Master Short Form Video Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro for TikTok, Reels, & Youtube Shorts

1. Welcome to Premiere Pro Short-Form Video Editing: Welcome to Premiere Pro Short fromom Video Editing course. I'm glad, and I'll guide you through creating videos designed for today's most engaging platforms, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube shorts. This course is for anyone who wants to edit quickly and confidently without getting stuck in les menus or technical jargon. Instead of overwhelming you with every feature in Premiere Pro, we'll focus on the exact steps you need to take to build real polish sort from content. Fast. In this course, you'll learn the clear step by step workflow for short from video editing. Cut engaging stories and strong hooks, add captions and graphics that pop on mobile. Clean and balanced audio so your videos sound professional. Correct exposure, fix skin tones, and add style with lots. Export with the right settings for TikTok, Instagram reels and YouTube shorts. Even breakdown real client projects and top creators videos to see exactly how viral edits are built and know where to find your first editing clients. Recommend watching videos in order as every lesson builds onto the previous one. You can control the volume and the playback speed to learning at your own pace. If you get stuck or have any questions, be sure to drop them in the Q&A section below. Just make sure to check the existing questions first because there's a good chance that the question you want to ask has already been answered in detail. At some point, you'll be asked to leave review the scores. Please wait until you've had a really good chance to experience the material. Your feedback helps me improve the course and better serve you and future students. By the end, you'll see the entire process in clear practical way. So you can follow along, build confidence, and finish with videos you are proud to post. Thanks again for joining this class. I'm genuinely excited to help you create beautiful professional short from content. Give you the confidence to use it in real projects whether personal or client based. Let's jump into the first video. 2. Installing Adobe Premiere Pro: Welcome. Let's quickly walk through how to install Premiere Pro. First of all, you need to go to adob.com. You can follow the link in the Resources section to get there. In to click on C A plants. There are a couple of options that we can go for. There's individual business, student teacher and schools, universities who can work for you, individuals, business, students and teachers. You should choose according to your situation, but I will say that if you are a student, you will get a big discount. So instead of paying $70 per month for the whole creative cloud, you can get for $25 a month. If you're a business, it's a little bit more expensive. And as an individual, this is what you can do. So you can either get the whole Creative Cloud, and that means it's including all the applications that Adobe has to offer. So that would be light room and Photoshop, that would be After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro. Adobe Express premium, Firefly, and so on. So everything you see on the screen, you will be able to get for 69 99, and you need to decide what makes more sense for you. So if you're using both Premiere Pro and let's say you want to use Photoshop at the same time and you want to use just these two applications, then you would need to pay $46 per month. Now, if you were to use three applications, that would be 23 times three the same as the Creative Cloud. So if you are using three, you can as well get the whole Creative Clouds and have other applications if you want to use them. So depending on your situation, just go ahead and click on whatever option works for you. Adobe made it so simple to install all of this, so just go through the process quickly. They'll walk you step by step on how to do it. After you have it installed, we'll launch Premiere. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that, I'll see the next video. 3. Premiere Pro Interface Explained: After you've installed Premiere, let's talk about panels, workspaces, layouts. Let's jump in. When you open Premiere for the first time, this is what you're going to see. You're going to see a list of recent projects that you worked on, and you'll be able to create new project by clicking the blue button, the top left corner. So click on the new project. Your location is going to be difault location, something similar to this. The project name untitled. And for now, we're just going to go ahead and create it. And when you open Premiere, this is what you're going to see. Your layout might look slightly different from mine. That's totally fine. Because these layouts are highly customizable. So what you see in front of you are many panels. You'll see a project panel in the top left corner. This is going to be our preview, or in other words, we are going to see the video. This is going to be our properties where we'll be able to see the properties of every single file that we import into premiere. And at the bottom, we will have our timeline. This is the place where we are going to customize video and audio files. Now, this is a default layout, and we are able to customize it. So, for example, if I put my cursor in between two panels, you'll see that the cursor changes, and now I'm able to move the panels around, and I can click here, move it around, like so do it with every single panel. Now, let's say I don't like the project panel that it's located here and I want to move it to the right. This is something that we can do. I can just go ahead and drag it by the name, click on it, and drag to the right. You can see we have this blue highlight, and it shows where it's going to be placed. So if I put it here, it's going to be placed in between our program and in between the properties because it's kind of in between. So if I click on here or here, it's going to be put in the middle. Now, if we drag it to the center, it's going to be in the center. So we will have a similar situation where we'll have our effects and the project panel kind of together. So I can go ahead and click on Effects and I can click on the project bound. So if I put it here, it's going to be a very similar story. And we can customize our panels like this. We can drag and drop them around, and that's how you do it. If it looks a little bit weird like this, you're like, Okay, I don't like it. Well, just go ahead and drag it, put it to the right, customize it to your liking. Like, so if at anytime at any point, one of the panels disappears, don't worry about this. All you have to do is go into Window and click on one of the panels. And that's it. So, for example, our program monitor, I can even click on this Burgi button, right click, close the panel, disappeared. If we were working in the video, we would not be able to see the video. But all we have to do is go into Window. Program monitor, and it's as simple as that. Now, in one of the future videos, I'll show you how to customize it for the most efficiency and so that's the most convenient for different types of videos. If we go into the top right corner, click on this button, we'll see workspaces. So if you click here, we have a number of workspaces here, and this is the place where we'll be able to customize them. Once again, super important just for efficiency and for convenience. You will see that some of the ones that I have are slightly different from yours. So I have long form, I have short form, vertical workspace, and it's the workspaces that I've created because these are the ones that I use the most, and I'll show you how to do it a little bit later. We have a number of workspace here, so we have the color workspace, and you will see that when we click on it, it changes slightly. Why? Well, that's because it's just a little bit easier to work on this way. And you can still customize it so we can moved around, like so or even here. Or for example, if we moved a couple of things like it just looks chaotic, then we can go ahead and click on the workspace and reset to save layout, and it's just going to go back to default. In the color workspace, the panels are slightly different. There are new panels, for example, glometroscopes, or if we go in, let's say, audio, it's going to look even more different. So depending on what we're working on, we'll be changing the workspaces because it's going to speed up the process. Doesn't mean that if we have to work on color, we can only work in the color workspace. It also means that we can work in any workspace on anything. Even in color workspace, we can work on the audio, vice versa, and we can customize it to however we want. Premiere created these default workspace just make things a little bit easier. Now, it's important to know that Adobe does update Premiere, and it might look slightly different to you depending whatever update you have. 99% of the things are going to be the same. Usually, updates are something new that make life even easier. I'm working on Premiere 25, but let's say you watch this in the future, and you are working on Premiere 26 or 27, 28, or 35. And even if a few buttons look slightly different or maybe even they've been moved slightly. What really matters are the results, how to get millions of views in as simple way as possible. If at any point you have any questions, be sure to drop them below. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 4. Downloading Practice Files: I just want to quickly mention that you have access to downloadable resources and recommend you to download the files because those are the files that I'll be working with and you'll be able to just literally copy, paste everything I do to get the practice done and to go through the whole process from the very beginning to the very end so that you get used to it. Then when you work with clients where you work with your own videos, it's going to be just a lot easier after you've gone through the whole process instead of just watching. You can get access to that below the video player. There's going to be link, so just go ahead and click on that. If you have any questions, let me know, but than that, I'll see the next video. 5. Creating a Project & Sequence: This video, let's properly create our project and the first sequence. Now when we come to Premiere and click on the new project, instead of it being in the default folder, let's create our own folder. The reason we are doing this is because let's take a look. This is the premiere pro folder of Premiere 24, and I have let's take a look. Big number. So let's select everything. 270 file projects. This is what's going to happen if you're going to save it in the default space. That's something I used to do. It's not very efficient. And I do recommend whenever you're working on a project to create separate folder. So create on your desktop or in any other files that is good for you. For example, let's say our video will be Video one for social media and I'm going to press K. I'm also going to just copy the name. Of the folder and I'm going to open the folder, and I'm going to create another folder called PR. If you're on Mac, you can also add an emoji that's going to be easier to identify. Now when we come to Premiere, I'm going to put the name of the basically a project, Video one for social media, and I'm going to choose the location. I'm going to go to desktop and I'm going to search for our video. So this is going to be the one, and I'm just going to place it there and press and create. So now, whenever we are finished with this project, we'll note that we have the premiere project here. It's also going to autosave here. This is an important thing because if let's say Premiere crashes, you'll be able to open a file that was automatically saved by Premiere. And if we were to search for it here, it would take a long time, and then we have to file, which is like autosave. Then we have to go into the autosave and search it here. And you can see I have 3,000 autosaves. And that was just in 2024. It was after using seven months on this computer, Premiere. So 3,000 files, it's a headache to search for auto saved files. So now that you have a folder, you will have your Premiere Pro, and you have your Premiere Pro project file over here. Trust me, if you want to create a career or accelerate, just become better. This is so important. You will eventually get here, so it's better to start it from the very beginning. Later. Now, I'm going to go into the start your workspace because this is the most convenient one to begin with, and there are a couple of ways we can create our sequence. Sequence is basically where we are going to work on our video. I'll click on the new item, and you can see here, it's called sequence. So I can go ahead and click on it, and a couple of things. Yes, we can create a sequence preset, which is good, but I do prefer going into the settings and customizing myself. We can give a name here at the bottom, as you can see the sequence name. So whatever we name it, it's going to be named that way. We can change the name later, but we can do it right away. I mean, if you go for social media, for example, we have nine by 16, and yes, we can go ahead and open it, create it, and it's just going to work perfectly fine. If you want a little bit more customization, you can go into settings. Long story short. If you are going for something very specific, you will know that and then you'll put the specific settings. If you don't have anything specific going on, then you can just put frame size 1080 by 1920, 30 frames a second, give it a name. At the bottom. So let's give it the same video, one for social media, the same as our folder and the project file. By the way, the project name is going to be here at the top. Now, in terms of the frame rates, I do recommend setting 30 frames a second if you're getting started. Once again, unless you're going for something specific, 30 frames a second is going to be the best. 24 frames a second, in my opinion, even though it's very cinematic, for example, on my phone, I have 120 hertz or on a computer screen, I have 120 hertz. And then when I see 24 frames per second video, it's just it's a bit too unsmooth. It's better to use 30 than 24, 25, because that's kind of the industry averages. And then if we come to 60 frames a second, which is going to be very smooth and something you might want, it's a little bit too smooth when it comes to industry standards. And one important thing is that social media will compress your video eventually, and it might do from the very beginning. For example, Instagram TikTok and YouTube compress video immediately. That means the quality of the video drops and the frame rates drop. And the reason for that is because millions of videos are uploaded every day or every month, billions of videos. And it's just a little bit hard for social media to keep the same quality and the same size of the file because these files are going to be huge. And so they compress it so that it doesn't take that much space. And if we download videos from social media, you know, it's going to be absolutely tiny. So even if you put 60, social media is going to compress it. And that's why 30 frame second is the best option. And then in terms of the other settings, once again, if you want something specific, yes, you can go ahead and click on it. But other than that, 1080, 1920 is better than four K because four K is four times the size and it's going to take a lot more power for your computer. So 1080 by 1920, 13 frames a second and press Okay. And there you go. We have our sequence. Now that we have our sequence created, let's get into the next video and import our first footage. 6. Importing & Organizing Footage in Adobe Premiere Pro: In this video, let's import our footage and organize media. You can find this file in the downloadable resources section, and the way I'm going to import it into our project is I'm just going to drag and drop it, so. You can see it just instantly imports it. Now, if a press command, the other way that we can import this is we can just double click in this project panel. So double click. This video is going to pop up and then I have to search for this video again. This is the video, and then I can go ahead and click on Import and it's going to Import it. Now, another way you can do this, you can go into file. Import, and then go ahead and also import the footage. Now, in terms of the way it's usually done is I just open the folder because it's easier to find it in advance and then instead of even dragging just one, I can go ahead and drag the whole folder just like so, and it's going to import 20 files. So now if I open the folder, it's going to open 20 files. I'm going to close this panel by pressing Command Y, or if you're on Windows, it's Control Y. Once again, remember, instead of command, it's Control. Instead of option, it's old, and I can just select, delete, and we're good to go. It's important to organize our media, and the way we can organize is, first of all, this is our sequence. This is what was created when we created our sequence. It's put in our project because if, let's say we close this part at the bottom, we can go ahead and double click on it and it's going to open it. Once you have 100 files here or 200, 300, 400 files, and it happened to me, trust me, you want to make sure things are organized. What I'm going to do is I'm going to click on New Ben and it's going to be a Bin. I can double click here to change the name or I can press on Enter to change the name, and I'm going to call it sequences. And I'm going to drag and drop this there and drag the sequence there. So now I have a folder with our sequences, and it's important because we might have a number of sequences. It's basically like different versions. So we might have V one, V two, V three. Sometimes with clients, you can get up to, like, ten or even more Vs. And yeah, that's just how it's done. At the bottom here, you can also change the way this project panel is shown. So we can do it like this, and it's basically the same thing. We have our sequence, and it's just kind of the files themselves. This is a bit more interesting. So you can position things like so, and you can kind of zoom out, zoom in, but I prefer it to be visual. So it's the one in the middle because it's organized, like I cannot just put it over here, like, it's here. And I can also see the visuals because over here, I cannot see the visuals, but if you prefer other options, this is the way to do it. Now, in order to get our file into our sequence, we just literally go ahead and drag it. And you will see that it says that the clip doesn't match the sequence settings. Why? Because we create the vertical sequence, and this video is horizontal. So two options we can do. We can either keep the existing settings or change the sequence settings. We are going to keep the existing settings because we want to make sure how final video, our final export is going to be vertical. So we're going to keep the existing settings. You'll see that it looks a little bit weird because of the resolution. So if we were to select this clip and we would go into properties, we can go ahead and change the rotation to we can just click here and type it -90. We can see it works perfectly because it's the same resolution. We just change the horizontal and the vertical resolution slightly so that it fits, but this is the way it works. You can see that this clip is kind of small here. So we can go ahead and drag this thing over here. To really zoom in. And now this clip became a lot bigger. So, this blue part that I'm dragging here is called the playhead, and it shows where we are in terms of our sequence. Now, instead of dragging this thing all the time, we can press Option or on PC, and with our mouse scroll wheel, we can press Option and press on Zoom and it's going to zoom in. So we zoomed in, and then we drag it a little bit to the left or we can do it here. Right, we can zoom in them out, Zoom in them out. It's a lot easier than to just drop it like so. And for our file, we are also going to create another bin. And instead of going down to the bin, we can have our project file selected and we can press Command Slash. So it's going to be Command and this button over here and it's going to create the bin. So it's a shortcut, and we can drag and drop our file there. I'm going to press Command to go back and we can select our footage and then press Command B, and it's going to create a bin with everything that's been selected. For example, let's say you have a number of clips here, I drop them in, and I wanted to drop them like so so that becomes a longer video, and now I can select all the files, press on Shift B, and it's going to create a pin with all of our videos. So that's the way we can organize things, but I'm going to press Commandet undo. Now, in the download resources section, you'll find the safe zones for different social medias. So for example, we have our YouTube zones. I'm going to select it and drop it over here. And now I'm also going to select it and drop it to our sequence. And you will see we have this interesting blue outline. If we zoom in, you will see that the length of this footage is 5 seconds, exactly. If we want to make it a little bit longer, so for example, we have it here and we don't have it here, we just get our cursor to the end of our footage. It turns red, and we just drag and drop it until the end. And you can see we have this little helper that kind of you can see the arrow heads like over here next to the red cursor. And when we get these arrowheads, like these ones, it means it sticks like magnet. And this magnet is activated over here. So if I disable it, it's not going to magnet, but if I enable it, it's going to magnet, and it does help quite a lot. Now, the shortcut for this magnet is going to be S, and I can press S to disable it or S to enable it. Let's select our footage and make sure it is straight. I'm going to press on I icon to hide this whole track, and I'm going to scale it up so that it is full screen. I'm also able to move it a little bit to the left so that I'm in the middle of the frame. Not all the time, but more or less. I'm going to press on the icon to enable the track where we have the save zones for YouTube. What the save zone shows is everything you want to be visible or that must be visible must be within the shape cutout that's visible. Because social media crops the video a little bit. On the right, there are, like buttons, dislike buttons, comment share, and description, anything else that might be there. Sometimes at the top, they have, like on Instagram. They have some writing at the top here on YouTube as well. So that's why it does it. And if we were to select all social media, if you were to create a video for all social media, I'm going to just select the YouTube shorts present it. And if I drag it out, you can see, for all social media, you can also have one zone, and you create video with one zone in mind. And yes, it cuts a little bit out, a little bit extra because if we compare all social media and YouTube, YouTube definitely has more space. But usually, it's not that strict. If something goes a little bit over the blue zone, it's totally fine. It just you don't want, for example, your captions to be in the blue zone, and people will not be able to see it. So this is how you do it. If you have any questions, let me know, but than that, I'll see you in the next video. 