Beginners Guide: Record and Edit Remote Video Podcasts

1. Let's Get Started!: [MUSIC] Video podcasts are booming all over the major platforms. You can now record your remote video interviews in high quality, no matter where your guests are. Jump on the train with me and learn how to create your very own remote video interview podcasts. In this course for complete beginners, my name is Kate Silver. I'm a content creator designer and I teach at the UK's leading Adobe Training Center in London. I will show you my personal recipe from start to finish. First, I will go through how to get ready for an interview, all the recording equipment, gear, and software you will need, and my personal setup. I will talk about why I personally use a combination of Riverside for recording and Adobe Premiere Pro for editing. I will take you through the quick and easy way to record an interview, a remote guest on Riverside. We will explore all the quick edits, layouts, and downloading separate high-quality files that Riverside will provide. This will help our further editing in post-production. Then I will take you through a beginner's tutorial in Adobe Premiere Pro and I will show you all the tricks you will need for editing your episode. We will look at editing sound, adding graphics, color correction, shortcuts, and more. We will be working on a few different formats to give you lots of choice to help you decide which template works for you and your podcast style. By the end of the course, you will be all set up and ready for recording and editing your very own remote video interview for your podcast. Let's get started. 2. Why Video Podcasting?: Why video podcasting? Video content is booming all over the major platforms. If you're going to put in energy into creating your very own podcast, you might as well put it in a bit of extra effort and make it into a video podcast. With video content, you have the opportunity to re-purpose it for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, even Apple podcasts and Spotify are moving towards video content. What about remote video interviewing? Remote video interviewing really took off during the pandemic where it was almost impossible to interview people in person but softwares, like the one I'll be talking about, made it so much easier to interview people no matter where they are and also in high-quality. Stick around because in the next lesson, I'll take you through all you need to know about setting up your very own remote video interview. 3. Setting Up Equipment: Hey guys, in this lesson, I'll take you through how to get ready for a remote video recording interview. I'll show you my personal setup and equipment I use, the software I use to get ready to start recording. [MUSIC] We'll look at the three most important aspects, which is audio, video, and software. Let's start with audio. For me, audio is the most important hands down. If I would suggest to spend money on anything, it would definitely be audio. The first thing to ensure that you have good audio for you and your guests is a microphone. Now, I personally use a condenser mic called the Blue Yeti that you can see over here, and I love it. I've only had good experiences with it, and it's really beginner, friendly. It's not that expensive for the quality that it provides, and I've had good experiences with it. It comes with its own stems, but personally I've tried this quite a lot, and I noticed that it picked up a lot of desk in background noise, which I didn't like that much. The next piece of equipment that I bought, which I also recommend is a microphone boom arm stand, which is this guy over here. It's not that expensive, I bought mine on Amazon for like 15 or $20, and I just attach my Blue Yeti microphone over here facing downwards for some reason when I face it downwards, it doesn't pick up as much background noise which I quite like. Now normally I would put my mic a bit closer to my face and I would put it here ish. But because I like to have a nice view on camera, and I want you to see my face. I've compromised and I've put it a little bit out of sight, which means that the sound will be a little bit less good, but that's fine. That's a price I'm willing to pay. The next piece of equipment that I definitely recommend is a pop shields filter or pop filter shields. That's this guy over here. The reason why is that it filters or blocks outdoor [NOISE] sounds or pop sounds. With my accent, my bizarre accent, I say [NOISE] quite a lot. This nicely blocks it out, so I definitely recommend I bought it on Amazon as well, and again, it's not that expensive. Now, another suggestion that I definitely recommend, another piece of equipment is headphones, because this as well will cancel the sound. Now you can invest in a really high-quality, fancy headphones like these guys over here, audio technical. But since I have quite a small head and I don't think it looks very good on my face personally, I would only use this when I'm doing screen casting. When I'm actually doing videos, I'd rather have something a bit more discrete because right now it feels like I'm drowning in equipment I think. When I'm filming my face, what I like to use is just Apple Air Pods and they're quite good because they're pretty discrete. The only problem with them is that their battery reliant, which I don't like because sometimes if you run out of battery, that's it. Another type of headphones that I use are these. The plain Apple cable headphones, which I like. They're reliance, you don't have to worry about battery, about charging them, about Bluetooth, so they're pretty good. Now, one of the best suggestions I got for high-quality audio and for echo reduction is to making sure that your room that you're filming in doesn't have a lot of echo. You're basically echo proofing your room. Things like hard walls or hard wooden floors can cause echo. What I did is I had a rug, pudding, I throw some pillows and some blankets all over the place. I use cat trees, plants, and these will old luck out echo to make my room ready for filming. Another piece of equipment that's really good for reducing echo is this guy over here, which is a echo reduction foam boards, and I got loads of these and I just started sticking them everywhere on the walls, on the floors, and it really helps with echo. So that was it for audio. Now let's look at video. So you're looking at me right now from a really high-quality Canon DSLR camera. It's very expensive. But don't worry at all, you don't have to spend so much money on a camera, because today's smartphones do a pretty good job, as well as webcams and even your desktop built in camera does a good job. Right now I'm using my Canon DSLR. But when I'm actually doing the recording, I'm going to use my MacBook Pro built-in camera because it's so much easier to set up. Now the most important thing you need to know about video is lighting. Light is the most important part, so if you've got your lights good, you're ready to go. The best type of light is natural lights. I've got a lot of natural light in this room, but I'm also using a newer LED white and