Adobe Premiere Pro: Edit Like Your Favorite Content Creators

1. Introduction: Far too many people edit videos for countless hours working extremely hard just for their work to never be seen or truly appreciated. Feeling like no matter what they do, they just can't get over that hump and get that one video to top. That sounds familiar, this might be your last chance to take your editing to the next level and finally explode your growth and get the recognition you've been waiting. My name is Derek. And I've been editing videos for almost ten years adobe Premier Pro, where you can pretty much create anything you can dream of. When I first started adobe Premier Pro, I was extremely confused, overwhelmed, and I didn't even know where to start. And it took me several hours to finish a simple edit. After countless hours of editing and learning all the secrets that there is to know. You've now edited thousands of videos with hundreds of thousands of views and made all of the crucial mistakes that you no longer have to, because I'm going to reveal these mistakes and secrets to you so you can have a much better experience than me and explode your growth as fast as possible. We'll be able to create anything we can dream of. And you'll not only learn how to edit, but you'll learn how to create full effects, engaging texts, th sound effects, memes, transitions, and so much more. And by the end of this course, you'll be editing just like your favorite content. This course is optimized to be extremely easy to consume and understand, unlike other courses that bombard you with extremely long and boring lessons. This way, you can feel right at home in the program and know exactly what everything means in no time. You'll receive a 360 plus hilarious mean pack that will have your viewers absolutely crying out of their chair. Plus, an adobe shortcut sheet sheet that will make sure that you're always editing as fast as possible. But there's a huge problem. The clock is ticking, and I don't know how much longer this information will be secret. If you're serious about taking your content to the next level, and finally exploding your growth and getting the recognition you deserve, let's get started creating our dreams, and I'll see you in lesson one. 2. Basic Video Understanding: What's up, everybody? I'm so excited you signed up for this class. And it will be really amazing what you'll be able to accomplish by the end of this course. Before we dive into Premier Pro, we have to talk about the very basics of video files, such as resolution and frame rate. If you already know these things, you can move on to the next lesson. But if not, let's get started. Resolution. Resolution is the number of pixels contained in a frame. These pixels are very small, having videos with less of these pixels tend to be more blurry, such as 360 p, which the P stands for pixels. Videos. We'll, more of these pixels are much sharper and detailed, such as four K, which is 21 60. Nowadays 1920 by 1080 P is the most widely used resolution. This is what we'll be using throughout this entire course as love resolution. You may know that there are usually two numbers, such as 1920 by ten ADP. 1920 is the width of the club and ten AD is the height of the clip. Now, as you may know, there are multiple images, aka frames within a sequence. Frame rate is the number of frames appearing within a second. These frames are basically just a bunch of still images there. The video or picture you've most likely heard of 60 frames per second. So in 1 s, there'll be 60 still images, aka frames within that second. Now that we have the very basics of video understanding down, let's move on to the next lesson where we'll actually get started. 3. The Workspace & Getting Started: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we're finally going to start up Premiere Pro startup project and go over the workspace so you can become more familiar with it. Let's get started. Okay, once you launch Premiere Pro, your screen should look pretty similar to this depending on which version you are on. But regardless, you should have a new project button somewhere on your screen. Go ahead and click New Project, and then you'll get this menu right here with all of these settings. Now for the most part, you won't have to worry about any of these settings besides Mercury Playback Engine, GPU acceleration. And that's only if your computer actually has a GPU. So if you have a DPU and your computer, make sure that's on. So that way your editing process can be much faster. Let's go ahead and title the project. So we'll just title the project getting started. Once you title your project, go ahead and click Okay, and here's the workspace. Let's go over a couple of windows so you can become a little bit more familiar. Here in the bottom left we have a Projects tab. This is where you'll actually import your videos and footage. Here to the right of that, we have the timeline. This is where you'll actually drag your videos too to begin editing them. And then between the two of these, we have the toolbar. These are where all the twos are. These will be very important later. So the upper-right corner of that, we have the program window. This is where you'll be able to view the clips that are in your timeline to the left of program, we have the Effect Controls and the source window, not in the source window, you get to view the media that you haven't actually dragged to the timeline yet. Now if any of these windows, you can change the size of them. You can move stuff around. If you feel like you want this to be here. If you want this to be over here, you can move basically anything around to wherever you want it to be. You can really customize it. So it can be yours. Now that you've done that, you may be like a little confusing too much. You can go up to Window, you can go to Workspaces and then reset to saved layout. And everything will go back to how it was before. This is much simpler, but don't be afraid to customize things to your liking. That's all for this lesson guys. Now, don't be afraid to get in Premier Pro, move some things around, become more familiar with the program. And in the next lesson, we'll start importing some clips and we'll talk about why organization is truly key. I'll see you there. 4. Organizing & Importing Clips: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll go over why organization is key to working more efficiently within Premiere Pro. Now first, I want to talk about desktop. Don't have your video clips scattered everywhere. Make sure everything is organized. If you download the project files in the project tab, you'll find that I made a folder with the footage, the images, the music, sound effects presets, and the shortcut cheat sheet that we'll use later on in the course, I'll make sure all your clips are organized so you can easily find them. Click the footage and see where everything is that no problem. And I'll show you why exactly this organization is a game changer later on. So there's two ways that you can import footage. You can double-click the import media to start and then you can find your footage, open it, and it automatically comes in. Or you can open up your folder, open your folder, grab the footage that you would like to import, and then just drag it in. Now, let's talk about why folders is a game changer. Instead of selecting one piece of content or two videos here and there to drag inside of Premiere Pro, you can actually just open up the folder, grab the entire footage folder, and just drag it in. And that way you already have all 29 items that were within that folder already inside of Premier Pro. So this way you can know exactly where everything is. Now let me show you something. If we were to bring in some more folders and let's bring in the images folder. Let's bring in the music folder. We can easily open up these folders and see the continents folder and easily drag it over to the timeline, see it in the source window or whatever we need to do. We can also open up the images folder. We can open up the footage folder and just see everything right there where we need it. Now also, you may be wondering how my view looks like this. So if you look down in the bottom left-hand corner, we have a couple of different viewpoints. We have List View, icon view, and we have free form view. Now, if you click on icon view, this is probably what your project looks like. Now in this way, everything is a little bit more bigger. You get to see the actual video playback. You can scroll through and hover play the video to see exactly what the video looks like. Now with the free form view, you can actually open it up and you can move these clips around. You can organize them if you want it to organize them, drag them over each other. So you know that all of these clips are in a certain place. So whatever view that you feel is most comfortable for you to use, don't be afraid to use it. Now let's go over how to actually view clips inside of the source window and get them to the timeline. In order for you to be able to view a clip in the source window, you need to double-click it. Now I put my headphones on because we'll actually be able to hear the clips. Now. What does it actually have audio? But if this clip had audio, you will be able to see this audio meter in the bottom right-hand corner actually moving. So let's click a clip that has audio so I can show you what that looks like. Oh, here we go. There we go. We have the audio moving in the bottom right-hand corner. Now, in order to play these clips in the source window space, to pause in play, or you can just click the pause play. But now that we have footage showing up in the source window, how do we actually get this footage to the timeline? All you have to do is drag the footage from the source window into the timeline. Now there are a couple of different ways that you can actually do this. You can click the drag video only, and this doesn't drag the audio portion, or you can click the drag audio only. But this video actually doesn't have any audio. Or you could just grab the video itself and drag them together. Now, once you actually drag your video to the timeline, Adobe will automatically create a sequence based on the videos information. So if you go up to the sequence tab and then click sequence settings, they'll show you the frame rate of the clip and show you the frame size of the clip. This video is 24 frames, and the frame size is 1920 by 1080. Now another way to actually see this video information before you drag that video to the timeline is go to your project window, click List, View, and here it will tell you the frame rate. And then if you drag the bar to the bottom, to the right a little bit, I'll tell you the video information. It tells us that this video is 1920 by ten ADP. Now one more thing that I want to talk about before we actually go to our next lesson is labeling. So if we drag another clip over here to the timeline, right-click the clip and then go up and you'll see labels. Now, an example of what labeling would actually look like, something like this. You label your sound effects one color, your music one color, you're a row, one color, and your B-roll one color. Now, this way, you can know exactly which clips or what by just looking at the color of the clip. Now, make sure that you get in Premiere Pro, you view some clips in the source window. You drag some clips to the timeline. And in the next lesson, we'll get in more depth with the timeline and actually start to play with some footage. 