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1. Welcome!: Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the most powerful video
editing tools available. Whether you're making
simple cuts or diving into advanced color
grading and effects, it has everything you need. And with its latest updates, it's not just
powerful, it's faster, more intuitive, and
easier to learn, making it the perfect
choice for beginners. I know this because I've
been using it for years. When I started editing videos, I had no idea what I was doing. I jumped from one tutorial to another trying to
piece things together, but it only left me frustrated. I wish there was a simple
step by step way to learn, something that
actually made sense. This class is the solution
to my name is Neil vag. I'm a professional video editor with nine years of experience. From YouTube videos
to brand campaigns, Premiere Pro has been at
the heart of my work. I have learned what
actually works, and in this class, I will guide you through
it step by step. We will start with
the fundamentals, cutting clips and
using transitions before moving into color
correction, text and effects. You won't just watch me edit. You will be editing alongside
me using the same footage. By the end of this class,
you will have skills and confidence to edit your
videos from start to finish. So let's jump in and start
editing on Adobe Premiere Pro.
2. Class Project & What to Expect: Welcome to the class, I'm so
excited to have you here. For the class project, we will be editing a coffee
video together. You will find all
the footage and assets in the resources section, but if you would rather
use your own clips, feel free to follow along
with your own project. We will start by getting
familiar with the workspace, then move on to arranging clips, adding transitions, and
building structure of our edit. From there, we will dive
into color correction. Text and titles and effects
to make your video stand out. Finally, we'll wrap up by learning the best
export settings to ensure your final project looks professional and
is ready to share. If this sounds like
a lot, don't worry, I will guide you
through every step in a way that's simple
and easy to follow. And if you have any questions, drop them in the Community
tab. I'm here to help. Let's edit your first video.
3. Introduction of the Interface: In this lesson, you will learn where to find all
the important tools, how to organize your workspace, and set things up for
smooth editing experience. And hopefully by the
end of this lesson, you will feel comfortable
navigating the software. When you open Premiere Pro, you get two choices. Create a new project or
open an existing project. Since this is our first edit, let's create a new one. To start, click on New Project. You will see three main options, project name, location,
and template. Let's name our
project first Edit. Then choose a
location to save it. I'll save mine on the desktop. I'm going to save this
in class project. Let's create a new folder
called Project Files. And save this inside of it so that all the data
stays in the same folder. You will also see
a template option, but we don't need to
worry about it right now. Next, there is a checkbox
called Skip Import Mode. Let's see what happens if
you leave it unchecked. You will see a
window where you can import footage from
your computer, copy media from
another location, or organize your files. But we can also do this later, so I prefer skipping this step. If you forget to check the box, you can still click the skip button when the window appears. This window also has an option
to create a new sequence, but we will learn
about that later. For now, let's skip ahead. Once the project opens, you will see different panels. The arrangement of these
panels is called a workspace. If you open an existing project, your workspace might
look different. PremiuPro allows you to customize your workspace
based on your needs. You can rearrange
them by clicking on the panel and dragging
it wherever you want it. But we will use a
preset workspace. In the top right corner, click on Workspaces
and select editing. This will organize
your screen in a way that makes video
editing more efficient. If your layout still
looks different, go to workspaces and click
on Reset to save layout. Now we should all have
the same workspace. Each panel in Premiere Pro
serves a specific function. This is a project panel
on the bottom left. That's where you import
and organize media. The timeline in the bottom is where you arrange
and edit your clips. This is where we will be
spending our time the most. The tools panel on
the left side of the timeline provides
tools for editing, cutting and manipulating clips. The properties panel on the top allows you to add
and customize text, shapes, and other graphics of a particular clip or an element. The program monitor beside it lets you preview your
video as you edit. And the source monitor
on the left is where you can preview raw footage before
adding it to the timeline. That may sound like a
lot, but don't worry. You don't need to memorize
everything right away. This overview is
simply to give you a basic understanding of what's
happening on your screen. As we start working
with Premiere Pro, these tools and panels will
become second nature to you. I mentioned earlier, the
most important area in the Premiere Pro is the timeline where we do most of our editing. Right now, our timeline is empty because we haven't
added any media. In the resources section, you will find some files, download these files and
save them in a folder. I have created a folder called Class Project and transferred all of these resources here. Now, let's import media
into Premiere Pro. There are a few ways to do this. Right click on the Project
panel and click on Import, then navigate to
your project folder. Select the files
you want to import. In this case, all the files in the assets folder that
you have downloaded. Then click on open or hit Enter. This will add all the selected
files to your project. I'm going to use the shortcut
Control Z to undo this. The second way is to
use the file menu. Go to File, Import, then select your files. And open. Let's undo again. The fastest way to import your footage is to use
the keyboard shortcut. Press Control I on Windows or Command I on Mac to
open the Import window. From there, navigate
to your folders, select the files, and then
click Open to Import it. In the project
window, you will see our files looking
like big blocks. Currently, all the
information that we see is snippets of the clips, their names and timecodes. This means we are
in the icon view. We can identify this by going to the bottom icons of
the project panel. And here you can
notice that there are a few more ways
to see our content. If you switch to List
View next to that, you can see more details. To show you what kind
of details we can see, I'm making the window bigger by clicking Tildaky
on the keyboard. Now you will notice more information such
as the type of footage, the videos name, frame
rate, resolution, and other details that are
necessary for big projects. This view is helpful
if you prefer a more organized detailed
list of information. On the other hand, the icon view is better for visual editors, as you can see thumbnails
of the clips and scrub over it to see the content
inside of it beforehand. In icon view, you
can also ho over any file name to see more
details like frame rate, resolution, file
length, and audio type. There is also another view
called a freeform view, but I rarely use it. For example, you
can group clips by scenes like putting all the
videos of brewing together, all the clips of grinding
beans together, et cetera. But I've only used it once
for specific project, so I don't think it's necessary
for most of my edits. Let's go back to icon view
to keep things simple. Now that you know your
way around Premiere Pro, editing will feel much easier. In the next lesson,
let's dive into basic editing and start
bringing your footage to.