yellow light on ascent, I've also got a white umbrella to soften the harsh light. Sometimes I use two when I don't have enough lighting when it's a gloomy, rainy day in London, but today I've got quite a good amount of lights. The last piece of equipment is one Bengal cat, called Skye. She's my personal assistant for this course today. The final part to look at is softwares. Hands down the best quality software for remote video recordings and interviews is Riverside. I'll explain to you in a bit later on in the course why that is and why I personally chose Riverside to record remote video interviews. I also recommend to download Google Chrome, which is the browser that Riverside is used with. Make sure you and your guests have Chrome installed in your computer as a browser. Then finally to edit all your videos, I definitely recommend my favorite video editing software, which is Adobe Premiere Pro, and I recommend it because I'm a big Adobe fan. I love Adobe software, and for me they all have the same language, so it's only natural for me to use Adobe Premiere Pro and it's really easy to use. I'll show you later how to make some simple edits and edit this video, so more on that later. So that's it for getting yourself ready to film, so just plug everything in, and we'll be ready to go. 4. Why Riverside? : In this lesson, I will explain why I personally use Riverside for quality remote video recordings. I will talk about which software grants more control in post-production. When I choose a software, there are bunch of factors that I like to look at. Is it easy to use? Do I like the interface? Can I create quality content? I wanted to dive quickly into remote video recording, hassle-free. I didn't want to waste a lot of time and so I did a bit of research into softwares and ultimately decided to go with Riverside. Here's why. Separate audio and video tracks for each participant. Probably, one of my favorite and most important reasons for using Riverside is that it records separate audio and video tracks for each speaker and all in high-quality. Which means that I can pop the separate audio and video tracks into Adobe Premiere Pro and I will have way more control in post-production and in editing, and it will make my life easier basically. Other software do not offer this option as far as I'm aware. Zoom recordings might only record in the view chosen for the call. For example, if I choose Speaker view, then the only view that will be recorded is the person speaking at the moment and not all participants separately. Another super important reason why I use Riverside is that the recordings are not affected by internet quality. That's because Riverside records locally on each participant's computer and at the same time uploads the files in high-quality to the Cloud. If I interview a guest using Riverside and my guest has an unstable Internet connection, the recording will not be affected and the audio and the video quality will also not be affected. Instead, I will be able to keep the existing full quality that my professional equipment or gear or my guests gear can provide, which is awesome. If I interview a guest using another software like Zoom, for example, then the quality of the recording is dependent on the Internet connection. So if my guest has unstable Internet connection, then the audio and video quality will drop significantly, which is super scary and a big no, no. With Riverside, I don't even need to worry about internet connection affecting my recording in any way. Finally, another reason for using Riverside is the Riverside Clips and Magic Editor. I can easily re-purpose existing recordings into different shorter formats for social media. If I recorded in 1609 resolution, for instance, I can easily convert it into a format for TikTok, Instagram Reels and much more. I can easily upload my logo, change the background, change the layout. That's pretty much it for why I use this particular software. If you would like to sign up with Riverside for free, you can click on the link in the course description below. You can play along with me and learn how to use the software in the next part of the course. 5. Set Up Riverside & Record: [MUSIC] Let's get ready and set ourselves up with Riverside, so we can get ready for our little interview. Go ahead to the course description, and you can click on the link and it will take you to a free sign-up with Riverside, which is cool, and you can enter all your information that you would like, and you can choose between the different plans for now, and that's pretty much it. I'm just going to go and click on "Login" because obviously I already have an account. One of the first things that we need to do is create a new studio, which is pretty easy. Just go ahead and click on New Studio, and you're going to type in the studio name and lucky for us, it's our first episode together, so I'm just going to go ahead and type Episode 1 with Rob S, who's going to be my special guest today. Make sure you select audio and video and just click on "Enter Studio", and viola, hello me and hello, blue shirt, big change. Here let's check that our hair and our camera and our mics are all in order, so that's my name, Kate Silver, so make sure you would type in your own name. Always make sure you say, I'm using headphones, because if you're not, then it will pick up background noise, which is not very nice. Make sure you have headphones, either these ones or like the other ones I mentioned. Now let's look over here. Here you've got the Blue Yeti microphone or you might have bought another microphone, that's all fine. Either way, make sure it's plugged it in and you'll be able to see whichever microphone is plugged in. You might have your computer microphone, which you do not really want to use. Select your microphone, I've got my Blue Yeti all setup. Now as for the camera, so like I mentioned before, you can use a webcam, you can use a DSLR camera. Currently I have my beautiful Canon DSLR camera plugged in. But I can also plug in my Face Time MacBook built-in camera, or your HP camera built-in if you have one or another Logitech webcam, whichever. Now, I had to plug in my DSLR camera to my laptop. There are few ways to do this, so first of all, if you have a Canon DSLR, you can use the webcam utility software that you have to install, and normally all you do is install it, plug it in, and that's it, you should be ready to go. I tried this on another computer and it was all fine. Now, I tried it on my new M1 MacBook Apple computer, laptop, and it didn't work, and that's because at the time of the recording, the software, the Canon softwares aren't updated yet. For M1 chips that might change, but for now, what I had to do is then buy an additional little dongle, which is a video capture dongle that you see over here. You can buy it on Amazon, I found it in a local store. Then you plug it in and that's it. Your DSLR camera will work as a webcam, which is happening right here. But again, you do not need to use a DSLR camera, you can just use your webcam and your built-in camera if you have nice natural light. Then