5. Basic Timeline & Workspace Understanding: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll be going over the timeline and get more in detail about the workspace. Let's get started. Let's go ahead and get some footage in the timeline. Go ahead and double-click this space. If you don't already have some footage in here. And let's go ahead and open up our folders and double-click something to be able to see it in the source window, same as last time. The Source Window is where you're able to see the video before you actually drag it into your timeline. And now I'll show you that if there was only a certain portion of this video that I want it. So let's say we want to cut right here. You can actually press I for n. You see this little, this little highlight thing right here move. So this is gonna be my end point. And then let's say I don't want this point right here. I can hit 0 for out. And then when I drag the clip in, I only get this section that's highlighted. Now, there's a few other things in the source window that we haven't actually talked about. So over here to the left, you have the zoom level. So this is the distance that the video clip is zoomed in. So you can set it to 10%, haven't really far back 25%, but I recommend you to just keep it at bit so that way it always fits your screen regardless of how you move your project window. Now we went over the drag video only and drag audio only and how to actually drag the video into the timeline by just actually grabbing the video. Now, over here to the right of that we have select playback resolution. Now, this will be really helpful later on in this course. But what this basically does is brings down the quality. So your computer can better play the video without having any stutters or arrows or anything like that. Now, to the right of the playback resolution, we actually have the In-N-Out duration. Now keep in mind we set in and out points. So if you're editing a clip and you only need 5 s of a clip, you can use this right here to make sure you only have 5 s. Select it, and then you can drag that clip in. Now what you can also do in the source window is go frame-by-frame. So if you want to go one frame backwards, that's the left arrow. And if you want to go one frame for it, That's the right arrow. So if you're trying to see a really precise moment in the clip or get to a certain point in the clip, you can use those frames to be more precise with your selection. Now also this little arrow right here is a playhead scrubber, just like any other video player. You can use this, the scrub through the video easily and then to play and stop the clip its space. Then over here we have a couple more options. We have Insert option, which automatically inserts the clip to wherever your play head scrubber is. So if you click, insert the clip, inserted right here, how you get rid of that clip, you just highlight over it with left-click and then click Delete. Then we also have the Overwrite button. Let's drag this clip right here and then see what overwrite does. As you see, overwrite, just insert it wherever. So it will be more ideal to use insert. So let's say I wanted to insert a clip right here. I can use insert and it will insert right between that point. And I want to get rid of this again, just highlight and click Delete. And then to drag more footage in, we just simply click and drag. Now you may be wondering why is there two video windows. One is to actually view the clips that you haven't dragged in to the timeline yet. And the other is to actually view clips that are already in the timeline. So as you see, I'm scrubbing the timeline and we can see the clip that's actually in the timeline. Now over here, I'm scrubbing the clip that isn't in the timeline. So e.g. I. Can click this clip and then as you can see, this clip is not in the timeline, but I can still view it. And then I can select the end point and then select Date out point, and then drag this clip to the timeline. Now something else that I want to show you is there is actually a hover play feature. So if you open up one of these folders and you're looking at a video clip, you can actually just hover over the clip to get a little glimpse of what's going on in that clip before you view it in the source window. Almost. It's like you have three monitors, two big ones, and a small one. Now let's say that there's a clip that you drag to the timeline and you don't actually want the audio of that clip. Now, there's two ways that you could have got rid of the audio. You could click drag video only. But if you didn't do that, there's still another way to do it. None the other way that you can actually get rid of the audio, you can click the clip and then click Control L. And what that will do is it will unlink the two clips. Now normally you have the clip linked together. So as you can see, these two clips move together. But once you unlink a clip, the clip no longer moves with that other clip. So this way, you can just click the audio that you want to delete and click Delete. So now let's say you want to zoom in on your timeline. You have this little scroll bar at the bottom that goes right and left. But if you grabbed a point at the very end and drag it in, you get to zoom in. Now a quick key mind to be able to do this faster is actually to hold Alt on your keyboard and scroll out with your mouse to go out. And scroll in with your mouse to scroll in. Now, if you actually scroll without holding all, you move left and right. And this is much faster than having to grab this bar and scroll it in and out and move it left and right. So I recommend using this way or zoom in, zoom out without left in right. Now, over here to the left of the timeline, you'll see all of these V0, V1 numbers and A1 numbers and eyeballs. Ms, what does all this mean? So all of the V's are the video tracks and all of the a's or the audio tracks. Now, if you want it to make these video tracks or audio tracks bigger, which you can do is select in-between them. Drag up for the audio tracks, same thing, dragged down. Now for the other buttons, we have this eyeball here. If I was to drag this video above this video, we can no longer see the video that is below. So in order to be able to see the video that is below, we can click this toggle eyeball to make the top clip disappear for a second while we view the clip below, it works like layers, just like in Photoshop. Now, there are a couple of different ways that we can actually cut these clips. If you click the end of a clip, you see this little, little drag button. You can drag the clip to make it longer, or you can drag the clip in to make it shorter. We'll go over more advanced ways to cut later in the course. Now as we zoom in using scroll, a big part of the timeline is this little snap tool. It says snap in timeline s to toggle it on and off. So let me show you what this looks like. If I toggle off, it no longer snaps to my play head. But if I click on, it automatically snaps to it. So this is a big, big, big part of editing. So you can quickly make the little small, precise edit and have adobe automatically snap the clip so your play it. So there are a few other settings here. We have toggled track log. So let's say I already made a couple of edits to this. I trimmed it a little bit, and now I wanted to make sure nothing else happens to this clip. What I can actually do is toggle track lock and now I can no longer move this clip to the right, move it to the left. I can't alter the clip at all, but this is also on this entire track. So if I have other video clips that I want to edit on this track as well, I can no longer touch those clips either. So this is useful if you've made an edit on an entire track and you're completely finished with it. And you want to make sure that you don't actually mistakenly delete something or mess something up. You can just lock the track to make sure that nothing happens to it. And that's all for this lesson. Go ahead and get him premiere Pro, insert videos until the timeline. All different types of ways enable and disable tracks. And in the next lesson, we'll go over all of these tools and finally start to make some edits. 6. Basic Tools & Editing Workflow: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll go over editing workflow and some of the most important basic tools and shortcuts to start editing. So first, we're going to actually view the clip in the source window. So if there's a part that I don't want, remember, you can always just hit I for the endpoint and then go to where you want the output to be and hit 0 for the outpoint. And this way you can actually just go ahead and get rid of those extra seconds that you don't want to drag over to the timeline. Now first, let's talk about the razor tool. In order to access the Razor Tool, you can click right here or you can just click C. So let's say we wanted to make a cut somewhere in this clip. Let's say right here we wanted to make a cut. Just go ahead and drag the play head to where you want to make that cut and then click. Simple as that. Now let's say we actually had multiple tracks here. If we had multiple tracks here and we wanted to make a cut on all of the tracks. What you can actually do is hold Shift while you have the razor tool and it will cut through all of the tracks as you can see. So let's go ahead and undo that Control Z to undo. And there we go. We'll go over why the razor tool is actually not the best tool to cut in the future lessons. So now while we're talking about the razor tool, Let's also talk about markers. And let's say I wanted to make a marker right here. I can hit M to make a marker. Now, as you can see, the razor tool will automatically snap to where that marker is. Now, just for another example, I'm going to drag another clip above. Now how I'm duplicating that clip, I'm actually holding Alt and dragging, Let's say I wanted to make a cut through both of these shift and click, and that's it. Now, like I said, if you want to undo the cuts that you just made, Control Z to undo, and if you wanted to redo those Control, Shift Z to redo. Now let's say you still have the razor tool out and you want to get back to the normal tool that you're using when you're going about being in Premiere Pro, you