4. Basic Editing: Editing is where
the magic happens. In this lesson, we will take raw video files and turn them into a well structured story. You will learn how to
trim unnecessary parts, arrange clips in
the right order, and make your first edits. But first, let's learn how to use the timeline for editing. Right now, we have an empty
timeline with no sequences. That's because we haven't
created a sequence yet. To edit anything
in the timeline, we first need to
create a sequence. The easiest way to create
a sequence is to take a video file from
your project window and drag it directly
into the timeline. When you do this, Premiere
Pro automatically creates a sequence with the same
settings as the video file. You will see that both
the video and audio drags appear in the timeline, and a new sequence is created in the project window
with the same name as the file that we dragged. Let's undo this because we want more control over the
sequence settings. We are going to create
the sequence manually. To do this, right click
inside the Project Window, go to new item and
select sequence. A new window will appear
with many settings. When creating a sequence, it's important to match its settings with
your video footage. In my case, my
footage was shot at 29.97 frames per second, so I need to ensure that my sequence has the
same frame rate. If you ever need to check
your footage detail, simply go to your file and
review the properties. Different frame rates
serve different purposes. For example, 23.976
FPS or 24 FPS is most commonly used in
the film industry because it closely mimics how our
eyes perceive motion. For now, I'm going to choose a preset that
matches my footage. This will ensure
that the sequence settings align with
my video quality. Let's rename it to Coffee
video and click on Okay. Now that we have our
sequence in place, at first, the timeline will
be empty because we haven't added any media yet. Now I'll drag my video
clip into the timeline. Wait, where is the audio of
this clip? Let me undo this. Before adding any
content to the timeline, you need to check that
one Video Track one, and A one that is Audio
Track one are selected. These track selections determine where media gets placed
on the timeline. V one, V two, V three
are for video tracks, while A one, A two, A three are for audio. Selecting the correct
tracks ensures both video and audio are added properly
when dragging a file. Now that our footage
is in the timeline, let's learn how to edit it. At the start of my video, the camera shakes a bit because
I was still adjusting it. I don't want the shaky
part in my final video. I also don't need
the whole clip. Just the part where I'm putting the coffee beans in the grinder. So how do we cut this? There are few ways to do this. One way is by using
the razor tool. You can find it in
the tools panel, or you can also press C on
your keyboard to select it. But first, let's use
the scroll he that's on the bottom to see
our clip clearly. Now that our razor
tool is selected, let's find a part
which I want to cut. Click on the part where
you want to cut and both the audio and
video will be split. To remove the unwanted part, switch back to the
selection tool. You can find it in
the tools window, or you can also press
V on your keyboard. Then click on the
unwanted section and press delete
on your keyboard. Now, you will see a
gap in your timeline. If there is an empty
space between two clips, it acts as a blank
section in your video. To remove it, simply click
on the gap and press delete. The clip will move
ahead automatically. Another way to trim your footage is by using the trim tool. If you hover over the start
or the end of a clip, a red arrow with
bracket appears. Click and drag to adjust
the length of the clip. This lets you quickly remove unwanted parts
without making cuts. There is one more way to bring your footage into the timeline, and that is to use
the source monitor. The source monitor
is a preview window that lets you watch clips before adding them
to the timeline. If it looks empty, don't worry, double click on
the next clip from the project panel and it will appear in the
source monitor. This will help you
review and select the parts of your footage before adding them
to your video. Only want a specific part
of this clip right before I start closing the grinder lid and a bit of grinding process. Let's play the video to find the exact moment when
my hand appears. To set the endpoint, I use the mark in icon below that looks like
the left bracket. Then I'm going to play
a few seconds and stop at a point where I
want the clip to end. Now I will use the
mark out icon that looks like the right bracket
to define the ending. To insert this clip
into the timeline, drag it from the source monitor. The timeline. The clip will
snap after the previous one. If it doesn't check if the
snap and timeline that's the magnet icon on top left side of the
timeline panel is enabled. If it's off, the clip
will not align properly. Turning it on
ensures the new clip snaps to the playhead
or the previous clip. In the next clip after this, I'm introducing the mocha pot, which is the brewing
method I'll be using. Double click the file
from the project to preview in the
source monitor. This time, instead of using
Mark in and Markout buttons, we will use keyboard shortcuts. Let's play the
video. I'm pausing right before the
mocha pot appears. Then to set the start point, click on I on the keyboard. Let's play the clip and stop at a point where the
mocha pot is in focus. Click O on your keyboard
to mark the outpoint. There is another thing
that I want you to know. Below the source monitor, there are two icons,
drag video only, which is to just add the video on the timeline and
drag audio only. To add just the audio. If I only want the video, I click the drag video only
button on the timeline. But if I only need the audio, I can use the drag
audio only button. But since I want both here, I will drag the entire selection onto the timeline
like we did before, and it will snap
onto the last clip. Now let's play
back the sequence. The grinder scene transitions into the Moka pot introduction, and it looks nice. Great job. You have taken first step towards professional
video editing. Now, let's beat things up with essential
keyboard shortcuts.
