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1. Welcome!: Hi, My name is Jacob lamb and
I make videos for a living. In this course,
we're going to cover the basics of video editing. We will start from
the very beginning, like how to navigate your
software and add clips. We'll also talk about
changing the color of your clips and
adjusting the audio, adding effects and adding texts so that you can
take the idea that's in your head and
put it out there in the world and make it
look professional. We're also going to cover
some topics like planning and filming your project
with the edit in mind. By the end of the course, you should have a
good idea of how to open your software and turn your raw clips into
professional looking edits. We're also going to
cover a full edit of a short video where
you can come along and watch me edit a clip from the very first steps
to a finished product. I'm looking forward
to getting started. Let's jump on in and
do this together.
2. The Four Phases of a Project: Now, when we're
thinking about an edit, there are four phases
to think through. These are planning, filming,
clipping, and editing. Now, planning and filming may not directly have
to do with an edit. But the more that we do
in these two categories, the easier our edits are
going to be when you plan with your final edit in mind and film with your
final edit in mind. You'll be amazed
how simple it is to sit down and edit
through your idea. Now, clipping is when
we actually decide on the clips that will be
a part of our project. And we cut them down
to decide what stays in and what we take
out of our project. Finally, editing is
going to be transitions, coloring, fixing audio, doing sound design and adding
text, things like that. Now, this is not a planning
or filming course, but we're going to
spend one video that covers both of these in
the context of editing. We can think about
planning and filming in the context of our edit than
the rest of the course. We'll be navigating our
software and how to actually manipulate the clips that we've
brought into our project.
3. Planning Your Project: All too often you're going
to have someone go out with an idea and a
camera and nothing else. So what they do is
they film all of these clips and then they bring
it into the editing room. And it's just this mess, this jumbled mess of ideas. And what that can do is really SAP motivation
away from editing. In this video, we're
going to talk about planning and filming
with the edit in mind. And I can promise you
that the more work you do at the beginning
of your project, the easier it's going to be
on yourself down the road. Now when you go out to shoot, I hope you've already planned. It's so helpful to have a list of the shots
that you need. Now, I like to categorize and sub categorized and make
bullet point lists of things. And I highly recommend you do
this when you're shooting. Think about the different
shots you'll need for your storyline and you'll
have less to clip later on. Likewise, when you're
actually holding the camera, think about the
settings that you want. There's so much that we can
do in a camera to impact lighting and coloring
so that we have less to do in the
editing room later. Again, without any planning, you're going to get a lot
of shots that maybe don't match the mood that
you're going for. And a lot of shots that
you'll need to leave out. But with the right
amount of planning and the right amount of
in camera settings. Then when you sit down,
you're going to have a lot of high-quality content that
you can use in your video. One of the most impactful
things we can do is have a linear storyline that
keeps momentum going. Otherwise, no matter
how much editing we do, things can really see him
kind of bland and disjointed. When you go out to film, have a story in mind and
keep a linear motion going. We don't want to jump back
and forth from new clips. Old clips jump forward in
time, backward in time. We want to get everything
as it happens. Finally, film with sound
design in your head. If you film a brook, think later about getting a water sound and maybe
mark it down in your notes. If you're filming
someone walking, maybe you could bring
a sound recorder to get that sound or even find royalty
free sound effects on line of footsteps.
4. Navigating Your Software: Now to actually edit, we need to know how to
navigate our software. For this course, I'm
using Adobe Premier Pro, but if you're not using
Adobe Premiere Pro, don't back out just yet. All of the concepts we're
covering in this course are interchangeable between
every single software. So you can take all of
these ideas and apply them to whatever
software you're using. E.g. when we first
open a software, we need to know how to
start a new project. And this is always, almost always the same. For Adobe. We've got a button that says New Project and
that's pretty handy. We can also go up
to the File button. And there's always an
option for a new project. So I'm going to click that and
it's going to want a name. And here I will name this course example what
unexciting project name? When we open our course project, there's going to be a few things will really want to
be comfortable with. The first one is how to
add and find assets. Now, assets are going to be
anything that you are using, any piece of material you're
using for your project. So it could be video clips, it could be audio clips, whether vocals or songs. The first thing we're
going to need to do is to bring some in. Now, there are two ways
that we could do this. First of all, under File, we could go ahead and
we could import files. An easier way is to open up our folder and just click and drag a video over
where we imported. Now I've got my first
asset in my software, but I haven't made
a video just yet. We also need to understand
something called the timeline. The timeline is
where we actually do the bulk of our work. See, I've got an asset
off to the side, but I haven't added
it to my timeline, which is what I'm
actually interacting with an exporting
when I'm finished. So now that I've dragged an
asset into my asset bin, I'm going to drag it
onto my timeline. We're going to see
quite a bit happen. First, we're going to
have a reference monitor. This is going to show us exactly what's happening