can either click right here, the selection tool, or you can click V. Shortcuts are very, very important. And Premier Pro, you want to speed up your editing workflow. You have to use shortcuts now and let's go ahead and drag in some more footage. Now let's say you wanted to move this clip. This way. If you just move this clip by dragging it, you'll see that it actually cuts into this clip. Now, a much better way to actually move this clip and not cut into this clip is to select the track, select forward tool, which you can access by hitting a and then wherever your mouse is, everything ahead of that will be selected. So as you can see, when I move it, it doesn't actually cut into the other clip. It actually just moves these clips together. Now let's say you actually wanted to do the same thing, but except you wanted to do it backwards. You can go to your tools, you can hold your click down, and then you get the track select backwards tool. A quicker way to access this is the shift a. Now once you get the tool, it's the same thing but except it's in reverse. So anything that is behind your mouse will get selected and you can move. Let's say you wanted to adjust the length of a clip. The really basic way of doing this is moving this clip over and then adjusting the link. But there's actually a tool to help you do that much faster. So if we go ahead and undo that and grab the ripple edit tool, which you can get by pressing B, we can adjust the length of this clip seamlessly without actually having to move this clip. Now under the ripple edit tool, there are a couple of other tools. We have the rolling edit tool. Now let's say you made it in and out point in the source window. But now you want to change that in and out point, which you can go grab is the rolling edit tool. You can actually change the in and out point of the clip. Now let's say you wanted to speed up a clip under the rolling edit tool, we have the Rate Stretch tool, which you can access by grabbing or pressing R. Now let's say we wanted to speed this clip up. All we have to do is stretch the clip out. And as you can see, the clip is now slowed down. Now in order to speed the clip up, We now and just bring it in. Now as you can see, is sped up. Now let's go ahead and undo all of that by pressing Control Z. Now, another way to actually speed up and slow down clips is by going here and pressing speed and duration, none the Rate Stretch tool and the speed and duration are pretty much the same. The rate stretch tool is just a much faster way to do it. What we can do is put an a percentage that we want to speed the clip up will tell us the duration of the clip once we speed it up. And then as you can see, the clip is now sped up. So if we go back and we change this, Let's say we want the duration to be a certain amount of seconds. We'll set it to 3 s. And as you can see, the speed of that will be 492% faster than the original speed. Now as you can see, the clip is extremely fast, and let's go ahead and delete all these clips by hovering over and then pressing the Delete key. Now let me show you a faster way to select all of those clips. Now, if you hit control a actually selects the entire timeline and then now you can press Delete just like that. Now let's go over the slip tool. The slip tool is very similar to the rolling edit tool, but just a little bit different. So let's go ahead and get the slip tool by pressing Y are selecting the tool. If I go ahead and click this clip and I drag the slip tool to the left. What it's doing is changing the in and out points is keeping the same duration that I selected. But all it is moving in and out points to different parts of the clip. So kind of visualize it as me moving this entire bar that's highlighted a little bit to the left and a little bit to the right. Then we have the Pin Tool. Now, in this specific course, we won't be using this tool at all. We'll actually be using a different pen tool. So we'll talk about that later in the course. Now after the pin tool, we have the hand tool. This is used to move along the timeline, but you won't use this as long as you use the selection tool and use auto scroll in or to scroll up, scroll up and scroll down to go left and right. Now after the hand tool, we have the type tool which you can access by pressing T. Now, you can basically just drag this over any clip that you want to add text to and type in whatever you want to type in. But we'll go really in depth with this later on in the course and talk about how you can get some really cool texts. Now you most likely will not be using all of these tools. I don't even use all of these tools, but it's important to know that these tools are there because as you continue to edit and get better at these tools can come in to be very helpful. The main tools that you need to keep in mind is the selection tool, which is V, the Track Select Forward Tool, which is a, and the razor tool, which is c. Those are the main tools that you need to remember and that you'll use very, very often. Now what I want you to do is get in Premier Pro, make some small edits, mess around with the tools so you can become more familiar with them. And I'll see you in the next lesson where we start to use some cool video effects. 7. Video Effects & Effect Controls: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we will go over how to create some cool video effects insider Premier. Let's get started. So to get started, get some footage to the timeline and then click on that clip. And then in the top-left corner besides source, you'll see Effect Controls. So first let's go over the motion controls. Now we have the position control. You can move this left and right or up and down to be able to change addition of the clip. Now, if you want to reset, what you just did is come over here to the right and reset perimeter. Now below that we have this scale. This will zoom the clip in and out. So if you wanted to make the clip smaller, you could, if you wanted to make the clip bigger, you could again, in order to reset that, just press right here, reset perimeter. Now below scale, we have scale with. Now let's say you wanted to widen your clip to the point where it would just look funny. You can uncheck uniform scale and then just start to widen the clips so it looks really abnormal. Now in order to reset that again, just press the reset perimeter. Now below skill worth, we have rotation. So if you want it to rotate the clip, you could do that. And then if you wanted to rotate it back the other way, you could do that. Below rotation, we have the anchor point. Now this is very important. Rotation and anchor point pretty much go hand in hand as well as skill and a few others. But if you move the anchor point somewhere else, the clip will actually rotate from that anchor point, as well as scale from that anchor point. Now, let's go over the opacity section. Let's drag some more clips in the timeline so we can see what this exactly looks like. We're going to click on the top clip. And if you turn down the opacity, as you can see, we can now see the clip below. We also have a couple of different blend modes. You can mess around with these if you want to change the way that actually blends into the clip below. Now, let's talk about the effects library. In order to find the effects library, you have to click this little arrow and then click Effects. Now in order to get to that faster, you can close some of these tabs. You feel like you won't be using them such as the media browser. You can close that panel libraries. You can close that panel, the info, you can close that panel, and therefore, your effects is much easier to get. Now in the effects library, let's go over a couple of video effects. Will start with my favorite distort. Now what the distort effects you can do a lot of funny things. And one of my favorites is the distort spirits. Let's go ahead and add this to the clip. Once we add this to the clip, you'll see that it pops, in effect controls. And also you notice that the timeline turned red. We'll go over more in detail about what that means later on. Now, let's mess around with the Effect Controls, with the spear rise effect. You'll see that as I turn up the effect, we get this weird sphere in the middle of the screen. Now that we've moved around a little bit, can you notice where the effect is? Something looks a little bit off? This is exactly what the distort effect spear rise does, makes it look a little bit funny. Something is a little off. And now you'll see that this is actually falling off of the point that I placed it. We'll talk about keyframes and how to prevent that from happening later on in the course. Now let's talk about why the timeline actually turned red. The reason why the timeline turned red is because now we're applying video effects. And these effects take a lot of power from your computer in order to process in real time in play in the monitor. So if you begin to have some issues once you apply Video Effects, this is where the playback resolution comes in to help you turn down your playback resolution, your computer does a much better job processing the information and playing the video in real speed for you. An easy way to remove everything and all the effects on the clip is to right-click the clip, remove attributes and no tell you everything that is removing and resetting and just click. Okay, now let's talk about a different effect. We're gonna go to Video Effects, blur and grab the Gaussian blur effect. What I can do is I can apply that effect to the clip and then turn up the blurriness and then tick this little box that says Repeat Edge Pixels. As you'll see as the blurriness gets turned up, we start to get these weird like black edges around the video. In order to get rid of that, we will click, Repeat Edge, Pixels, and then noun that is gone. So you can do a lot of things with video effects. And there's tons and tons of video effects. We only went over two. And I'm pretty sure there's hundreds of video effects inside of mu. Now, let's go ahead and remove these effects again. Now let's talk about a different way to actually apply the effects. Instead of actually applying it to the content, which you can do is use something called an adjustment layer. In order to get an adjustment layer, you have to click New Item, adjustment layer, click Okay, and then go ahead and drag that to your timeline. Now you can put this above the clip and drag it to the length of the clip. Now what you can do is you can actually drag these same effects to the adjustment layer rather than modifying the video clip that you have. So let's use a different effect. Let's go to this folder and then grab the roughen edges effect. We can then drag this effect to the adjustment layer. And as you'll see, the effect is still applied over the content. Now, let's mess with the settings. Let's increase the border a little bit. Maybe