5. Keyboard Shortcuts: In this lesson, I
will share with you my favorite keyboard shortcuts that will save you
eight tons of time. Instead of clicking
around endlessly, you will be able to cut, trim, and navigate with just
a few key presses. These shortcuts
will help you edit efficiently and keep your
creative flow going. So let's arrange the remaining
clips in our timeline. Let's go to our project
and select all of the remaining clips by holding control while
selecting each. There are total six files. Let's drag these remaining
clips into the timeline and place them right after the
ones we have already edited. But wait, where did
all the clips go? I can just see a few clips here. It looks like the timeline
view needs adjustment. To navigate and see
the entire timeline, press the minus key to zoom out. Now, we can see
all of the clips, but there is still
too much empty space to focus on the necessary part, press the plus key to zoom in. Alternatively, as I
mentioned before, we can use the
timeline scroll bar at the bottom to adjust the view and see all
the clips properly. This makes it easier to manage
and fine tune the edit. After making sure all of our
clips are on the timeline, let's trim the remaining ones. Let's play the footage
in the timeline. I want you to notice one thing. Before I started Playback, the previous clip was selected, but when I paused,
the current clip under the playhead is selected. If this doesn't happen
automatically in Premiere Pro, you can go to Sequence and turn on Selection Follows playhead. If this option is not selected, the playhead will move, but the clip below it
will not be highlighted. Also, make sure you have selected the correct
video track. If your clip is on two, but you have V one selected, it won't select the
clip from that track. Now, let's trim the clip. I wanted to start exactly
where the action begins. To do this, I press Q. This trims the clip
before the playhead and also removes the extra
gap automatically instead of manually using the razor tool and then
switching to the selection tool, deleting the extra part, and then closing the gap, this shortcut does
everything instantly. Trim the end of the clip, the shortcut is W.
These two shortcuts, Q and W are extremely useful for quick
and efficient editing. If you want to see all the available keyboard
shortcuts in Premiere Pro, you can go to edit and click
on Keyboard Shortcuts. There is also a shortcut for opening the keyboard
shortcut window. And that is listed here, it is Control, Alt and K.
Let's do that and it opens. When you open it, you will see the default Adobe
Premiere Pro preset. The shortcuts I
mentioned earlier, Q and W are for ripple trim. Q trims everything
before the playhead while W trims
everything after it. There are many more shortcuts available and you will
learn them as you go. But for now, I'll share a few basic shortcuts that will make your editing
process faster. Now, let's trim another clip. I play the video and find
where the action starts. In this water video, I do not want to show the
vessel that I'm holding. I'm skipping ahead to where only the water and the bottom of the
mocha pot are visible. This is where I want
to start the clip, so I press Q and everything
before the play head is cut. I play the clip again. Once the action is complete, I'm going to press W, trimming everything
after the playhead. Repeat the same steps
for the next clip where I'm putting coffee
into the mocha pot. I'm going to press Q here, and then after the coffee is in and I'm screwing
the pot together, I'm going to press W again. By following these steps, you can quickly trim
and refine your clips. I don't want the start of
this so clip on my timeline. So let's play the clip, and since the action
starts at a later point, I'm going to press Q to trim everything
before the playhead, then move forward to keep the part where I place
the mocha pot on the stove and then press W to trim everything
after the playhead. Now comes the most exciting
part, the coffee brewing. The coffee starts flowing out
of the mocha pots nozzle. As soon as it begins, I want to cut the
part before this. So I press Q to trim the clip, then wait for the right moment
where the bubbles form. I don't want to use the
entire bubbling sequence, but I will keep a portion of it. Press W to trim the end. The final clip is
serving the coffee. I'm going to do
the same thing we did earlier to trim
the previous portion. But for this clip,
I don't want to cut the entire serving sequence because I want to keep a part of where I lift the coffee cup, and then I will take the sip, which is right after this. I only want to cut
the middle part where nothing is happening, so I'll go ahead a
little bit where I stop serving the coffee.
Yeah, that's done. And then instead of selecting the razor
tool from the toolbar, I'm going to press C on my keyboard to activate
the razor tool, and then I'm going to cut
where I placed the playhead. This will create a
split in the clip. Let's play the next
part of the clip. Now, when my hand reaches
the cup right before it, I'm going to press Q, and it will trim everything
before the playhead. And as soon as my hand
is out of the frame, so I'll press W to trim
everything after the playhead. And let's press V to go
back to the selection tool. Now there is another
useful shortcut. If you want to see
my entire timeline, you can hit the
reverse backlash key that is located just
below the delete key. This zooms out to show
the full sequence, and our video is under 1 minute, which is exactly
what you wanted. Now that you have got
the shortcuts down, editing will feel much
smoother and easier. In the coming lesson,
let's take your cuts to the next level by adding
seamless transitions.