on the timeline. If I make an edit on
my timeline down here, I'm going to see it reflected
in the asset monitor. In the same way. On the left, I'm going to have all
of my Effect Controls, and that's going to be
controlling whatever asset I've placed in the timeline
that I have highlighted. So e.g. halfway through here, maybe I want to scale it
up or make it larger. Well, I will do that in my effect controls or any effect window that
you've gotten your software, it's going to impact the asset I've brought
into the timeline. And my reference monitor will show the change that I've made. So right here I'm going to scale up by clicking and
dragging upwards. My asset has now
changed by quite a bit. And I can see that
reflected right here. Now in any software
that you're in, there's going to be a few
different options for viewing your asset and how
large you're seeing it. Typically you're going to
want to make sure that you just have fit or 100% selected so that you can
see it all in the screen. Right now when I say fit, this is showing me the entire video and bringing
it right to the edges. So when I export and upload,
wherever I'm uploading, this is exactly what I'll
be exporting and uploading. So what your audience will see. Now, there are some cases
I'll bring this back to 100. So I've got the
whole video here. There are some
cases where I want to make a very small edit and need to view just
a part the video. And if that's the case, then I can pick a
larger percentage. Maybe I want to see 200% in. Now, very important difference. I haven't scaled my video up. I've just changed how much of the whole video I'm viewing. So now I'm looking really
closely and can scroll around to see sections
of the video. But when I hit Fit, I can see what's
in the timeline. Now, finally, a couple of
more windows you're going to want to be able to
see is your toolbar. That's an Adobe
Premiere over here. This is where you'll be able to select different tools that your mouse does, like clipping. Here it's called the razor, or dragging or the
pen drawing shapes, adding text, the toolbar
is very important. And your Effects tab, your Effects tab is where
you're going to actually add effects and transitions to
different parts of your video. You may also have a color tab, and that's where
we're going to do all the color editing sections. But something really
important is if you're not seeing any of these windows, either in Premiere Pro or
whatever software you're in. It's a really easy fix. There's going to be
a Window tab up top. If you click the window tab, you'll be able to see all of the different sections
you have selected. So maybe I can't see my color
tab if I close it there. Now my Color tab is gone and
I don't see it anywhere. I can go to my window tab. I can click Lumetri color. There. It's just opened
up on the screen. There's one more
important section we want to be able to find. When we're done with our video, we need to know what to do
with it and where we put it. Right now it's stuck
in the software. We're going to need to know
how to export a video. And that's going to
turn it into a file on our computer that we can upload
anywhere on the Internet. Now, typically this is going
to be under file or edit. Right now I know
it's under File. Down low. It's going to be
export the media. And that will open up the
exporting page so I can actually get my video into
a file on the computer.
5. Organizing Assets: Now I'm in this project and I've brought in a bunch
of different assets. Some of them are just little
graphics that I want to use. Some of them are camera angle
one or a camera angle too. And some of them are audio
files of myself speaking. So a lot of different
types of assets. I recommend organizing
assets and naming them carefully outside
of your software. That's going to
help you navigate around to them much easier and know exactly
what to bring in. The nice thing is
in the software, there's also options
to organize. So I have an option
down here and a little folder to
create a new bin. Now when I create a bin, I can name it whatever I'd like. Especially in a project where I have a lot of different clips, I like to create what
I call a used bid. I will also create a bid
called graphics. Here we go. And maybe I want
one more for audio. Now, when I take a clip and I bring it down
into my timeline, I can call that used. And when I bring the
clip in the used bin, it's not going to change
anything about the timeline. It's just going to clean up where my assets currently are. Now again, maybe I want
to bring in a circle. Maybe I want to
bring in an arrow. Maybe I want to bring
in some piano keys. This obviously is not the kind of edit I would typically make, but they're all now used. And so I will bring them either into the used bin
or if you'd like, you could also keep
them in graphics. We can bring things into
a project more than once. So if I have something I
will use more than once. We can keep them in
the graphics bin and then we can drag it in as many times as we need it
throughout our project. That's something maybe
a little more useful than just tucking it
away in a used bid. But to be sure if there's
a clip that you only need once and you're not
going to come back to it. You can tuck it away
in a used Ben and not worry about it that much. Now, I've got some
audio files here, so I will bring those in. Then I can say, my goodness, those are used as well. And that kinda helps
me clean up and organize within the software. Now, if you're not
sure if you've used a clip yet, which
sometimes happens. If you have a lot of clips, then we can go look at
used and you'll notice this little blue
section down here that's going to tell us the
video has been used one time. If the video has been
used more than one time, it'll tell us the same thing, but IOU's now two times. So maybe you want a section at the beginning of your video
and the end of your video. Now we've got two different
clips from the same video. And if we come up
here, it'll tell us video use two separate times. If the video is not
in our file at all, then that little blue
button goes away and we know that it's
not actually used. We can talk it away in a use bit and we can
also keep track of when it's been used and how
many times it's been used.