7. Customizing Your Premiere Pro Workspace for Faster Editing: In this video, we'll customize the layout of our workspace. You might have noticed that it's not very convenient because we're editing a vertical video and the video playback is so small. Like, we cannot really see the details here. How do we make it better? I'll give you a couple of recommendations. First of all, we'll drag our program to the right until we get the green pop up and then we'll just put it there. We'll customize it so that we get right before it becomes small. So just right around here, it doesn't have to be like 100% perfect. And then we'll dragon drop it like so. And so now, whenever we select our properties, we're able to customize the properties over here. We see the whole thing a little bit better. So if I delete the all social media zones, you can see, Please perfectly. By the way you can start playing is you can press on space and it's going to start playing or you can press over here and it's going to stop or start to play. And let's say in the future, you want to add more panels, let me show you kind of what I always work with. So if I go into the vertical workspace, something I have saved, have my effect here, I have premiere composer here, something we'll talk about in one of the future videos. See, I have a lot of panels have the effects, metric, source, text, graphic templates, and special sound. So I have a lot of panels in one workspace. The way I prefer to work is if there's no need to go into one extra workspace to have to click here and then search for it over here, if it's something quick, I can do most of the changes over here. And basically, what this is is, for example, the metric color is just the color workspace. Essential Sound is the audio workspace. Text and graphic templates is the same as the captions in graphics. So you can see I have kind of one workspace where I do most of the work. And if I have to go into another workspace to take a look at more panels, then yes, I'll go there, but most of the time I just have it here. Let's take a look effect controls, effect essential sound, graphic templates, metric color, properties, source monitor texts, and tools. This is everything I have enabled for this one workspace. So let's say I want to add something, I will go into Window and let's say I want to add little metroscopes, for example, it's going to just pop up. It might not pop up exactly over there. So it might like it might go flying, and I would just go ahead and drop it there. And if I'm tired of having it, just again, right click, close the panel, and it's good to go. Just a quick tip that will save you a lot of time in the future. Go ahead and save your workspace like this, and then go ahead and click on the workspaces and save as new workspace. Give it a name, and it's going to appear over here. And then you can go ahead and edit the workspaces and you can kind of move them around. So, for example, if I want, I can put the vertical workspace at the very top, and it's going to be the first one over here, as you can see, and I can edit and move it back to where it was, and it's not going to be at the top anymore, right? So you can save the preset, customize it, and it's just always going to be there. If you have any questions, let me know, better than that, I'll see you next video. 8. Timeline Basics: Cutting, Trimming, and Editing Efficiently: In this video, we'll talk about the timeline fundamentals. The timeline is what we have at the bottom where we have our clips. The way we work with the timeline is we have our tool bar here at the left. Let me introduce you to it. So we have our selection tool. This is the one that we've been using. Then we have track select forward tool, rolling edit tool, razor tool, slip tool, pen tool, rectangle tool, or shape tool, hand tool type tool. And you will see that at the end, there is a shortcut, for example, for the selection tool at the very end. Like where it says the selection tool, at the end, there's letter. For this one, there's letter A. N C Y P, rectangle tool doesn't have a shortcut. Hand tool doesn't have a shortcut. Type tool is If I select the Type tool, and I can either click here, or while I have the selection tool selected, I can press on T and it's going to select the text tool. The type tool. Now, by just clicking over here, I can write something on the screen, and then you can press on V to select the selection tool, and then I'm able to select our text and move it around like so. If I select the track select Forward tool, it's going to select everything to the right of the cursor. So, for example, if I select it here, it's going to select everything to the right, including the file that is hovering above. But if I select it to the right, it's only going to select everything that's to the right. And you can see our text is a little bit to the left. So that's why it's not selected. The reason we're doing this is because let's say we have 100 cuts like SO, and we want to move everything. That's, let's say, just this part. But sometimes you are not able to select it easily like SO. And so you would press on A, and you would move everything to the right. We have our rolling Ed tool which helps us to kind of move the transition in between to move between the cuts. So for example, we have our cut over here, and we can just hold it and drag it and move it a little bit to the right. Or let's select it. Actually, move it, move this go. Whenever we have an empty space like this, we can just select it. It's going to highlight in white, and then we can press and delete and it's going to just move this clip to left and also going to move everything that's to the right of the clip also to the left. So let's take a look I'm going to press Camand you can see everything moved to the right. But now, if we delete it, everything moves a little bit to the left. And now we can see there's a little bit of, like, a cut here. So by pressing on N or selecting the tool, we can select it and then move the transition a little bit, and there you go. Now, the razor tool, we're able to cut with the razor tool. So, for example, we don't have a cut here. We can just cut like 1 million times, and we are going to have these small cuts, and then we can move it to another layer, like, a little bit up. Then we have the slip tool. To be honest, I never, never, never use the slip tool because it's just we can kind of use it to slide footage a little bit to the front or a little bit to the back. So the length of the footage stays the same. But then we move the footage that's inside this layer. It's a little bit confusing, to be honest, never, never use it. With the pentol, we can draw something on the screen, right? We can draw, like, a line. And then if we go into properties, you'll see that we have interesting properties. And if we disable the field, enable the stroke, you'll see that we have a line lexo. And once again, the line is going to be 5 seconds long as well, just the same as the picture that you import. With the shape tool, I'm going to draw a rectangle by pressing shift, it's going to draw a rectangle. But if I don't press shift, I can create rectangle. So let's create a square, and we can see the stroke, but if we disable the stroke and enable the fill, we are going to have a fill. We can make it white, and it's going to become white. The hand tool is used to kind of just move around over here or move around over here, to be honest, never, ever use it. But it might be useful sometimes. And let's say you move it a little bit to the side. Like, so how do you make it back to the middle? Well, you can just press over here and press on feed, and it's going to fit the screen. Sometimes you might also want to just kind of zoom in or zoom out with your mouse. So, for example, with the scroll wheel, I'm going to just zoom out a little bit, and then I can press on fed as well. Or if you want, there's a shortcut. You just have to select this view, and then you have to well, let's zoom in a little bit. And then you have to press Option F or Alt F on Windows, and it's going to just fit the screen instead of going over here and pressing the feed every single time. So everything became a bit of a mess. I'm going to select this part and just press and delete, select this part, and press and delete. Come to the very beginning, whenever you zoom with Alt or with option and with the scroll wheel, it's going to zoom into whatever the cursor is. So if I zoom in to the right, it's going to zoom in to the right. But if I place it there, it's going to zoom in exactly over here, by the way, I just touched this part a little bit. We can press on Shift minus, press on Command plus, and Option plus is going to make it a little bit bigger, so you can customize the way it looks. Now, you can also put different markers by pressing on. So for example, I can come let's come here. We have a bit of a hiccup. And let's say I come over here and if you press on shift, it's going to stick to the cut, so it's going to be precise, and I'm going to press on M. You can see we have this marker that just appeared over here. And we also have our marker appear over here. We can see the timing of it, and we're able to visually just see it and know that, Okay, we have our marker there. Markers are useful, many situations. To be honest, I rarely use them, but sometimes in specific situations like once a year, it's going to become useful. And you can move things a little bit higher, a little bit lower. The clip that's on top, it's going to have more power. In other words, if I play something beneath, we are not going to see the clip that's beneath. We're only going to see the clip that's on top. So if I disable this clip, it's going to just show the clip that's below it. But if I enable the top clip, it's going to show the clip that's top. You can also create multiple tracks. So you can create multiple tracks by just dragging things over there like. And you will see that looks slightly weird here a little bit because we have smaller parts and we have bigger parts. I'll explain in 10 seconds. But you can create more tracks like so, or you can just right click and click on Add Tracks, and you can set the number of tracks you want to add, a number of video tracks, a number of audio tracks, or you can just drag and drop it a little bit you can also press Option and use the arrow keys to move clips up and down. It's going to be useful as well just to make sure things are precise. Sometimes you might lower it down, but then move it a little bit to the right and it's going to, for example, here, it's going to cut a little bit and it's going to cut our clip if we move it down. So to make sure it doesn't happen, you can move it with option and arrow keys up and down. Now let me walk you through the difference in the sizes here. We have small layers over here and we have, kind of, like, a big at the top. So whenever you open Premiere, it's going to be big automatically. Everything is going to be big. And it's not very convenient because you can see this line here. This is the opacity line. Opacity is just visibility or, like, how bright something is. So if I drag it down, the opacity is going to go into zero, and I don't like it. I would prefer to not have this line, and in order to not have it, you have to make your truck smaller, like so, or the same size as we have this one. So we can make it a little bit bigger. Problem with Premiere is that every single time you open Premiere or open your project, it's going to be set to default. So something I recommend you do is delete this for now, press on Shift plus Shift minus or just shift minus from the very beginning, Presson Command plus and Option plus or Old plus, and it's going to become this size. And we are actually going to save this as a preset. Now, make sure to just add more tracks so that, you know, when you go a little bit lower, there's more tracks and there's more tracks at the top, O, so that if we go a little bit high, it's a little bit bigger. And let's do exactly the same thing. Shift minus and let's do Command plus Alt or Option plus. Now we're going to go into this icon, and we're going to click on Save Preset. Just give it a name, and you can assign a shortcut here. You can create, for example, track height, preset ten and pressing ok. Just make sure to give it a name. Now, we need to go into Premiere and keyboard shortcut. And here's a shortcut for keyboard shortcut. I know there might be a little bit a lot for you. Just make sure to remember that keyboard shortcuts are going to be super useful and the way you can access them is by going here. So let's click on this button, and let's search for track height preset. I already have a number of shortcuts over here, so I'm going to scroll to let's say number ten, or for you, it's going to be number one. Just click over here and select a shortcut that you want there to be. So for example, K, J, or H. I probably had other shortcuts over here, but those were not useful, so I just put these over here. Now, let me quickly create another sequence. So that you can see. Let me drop it here, keep the existing settings. So just like we had in the very beginning, we have the opacity line, and we have the loudness line over here. Absolutely terrible. So now, because I have shortcut K, that's going to decrease the size of the tracks, I'm going to press on K. Unfortunately, this mix at the bottom, we still have to drag it up like so. But once you get used to that, just when you open Premiere, press on K, get this thing hire a little bit like so, and you'd be good to go. It's going to save you so much headache. Trust me, it was an eye opener, and I really recommend you do this. So go to Premiere, do this quickly. If you have any questions, let me know. But than that, I'll see you in the next video. 9. Cutting the Hook: Capture Attention in the First 3 Seconds: Welcome. In this video, we're going to start creating our first video, and specifically, we'll focus on the hook. The hook is one of the most important parts of the video because if your hook doesn't grab people, you lost them. You can hook people in many different ways. You can hook them with the idea. You can hook them visually. You can hook them with audio. You can hook them with text on the screen. And these are the main ones that you can hook people, and then you can break them down into more. But overall, these are kind of the main ones that we'll focus on. So let's jump to Premiere. I am going to click on Create New Project, and let's give it a title. This one is going to be called Marathon because I'll be telling a story about my marathon story. I'm going to choose location, going to go to desktop, and I'm going to create new folder, Marathon video. We have raw. This is going to be the project files that you will have access to as well. And I'm going to create another folder, and we'll call it PR and put in emoji. If you're on a MAC, you can press Control Command space and it's going to open the emojis and you'll be able to add them. If not, you can just search for them in Google as well. It's pretty fast. Let's create this and click going to go into the vertical workspace. In the raw files, you will find a couple of files. There's a recording, and there's footage. In the footage is everything I have from the marathon from running the actual marathon, and the recording is the audio that I've created. So we are going to select both, import both into our project. And I'm going to create the sequence. So click here, create sequence. Nine by 16 30 FPS works for us pretty well. And let's call the sequence Marathon Video and press now game. Great. I'm also going to press K right away so that the tracks become the right size. So I'm going to select our sequence, press on Shift B, and call it sequences. Great. So this is going to be the sequence. I'm going to select our audio and drop it in, zoom in it, like so, and let's listen. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I drained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. Press C to select the razor tool, cut here and cut here because this is the part that's good. I'm going to select this, press on led. Like the empty part, press and delete as well. Instead of just making a cut here and deleting it, I can just grab it where there is a cut when the cursor turns red, and I can drag it like this. You can see it shows with the red arrow which way I can drag it or let's say, which clip I'm going to drag. So this is going to be the right side, this is going to be left side, where press commands at and move everything. Or, once again, I can just press and delete. It's ready. But at kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Okay? Now I'm chasing Ns. Now I'm chasing SAP hours in November. Let's go. Okay, great. And now we just need this very part at the end. And don't need this part, and we get play this part. Okay, so let's listen. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. But at kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing SAP hours in November. Let's go. Okay. So here, this is going to be our Hook. And let me cut it. And by the way, we can right click and label it with some other colors. So, for example, with mango. This is going to be our hook. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Great. You can see we have this, little pause in the very beginning. I'm going to cut it because in the beginning, it's super important because we're trying to get the attention to people. We don't want there to be any just empty space. We can cut it even a little bit more, so you can see we have, like there's some sort of sound here. The like that, but we can cut it a little bit and start from when I say this. This is me. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. We're trying to grab people and tell a story at the same time because these two things are interconnected in order to book the viewers. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Let's go into our footage, and we want to find a file where I'm about to finish the marathon. There's actually a video of me running. So it's this clip, 8 seconds, 31 milliseconds, so I can double click on it. And it's going to appear in this pop up. And a couple of things we can do here. So we can instead of just dragging the whole video that's going to be long like this, we can, first of all, drag only the video or only the audio. Or we can drag both. If we click on the video, we can just drag both. Now, another thing we can do here is we can set the in and out points. And instead of putting the whole video in, we can only put a segment. So, for example, you can only start seeing me here. This is me running. So I'm going to select the in point and the outpoint, let's say, around here. And so instead of dragging the whole video, we're only going to drag the part that's set by the in and out point. So I'm going to drag the video like so. So let's take a look. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't have. Hmm. Actually, let's Okay. Let's start it like this. Like so. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it only marathon. So one of the important things is I'm trying to visually show whatever I'm speaking about. Here's some very important information. Some people say that, yes, you have to do that. Some people say you don't have to do it. And whatever information you search for, whatever confirmation you are searching for, you will find the confirmation online. So if you search for should the footage support the audio you will find the confirmation. Or if you search for should the footage not support the audio, you will find the confirmation of that. There are many approaches that work, and I'm just going to show you the best approaches that work that are the most logical ones. And then after that, once you get more experience and more practice, you will know what kind of style you're going for or your client style you're going for. I's going to become a little bit easier. In the very beginning, what matters is just practice. It's just so that you get so used to it, it becomes easy and almost like boring because if it's not easy, it's hard every single time. Probably also not going to be enjoyable, not sustainable. And you will find that, yes, a lot of the stuff is just so artistic, and this artistry is just it's so subjective all the time. What matters is just creating videos. Some of them will be better, some of them will be worse. Anyway, let's continue with our video. Just wanted to share that couple of thoughts. This is me finishing my very first marathon. Okay, so we can see me running. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Let me just cut this pose here, like so. And once again, select the Atol. Remember, everything that's to the right is going to move to the left, so I'm just going to drag it to the left. Happen. I dream for months. Right, hundreds of almost didn't happen. I dream for also, I don't want there to be long pauses people are just so hungry for their attention to be grabbed that we cannot afford long pauses. That's why the pauses are very short. It almost didn't happen. I drink for Smarthon, but it almost didn't happen. Let's take a look at the footage and see if there's anything that can support that. There's no footage supporting that in a way. So it's always better to have footage that supports, but we don't always have the footage. And I think it's going to be even it's going to play to our advantage to keep the screen black, and we will have some text later, like captions. I'm going to show you how to create those in a couple of videos. You can see this video is dynamic. Like, right away, we have some movement, and it's super, super important because if you don't have movement, it's just like static, doesn't really catch people. And we want to catch people in as many ways as possible. Remember that. What I want to do now is I want to create like a Zoom, and we can do a Zoom in an in two ways, let me select our clip, and let me show you. So if you're going into the Effects Control, we can scale our video up and down. We can move it around. And you will see that we have these stopwatch icons. These are our keyframe. So if I click on it, it's going to create a keyframe. Basically, if I move, like, let's say, a little bit later and I zoom in, it creates another keyframe and it tells that, you know, at this time at zero, it's going to be at 100 and at, let's say, like 1 second or eight frames, it's going to be 158 the Zoom, right? So let's go. This is me finish. It's like we are zooming in here. This is basically how the key frames work. So we can either do it on the layer itself, on the footage itself, or we can use something like an adjustment layer. An adjustment layer, we can do it by clicking on the new item and click on Adjustment layer and press came. The adjustment layer is going to be the same size as our composition. It's basically like invisible layer where we can apply different effects, and it's going influence everything that's going to be below the adjustment layer. Pressing okay. Actually, because I had the folder selected, it created it in the folder. So I'm just going to drag and drop it over here. This is the adjustment layer. I'm going to put it over here and let's make it like this long. And then if I go into the Effects control and I search for infect called transform, let me apply the transform infect onto the adjustment layer. And it's very similar, right? If I scale it's going to scale. You can see it scales a little bit weirdly. It's a hiccup of Premiere 25. But in order to avoid it, you know, scaling to, like, a different location, you just need to select defect. And then if you scale, it's going to scale perfectly. I can press on the scale keyframe and on the position keyframe, and we can be a little bit smart about this. This is our final position of this footage that we want to have, and I can move it a little bit later. And in the very beginning, we can really zoom in, and then we can move a little bit with the position to show me full scale and really show my, just the face enjoying life. I wasn't enjoying life. It was really painful. That's 42 kilometers or 26 miles. Took me 4 hours to run that. If we take a look, we'll see the Zoom. Happening. This is me finishing. This is me finishing web. Although you can see that I'm getting almost out of frame here, and something I would do is I can basically create another keyframe here either by pressing here, or if I start the movement, it's going to create a keyframe automatically. So I want to keep me in the center, and I'm going to do it like so. This is me finished. Okay, let's move me a little bit to the right. This is me finishing my. This is me finishing. It's a little bit jumpy, which is something I don't like, but the footage itself is kind of moving very fast and jumpy. One of the things that we can do is we can create lots of different keyframes for every frame, and it's going to become smooth. But the same time, it's going to take a lot of our time, and we need to think, do we really want to spend, like, 10 minutes animating every single frame? If not, then we need to understand that if we don't do it, it's going to make the video like 1% worse. But if we do it, it's going to take us, like an extra 10 minutes. Do we want that or not? But, yes, we can do and go through every single frame to do it. This is me finishing my This is me finishing my very first marathon. Okay, so I just moved the key frames a little bit. A lot of the times with keyframes, you just have to play around with it because it's not very easy all the time. But I think now it's kind of smooth. You can still see a bit of, like, movement, but nothing bad. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. One of the interesting things you can do with the adjustment layer is if you click on this button, use composition shutter, and we increase the shutter, we can maximally increase it to 360 degrees. You see what will happen. It's going to become a little bit blurry, but I don't want it to be that much. So let's try 180. This is me finishing my very first It works really well if we have just the Zoom because it keeps everything that's in the center sharp, but everything that's around it is going to become a little bit blurry and also creates this, like, very interesting motion blurry, so I can disable the effect. And you can see the kind of footage we have from the very beginning, right, if we had it like this. This is me finishing my very first marathon. Or if I enable this effect by clicking this button. This is me finishing my very first marathon. Because we're zooming in, we kind of are changing the perspective. That's why I was talking about that it's so subjective all the time because different people have different opinions, different views, like, different things. And one of the ways is done very well. And if you take a look, for example, at Mr. Beast or at a lot of the creators, in the very beginning, they're either zooming in or zooming out to really grab the people's attention. At the top, I want to create a text like in the very, very beginning. So I'm going to select our text. I'm going to disable the disec the adjustment layer by just clicking here. Or let's say, if you have something select, you can just press Shift Command A or Shift Control A. And let me write a text here. I'm going to select all the text, and I'm going to go into properties. I want to put a font called SF Pro, and we'll do it for now. I'll tell you more about the fonts later. I'm going to create background for it. I'm going to make the background fully visible. This is the transparency, as you can see. This is the size of it, and this is the roundness of it. Let me do it, like so and make it. I mean, we'll see. I'm going to decrease the phone size a little bit, make sure the text is positioned in the middle and let's try something like this. Let's actually change it. Let's make the text black and the background white. People always prefer bright rather than dark. Let me put it like so. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. And remember, we need to double check about the save zones. So I'm going to import the save zone, going to double click on it and drag it like so. So you can see, we actually don't see the whole text, and for that reason, select our text, go to the properties, and let's make it let's make it a little bit smaller. Okay. When I scroll on Instagram, there's going to be like I believe it's going to be a camera on the top left corner. So in this corner, it is transparent. And the fact that this text goes a little bit beyond the save zone, it's okay in this case. So if I disable it, this is what we have. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. So currently we have three ways that we are catching the viewer. We have the footage. We have the audio, and or we have kind of the story, and we have the text. And the very last one will be sort of like sound effect. So it's not the audio story, but it's like swoosh in the very beginning because we're zooming out this is me finishing. We could add something like a swoosh or wei. We can add, like a familiar sound, give a little bit extra in the very beginning. And on top of that, we'll also add captions a little bit later to this video, to the center of the screen. But for now, this is great for the hook. Although one thing I can probably do is make the text instead of regular. Let's make it like medium so that it's a little bit, like, more pronounced because it's, like, too thin here, so we just make it a little bit more pronounced. Other than that, great. Let's get into the next video, continue with the main part of the video and continue developing this video. If you have any questions, let me know, but add on that. I'll see you in the next video. 10. Building a Short-Form Story Step by Step: Let's continue editing our video. This time, we're going to focus on the middle part. We finished with the hook, and now we need to build, let's say, 3-21 seconds. So we need to build 18 seconds of footage. Let's listen to what we have next. I trained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought it was ready. I'm going to cut here a little bit, like so. Thought it was ready. But at kilometer 34, my body shut down. Let me cut this part as well. So I just spat up the video a little bit. Now, it's 19 seconds instead of 21, so I just cut 2 seconds of silences. I have a lot of running rol, and we can use a lot of it. I like one video here. Okay, so I like this video. I will just drag and drop it. I will put this video here as well. I ran for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought it was ready. But at kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. So let me select the footage of me running. Let's select like this part here. L et's make this video full screen. Let's zoom in to it, like so, move it a little bit to the side and see what we have. What happened? I trained for months. Run hundreds of rain for months. I trained for months. So this is going to be the first part. Then let me see about the marathon if there's data of me running for hundreds of kilometers. There's not, but, okay, we can say that Months. Run hundreds of kilometres. Cut it like so. Train for months. Run hundreds of kilometers. This is data from the marathon itself, and I think we can use it. We're going to use it because it shows, like, a lot of the big distance, and once again, I don't have all the footage. That's why we're using it. And let's add another clip of me running, so it's going to be this one Let's add it here like so. And one of the interesting things is, for example, I already zoomed on this video, so I'm going to click on Aft here. I'm going to click on Motion, and I'm going to press Command C or Control C, and I'm going to select this video, and I'm going to press Command V. Basically, what I did is I copied the motion of this video, the Zoom of this video, and I just pasted it on this video. And let's see where I'm running. I thought I was ready. So I would like to change the position of it slightly, keeping me in the middle. So I'm going to come to the first frame. I'm going to press shift to stick here. So you can see, once again, this arrowhead, the gray arrowhead that appears means that I'm sticking to it exactly. I'm going to set a position keyframe. I'm going to come forward in time. Actually, I'm going to come here, press and shift, and I'm going to press on the arrow key to the left so that I get to this latest frame. And I'm going to create another key frame around here. Let's see. Now we have it following us. I thought it was ready, but a kilometer 34 I think for the footage where I'm describing, like, how hard it is, it's going to be useful to use, like, the footage from people running during the marathon. So, for example, like, this clip here of people running, we can use a lot of it. Ready. But at kilometre 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit every step. Let me see what else is there? I'm just selecting footage and putting it to support the audio. Shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. I thought I was ready. But at kilometre 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. And then for the somehow, I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. I would love to select the actual results. So this is my information, and I'm able to just drag and drop it here. Just show that I actually finish the marathon, go to the effects control or to the properties, and I'm just going to change the position of it slightly like so. Impossible. Somehow. I pushed through the pain and cross the line. And in the very end, I would love to just kind of get a picture of me with the medal. Somehow? I push through the pain. Mm. Actually, here, I would love to get a picture of me like so. Me. Make it a little bit smaller so that Oh, I push through the paint and cross the line. Numb? Great. And here, at the very end, I want to add a picture of the marathon metal. So select it, go to the effect controls, make it a little bit smaller. And let's see what we have. I trained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. But at kilometre 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing Sap 4 hours in November. Let's go. I'm going to create a position skill keyframe and put it to the very beginning, and then I'm going to zoom in and actually, that's zoom in on my face because I look pretty tired. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. So you can somehow, now I'm chasing stuff for hours in a position scale here as well, so that it becomes a little bit more dynamic. Otherwise, it's not super dynamic and people will feel it. We want the video to be dynamic. It's always a good idea to add a little bit of Zoom makes the video just a bit more interesting to watch. Like, it adds that, like, 5% to 10% interest. It's really good, really good. So instead of it being just stable, what you are seeing here is just this video being stable all the time and you're just taking a look here. You don't want to repeat that on social media. Because with online courses, you come here to learn, and so you are okay with watching something just for a long time. This is why you are here. But with social media, people don't come there to watch me run a marathon. We are always fighting for people's attention, and it's our job to try to keep them watching for as long as possible because that's how you are going to get results and views. You want people to watch your videos for as long as possible. And if you do that, your video will go stratospherically viral. Let's take a look from the very beginning. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I drained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. But at kilometre 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing Sap 4 hours in November. Let's go. While I'm walking here a little bit, I want to use the video of every step felt impossible. Where I'm walking. You shut down. I wanted to quit. Every stem felt impossible. Somehow I shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Yes, I think this is a little bit better. I shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing stop 4 hours in November. Let's go. I think the Zoom here is a little bit too dramatic, so I'm going to click here, select these key frames, move them a little bit to the front, and decrease the Zoom a little bit so that it's little bit less. Somehow I push through the paint and cross the line. Now I'm chasing stuff for hours. Now, I would say it's better to actually use videos instead of photos videos are more dynamic. There is just more happening, so it's more interesting to watch. But because I don't have enough footage, I have to use the pictures. It's also like question of whether do we want to have no video because we don't have footage or whether it's okay to use, for example, pictures and get, for example, results that are a little bit less, but we still get the video out. I think it's better to get the video out than to have no video at all because we don't have enough footage. I almost never finished the video right away. After some time passes, I will know what to improve. Like, at this point, okay, I kind of worked on it for a little bit. My eye got a little bit blurry. I cannot see like, very well. It's a good idea to get some time off. And then in the future, when I come back to this video, let's say, like an hour later or 24 hours later or even a week later, I'm going to have a fresh eye, like a fresh mind. It's going to be easier to identify things to improve, things to change. That's what I think we should do. Now, I recommend you going to the downloadable resources, get all the footage, and then have a practice yourself. In the next video, we're going to work on the audio, on the color, on the text, and it's going to make our video a lot lot better. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 11. Cleaning Dialogue Fast: Remove Noise & Improve Clarity: Video, we will clean and improve our audio. When we come to Premiere, and we select all of our audio and we come to the sentral sound. And if you don't have it once again, go to Window and then Essential Sound. We are going to see this panel. It's basically the equivalent of going into the audio workspace. I rarely go into the audio workspace, but it's the central sound that's located over here. Basically, exactly the same thing. I do prefer to have it in the vertical workspace because just basically the same thing, it's a little bit easier for me to do it here. And there are a number of ways we can do this. Let me walk you through the options. First of all, you can enhance your speech. I recommend using this option you tried everything with the audio, everything we're going to try in a second, and nothing worked, and you just want something to work. Or if you want something like super fast, you don't want to tweak any of the settings, then yes, go ahead and click on that, but it's not the best. It's it's done with AI. So when you click on Enhance, it's going to take some time to enhance it, and then you can control the mixed amount. I found that seven is a little bit too much. You don't want to go above like five definitely. And when I used to use it, I would put it three and four. So if we take a look take a listen is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months. Run hundreds of kilometers and thought it was ready. But the kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Audio sounds like a lot different. Like, it's not my voice. And if I click on this button, I can disable it and we can take a look at the difference, at the same time. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months. Run hundreds of kilometers and thought it was ready. But the kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Sounds a little bit robotic, so that's why I don't really like it. At seven, it's a bit too much. If I put it at four or let's say three, becomes a little bit better. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Still doesn't sound good, and also you better ways to do it. That's why I would recommend disabling it. If we press on Automate, it's going to automag all the audio to the same level. It is useful. I use it quite often with my clients, especially because I don't want to kind of go through every single audio. And for example, if I click on the audio, I can press on G, and I can see the audio again, you can see that the B amplitude is at minus ten. So it means that in order for our audio to be like at zero to be like at the base level, we need to increase it by ten, let's say. And the audio match kind of works in some ways with that. So it makes the audio a little bit louder. It doesn't always make it, like, very loud, very good. And sometimes you have to select all the audio, press on G, and then add a little bit extra and do the auto match. Let select our audio, press on G, you'll see that the peak amplitude is -6.8 across all the audio. So we can increase the adjust gain by six. It means we're going to make it louder by 6 decibels. If we make it minus six, it's going to make it quieter by 6 decibels. So I'm going to press on six. I'm going to press on ok. And now our audio is a little bit louder, but it doesn't go over. These are the decibels that we can take a look at. We don't want it to go over zero because it starts to crack a little bit. So it can be very close to and with voice, you want it to be as close as possible to the zero, but make sure it doesn't go above zero because then starts to crack, loses quality. We don't want that. My workflow with the loudness and the automag, I press on automag and then I select it again and customize it a little bit further if I need to. A lot of the times I have to listen to it as well, just because I got, like, practice with thousands and thousands of videos. I just got trained and sometimes it's just a little bit easier for me to understand even when I hear it rather than seeing the data. The repair tab is really good because a lot of the times, for example, when I receive footage from my clients, they like to record their videos outside in nature when there is wind and reducing noise, if there is some sort of noise, it really helps. So I usually put it at, like, let's say one because if I go further, it becomes a little bit too much. It changes the audio of the client too much. And then they mentioned to me a couple of times that they don't sound themselves. Totally understandable, and then I had to dial it back down a little bit. Another great one is reverb. If there's an echo, you can reduce echo by using this. Rumble reduces the low frequency sounds. Honestly, never use it. Dham also never use it. So it reduces the hum sounds caused by electric interference. Yes, it can be done, but parents never have problem with that. So if you ever have problem, you can use it, Des reduces harsh es like sounds. Clarity sometimes is good to use it, but once again, very rarely use it. In terms of the EQ and these presets, I do not recommend using it. If you're going for a specific effect, for example, like on a telephone, if I select it. Possible. Somehow I push through the pain. It's like an old radio. If you're going for an old radio, you can use it, but I don't use it, and then you can customize a couple of things here even further. But let me show you one very good way to customize audio. So you can do it here. It's okay. It's like the average. But if we want, really good results, we need to go into the Effects Control panel and search for parametric equalizer, not simple parametric Q, but parametric equalizer. I'm going to put it on our audio, and I'm going to come to defect control, and I'm going to click on custom setup. I'm going to click on vocal enhancer, and it's going to enhance my voice a little bit. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers. Makes it super crisp, adds a little bit of, like, buzz at certain points, just enhances the audio. And then what you can do is you can and I know it sounds it looks like a little bit weird, but you can customize it even further. So, for example, you can customize to where some certain things like go up or go down. You kind of move things around. A lot of the times, I just apply it and I don't touch it. Like, that's the secret. Just apply it. Don't touch it. And then if you want to customize the audio, go into the essential sound if you really need to customize the audio, reduce noise, reduce reverb, super useful enhancement, don't touch it. It's for those times where I have to work on the audio. But sometimes the audio is so good. Like, if the audio was recorded like indoors, for example, sometimes there is no need to touch it. And the only way you will learn on when to touch the audience, when not to touch it is just with practice and experimentation. If you are scared about working with clients and you feel like, What if I don't do it and they feel that I didn't do it, I think in the very beginning, a lot of people get a little bit, like, too self conscious about this, and then you have to just ask yourself. Is the video, good? Can everybody hear what I'm saying? If yes, then great. But if not, okay, customize a couple of things, but this shouldn't feel like a burden. We are creating a video. It should be exciting. It may be stressful in a couple of the very first videos, but other than that, let's have some fun. Let's experiment, see what works, see what doesn't work. The only way you can become better is by practicing. So for this video, I'm actually not going to touch it any further. It doesn't need any repair. It needs the parametric equalizer, actually. So I'm going to go into the effect control, and because I applied just to this audio clip, it's important to copy it. So I'm going to press Command C. Select all the other audio clips and press on Command V. And now, if I select it, these ones are going to have it as well. I know there was quite a lot of information. Let me just quickly recap. Once again. Let's go to the essential sound. When you have your audio, press on G and see the pick amplitude and make sure to set you again no more than the Pi amplitude. But close to it so that the audio is close. Like, I could have said it to five. Won't be a problem, but I said to six because it's closer. So it will be a little bit louder. That's the first thing. Second, if you need to repair the audio, then repair it. If you don't need to repair it, don't touch it. And if you want that extra bit of improvement, set the parametric equalizer, go to the custom setup and set the vocal enhancer, it's going to make your voice sound just a little bit better. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 12. Adding Music & Sound Effects to Short-Form Videos: In this video, we'll talk about music and sound effects. And specifically, we're going to talk about the two websites. One is Epidemic Sound, the other one is called Pixi Bay. Epidemic Sound is paid version, and Pixi Bay is absolutely free. Long story short. Paid option is definitely better. In my opinion, Epidemic Sound is the best platform for music and sound effects for creators or for anybody who wants to get professional music. And sound effects. Why is that? Well, the first reason is because Epidemic Sound focuses solely on music and sound effects. There are other platforms like Invato, Art list, motion array. Even though those are still great websites because they are more spread out into footage, into templates, motion graphics, all sorts of stuff, those are really, really good at that thing. But if we're talking the best of the best in terms of the music, that's Epidemic Sound. The second reason for that is because let's compare it to Pixie Bay. Well, Pixi Bay is free. Epidemic Sound is paid. They have the budget to work with professional artists, where with Pixi Bay, even though there are still some really good songs, still some really good sounds, there's also a lot more just trash. A lot of the stuff is created with AI. A lot of the stuff is created by amateurs. And even though there's, like, a really, really good person, which let me show you. It's Lexing music really recommend unbelievable songs. You can come to this page and explore. Even though it's great, there's still, like, a lot of stuff which is just not good. While with Epidemic Sound, whatever song you click on, it's going to be great quality, no doubt. In terms of the sound effects, as well, so let me walk you through quickly through both websites. First of all, let's start with Pixabay. So when you come to this website, it's going to look like this. By the way, all the links are in the resources section, and you can search for, for example, like, a search for violin. And let's search for it. Then you can change what do you search for? So, for example, we search for music, violin. I'll search for music, and then we have violin. Let's take a listen. And then you can change whatever you want. The most relevant editor's choice trending latest, if we put latest, I'm sure there's going to be a lot of AI, and there is. So this one says that was created by artificial intelligence. And even though sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not great. You get the idea, then we can go into sound effects, and, for example, we can search for UI. Lots of interesting sounds. And this is what you get with Pixel Bay. Now, when it comes to epidemic sound, you have your homepage, but one of the best important things I like about Epidemic Sound is the music tab, because you have your genres here at the top, you have your moods. And my favorite, if you scroll down, you have your themes here at the bottom. So, for example, if we let's go for comedy, I'm going to open the New Tab reality TV pranks. Listen. Really good. For example, for my clients, because they are in the travel niche, I can just come to the Travel, for example. And then from the travel, I can select whatever works best. So, for example, like, exploring or, like, let's do festival season. Let's click on it. And you can see I've downloaded some of the songs from here. I feel like music is very important, not just for the viewers and for the clients, but it's also important for the editors, because if you work with the music that you really, really enjoy, it's just you enjoy it a lot more. And oftentimes when I work with Epidemic Sound, I'm just, you know, I start dancing, even though I'm just alone in my room and with my headphones and editing free clients, and I'm just I start dancing, and I think it's so interesting. For example, like, I absolutely love the song. I use it quite a lot with my clients. Yeah, so that's in terms of the music. Really recommend you exploring the themes. I mean, you can still explore artists and take a look. Just explore the whole website. By the way, there's also plug in. So, for example, for premiere for After Effects, for audition for DaVinci, there's also an app, as you can see here, IRS and Android. I really recommend you to just go ahead and give it a try. In the resources section, there's going to be a 30 day free trial. If you want to give it a try, once again, if you don't want, you can just cancel 29 days after and I just really, really recommend it to give it a try and to get some professional tools started. If you don't like it, you can use the free option, but trust me, it's so worth it, I really recommend it. Now, in terms of the sound effects, because they already have it, like, sorted out. But if you want to search for something specific, like, for example, let's search for, like, door open. Right. Sure. Or let's search for, like, Swoosh. I downloaded so many swooshes from this webs It's unbelievable. So swoosh is actually something we need to use in the very beginning of our video. So since I've downloaded this one, let's give it a try. Let's download this one. When it comes to sound effects and editing the video with sound effects, you just want to support the video with the audio. If there's something that appears on the screen, you want to support that with the sound. If it's, like, a lot of the back to back cuts, you might want to support that with some sort of, like, clicks so that's like, it's fast. People really enjoy it. So whatever's happening on the screen, you want to make sure it has some sort of sound. Now, if in one moment in 1 second, you need to use like 20 sounds, it's a bit too much, so you want to cut some of the sounds and prioritize what's the most important. But oftentimes that doesn't happen. There's also no specific way on how often you want the sounds to be. For example, for this video, let's take a look. We have our Zoom here in the very beginning and then then we have this part. Then what else do we have? Then there's When we have the pictures, we can add, like, sound effects here, but other than that, throughout the whole video, I don't think we need to add any sounds. Actually, let's search for, like, maybe riser. Okay, I'm going to use this riser. This one is pretty good. It's just to add a bit of tension at the very beginning. So we're going to put it here at exactly this cut. So let's come to the project. Let's import two of our sounds here. Let's do this one, and let's do this one. So we have our riser. And I'm going to cut come exactly at this part. And I'm going to press on out. Why am I doing this? It's Because when I drag it, I said, Look, instead of me having to, like, search for this part and cut it here, what I can do is I can just drag and drop it and then drop it, like here. But it almost didn't happen. But it almost and I'm going to select it and press on G, press to let's say -20, just to make it a little bit lower, less loud. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months. I'm going to mute the audio by pressing here, mute this whole track, the one that has audio here. Or what I can do is instead of muting this one, I can select this solo track here. So it's basically the same thing. But let's say we have a couple of audios and I want to listen to just this one, then I need to press on solo. But if we have, let's say two, I can just mute the top one, and I'm going to hear just the bottom one. Pretty good. Now, let's see. What else do we have? Swoosh in the beginning. Okay. So let's use the third one, come to the very beginning, drop it in. This'll be finishing my. This I'll be finishing. This push is a lot faster than our Zoom. Let's give it a try. I'm going to select the adjustment layer and press Shift Command E or Shift Control E, and I'm going to disable this adjustment layer. And I'm going to put another adjustment layer on top and enable it. Basically, by pressing Shift Command E, I'm just making it invisible and I'm making the one at the top visible. What I want to do is I want to try and experiment and really zoom out in the very beginning. Potentially increase this as well to something like this. Let's do 180 and see what happens. This is me finishing my This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Let's see what we prefer. Do we prefer the very fast zoom with the switch or do we prefer, like, a slower Zoom? This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Let's disable the adjuster and disable the audio and enable this adjuster. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Mm. Interesting. Actually, I think I prefer the adjustment layer with the ssh. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. And then for music, actually, let's go to traveling to the festival and download the song that we listen to this one. Okay, so let's download it. Come to Premiere, and I'm going to drop it here as well. You can see the audio forms, and you can kind of see at different points what kind of sounds you're going to have. So for example, here, we're going to have lots of different sounds, and it's going to be like the mix of the mix, it's going to be, like, a lot of instruments or everything put together with the most active part of the song. But, for example, here, it's going to be a little bit less. So I can kind of go with the playhead and put it to different places. Once again, it comes with experience, but something I would like to do in the very beginning is this bit here because there is no melody, and it kind of adds a little bit of that kind of pressure, which is what we're trying to build in the very beginning of the video, doesn't always have to be, but it's an interesting place to start with. Another way that we can approach this is we can use, for example, like this part over here, a part that goes from kind of the beginning of the song to the full mix. So let's listen here. We go from less active to more active. And usually when there's this cut, this point here, I like to put it at a cut somewhere. So, for example, what we can do is we can put it. Let's find the place where it starts. I'm going to press on I. Come a little bit to the front, press on O. Basically, the in and out points. This is going to be the shortcut I on the keyboard, and at the end, it's going to be O. Drag and drop it. The reason I select just a small portion is so that let's say, it's going to be until the very end. Let's say, like so. And then the drag and drop, and then it becomes, like, very long. That's why I don't want that. I want there to be, like, a point of the cut, and then I can drag and drop it and extend it. You can hear it's very loud and obviously you cannot hear me. One thing that we will do is we will go to presets. I'm going through how to save presets in second, and I'm going to apply this lower music for voice. And it's very useful because it's a simple parametric cue that lowers the highs of the music so that it doesn't compete with my voice or with your client's voice. And the way you do this is you apply a simple parametric cue. Let's search for it. It's this simple parametric cue. What you do is you just drop it over here. Or you drop it on our audio file at the bottom. And then just go ahead and copy these settings, 13604, and -18. And then when you apply these settings, right click Save Preset, give it a name. In my case, it's lower music for voice so that I can easily identify it and then press on Okay. And it's going to save your preset into the presets panel over here. And then you'll be able to just find it here, drag and drop it, and apply it. And that's how you can save presets. If you have a couple of different changes, for example, on the video, you might add like black and white filter. You might add like transition at the very beginning, you can select all the effects, that would be selecting, for example, opacity, motion, once again, right click Save preset, you're going to save it and it's going to be saved there. It's going to save you a lot of time in the future. Now that I applied it, it's still going to be very loud. Let's listen. Thought I was ready. But we can already hear myself a little bit so that the highs are not as high. Now, I'm still going to lower the loudness. I'm going to press in G, and let's press to -20. It's the equivalent of going to the level and just decreasing the level over here or increasing the level, but I just get used to pressing G, and that's why I'm pressing G to lower the music. O M 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing stop for hours in November. Let's go. Let's add music in the very beginning. So I'm going to come to the project. I'm going to select our song, and like I told you, I'd like to explore this part. Let's listen. I'm gonna select it and put it. This is finishing a first month, but it almost didn't happen. I drained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers. A lot of different stuff happening here. This has been finishing my very first marathon but it almost didn't happen. I drew for months, right? When we have this riser end, I'm going to end the music as well. The reason I'm doing this is because I want there to be like, quiet, like a bit of pressure. If you think about the video, you want it to be sort of, like, in waves where, yes, sometimes there's pressure, but then you decrease that pressure. And actually, we have this sort of pressure in the very beginning where we have the riser, we have the swish, we have this sort of beat like pump pom pom, pom, pom. And then for this part, for a second, it's going to be just quiet. And once again, comes just with experience with experimentation, and you want to give people not pressure all the time. You want to give them waves so that they are like a roller coaster. Now, I'm going to select this one, and I'm going to actually, let's select this audio clip, come to the Effects Control panel, copy the lower music for voice, and we can apply it here. So instead of going to the Effects Control panel, we can just copy it from the effects from the other music clip. Let's lower it by, let's say, minus ten, and let's listen. This has been finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months, run hundreds of kilometers. Too quiet, actually, let's let's give it ten, and listen. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. But at kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow, I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. I'm going to apply this transition in a way here so that it doesn't create, like, this loud transition sound. So sometimes, when the audio clip is just cut, when there's some sort of loud point, it's going to make like this, like, and I don't like it. That's why if we create, like, this little transition is going to get rid of that. So let me give you an example. I'm going to copy this, and I'm going to cut it and Now I'm Chase is in November. I cannot really hear it, but let's imagine these are two audio clips that we put together. And because they transition not on a quiet sound, but on the loud sound, there's going to be a very annoying noise. And if I click in between those, apply default transition, it's basically transition between different audio files, and then I make it super small. I can also just double click on it and set the duration. It's going to become super super small. Now I'm Chases in November. It's going to be absolutely smooth, but I'm going to delete it. At the end of the video or at the end of the segment of the video, I like to use, like, the end of the song, for example, here. Sounds beautiful. Let's take this part. I'm going to press on. Oh, the end part, like, the very, very end, doesn't really matter because usually, like, becomes quiet. And we just need to find the part that's before the end. And here, I wouldn't want to take, like, the part that's the high. I would like to take the part that's sort of, like, low, so sort of like a valley and going to mark it out. And we'll see maybe we need to use it here after the very loud sounds are gone, and then there's just like relaxation at the end. So let's try with this part, go to the Effects Control panel, copy it, copy the simple parametric Q, paste it here, press on G -20. Let's listen. I cross the line. Now I'm chasing Stub for hours in November. Let's go. Let's apply a default transition. We can also press Shift Command D to apply it. It's shortcut, make it super small. Let's listen. Make it a little bit bigger. You can see the sounds start repeating, and so that's why I'm not going to make the transition long like here. Sounds weird. So we need to make it super small. What if we cut it basically to this point over here and listen. I just made the transition a little bit smoother. What I did here is, if you listen, you can kind of hear that the song is rising. There's like three beats tune, tune, tune. Let's listen again. And again, after the third one or after the fourth one, I just lower it down, create the small transition, and that's how you mix the audio. There's no, like, secret ingredient that you have to use. It's just experimentation, making sure it doesn't sound like weird. The audio doesn't compete. The way you can do this is literally by just moving the audio around slightly, then you'll be able to do it. So let's listen to the whole video. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. But at kilometre 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing stop for hours in November. Let's go. Now, one thing I will say, sometimes I send the video to my phone, make sure it sounds properly because in different devices it sounds different. And in headphones or earphones, it will sound different compared to well, two headphones or earphones compared to each other or compared to a laptop, compared to a phone. And so sometimes I try to hear it in different devices. Oftentimes, when you create a system and you know the amount of loudness or the kind of sounds to use, then you don't necessarily have to do it. But sometimes you do have to do especially when you're getting started. When you are getting started, it's a little bit overwhelming because you have to do extra because you don't know how to do stuff. You don't have enough experience or you don't have enough knowledge, and then you have to experiment. And yes, I know it's a little bit too much in the very beginning. That's why I'm trying to make it as simple as possible. I know that's a lot. It's just something we have to go through if we want to become great. Let's do a quick recap. If you are just getting started or you have very little budget, I do recommend pixie B. If you have a bit of a budget, take a look at Epidemic Sound or just give it a try. Once again, 30 days for trial in the resources section. Then when it comes to premiere, you want to make sure that whatever happens is supported by the sound. If there's something appearing on the screen, or there's, like, text or transitions, you want to support it with the audio. And then for the music, you want to follow a progression of the story. So usually in the beginning of the songs, there's, like, a beginning part. So that's something you can use in the beginning of the video. In this case, this video is slightly different because our intro is so short, we couldn't necessarily use the beginning of the song. We had to use middle, which is kind of similar to the beginning, because if we just take a look at this highlighted part kind of resembles the how this phone is created. It starts slow and then grows up to be fast. So sort of similar. Instead of using this beginning, we used this beginning in the way. For the middle part, you want to use the most exciting part, and then for the end, you want to use the end. Something I recommend you to do now is go ahead and try it and do a video. But actually, before we do that, remember I told you that for the pictures, we can add a specific sound effect. Well, let's search for actually, let me show you how Pixie By works. Let's search for, like, photo sound effect. Let's search for camera sound effect. Okay, one of the disadvantages of Pixi Bay, sometimes it doesn't play the audio, like what's happening currently. So we have like camera shutter. I'm pretty sure this will be okay. So I'm going to click on Download. By the way, you can read the licensing of the Pixabay over here. You want to make sure you adhere to these licensing. It's free to use. You don't have to attribute the author. You can modify it however you want. Recommending you to double check it. Now that we've downloaded the sound effect, let's drop it in. Okay. The whole sound is a little bit too long, so I'm going to use just a part of that sound. Let's use, like this part. And let's drop it here, here. I'm going to copy it, paste it here and here. Somehow I push through the pain. I cross the line. Now I'm chasing sub and I would make it just a lot quieter to, like, say, -20. Well, it's impossible. Somehow. I push through the pain. I cross the line. Now I'm chasing sub for hours in November. Great. Simple. But the audio supports the video, making it a little bit more engaging. Now it's time for you to practice. So go ahead and do that. If you have any questions, let me know better than that. I'll see you next video. 13. Auto-Captions Made Easy in Adobe Premiere Pro: In this video, let's talk about captions, specifically Auto-Captions and how to make your life a little bit easier. Something you've previously seen is we have the text panel and we have our transcript here. And before we create our captions, it's great to take a look at the transcript. And one thing I recommend you do is to just go ahead and start playing the video and check the captions. Let's go ahead and do that. This is me finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. I trained for months, run hundreds of kilometers. And here, instead of running, ran hundreds of kilometers. Run hundreds of kilometers. You can just double click and it's going to select a specific word that you're selecting. Kilometers and thought I was ready. And thought I was ready. I was ready. But at kilometre 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the pain, and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing sub for hours and above. Now I'm chasing sub 4 hours in November. Now I'm chasing stuff for hours in November. Let's go. Great. Now, in order to create captions, we need to go to the top right corner, click on the three dots here and create captions. And let me give you a couple of settings. First of all, you have lines. You have either single lines or double lines. Basically, if caption is going to be like, on one line or on two different lines, so a little bit higher, a little bit lower. It depends on the kind of style that you're going for. I would say if chill. You can use two lines and, like, long sentences, but something that works really well on social media has been working for the last five years, or even more short from content specifically. It's going to be the single line. And then you can customize the number of characters. The number of characters is how long how many characters are going to have like on one line. If you want to have multiple words, you can leave it at roughly like 42, or you can make it even more to, like, maximum. But if you want to have, like, one word per line, so that it's just one word after the other, you need to minimize this to the minimum, which is seven. And then when you create the maximum length in characters, Simon is just going to be one word after the other. So something I do recommend you do. So let's create captions, and let's take a look. And you can see at the bottom, I have one word after the other. Sometimes I'm going to press Command Zt and create captions again. Let's do single line, and let's do, let's say, 42. You see that we have longer sentences. And it's also broken down here. You can see it here at the top. We have these sentences, so I can select one sentence and then just either customize here by pressing T and customize it. But I'm going to press and Commands, create captions from transcript, minimum single create captions. And we are going to have word after word. You can see we have a lot more of these captions. These captions are specifically like the timing is absolutely perfect. So **** listen. This has been finishing my very first marathon, but it almost didn't happen. Now, I'm going to select all the captions and I'm going to go into properties. And here we are going to customize our text. In terms of the funds, there are two types of funds. There's personal funds, and there's corporative funds. So, for example, one of my favorite fonts ever is Tasca, and you are free to download this font online. This is what this font looks like. I just I looks great, in my opinion. Now, there's also something like SF Pro, which is a font by Apple. And if I use it, it looks different. It doesn't look corporative. It looks more personal. It looks more just human like. Before, I used to prefer corporative, but now I prefer the personal fonts. This something I would use. Now, something we can do as well is if we go back into text. You can see that we have punctuation here. And if we don't want to have punctuation, we can easily get rid of that. So in the captions, this is the transcript. This is the transcript of our audio and the captions is what we have created here. So if I delete this, you can see it's going to disappear. Sometimes people confuse this. So transcript is basically transcript of the audio and captions is exactly what you have over here. Now, if we search for, let's say, comma, we can replace it with nothing. And we replace comma with nothing, it's going to disappear. Take a look. We have two commas. I'm going to say replace all and it's going to replace all commas with nothing. So it just disappeared. The same we can do with period. We have nine periods, and I'm going to replace all. And so now I'm going to have captions with no commas. Next thing. I'm going to go into properties again and we can select the zone of where it's located. It's at the top, at the bottom, in the middle. Usually, it's good to put it in the middle, but you want to make sure it doesn't obstruct the main things of whatever you have on the screen. Let's take a look. I would actually lower it down a little bit, maybe like here so that first of all, here it doesn't like abstract my face. So Okay, great. Then we can customize the words themselves. So we have shadow at the moment. If I disable it, the words are a little bit harder to see. So I do recommend shadow. But one thing I recommend about the shadow is, first of all, move this thing to zero. Basically, it's like the place of the shadow. It's going to be right behind our text. The angle doesn't matter, the opacity to 100. And then here at the end, this one is going to be the size. We can leave it roughly as is. And then we need to increase this part a little bit so that our shadow, let me zoom in here so that instead of our shadow being like this, we can make it like this so that there's shadow around our text or it's like a dark glow around our text. Press option. Actually, maybe we need to just a little bit more so that we don't really see the shadow. The text is just better visible. Let's see before, basically without shadow and with shadow. It's better with shadow because we can see the text a little bit easier. And then we can customize the text even more. So for example, if we want only to have caps, we can set this and it's only going to have caps, but I do not prefer that. And from what I've seen, working best is to have regular sentences. You can customize it even further. You can even create a background for your text. So something we can do is just increase the background, something we did in the very beginning here with this text here. We can do it here as well with the background, increase it, increase the roundness, and it's going to be like this. The stroke, usually, I prefer not to use it. It's like having almost like a shadow. In my opinion doesn't look professional and I like to disable it, but some people like it, so it's not a problem at all. And then you can save stiles. The way you can save stiles is by pressing here on the plus sign and create a style. And you can save it to the locals style. You can give it a name. Basically, the style that you save here is going to be you click here in the style browser, here you will have different styles. This is a style for my clients, another style for my clients. This is style for myself something I used to do in the past, and once again, client, client and client. So a lot of different options for my clients. So this is the way you can save it over here. Press on plus and create a style. You can save it to your project. It's going to be saved in your project here, but I don't like to save it. I like to just save it over here so that you know, why would I want to keep it here? I want to just keep it there to keep it organized. Next thing, we can increase the font size a little bit. I don't like to make it huge. And that's how you do it. This is me finishing my very first mark, but it almost didn't happen. I dreamed for months, ran hundreds of kilometers and thought I was ready. But at kilometer 34, my body shut down. I wanted to quit. Every step felt impossible. Somehow I pushed through the paint and crossed the line. Now I'm chasing sup for hours in November. This is how you do captions. Super easy. If let's quickly go through it again, first of all, go into the text. Go through the transcript, make sure the transcript is great. Click on three dots, create captions. Then we go into captions, search for commas, search for periods, delete those. If you want to get rid of that, if you want to keep it, you can keep it, go into properties, customize it, click on the plus, save it as you style, and then anytime you want to apply it, just select it and click on the style and apply it. Right now, we have our captions as captions, but we can turn them into graphics, and it's a subtle change, but sometimes useful. So for example, here in the very beginning, we have our jasmine layer, and you can see that text is not affected by the adjustment layer because it's captions, it's on top of everything, and you can see it over here. Like it's on top. There's nothing above it. But something we can do is we can come to captions graphics after we select our captions, upgrade captions to graphics. Let me so and put the adjustment layer on top of that. And you can see that we actually don't see the texts over here. And now the text, because it's acting as a graphic, basically text on the screen, but it's below the adjustment layer. It is affected by the adjustment layer. And one advantage of that is you can use the adjustment layer to influence it. We can still select it, go into properties, and we can still kind of customize it. But it's an extra step you have to do to go into the graphics, upgrading to source graphic. Instead of doing that, I just always leave it as captions, like here at the top. It's okay that it's not affected by the adjustment layer. That's kind of the only reason that I know of to upgrade captions to graphics, or if you want to do some other effects, that's totally fine, as well. If you want the easy route keep it at the top. Don't upgrade it. If you want to make sure you can adjust it, yes, sometimes there is a need for that. Go ahead and upgrade it. Other than that, just keep it there at the top. Now it's your time to do it. Open up the project, go ahead and create the captions. If you have any questions, let me know, but add than that, I'll see you in the next video. 