default external headphones, all good. Make sure you are joining as a host, and that's it, you can click on "Join Studio" and hello me again, but turn in bigger. That's cool. Let's check this window out, so first of all, you can rename the recording again, which is episode one with Rob S again. The other was a studio, so in a studio you can have multiple recordings. We can do Test 1, Test 2, or Part 1, Part 2, and then you have the actual recording. Over here I can see that all my stuff is in order, my microphone. It's currently not in its highest quality, but when it's going to be uploaded to the web, it's actually going to be uploaded in its highest quality possible. Make sure that all is in order, you'll be able to click on "Record" here. Check that your mic, yes, it's my Yeti stereo microphone, my webcam. All is in order, this you'll be able to leave here later, but I suggest you wait till it's uploaded. Then last but not least, is just getting your guests to ready, so makes sure they have headphones, very important. It can be either the AirPods or any headphones that I recommended, and most importantly, a microphone, because you want them to sound good. Again, if they use AirPods, that's also not the end of the world. Then a camera, again, built-in camera or any, but it would be great if they have natural lighting. Lucky for me, my friend Rob has a bunch of really nice equipment, so he's good to go, he's our videographer, a man of many talents. All that's left to do is click on "Invite by email" or you can copy the link and send them. I like to invite by email, type in their email over here, send invite. Make sure you select guests. They can even sign-in as producer or can have a third party member sign-in as a producer and they can help you sort everything out. That's pretty much it. You can hit "Record" as soon as they log in. I'll see you after the interview. Hello Rob. If you're ready to go, I'm going to click on "Record" in a bit and click. 6. Riverside Roles Explained: [MUSIC] I hope the interview went well for you. For me, it was really fluent. Thumbs up for me. Now that we're going to do some of my favorite parts. I just find it so fun. It's really playful, and that is editing our episode insights, Riverside or recordings. If you wanted to do an additional recording, you could go to studio and go back at it and just add more recordings or another thing you could do that's really cool, is actually create an entire new studio. But this time with adding multi-people or multi participants. You can assign different roles to different people, which is cool. Let's just have a quick little look at this before editing our existing episode. If you go to "New Studio" this time, you can type in your name or whatever. Again, I'm just going to call it roles because that's what I'll be talking about, just the different roles that you can assign to different participants in a studio. Then this time, instead of clicking on "Enter studio", if you click on "Continue setup studio', you can go more into detail about how your studio is going to look like. This is where you have the opportunity to add more members and more participants. There are four kinds of participants and roles that you can delegate to people and each role has a different ability. You've got the most important role, which is yourself, the host, and so this is your studio. Sometimes you can also add a producer. Sometimes it can be really hard to manage and multitask being the host, being the interviewer, making sure your equipment is fine, your guests' equipment is fine. What you can do is have an additional person help you out and they can come in as role of producer, and they can adjust the studio settings, things like the sound, your guests' sound, making sure that all the equipment is in order and they will not actually be recorded. Then we have our little guest, which is just a person that we'll be interviewing remotely. That's pretty self-explanatory. Then something really cool as well that you can do is have an audience member or a silent bystander. They can just be there and just listen in, join in, but they will not actually be a part of the call. They will not be recorded just there to enjoy the show. Now to add these participants, it's pretty easy. Just have to click on "Add participants", enter their email address, and then decide "Am I going to have them as an audience member? Am I going to have them as a guest or am I going to have them as a producer?" That's totally up to you and when you're done, you would click on "Create show". That would be it for a multi-person studios show. But if you just want to keep it simple and just have you and your interviewer guest. That's totally fine. That's it. Now let's go back to studios. Because now I'm going to explain the exciting part of editing your episodes in Riverside and to do that, you just have to make sure you're on the Riverside dashboard. Go to your existing studio and episode and just click on "View Recordings". 7. Riverside Magic Editor: Hello me and Rob. I'm just going to go click on it, and let's have a little look. There are a bunch of options here. First of all, you can see Rob, you can see me, Kate Silver. You can download straightaway, export it, edit it, and that is the full recording. Now below you'll see all the tracks that you can download separately, which I will talk about. Let's just go ahead and click on "Episode" and that's pretty cool, actually. As you can see, it says live quality preview 480p. That means that what we're seeing right now is actually not the fullest quality, so right now we're just seeing a little blurred not perfect quality, but when it's actually going to be exported, it's going to be exported in its full quality. For now, I can just click on the "Play" button and let's see, let's have a little look. Yeah, I moved to London almost 16 years ago. I was just doing IT stuff, just IT support stuff. Yeah, it's looking pretty good, it's sounding pretty good although, I do hear a little bit of background noise which we can edit later on inside Riverside, or actually inside Adobe Premier Pro. For now, let's just click on "Edit" and "Export" and go to the next section. This is pretty cool, you can choose the type of content you would like to create, and it gives you all the information you need. 9:16 stories, this would be for Instagram, Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts. You can also select "Post" which is for Facebook feeds, LinkedIn, Instagram feed, Pinterest, or full length, which is great for Spotify, Vimeo, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and I'm sure as the time goes on, there's going to be more platforms that will also add this format. I'm just going to select "Full Length" and there we go. Let's go through all of these little options here, they're really fun. Let's start with treks. First of all, I can decide actually, maybe I don't want to see Rob, so let's untick this, and bye Rob or I can decide I don't want to see myself, so untick this and bye Kate. What I could also do is change the positioning, so if I make Rob one and make