6. Seamless Transitions: In this lesson, you will learn
how to use Premiere Pros, built in transitions
and some simple tricks to make your cuts feel more
polished and professional. Now, as we play
through the sequence, you will notice
that cuts between the clips feel sharp and abrupt. This can make the video feel
choppy rather than smooth. To fix this, we will add some transitions to create
a more natural flow. Let's open the Effects panel. I cannot see an
effects panel here, but you can find it somewhere
in the project panel. You can see there are
these two arrows. Click on that, and here
is the effects panel. In this, you will see all of these folders of different
default effects that are in Premiere Pro that you can use in your videos to amp
up your footage. We can see there are effects and transition folder for
both audio and video, and there is also a
preset folder where all of your customized
preset will be saved. For now, let's open the video transition folder and expand the
dissolve category. Let me zoom in on the timeline so that I can
explain it to you better. I want the clips to
fade in between, so I'm going to use
Cross Dissolve. You can drag it between
these two clips, and this will create
a smooth transition. Let's play the video to check
how the transition looks. It is working well, but
I want it to be shorter. So to reduce its length, you can hover over
the transition. This will show a similar
icon when we trim the clips. This will let you adjust the
duration of the transition. You can make it
longer or shorter. You can also do this in Effects
Control panel by having the transition selected and then moving the start or the
end of the transition. If I want to apply
the cross dissolve to all of my clips at once, I will select all of the clips
and then press Control D. But this also added
the transition at the start and the
end and it's longer. I don't want them. So
what I'm going to do is I'm going to click
outside in the timeline, and then I'm going to select those transitions
and hit delete. Similarly, Premiere
Pro also offers many other video transitions
such as Dissolve, immersive video,
slide, wipe, and Zoom. You can use these based on the style that you
want for your edit. All of these work in the
same way that I showed you. There is one important
detail about transitions in Premiere
row that you should know. Let me take two
clips and duplicate them by holding option
while dragging. Then I'm going to
extend one clip to make it longer so I can
see the start of it. Now, when I try to add a dissolved transition
between the clips, it only applies to the
beginning of the second clip, not between both the clips. The reason is the small triangle at the start of the clip. This triangle indicates
that the clip begins right at its
very first frame, leaving no extra
footage for transition. Same with the end of the clip. To fix this, you need to keep some leeway for the
transition to happen. I'm going to delete
the transition by selecting and
hitting the lead. Then I'm going to trim the
clip slightly and snap it. This will create
extra frames allowing the transition to blend smoothly
between both the clips. Now, when I drag and drop
the dissolve effect, it will correctly
appear between them. Now your video flows seamlessly from one
clip to the next. Up next, we will work on perfecting your colors to
make your footage stand out.
7. Perfecting Colors with Correction & Grading: Colors can completely change
the feel of your video. Color correction will
help your footage look natural and uniform while color grading lets you add stylistic effects to fit
the mood that you want. In this lesson, you will
learn how to fix exposure, balance colors, and create a unique style that
matches your vision. Let me delete these
duplicate files that I made for the demo. I'm just going to select all of the clips and here's
let on my keyboard, and let's zoom in onto the
timeline a little bit. To color correct
and color grade, we need a color panel. If you don't see
the color panel, go to Window Menu and
look for lumitar color. Right now, it might be turned
off in this workspace, click on it and turn it on. When we enable it, it will appear behind the
property s panel, but we want it in a
more convenient place. To move it, click and
hold lumary color, then drag it next to the Effects Control
panel on the left side. Since we don't really need
the properties panel, we can adjust the layout. You can drag the dividing line between the program monitor and the properties panel to give
more space to lumitry color. The lumary Color panel
has many options to adjust colors and make
your video look better. You can manually
correct the colors for each clip or you can
use the Auto button. When you click Auto, Prempro analyzes the clip and
adjust the colors for you. It tries to balance
the highlights and shadows to make
the image look good. Sometimes the automatic
adjustment makes the video look dull and
less visually appealing. So let's manually adjust the colors to make
our video look great. First, let's reset the
color of this clip. Right now, it looks too orange, so we need to reduce
the warm tones. This means adjusting
the temperature slider. Temperature fine tunes
the white balance using a color temperature scale. Moving the slider to the left makes the video
look cooler with blue tones, while moving it to
the right makes it warmer with orange tones. Since this clip is too warm, we will move the
slider to the left slightly to balance it. Next, we will slightly
increase the contrast. Contrast controls the
difference between the dark and the light
areas of the video, adding more depth to the image. We will leave the
exposure as it is, but the task of the
exposure slider is to adjust the overall
brightness of the video. Moving it to the
right makes the image brighter and moving it to
the left makes it darker. Since the brightness looks
fine, we don't need to change. So you can double click on
the slider to reset it. Highlight just the bright
areas of the video. Lowering the highlights helps
reduce overly bright spot, keeping the details visible. And shadows brightens
those dark areas and brings out more detail. To make the details of
our clips stand out, we will lower the highlights
and increase the shadows. Whites are just the
brightest part of the video. Lowering them helps prevent the brightest areas
from looking too harsh. Blacks are just the
darkest part of the video. Decreasing them makes the
dark areas even darker, adding richness and so we will decrease the white and make the blacks darker
to add more depth. Now, let's move on
to the next clip. First, we will try the
autobotin to see how it looks. The colors look fine, but there is a slight green