14. Essential Graphics & Branding Elements for Social Videos: In this video we'll explore essential graphics and branding elements. When it comes to branding in videos, you just want to make sure that things are repeatable. You don't want to reinvent the wheel every single time. So it means you use the same font, you use the same graphics, you use the same style, the same pacing, the same kind of theme, idea. You don't want your videos to be dramatically different from each other. You want your videos to be similar. And how people can easily identify that it's you by that consistency, if in the beginning of the video, you always have like some sort of text, where you have some sort of sound in the very beginning or if you have your face in the very beginning, right? So if you take a look at Mr. Beast, it's always him in his videos. And you know his face, they use the same phones, they use similar music, similar effects. That is branding, and that is consistency. And Essential Graphics or graphic templates are closely connected to branding because oftentimes the way it's done is, for example, with text. And I want to show you how to use the graphic template. So for example, in the very beginning, I have this text here at the top. Instead of me having to create this text every single time, customize it so that it looks like this, changing the position, so that it goes there, can actually save it as a template. So what we have to do is we have to go to the graphic templates, and here we will have our templates. Now, in order to save our graphic as a template, we need to select our text or we need to select our graphic. Basically, this layer is a graphic. And we can have more than just text there. I'll show it to you in a second. So, for example, I'm going to right click Export as Motion graphic template. If you ever heard the word Mgurd, that's motion graphic template. So if you select your graphic, right click Export as Motion graphic template, you need to change the destination where you want there to be. By default, you're going to have the local template folder, so you can save it there and I'll show you in second how to customize that later. Include o preview good idea because it's going to preview, like you can see in the background, have some other template there. Let's call it like text at the top, and we'll save it to local Graphics template. Okay, and I'm going to press Okay. If I go into the local Graphics template, we will see that there's this text at the top, and I can drag and drop it, and you can see that it's just going to be on the screen. Now, I don't have to press on text, create it, and go through the whole process. And then we can go ahead and right click Revealing Finder, and I'm going to see where it is. Yes. So text at the top Mgort the way we can delete them is we can delete them from here. Times it crashes premiere if you do it like this, or you can right click and then delete it as well. Let's copy this text by selecting it, pressing option, and dragging it to the new location. So if you go into the properties, you see that this is our kind of graphic layer, and we can actually add more here. So we can have a couple of texts. So second text. You can see it edited as another layer in the graphic layer. So if I was to save this, Export, it would have two texts. If you want to delete this one, just select it, press and delete, and it's going to delete it. Now, one interesting thing that you can do here is come to the new layer, and we can add from file. And if we were to search for, let's choose it like a checkmark. It's going to add a checkmark, and if we select it, it's going to be here as well, right, as another layer within the layer. We can have custom graphics. We can actually save, like, full screentots which is somewhat useful as well sometimes. We can save animations as well. Let me delete this one. And let's say we were to animate the position. So let's put a keyframe here. Come to the very beginning and let's get it out of the screen. So let's have it like this. It's going to appear. And actually, one thing as well, I'll tell you is with the keyframes, you can see the movement is rigid. Like it's not smooth at all. So if you want smooth movement with key frames, right click, temporal interpolation. The first one needs to be is out, and the second key frame always needs to be is in. And you will see that the movement in the end became just a little bit smoother. It's not as rigid. Now, if we want to customize it even further, we can open this graph and we can drag it like so, and you'll see what happens. Like, it became super, super smooth. We can either do it from here from the graphics or we can add, like an effect, transform. And then something we did over here, we have, like, a little bit of motion blur, so we can add motion blur here if we were to do it with the transform effect. Now, let's say I save it as a motion graphic template. Once again, I'm going to save it too the local template folder. For this example, it's going to be marathon, person okay. Now, if you're going into the graphic templates, here's our marathon, so I can drag and drop it, and you'll see it's going to be exactly the same. Like it's going to have the animation. So instead of having to create it every single time or remembering the exact font, the exact customizations, this is the way you can do it. Super easy. Now, there's another type of mogard which is also called mogard, but it's done in After Effects. Even if you don't have After Effects, but you have mogard from After Effects, for example, like you downloaded from the Internet, you can still use it and you would just put it in the folder somewhere. By the way, let me show you how to add a folder, so you can just add additional folder. Find the folder on your computer. For example, I have a specific folder called Motion Graphics PR. And then within that, I have different folders. So, for example, I can select a folder and I can choose it but I already have it chosen, and it's just going to appear here as an extra folder. So this is the way you can do this, or if you have just motion graphic you want to add it here without the folder, you can just select it from your downloads, dragon drop it there and just going to appear there. So about after effect, if you have a mogart from after effect, it goes exactly the same way. You either put it in a folder and then add a folder or just drag and drop it there. And let's delete this one because we're not going to need it here. Some of the useful graphic templates that I used, for example, with my client is like a rectangle stroke. So instead of me having to add it every single time, just create it once, and that's it. Like a black arrow, which is actually a video that's animated. Like, so now, I added an effect, like, probably, like, a white shadow. Yeah, so it's an effect called drop shadow. You can add a shadow. Because the arrow is black, I needed to add it so that I can see the arrow itself. Then we have different the bigger arrows, circle icons, for example, like icons that are appearing on the screen to the left. So we have a couple of lists here, for example, something like this. Let me just move it a little bit to the side. This was created After Effects, and something you can do is you can kind of customize it if you go into the properties. And if you want to learn how to work with Premiere and After Effects, actually have another course, just click on my profile and you'll be able to find another course. If you want to take that course, it shows how to create short from content in both Premiere and After Effects, how to work in these applications at the same time because there are many ways to do this. After Effects is used also in some interesting way. So if you want you can just go ahead and take that course. There's no limit in terms of what you can add here. The only limit is your creativity. If you don't know what kind of motion graphics you want to create or you need to create, then just don't create them. Like, it's not necessary. It's just a way for us to create something repeatable easily, something that people will recognize and that will make our life as video editors a little bit easier. If you have any questions, let me know, but add than that, I'll see you in the next video. 15. Congratulations!: Congratulations. If you're watching this, it means you've made it halfway through the course content. I know we've covered a lot, so congratulations to you for making it to this point. There's a lot more valuable content coming soon, but before we get to the next video, I want to simply ask you if I found value in this program up until this point, to take 60 seconds to leave you honest feedback. Of course, I will immensely appreciate this, and this will also help hundreds of future students in deciding the best program for them. So leave your feedback now. And of course, if there's anything I can help you with, let me know in the Q&A section below. You're doing great. Keep going. And without being said, let's get to the next video. 16. Color Correction & Skin Tone Fixes in Premiere Pro: In this video we can talk about color correction and skin tone fixes. Let's jump in. Once again, there are a couple of ways we can do this. We can either add the emtri color from the window, so you can just add it here, and then we can customize our clips. We just select one of the clips, and then we can customize it. But sometimes it's useful to go into the color workspace. Let's go to the color workspace. You can see it's very similar. There's the ometri color controls exactly the same as I had before, so it's just window loometri color. But then we also have these two scopes, graphs. You can customize them by clicking here and it's going to be the vectorscope and the waveforms. Let me give you a couple of explanations here. First of all, this one shows the color and it's going to be super useful for us. This one shows the brightness, just the image itself. It's a little bit confusing. This one, at first, is totally fine, but this one is going to be super useful for us. So for example, let's find a clip that's a little bit darker. Okay. And you can actually see when I move the playhead, it kind of moves with it. You can see that I am darker. Like, I'm in the middle of the video, and you can see that this is actually like me moving because I'm the darkest point. So this is me moving at zero. It's super dark at 100, it's like, almost white. You can see like, we have a very white line here and it's actually this part over here. And then when I cover this tree a little bit here, it disappears here a little bit. Okay, so a couple of things about this. The first thing we can do the first kind of basic correction adjustment we can do is we can select or clip, and we can press on Auto, and it Premiere will automatically do some changes to it. So you can see it bumped the saturation to one oh five exposure to 0.3 contrast -14, and so on. Now, if you were to do it on your own, what I would recommend you do is what you want is you don't want there to be like parts at zero because at zero, it means it's just black. Like, you cannot see anything. It's black, and you don't want anything to be at 100 because it's going to be too bright. Like, it's white. There's no detail. And we do want to get a little bit of detail. Let's zoom in. The first thing I would do if I was to do it by hand is I would increase the blacks a little bit so that it's not just a zero, just a little bit. And it's like it's a subtle difference, but now if we were to bump shadows, for example, we would have the details because if we were to keep the blacks at, let's say, a zero, very little detail. But if we were to put it at what did we have it at 2.7, already a little bit better. We can see more details. But then if we increase the shadows, like, everything goes a little bit up and then becomes too bright. And so we just have to play around with this where Okay, we don't want the shadows to be like that much. Okay, maybe we can bump them up a little bit. But then let's take a look at the highlights and the whites. We need to decrease the whites a little bit, like the whitest part so that those are not just, like, super white. We want a little bit of detail. So that's why we're decreasing a little bit of white. And then we can decrease the highlights a little bit as well, potentially increase the shadow. Just a little bit. And then we can do contrast. So we can decrease contrast or we can increase contrast. Depending on what kind of style you're going for, you can do different things. I would just leave it like this, and I would definitely increase the saturation a little bit. But social media, you do want to almost exaggerate the color a little bit and just with social media, you want to exaggerate everything a little bit, sote audio distorts themselves. It's not always easy to identify the white balance in premiere. And the auto correction is actually really good at identifying the temperature in the tint. Basically, what this does is, let's say our video was, like, this blue and we don't want to be this blue. We want it to be like, it is in real life, and it's done with white balance. Basically, we have to find, like, a part that's white, and then based on that, it will do the adjustment. And I absolutely hate doing that. It's for some reason for me, it's not natural. I do struggle with this a little bit, and so the best way that I found is just do the autolance. Let's take a look at some of the other clips. Well, these clips are done well, actually, maybe this one. I think it looks a little bit blueish, so let's take a look at this one. Let's click on this clip and press on Auto. Yeah, you can see it did just a little bit of the adjustment. So it made it a little bit warmer and then the tint a little bit more towards the purple. Like a subtle difference, but it does make a bit of a difference. I'll be honest. Oftentimes, especially on social media, first of all, the colors are all subjective. And then when you go on social media, you will find so many clips that just so badly balanced in terms of the color that it's just it's like an extra step that you don't have to do. If there's a specific need for you to make the colors perfect, or if the video is just really, really bad, then yes, go ahead and do it. But if the videos, like, pretty good, you don't have to do it. I don't do it every single time. I do it when either clients request it, or I just see it's really bad. If there's no need to do it, I don't do it. If the video looks good to my eye. Okay, let's compare what Premier did in the very beginning. So let's do the auto. So this is what Premiere did, and this is what I did. Mine is a little bit less contrasty, but I think it's more balanced, and with Premiere is just very contrasty and yeah. I don't really like what it did. I like mine a lot more. Press option F to fit the screen. And by the way, you can also just reset to the basic over here, and we can either hide the effects by pressing here or we can just disable it completely. Now, they're also creative, and we will take a look at that a little bit later. There are curves. But to be honest with curves, I think they are overvalued. People customize the curves, but honestly, in my over ten plus years of editing videos and doing the color adjustments, I do not find them very useful. So some of the things you can do is let you do you can drag this point and drag it like so, or you can drag this part like so. So basically, if you do it from the bottom, like, so you are decreasing the shadows and increasing the hides here. And you might have seen people do it like this where they will put like three dots, they'll bump this one up and this one down so that it adds a little bit more of the contrast. Honestly, I never found that to be really useful. What's more useful for me is to go into basic adjustment, make sure that this graph looks great. Other than that, like, I wouldn't worry about. Now, when it comes to these graphs, so hue saturation curves, hue and hue, hue and Luma, these are useful. Why are these useful and this one isn't? Well, this one, I think is overvalued, and these ones are useful because we can work with the color. We can work with the color in other ways as well. But here we can isolate specific colors. So I'm going to click on it, and then let's select like blue. And so I can drag down the blue, and I'm going to make sure that the blue is not blue. The blue is dark. So I take away all the saturation from the this is great because we can isolate every single color. So saturation is how saturated the image is. If it's not saturated, it's going to be black and white. If it's super saturated, the colors are going to pop a lot. In terms of the hue, hue is, let me select blue here as well. So hue is we can change basically the color so we can make it either green or yellow or red or pink. Basically, we change the blue to a different color. Luma is just how bright something is. So if I make it bright, it's going to make the blue brighter. But if I put it to the bottom, it's going to make the blue super dark. Now, when it comes to the skin, my skin looks pretty good. Why? Because the skin is done through this line over here. So this is the skin line, and I can see it's more or less okay. One thing we can do and something that's super useful is to create let's go to the defects control panel, and let's create a mask. We are going to go to defect control of just this layer, and this Effects control panel, we have in the other workspaces as well. Nothing new. And instead of selecting it on the luma, we need to select it over here in the opacity. So I'm going to select it, make it super small by pressing on shift, I can create like a super precise and super rounded circle. If I don't press and shift, it's just going to do it like this, but I'm going to press and shift, and I'm just going to isolate my face over here. Then when I go into the metroscopes, we want to make sure that whatever line we have, our skin line is going to be like so, and you can isolate it by doing this. But let's say our skin color was a little bit off, and we would be able to select our skin color. So for example, we would go into Hue, we would select it, and we would click on my face and you can see it added automatically these points. And I would be able to, for example, it was a little bit green, actually, we can do this. So let's go to the basic correction and let's put the tint a little bit to the left. And you'll see that our line changes here as well. So if I go back to the curves and I go back to the hue, let me select it. L so great. And I would change the hue so that it's more like me. I would have to bump it a little bit, like, up And I would take a look at this line to make sure it is perfect. I think if we put it up, it becomes a little bit better, but it doesn't become better everywhere because the background became super blue. Let's make it a little bit smaller. Put it exactly on the face. So you can see it kind of went back to the same line, and that's how you can do it. We can either do it even a little bit more, actually. That much. Okay, so round here is perfect. And if we go to the effect control panel and we delete the mask, we just have to select and press and delete. Even though everything around is a very weird color, the skin of my face is the right color because it was following this line over here. So this is the way you can customize the skin color. Oftentimes, what I have to do is I have to select the skin and then make it less red, disable this one, go to the basic erection and put this one to it was 0.4. So now we have the skin perfect and then the background perfect as well. These are the curves. You just have to select it, click on the skin, and then move it a little bit up and down. You can also work with saturation. For example, if it's still very red, you can change the saturation slightly, change the luma a little bit, one hug for you. If you want to illuminate redness, sometimes you can bump up luma, a little bit of the red. And let me show you how to do it. So I'm going to select the skin, then make it a little bit brighter. You can see it actually, it becomes white. So instead of it being kind of dark, becomes white, and if it's white, it's less red, but you can also do it with the hue. And we can once again, customize things here a little bit pretty similar. In terms of the color wheel and match, you can customize every single part of the video with specific shades. So, for example, we can make it brighter or darker. And these are specifically the shadows. And then we can also in the shadows, we can make it red, and everything that's in the shadow is going to make it red. If we do it the same with the mid tones, it's not going to change the shadow's going to only change the mid tones. And if we do it with the highlights, it will only change the highlights. So we can do it, for example, in the highlights, make it red, here, make it red, and here, make it red. You can see it makes it red in different ways. If you're going for something specific, it's useful. Other than that, don't break your head with this. HSL secondary somewhat similar to the curves. Basically, you can select the color. So for example, let's select the skin color, and I'm going to click here to show the color slash gray. And here we can select more. So I'm going to just select more of the skin select select the legs. So this is pretty good. We can also add a bit, just a little bit of blur so that the edges are not super sharp and then denoise it a little bit. What this does is we select one color, and then we customize the color so we can change the temperature of the color, and then if I disable, you'll see everything stays the same, aside from the color that is selected because we made it we made the temperature super cold so it became cold. Everything that's roughly this color became just blue. But if we press and command that we can increase the contrast. Let me disable it and enable it. So by selecting specific color, increasing the contrast, we only increase the contrast of those colors. So we don't touch anything else aside from this color. It is useful once again when you work with the skin, so you want to isolate the skin somewhat similar to the curve I found that it's a little bit better with the curves. When you do it with HSL secondary, it's a little bit harder, especially if you work with grainy footage. If you don't have the grainy footage, you can work with it just whatever works better for you, either HSL secondary or curves, somewhat similar, whichever works best for you, give it a try experiment, and you'll find out. And then the vignette, we can increase the amount, the midpoint, the roundness of it, and the feather. Yes, this is how you do it. So this is going to be like in the beginning, it's going to be zero. You can either make it darker or brighter, whichever one you prefer. Let's say you have a lot of clips with the same lighting. For example, a person is sitting and speaking like what you are seeing right now, and you had lots of cuts. Instead of you having to do