it zero, then we're swapping around. But I actually prefer this. I can also say, actually, I just want to use Rob's audio, I don't want to see him, I just want to use his audio or the same thing for me, I can say I don't want to see myself at all I just want to hear myself and see Rob and his high-quality camera. Yeah, I think it's looking pretty good. Let's move on to the next section. Again, I have the option to change my mind and choose 9:16 for story or for post or again for YouTube and stuff like that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I quite like how easy that is. Let's go back to 16:9 and let's look at the layout. I can actually select "Grids" and there will be no gaps, and this is pretty nice and itself as well. Or I can select "Grids with gaps" and I'll have this little gap and I can change the backgrounds, which I'll show you later how to do. Now full-frame AI. What does that mean? That says speaker layout, so it means layout will date according to speaker. Basically if Rob is talking, we'll see Rob, and if I'm talking we'll see me, which is pretty cool and it saves a lot of time in post-production, so it's pretty quick. Again, it says speaker recognition export files is more accurate than live preview. When it's actually exported it's just going to be much better and in higher quality. I can also select "Shared AI" which means that I'll show up here in small, so when Rob is talking, he'll be here and I'll be there, and when I talk, it's going to switch around and then split AI is quite similar but it's just a different layout. I'm just going to go back to grid with gaps because I quite like this quite nice, and you can also keep aspect ratio, which means that it keeps the full image that our cameras are, we both have quite nice cameras plugged in as webcam, and so we can access the full view or not, up to us, up to you, and I can also round the corners, which you can't really see that much now because I need to change the background so you can see better, and we'll do that in a second in the next icon. Yes, so that's pretty cool, I can change the background and it's pretty funky and fun, quite nice. If you have your own brand colors, you can click on the "Plus" and you can choose your own backgrounds maybe something you've created in Photoshop or in your brand guidelines, or an image from unsplash or pexels which are free and high-res or is fun. Then last but not least, actually let me choose this one quite like this one and then last but not least, we can click on the "Plus" and add our little logo, which is awesome. Click on the "Plus", find your logo and [FOREIGN] like we say in French. Over here I'll have the option to move this around and quite it here. Again let's click on "Plane" and let's have a little preview. Hello Rob thanks for [OVERLAPPING] coming on our show on my first. Three years now. I'm just working from home and also doing some traveling well. Yes. That's pretty cool, it looks good, it sounds good although, we're not seeing the fullest quality and again I do here a bit of background noise which I can remove inside Riverside or because Riverside offers me to separate audio tracks, I'll be able to even export this and bring it in Premiere Pro, and actually remove the noise and color correct it if I want it to, which is awesome. I'm just going to name this clip so that I don't lose my mind, so interview with Rob S. [NOISE] I can call it Layout one let's say. Once I'm happy with this, I can click on "Export" and over here I can choose a bunch of options, the video quality, so lower or this current one. Now I only recommend 4K if you've actually shot in 4K, if not, then I don't recommend it. You can also click on "Normalized Audio Levels" which means that when I took, sometimes I have a high-pitched voice, then suddenly I have a very low voice, so what this does is it stabilizes the audio levels, making it a bit more easy to listen to. If I wanted to, I could remove the background noise and I could remove the watermark. Let's see the job that it does for removing background noise, and again we have that option in another software as well and Premier Pro, so we'll look at both options and I'm just going to click on "Export" and Riverside is telling me that it will take up to 10 minutes, and they'll send me an email when my clip is ready to download or publish. Then I can go to back to dashboard. Now I've received my email, which is cool, so I can click on "Preview" and publish and there is my file that I've been working with, and again we can have a little play a little listen. That's the main, that's the software I use. This other little weird ones I use some AI voice stuff from Amazon. Yeah, so I'm pretty happy with that. I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to download this. I'm going to go to play and click on "Downloads" and it's going to come up in my downloads and I'm going to look at it later. 8. AI Speaker View Layout: Now let's go back to dashboard. I would like for us to make another edit, one more, so we have two different options. Click on the recording again, the episode, and again, we're going to go to Edit and Export. Again, we're going to select 1609. I would like us to go back to Layout, and this time select Full Frame AI. Because I would like to have both options. Remember, Full Frame AI means that it will adapt to the speaker. So if Rob is speaking, we'll see Rob. If am speaking, we'll see me. I quite like to have both versions and also if I needed to color correct this or edit the audio, I could do this after in Premiere as well. Then last but not least, just add a little logo again. I might just pop it over here so it's a little bit more discreet. Let's press play just to see how it is. Yes. You probably identify with just that, not having a full-time job. Sometimes you have just like. Makes sense. Yeah. It's about managing your time as well, isn't it? Yes. That's looking pretty cool. It's sounding cool. I'm happy with this, and I'm just again going to rename it, Interview with Rob S. I'm going to call it AI Layout, so I know that it's the person speaking at the moment that I will see. Then I can click on Export. Again, I will have all these options here. Video quality, Normalize Audio Levels, Remove background noise, and Export. Let's just see how it goes. Back to dashboard. Now I can either go to my emails and look for this email that I received from Riverside. Or I can actually go to my dashboard and have a look here. Let's have a little look. Hello, Rob, thanks for coming. Where are you joining us from? From London at the moment, yeah. London? South London. South London? Yeah. But I can hear an accent. That's pretty cool. I can see that it switches from me to Rob whenever we're speaking, and I quite like that. I think it's great, it's easy and that was so quick to do. It's saving me so much time in post-production. Again, if I needed to change the sound, I can also do it in another program. I'm just going to click on Download and now download that version. Then go back to dashboard. Great. Now I've got my two downloads. I've downloaded two episodes that I've edited inside Riverside. 