6. Picking Video Clips: Let's briefly talk about how to choose clips for your video. Too often you'll see a video that looks incredibly amateur. And a lot of that
is that people are emotionally attached to a clip. So how do we know
which clips to get rid of and which ones
to actually use? Well, again, this is all easier when you shoot with
a plan in mind. You're going to have a
much higher percentage of the clips you've actually
shot being used. This is also easier
when you do a lot of in camera coloring and lighting. You're going to have a
much lower percentage of clips that are too bright and blown out or too dark
and really unusable. If you've got well exposed
and well colored clips, then we can bring it into our software and use
a good portion of it. A good rule of thumb
is to avoid clips that are very shaky
or poorly lit. These have a very
amateur feel to them. Also pick the clips
that you think are going to serve your story. Best. I can't tell you
how many times I've been teaching something and gone back into the editing
room and looked at the portion that
I spoke and said, Wow, I really don't
need that last part, even though I'm teaching what
I think is a good concept, it really doesn't
fit right here. And so I'll take it out. And that cleans up a
lesson quite a bit. The biggest thing
you can do is avoid emotional attachment to films. If you've ever gone on YouTube, you might see some director cuts or deleted scenes of movies. And sometimes those deleted
scenes are very bad. Sometimes they're great,
sometimes they were very bad. And you can understand
why they cut them, but that's a lot harder to do
when it's your own project. Film with an idea in mind, avoid clips that are
shaky or poorly lit. And then try to pick
clips you think serve your story best.
7. How to Place Your Clips: Now we're going to actually
see how we can take an asset and bring it
into our timeline. And there's a lot
of options here. Now, the easiest way
to bring an asset into the timeline is just
to click and drag. So I can click
this, drag it down. And it's in my
timeline, super simple. Now, when it's in my timeline, I have a lot of options
to drag either end of it and clip it down to
where I want it to be. I also have options. If I double-click something, brings it up here
in a source window, this is kind of a way
to navigate a clip or an asset without
actually bringing it down into the timeline. Something I can do from
the source window is I can mark where my clip begins
and where am I clip ends. So maybe I want my
clip to begin to hear. I'm looking down, look to the
camera and start speaking. So maybe I want my clip
to begin right here. I'm going to click this
button which is marked in, and that tells the software, this is the beginning my clip. Now, I'd talk for quite a
bit, too much sometimes. So maybe right here, I say, okay, that's plenty. Now I want to mark it out. That will be the adjacent
Mark Out button. Now, Adobe says, okay, this is the clip that he's
gotten is where it begins. And this is where it ends. Lovely. You'll also notice over here in my asset been in has changed. It's now only 7 s long instead of the long clip
that it was before. So when I click and
drag from here, it's going to bring in just
those small 7 s. Over here. I could also click and
drag those 7 s in. Or I have two options here to
bring in just the video of those 7 s or just the audio
of those 7 s separately. Now let's go ahead
and say that I want to bring in this clip. After the first clip. Wonderful. I'm going
to bring it down. It's very short compared
to the first one. But now I want to flip
the order of them. I want this clip to come after this clip and let's name
them so we can keep track. I'm going to right-click
and hit Rename this one. We're going to call Kevin. This one we're
going to call mark. Now let's say I want Kevin to come after mark in this video. Well, I can take
Kevin and I can click and drag him to be after mark, click and drag to select both clips and bring them
right to the beginning. Now, my kevin clip is
coming after Mark. I also have an
option here wherever this blue slider is to make some changes
from my source window. E.g. you'll see two
buttons down here for insert and one for overwrite. If I click the Overwrite button, then the software
is going to say, okay, this little clip. Now we've marked in and out. I'm going to place it starting
where this blue line is. And I'm going to overwrite what ever amount
of time it takes. I'm going to cancel out
Kevin for that section. So I'll click over right. Now this seven second
section is in the middle of what's now to Kevin clips.
In a different way. I could write insert. That's going to save all the section of
this Kevin clip that would otherwise be lost. It's going to put the clip right here where
the blue line is. But it's going to
save the section it would overwrite and just push
everything off to the side. So I'll hit Insert. You can see our
project got longer. This is now inserted. And the part of Kevin
We lost when we hit the Overwrite button
is saved and pushed.
8. Managing Multiple Camera Angles: Now we're editing clips as
though we have one view. We have one clip at a time
to look at and we can edit in a linear
motion left to right. But what if we have
multiple camera angles? E.g. these are clips from a piano course and I want to show the piano as I'm teaching. Well, I'll take another course over here and I'll
click and drag. And I have two options. I can click and
drag to the right, like we've been doing. Or I can move my mouse
up and put it on a different channel
on top of something. Now this unlocks a
whole new world. We have channels on the left
for both video and audio. You've see now I add
a new video track and audio track underneath. And when our slider
hits that section, we transition to the next view. Now whatever we do
with this view is going to be on top
of the other video. So maybe we have the view large enough that it covers
over the back video. Now, no matter what's happening in the Kevin
clip underneath, we can only see the
video on top of it. If I shrunk down that
clip a little bit, well, we could actually have both
going on in the same frame. So now we can see Kevin and
we can see our second view.