turn up the edge sharpness, scale the effect a little bit. Then as you see, the effect is still. Over the content. But the only difference is it's not applied to the video. Now, if you also wanted to, you could just how the layer, and now you can no longer see the effect. So you can always use adjustment layers if you don't want to actually apply the effect to the video. Now, let's talk about something else. Let's say you make a cool effect that you think you'll be using more and more in the future. You can actually save this effect as a preset, or you have to do is customize your effect, your likings. And then right-click the effect and click Save Preset. And then you can save that preset. Click Okay, Let's go ahead and remove all the effects from the Adjustment Layer. And then if we go to our effects, then go to our presets, will see the effects preset that we just made. You can drive this adjustment layer and boom, there you go. So if you create any effects that you think that you're going to use a lot. Make sure you make a preset so you can easily drag it to your content over and over. So we'll go over more presets in the future lessons. And I'll also provide some presets in the project files. They are very, very important to be able to kill time and make your workflow even more efficient. So how we talked about earlier, if we start to apply more and more effects to the content, the computer starts to struggle to actually play it back for you. So now that we've added a bunch of effects, look how hard it is for the computer to play. Starting to lag. Now, let's talk about how you can fix that. You can either turn down your playback quality, which should help. But if that doesn't work, which you can also do is mark it in and out point. And then once you do that, you can hit your Enter key and it will render the timeline for you. Now, once it's finished, rendering the timeline, as you'll see, the bar is now in green. Everything has been rendered and now the computer has no problem playing it. But if I start to make changes, now, it's back to not being rendered because I made a change. Let's go ahead and remove all of these effects now that we're back to normal, Let's talk about how to remove a green screen footage that I provided. We have a explosion from McKee. Now as you can see, this clip doesn't actually fit the screen. Why is that? The reason why is because we're in a 1920 by 1080 projects and this video clip is actually 12 80 by 720. Now what we can do to fix that as right-click the clip and then go to set to frame size. Now, it's the same size as everything else. Now, let's talk about how to get rid of the green. Go to your video effects, go to Keene and then go to ultra key, drag this ultra key on, and then click the color. And then boom, there you go. Now, let's say that it isn't actually getting all of the green. So as we see, there's a little bit of green here, a little bit of green, there. May be a little bit of green there, which you can actually do is change the setting of the ultra key. So right now it's on default. We can turn it too aggressive. And as you can see, it starts to remove even more of that green. And that's all for this lesson guys, get in Premier Pro apply some of these effects, mess with the Effect Controls. I'll see you in the next lesson where we'll go over some of the most important, more advanced tools and shortcuts that you need to know. 8. Advanced Shortcuts & Tools: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll be going over some of the most important, more advanced shortcuts and tools that you need to be using in Premier Pro to be working more efficient. Now, in our previous shortcuts in today's lesson, we talked about the Razor Tool. And I told you that the razor tool isn't actually the best tool to cut. Let me show you why. Let's say we wanted to make a cut here. Then we want it to delete this clip and then remove the empty space. We would right-click to do ripple delete. That was a three-step process. Let me show you a shortcut. It is so much faster. So let's go ahead and undo control Z. And then let's move here. And then all we have to do is press Q. Same thing, but except it only took one press of a button. Q and w are by far the most important shortcuts day you could be using in Premiere Pro. Now let me show you what w does. W does the same thing, but except the opposite way. So let's say we want it to make a cut here and wanted to get rid of this little n part. Again, if we use the Razor Tool, look how long this would take us. Much longer. Now let's undo. And then less press W, so much quicker. This is by far the most important key by that you should be using a never forget. Now, let's go over a different shortcut. Let's say we wanted to make a cut here by pressing Q. And then we wanted to keep this little end part, but we want it to get rid of the middle. Normally, you would use the razor tool. But let me show you a shortcut that's even faster. If we press Control K, it automatically cuts. And then we can make our next cut by pressing Control K and then just delete the middle. And you may be wondering, why would I press Control K instead of just using the razor tool as soon as you press Control K, a cut. In order to cut with a razor tool, you have to first get the tool out and then cut. But if you actually change the control K bind to the razor tools bind. All you have to do is press C to cut. If you go up to your edit window and press keyboard shortcuts and then search Control K. You'll see that we have add edit if you change this key line to see, and then click Okay, now that we have it rebind to see, let me show you how quick this is. Let's say you wanted to make a cut here. You can make the cut, and then you could come here and press Q, look how quick that was, instead of first getting out the razor tool, making the cut, and then moving to the next point and then pressing Q, you can just quickly move your playhead, make a cut, rescue, and you're done. This is a key bind that I highly recommend you use. So you can just eat up your editing process even faster. You can make cuts seamlessly and then just press Q. And now you never have to actually go fetch the tool. Perhaps they get the tool out, but as soon as you press that button, it cuts. Now, in the earlier lessons we talked about a key buy-in to be able to enlarge it and attract size by moving this little line up and down. A key one to do that faster is to actually press all in plus minus. It's enlarging and decrease the size of the audio tracks and Control plus and minus to decrease and increase the size of the video tracks. Now, let's talk about a different shortcut. A shortcut that will become very useful is the audio shortcut. So let's say you wanted to change the audio of this clip instead of doing this right-clicking and then going to Audio Gain, which you can actually do. Instead, it just press the clip and press G, and then you have the same menu but with less clicks of a button. Now, let's talk about Sweden duration. We talked about speed and duration in one of the previous lessons. And how you get to speed and duration is by right-clicking. I'm pressing speed and duration, two clicks of a button. To access this much faster, you can actually just press Control R. And then you have the same menu, but with only one click of a button. We also talked about the Rate Stretch tool, which is actually a much faster way than the speed and duration. Now to access the Rate Stretch tool, all you have to do is press R and there you go. You can speed up and slow down your clip that quick. Now, sometimes when you're editing, you may need to see more detail and actually need to see your clip in full screen. Now, I used to just come up here and double-click the program window to be able to see it in a bigger view. But there's actually a full-screen key bind that you can use to do this much faster. All you have to do is press Control and the little Tilda button. And there you go. You have four screen. Now, if you're actually unable to press Control and tilda, you can change this key binds to control an F. All you have to do is go up to Edit, Keyboard Shortcuts, search up full screen. And then as you see, toggle full-screen and you can actually just change this key bind to control F. Now, all of this work doesn't actually matter unless you actually save your project, which is actually one, the other most important key binds that you should be clicking very, very often, because we all know that premier crashes randomly. So the same key buy-in as Control S. Remember to click this off. Now earlier we talked about ripple delete. So let's go ahead and just make a cut here and then delete this section here. Now normally how you ripple delete, you will right-click the empty space and click ripple delete a faster way to actually do ripple delete a shift and delete our recommend you change this to the key bind z. As you can see, the ripple delete key line will change this to z. Now that we've changed this key bind to z, we can just click the empty space and quickly press Z and the ripple delete is done. You can use this hand-in-hand with q, w, z, and C. Now let's talk about a different way to actually speed up your workflow. All of those shortcuts will help you begin to speed up your workflow. But a different way to actually speed up your workflow is actually to watch your videos sped up. Now, if you hit play and you press L, you'll see that your video speeds up. This way. You can change a 30-minute video into 15 min, especially if you already know what you say in the content. And if you pay very close attention to the audio, this is almost the same as if you've ever watched a YouTube video in two times speed. Now on the way to slow this down is actually just hit space to stop and reset and then play again. Or you can speed it up and then slow it down by pressing J. You can also go in reverse by pressing G. Now, don't forget to get him premiere Pro mess around with some of the shortcuts so you can become more familiar with them and even try out some of the recommendations that are made. In the next lesson, we'll make our first transition. 