9. Exporting Separate Audio & Video files : Now I'm going to show you how to export a separate audio and video tracks for Rob for myself, so that we would be able to edit this even further and even more precisely in Adobe Premiere Pro, which is the software that I use for editing all my videos. I'm just going to scroll down over here and make sure you're in the dashboard and the episodes. You'll see here, if you look at all participants and you click on high-quality, this is what we've just done earlier, where you can choose a layout for exporting, which is great. Now here you'll be able to download the separate formats from each. If I select high-quality, it will give me all these options, which is awesome and actually I'm going to go ahead and download all of them except the compressed audio because I don't really need this. If I'm not sure what all of these are I can just click on "Learn About File Types", and it's going to tell me what each of these are, which is great. Have a look at it when you have time. I'm going to click on "High-quality" and select "Raw Video". That's just the video. I'm going to click on "Raw Audio". Then I'm going to go to Kate silver, myself, and I'm going to click on the "Raw Video" and "Raw Audio". I have all these separate files, which is awesome, and that was so quick. Let's just have a little look. How does that look? As you can see, it's looking pretty good. Then during COVID, obviously, that was a bit more difficult to do. As you can see, that's just Rob's video and it's looking great. It's in high-quality and it's only Rob. Now, let's look at the audio, the WAV file. It opened it with Apple Music for some reason, but that's fine. Video editing and then teaching people video. That's basically the raw audio, just with Rob talking, not me and means I can make some edits just on that and the same for me. I've just downloaded all these files and I've popped them in a folder, and I've popped them here and here I've got my video, which is looking really good. I also have a nice camera. If I wanted, I can color correct it later in Premiere Pro. But that's pretty much it. I've popped all these files in a folder, which means that I can pop them into Premiere Pro later on in the next part of the course. 10. Downloading Adobe Premiere Pro: [MUSIC] Before we move on to editing all our tracks in our episodes and recordings in Adobe Premiere Pro, I would like us to add one more layout inside Riverside. It's just a clean side-by-side split view. Because we previously added the one with the gaps, and it's great, really funky, but I want to also clean one. Let's just click on our Episode. Yet again, let's click here, and one more time, Edit & Export, 1,609 resolution. Last but not least, let's just go to Layout. I just want grid without gaps. Finally, let's click on the plus for the logo and let's add our little logo or whichever logo you're using and open. Voila, like we say in French. Now I'm just going to click on "Export". I'm not going to select Normalize Audio Levels because I'm going to show you how to do that in Adobe Premiere Pro. Because we have the separate audio tracks for each speaker, so for myself and Rob, thanks to Riverside, it's going to be so much easier to edit the sound separately. Because Rob sound has a little bit of background noise, we're going to easily remove it. Let's remove the watermark and click on "Export". As usual, Riverside will tell us when it's ready. It will send us an email. We can go back to dashboard and either we'll receive an email saying our export is ready, or we'll see it over here. That's it. It's just a clean version. I'm just going to download that. We have this version as well, a nice and clean version. Cool. Once that's done, I would like you to pop that new downloads into our folder with all our separate tracks that we've installed from Riverside. That has our separate speaker view of me, high-quality, which is cool. Separate speaker view of Rob, again in high-quality. My audio, Rob's audio. This version, which is the funky version, it's cool. The speaker AI version. Remember that's the one where the AI tracks who's speaking at the moment and we're seeing the person speaking at the moment, and the one we've just added. Great, so once that's done, I would like you to go to the course Description and install Adobe Premiere Pro because that's the next software we'll use. It's really great for editing videos and it's my favorite one, and it works really well with Riverside. We can easily pop all these separate tracks into Premiere Pro. If you don't have Premiere Pro yet, you can just head to Google and type download Premiere Pro. You can go to the Adobe website and you'll have a bunch of options. You can either have it for free as a trial, or you can even have Creative Cloud, which I have, which means that you have access to all the different Adobe software like Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and I use them all. Go ahead and get the version that works for you. Once that's done, we can go to Premiere Pro. 11. Layout 1: Editing Sound & Graphics: The working to create a few different versions of our episodes, so that you have the choice to decide what works for you. Because we have all the separate tracks from Riverside, it's going to be so much easier to edit. First of all, the one we'll be working on, is just a funky layout that we got from Riverside, and all we're going to do here is edit the audio tracks from both Rob and myself, the separate tracks that we got from Riverside, remove background noise and stuff like that, and we're going to add a little animation. You can use your own animation or your own branding, and that's it. That will be Version 1. The second version will be the AI speaker view, and we'll just copy the existing sound edits that we've done from this one over here, so that's going to be pretty easy as well. Now the third version is, we're going to combine the AI speaker view from Riverside, and the split one that we've just added also from Riverside, just so that it's a little bit more dynamic. There's a bit of a split view and AI separate speaker view. Then the extra bonus special is, we're going to learn how to create our own layout, our own split screen inside Adobe Premiere Pro, and color correction. Because we have the separate high quality video of each speaker of Rob myself that we downloaded from Riverside, it's going to be so much easier to color correct them separately. Let's go. First things first, let's click on Adobe Premiere Pro and open it up. We're going to head to New Project. In here we can just type the name of our project, which I'll call it Episode 1 Interview with Rob. [NOISE] I'm just going to choose wherever I want to save it to, to my Desktop wherever, and then click on "Create". This might look a little bit overwhelming and yours might not look like mine, so let's fix that. When we go to window, we can go to Workspaces, which means how we view Premiere Pro. I would like us to select "Editing", and that's what we're working with. Yours might look slightly different