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My Editing Workflow For Adobe Premiere Pro | Fulltime Content Creator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Video Editing Isn't Hard (Intro)

      1:08

    • 2.

      Class Project

      0:45

    • 3.

      Must Haves In Your Videos

      1:53

    • 4.

      Different Types Of Content

      1:59

    • 5.

      Data Management

      1:34

    • 6.

      Importing Footage

      1:11

    • 7.

      Keyboard Shortcuts

      5:44

    • 8.

      Timeline Frame Rate Conversion

      3:24

    • 9.

      Sifting & Cutting

      1:14

    • 10.

      Storytelling Techniques (ARoll BRoll)

      2:42

    • 11.

      Storytelling Techniques (Keyframing)

      3:52

    • 12.

      Storytelling Techniques (Masking & Opacity)

      4:19

    • 13.

      Match Cutting

      0:48

    • 14.

      Speed Ramping

      1:59

    • 15.

      Color Correction & Color Grading

      6:09

    • 16.

      Audio Editing

      3:19

    • 17.

      Effects & Graphics

      2:16

    • 18.

      Export Settings

      1:52

    • 19.

      Conclusion

      1:53

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Develop a solid editing foundation & turn your creative ideas into amazing videos with Adobe Premiere Pro. For My Beginners <3

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Class Objective

You'll learn a solid workflow for Adobe Premiere Pro which will allow you to do the following:

  • Manage Data and start a Premiere Pro project
  • Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up editing time
  • Perform basic edits & rearrange clips
  • Craft a good story using A-Roll, B-Roll, & other storytelling techniques
  • Color Correct & Color Grade your footage with Adjustment Layers
  • Applying and adjusting video/audio effects
  • Customize graphics & text
  • Use third party graphics & effects
  • Create custom animations and understand its mechanics
  • Mixing audio from speech to music
  • Exporting a video with the proper settings

Final Result

By the end of the class you'll have a complete editing workflow inside Adobe Premiere Pro. From importing, to exporting & everything in between. Eliminating that learning curve will allow you to begin editing videos you love!

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Kent Hart

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Hello, I'm Hart. I am a photographer / videographer based out of Colorado Springs, CO. When I started my journey I completely relied on guessing / experimenting and this habit caused me to burn out pretty quickly. So I began to believe that education is more important than having the cool gear and fancy gadgets. I'm here to help you squash any questions or doubts about getting started. From Camera Basics all the way to being a Content Creator. You ready to become a photographer/videographer? Lets Do It!!