9. Basic Video & Audio Transitions: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll learn how to use some of the most commonly used transitions. Let's get started. So where can you actually find these transitions? If you go to your Effects and then go to video transitions, these are all of the transitions. The ones that we'll be using today is the cross dissolve. Now, in order to make a transition in the first place, you need two clips, so make sure that you have two clips on your timeline. Now one thing that also keep in mind the transition needs extra content actually work with. So let's go ahead and make a cut so we can give the transition extra content to be able to make the transition work. We're going to press W there, and then we're going to press to here. And let's go ahead and drag this transition in-between. And let's see what it looks like. That's the transition right there. I'm pretty sure you've seen this transition before. Now, let's talk about a faster way. You can actually apply this transition. If we go to the point right between the cut and we hit control D, we automatically apply the cross dissolve transition. So if you're trying to apply a lot of these transitions to your content, you can quickly just go through, go to the end of your content and then press Control D to apply a transition, go to the Front, Control D, supply transition. That's Control D is the default transition and you can actually change this. Let's say you wanted to change it to dip to black, which you can actually do is right-click it, select it as default transition. You see this little blue square change. So now let's see what this transition actually looks like. If we go to the cut between the content and press Control D, you'll see that the transition is applied. So it's just the little fade to black transition. If you want to change your default transition, you can. Now, while we're at it, let's talk about audio transitions. For audio transitions, we have something called cross fades. Now what these basically do is feed the audio from one clip into the other. The default is set to constant power. Now a way that you can quickly apply the cross dissolve transition and the constant power transition is to highlight the clips you want to apply it to and press shift D. Now as you can see, we have the constant power transition and we have the cross dissolve transition. Now remember when you're making these transitions and these cuts that you watched, the audio wave form. This is the fastest way to figure out where you need to make a cut or where you need to place a transition. That's all for this lesson and I'll see you in the next lesson where we do some more advanced and cooler transitions. 10. Advanced Video & Audio Transitions: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson, we will learn how to create some much more advanced and cooler transitions. Let's get started. So first, get two clips to the timeline. So we have a clip that we can actually transition into once you've done that trim off the extra edges. So I'm just going to press W to get rid of that empty space and then go ahead and grab an adjustment layer. Once you get your adjustment layer, just drag it over top, bring it all the way down. You're going to want to bring the frames to around 24. Once you have the frames around 24, just position the adjustment layer right in the middle and go to your effects panel, go to video transitions, Go to slide, and then go to the Push transition. Go ahead and just apply this to your clip. But one thing to keep in mind, as you can see, I can actually apply this to the clip. And the reason why is because the transition doesn't have any extra information to work with. If I just trim this clip just a little bit and then bring it back, now, I can apply it between now that you have your transition, go ahead and size it up with your adjustment layer. Once you do that, you can go ahead and search up directional blur, grab this effect and apply it to the adjustment layer. Now that you have your directional blur on the clip, Let's see how the transition looks without us adding effects. Really, really plane. Now, let's add directional blur. In order to add some directional blur, you go to the directional blur in the effect controls. You want to turn up the blur length just a little bit. Don't overdo it and then change the direction that you want the blur to look like it's headed. So we have it at 90 degrees. Now let's see how it looks. Looks a lot better, but the transition is too slow. Now to make the transition move a little bit faster, you can just trim the transition down. So right now it's at 24 frames. Let's go ahead and trim it down to half of that to 12. And then let's also bring the adjustment layer down to 12 frames as well. Now let's see how it looks. Looks a lot better. Now, we're going to get into keyframes. Let's go back to our adjustment layer and then go to the Effect Controls. Let's go ahead and drag our playhead to the middle. And then we're going to click this little time thing to start an animation that sets a keyframe right there. Now, we want this to be in the very middle of the clips. So let's drag these keyframes in, line them up, and then let's go back to the very beginning of the transition and reset the keyframes so there's no blur. And then let's go to the very end of the transition and do the same thing. Reset the keyframe so there's no blur. Now let's look at it. Looks better. The reason why we did that is so there's less blur and blur has time to build up. Now a little tip is to actually make your adjustment layer just one frame longer than the transition. So let's do that. And then make sure you move your keyframes. And then let's see how the transition looks now. Looks wonderful. Noun, the reason why we did that is to give the blur some extra time to build before the transition it started. So it has one frame extra to have a chance to build up the blurriness before the transition starts. Now, to get even better transitions, something you can do is to actually use presets. We'll go over this in the next lesson. Let's move on to how to do a j cut. Now, in a j cut, you're letting the audio from the clip play a little bit before it actually shows on the screen. So what we're going to do is to drag this video over to the point where we want to hear the audio. So somewhere around here. And then in order to get the clip back to how we want it to be, we're going to actually hold Control and Alt. So this way we can move the video back to how we want it. And then now let's take a listen. As you can see, the audio starts just a little bit earlier, before the video shows up, I went over the room, but the transition isn't smooth. How we can fix this is using a simple cross-fade audio transition. So let's go to the audio transitions, grabbed the constant power transition, and then just drag this between, shorten it a little bit. And now let's take a listen. I'd say, Wow there. Alright, Much better, Wonderful. Now that we've done a j cut, Let's do an LCA. Lca is just the opposite of a j cut. The video starts to show before the audio comes in. So we're gonna do pretty much the same thing. We're going to take the clip, drag it to where we want it to pop up and then hold Control and Alt to single out the track and then drag. Now let's see what it looks like against the ansi louder. Alright, I went over the room and then to help with the transition, again, we can use a crossfade constant power to transition the audio into each other modally against the anti. Louder. Wonderful. Now let's talk about match cuts. If you downloaded the project files, you'll find that I put together a folder just for transition practice. Now you can match cuts, so many different things. Shapes, directional looks, movement, so many things. I have a couple of examples of what these match cuts can look like inside of the transition practice folder. So in this clip, I'm going to show you how you can match cut, movement, jump, and I spend. So we're going to want to match this spin up with this spin. Once I jumped in spin about right here, we're going to make a cut. And then in this same clip, once I jumped and spin about to that same point, We're gonna make a cut. Let's see how it looks. It looks pretty good. You can't even tell. The only reason why you can tell is because of the background. We'll talk about basic color correction later on in this course. Then what we can also do to smooth out the transition is actually make a keyframe. So let's say we wanted to keyframe right here, and then we scale in just a little bit. So we scale in about right here, 150. And then in our next clip, we start at 01:50. So we'll make another keyframe, and we'll start at 01:50 and then come back out to 100. Let's see how that looks. It looks pretty good. Now like I said, there's many, many things that you can match cut with. And I left a bunch of clips that you can practice with in the project files. Be sure to put some of these transitions and action. And in the next lesson, I'll show you how to create and use transition presets. 11. Using Transition Presets: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson, I'll show you how to use some cool transition presets. Let's get started now, in order to find your presets, make sure you download them in the projects tab. You just open up the Premier Pro class file, go to presets. And then in here you have the transition presets and the texts presets. We're gonna be using the transition presets today. Now that we know we have the files on our computer, how do we actually import these transitions? All you have to do is go to Effects, go to presets, and then right-click Import Presets, and then go to that same file and then import it. And there you go. There are all of your transitions. Now how do we actually use them? If you go to your project's tab and then create an adjustment layer. And then go ahead and drag that adjustment layer onto your content. Trim that adjustment layer down to the point where it's only 12 frames. And then once it's only 12 frames, hold Alt and duplicate it onto the other side. And then also hold Alt again to duplicate it up and then drag it so that one is a size of both. It should look something like this. Now, once you've done that, go back to your effects and then go to the main preset inside of the transition presets folder, drag that main preset onto the two bottom adjustment layers. It should look something like this. We're almost done. Then go back to the folder and pick whatever transition you want besides the in and out. In and out transitions work a little differently and we'll go over that in a second. So we're gonna go with the right to left, and then there we go. There's the transition. If we wanted to change this transition, all we will have to do is Control Z and then pick a different one. So let's say we wanted to do clockwise. There we go. These transition presets are crucial and it makes creating transitions so much easier. Now, one more thing, in order to use the in and out transitions, you actually have to drag it onto the top just like the others. But you have to disable a side. So if you're using the transition, you have to disable the end adjustment layer. And then there you go. But if you're using the transition, you have to disable the out Adjustment Layer, and then there you go. So now let's say you created a transition that you want it to save. So we have a little transition here that we want to save. All you will have to do is go up to the Effect Controls. Right-click the effect you're using to make the transition, and then click Save Preset. Now in order to export