than mine. We'll be working in adding content to our timeline over here. We can move things around by the way, if we wanted to, we can click on different panels. Over here is where we're going to import our media. Yours might be somewhere else so have a look for this. To import media, we just have to double click, and try and find our folder that we created. We're just going to pop all the files inside. All the ones we've just added. Just make sure you have the clean split one that we've just added, the AI view, the weird, funky, cool one, and the separate audio and video for each of us. Just bring it all in. Click and shift if you would like to select all of them, and click on "Import". Now we're going to create a new sequence. We're just going to click on this. Click on "Sequence". We're going to select ARRI 1080 24. Again we can name it, [NOISE] Interview with Rob. We're going to start popping tracks from here over there, and just pay attention, V is for video, and A is for audio. We also have the option to mute tracks. We're going to start with the funky one that we might see over here, and we're just going to click and drag it over here. Let go, and that's it. We can go like this by the way, and we can also change the view so it's smaller, or bigger. We can also double click here to expand a track, and finally another shortcut is plus to zoom in, and minus to zoom out and sometimes you might have to do that. Now this is a play bar so we can move things around, and that's pretty much it. What we'll do now is we're going to load the audio tracks and bring them up here and because of Riverside has automatically sync them, we don't need to worry about it being synced, the audio and the video will be timed perfectly. Let's start with this one. I'm just going to click and drag it over here just below, and let go. Already I know this is my audio because I'm not talking a lot. There aren't a lot of wave links here. Then we're going to select this one, which I'm sure it will be Rob's audio and just pop them below. I know this is Rob's because he's talking more. Great. Let's press play. Thanks for [OVERLAPPING] coming on our show, on my first podcast show. One thing that's really important is currently we have a lot of doubles. We need to mute the merged audio and video one, because we have the separate audio tracks. To do this, we're just going to press "M" here, and now this one is muted. By the way if l click on the video, I know this is it's audio because they're linked. Let's hear it now. Where are you joining us from? From London at the moment, yeah. London? South London. South London. It sounds great, but I can hear a bit of background noise in Rob's audio. That's what we're going to do now, we're going to remove the background noise. I would like us to select Rob's track, which is this one because he's talking more, and we're going to go to Window, Workspace and select "Audio". You might see it over here or somewhere else. Now we're going to click on "Dialogue". This is super easy. All we have to do is click on "Repair" and we'll have all the major ones. We'll have reduced noise, which removes background noise. Rumble is, like let's say the sound of the mouth, the sound of the keyboard, and reverb, those are the main ones. Reverb is for echo. I would like to add a tiny bit of noise, and let's just press play. But I can hear an accent. It was e-learning production. I can still hear noise. If I add a bit more, let's see. The digital learning packages. That's better, but still a little bit more. But we still involve some video editing and things like that. That's pretty good. Now I'm not going to add more because as soon as you add too much noise, it will distort voices which we don't want. I'm happy with this. Next, I'm going to go to reduce rumble. I quite like to add this any way for all tracks. [OVERLAPPING] Yes I'm thinking that's for, I think about two years now, three years now. That's better and last but not least, reduce reverb echo. This you want to be very subtle with this. Not more than one. I'm just working from home. I think that sounds great. Awesome. Now let's compare. Now I'm going to untick Repair, to just temporarily remove it. Also doing some traveling. That's a lot of background noise. Now let's add all the adjustments we've just made. A few other weird little bits of software. But I'm always learning new ones. Yes. That's not bad at all, I'm quite happy with this. Great. Now let's move on to my audios, remember it's the one that has less wave forms, and we're going to repeat the same thing. We're going to go to Dialogue. Now because my audio is pretty good, I'm pretty happy with this. The adjustments will be minor. We're going to click on "Reduce Noise" and we're just going to add a tiny little bit. That's one thing I learned from you is that you keep learning new software. A tiny bit of reduce reverb because I'm a little bit further from my microphone, so it's causing a little bit more echo. You're just a little bit of a geek and I. That's pretty much it. I'm happy with that sound. I'm happy with this. Great. Now what we're going to do, is add a little animation or branding or whatever you're going to add, that makes it you. I'm going to add my own branding animation that I add to all my videos. Let's go to the selection tools. I'm going to select all these tracks, and I'm just going to move it a bit away. Now, I'm going to go back here and I'm going to add, by double click. I'm going to add my little animation. [MUSIC] This one. Now, I personally already added music, but if you wanted to add music, there are a bunch of free music that you can download from YouTube libraries, or some other free websites. You do the same thing, you just pop it in here. Like this as an MP3 and you can just add it, import, and you would just pop it in here. But anyway, I'm going to use the one I've already created. I'm just going to click and drag and pop it in here. Now I need to zoom in so I can see better, so plus. Now there's a little gap here, so what you do is you click. If you press "Backspace" or "Delete", it will close the gap which is awesome. Now because I've added on the same track as here, it's currently muted. I'm just going to click and drag it below, so that this is not muted. [MUSIC] There we go. Now the first version is done. 12. Layout 2&3: Split & AI View: Great, let's move on to the next version. We're going to use the AI speaker view, which is probably one of my favorites. We're just going to copy this stuff that we've just added. Let's click and drag our speaker view. I know because there's a logo here and click and drag over here. Now what we'll do is instead of just doing everything all over again, we're just going to select this, so my little animation and the audio, and we're going to duplicate it over there. Now, duplication is one of my favorite shortcuts that I teach in all the softwares that I teach in all my other courses for InDesign and Photoshop. We're going to click and drag over here. We're going to see it's highlighted. If I press plus, I'll see that this is highlighted minus again. I'm just