it every single time, you can select your clip, go into the effect control, copy the loometric color by pressing Command C and then paste it onto another video and going to paste the same effect. The only times I go into the color workspace is to see the metros coops because it is sometimes unbelievably useful to see exactly the skin line and see which parts are super dark and super bright when it needs to be precise. Other than that, I have it in the editing workspace, so I go into Lumetri color. I selected basic erection, press on auto, maybe increase the saturation a little bit, put the shadows a little bit higher. If you put the shadows higher, it becomes less contrasty, so I'll put a bit more of the contrast, increase the shadows. Actually, let's go into the vertical workspace so that we can see things better. So it was let's see, before and after, before and after. By the way, on social media, people prefer brighter videos. So if you ever wonder which way should I go? I always recommend going brighter. Mr. Best mentioned this like 8 million times. Go for something a little bit brighter. And then if you don't like it, once again, you can just press on reset and it's going to reset everything, or you can go into the FX Control Panel, solid DL metric color, and just delete it, and that's it. It's like, as easy as that. If you have any questions, let me know. But than that, let's get into the next video and talk about lot 17. Add Style with LUTs & Adjustment Layers (Color Grading): Welcome. In this video, let's talk about adjustment layers and lots. We already know the adjustment layer affects everything that's below it. And if we apply the adjustment layer, let's put it here, go to lemetric color, select our adjustment layer, and then we can customize the elemetric color based on the adjustment layer. Now, I don't recommend you to do this because if you reset and press on auto, it always will give you these values. Like, it doesn't work on the clip that's below it. So if you want to customize specific clip and press on auto so that it does automatically, like so, it's important to do it in the clips themselves and not on the adjustment layer. Although you can apply it to the adjustment layer. Like it depends. Do you want everything that's below the adjustment layer to be adjusted, or do you want every single clip to be a specific color? Oftentimes, the adjustment layers are used the best with lots. So let's apply the adjustment layer shorten it a little bit so that it fits, and then we need to go into emetroclor and go into creative. And in the creative, you can find different lots. Now, lots are used for different things. First of all, your footage is not always the same in terms of the color because sometimes your camera records in Rec 709. That's just the standard color workspace. It looks like this, but you can record in log, and that means your footage is going to look almost gray. What log is is it's a different type of color workspace that has a lot more information. In terms of the information, I just mean that you can customize it a lot. You can customize the colors a lot more because here, it's like it's already set, like the way it is. And so there's a bit less customization, but if we were to work with Log, let me show you how it looks, yes. So this is log. Some of the lots that you can select here will be to turn the log footage into Reg 709. Once again, when people work with Log, I think it's super creative professionals, like for example, if you think Peter McKinnon, people who record with big DSLRs, who worked with big brands, the colors need to be super specific. But then you think about someone like Ryan Trahan, who just records on his iPhone, and he gets, like, billions and billions of views, even though he records on his iPhone. There are different ways to approach this. Some people use very expensive cameras. Other people use iPhones. By the way, if you want to know, I record on an iPhone. Like, my phone is currently recording me speaking to the camera. And even though log is very customizable, it takes a lot more power for your computer because every single file has to have so many effects. On it and to it, and it has to render it in real time, and it takes a lot more powerful computer. I do not recommend it. I don't think it's great. I think the way to do this is to record it in just the simplest way possible. If you have to go for it, then okay. But if you don't have to go for it, don't do it. Now, in terms of the lots, usually you download them online. Like, I can search for something super fast, like, for example, lot download for free, and we can just quickly download one of the lots, shutter Okay, we can download them. To be honest, I never use any lots in my footage. I think it just makes the footage a little bit worse. So I'm going to open it. Okay, and we have a lot of different lots. Well, let's select it, browse, go to Downloads, select it. And then, for example, Arabica. What lot is its basic Lucky filter on top. And you can either apply it to the adjustment layer once again to the footage itself. But if you want the lot or this sort of filter to be applied to everything, you just put it to the adjustment layer and then spread it across. Like, so you can see everything has now this sort of interesting look. I would recommend if you were to use it, like, definitely not use 100% of it, like, dial it down a little bit, it doesn't have to be 100% all the time. And then you can customize it even further, like faded, look, sharpen vibrant customize it to Ready. You're king, in my opinion, it just it breaks the footage a little bit, and I don't like it, so I would just always delete it and leave the footage like this. If you're a creative who works with cameras, who wants, like, super specific looks, yes, go ahead and go for it, but in my opinion, it's just a little bit of a waste of time. If we're trying to make it, like, super fast, don't use it. Just want to show you because it is kind of relatively popular known and you might have questions about this. That's why I'm showing you. But honestly, don't break your head with this. Always ask the question, if I was to do it, would it give more to the viewers? Would they like the video more? Would they share it more? Would they like, watch it more times, or if I didn't do it, it wouldn't have any effect. It probably wouldn't do any effect with lots. So that's why I don't recommend using it. So, that's in terms of the colors. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 18. Export Settings for TikTok, Reels & YouTube Shorts: In this video, I'd like to walk you through the exporting settings. In order to export the video, once we have created it, first of all, we need to set the in and out points. The reason we are doing this is because if we don't set it and let's say you have some clip over here, Premiere is going to automatically include a clip that's over here, and this whole part is going to be black. So if we were to have an image over here, it would export it until this point, and this part would be black. We don't want that. Come to the very beginning, and you need to press on I. And then you have to come to the very end. What I like to do is I like to press around here, then press up on the arrowhead, so the arrow key up. And this way you can go here. If you press up again, you are going to go basically here in between the cuts. So if we take a look here. So we have a cut here. That's why I went here. If I press on arrowhead again, it's going to come here, again, here, again, here. So if I come, press on arrow hub head up, you need to press O here to set the end point. Now, you will notice that Premiere, when you press the O point, it takes one extra frame, which is a little bit annoying. Whatever command you do is when you come here to the very end, let's say you press here, press on arrow head up, just press on arrow left, like so. And then when you press on O, it's going to be exactly perfect. Just the easiest way for us to go about this. Now, in order to export the video, we need to go into the export, and we have our exporting settings here. Instead of you having to put these settings every single time, we will create a preset, and I'm going to show you one of my presets, which is going to be this one. First of all, for the video, it's going to match the source, or if you want here to be anything specific, just you can click here and then put whatever resolution you want to have. But I'm going to press and match source more. Person render at maximum quality, use maximum render quality, frame sampling, set it here, hardware encoding, then we need to go into bitrate settings. Bitrate settings are really important. Basically, it's how crispy your video is. If a video from the very beginning isn't crispy, don't set it high. And if you have a crispy video from the very beginning, like, it's very high quality. I still do not recommend you to set it high. Why? Because if you increase the target bit rate, take a look at the estimated file size. This video, which is 19 seconds long, right now, it's 46 megabytes. But if I increase this one, going to increase the estimated file size. And social media is going to make the video smaller in terms of the size. So they are going to decrease the bitrate of the video. When there's a lot of bitrate jumps, basically, exporting a lot of the times, the quality becomes super bad. And something I recommend you do is put the bitrate to something like it was like 19. It was 19 here. You can put it to 15. Sometimes I can even export videos if I need them to be under specific weight. So let's say I need the video to be under 2 gigabytes or under 4 gigabytes. I would put here sometimes even like six, and the file size is going to be super small, and the quality is going to be a bit worse, yes, indeed. But at the same time, we're going to save the size. So 19 then we need to enable the audio. If you want the captions, you want to make sure to enable the captions here as well. And one super imprint thing is recommend you to go into effects and set the lumetri look slash lot. Now, we're not putting some sort of like lot here. We are putting T Gamma compensation. If I disable it, you will see that the colors become a little bit faded, and that's the problem with Premiere. Adobe is aware of that. This lot was created by Adobe. So let me once again, click on it. Take a look at the right side. So I'm going to click. It becomes less saturated, less contrasty. This one is more saturated, more contrasting. With Premiere, when you export, your colors are going to be a little bit faded unless you put this thing here. This makes it the way it's supposed to be. And you can find this file in the resources section. All you have to do is just click here, select download it and select it in the downloads of your computer. Just click on it and select. Now, once you have leave that in place. Just go ahead and click here on the three dots save the preset, give it tick name, whatever works for you. Mine, you've seen mine's Vladislav with right colors. And if I don't have this telemetry thing, I use Vladislav just regular Vladislav. But this one is Vladislav with right colors. If you ever want to delete one of your presets, you just need to select it. Click here and delete the preset. Now, in terms of the location, you need to click on the location here. Choose a folder wherever you want to save it. My case is going to be Marthon video. I'm going to create new folder, call it Exports. And I'm going to press on Save. And I'm just going to press on Export, and it's going to export the video. Now that we have the export, this is our video. This has been finishing my very first Marth but it almost didn't happen. I dream. Sometimes you will find that the captions are not exported right away, and you would need to just export it once again. So just click on hit, save, replace, and Export. Now, let's take a look at our export. This finishing my first Marth almost didn't happen. Everything is great. We are ready to post it to social media. So if you have any questions, let me know, but ad than that, I'll see you in the next video. 19. Uploading & Testing Your Videos on Each Platform: Before I upload the video to social media, I would actually send it to my phone to double check that everything's okay. I want to make sure that the colors are okay, potentially double check the captions, check the voice, check the music and see if it's loud enough or if it's just a little bit too loud, and I should lower it down. There are two ways I can do this on MacBook, I can use AirDrop or if you're on Windows, you can use Google Drive. Google Drive gives you 15 gigabytes for free. So you're able to use the 15 gigabytes. Just upload it there, download it to your phone, and then you'll be able to see the video. And it's also important because I actually post all my videos from my phone. I post videos from my computer unless it's long from YouTube video. If it's a vertical video, then I will always post it from my phone. A couple of reasons for that. First of all, is because in order to select a thumbnail on YouTube, you can only select it on your phone. They update it so that you can select the thumbnails a long time ago, but you can still only select it from your phone. That's one of the reasons I secondly, on Instagram, there are some limitations when you upload it from your computer. I don't remember all the limitations, but for example, you are not even able to change the bio of your Instagram profile. If you want to change it from your computer, you have to change it from your phone. I don't remember the details about the TikTok. I never use the computer. I always post from my phone. Something I recommend you do as well. If you have any questions, let me know. Better than that. I'll see you in the next video. 20. Breaking Down Real Client Workflows in Premiere Pro: Welcome. In this video, we're going to break down my client's video. I'm also going to share the workflow of how it works with clients. Before I share the workflow, this is the video that we're going to breakdown. This video got 2.4 million views. It was posted like last week. So it got 2.4 on TikTok and like a couple hundred thousand on other social media platforms. This is just a new account they created like super, super recently. And it's been doing great. So we're going to break down. This video is very similar format. It's this video here, 650,000, this one, 200 sorry, 328,000. These videos are getting good results, and I'm going to break down these videos for you. But before we get to it, and this is this video, I want to share a little bit about the client workflow. The way it works with clients is they usually send me footage via Google. I just download it on my computer. I have a Google Drive, where I just go into Google Drive. I have the shortcuts, and then we have, for example, new Reels, and then I go ahead and download the videos. It's an extension. Google Drive, you can get this extension or the application, both the MacBook and Windows, and it's just easier because I don't have to go into Google Drive and then download it from the web. It's a lot easier to do it this way. If you do it from the web, you have to download each file like one by one, because if you download in Batch, it zips the files and then you lose some of the files. So it's a lot better to use it this way. This workflow is like then I download the files to my computer, put it in specific folders. So I have a folder for each video. And for example, for this video, this is SE Asia Country Rank. Then I have the PR folder exports raw, and I usually also have the Download folder. So it's this one, everything I download from the Internet is there. But in this case, I didn't have it. I just put it in other folder and because we work in so many projects, sometimes things get lost a little bit. So I have the premiere pro exports and raw. So I edit the video, then I do the exports. I send them the first export. This one was the first one. Then I upload it to frame dot IO. ClansC look, it's a great application where clients can leave feedback, and I can easily take a look at the feedback. Let me just search for it and quickly show you. I can show you the client workflow, but the way it works is like this. So, for example, they leave a comment at specific time during the video, and then I can take a look at their comment and as the way it looks where I need to make a change. They can draw there as well. So super super good. After they give me feedback, I do changes, and then I create V two, and then I create V V three. And yeah, we just go back and forth until the video is good, and then I upload the video back to Google Drive. And then the social media assistant downloads the video and then post it to social media. So in terms of this video, the organization here was a little bit terrible. The reason for that is because we had we had most of the stuff, most of the overlay from other videos. Let me zoom in a little bit. Okay, so Bali, it's this one, yes. If you go into properties, text and then for each text, I have a flag. Actually, I did it with Cha GPT. I just asked ChIPT. I gave it a list. So Bangkok, Bali, Ching Mai, Bangkok, and so on. And then I went to Cha Ji PT and to give me the flag to each one of the cities and gave me, and it was good to go. And then we did it for many videos, so I just copied this from the other video. And then you can see I have this like white separator, white line. It's actually this graphic. And if I select it, we can see it's just two different shapes. So one of the shape is horizontal, the other one is vertical. It was created with the pen tool, and if I select it, we can see that it's just the stroke. If I enable disable it, it's like, super super easy. And then we have two pictures at the bottom. So one picture is on the left, one picture is on the right. If we take a look at the properties, how did I fit the pictures in these little frames? Well, the way I did this is I did it with the crop tool. Can search for the crop tool in the Effects panel. So it's crop here in the transform. With the latest update in Premiere 25, you have your crop in the properties before you didn't even have the properties panel, so you had to apply it manually. And the crop is not always available for all the files. So sometimes you do have to put it manually. And the way I do this is I put it roughly and then actually, let's see. So you can say I had to move the picture a little bit to the left, and then I had to crop it from the right because the original was like this, and I was at 23. For the arrow, the arrow was downloaded from Infatu elements. So if I go to Invatu and there's going to be a separate video explaining everything, I just search for the check mark. I probably just search for, like, one of these. And don't remember which one I used exactly, but probably just used one of these. Yeah, so you just download it, put it, and it's good to go. And so it just goes back and forth, back and forth, the same process, right? Every single image is cut a little bit from the right, from the left, positioned to the frame. Like, so you will also notice that the white lines, actually, if we select here in a present command R, I'm going to open rulers. And with the rulers, I'm able to put rulers. Let me put it in the middle of the frame. So we need to divide 1080 by half, and it's going to be 540. So this is exactly the middle of the frame. You can see it goes 0-1080 because the frame size is 1080 and the horizontal is 1920, 0-1920 over here. So this is going to be exactly the middle, but you can see this line is not exactly in the middle. Why? Well, that's because that's the example video that they sent me actually had it like this. And the reason for that is because remember, on the right, there's always going to be like comment like share or whatever other buttons there are. It had to be moved a little bit to the left so that the center is not actually in the center. It's a little bit, like, to the left. Sometimes you have to do it with social media. Sometimes, some people actually even put captions a little bit to the left so that they're not in the center. But I found that I find that to be a little bit weird because if you do it word by word, you can still put it in the middle. It's not going to abstract anything. Let me select this track For the check Mark, it's just a sound. Let's see what kind of sound this is. Let's open it. Okay, so success Reward Bride, I was downloaded from Epidemic Sound. And then I just repeat the sound whenever we have the checkmark appear. For this part, while they're thinking, there's like a little Zoom. Ooh. Mi. Cheng Mi? Actually, it's not something that I thought about. That's what the client proposed. Then in the very beginning, I want to show you this. This text, it was actually created in After Effects, and it's a mogurt that I use. So if I go into the graphic templates, once again, instead of me having to do it every single time, I just have a mogurd and for example, like Neon text, this is the one. So this is the text, and then I can go ahead and customize it all I want. I can customize the font, the boldness, the font size, make it small, make it big. And yeah, it's just a mogard. Comment list Okay, comment list. Once again, this is a mogard from After Effects, and we have, like, a PDF. 33 cheapest, safest, and most beautiful cities for digital nomads, including Visa info, safety info, best time to visit and cost of living. So for this part, for these overlays, it's just something that they have. It's a PDF, and then I overlay it on top. We had to go back and forth a little bit with this. We have the same overlay for many of the videos. So for these videos, there are many videos like this. So we have like world DN city rank, world DN city compare. So it's rank and compare. We had many videos like this, and we used exactly the same overlay at the end. Instead of redoing and renting the wheel every single time, this is how we do it. You can also notice the captions here at the top. Let me select it. These ones. So these captions here, once again, as I told you before, it's their style. This is one of their styles that they're going for. And the way I create captions for them is when I let's go into the text. Whenever I create captions, for them, I always do the double line, and then I just leave this one as is. So I don't change anything, and then you can see sometimes it's like two lines. It's just the style that they wanted to do, and we did it, but before when we were creating other type of videos with them, we would actually do like word by word, either one line or one word at a time. The video is just 47 seconds, and that's it. And in terms of the music, let's take a look. I'm going to select this one solo. Let's open the music. When we have this change when we have the first check mark and we have the first selection of the countries. I have the beat at the same second. Take listen or listen. So it's exactly this point. I just find a point where we have this first bit, like this one. And then I put it exactly the cut. So you can see I have the selection, and I put it here, like so, and then I just extend it here in the very beginning so that I have, like, the beginning. And then right after 1 second, we have some sort of action going on. We're experimenting with different kind of styles in the very beginning, as I told you before the Zoom works. So we started implementing Zoom a lot more. We started changing this nuance style text to we started doing something I showed during the marathon video where we have text, and then we have a white background around the text. So the text is dark or black, and we have the white line around it. We started doing that with them. Actually, I forgot to show you that the way they sent me the video, this is the original video, right? It was 44 seconds, and I also had to cut it because there were a lot of pauses. So this is the original video. The video here in terms of the lumetri color, let's see the basic correction. Yes. So if I disabled the correction, this is what it was. This is what it is now. Once again, something they requested to make the video a lot brighter so that it's not as dark because in the very beginning was, like, superb dark. So we made it look brighter, added more saturation. We're just going a little bit back and forth with this experimenting and working together on this. It's not just the video editors job to just make the video perfect in a way. It's back and forth with the client and making sure that first of all, they're enjoying the process. They're getting what they want. But then at the same time, we want the video to perform. And so just experiment with different things, seeing what performs. With the videos that we did in the past for another of their accounts for the business account, things didn't work as good. Like, for this, it's going pretty well. And if you take a look at their Instagram page, it's also doing pretty well. So that's