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1. Video Editing Isn't Hard (Intro): My name is Hard, the Plug. And I've been creating content for nearly half a decade, and that video went on to reach 13 million views, that 18 million. A lot of people believe that editing is difficult, but it's really not. All you have to do is focus on making your videos digestible, easy to consume. We'll be going over certain things to structure your edits around, like relatability, the three E's and other concepts. And I'm going to take you through the entire interface of Premier Pro and turn you into a speech editor. This class will begin to build the foundation you need to become a successful content creator in the shortest time possible. And we're going to establish the idea in your head that editing does not have to be some sort of gruesome and unrewarding experience. You're going to import the footage, edit the footage, and export the footage. That's it. So if you're ready to claim your success in content creation, let's hop in. 2. Class Project: So I was told I had to give you guys a class project. Something that would help you apply what you learned. So you don't just brain dump everything. So here it is. Your class project will serve two purposes. One, you get to practice what you learned from the class. Two, you'll have a video to post on your social media to kick start your journey. You're not limited to any genre or any type of video. Just create a video around something that's you, Something that you are truly passionate about. Whether it's a photoshoot of log cars, cooking, whatever you want it to be. Quick recap, Make your video, post it somewhere. Copy the link. Put it in the projects and resources down below. And tell us a little bit about your project. And before we get into the class, if you want to make friends, find inspiration or you just want to be a part of a community of other video creators, go ahead and join my Discord, the plugged in community. The link will be in the class description. Don't forget about that class project. I was told it's supposed to be very important, so let's start learning, guys. 3. Must Haves In Your Videos: Before we get into anything technical, we're going to talk about a couple of things you must have in your videos. Imagine if there was a structure that could help your videos resonate with people so deeply that they engage with their content. Well, there is, and you want this structure, trust me, because likes comments, shares, saves, and most importantly, watch time is what drives a successful video. The first point is the three s, which is emotion, entertainment, and education. Now, why do you think viral videos go viral? It's because they touch the hearts of the masses. Whether it's happiness, trauma, sadness, regret, nostalgia, anger. If you can make people feel something, if you can play into their emotions, they have to engage entertainment. Think about it. Anyone can watch an entertaining video. Go and watch movies all the time, because they're usually entertaining. Action mysteries, love stories. If you can make someone laugh, cry, feel anxious, you can get them to engage. Now, although education is last, it is just as powerful. Tutorial videos, financial hacks, DIY videos has its place in successful content too. Teaching someone something that they can benefit from will create a bond between you and them and they will respect you as an authoritative figure as well. Now all that is wrapped up in one point. Our second point is relatability and making relatable content. Our aim is to create an environment that our audience can place themselves inside of. If you can come up with ideas that literally everyone has experienced, you can touch a broad number of people. Last point is digestible videos. Like I said in Intro, creating videos that are easy to consume is paramount. It's really important to think about what your video is going to look like when your audience is viewing it on their phone, usually. And what they see before and after they swipe onto and off of your video. You're competing with millions of other creators, whether you like it or not, so you cannot miss this. Make your videos easy to watch. Do not clutter your videos with captions and texts, graphics and effects. I kind of run right there. I'll have some resources in the class with this information, so you can go ahead and download it in case you need to reference it later. Let's move on to the lesson two. Could you turn that light off for me? Thanks. Remember who you're doing this for? I know. I know. I know Jesus. Okay. 4. Different Types Of Content: So before we start, okay, one more quick thing I want to discuss with you guys. I just want to put as much value in this class as possible. Before we get to the technical stuff, let's talk about the different types of content. And this comes to like the ideation of your scripting, recording, editing, and posting all together. So the whole point of you being a content creator, right, is you want to create a community that likes you for you. And this is how you're going to do it. Audience building, nurture content, sales content. Now the sales content probably won't apply to you until you're a little bit deeper into your content creation career. So let's talk about audience building. Audience building is your viral ideas, your big ideas. That's going to bring you a lot of views, a lot of traffic. Now when I say viral, I don't mean you have to get millions and millions of views. 