those presets, It's the same thing. You will have to go into your presets where you saved it. You can actually export the entire folder so you can right-click the folder and then export the presets, and then there you go. That's all for this lesson, guys, and I'll see you in the next lesson where we go over the basics of masking and how to duplicate yourself. You made me do it. 12. Basics Of Masking: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll go over the basics of masking and what you can do with it. So let's go ahead and get started. Go ahead and click on your clip and you'll see opacity. This is where all of the masking settings, or if we go ahead and click this circle, it creates a mass in circle for so if I wanted to just single myself out right here, I could. Now let's go ahead and undo that. If we click the rectangle, same thing. But if we wanted to actually draw our own path, we can use the pen tool. And this is what I was talking about earlier when I said there was gonna be different pin tool that we use with this pen tool, you can cut yourself out and if you hold down when you make a selection, you can actually get a curved line and then continue on. Now, if you bring this selection all the way around, you can connect it. And there you go, you have your mask. Now let's say you wanted to delete a point, all you have to do is hold down Control, and then there you go. Now, if you wanted to change the shape of a point, all you have to do is click on a point and then use these lines. Guide how you want to change the shape. Now, let's get to the fun part. How can we duplicate ourselves? So I'm gonna go ahead and clear this mask by right-clicking and clearing mask. So in this clip we see myself standing on one side of the camera and then I move positions to stand on the other side of the camera. Now, if you want to duplicate yourself, is very important that whatever you're recording on is on some sort of tripod. This is so that there's not as much movement in the shot. So in order to duplicate myself in this clip, I'm going to press C to cut right here. And then I'm going to grab this clip and move it on top of this clip. Now what we can do is take the pen tool and draw a shape around the side that I want to cut out. We're going to cut myself out of this side. And then once we do that, as you see, the other clip appears on the other side. So now we have to just cut this to the point that we want to cut it too, which is about right here. So I'm going to drag that and then move it. Then there we go. Now as you can see, if you look very, very closely in the middle, there's a little line. If you look very closely, there's a line. How you can actually fix this line is going to your mask and messing with the feather. As we turn up the feather just a little bit, the line disappears. We're gonna go ahead and turn this up to 30%. Now in that line is pretty much gone. You can't really see it. You have to look really, really hard to see it. And then there you go. That's how you duplicate yourself inside of Premiere Pro. Now there's one other cool effect that I would like to show you if you go into your effect controls, what you can actually do is set a keyframe on opacity. Let's move this keyframe and just a little bit. And then right after that keyframe, you can change the interval to zero. And then once you set the other keyframe to zero, you can make yourself disappear, which is a pretty cool effect. Now it's your turn. Try duplicating yourself inside of Premier Pro. And I'll see you in the next lesson where we go over the basics of texts. 13. Basics Of Text: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll go over the basics of using text. Let's get started. First in order to access your text, to go ahead and press T. Once you get your texts to go ahead and just drag it over the program window, and then you can go ahead and pretty much type in whatever you want to type in. So we'll type in hello. So if you go ahead and click on your texts, you'll get the effect controls for the texts. Let's say you wanted to change your font. Well, you can't go and just select the font. You actually have to highlight what you type. Then go select the font. So let's say we want it to change it to month. Surette, There we go. We have Montserrat and then you can change the italic, bold. So if you highlight it and then change it to bold, you get bold. And then if you highlight it and change it to bold, italic, you get that. Now below that we have the center align. So you can quickly line up the texts in the center of the screen by just pressing this button right here. Now another way to do that is to actually move the text around, but hold control as you move it around. The red line is the center of the screen. And then if you bring it in the very middle, the red line going the other way is the center horizontally. And then off to the right of that we have the scale of the text. So if you want it to scale the texts up to be a little bit bigger, you could then if we scroll down just a little bit more, we have the appearance section. Now this is my favorite section to be able to make the text look better. So let's go ahead and just add a clip below so we can have a background to see. And let's go ahead and move this text up just a little bit. So I'm going to just grab the text and hold Control. So let's start with Phil. Let's say we wanted to change the color of the text. Go ahead and highlight your texts and then select, Fill, and then we can change the color to a red. There we go, the colors change. And then after Phil, We have strokes. So go ahead and highlight your text and then click Stroke. Now stroke is basically just gonna be like an outline on the text. So let's go ahead and set this to black and then set the ratio to about 15. And then there we go. We have a little outline on the texts. After that, we have background. So let's say we wanted to add a color background to the tech. You can enable the background and then pick the color that you want the background to be. And then below that we have a couple of settings for the background. So the first one is the opacity of the background, and then the second one is the size of the background. So let's move the size up just a little bit. And then the third one is if you want the corners of the background to be rounded off. So we just want the corners of the text to be rounded off just a little bit. That looks good. The next step after background, we have shadow. Now this is kinda like drop shadows in Photoshop. You can turn up the opacity of the shadow and change the color of the shadow. Also increase the size of the shadow and the distance of the shadow. So you can mess around with these settings and create some really, really cool texts. Now after background, we have the transform setting. Now this is how you can make some really cool animated texts. And we'll actually go over this in the next lesson. Mess around with the text tool, and I'll see you in the next lesson where we get texts like this. 14. Advanced Text & Animations: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson, we will learn how to use keyframes to create some really engaging texts, as well as some cool animations. Let's get started. So first we have to go over the basics of keyframing. If you go up to Effect Controls, you see this little toggle Animation button beside all of the effects. With each of these effects, you can use keyframes to create an animation. So let's say we want it to slowly zoom into this picture as the video played. Well, we can actually do is click the toggle Animation button, go a couple of frames down, and then set it to the point that we want it to scale into. So let's set it to one-twenty. Now let's play from the beginning. So that's just the very basics of keyframing right there. You can do this with all of the effects. So you can do this with position, you can do this with rotation, you can do this with opacity. So let's try the same thing with the position of fact. Let's say we wanted to make a little animation where the picture slides into the video. We would set a keyframe at the point that we want the picture to start from. And then we would set another keyframe at the point where we want the picture to n. Now let's see what that looks like. The picture just slides by perfect. Now let's say we wanted to actually speed up this animation. All you have to do is take your keyframes and actually drag them closer together. So if you wanted to slow it down, you can drag them further apart. And if you wanted to speed it up, you just have to drag them closer. So let's see now, much faster. Now, a big part about keyframes is getting away from the basic keyframing animations and using this special keyframing animations to access these special keyframes, all you wanna do is right-click on your keyframe and you have this word right here. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that in this section, you have ease in and ease out. These are the special keyframes that I'm talking about. Now this is a little confusing, but anytime your animation is coming in, you want to use the Ease Out setting. And anytime your animation is going, you want to use the ease in setting. We're going to set these first two keyframes to ease out. And let's set these last two key-frames to ease in and look what this does for the animation. Gives it a little velocity or speed up and slow down. So I space it out so we can get a better look at what this animation looks like. So again, as I said, it gives it a peak speed. Think of it like a roller coaster. Now, in order to get rid of your keyframes, all you have to do is click the toggle Animation button again and go ahead and reset your perimeter so the picture is back to normal. Now, you can also use keyframes with effects. So if you go to your effects library, we're going to go ahead and grab the Guassian blur. So we're going to set a keyframe right here. And then we're going to move a little bit further in. And then we'll turn this keyframe up to 100, and then we'll turn it back down to zero by just resetting the perimeter. Let's see how this looks. The picture gets blurry and then it comes back. So remember that you can also use all of these keyframes with a lot of the effects inside of Premier Pro and get really creative with it. Now, let's get into the texts keyframes. Here we just have a little hello texts. Now you can also use keyframes with changing the texts. So let's say we wanted to change the texts halfway through the video. Let's set a keyframe for the texts that it currently is. And then let's highlight and then change the text to something else. So let's change it to this. Now let's see how that looks. Keyframe. So you can use keyframes, pretty much anything. Now let's say we wanted our texts to fly across the screen. Again, we just set a position keyframe where we want the text to start