how it is. If there's anything specific you're looking for, lemon on the Q&A section below, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 21. Analyzing Top Creators’ Short-Form Videos (MrBeast, Jenny Hoyos): This video, we're going to break down content of big creators. We have two videos. One video of Mr. Beast, the other one is of Jenny. Let me quickly show you these videos. So if I go to Mr. Beast page, popular, this video got 1.6 billion views. And with Jenny, this video got 103 million views. By the way, Hug, if you want to download videos from YouTube for free, you can go to this website, t oned.com. Then just literally go ahead and copy the link of the video, past link here, and you'll be able to download the video. First, let's take a look at the video of Jenny and then take a look at the video of Mr. Beast. You cook faster than fast food? Can I have a burger? Yeah, can you put cheese, lettuce and tomatoes? It's not hot enough. Yes, please. And cheese. There's smoke here. This thing is still raw. I think there's a line. Oh, my goodness. What's happening? Who are you doing back there? You're gonna burn that gar. Okay, I'm gonna cut the tomatoes while this cooks. I'll have to eat that. Oh, no, that tomato looks weird. Time to slow down. P this once, you gonna make a mess in the car. But ketchup on the buns. One person away. We just eat the burger to cook faster, faster. We're moving. We're moving. No. My burger is not done yet. Oh, you're driving too crazy. He needs to cook faster. Cook. We're pulling up to the window. And, oh my goodness. We go faster. I better. A very interesting video. And now, you might be thinking, Okay, why did this video get like 100 million views? Well, something a lot of people don't know is that the idea is actually so much more important than just the editing or the way you record the video. Because if you take a look at a lot of this stuff, it's not recorded with a professional camera or maybe it is, but it's not recorded professionally. The quality is not very good. I mean, if you take a look at the captions, the captions are super simple, something like the basic font in premiere. And then to be honest, I didn't even notice this part at the top here, super, super simple and easy. So the idea is very important, and good way to think about this is, can a video go viral without editing? Yes, can editing go viral without the video? That doesn't even make sense, right? The video can oftentimes go viral without any kind of editing. And editing really helps the video go viral. So it's kind of interconnected. The video can still go viral without the editing. It's important to understand that. Let's break down this video a little bit more. First of all, you can see the font, super simple. And instead of being word by word, she uses a couple of phrases two lines, which was interesting. Oh, okay, so this is where the cheese came onto the screen. Okay. And then when she completes it, she puts an emoji and makes something black. Okay, great. First of all, the ID is interesting. Nobody's ever done that. So that's unique. Secondly, there's so much pressure, and third thing that's super, super important is the fact that the video is progressing. So we have one, two, and three. Basically steps, tomato, lettuce, and cheese. And whenever she progresses, there's a check mark, which helps the people understand the progression of the video. So this video is the third way through roughly. And if we take a look at the timing, roughly, that's true. I really helps people because people hate not knowing. It's the same idea with Uber. Why was Uber super successful? It wasn't just because you could order it from the phone, but because you could see where the taxi was on your phone. You would see the taxi. You would see that, you know, if it's 5 minutes late, that's because of the traffic, not just because it's like, I don't know, it's doing something weird, and that really helps. So whenever you can throw the timing, really, really good. Always, always, really good. Then if you take a look at how Jenny edits her videos, it's like a slide zoom all the way. So we have slide Zoom in the very beginning. The second shot slide Zoom here. Then we have third shot, slide Zoom, fourth shot, Zoom. Zoom. Zoom out. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom, Zoom. Interesting. Every single shot has a slide Zoom to make the video a little bit more engaging. If you take a look at the video of Mr. Beast, a little bit later, we'll see what he does. Some people use it, some people don't use it. Once again, if I think about this, will I watch the video just because there is a Zoom? Probably not. So it's not like the Zoom plays a huge role, but it's probably one of the 100 things that are important. So 1% improvement. And this video, it can be done completely with Premiere. Now, in order to identify different person, they're using the different color font, which is a good idea. So I used that in the past, as well, just to make sure we can easily understand that it's not Jenny speaking. It's somebody else. And then if we take a look at the sounds. Can you cook that in fast food? Can I have a burger? Yes. Okay, so here in the very beginning, this is called an LCAT or JCOT and it's when we have previous video still playing, but in the background, we already have the new audio start of the next clip. And this is something she's doing here, which is oftentimes used in movies and in videos online. So it's still the first clip here, right? But then you can see, we have a text up here. And at the same time, if we hear it, she will speak in the background here. Did I have a burger? It's an interesting way to put clips together. Oftentimes, you just really recommended. Basically, all you have to do is to overlap it a little bit. So this is the way you can do it in premiere. So just drag one of the clips and overlay it on top of the other. Or if you don't like it to be this way, you can just put it on different tracks. But overall, yes, this is how it's done. And another important thing, there's no silence almost with Jenny. She's just it's constant and constant action. She doesn't let you relax. She keeps you in the video. She keeps you hooked throughout the video. Yeah, can you put cheese, lettuce and tomatoes? It's not hot enough. Yes, please. And cheese. Smoke here. This thing is still raw. Good thing there's line. Oh, my goodness. What's happening? What are you doing back there? You're gonna burn that car. Okay, I'm gonna cut the tomatoes while there's cooked. I hope I don't have to eat that. Oh, no, that tomato looks weird. Time to slow down. You mope this one once it spread, you gonna make a mess in the car. But the ketchup on the buns. One person away. We just need the burger to cook faster, faster. We're moving. We're moving. No. B is not done. Oh, you're driving too crazy. You need to cook faster. Cook faster. Hey. Actually this change in the music, it was really good. Action in the very beginning. Then it's like staying more or less the same, but then it speeds up by the end even more, like around here. You're gonna make a mess in the car. Catch up on the bun. One person away. Eat the burger to cook faster, faster. We're moving. We're moving. No. My burger is not done yet. Oh, you're trying too crazy. I need to cook faster. Book faster. Way back next role. In order to add even more pressure, she also speeds up the cuts. So if you take a look at the very beginning, or not necessarily in the very beginning, but, like, here, she does have fast cuts in a way, but then when we come to the end or, like, here, it's even more. Oh, my boy is not done yet. Oh, you tronic too crazy. I need to cook faster. Cook faster. WaynexRex. We're pulling up to the window. Oh my god. And then here, it's kind of slowing down a little bit. Another interesting technique is that when she's putting the burger here at the very end, like she's about to put it, she doesn't actually show the way she puts it. A very interesting technique from movies is where a person is about to say something or something bad is about to happen, and you don't actually see it, the camera cuts, keeps the pressure a little bit. So a lot of the techniques she uses are from movies. I really do recommend Jenny, if you want to learn video editing, she's just absolutely amazing. I remember that about two to three years ago, I actually learned from Jenny directly when I was a part of the cohort. It was the creator club or something that you will see on the screen right now. Jenny was amazing. If you want to learn how to create really catchy videos, go ahead and break her videos down. Now, let's take a look, Mr. Beast. If I give you $100, would you go to Paris to give me a Magete If I give you $300, would you fly to Paris to bring me back Miguet Yeah, do, actually. Yeah, fly included? Yes. I can't believe she's actually getting 12, but yes. Right home, Mr. Brees is home. I cannot believe I'm here. Final stretch, Mr. Bees. I'm ready. Quiz. Oh, my big. I honestly just one. Yeah, you can just this, whatever that is. Let's start from the very beginning. If you remember, one of the first videos when I started editing the marathon video is this very fast zoom in the very beginning with motion blur or with this blur. Exactly. This is exactly how it's done with the transform effect that we did. By the way, very similar font. Actually, I thought Mr. Beast had different font, but probably for long form videos has one font, and then this one. Let's double check what he has now. Are you subscribe to Mr. Beast? Never mind then. Are you subscribe to Mr. Beast? Of course I am. Let very similar. And you can see Jenny has something very similar as well. So, potentially, you can go ahead and experiment with this font. $100 green to make sure it's associated with money. Things are happening on the screen. So once again, the idea is incredibly important. Paris Biget, it's highlighted in yellow, $300. Hm. Interesting. So Jenny uses exactly the same technique as Mr. Best. Whenever the other people are speaking, it's in yellow. And with Mr. Beast, because the camera is stable, they're really zooming in on the people. So like here, Zoom Zoom out. And the way you do this is you just cut the different clips, you select one of the cut clips, literally just zoom in and make sure to keep the eyes on the same level. If the eyes are not on the same level, it just confuses people a lot. So if we take a look at the videos, the eyes are roughly on the same level. Like it is here, and then if I go back a little bit. So it's not super perfect, but it's more or less like in this range over here. But if the eyes were to go from here to here, it would be a little bit worse. If you want to make it super smooth, try to keep the eyes on the same level, like, roughly exactly on the same level. Don't even jump, like, from here to here. It would be even better. So a fast start and then they are getting ready, just lots of fast cuts. What they're doing in terms of the cuts, they're just progressing the story. Literally, he's going home, picking and then flying. No second is wasted here. I'm pretty sure they had to cut this video, like a lot. And, you would agree, right? Yes. This montage was, like, how long? Like, 6 seconds. So in 6 seconds, he went from going home to packing his stuff and then being on the airplane. This could have been created in so many applications. Something you can do in Premiere, as well takes a little bit more. Time. So the way this can be done is you can animate the plane popping up on the screen. And then you would move the background to the left, keeping the plane in the same location. And move the background, so it seems like the planes flying, but the plane is actually staying like exactly in the middle, right? Planes in the middle. You just animate the rotation a little bit and move the background, and then do these little animation. So it can be done easily in premiere. Lots and lots of Zooms. If you pay attention to the quality, the quality is pretty bad on a lot of the shots. And still this video got the amount of use is insane. And one of the specific techniques that they use here is showing him running here to add a little bit more of that pressure to add the time limit, but I'm not sure what the time limit is here. And then he's rushing Zoom and I mean, if you were to give in this video, you could probably edit this video. Even if you learned premiere yesterday, you could do this video in, like, a day. Very easy. Once again, the idea is unbelievably important. Would you fly to Paris for a beget? The idea is so crazy, so new, and that's why I get so many views. If you have any specific people you'd like me to break down, please let me know the Q&A section below. Other than that, let's remember, editing supports the video, and you want to keep things as simple as possible, try to hook people in the very beginning give them this wave of being very fast and being slow so that you give them a little bit of room to breathe. Use captions, Zooms, fast cuts, music, sound effects, and just learn and practice. The only way to become better and good at this is to have so many practice sessions that it would be unreasonable for you not to become great. It's like one of my favorite quotes, volume negates lock. If you want to become great, you have to put in the volume. Volume here is just practice, practice, practicing. So if you have any questions, let me know better than that. I'll see you in the next video. 22. Premiere Composer & MotionDock: Fast Effects & Transitions: In this video, I want to talk about third party extensions, specifically about Mr. Horse and about MotionDock. You can find the links to these websites in the resources section, and let me quickly walk you through. Scroll a little up down, press on please log in to download or just click here. It's going to get you to this page. Click on please log in to download, and then just go ahead and register. It's absolutely for free. Go ahead and install it super quickly to install. They made it as simple as possible to do it. And when we come to Mr. Horse, very similar thing get started for free. Both of these are for premiere pro and for After Effects. You can use it just for premiere if you don't have After Effects, or if you do have perfect, you'll have it for both. What do you get with Motion Duck? 100 free After Effects and Premiere templates. Everything you see on the screen, you'll get it. And instead, these are oftentimes like Motion Graphics. These are really good animation presets. Many different animations with text with Mr. Horse or Premiere Composer. Also, lots of different stuff, lots of animations, unbelievable things. And let me just go ahead and come to Premiere and show you how it's done. So when you install it's going to be in the window and extensions, you'll have both Motion Duck and Premiere Composer. When it comes to Motion Duck, honestly, I don't use it because premiere composer is unbelievable good and it's enough for my workflow. But if you do want to use Motion Duck, you just get it like this. So you get it in the window, put the window. I would recommend it to put it here. And you have all sorts of stuff here. So first of all, let's come to, for example, the titles. We have interesting titles. All we have to do is double click on it, and it's going to add it, and then we have the title. So this is actually for the horizontal video, but we can also use it for the vertical video. So I'm just going to press Command set to do it. We have different transitions, targets, glitch. You can preview by hovering over it, and then yeah, just go ahead, select it double click on it and it's going to appear. Lots of different things that you can customize. So, for example, if I select the titles, click on it, I can go into the properties and then in the properties, there are lots of customizations that you can do, for example, like changing the colors, the fonts, that's come here effects, make it a little bit smaller. Okay. And then, yeah, you can just customize here. If you want a little bit extra, if you want, like, a library of free assets, I recommend Motion Duck pretty good guys. And then if you want, by the way, you can get like paid version, if you want even more, I don't use the paid versions with them. The free versions are unbelievably good, honestly. And by the way, I have no affiliation with them. So I'm just hearing because these are really, really good. If you go into a Premiere Composer, I'm also going to put it here and I'm going to close Motion Duck by person Command W or Control W. With Premiere Composer, you need to open the starter pack, and you have text boxes, text presets, transitions, social media, shape elements, and sounds. Do recommend Premiere Composer more just because it's better for my workflow. Like, I'm not training Motion Duck, also unbelievable guys, saying that they are different people and focus on different things or different companies, I should say. What you can do here is, like, select one of the things, press on add. It's going to dt, and you will have motion graphic. And you can go into properties, customize it even further. You can customize this in the properties, or you can customize it on the premier composer. All you have to do is just select it, and then you'll be able to customize it. Some of the best things that I use here are transitions. I absolutely love their transitions. You can take a look. There are how many 11 transitions total. I use their transitions probably at least once a week. Really, really good transitions. Social media stuff, some things are appearing like Facebook, Instagram, we can edit Mr. Horse, once again, go into properties and customize it. Shape elements, don't use them, to be honest, but the one thing that I use the most are the sounds. Come to the sounds instead of just this is the preview of all of the sounds, but you can also, open the folder and take a look at specific sounds. Click on it. And you are going to preview it. Some of the best ones, by the way, you can also search here at the top, for example, like transition or like swoosh, for example, for the sounds. Super great. These, so for example, instead of having to search dispooh online or come to Premiere Composer, search for it, super easy, super fast. Text boxes, used to use them in the past. It's okay. Like, these text presets are super smooth, super good. So sometimes I use them not all the time, but sometimes. Then you can also add your own library. So you can open this. You can add a folder and you can search for a folder. I'm not going to do it because I don't want it to be added there, but you can search for a folder, and then if you have a folder, for example, with Motion Graphics, you can add it there. And then if you want specific details, you can come to their website and learn here a little bit more. For the workflow that I've been using that I recommend is use the sounds really good. Come here, explore every single sound, click on every single sound. Try to think of where you can use them. Make yourself familiar with the sounds, transitions as well. By the way, with transitions. Okay, for example, like, I don't know, let's use Rotate here. I train I trained for months. This might look a little bit weird because we are in the vertical composition. But if we were to, let's say, add it to the horizontal composition, then just scale it up. It's going to probably work pretty well. But let's try this transition. I train for months. Yeah. Pretty good. Just train for months. Covers the whole screen. We can move it a little bit. Happen. I train for months. But it almost didn't happen. I train for months. By the way, if you want this text to be affected by the transition or hidden by the transition, you want to once again, update captions graphics and then place below the transition and it's going to be affected by the transition, as well. Just one of the tools that I use super useful, once again, no affiliation with them, an incredible incredible tool. If you have any questions, let me know Pete on that. I'll see you in the next video. 23. Best Creative Assets for Editors (Artlist, Envato, Motion Array): In this video, I want to talk about creative assets for video editors and specifically three websites Motion Array, Artlist, and Infatu elements. You've probably at some point heard of one of these websites, or even if not, I'm going to walk you through them. So these are websites where you can download video templates, presets, Motion Graphics, slots, footage, voice over music, sound efects, graphics, photos, plugins, probably even more stuff that's hidden within these websites. I've used all three of these websites. I actually got started with Motion Array. This is the very first website that I used, and then with my clients, I use Infatu elements, and for my personal use, sometimes I use Artlist. Ong story short, these websites are so similar to one another. They solve the same problem. So if you're looking for assets and you choose one of them and not the other, you're not going to regret it. Basically, for example, let me show you the Envato elements. You can search at the top for different stuff. So you can search for footage, for example, let's search for Front and it's going to give us photos, stock videos, fonts, music, graphics. And then literally you just go ahead and download it. So these websites do cost a little bit of money. They're under subscriptions. With Artlist very similar, let's say, you can go just straight into footage, and then you can go into lots templates. I will say that if you're looking for a combination, I think Artlist is going to be the best in terms of the music and footage. I have never downloaded templates from Artlist and haven't used Artlist that much, although I used Art grid. Art grid is Artlist sister company or something similar with just footage. If you're looking just for footage, this is Argrid When it comes to Artlist, I would say it's the most cinematic one if I was able to describe it. In terms of Iwatu elements, it's just, like, very reliable, a very good reliable friend. Terms of the motion array, I think it's great, and I think it's the most artistic one. Depending on the description that I just gave you, you can choose whatever works best for you if this is something that you're looking for. You don't have to use it. Like, you can still create videos and edit videos for clients without it. And by the way, if you are working with clients, they should be the ones getting this. And if you are working with clients, they should be the ones getting Epidemic Sound. And by the way, if you want your clients to check the Epidemic Sound, you can also send them the link so that they can get 30 days free trial and try for themselves. Again, Motion ray, the most artistic one, Artlist, the most cinematic one, and Invato I would say is the most reliable one, just like a good reliable friend. I've been using Invato the most, I would say, just because of my clients. Argrid also used a lot. If you are looking for footage, I would say Invato has more choice. Like, Artlist is super cinematic, but Invato has just more. They don't allow probably 90% of the footage. And so they don't have a huge library, but the library that they have is very cinematic. Whereas with Invato if I let's search for, like, a car, let's I'll give you, like, a very quick example. So stop video. This is not even real footage. So it just doesn't look very, very professional. The videos that they have look scripted, and the videos for rgrid don't look scripted. So if I search for, let's search for a car. Okay, yeah. I mean, this is so cinematic. This also, like how cinematic is this? Looks really, really good. So anyway, if you have any specific questions about these websites, let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 24. Premiere Pro Shortcuts to Edit 2× Faster: In this video, I'd like to dedicate specifically to shortcuts in Premiere Pro. Shortcuts can save you a ton of time, but especially in the very beginning, it can be a little bit confusing. So I'd like to create custom shortcuts with you today, as well as share about some of the shortcuts that are super useful. First of all, you already know about creating a shortcut for the track heights. You set the right heights, and then you create shortcut, and then by pricing a shortcut, you are able to customize the different tracks. Then the shortcut for the shortcuts is in my case, option command K, but if you're on Windows, it's old Control K. So a couple of specific shortcuts I'd like to give you. For one, I would like you to put the shuttle left. So we would search for shuttle left, and we would put number one here. For shuttle stop, we're going to put two and for shuttle right to search for the right one, we're going to put shortcut number three. Then for ripple trim, ripple trim, next edit to play head, we're going to put E. Previous Edit to play head Q, add Edit, we're going to put W. Then for Command one, we are going to put purple. So let's search for