30,000 views, 10,000 views. As long as you're getting some good traffic through your page, that is what you want. It makes some big ideas, make it very entertaining, very digestible, like we said in the last lesson. And the second type of content is going to take the traffic you get from your viral videos and convert them into followers and fans. Nurture content is you building your personal brand right? Getting people to fall in love with you as a person. They won't do as well, but they will resonate with the people that you want to stay on your page. So use the audience building type of content to attract a lot of people through your page. And then convert them to stick around with you fall in love with your personality, with nurture content. A good example for how I do it. My viral videos are that I do, they get millions, hundreds of thousands of views. And then I post logs, I post my singing videos. Anything that I want people to know me for, I post that. And I always get comments like, yo, we don't want to see this, we want to see your skits. Do not listen to those people. The people that just want to see. One type of thing that you do is not the people you want on your page. You want the people that will enjoy anything you post because they like you, Okay? Okay. I know this is a little bit far from video editing, but we will get into it right now. I just want to share that with you guys because I really do think it'll help you in your journey. So I hope you use that and go forward and multiply. Let's get into it, shall we? 5. Data Management: So we're going to start with data management. And while we go through this class, I want to help you develop some good practices that'll prevent you from losing misplacing, or deleting footage on accidents. So when you get back from shooting, you should offload your footage to a hard drive if able. These lacy drives are pretty reliable. It's the ones I use or you can get a cheaper one. Anything that is T SSD is good for transfer speed anyway. If all you have is a SD card reader like this, that's fine, Just edit off of that. I don't recommend you offload your footage on your computer memory. It'll fill up really quick and it'll start to slow your computer down. So open your hard drive up and you're going to create a master folder and we're going to put a name on here that will describe what this is, so it's easy to find later. For example, I'm going to name mine Miami Trip 2023. So you can click through into that master folder and this is where we're going to be organizing everything. Now since I was there for multiple days, I'm going to go by day. But if you captured all of your footage in one day, you can just name your folders what camera you were using. For example, if you have drone footage, you're going to make a drone folder. If you have DSLR footage, you're going to make a DSLR folder and then you can start placing your footage in their respective folders. And if you want to go even deeper, it might be smart to organize within your folders with location, car ride, yacht, and villa. That is everything that we did that day. So I'm going to put those locations in there so it'll be very easy to find. Take the footage from the house, put it in the villa. The yacht ride, I'll put it in yacht in the car ride. I'll put it in the car ride. So when it comes to data management, all you're doing is making sure your data is stored in a safe place and it's easy to find when you go look for it. So let's hop into Premier Pro and import our footage now. 6. Importing Footage: Two ways to import footage in Premier Pro. So let's open Premiere Pro. Make sure you create a new project in Premier Pro that you name it something that is unique, just like the data management. And you can go ahead and hop in. So make your way down to this box here and you're going to go to media browser. Okay, day one of my Miami trip is on card two. So I can click and drag that into the new project. And it will bring all of that into your project folder here. Say that you didn't want everything in that card. You can just click into the folder, select what you want, and you can just drag that over individually. Now the second way to import footage is probably quicker. You're going to find your way to this box again, Double click inside of it and your file Explorer will pop up for you. Now you're just going to navigate to where you saved it. I'm going to go to card one and you can just press Import. Now if you do a good job of organizing your files before you import, you won't have to organize inside of this project folder. But if you do have to, you're just going to go down here to new bin and click on that. You can make new folders, rename them, and organizing in here will be just like organizing inside of your hard drive. You're just making sure everything is easy to find. And that's pretty much it. So that's it. Importing footage is done. Let's talk about keyboard shortcuts. It's very important. 