tone that we don't need. To fix this, we will
adjust the tint slider. Tint fine tunes
the white balance by adding green or magenta tone. Moving it to the left adds a green tint and moving it
to the right adds magenta. Since we have too much green, we will move the slider slightly to the right to
balance the colors. Let's also lower the
temperature a bit to reduce warmth and keep
the clip looking natural. Everything else looks good. We don't need any more changes. Now for the third clip, we will again try the auto button. It looks pretty good, but we still need to reduce
the orange tones a little. After making this change, the clip looks amazing. I think Premier pro did a
great job with this one. For the next clip, let's
try the auto button again. It also has the orange
hue that I don't want, so I will reduce that. I will also increase
the contrast a little. That is looking so much better. Usually I let the premiere pro handle most of the color
adjustment using auto, and then I manually fix anything
that doesn't look right. This way, I don't have
to start from scratch, but I never use the auto
settings exactly as they are because premiere
pro isn't always accurate in choosing
the right colors. For example, right now, I'm clicking on the
auto button and the clip looks very flat and dull, which is
not what I want. So let's adjust the temperature
a little bit and increase the contrast to make
the water stand out more so in just 2
seconds of editing, I made the clip look
a lot more alive. The next clip has similar
lighting conditions as the previous ones. So instead of adjusting
everything manually, we can copy the
color effects from the fifth clip and apply
them to the sixth clip. To copy the color settings
from the fifth clip, I will select the fifth clip. And then go to Effect Controls. Here, I will find the setting
called lumitry color. In Premiere Pro, lumitar color
is considered an effect. When we make changes in
the Lumary color panel, we are actually adding
an effect to the clip. If you go to the Effects panel and search for lumitry color, you will find it
listed as an effect. Can drag this effect
onto your clip, and it will appear in the
Effects Control panel. You can edit it there as well, but adjusting it in the lumary color panel is much more visual
and user friendly. Now, let's undo all of this, and let's go back to our task. I'm going to right click
on the luminary color of the fifth clip sele copy and then paste it
to the next clip by selecting the sixth clip
and hitting Control V. If I compare the before and after the original clip
looks very flat, but after pasting the
lumitry color effect, it looks much better. Now, you must be
wondering how did I turn the effect on and off? There's this button
that says effects here, you can use this to turn the effect off or turn
it on back again. It's very useful
when you want to see what are the changes
that you have done. It doesn't remove the complete
effect from your clip. It just turns the opacity of
the effect all the way down. The next clip shows the star, so I will go to the lumitry
color and click Auto again. The result looks pretty good, but I feel it needs a
little more exposure. So let's increase
it a little bit. And there is also some
orange hue in this clip, which I want to reduce. This may have happened to
all the clips because I did not correctly adjust the
wide balance before filming. Since the next shot was
filmed in the same location, I can copy and paste the color settings instead
of adjusting them manually. I will go to Effect Controls,
find lumitry color, press Command C to copy and then Command B on the
next clip to paste. Now look at that
beautiful golden liquid pouring from the mocha pot, and it looks stunning. I also want to increase
the contrast a little bit and maybe
reduce the shadows. This makes the color
of coffee even richer. The next lip is where I pour
the coffee into the cup. I will go to luminary color, click Auto I'm going to adjust the orange tones slightly and then increase the
brightness limit, and I'm going to make
the contrast zero. The final clip is at the same
place as the previous one, so I'm just going to copy
and paste color settings. Let's go to Effect
Controls, lumitry color, and then Control C to
copy and then go to the next clip and
Control V to paste. Now, here I see a little
bit of pink tones, so I'm just going to
adjust them slightly. That is looking much better. Okay, now that we have color
corrected the entire video, let's move on to color grading. While color grading, I like
to use an adjustment layer. What is an adjustment layer? It is a layer that you
add to the timeline. It doesn't contain any
clips or effects by itself, but it acts as a container
for effects like transition, color correction,
or color grading. This is how you can create
an adjustment layer. Let's open the project panel. Then right click, click on New Item and then
adjustment layer. Now a window will appear
asking for video settings. The settings here are matching the sequence that
we are working on, so there is no need to change. Then I will click Okay, to create the layer. Now it will show up
in our project panel. Let's drag this adjustment
layer onto the timeline. I'm going to place it above my video clips that
is on the V two. The duration of this
adjustment layer is too small. I want it on the entire video. So I'm going to go to the end
of this adjustment layer, and when the trim tool appears, I'm just going to increase it, and that is done. Now to color grade,
make sure you have the adjustment layer selected
and then we are going to go to the lumitary
color panel and then navigate to
the creative tab. Right now we were working on the basic correction we are
going to apply A L from here. A lookup table or
t is a file that contains preset settings
similar to a template. Prem proro already has
built in Luts from Adobe, but I want to use one
from my own collection. So I'm going to select
the ut called Duotone. Let's go to Browse
and then desktop. And in the class project folder, I can see there is
this cube file. I'm going to select
this and open it. Now that we have applied
a let to our clip, it has changed the colors and it has given them
a specific look. Since my clips are
under adjustment layer, the lt will apply to
all of them at once. This let is giving our
video warm and cozy look. You can also adjust the
intensity of the light. If I reduce the intensity to
zero, the effect disappears. If I increase it to 150, the colors become stronger. After checking, I'm going to set the intensity to 90 as
it looks just right. Our video now has
perfect color balance and it looks stunning. In the next lesson, we will add eye catching text entitled to
Enhance your storytelling.
