing the default work spaces is great and super helpful depending on what you are doing exactly in Premiere. However, you'll notice that Premiere has a lot of extra windows open in their default settings that you don't necessarily need. Now, it's not that big of a deal to just leave them there, but I personally like to have as minimal panels open as possible so that my space is clean and clear and just has everything I need and everything that I don't. For me, I have my program window, which is how you view everything in your timeline. I have my source window effects controls, my track mixer, my libraries, my lumetri scopes. And then I like to have my project window up here. Text, I use sometimes for captions, lumetri color. And then I have installed the frame extension for when I am doing notes for clients. Down here, I like to have the effects panel and the essential graphics panel open because I use those all the time. And then my timeline and then my shortcuts panel, which I don't usually use, but I'll keep it over here anyways. And then the audio meter. These are pretty much my day to day tools that I need in terms of the workspace, and so I just like to keep it as clean as possible. Another tip that you may want to consider is to install presets depending on the kind of work that you're doing. I do a lot of editing for social media, I do a lot of basic motion graphics. And so for me, for example, I installed some basic slide ins as presets. And I also have a drop shadow installed, as well as some color presets and some special client presets. To create a preset, all you'll do is find the effect that you would like to use, make that adjustment. Maybe it's to scale in throughout this clip. And then you'll write, click on the effect in the effects control panel and save preset. And then you'll name your preset. And it will go into your presets bin in the effects panel. Similar to having presets, having a favorites bin within your effects panel is also incredibly helpful. It's a small thing, but every time I have to go into the search bar and type in drop shadow or cross dissolve, it saves me a few seconds to just have those pulled into my favorites bin if you'd like to create your own favorites bin. First of all, you'll come down here to new custom bin, select that. It will create a custom bin that you can then rename. And then you'll go to the effect that you want to have in that bin and you just simply drag it into that bin and it will save it there. It saves you a mere second or two. But I think that that is enough time where it's worth it to have things like that pulled in to make your everyday editing a lot faster. And the biggest tip that I can give to you as you are progressing in your video editing journey is just to do video editing consistently. To get that practice in so that you can get all these habits in. Because a big part of video editing is the habits that you build in to your workflow. And practicing those habits consistently is what ingrains such speed and efficiency into your everyday editing, consistent practice and also consistently challenging yourself. Are there new shortcuts that you could be learning? Are you aware of how you're editing a certain project and maybe you can ask yourself in that edit, is there a faster way that I could be doing this? Is there a shortcut to this? Is there a tutorial on how I can do this better? And just constantly challenging yourself to improve little by little to become the best possible editor you can be. 15. Now What?: This course was lengthy, it only touches the first layer of everything you can learn when it comes to editing in premiere. Pro luckily everything you want to learn can be easily accessible with sites like Youtube and with awesome learning apps like Cool Stories. Be sure to stay updated on my channel for more tips and tricks on editing and premiere, as well as how to get a job as video editor. Until next time, I'm colleen your cool Stories Video Editing Specialist.