7. Keyboard Shortcuts: Guys, so we're in premiere and we're gonna go through the most important keyboard shortcuts. You don't have to use every single one that I give you, but these are the ones that I use to shorten my editing time almost by 50% So we're going to start by going to the top left corner, and you'll see Premiere Pro here. And you're going to select keyboard shortcuts. And this is where you're going to be assigning certain actions to certain keys. So I've laid out some footage from my Miami trip and we're going to be using this to show you guys the keyboard shortcuts what they do. So the Spacebar key is your pause and play button pressing it once we'll play your footage. Pressing it again will pause your footage. The letter V is a default so you don't have to change it and it's going to be your select tool. This is how you're able to make selections and move things around. The plus and minus keys will zoom in and out of your time line when you need to make precise cuts, like when you're editing to a song or you're just trying to cut clips together. You need to get real close in. Keep in mind when you're zooming in and out. Wherever you have this blue line, your cursor here, it's going to keep that in the middle. If I put it at the end here, it'll zoom into the end. And if I put it at the front, it will zoom in to the front. The delete key will delete anything you have selected sauce like this. I'll press Delete. And that's gone. Say you want to get rid of that clip in the space that's occupying. We're going to go back up to Premier Pro Keyboard shortcuts, and you're going to type in Ripple Delete into this dialog box here. You'll see Ripple delete at the top here and right here. Change it to, after you have under shortcut next to Ripple delete, go ahead and press. Okay. And now if you have like a clip in the middle you don't want and you want to get rid of the clip in the space, just press and it will delete everything the blade tool is defaulted to. If you press, you'll see your cursor turns into a blade and you can cut your clips just like this if you want to do that faster. Again, let's go up to the top left Premier Pro Keyboard shortcuts and you're going to type in add edit into this box. Now add edit will come up at the top and you're going to change the shortcut to the letter E. Go ahead and press okay. And now whatever you have underneath your blue line here will be sliced. When you press the universal undue sequence for something is command Z. Control Z if you're on PC. So if you happen to delete a clip on accident, you can press command Z. It'll bring it right back. Now if you want to redo something, basically undo your undo command shift Z will redo your undue. Another universal sequence is the copy and paste. But in this case, we're going to be copying attributes from one clip to the next. So if you placed an effect key, frame, color grade, anything on one clip and you want it transferred to the next, you can do that very easily. So I have a nice color grade on this adjustment layer. I'm just going to press Command or Control. And then I'm going to select the clip I want to paste those attributes to. And I'm going to press Option Command or Control V. This paste attributes box will pop up and you can select what you want to bring over to your next clip. So I'm going to check all of this. I'll bring the color over. And now you can see this is color graded. The longer way to do it is to right click, press copy. Go to your new clip. Right click again. Paste Attributes, press Okay, that works too. Just a little bit longer. Alright, next, do this for me. Go up to the top left, Premiere Pro Keyboard, shortcuts to type in unlink. You'll see unlink at the top here. Under shortcuts, it's just say command plus l. Change that to the letter U for unlinked. I don't know why they didn't do that anyway. Once you change that to you press okay. And now you can select one of your videos, press the letter U, and that will separate the audio from the video, and you can edit those separately. This is very useful in very weird situations, but you will end up using this one day. And to link them back together, select them both, press U again, and now it's linked again. You can also use this to link other things together like these two. Here press U with both of them selected, and now it's all linked. And you can press again, it'll unlink all of that. The speed and duration box is useful in a lot of ways. All you're going to do is select one of your clips, Command or Control R. And now you can do a ton of things with the speed of your video. We'll go over this dialogue box later on when we talk about speed ramping. Nesting clips will help you with a bunch of things like cleaning up your time line, applying more than one effect to a clip, because you can't do that without nesting. Or if you want to apply one effect to a broad number of clips. Go to the top left to premiere Pro, again, keyboard shortcuts, you're going to type in nest. Now when nest comes up, it should be blank under shortcut. Just type the letter in for nest. There you go. Press okay. And now you can nest things with the press of a button. All you have to do is select something, press the letter in, and just press, okay. Think of nesting like flattening your video. And everything inside of that nest will be affected with whatever you put on it. Our Romo's done, so we're going to go back to Premiere Pro in the top left corner. Keyboard shortcuts, once again, we don't have to search for these. Track select backward, and Track select forward tools. Go ahead and change the Track select backward tool to the letter Q. After you change that, just press, okay. I don't want to zoom all the way out and highlight all of this and then start moving it over like that. Okay, What you can do is you can press the letter A. Everything behind this will be moved forward. And if you click the letter Q, vice versa, everything