going to go Alt or Option and drag, and this will duplicate it. I should be able to align this perfectly. If I zoom in, let's double-check. Hello Rob, thanks for coming. The good news is this version is already done [OVERLAPPING] because we've already updated the sound. Sixteen years ago. That is that. Now I'm going to show you one more thing about sound if I drag this here. I'm just working from home. If you look at here, you always want this to be around between Minus 6 and Minus 12, and you never want it to be above it and you never want it to be red because that means that your ears will hurt. [OVERLAPPING] A little. We work from it. Sometimes it is red. To avoid this, what you can do is change the audio levels. You just have to type G, which is a shortcut for Audio gain, and then normalize all peaks. If you type minus 3, it will never go into the red. It will never go beyond Minus 3. Click on "Okay" and I'm going to do same for the other track from mine, G normalize or peaks Minus 3. That is it. Let's move on to the third version which is a combination of AI speaker view, as well as a split one that we've just added the clean one. What I'm going to do is select everything here, and I'm just going to duplicate it. I'm going to go Alt and drag just so we don't have to redo the old audio again. Now because this is speaker view, it's already the way I want it to and all I have to do is get that clean one that we've just added from Riverside and just pop it somewhere. I can pop it like this. Just makes sure that it doesn't go on top of something of an existing track because it will override it. By the way, if you make a mistake, you can always go to Command Z or Control Z, which is a shortcut for undo, my best friends. Just pop it here somewhere, making sure that it doesn't overwrite something else. There we go. Let's go to plus and see if it's aligned. Yes, it seems aligned. Just going to drag this a bit more like that, just so that we can see a bit better. Great, so it's perfectly aligned. Now, the thing that I want to do is I would like to have this split view in the beginning and in the end, and in-between I would like the AI speaker view. Rob speaking alone and then I'm speaking alone. Just so you know, by the way, the track that is on top is always the one you see. Whatever is below, you don't see because it's below. Let's zoom in plus and we're going to go to the razor tool. The shortcut is C for cut and we're just going to cut it hereish, or wherever you feel is right and then we're going to go to the next. Go further down the interview. You can also press minus to zoom out and click and drag. We're going to cut here so we have a little bit of splits. What I'll do now is go to the selection tool. Always go back to the selection tool at some point V shortcut, select the piece in the middle, and just press "Delete". Now, those bits that we've just added also have an audio. I don't know if you can see that, it has an audio. We don't want that audio. What we could do is press "Mute" so those bits are muted because we don't need double noise, double audio. Now you'll see that there's the my little animation. Then if I press play here. [MUSIC] But I can hear an accent. Where are you from originally? I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa. You can see it went from split-screen to AI. Very nice. That's great. Then it is AI, and then we move further. Maybe be seeing all stuff. Again to split view. That's pretty cool and I think that's my most favorite version of the recording. This is what I would probably use, a mixture of splits and AI and I think it's perfect. I would recommend this view. 13. Layout 4: Create a Split Screen: Last but not least, I'm going to show you how you would create this layout yourself in Adobe Premiere Pro. Now, this is a little bit more difficult and it's more fiddly, and using the existing Riverside layouts is much easier. But I just want to teach you just in case you wanted to manipulate it or if you wanted to color correct your videos. Because I'm quite happy with mine. I think we both have nice cameras, but I'm going to show you anyway how you would color correct. We're going to start from scratch over here and we're going to select the separate video. This is mine. I'm just going to pop in here, click and drag. I'm going to select Robs one. I'm going to click and drag. Now, they're on top of each other. As you can see, they have different layouts, different sizes. Actually that's what we'll start with. We'll start with the videos. If you go to the selection tool and you select Robs track and you click, you can move it. You can click and drag and make it bigger. We're just going to start laying it out already. I want to create a split-screen over here. My own split-screen, we're going to make it like this ish. We're going to select my video, and we're going to do the same. Now, if you're struggling sometimes to select, you can also move it up. Now, it's going to be easier to select this one. That make sense. I'm going to click and drag and make myself bigger. Click and drag and wow, by Rob [LAUGHTER] can't see Rob that well. Now, I'm going to teach you how to crop an image. It's simple. You Select your video, so I'm selecting mine currently. Then you go to Window Workspace and you select Effects and over here, or it might appear somewhere else for you. You select Crop, you type Crop. You'll see it here. You just drag it to the track you're currently working on. It's mine here, my face. You'll see Effects controls. If you can't see it, you have to look for it. Might appear here somewhere. Because we've just added crop, it will appear here. I want us to double-click on crop and suddenly it will allow us to crop our image, which is cool. Actually that's not too bad. Now, I can select Robs one and move it around to double-click. Sometimes like I said, it's a bit difficult to select, so you could also bring it in front and it will be easier to select. I'm just going to undo now, Now, I'm going to teach you how to color correct these images. Now, I quite like Robs how it is, but I'm just going to show you either way. Let's select Robs track, which is this one. We're going to go to Window Workspace and select color. Now, it's all about basic correction. This is the typical adjustments that you see in almost all apps. You can make it a bit more pink, a bit more green. You can add more exposure. That's if the camera doesn't have enough light. You can add more contrast or less. You can change your highlights. You can make it a bit more white. But like I said, I'm quite happy with how Rob's camera looks. Now, let's Select the other one, my track or your track. For mine, I think I would like mine to have a little bit more contrast. I'm just going to add more contrast and maybe a bit more white. Then the next thing I want to show you is if we go to creative, there's something I love called sharpen. We can actually sharpen our image a bit, which I'm going to do. If it's a bit blurred, it will help sharpen it because I think that Rob's image is a bit more sharper than mine. I'm happy with this. Looking