9. Syncing Audio and Adjusting Levels: A few seconds ago, right after I hit
record on this camera, I clapped my hands a few times. Now, the reason I did that is because I've got a
camera in front of me. I've got an audio
recorder down here and I'm filming the
screen of my computer. When I put these
together in my software, that's a few different things
that I need to sync up. And an easy way to
do that is to clap. Let's take a look at what
I mean. In this video. I have three different clips. The first one is camera one, the second one is camera two, and the third one is
just audio of my voice. If I play them. All right, now, here's what
we're listening to. All of that amount. Now, you'll notice in
Canada with white count, you'll notice,
you're probably not going to get many viewers if your video sound
something like that. What we need to do
is sync up all of the clips so that
they sound unified. Here's why I clapped. At the beginning of
each audio file, you see some pretty tall lines. This is the same
reason directors have the clicker at the beginning
when they say action. This is to sync up audio
with a video file. Now, I can zoom in here and I can drag around these
different files. The first one, I've
got five claps and so I'm going to zoom
in, sync them up. Small little drags. Up here. I've got four odd ones here. Let's see, I'm
clapping five times. This here is a little small. I can actually expand the audio channel so I can
see them a little bit better. That's going to help
me sync everything up. Get them nice and close, make sure everything's together and unified now
that's pretty close. Now, my audio track
should be lined up, my video, the visuals
should be lined up. Let's give it a listen. And whole-steps. Everything we covered in
this course is going to relate two half-steps
and whole-steps. That's better.
That's a lot better. Now I know that my videos are
playing at the same time. The exact same thing is
happening from each angle. And what I'm saying is matching
up with the videos now, everything is synced up, so I don't actually need three
separate pieces of audio. Over on the left side
here you'll see some m's and that's going to
mute different tracks. So I'm going to mute any track. That's not my audio recorder. So now when you look at a video, you're not actually seeing
what's coming from the camera. You're seeing the audio
from my sound recorder sync up with the
video from my camera, how we'll be counting. These are actually
really simple. That actually
sounds pretty good. So using the peaks,
we call them, using the peaks to set up audio and sync everything
is incredibly useful. If we do have multiple tracks, maybe you've got a
song playing behind. If we do have tracks behind, maybe we want some audio
happening while we speak. Let's see how we can get that. At the moment, it sounds very loud compared to our course. Can't even hear what I'm
saying at this point. Let's come up to the
top left where we've got an audio mixer. Now again, if you don't see
the audio mixer option, you can find it
under the windows. We've got audio
mixer right here. And we're looking
at it looks like track two is where I'm speaking. Track for is where our music is. And you can see those to
ignite when we start playing. We can fix this
problem by raising my vocals and
dropping the music. To relate two half-steps
and whole-steps. That's how we know. These are actually
really always make sure that you're setting the volume levels of
your video correctly. Otherwise, it can be
really distracting. That includes when
we do sound effects and sound design as well. We talked earlier about
a water sound effect. If we're filming a river
or footstep sound effects, if we're filming
someone walking, we want to try to get
the audio levels of those sound effects as close
to real life as we can. Otherwise, it really brings our viewer out of a video which is the opposite intention
when using sound effects, we want to bring them in, make them feel like
they're really there.
10. Cutting, Clipping and Trimming: I've got an asset inside of
my timeline at the moment. Now, we're going to look
at clipping and cutting. What we've got here. If we take a look, we can see that I really start talking right around this point. So what I'm going to do is cut my video so that it starts at the point
that I start talking. We have a couple of
options here and I'm using the left and right arrow
keys to get myself perfect to where I start
talking a couple of options. The first is I can take that clipping tool
with the C key. And I can just click right there and then select
them and hit Delete. And now my video begins
where I start talking. Another option instead
of doing that is I can find where I start talking and then I can
drag from the front. I'm going to bring them
back to the beginning. You may also notice somewhere
in the middle here, I kinda mess up
and stop talking. Now, I don't want that to
be a part of my video. So something I like to do
is clip in the middle here. This is not dragging the edges. This is clipping the middle. I get rid of those. And now I have this
big black space, which is also not preferable when you're
putting out any videos. So I'm going to
connect them together. Now, we have the option here. If I want them to clip one
into the other just like that. Or if I want to
fade them together, we're going to talk about
transitions in a future video, but I can also have them
fade a little bit for a smooth transition, right? So we can adjust how
wide we want that. And then without it. So when we go
through transitions, just remember that we can apply everything
we learned about transitions to
clipping like this. So we've got one
at the beginning, we've got one in the middle. And then the end we'll
just clip to where I stop talking right there. What I'm gonna do
is zoom in and just have them end right at
that point, I have it. It snaps to that blue bar, which is really useful. Then we've got a properly
clipped section. If you don't want to skirt through everything and you know, you didn't make any mistakes, then we can just keep an eye on these big gaps in the audio. You'll notice that we have
a part where the audio dips down and a good chance is that that's a part
that we want to clip. So again, you see
we stopped talking, clip it down and then take
it from maybe right there. Remember that you want to do everything with intentionality. Make intentional cuts to keep your story going like we
talked about earlier, not getting emotionally
attached to any certain clip. Another thing we can
do is cutting if we have multiple clips, you'll notice here I have
a clip where I don't start playing the piano until
about this section. And so I can click and
drag to cut right there. And now here's what
I like to do when I have two clips like this. I play a little bit of
piano and then I stop. But I don't want to grab the
end and drag to the front because then I'll have to
re-find the next part. I play piano in and drag
that down and then clip it and cut it and it gets
really difficult and messy. What I like to do instead is use the C button to clip
it right there. And then I'm going to drag it. Let's see, we're going to
find the next part where we play some piano and I'm going
to drag it right to there. So now we're moving back
and forth between my face, playing some piano,
back to talking and playing some more piano
as I'm explaining things. Now, when you're finished
clipping of video, you'll notice you've
got your camera, a camera be up top. Something I personally
like to do. It's absolutely not necessary, but something I
personally like to do to keep it clean is I select all my clips from
Cameron number two, and I drag them down. Now, I'm not dragging
them left or right because I don't
want to unseat them, but I do drag them down
and when I let go, it replaces what it's covering
anyways, for cameras a. So it's still
transitioning from my face to the playing to the
face to the playing. But now it's all on one channel.