in front of this will be moved backwards. Now when it's time to export, you can use the letter to make an endpoint in the letter. To make an outpoint and pressing command M will pull up the export menu. Now if you have red or yellow bars at the top of your timeline like this, that is telling you that you may experience some dropped frames. Meaning your time line will lag when playing those areas. And how to remedy that is to render it out. To do that, create your in and out points with that letter, in that letter and then go up here to sequence, Come to Render Out, and those yellow and red bars will start to turn to green if it still lags. After that though, you may have some graphics or effects that is too heavy for your computer to handle. I would know because when I was using this as my main computer, literally every time I exported it would crash. So guys, like I said in the beginning, I'm not expecting you to use every single shortcut that I showed you. This is just what I find useful for me and it speeds up my editing time. So I think you're ready to edit a video. What do you think? Let's get into it. 8. Timeline Frame Rate Conversion: Line frame rate conversion. After you import your footage, you might want to convert all of your lips frame rate to the frame rate of your timeline. A lot of times when we're out recording, we end up changing our frame rate for many reasons. Could be to get slow motion like 120 frames per second, or you just need more or less light and you've exhausted all of your other options. Whatever the case may be, this is very simple. Go to your project folder where all of your footage is located and you'll see these icons down here. And these will change the way you view your project folder. And this mode will display information about each clip. And as you can see here, you can see what frame rate every clip was recorded at a really quick pointer, whatever clip you drag onto your timeline first, the timeline will assume the settings of that clip. If you wanted to edit a ten ADP vertical video for Tiktok or a four K horizontal video for you Tube. I'd recommend keeping a sample clip where you can find it so you don't have to enter in the sequence settings yourself every time you open a new project. I'll show you what I mean really quick. We're going to go to file new sequence, press Ok, and I have a clip to set the settings I need for my Tiktok videos on my desktop. This clip all the way down here, I'm going to import it. And once I drag this onto the timeline, this message will come up. Make sure this is checked and never uncheck this. And then change sequence settings. Now this entire sequence is set to edit in a vertical video and vice versa. If I were to go on my hard drive and load in this one, this is a four K video. It'll ask again, change sequence settings again and now we're editing on a four K time line. The only time you need to convert your footage to another frame rate is when it doesn't match the frame rate of the time line. And usually if everything works out, I like to record everything in 30 frames a second. More specifically 29.97 Judge. But you can see here all of my clips are 29.97 frames per second. So I don't need to change anything here. But say you recorded some stuff in slow mo, 60 frames per second, 120 frames per second. And you want to enter that until your 30 frames per second time line. This is the proper way to do it. My clips here are all 60 frames per second. You're gonna highlight those clips. Right click. You're going to go to Modify Interpret Footage. This dialog box will pop up. Go to the top under frame rate and you're going to click assume this frame rate and you're gonna type in the frame rate of your timeline. So we know it's 29.97 FPS. That is the frame rate of my timeline. And we're going to press okay. Now that just converted all of these to 29.97 So as you can see we play it, it's gonna play it in real time instead of slow mo. If you want it to be slow mo, we can just slow it back down. So do you guys remember the speed and duration shortcut command or Alt R? We're going to lower the speed of this so we can bring it back to 60 frames per second, in a 30 frames per second timeline. How do we know what to slow it down to, though? I'll show you. So open up your calculator and you're going to go the frame rate of your time line, which mine is 30 frames per second divided by the frame rate of the clip, 60 frames per second, and you get 0.5 So we're gonna slow this clip down to 50% So you have a 24 frames per second time line and you have 120 frames per second clip. You want to add in 24/120 you get 0.2 You would slow it down to 20% I know this can kind of be confusing, but if it doesn't make sense to you guys, just let me know and I will try to explain it a little bit better. But the reason why we do this is it just makes editing a lot more smoother. If you have all these different frame rates clashing together in one time line, you could experience some lagging in performance issues. If you have footage you want to add that's outside of that frame rate, go ahead and convert it first and then slow it back down when you get it into the timeline. You know what? I'll add a page to the workbook so you guys can references whenever you feel like it. Next lesson we're gonna be sifting and cutting through some footage. Let's get it. 9. Sifting & Cutting: Sifting and cutting through footage is going to be the first thing we want to do in our editing