8. Adding Eye-Catching Text & Titles: Text and titles can add so
much value to your videos. So in this lesson, you
will learn how to create and customize text that
fits your videos theme. Before we move forward, let's save our project
to make sure we don't lose any of the work
that we have done so far. To save your project, go to the file menu and click on Save. That's it. But there is also a faster way to do this
using a keyboard shortcut. Just press Control
S or Command S on Mac and your project
will be saved instantly. It's good habit to press Control S every few
minutes while working. This way, even if something unexpected happens like
a crash or a power cut, your progress will be safe
and secure. Let's move on. In the first two clips, there is a small section where
not much is happening, so I want to add the text here. First, let's move the playhead to the part where my
hand enters the frame. Then I click outside in the timeline to make sure
no clip is selected. I'm doing this because I want to add a marker to this spot. That way, I will
know where to end the duration of my text
later when I create it. To do this, click on the
add marker button up here, which looks like
a bookmark icon, or you can also press the
key on your keyboard, which is the shortcut
for adding markers. Now I want to add the
text to the video. There are two ways to do this. The first way is to click on the type tool in
the tool bar here. The second way is
to press T key, which is the shortcut
for the type tool. I'm going to click on the
Type tool for this example. Once the Type tool is selected, click on the program monitor
and a text box appears. Here I can type anything I want. I'm going to type
Mocapot coffee. The text has appeared a little
too high on the screen, so I need to adjust
its position. To do this, go to the
Properties panel. Since most of the text editing will be done in this panel, let's make more space
for the properties panel just like we did for the
lumitry color panel. The default font is said to
Tahoma, I want to change. So what I'm going to do is go
to my text, hit Control A, so that the whole
text is selected, and then go to text and
change the font to pop ins, which is nice and clean font. I'm also going to choose the
semi bold version of it. This will make the
text stand out. Right now, the text is white, but I want it to match the
brown color of the coffee. So what I'm going to
do is scroll down to the appearance tab
where there are many options to
customize the text. In this tab, I see fill option, which controls the text color. So I'm going to click
on the color box. You will see the range of
colors you can choose from. You can also click
on this color picker and pick the color from
your video clip as well. But right now, I'm going to
choose it from these colors. I will select a nice brown
shade. And then click Okay. Now our text has a warm coffee
color, which looks great. Next, I also want to adjust
the position of the text. So let's scroll down to the
align and transform section. Here I can use the
align options to center the text horizontally
and also vertically. But in this video, the centered
text doesn't look good because it covers
an important shot of the coffee grinder. I want to keep
that part visible, so we need to adjust the placement to make sure
that text is visible. In the position settings, there are two values. X is for left and right movement and Y is for up
and down movement. I'm moving the text
a little to the left and then higher
up on the screen. There's also another way to move your text that is to
use the selection tool. Right now, the type
tool is selected, which means when
I click on text, it lets me edit the words, but I don't want
to edit the text. I want to move it, so I'll
switch to the selection tool. Now I can see transform handles around the text in
the program monitor. I can simply click and drag the text to reposition
it anywhere I want. This method is useful
when you don't want to manually adjust the
position properties in the property panel, especially if you are a more of a visual editor who prefers
working directly on screen. I also want the word coffee
to appear below Moka pot. So let's go back to the
type tool here and then hit Enter After Mocha pot
to get it below it. The text is still
feeling a little dull. To make it stand out,
we should add a stroke. But before applying any effects, always make sure
that the whole text is selected by
pressing Control A, and then let's scroll up to go to the
stroke section here. I'm going to turn on the stroke section
and keep it white. But right now the
stroke is too thick, so I'm going to reduce the
stroke with free pixels. There are also options to
place the stroke inside, outside or centered on the text. I'm going to choose outside because it gives the
text this clean look. There's also an option to
add background to the text, but I usually avoid that unless it really fits
the video style. Another option is shadow, which can give three D effect
and make the text pop. But for this video, the shadow doesn't
match the theme. So I'm going to turn it off and keep only the stroke and fill. Now, let's go back
to the timeline and adjust the placement
of the text here. I want the text to show up
right when the video starts. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to click on the text and then
move it forward. By default, when we added text, Prem br automatically set
the duration to 5 seconds. But I only wanted to stay until the marker that I
placed earlier. So I'm going to decrease
the duration of it. Since Snapped timeline
is turned on, it easily locked into the place. Now, when I play the video, the Moka pot coffee text stays
exactly as long as I want. But one thing that I've noticed is that
there is a huge gap between the lines of
text, which I don't want. Let's fix that. Let's select the text and go back to
the property s panel. I have already selected my text. If you're familiar with
the graphic design, you might recognize these
settings because they are similar to the ones in
Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm going to increase
the size of my font, and then I want to bring
coffee closer to Mocha pot. I'm going to adjust
the leading value, which controls the spacing
between the lines of text. I'll decrease the leading until the text
looks well aligned. That looks much better. I'm also going to increase the font size to make
the text more visible, and since the text now
has a better layout, I'm going to switch
to the bold version of the pop ins font to
give it a stronger. When I play it back, the
text is looking great, but one issue remains, the text disappears suddenly
without any transition. Let's add a smooth
fade out effect using keyframes.
What are keyframes? Think of them as little
markers that tell premiere pro where something should
be at a specific time. If we add two keyframes
at different positions, premiere pro smoothly moves the object from one
keyframe to the next. We can use keyframes
to move text, change opacity, adjust scale
or animate any effect. Now let's see
keyframes in action by making our text
move and fade away. To do this, let's open
Effects Control Panel. Let's select our text. Here in the vector motion, we can see different
settings like position, scale, rotation,
and anchor point, but I don't need
those right now. Instead, I'm going to expand the text section right
here and scroll down to go to the transform options for the text itself and
find the position setting. This option is better than using the effect control parameters because if we need to add
some more texts later on, the same settings won't
apply to the new text, and we can animate
it differently. So let's make the effect
control panel bigger. I'm just going to
make this shorter. Now, I'm going to
move the playhead near to the end of the text. And right next to the
position parameter, we can see a stopwatch icon. This is how we enable keyframes. When we click it, premiere adds a keyframe where
our playhead is. Now, let's make our text
move out of the frame. I'm going to move the
playhead a little bit forward and then
change the position, so the text slides
off the screen. This will add another
keyframe. Let's play it. Right now, the movement
looks stiff because it's happening at
a constant speed. To fix that, we will
use the graph editor. Twirl down the
position parameter, and you will see that the graph for our keyframe is linear. We want the animation to be slow at the start and
fast at the end. For that, I want to go
to the first keyframe. If you don't want to do the guesswork of where
the keyframe is, you can see that
there are two arrows on either side of
the keyframe button. If you click on it, you can go to the exact place of the keyframe on the playhead. Just a handy little tip instead of wasting
time scrubbing around. Now, right click on
that keyframe and go to temporal interpolation
and select ease out. What this does is
make the movement start slowly and speed up
as the text moves away. To make the motion
even smoother, we can also adjust the
curve in the graph editor. By dragging the handle into
a roller coaster shape, we can make the text start super slow and then exit really fast. This technique is called
ease in and ease out, and it makes animations
look much more natural. Finally, let's add
a fade out effect. Let's select the text and go to the opacity
setting. Here it is. Now I'm going to go ahead
a little bit and click on the stopwatch icon
to create a keyframe. It's at 100% right now, but then I'm going to
move forward a little bit and set the opacity to zero. Now, let's play it
back. Now the text will gradually disappear
as it moves out. That's it. Keyframes, let us create smooth, professional
looking animations. With little practice,
you can use them to add motion to any
effect in Premiere Pro. Now you know how to create text that looks sharp
and professional. In the next lesson, let's
fine tune your audio, so your videos sound
as good as they look.