from. And then set a, another position keyframe where the texts will end. And then let's also change this to special keyframes. Right-click, ease out, right-click ease in. Now let's see how it looks. That's pretty good. Now let's talk about how to actually make engaging texts for your videos. Go to your effect controls and then scroll down and you'll see transform. Now before we actually start applying effects, make sure that your anchor point is in the middle of the texts. This little dot, just hold control and make sure it's in the middle of your texts. Sometimes this automatically in the middle of the texts and then sometimes is not. Now, go ahead and make a keyframe for scale. Then go a couple of frames in and then make another keyframe and scale it up to one-ten. And then make a couple of more keyframes and then scale it up to 100. Now, go back to the very beginning keyframe and scale it down a little bit to somewhere like 70. There we go. It looks pretty good if you're going to use these texts presets very often, which you can actually do is save it as a preset, go to the texts preset and then click Save as Preset. And then once you save it as a preset, make sure you click anchor to end point. This is so you can use the texts presets over and over. I also provided some texts presets and the projects folder. Let's see how we can actually import those. All you have to do is go to your presets. Import Presets, go to the premiere Pro class file, go to presets, and then import the texts presets. Now here we have a bunch of presets to be able to make texts look cool. Now how you can actually use these presets effectively is just go ahead and click on the screen to be able to get the text graphics and then drag the texts preset pop in onto the text graphics. And then there you go. Now in the most effective way to actually be able to use these presets is just to click on the screen so you can get the text graphics, you don't actually have to type into it. And then while you're going throughout your content, just make cuts. And then go ahead and drag the pop-in texts preset on. So all of these cuts, and then there you go, you get the texts preset popping over and over now. And to be able to use the special effects other than pop in, you need a base preset. Now on the base preset is just what your texts looks like. Every single time it's already aligned, it's already scaled up. So you will go ahead and drag this onto your graphic layer and then drive on the effect that you want to use. So now you have these cool texts animations by just dragging on the preset. Another thing you can do if you're using texts very often, you can actually just hold down Alt and drag it over so you can make a copy of it now that you know how to make animated text and graphics, go ahead and get inside of Premiere Pro, mess around with the keyframes, make some ease in texts and ease out texts. And let's see what you come up with. I'll see you in the next lesson where we go over how to speed up and slow down clips. 15. Speed Ramping: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson, there'll be a quick one. We'll talk about how to speed up and slow down clips. Now, our first way to be able to speed up and slow down clips. We've talked about this earlier. Hold down control and r, and you get the speed and duration. With the speed and duration, you can change the speed of the clip or you can actually change the duration that you want the clip to be. So let's say we want to change it to 5 s. Now in the clip is sped up so it can fit inside a 5 s. We also have a couple of different settings here. We have reverse speed. So as you can see, reverse be just plays the clip in reverse and then we have maintain audio pitch. So if you didn't want the audio to start to become pitch, as you speed up the clip, you can actually click this and it will maintain the audio a little bit more. Now, a much faster way to do everything that we just went over is actually just to press R. Once you press R, you get your rate stretch tool out. Now on this way you can just stretch the clip. And depending on how you stretch the clip will determine how fast the clip is sped up. If I stretch the clip to be longer, now we're in slow-mo and then if I stretch the clip the opposite way, now we're sped up. Now a different way you can actually speed up the clip is right-click the clip, go to Show Keyframes, go to time remapping, and then click speed. So if you hold down Control and plus you can enlarging the track size so you can see what we're about to mess with. And then you have this little line. If you increase this line, it increases the percentage that the clip is sped up. If you decrease this line, it slows the percentage that the clip plays. But if you grab the pen tool and then clip for an end point, and then click for a point. You can now change the speed only in that section and then also single out the speed outside of that section. Now let's see how it looks. Looks good. Now you can also smooth out the transition by moving this little lever right here. If we wanted to smooth out that transition a little bit, we can move this lever and then we can also move it right here. Now let's see how it looks. It looks wonderful. This method is called time remapping. Now I'm pretty sure you've seen this in equality duty montage or a fortnight montage. That's all for this lesson. I'll see you in the next lesson where we go over basic color correction. 16. Basic Color Correction: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson, we will go over basic color correction. So if you need to warm up or cool down a clip, you know how in order to get to your color correction menu, all you have to do is go to Window, scroll down, and then go to Lumetri color. Once you get there, you should have a window that looks something like this. Let's start from the top. If you have any Lutz that you've downloaded from other creators, this is where you can import these and actually use them on your content. Below that we have the white balance. So you can change the temperature of the clip, warm it up, or cool it down based on how you want the clip to look. Also, you can use the white balance selector to select white and the clip. And it will try to automatically do that for you. And then below temperature, we have ten. So you can add a little tint of green to your content, as well as purple bluish. And then below tint, we have all of the tone settings. This is where the precise color correction comes in it. So if you want to brighten up shadows, you could, if you wanted to turn up exposure, you could, if you wanted to turn down contrast, you could. So you have all of these settings here to be able to mess around with the visual aesthetics of your video. At the very bottom of that, you have the reset button. If you don't like the edits that you've made. And then beside the reset button you have the Auto button. So if you want it premiered to automatically try to correct your video. You can click this and then at the very bottom you have the saturation setting. This is a great setting to use if you want things to just look more vibrant and your video. And then below the basic color correction section, we have the Creative section. At the very top of the Creative section, we have the looks. So these are basically just like filters for the content. And then below that we have the intensity for if you want to turn up the intensity of the filter. And then below the intensity we have the adjustments section. So we have the faded film filter. So if you want it, your film to look like it was from the '70s or '60s or something, you can use this filter. We also have a sharpen setting here. So if you wanted to sharpen up your video a little bit, you could then below sharpen we have the vibrant setting. So this is kinda similar to saturation. And then below that we have another saturation filter. This one is the same as the one before, then we have the shadow tint. So if you wanted to give the shadows on the screen a little tint and change the color of the shadows. You can use this. And then we also have the highlight tint. So if you wanted to change the highlight color of your clip, you could do that. That's all for color correction. I'll see you in the next lesson where we learned some mics, audio and add audio effects. 17. Audio Mixing & Effects: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we'll go over the importance of audio and how to use gain, sound effects and much more to your advantage. Now first let's talk about something we spoke on in the previous lessons, which is the default audio transition. You can easily apply this to your audio by just highlighting the audio you want. And then pressing Shift and D. This is very useful for transitioning audio clips that involve talking. Now let's talk about audio ducking. Now first, let's go ahead and enlarge and our audio track size. So we can see more by holding Alt and pressing plus none that we can see much more information enabled to do audio ducking, hold down Control, hovering over your audio clip to set a keyframe. To set another keyframe and then go a little bit further in the clip and then click to set two more keyframes. Now you can drag the line in the middle of those keyframes. Now let's see what it sounds like. There we go. Perfect. Now let's talk about normalizing the max P. If you go to your audio and then press G, you get the audio gain. Now let's say you have a audio clip where something is peaking too high or you have to do is click the normalized max peaks too. Enter the decibels that you want that to be set at. So we'll put negative 12th. Now, nothing in this clip is allowed to peak above 12th. Now let's talk about adding sound effects. Here we have a transition, but it has no sound. It's just so plain. You can make transitions and much more ten times better by using sound effects. So let's go ahead and listen to some of these transitions. I think I like this one right here. We're going to go ahead and set it in and out point, and then go ahead and drag this under the transition. Now let's listen. Looks much better. Now let's say you had multiple transitions throughout your video and you use the same whoosh sound effect for all of them. A way that you can get creative and change the sound of the sound effects is by actually using the Rate Stretch tool. So all you have to do is press R and then all you have to do is grab the sound effect and shorten it just a little bit. This speeds the sound effect up. It makes it sound a little bit different. Let's compare the two sounds just a little bit different. Now, if you wanted to record a voiceover and Premiere Pro, you can simply just click this button right here. And then to the left of that, we also have mute tracks. So if you wanted to mute a trite to be able to listen closely on something else, you can simply press that button. Now, a big thing with audio is actually choosing the correct music. I don't think this would sound right, but I think something much more hardcore would sound better. So make sure when you're editing videos, you select the correct music to fit the theme. Now once I have that can help you when you're editing videos and trying to hear the audio. You can actually go to the Edit tab, go to Preferences, and then go to audio. Here you can actually check the play audio while scrubbing. So this way, you can hear the audio a little bit as you scrub through. Now the last thing that I want to talk about is audio effects. Inside of Premiere Pro, There's a ton of them. You can drag this onto your audio to make them sound different. So let's take a listen. Oh, here we go. Then now we're going to drag on lowpass. Oh, here we go. Gives it a little different effect. Almost sounds like I'm underwater. Now, one thing to keep in mind when you're setting the gain for your audio is that the industry standard is negative six to negative 12. If your video is at negative six or above, it's probably a little too loud. What I want you to do now is take everything that you've learned up to this point, mess around with your edit, add sound effects, transitions, texts, music and much more. And I'll see you in the next lesson where we finally export our project. 