11. Video Transitions: Now let's talk about
some video transitions. And we have three that
we're going to talk about. And they're broken
into two sections. The first section is
standard transitions, where we'll talk about a video fading to black
or in from black. And then videos
fading together like a cross transition
or cross dissolve. And then we're also
going to talk about some creative transitions that you can have more fun with. The first is really simple. We're going to go into our
Effects tab wherever that is in your software
and video transitions. Now, we'll take a look
at the dissolves. And you can also set
some hotkeys here I have mindset to be Control D, and that's going to dissolve. And if you're in Adobe Premiere, it's gonna do the same for you. If you've gotten nothing
before or after your video, nothing touching your video, then you can select your clip, click the beginning or end so you see it's
highlighted with red. And I'll hit Control and D, and that's going to
automatically fade it to black. Perfect. Another option here, if we don't want to
do Control and D, just like we click
and drag assets, we can click and drag effect so I can take
cross dissolve. And I'm going to put it right there and it's
the same exact thing. I can also do that
at the beginning of my course with either control
D or a cross dissolve, and it's going to
fade in from black. Now, in-between clips, we have
a couple options as well. We can dip to black if we want our clips to go dark and
come back up from black, they also have a dip to white or cross dissolve is going to fade
between the clips. So you can see things
get a little hazy. We've got a little bit
of both clips going, and then it fades
to the newest clip. Let's watch it in regular speed. Just like that now,
for every effect, we can control how long it is. You see when we get
to the edges of it, we get this little box here and we can drag it to be quick, or we can make it
really, really long. And that also counts for the beginning and ends
when we fade to black, I could cross dissolve
really quick, or I could have it slowly
fade out to black or white. Those are your
simple transitions. But of course there are
also some fun ones. If you're wanting
to have more of a creative stylistic kind of
fun Home Video type of look. Each of these are
creative options. We can play with
just a few of them, maybe a cube spin. Beautiful, good for
infomercials, right? Let's take one more,
maybe a cross, zoom in and out, just zooming in and out. And we can adjust each of these. Again, dragging zooms in slower. Now again, these are not very professional
looking transitions. We're really focused
when we're doing good videos on the dissolves
and the cross dissolves, like we just learned about. But these creative ones
can be a lot of fun.
12. Audio Transitions: Now, just like we have
video transitions, we also have audio transitions, and they're actually
very similar. Now, if you're in Adobe
Premiere instead of Control D, Now we hold Control Shift
and D and we're going to get all of the Cross
Dissolve options. So between clips, if we add
to make a clip in our video, it can be really helpful to just kind of cover up
with some sort of dissolve or transition
so the audio doesn't chop to the next clip. Let's go ahead and look
at our audio transitions. Now, when we're clipping
in the middle here, I find it helpful to use constant gain and I'll get it out of the way of any
speaking that I'm doing. What that's going to do is it's going to keep the
volume there so you don't hear the background noise that you don't even
recognize in a video. You don't hear that
fade out and back in. It's kinda jarring
when it does that. This constant gain is
just going to help the audio roll into the next
section without any clips. Exponential fade. Here, I like to use at the
beginning and end of videos. And what it does is it fades
out the audio entirely. When you combine it with the video transition
of a dissolve, cross dissolve to black, it ends up video really well, things fade out both the
video and the audio. Now, there's a lot less creative and fun audio transitions. There is just keeping the
sound there and blending clips or getting
rid of the sound altogether and blending clips.