9. Fine-Tuning Your Audio: Audio is just as important
as visuals in video editing. So in this lesson,
you will learn how to remove
background noise at just volume levels and add background music that
enhances your storytelling. For the next few lessons, we are going to work
on a new project, and for that, we need to
create a new sequence. So let's go to the
Project panel, double click, select new
item and click on sequence. I will keep the same settings, but rename this sequence
to talking head. After naming it, I
will click Okay, and our new sequence
will be ready. Even though a new
sequence is created, the previous one is
still accessible here. If you have multiple
sequences open while working on a big project, you can close them by clicking the X button next to
the sequence name. To reopen a closed sequence, go to the Project panel
and find it there. The sequence icon helps
you identify it among other media files like video
clips and adjustment layers. When you double click on the
sequence on the project, it will open in the timeline. For now, I'm going to close it. Let's drag the new clip
onto the timeline. I will go to the
Project panel and here is the talking
head video of me. Let's drag it onto the timeline. PremieP just gave us clip
Mismatch morning and it says, This clip does not match
the sequence settings. That means dimensions
or the frame rate of this clip does not match the sequence settings
that we have set. For now, I'm going to keep the existing settings and
move on to editing our video. Let's zoom into our video clip. We are going to edit the
audio in this lesson, so we need a better view
of the audio track. Within the timeline panel, just hover over the track
lines between the audios, click and drag down
to make them larger. Now we can see the
waveforms more clearly. Now we are ready to
start editing the audio. Let me show you how to do it. We need a sound editing panel, which we can't see in
this workspace right now. There is an audio mixer that
lets you adjust the volume, but we also need the
essential sound panel to edit our audio. To turn it on, go to Window Menu and select
essential sound. Once it appears, we can
start working on the audio. First I will select the
audio in the timeline. Normally, Premiere
Pro automatically tags the type of
audio you import, but in this case,
it hasn't done it. There are four types
of audio clips that Premiere Pro recognizes. Dialog for voiceover or conversations like the
one we are using here, music for background
music that plays below the voiceover sound effects for additional sounds and ambience for background
sounds like river, forest or people chatting
in the coffee shop. You can click on Auto tag, and Premiere Pro will
assign the correct type. If it makes the wrong choice, you can manually select
the correct type by clicking clear Audio type
and choosing dialog. Once the audio type is set, we can use different
presets that are available here to improve
the sound quality. If your audio has a lot
of background noise, you can use cleanup
noisy dialog preset. This will help reduce unwanted sounds while
keeping your voice clear. If you want your voice to
sound more professional, you can choose
podcast voice preset, which makes it sound
crisp and polished. Now, if we go back and
we can see that there are also presets for
other types of audio. If you're working with music, you can choose a preset
based on whether the music is playing under a voiceover or if it
is the main focus. The same goes for sound
effects and ambience. Each of these have presets to enhance the way they
sound in your video. The preset make it easier to get the best audio quality without having to adjust
everything manually. First, let's listen to
how the audio sounds. One thing I've learned is every country's
transport system is different and figuring it out in advance can save you
a lot of hassle. There is some noise in here. Now, this audio was
recorded on a microphone, so I'm probably not going to select a preset for my audio. So let's go to the
Essential Sound panel and select dialog. Let's keep the preset default, and we will use Prime Pro's
new enhanced speech feature. Use it, I will go to Enhanced speech and
click on Enhance. It will take a few
minutes to process. Once it's done, let's
listen to the result. One thing I've learned is every country's
transport system. Right now, the enhanced speech
amount is set to seven, that's too high for my voice. So it is sounding a bit robotic. To fix this, I'm going to lower the enhanced amount to
three and check again. One thing I've learned is every country's
transport system is different and figuring it out in advance can save you
a lot of hassle. This sounds much better,
but the volume is too low. You can notice it here
in the audiometer panel that it is peaking
around -18 DB. For a clear and balanced sound, we need it to be between
-12 DB and minus six DB. Which means it is not too
high and not too low. To fix that, turn on the clip
volume in the sound panel. I need to increase
the volume by ten dB. One thing I've learned is every country's
transport system is different and figuring it out in advance can save you
a lot of hassle. Now the audio sounds so much better and volume
level is just right. The new enhanced feature has
really improved the quality. There's also another
useful AI feature that I want to show you
in the next lesson.