process. Just a reminder that we changed these two keyboard shortcuts. E is ad edit and is ripple delete. If you didn't take these on and you made your own shortcuts, that's fine. Just know that Add Edit and Ripple delete are going to be two actions we use a lot in the sifting and cutting process. Now you can start this up two ways. Select one of your clips, drag it up to your source here, and then drop it there. Make your in and out points with the letter, and then drag that onto your timeline. Second way to do this is to grab all of your clips. Drag them all on the timeline at once. And now you can sift and cut through everything at the same time. On your first clip, you're going to begin to cut out any unnecessary space. We're going to press E over wherever you want to cut. And then we're going to select the excess, whatever you want to cut, which is this clip here. And just press that will delete that clip and it will collapse everything back down to the start. And you're going to continue doing that until you got rid of everything you don't want. If you were doing a Talking Head video or an interview, you would get rid of all the bad takes, things of that nature. Anything that will take away from your video being entertaining, cut it out and guys that is sifting and cutting. And like I said, it's probably better to do this in the very beginning because now we've gathered all of our usable footage and the next lesson we're going to go over some storytelling techniques using editing. 10. Storytelling Techniques (ARoll BRoll): So what's the best way to tell a story? See, that's completely up to you. See, each and every one of us would tell the same story a different way using words and visuals. But we can all get familiar with a few editing techniques that can help build a better story. The foundation of it all, role and B roll. Now we did discuss what these two were in the last class. Camera basics for video. If you didn't take that class, I would highly suggest you do so after this one. But to be very brief role is your dialogue your main story, and B roll is your in between visuals. It's something that we use to piece together different parts of our story. Videos with only a roll look something like this. You see me just talking to you guys, this is a role and earlier in the data management lesson, when I was telling you guys it was okay to edit off your SD card, I showed me putting my SD card in my SD card reader. That's B roll. Anyway, let's look at some ways to use roll and B roll together. So if you do want B roll in your videos, you need to capture B roll. So whatever you're subject in your video, if it's you, if it's someone else, whatever they're saying or doing, you should capture clips of the performance of that task. Perfect example with my Miami Log in the beginning. How did I end up in Miami in this huge house with 20 other creators? Well, it's a long story. You see, it's cool if I say that, but now you have to visualize me being there. And honestly you just wouldn't know what that looks like unless I showed you. So I'll get some clips of Me in Miami. Clips of the house, clips of all the creators, and now we have this. How did I end up in Miami in this huge house with 20 other creators? Well, it's a long story. So our goal with using Row is to eliminate your audience's need to try to piece things together in their mind. Remember this quote, remember it. Always write it down somewhere. Show me. Don't tell me if you have a message you're trying to get across. If you're telling a story, take the time to record those in between shots. Those detailed shots of whatever you're doing. Trust me, it will make your videos a lot more pleasing to watch. And like I said, the beginning digestible. Okay. Another way to use B roll, right? Maybe you want to transition your audience from one part of the story to the next. Like announcing that you're about to go somewhere and then showing them clips of you getting ready. I guess you can call it like a montage of clips, but stand alone B roll can tell a better story than A roll and B roll. Sometimes it can really get your point across without you having to say anything. It can bring in a lot of emotion. Check out this stand alone B roll I've recorded on the Miami trip. You want to speed up and Yeah. You fascinated? I was at that. So that last clip was a role. It's us talking and laughing and stuff like that. It's moving the story forward. That B role is just letting you experience our car infomercial. You mix in some standalone B roll footage, in some nice music like that, you can get a vibe. So obviously there's going to be more than one editing technique. This is just the first one. I'm not gonna make this a super long lesson. Our next lesson is going to be key framing. And I love this one. You're gonna love it too. 11. Storytelling Techniques (Keyframing): I use keyframing a lot in premiere pro. It's really good at emphasizing things or drawing your audience's eyes to a certain point. And it all goes down right here on the effect controls panel. Keyframing applies to motion, opacity, time, remapping, and audio levels. And how it works is you can create in and out points with different settings on each end. And it can do all kinds of things. It can make your video move around, zoom in, zoom out, fade in, fade out, speed up. And since keyframing covers a lot of things, we're going to separate them by group. So we'll start with motion. These clocks on the