13. Color Correction: When we talk about
editing video, what people typically
think about is color correcting
and color grading. This is where we adjust the
coloring of our clips to look as fancy or film
like as possible. Now, these two sections are entirely different
from one another. See color correcting
is when we take footage that's maybe not
perfectly shot or filmed. And we correct it
to look natural. Color grading is when we take that natural looking
footage and we apply some kind of mood
to it through color. Here we're going to focus
on color correcting. So we've got some ungraded
or uncorrected footage and you may be thinking it
doesn't look all too bad. But when we look back and
forth after the edit, you'll see some
wild differences. C, I'm going to go
into my color panel. Now. Wherever you are, I guarantee you your software
has got a color panel. We can find it again
from the window tab. What I'm looking at
right now isn't too bad. It looks a little too blue, a little too cold, and maybe a little too green. You'll notice the first
two sliders we have deal with temperature cold to warm, or blue to orange, and then tint from
green to magenta. You've gotten the same exact
settings in your camera. This is why adjusting color in your camera is so
useful when you get into the editing
room because you have less work to do
on your computer. So I'll take a look
at this footage. I'm going to warm
it up a little bit. Then I'm going to tint it
magenta, just a touch. Tint is a lot more finicky
than temperature less is more. Also give it just a
little bit of saturation. Now, my face, I'm
going to zoom in here. My face looks too bright. You can see it's kinda
blown out up there. That's where the highlights and whites are going to come in. I can bring these down just a touch to make things
look a little more natural. Then I'm also going to
adjust the contrast. Maybe bring the exposure
down and touch. Shadows and blacks are going
to give it more depth. Just like that. That's not too bad. That's
a quick, a quick fix. But you'll notice from before. Now it looks totally
different. Here's our after. Before and after. You see what I mean
when I say it looked two blue and two green, we just darken it a bit
and added some depth. As a quick explanation here. Exposure is how bright
your images contrast is the difference between
the whites are highlights in your
photo and the darks. So if I bring my contrast
all the way down, it really flattens out my
image and makes the darks more similar with my
lights all the way up, you can see the separation
or light colors get really light and our
dark gets really dark. I like to turn that up
but not make it extreme. Highlights, of course,
adjust the brightness, the brightest parts
of the image. So we're changing maybe my face, the light in the background
and the wall the most. I brought those down
a little bit because my face looked to white. Shadows do the opposite. It deals with the darkest
parts of the photo. So now we're adjusting. Well, you can see everything, but it's really
impacting the shadows. The most all of the nooks
and crannies on my face and then the darker parts
behind me, like the furniture. Whites and blacks are a little different from
highlights and shadows. Whites adjust which parts of the image count
as highlights. So if I turn my whites
up, it's going to say, okay, there's more
highlights in the photo. So whatever I do with
the highlights will impact more of the photo. Blacks are exactly the same. If I turn it down, it's
going to say, okay, there's a ton of
blacks in this video. And so when I adjust the
shadows, then it's going to say, well, everything's a shadow, so we'll adjust everything. Now. A quick fix if you don't want
to take the agony of color correcting all the time is that we can hit the auto button, which sometimes does
a decent job here it looks like the original footage or under the white balance tab, we can hit the little dropper. And then the goal is to
click on something white. Whatever is meant to be
white, you say, Hey, this is a good natural
white right here. And then it will adjust
the white balance to try and match that white.
14. Color Grading and the Cinematic Look: With color correction
out of the way, it's time to talk
about adding mood to our film through
color grading. Now, this is a completely
optional step. You don't need to do this. In fact, if you're
doing something informational like these types
of videos or interviews, I encourage you not to do this. This is more stylistic
for artistic films, but we're going to come over
to the Creative tab here, and we have a ton of
different options here. First of all, under
the Creative tab, we have a few different
Lutz we can download lots. And these are just kind of one step changes that we can click
and change the intensity. So I can filter through some
of these colors and say, Oh, I really like this
one, this green tone. Then I can change the
intensity to add a little bit in or all of it in
or even over, do it. And you can see how
this styles a clip. This almost has like a
matrix C feel to it. Now, when we're talking
about sad kind of tones will go for more
greens and blues. And happier tones
are going to be lighter colors like
maybe we'll warm it up. Now, one of the common
film looks here, we're going to get
rid of our Lut. Common film look is blues and magentas or
blues and oranges. So I can put some blues
into the shadows. I'll take this shadow
tint and you can see all the blues go
into the shadows here. But some blues down there, some oranges in the highlights. Then we'll go ahead and we can
adjust how strong that is. We won't put too much
in, but that's kind of a classic film look. We also have the
option to letter box, which really gives
us a film look. Letter boxing is something
that happens more naturally on certain
types of film cameras, but we can add it
into our footage. Let's see here, I'm going to
adjust it so it fits well, we can add it into our
footage to give us a film look and look at that. We've got the black bars on either side of our
footage so we can color grade and letterbox to give
a video of very filmic look. Now one other setting we can do to give the
film look is to purposefully add in a little
bit of grain or noise. And I know what you're thinking. That's typically not
a very good thing and you wouldn't be wrong, but we can use noise very creatively to give
it a film look. We are going to really see
that less is more here. I'll keep it in the single
digits of percentages. There we go. Not a
huge difference, but it gives it
just a little edge, almost like we're shooting on. Film. Audience interprets that
as a very cinematic look. We're going for just a little
bit of haze or grain here, just a touch of noise. We're going for a letter boxing, and we're going for
color grading to give our footage a filmic
cinematic look.