10. Easier Editing with new AI Features: In this lesson, we
will explore some of the latest AI features that
help you with cutting, organizing, and
enhancing your footage. First, let's reset
workspace by going to Workspaces and clicking
Reset to save layout. This brings everything
back to the default setup. We will use the text
based editing feature to make editing long interviews and talking head videos easier. To do this, go to
Window and select text. In the text panel, there
are three options. Transcript captions
and graphics. If you have auto
transcribing feature on, then as soon as the
sequence is created, premier pro automatically
starts transcribing the dialog. This feature is
incredibly useful because it saves us a lot of time
when editing long videos. But right now, I have not enabled the auto
transcribing feature. Prem pro is showing
that there is one audio that we
can transcribe. Let's click on Transcribe. This will take a little bit
of time And when it's done, I can see the words I'm
saying along with pauses. When I click on these pauses, different sections get
highlighted in the timeline. I can also adjust the length of these pauses by clicking the
settings icon at the bottom. The minimum pause length can
be increased or decreased. I usually keep it at 0.20 seconds so that my edits
remain tight and clean. Now I want to remove all
the pauses from my video. One way you could do that is by selecting the pause and
hitting the backspace button. But when you have
a longer video, instead of manually cutting each pause at the end
of every sentence, you can use a faster method. Click on the filter icon, which looks like a funnel. You can see different
options here like speakers, pauses, and filler words. Since I want to delete
all the pauses, I will select pauses. What this did is highlighted
all the pauses in my video. Now we can see a delete button. I will click on it
and choose extract. If I select lift, it will remove all
of the pauses, but gaps will remain.
I don't want that. I want it to ripple
delete all the pauses. Let's control Z and
do the same thing. Let's go to the funnel pauses, delete, and now I have
selected extract. When I select delete all, my voiceover video is
automatically edited. All the gaps and
pauses are gone, leaving a clean and
seamless dialog. This is an amazing feature
that makes editing interviews podcast and blogs
much faster and easier. It's time to make a few final adjustment
before exporting. So I'm going to go to
my project window, double click on the Coffee video to open it on the timeline. I'm going to close the talking head video that we made before. Right now, the only audio
in the video is from the camera and we don't
have any background music. So let's fix that. First, we need to remove the camera audio. If I select the audio
track and press delete, it also removes all
the video clips, which is not what I want. So let's control Z to undo. And instead of that, I'll
select all the clips, right click and choose unlink. This means the audio is not
linked to video in any way, and I can separately
edit the audio. And now I can simply
select all of the audio tracks and delete them without
affecting the video. With the audio removed, it's time to add some
background music. In our project window, there is a track
called Coffee Lo Five. It's an instrumental version
of one of my favorite songs. I can either drag
and drop it onto the timeline or can
double click to open it in the source
monitor where I can preview the waveform and
choose the best section. So this is the start
section which I don't want, and this is where
the beat starts. I'm going to start my audio from here and I'm going to
make the marking point. And I want to keep the
same tune in here. So what I'm going to
do is I'm just going to mark out where the beat ends, and let's drag it
onto our timeline. Now, let's play it
and see how it works. Now, I want to make sure the music ends properly
with the video. So let's listen to the
ending of the track and find where the beat
naturally fades out. I think this is where it ends, and this is where
the new beat starts. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to go to the exact place and hit W
to trim the extra part. I'm also going to extend
the last clip and the adjustment layer a bit so our music doesn't end abruptly. Next, we need to
adjust the volume. Right now the music is too loud, so I'll go to the
Essential Sound panel, tag the track as balanced
background music. This will automatically
lower the volume, making it blend smoothly
with the video. To give the video a clean
professional finish, I'm going to add a fade
out effect to the music. Let me just zoom
in a little bit. So at the end of the track, you can see that
there is a small box. This is a built in effect
with the audio clip. I'm going to click it
and drag it to the left. What this will do is
create a smooth fade out. Let's play the ending. So
when we played the video, the music gently faded away. And everything felt
polished and well paced. And that's it. Our coffee
video is now ready to export. Now that you have unlocked
the power of AI tools, you can edit faster
and with less hassle. Finally, let's
learn how to export your video in the highest
quality possible.
11. Exporting for a High-Quality Finish: Now that our video is ready, it's time to share
it with the world. You might want to
upload it to YouTube, Google Rive or even submit
it as a class project. To do that, we need
to export the video. Throughout this class,
we have gone through two main steps
importing and editing. And now we will switch
to the Export tab. At first, this screen might look overwhelming with all of its
options, but don't worry. I'm going to guide
you through it. First, you will
see the file name, which is usually set to
the name of your sequence. You can rename it if needed. Below that, you will find the file location where
your video will be saved. Click on it and
choose the folder. And for this example,
I'm going to save mine to the desktop. Next, we have presets. These settings
determine the quality and format of your
exported video. Unlike the presets
we used for editing, these are specifically
for exporting. If you're uploading
it to YouTube, a good option is MTsurce
Adaptive medium bitrate. And if you want to
see it on your TV, then choose MTSurce
adaptive high bit rate, or you can also choose
high quality ten ATP HD. But for now, this setting
keeps the things simple while maintaining a balance between
quality and file size. You don't need to worry
about the advanced option. You can explore those later
as you gain more experience. If you have a media encoder, you can choose to send
your project there, which is useful when exporting multiple sequences at once. But since we only
have one video, we will just click Export. The process might
take a few minutes depending on your videos
length and complexity.
12. Wrapping Up & Next Steps: I hope you are feeling proud of what you've created
in this class. Learning Adobe Premier
Pro is a big step, and you have gained some
powerful new skills that will help you
edit amazing videos. I would love to see
your finished project. So make sure to upload it
to the student gallery. Not only does this
showcase your hard work, but it also helps inspire
others in the class. Everyone approaches
editing differently, and seeing how the
other students apply the same techniques can spark new ideas for your own projects. I encourage you to
check out their work, leave comments, and engage
with the community. It's a great way to
learn and grow together. If you found this class helpful, I would really appreciate
if you left a review. Your feedback helps me
improve future classes and lets other students know what
to expect from this class. Plus, I love hearing what you enjoyed and what you'd
like to learn next. To keep learning, be sure
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any of my upcoming classes. I have plenty of
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me in this editing journey. I hope you continue to explore experiment and
grow as an editor. I can't wait to see
what you create next.