side here are how you add and take away keyframes. So if you click on one of them, it's going to show up over here with this little dot here. And if you click it again, it's going to tell you this action will delete existing key frames. Do you want to continue? It doesn't matter how many key frames you put on this time line. If you do it this way, it'll delete. All of you can scroll through here and add another one using this button here. So if you want to delete one, individually, highlight it and press Delete and it'll delete it. Now you have two settings for position. This first one here is going to move your frame left and right. The second one will move up and down. You're only going to have one setting here for scale. And all this does is zoom in and out of your frame. If you click on the anchor point here, you'll see this blue circle with a cross in the middle. All the effects you apply on that clip is going to evolve around that point. So if we rotate this clip around like this, it'll rotate around the middle of that clip. Say we were to grab this anchor point and drag it in the corner. Now when we rotate this, it's going to rotate around that point. Anti flicker filter will assist you with flickering videos. I never use it, probably never will, but it's there if you want it. So for a simple pull in shot, you're going to go to where you want that pull in shot to begin. I'm going to do it at the start of my clip. And we're going to go up to scale, because that's what we used to zoom in and out. And you're going to create your first keyframe by pressing on this stopwatch here. You'll see over here, it's been created. Now you're going to go to where you want the zoom in to stop. And you're going to zoom in using the setting beside scale, you can either click and type in what you want, or you can click and hold and drag. Now once you enter any number outside what you started with, it is going to create another key frame automatically for you. And now you can see we have a zooming clip. If you want to pan your video left to right, up or down, it's the same thing, except if you do it when your video is all the way zoomed out, you're going to run out of space instantly. So if you want to pan across your video, you'll need to zoom in a little bit first. So let's go up to position again and create our first key frame. And then you're going to slide over to where you want the effect to stop. Remember the first one moves right and left, the second one moves up and down. We're just going to drag over to where we want this thing to end. So we started in the middle and we moved up into the left, and it looks like this. You can also use it to track objects, people's faces or bodies. This is very simple, just zoom into where you want to track. We'll pick this microphone here she's holding. Now go ahead and create that keyframe for position. And you can do this two ways. You can grab your cursor and scroll forward. Or you can use your aerial key that points to the right and just scroll forward like that. I'm going to use this right here to zoom in here so I can see a little bit better. So I'm going to scrub forward a couple frames. And I'm going to keep that microphone in the center by just moving the position like this, a couple frames forward. Move it over. And you just keep doing this until the motion is done and now you have this. You see the frame just follows that microphone. Now, a quicker way to do this, it's not as efficient, but you can create one end point at the beginning and one at the end, it will essentially do the same thing, but it won't track it as well as if you follow it along a couple frames at a time. So I'm going to delete everything in the middle here. And just leave one at the beginning, one in the end. And you can see how this looks right. Doesn't look bad at all, since the microphone is moving in a straight line. You can definitely do it this way, it's way quicker, and it works just as fine. But if you're tracking an object that's moving like diagonally and like all over the place, you might want to track it frame by frame yourself. So I use these techniques all the time to make things a lot more interesting, my videos, to emphasize things, and to put a little bit more power behind certain things that I say. So play around with those settings long enough. You'll figure out if it's something you would like to do on a regular basis or if it's not even for you. But next we're going to talk about opacity settings and masking. 12. Storytelling Techniques (Masking & Opacity): All I was gonna tell you guys, we're gonna be outside. But I wanted to be a surprise. So are you surprised? So keyframing opacity is very simple. So we're gonna save that for the end of this lesson. I want to show you guys how the mask, because you can do a lot and I mean a lot of cool things with masks. So underneath the opacity here we have these icons. These are your mask. This oval mask will create an oval. And whatever is inside of this mask will remain. Everything outside will be invisible. It's not necessarily deleted. You just can't see it. If you want to turn off any of your effects, you can just press on the icons here to the left and it'll turn them off. And on the rectangle in the pin masks do basically the same thing, but with the pin mask you'll have to draw out your mask yourself, which gives you more control. Let me drop a color grade on this footage really quick. What I just did there is I used an adjustment