15. Editing Audio: EQ and Compression: Now let's talk briefly about editing the audio in your video, because there are a few
different things we can do to really make your audio
sound professional. There are two main things
that we want to focus on. The first is EQ. Second one is a compressor. Now as a brief description, EQ is something that's
going to look at the entire audio
spectrum from the low rumbly sounds to the bright, more airy kind of sounds. Now what we do with
EQ is we raise or lower each of these
different sections to get a certain sound. E.g. right now when I'm talking, I can lower the base
EQ and give myself just a Tripoli sound,
or vice versa. I can raise up the
base and take all of the treble out and you see
how much of a difference, something like that makes. When we're playing with EQ, we can really use it to artistically create some
interesting sounds. Or we can use it just to
brighten our voice a little bit. We can give some presence
and air to our voice by raising the EQ right
around here a little bit. And then sometimes if
your audio is to basi, you could pull out a
little bit of the base. Now, if you have
the opposite issue may be recorded your audio with something like a phone and
the room is just too echoey. Well, in that case, you can pull out
some of the echo by getting rid of
a little bit of the middle section just to
touch less is always more. You can raise the air in your voice or if
you're on a phone, you might want to actually
dip it just to touch. And then the base is you can raise up phones from a distance. Do not do a great
job of catching the bases in your voice. So we can give that a little
bit of love and attention. Now, it's always smart to roll
off the very high-end and the very low end to get rid of any rumble or any
static hiss as well. Now, like we already
talked about, we can come over here to
our audio mixer and make sure that all of the sounds
are correct and level. And the compressor does
something really neat. Sometimes when you're
dealing with audio, you've got really loud sections and you've got really
quiet sections. What a compressor
does is it kind of brings all of that together. It's like lowering the contrast. If we're color corrected. It's going to compress the
highest peaks of your audio. It'll squash those down so the loudest parts
are a little quieter. And then you can bring
up the overall audio. What that means is the louder
parts aren't quite as loud. And since you brought
up the overall audio, the quieter parts
are now louder. When we're in our software, we can go into the Audio Effects and we're going to see
both of those options. We have EQ in here, and I'll click and
drag that to my audio. Then I'll see it available
in the Effect Controls. I'm also going to go ahead
going to close filtering EQ. I'll open up compression. You'll see we've got a few
options for a compressor. Right here. I'll
grab this one here. Now under the Edit tab, I can adjust the EQ of my audio either by
adjusting each section. Or I could also
go ahead and have some presets right here. We could do a base
cut or a base lift, just like we were talking about. Same thing with the high
or treble cuts and lifts. We could even just boost the
vocal presence a little bit. I typically like to raise the highs a little bit and
then down in the base, depending on what
you're filming with, you may want to cut
some of the myths. And then again, if
you're on a phone, you might run a raise. The base is just a little bit. We also have over here
20.30 band equalizers. Each band is just one
of the little sliders. So 30 band equalizers, you're going to be able to get a lot more specific adjustments
rather than the ten band. If you're not super comfortable
or familiar with an EQ, then I recommend you use
some of the presets. They can make a huge
difference on your audio. You don't need to
fully understand how audio editing works. That's a whole different world. For now, we just want
to know that EQs and compressors can make
a huge difference even if we're just
using the presets. Likewise, if we look at
the compressor over here, it looks pretty crazy. We can make adjustments on a
bunch of different things, but here's what we're doing. We've got presets right here. Some of them are special fancy settings like walkie-talkies will
sound kind of funny. But when we're listening
to our audio here, we get this special
view, our audio. Now, we can put some kind of limiter on there
and say, alright, let's bring down each channel and then raise up the
overall understanding of how to play piano
for different style. And so bringing down the peaks, we're going to get each one. We brought down the thresh hold, which is the ceiling
of each channel. Then raise the overall
output so we're bringing down the ceiling
so that all the peaks are getting squashed down more
towards the quiet sections and boosting up that output to bring the quiet sections louder. And that's kind of
doing this, right? Our peaks are getting quieter or lowest parts
are getting louder and the audio will be nice and similar to each
other front of you. And have a basic understanding.
16. Adding Text: Now let's talk about adding
some text into our videos. We may need a title
at the beginning of the video or something at
the end that we want to say. Maybe we want to explain something in the
film that we think would best be explained with some words rather
than just speaking. And this is super easy. The hotkey for
Adobe Premiere Pro is the letter T for text. But there's always
a way to apply or insert text in whatever
software you're in. E.g. I. Can go to graphics and titles or you'd have
a similar window. And I can add a new layer, which would be a text
layer right there. I'm going to hit the T
button and then I can click anywhere in this program
window to add some texts. Maybe I want to say hello there. Now I can hit position and kinda drag it around
with the numbers. Or I can click and
drag over here with my mouse to put it exactly
where I want it in the video. Also, it's going to appear much like an asset because
it is now an asset. It's going to appear where I've got it starting and ending. We can make it short or we can make it as long as we need it. But when we hit that
part in the video, the text is going to appear. Just like other assets. We can also fade into the text so the text
appears slower, right? Just like that, we've
got a ton of options we can do with the text
by clicking the arrow. Under text. We can change our font. We could change the
size of the texts and unimportant note you'll
notice it's not changing. That's because we need to have the text selected
that we're editing. And now we can change the size. We can change how spread
apart the letters are, which is really interesting. We can change the color and we can even add
some effects like background to our
text or a shadow. Things like
background in shadow. We don't need the text
highlighted four. Let's see what we can
do with a shadow here. Maybe I want a white shadow, and I can change how
that shadow looks. So we have a lot
of text options. We have texts options
that are the same for every asset we've
dealt with so far, for rotation and scale and
position in the video, it acts just like an asset, but then we have some extra
text options down here. I personally like to
fade in and out my text. It's a lot less jarring
for people than if you've just got it
appearing and vanishing, which is super jarring. Sometimes.