purple. This is going to be Command one. Then Command two, we can put mango. Command five for me is white. Command three and four, for me, our keyframe temporal interpolation is in Command four, is out Command three. Now, let me walk you through what this means. Now, if we press on two, it's going to be pause. If you press on three, it's going to be play, just a regular play. If you press one, it's going to be reverse play. So instead of you having to just go back, you can press on one and it's going to go back. And basically two is the same as pressing space, but it's pretty useful if we just use these three and we just click those. You press three twice, this is going to double the speed. If you press, three times, it's going to triple the speed. And the same works in reverse. If I press on one, it's going to go back just at regular speed. One again, faster. One again, one again, one again, it becomes super fast. Three, three, three, three, three. Become supervised. Really great way to speed up. And if you want to quickly watch the whole video, it really helps in terms of the W. So if I press on if I select the video or if I don't select it in a press on W, it's going to make a cut. If I press W, again, it's going to make another cut. It's the same equivalent of pressing on razor and just making cut. But instead of pressing a razor, you can just cut where the playhead is. Now, if I press on E, it's going to cut everything from the playhead until the end of our clip. It's going to cut everything like so. Or if I press on Q, it's going to cut everything from the playhead to the left. Like so. Now, important thing is, let's say we do cut like I'm going to cut here and I'm going to press on es. I'm going to cut everything from the right of the playhead. Actually let's do it over here. So it's going to cut everything from here to here, here, here. And everything that's to the right of the end of the clip is going to move a little bit to the left. There you go. The same is going to happen if a person cue. Everything is going to move to the left. So it doesn't just kind of make a cut, but it actually moves everything so that it's super, super great. In terms of the colors, for example, Command one, it's going to become purple. Command two is going to become orange. Command five is going to become white. Actually, you might not have white in the very beginning, so we should search for a settings label, and then we can create our own colors here and customize it. We can make everything white if we want to. It just helps us to put mark something in terms of the color easily and very fast. I can select, for example, I would say that this is an intro and I would put it with one color, and it would be an intro. Can easily do that and sometimes it's really, really useful. In terms of the Command three and four, it works with keyframes. So instead of me having to right click, selecting it, right clicking temporal interpolation is out and then is in, all I have to do is either select keyframes like SO or click on one keyframe or the second keyframe selected to shift. The ones that are easing out is Command three. These are Command four. And so now we're going to have a smooth Zoom. By the way, if you want to learn shortcuts for premiere for After Effects and all the interesting workflows, you can once again, take a look at my profile, and I'm going a lot more in detail in terms of the shortcuts. But some of the other useful ones are just, for example, option one is going to the project panel. Let's say, like in the marathon folder, and then I press on option one and going to go to just the main folder. Command W is to close something. And if we go into the shortcuts, and let's say we search for search for graphic Templates. For the window of the graphic templates, which is going to be this one at the top, I have a shortcut option six, and I have it for every single window that I have here. So for the properties, it's option three. For effect controls, it's option four. Four, five have text, four graphic templates have six, seven for essential sound, and eight for metric color. Just instead of me having to search for it, clicking here, I can just press one of those and it's going to be super super fast. You can always learn shortcuts once again by going here and searching for some specific tools and double checking if it's available, if it's not available. Unfortunately, you can't do anything about this. But if it is available, you can definitely use it here. You can also create custom shortcuts and you can overwrite, so for example, if you don't use the pen tool or you use it very rarely. If you use it like once a year, then you can put something better for P or for the other ones. You can just customize it to your liking. The only way you will learn this is by just practicing, learning the workflows that work really well for you. And then over time, if you repeat something like ten times and you do it pretty often, you know, you'll save time by creating a shortcut, that's the time to create shortcut for it. If there are any specific questions, you can always reach out and let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 25. Edit Your Own Short-Form Video from Start to Finish: Welcome in this video, I want to walk you through your capstone project. This is the project that you need to create on your own. You've gone through all the material, you know, all the steps, and now, once again, just to get that very good practice in to go ahead and create your own video. There are a couple of ways you can do this. You can record a video of yourself or you can record an audio of yourself, or if you don't want that, you can just download videos from the Internet, put them together, and that's going to be your practice. Whichever option works for you, please, there's no pressure. It's just for you to practice. Like, the more you practice, the better you'll become, and the faster you'll become better. And if you don't believe me, just trust me. So once again, let's quickly go through everything into. Create your premiere pro project, organize everything in terms of the folders, get all the files into Premiere, organize all the files in Premiere, create the seconds and cut all the files. Work on the audio to make sure it's good. Work with the text, add captions, work with the color to make sure the skin colors are correct, then export and post the video to social media and make sure to also below the video player to submit your project. I would love to see your project. I'd love to give you feedback and see what you've created. If you don't want me to give you feedback, then just write no feedback. But it would be such an incredible opportunity to see what you create because I'm sure you'll create something if you have anything to share, just one or two sentences, it would also mean the world to me. Here's a hack. If you want to learn something really well, you need to learn, you need to practice, and then you need to teach it. The third thing, if you have a couple of thoughts to share, a couple of tips or something you struggled with and you overcame in terms of these videos, please share that because you will share it with other students. Other students might learn from that because they might experience the same things. They might not experience whatever have experienced, they experience what you have experienced and you will also learn a little bit better because you taught them. It's a win win win for everybody. Please go ahead and do that now. Last tip I would say, if you're struggling with choosing the right format, you use social media and you have creators that you follow, whether that's big companies or just small creators, go ahead and try to create a video that's similar to them. If some creators are super advanced, super hard to replicate, maybe not choose them, creators that are a bit easier to replicate, but the ones that really inspire you and something that you would really enjoy creating. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 26. Building a Portfolio & Finding Your First Clients: In this video, I like to share how you can find your first clients, and I'll share exactly how I found my first clients. My first recommendation when it comes to finding clients is always IT jobs. Why? Because it's the biggest website in terms of the creative jobs in terms of video editing jobs online. And even though it says tT like YouTube, it's not only about YouTube. Like, it says Discover the best YouTube professionals, but it's not only about YouTube. And this is how I actually found my very first client. I was really struggling. I was very depressive, a lot of things didn't work for me, and I just had to do something. And so it jobs was, like, the last thing that I decided to start with and turned out to be really great. Like, I found really good people to work with, and it's been great after that. So I really recommend you to take a look into this. All you have to do is you have to log in and then login as talent. If you growing up, you can also log in as lawyer, and then you can sign in, either create an account with your email or login with Google. Now, an important thing about WIT Jobs is I believe it requires at least six videos in order for you to create your profile. All you have to do is to upload six videos to your YouTube account. If you don't have it created, create like Google account, YouTube account, super simple, you can easily find it online. So go ahead and create that upload six videos. It would best if it was your own portfolio videos. In terms of portfolio, some people think that's scary word, that's not scary at all, just some sort of work that you've created. Just go ahead and upload it so that other people can see it as well. Then if you want, you can take a look at how it works, but what I recommend you do is go into your profile in the top right corner, video editor, click there. I stopped using this platform some time ago, so I have not updated the way it looks, but what I recommend you do is you can go to the top and here you have this pop up and you can go ahead and click on Start, fill in as much information as possible. If you work with somebody previously, that channel can confirm it. When you go into portfolio, you can add your videos here. You can quickly add your videos like in bulk or you can add one video at a time. And then if you work with other channels, they will be able to confirm that, yes, you worked with them. They will appear in your client section over here, and then they can also leave you a review. Reviews are super important because other people can take a look at the review. So, for example, some of the reviews I had some time before, try to fill in as much information as possible, give all your social media links, give you a role, give you a story about yourself, and a quick hack. You can give your information to HGPT and ask it to fill in this information, going to do it very fast, going to do it professionally, make sure to ask it. Hey, it's for IT job, give it as much information as possible so that JAPT understands the context, and when it doesn't understand it, it creates super good results. For example, for me, as I all the categories, I had experience editing with all these styles, skills, tools. By the way, AI tools is something new. They didn't have it before. So if you have that Great. Once you have your profile setup, you can go to the jobs page, and here you can click on all the categories, and you can set for video editor. And you have other skills, go ahead and explore those as well. So video editor, and you can see what people are offering. Let's take a look at this one, for example. So this is 6,000 $18,000 per year. Depending on the country that you live in, it can be a lot of money or can be like absolutely nothing for you. Totally understandable. Now, we can take a look at this project, for example, $300 per video. I would say it's okay. Like, I when I got started, I got paid $225 for a long form video. So they're looking for a video editor who can take the raw footage. And turn it into engaging retention, focused YouTube content, focus on pacing storytelling, not heavy flashy edits. Okay, so take a look at their description, and I do recommend reading the whole description because sometimes people leave a specific message there. Like write me a specific word, like, write me the word techie or crew or I'm just looking their name. The reason for that is because there are so many people that apply through these websites, and you can make yourself better than 99% of people just because you will send that because people do not do that. You can see that what the requirement proficiency in Premiere Pro. When you want to apply, just click on Apply at the top right cording. Click on Apply. Make sure that you read the description. Is everything okay? If so, click on Next. And then here, I would recommend also using HAPT to create this. At this point, I'm just using JTPT for every text that I need to create, long messages, anything like that. I do recommend saying that, Hey, I read the description. I think it would be a good fit, and something I'd recommend as well, is going to the YouTube channel, searching for their name, for the name of the actual person. Personalization is super important because it will show them you really read the description, you really try to apply. You really want this job. You know all the details, things like that. You know, because I had some people reach out to me to start working with me, I also know how important it is. And when it's a generic message, nobody wants to see that. Everyone wants personalization. So try to find their name, go to their website, go to other social accounts, and try to find their name just anywhere on their account. Create a message with AGBT, once again, explain the whole situation. If you want to learn how to create the best outreach, you can also explore Alex Ramzi. So you can go to acquisition.com. Has free courses. It's more about business, but it's really really good as well. So if we search for courses, leads courses, called outreach playbook. Yeah, you can watch this video. It will explain how to call reach out. Basically, that's exactly the same thing as you are doing here. And then at the very end, it will ask you to send a video that best represents kind of what this person is looking for. So if they're looking for long form video or short from video, doesn't matter. You can just upload the link, and they'll take a look at that video. Let's say you want the short from video, so you can click on that. And then when you apply include link of the short from video. So this one does require after effect, Photoshop or equivalent. Oh, okay, this is like really underpriced $30. Come on, for efficiency with premiere pro After effet Photoshop. And I will say that if you're struggling to get started with this, I would recommend potentially reaching out to some people and doing stuff for free in the very beginning, at least for let's say for for a week or maybe a month or a couple of months until you get some experience and proficiency and then you get some portfolio. And it will be a little bit easier with that. Something else that I would recommend is exploring platforms like Upwork and fiber. I know that some people get paid here as well. I never tried these platforms, and I don't have experienced that. I just know that people use it. It's becoming more and more popular, both fiber and Upwork. So just go ahead and take a look at that, as well. I'm sure you've heard of these companies. So start low and then try to build step by step, bit by bit, and then you'll become a little bit better, you'll increase your prices, and over time, that's just how it works. If there are any questions, please let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 27. Why Every Video Editor Needs a Contract: Hi, love from the future. Something big happened last week and I want to give you a quick update, specifically to caution you about something because things might happen. Anyway. So last week, I stopped working with my very big client. I worked with them for 1.5 years. Things seemed to be going well, but then all of a sudden, one day, it just everything ended. And the reason why I'm recording this video is there was kind of one big important aspect. We did not have any contracts with them. So it was just kind of like on a virtual handshake. We never even seen each other and we worked for 18 months and working on some big projects, created hundreds and hundreds of videos together, and things were relatively good. And then one day because we didn't have a contract, they were able to just say, something happened in our lives, and from this day on, we're closing our companies. We're not going to work with you anymore. So on one hand, yes, things can happen. On the other hand, if I did have a contract, we'd be able to extend it, let's say, if we had it written contract that we would have to work for another two weeks or a month. So they would have to tell me two weeks prior or a month prior ending the work with me. Technically, if we think about the contracts, then okay, if they did not fulfill their responsibilities and then they didn't tell me two weeks before or a month before, whatever we would have written in the contract, then I'd have to go to the court and we'd have to write in the contract, which court that I have to go for and, you know, it's still kind of like I probably still wouldn't go to the court and I would still leave things as is, even if I wanted to. But basically, what I'm trying to say is if you have a contract, they have responsibility and you have responsibility and you have that written responsibility signed by both parties. So if something goes wrong, you'd be able to literally show it to them. Or not necessarily show to them to the court to whatever. I still think because most of the video editors work with clients in other countries and we wouldn't sue them or anything like that, but it's still a good psychological practice to sign the contract because you have this mental responsibility and because you have that, you are less likely to do something the contract because you literally just sign that. It's a little bit of the pressure that you have and the more confirmations you have from different sides from that would be verbal, contractual, or some other people listening to that, that puts mental pressure on them fulfilling their duties and you fulfilling your duties. Was a bit of a rumble in anyway, how do you get the contract? Well, GP can really help with that. You can put the whole contract in. I so recommend you take a look at that. I'm not a legal adviser, I cannot advise you on that. Some of the people do have contracts, so they will provide it to you if they don't provide it to you, then you can ask HGPT the workflow I would recommend here is in the short term, when you're just getting sorry, let's say, for the first two weeks or a month, you don't necessarily have to sign the contract. It's just something in the long term. If you start working with people for a long time, you start depending on them and if you depend on the people and then they all of a sudden can just vanish, then that's not really good. In the short term, while you're still searching for the clients, you are just getting used to each other, doesn't necessarily have to be done. But in the long term, something I recommend. Either they have the contract, if they don't have a contract, you can get the contract through GPT, and if they're really against the contracts, once again, something for you to consider. From my side, we just never brought that up. I signed contracts before and then once again, it can be ended that easily one day and something that did happen to me with the contract similar a story here where it just ended in one day but without contract. I anyway when you have a contract, I think you sleep better because there's less stress and less anxiety around that. So that's what I really recommend. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 28. What’s Next: Growing as an Editor & Leveling Up: Next? You learned Premiere Pro, you found your first client. What's after that? Well, there are many ways you can take this. Something I would recommend is just continue developing yourself, continue learning. Every day become just a little bit better. 1% better, it's so simple yet it's so important because if you become better by 1%, you will be 37 times better by the end of the year. If you become worse by 1%, you will be almost equal to zero. It's important to become just 1% better. And trust me, even if you plateau, you don't become better or worse, you still become worse because the world is moving forward and compared it to the world, you will be moving backwards. So it's extremely important to become just a little bit better, just a little bit, learn the new technique, learn the new shortcut, learn just something learn add a new font, add a new graphic, add a new song, add a new effect, just something to the video. Take a look at the retention graphs. Explore just how the videos are doing, explore other creators, things like just try to become just a little bit better every single day. Trust me, if you become, let's say, not 1%, but let's say two, three, 4% better every day, which is totally doable. In one year, you will not even remember who you used to be. Unfortunately, it does take time. It's super boring and it's what people don't like to do. If you don't want to do it, totally understandable, but then just don't expect huge results. People who get the best results, who get paid the most, who just get the most out of this life, those people are the ones who just do the boring stuff, who have the patience or at least the will to put themselves and to just sit down for hours, days, and years and just becoming better a little bit by a little bit doing the boring stuff. Then if you do that for years, there's still no guarantee. I absolutely hated this phrase when I got started, but there's no guarantee, even if you do that. But if you don't do it, that guarantees that you will stay in the same position, that guarantees that you will not achieve results. If you want to achieve results, give it a try, give it your best, improve a little bit by a little bit. Okay. That was a bit of motivational just explosion through me. But now let's talk about After Effects. A number of people think about learning After Effects after they've learned Premiere Pro. I think that's a good idea. That's one of the ways that you can become better. With After Effects, if you learn that skill, you definitely can get paid a lot more. You can create a lot more advanced videos and the videos that are just more pleasant to watch that even get more views, although that's not always guaranteed. After Effects, absolutely. If you want to learn After Effects, once again, you can click on my profile. I teach After effect as well. Get in contact with like minded people. You can always reach out to people who also take this course. You can support each other. You can reach out to me, which is always an option. To recap, get better, get better every single day. Try to get better. If you have no idea how to get better, ask RDPT how to get better. I also gave you 20 different ideas right now. Become a little bit better. After effect, if you want to get into After Effects, sure, it's going to be great. I don't see any disadvantages in learning After Effects. I only see advantages. Explore After Effects. By becoming better, you'll increase your prices. By increasing your prices, you'll attract better clients, by attracting better clients, you'll get paid more. You'll get your skills even better. It's just like it's like a snowball. It starts small, but then after year becomes huge. I recommend you becoming a snowball of just improvement and betterment. And as always, if you have any questions, let me know better than that. I'll see you in the next video. 29. Last Step!: Congratulations. You're nearly 100% done with the Premiere Pro short from video editing course. There are just two small steps you need to take. First, take action. As Kafuch said, a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. So if you haven't already, take your first step by editing your first video. All the best information in the world means nothing if you don't act on it, and even small steps lead to massive outcomes. You found value in this program, I would really appreciate if you can take 60 seconds to leave you honest feedback. I will be immensely grateful to you and your feedback will massively help future students in deciding the best program for them. Although this course is complete, your journey has just begun. I'm excited to see you edit online, so be sure to keep me and your fellow students posted. Remember, I'm here for your success. If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to reach out in the Q&A section below. Wishing you all the best and looking forward to seeing you in future courses.