good. Now, if you're struggling to fit it around, it just takes practice and eventually you're going to get it Premiere Pro is, it's just about practice and getting familiar. Now, I'm going to show you how to add a logo over here manually, not inside Riverside but in Premiere Pro. You would go here and we double-click and we find our little logo. Click on Import. Click and drag over here, again make sure you're not putting it on an existing track. You're going to press Plus to zoom in,wow , it's big [LAUGHTER]. What you can do is double-click. You can also reduce the view to 25 percent so you can see the borders. Then you can click and drag and make it smaller. That's nice. It even matches my t-shirt. You click away, and that's it. Now, you have to make sure that the logo appears on the whole track. You're going to have to click and drag and align it to the whole track. You're going to go click and drag. Or I can even zoom out Minus click and drag and align it to the whole track. That's cool. Now, finally, I can just pop the separate audio again to my track. I'm going to do exactly what we did before, is I'm going to select the audio from the previous one. I hate doing double the work, so I just copy what I just did earlier. Click and drag. Press Plus if I need it to, can even select that little animation, remember the one in front. I can hold Shift so I can add to selection. I can see these are selected now. Press Minus to zoom out. I'm going to duplicate this. The shortcut is Alt or Option and drag. I'm going to nicely duplicate it, just make sure I'm aligning it properly. Let's have a look. No, I didn't. What I can do is I can either select it and just click and drag and push it inwards, and that should be good. Now, last but not least, because we've added two videos, we've added the audio as well. We need to mute this audio. We need to make sure that this audio is not muted. Can you see it's muted because that's the one we'll need. The green ones are the audios we need. We're going to select this, hold down Shift key and click on that track and just push it down. Click and drag. It's going to go to a track where it's not muted. This might be a bit fiddly, but it just takes practice, but that is pretty much it. 14. Exporting Episodes in Adobe Premiere Pro: [MUSIC] Great, well done. We've done the four different versions of our track, and I'm going to show you how to export each of these individually using shortcuts. Let's zoom in-plus. Let's start with this one. I want to move the playback completely to the utmost left to the beginning, and we're going to choose the inputs or the imports where it starts. You're going to type the letter I on our keyboard, and that's where our export will start. Then minus to zoom out, and we're going to move the play bar until the end. Type Plus, plus to zoom in or out. If we type the letter O for outputs, that is where our exports stops. We're going to export this whole thing over here. Now we're going to go to File, Export, Media. You can name it whatever you want and export it wherever you want, and select Match Source-Adaptive Bitrate. Make sure H264 is selected. Again we'll see here that all of this is going to be exported source. Make sure range in and out is selected. That means where we've highlighted the I and the O, scale to fit. Then all you have to do is click on "Export", and it's going to do its thing. Bear with me. This could take a little bit of time sometimes to export because it's a high-quality big file. Mine is 7-8 minutes. Great. Now I can see that it's exported successfully. I'm just going to see how it looks like over here, press "Play". [MUSIC] Then during COVID, obviously, that was a bit more difficult to do. Great. I'm happy with that. That looks great. Now, I did notice a mistake. I think I accidentally muted myself. Look at the track here, I muted it. I'm just going to click on this to unmute the tracks and always make sure when you go back into Premiere that you can actually see that the green audio ones are not muted. That's the most important. Just do what I showed you earlier and export it again if that was the case so that you can actually hear the second voice. I can hear myself. Now let's do this again. But I want to do this for my favorite one, which is the split one with the AI one. I think if I need to choose any type of recording, that's my go-to, that's my standard, again, we're going to zoom in-plus, going to move it here to the beginning and we're going to press I for inputs. Again, just makes sure that the green audios are not muted, but that all other audios, if the waveforms are yes, muted. That's the most important in terms of sound. I'm going to move this play bar to the end. I'm going to type the key plus to zoom in. Move it towards the hereish, because I don't need these extra little bits and type O for outputs. Now, this will be exported and nothing else. Now we go back to File, Export, Media. If I move this play bar over here, I'm going to see that the only thing exported will be this. If I want, I can call it split and AI, so I know it's the split and AI version. Again, Adaptive High Bitrate, H264 source in, out, scale to fit, and export. Again, it's going to take its beautiful time because these things can take some time. Now it's exported successfully, so let's have a little look at what it looks like and sounds like. Pop it over here and I'm just going to press "Play". [MUSIC]. Hello Rob. But I can hear an accent, so where are you from originally? I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa. You can see it went from split view to speaker view, which is exactly what I wanted. Then towards the end, it goes back to split views. That's perfect. That's all I need. I'm pretty satisfied with this, and I would publish this to Spotify, YouTube, Apple podcasts, and some other platforms. I'm sure more and more platforms will come and offer this podcast video option. I would love for you to try this out and interview someone using Riverside and then edit it in Riverside and edit it further in Adobe Premiere Pro, like we've just done and use all the skills we've just learned. If you can publish this in the class projects, I would love to see it and I can review it and I can give you some feedback. Well done my friends. 15. Well done!: Well done my friends. I hope you enjoyed this course. This was my personal recipe for quickly producing and editing a remote video interview podcast. If you follow this formula you should be able to have all the equipment setup and software you need to record your very own remote video interview. You should be easily able to produce and edit a podcasts using Riverside and Premiere Pro for further editing. After that the last step will be publishing it to various platforms like YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. I would love to see what you've been working on, the episodes you've produced so please post a sample of your project in the project gallery. You can follow me to get updates on course announcements and even enter competitions to win a free Skillshare membership. See you next time.