17. Watch: Full Edit of a Short Video: What we're going to do is
quickly edit a video together. I've got the assets in
the program already, but beyond that, I've
done nothing to them. So let's just start
from scratch and talk our way through how I would
put together a video. This is a closing video
for one of the courses. I'm going to grab right there. That's my main camera a, as I fix my microphone
and then I'll grab the audio as well. Now over here I'm going
to sync up the audio. I know that the video and the audio are going
to match perfectly. That's always step one. Sure. Now, I like to do something
we haven't talked about yet. I'm going to right-click
and hit unlink, which is going to separate
my video and audio. And then I'm going to link the video file and
my recorder audio. This lets them kind of act as a unit and I just find
it easier to edit. Now, I'm going to
go ahead and color. I'm going to color first. Because when I start clipping, then it's really hard to
color each individual clip. There are settings to copy
the settings you've made on a clip and then paste the
settings on another clip. But it's a lot easier to just color something
right off the bat. So I'll make some quick, rapid color changes here. Just like that. Compare. Sure. Now I'm going
to clip through this, so I'm going to listen for
any mistakes that I've made and then from
there, take them out. So I think this is the
start of the final video. Don't want any of this in there. It's actually start from here. I don't want that
sniff in there. So from there, I'm
going to clip it. I'll call that the start. Now I'm going to fade in my
video and audio portion. Congratulations. Now we're
doing our final project. As a final project, we're going to make
chord progression. The first chord progression
is going to use what we learned in our last chord. You made it to the end. Congratulations. Okay. And what you found difficult. So it looks like I
actually didn't make any mistakes in the middle
that I want to cut, which makes this super easy. I'm just going to fade the video and audio
at the very end. Congratulations. Now we're doing our final project
we're going to make. Now I'm going to add
some texts because I'm about to explain something. I'm about to explain
my final project. So what I'm gonna do is I
have a folder of assets. I'm going to bring in
just a black color that I like and apply it in. I'm going to drag it so it
doesn't cover the whole image. Let's see, I'll put it right
over here to the side. Then I'm going to
fade it in as well. I can change the opacity. I like it to not be all the way. So you can see a little
bit of background. When I say three right there, back this up a little bit. I'm going to add in some text. Just like that. Now we have
all our texts settings. Maybe want to separate
them a little bit, put them up and they do seem actually pretty pretty large. I don't want them that large. There we go. I like it. Fade that as well. We're going to make
three chord progression. First chord progression
is going to use what we learned in section. We're just building
basic chords underneath. Cool. So I will put that under
number one sometimes, especially if you filmed a
little bit in the distance, it's really useful to
listen to what you have to say and remind yourself
what you said. So I know that
project number one has to do with basic chords. And I will put that
under Number one. I want it to be right here
where I start talking about the first section
chord progression. I'm dragging my text as I
watched because I want it to be further trying to figure
out how far to put it. You'll notice too,
that my text is kinda changing when I'm
playing the video. That's because of
this button down here, it's playback resolution. Sometimes your computer
can have a hard time watching something
in full resolution, so you can change it
to a half or a fourth. It can play really smoothly, but that also makes
it look a little different when you're
watching a video back, I'll change it to
full for this video. So second one is gonna be
for the intermediate chords. I have an option to
add a new text layer. Or I could even
hold down Alt and drag this one which
duplicates it. And then I'll edit it from
there, I'll drag it down. Let's duplicate it
and then I'll edit that text file intermediate. I don't like when I have to
do varying sizes of text, but it's hard to get away from
in a situation like this. Second chord progression will be pretty intermediate
domain you can do seven. Chord progression will be what? Alright, so that's for
the advanced chord. I'm going to hold
Alt again and drag, make some more room so I can see I'll bring the
audio tracks down. There we go. Just a little
more room to play with. This will now be the
advanced chords. Very cool, very cool. So add some tensions in there, in there, and make a
great chord progression. For your third
chord progression. Now I'm going to fade
all five of these out before the end
of the video itself. So over here they fade
and share a little bit about how they went and what
you found it difficult. Then the video fades. That's it. That's all there is to
editing some of these clips.
18. Final Project: You made it through the learning
portion of this course. Now, we just watched
me put together a final project
video and it's time to do a final project ourselves. For our final project, we're going to take one video
clip and upload it twice. The first time
we're going to take the raw unedited clip and
share what that looks like. Now, after we've
edited that clip, you're going to upload
it again and look at the difference between the original and the
one with the edit. So maybe you can fade
in and out from black. Maybe you can add
some color effects or some sound design, even put some text over, but whatever it is,
I'm excited to see it.
19. Congratulations!: Congratulations on reaching
the end of this course. Hopefully you found it
useful and you're a lot more comfortable now
editing your own videos. If you have any
questions for me, you can reach out
at Jacob Atlanta lessons.com or write
at lamb lessons.com. I'm really looking forward
to hearing from you.
Jacob Lamb, Musician, photographer and videographer