18. Export Settings: Now that you have edited up a masterpiece, it is time to export select eight in and out point when your controls sequence, then press Control M to be able to get the export menu. Now you can actually change the source range. So if you didn't select the in and out point, you can actually just select entire sequence. At the top, we have the format H264. Now this is the most widely used and most common. So just stick with that. Now below format, we have preset. Currently we have Match Source, high bit rate. You pretty much can't go wrong with this bit rate, but if you do want to change it, you can click and you have a bunch of other different alternatives. Now below that, we have the output name. This is where you choose where you want to save your project too. Then you can continue to scroll down and it'll give you some of the basic video settings and stuff like that. If you're interested in changing your bit rate, you can go to the bit rate settings and change it to fit the specific platform that you're uploading to. Now let's talk a little bit more about presets. All of these presets are pretty much the same. Match Source, high bit rate just matches your sequence. So e.g. we have a 1920 by 1080 clip shot at 60 frames and it has pretty high bit rate. So it's going to match all of those settings and then export it. There's no reason to necessarily dropped down to the medium bitrate version because you'll lose quality. Then here we have the high-quality 1080 Ph.D. Now people usually use this setting when you're scaling down videos. So if somebody shot a video in for K and the edited everything and ten ADP, and they want to scale that video down to ten ADP. They'll use this export setting other than that Match Source high bit rate is probably the best setting that you could be using. But if you did want to change something, so e.g. if you wanted to change the bit rate because you were uploading to a certain platform that allows higher bit rate. You can change the bit rate and then you can actually save your own preset right here. Now to export, just click Export. All right, everybody you have learned all of the basic and most of the advanced options in Premier Pro. So you can start creating amazing videos. What I have left for you in this course is some important tips and extra information to speedup workflow, sync audio with one clip and major content funnier, I'll see you there. 19. Extra Useful Settings & Important Tips: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we will go over a bunch of extra useful information that will help you along your editing journey. So first I want to talk about sinking audio with one-click. Let's say you were recording and you had multiple cameras recording you. And each of those cameras have their own microphone, but you actually want it to sync the audio to a different microphone. What you can do is highlight all of the clips you have and then right-click and then press synchronized. Make sure the audio section is checked, and then press OK. Once you do that, all of your audio should be perfectly sync. Next up, let's talk about safe margins. So if you have a talking head video where you're talking to the camera, like I am now, something that might be helpful for you in Premiere Pro is to have safe margins. This is so you can make sure you are positioned perfectly for the screen. Now, I sculpt this clip up just a little bit and I've positioned myself more perfectly in the center of the screen. Next up we have Selection Follows playhead. So if you go to your sequence tab and then scroll down and then click Selection Follows play head. Whenever you scroll, your playhead will automatically select the clip that is under that. This can either be good or bad. So you choose. Next up, let's talk about creating a asset sequence. So if you have certain assets that you use a lot such as intros, outros, and maybe even transitions. You should make an asset sequence folder. How you can do this is go up to File, go to New, and then go to sequence, go ahead and name this sequence assets. And then here you can drag in your intro and outro as transitions, sound effects, things that you use a lot. And then you can go up to File and then click Save As, and then save it as your asset sequence. And then anytime that you get into a new project, you can instantly just go to Open Project and then open up your asset sequence. So you can just drag from there. Next up we have trimming down the fluff. What I mean by that is this dead space right here kills the video. Let's take a look. Today we're boxing Muhammad Ali against the anti. Louder. I finished what I needed to say. And there's no need for those extra three to 4 s. We can simply just trim this off by pressing W. Do not leave that in your video. Dead air kills the video. The only time we're dead air may be okay is when you're saying something very serious and you want to drive importance situation. Now you remember when you used to have to write rough drafts in school, you should look at editing the same way. Your first edit is your quick edit. Your working efficiently. You're quickly getting rid of dead air and things that you don't need in the video. And then you come back and you make a more precise Final Cut. While we're mentioning that, always watch back your final edit. You don't want to be that one person that edited the video and then you left in something that you didn't mean to leave in. Then now you've already uploaded it. Make sure you watch back your final edit. Next up we have focusing your workflow. Don't jump around from a row to be zero too. Subtitles to sound effects, to music. No. Focus your workflow on one thing at a time. Make your a roll cut, and then do your B-roll, and then do your sound effects, and then do your music, and then do your subtitles. This will help you be more efficient in your work process. Next up we have a little tip about copying motion settings. So let's say I move this here and then I move this here. And I wanted to same look for all the rest of my clubs. All I have to do is come here, click copy, and then go here, and then click pace. And even faster way to do this is copy with Control C and then highlight all of the clips that you want to apply the same edit to, and then press Control V. This will copy over those exact settings to the other videos. For our last tip, Let's talk about default media scaling. If you go to your edit tab, go down to Preferences, and then go to media, you can set your default media scaling to set to frame size. This way, anytime you dragging a clip that does not match your sequence size, it will automatically set it to frame size. So e.g. let's say you're editing in a 1920 by 1080 sequence, but the clip you Dragon was 12, 80 by 720. It will automatically set that to the frame size. That's all for the extra tips and information. Next, we'll go over how to make your content even funnier. 20. Making Content Funnier & More Engaging: Welcome back everybody. In this lesson we will talk about how to make your content even funnier. Number one, use sound effects. Sound effects are crucial for making your content funnier. I mean, just look at creators such as curious kitchen, burly z, dash. Many more. They all use sound effects. If you perfectly placed a sound effect, it can make your video ten times funnier. Let's take a look at this video, but now I added a sound effect. Makes it just a little bit funnier while we're talking about sound effects, make sure you're using sound effects. One-year transitions. Don't let your transitions look like this. There we go. So plane, but now let's add a sound effect. There we go. So much better. It's the little things that make the big difference. Next up, let's talk about the bars and tone humor cut. Now you've seen this before in Premiere Pro. If you go to new item and then go to bars in tone, you can actually make your own bars in tone. Go ahead and drag that to the timeline. And you'll get something like this, a little tip at some directional blur to it. And you'll get something like this. Just a little bit funnier. But while we're on the topic of that, Let's talk about abrupt cuts. I'm pretty sure you've seen a clip when somebody is just yelling than abruptly cuts and then goes into the next clip like nothing happened. That's funny. And you can do the exact same thing. Next we have probably one of the biggest ones using means, but there's a catch to it. You can't just spam means all throughout your video, you have to perfectly placed them. It has to be the perfect mean for the situation. This is where you can show your creativity and your humor. If you pick the perfect mean and place it in the perfect spot, I guarantee you that moment will be ten times 20 year. Next up, we have distort effects. I mean, look at me, and that's pretty much all. The biggest thing that you need to keep in mind is if for one moment you feel like something isn't funny, cut it. You need to be your biggest critic. Be harsh with your content because if something isn't funny to you, most likely is not funny to somebody else. 21. Conclusion: Congratulations, You made it to the end of the course. Now it's time to take everything that you learned and apply it so you can become an amazing editor. I just wanted to leave you guys with a little bit of motivation and let you know that you can accomplish anything. You put your mind to. Your only limitations are the ones that you create for yourself. Now it's time for you to step into the world of editing. And remember, the first step is the hardest step. Welcome.