layer to apply the look I wanted on all the clips at the same time. We'll go over that when we go over color grading. So the most common use of masking is removing objects. First, you're going to put your camera on a tripod because there cannot be any camera shake, it will ruin this effect. So you need to record a blank clip first. Something where your object is not yet in there and there's no moving objects in the background. Preferably, you want to find a place where there's no movement at all. And as you can see here, I noticed that the clouds will be moving, so I pointed the camera downwards. Now you can go ahead and record your video. So you bring this footage into premiere and you want to remove this book bag or any object, really go ahead and go to your blank footage. And you're gonna drag that underneath your main footage. Make sure that you record long enough for it to last the entire effect. Now we're going to go up to effect controls and we're going to select our mask. I'm going to use the Pintool on this one. Now using this Pintool, I'm going to draw around my bag here. For the sake of time, we're just going to do this very quickly. And now you have a mask around your object. All you have to do is click inverted. And now that video will play. In the bag is gone. Now if you had a moving object, you would do the same thing, except you would click and drag this mask to wherever your object is moving to. And it will keep that invisible. And a quicker way to do that is to come up here to track selected mask forward. And depending on how defined your object is, it will track that mask over your object by itself. So make sure you do not cross this line in the middle here. To take it a step further, you can interact with yourself on camera, which I love to do. As you can see, it takes a lot of memory, timing, things of that nature. But you should be able to get better at it as you put your apps in. So once you got your clone shots, you're gonna bring it into Premier. And place one on top of the other. The one that you place on top, go up to opacity and decrease it by 50% In this way, you can see how well you did on separating yourself like here. I can already see my shadow is going to overlap with my leg here. Now for this cloning effect, we're going to go for the pin mask again and then make your way over here. And you're gonna change this fit to 25% We're gonna be drawing this mask outside of the frame, so you want enough room to see what you're doing. And I'll show you guys the other clones that I've done in the past. You want to draw a rectangle over the side that's on the top. Okay, So you can start from anywhere you'd like. I'm going to start here, go down here. I'm just going to draw a box around that side. And now we're going to go back and increase the opacity back to 100% Now both of our halves are there. Now you can change this 25% back to fit. You're gonna go to mask feather. Drive that up a little bit and you can see that it starts to feather it out in the middle. So you can see, like I said, my shadow is cut off there. Be very careful about everything when you're doing this. Okay? Moving objects, shadows, things hanging outside of your clothes. The smallest thing you can throw this off, just keep that in mind. So we'll finish this lesson off with the keyframing opacity. It works exactly like everything else. The automatic setting will be at 100 here. So you can go to anywhere in your timeline where you want it to start fading. Go up to opacity, create your first key frame using the stopwatch. And then go to where you want to fade to stop. And just drag it all the way down to zero. And now you play it back. Your video will fade to black. If you want to do this at the start of your video, just go to the beginning, drag it down to 0% Create your key frame. Go to where you want it to be completely faded in and then drag it back up to 100. Play it back and it fades from black guys. That is key framing, opacity and masking, definitely get some experience masking because it is a good skill to have. I even did it at Starbucks later today. Next lesson we're going to go over speed ramping and match cutting. Let's get into it. 13. Match Cutting: So let's talk about match cutting. This is a simple cutting technique that can help you tell a story in a pretty cool way. And let me show you how to do it. How it works is you record two of the same action, but you do something different in one that you didn't do in the others. It's that simple. The first clip you record is where you're starting from and the second clip is where you're going to or where you're ending. So say I had a long day of editing ahead of me and I wanted to show that on a video. I could record one clip right now of me sitting down like this is in another clip like this where I'm all tired. I'm not actually tired, but you get the point Now, bring that clip onto your timeline and you're gonna cut that clip right before wherever you want that transition to happen. And if you have a second clip, drag that one on and cut it wherever you finish that motion like this is a really good example of it. I love using it like this. So guys that is match cutting pretty easy and you can add that to your list of skills now. 14. Speed Ramping: You've watched enough videos on Youtube about videography or filmmaking. You've probably already heard of speed ramping. Speed ramping gives us the ability to speed up and slow down clips using a system similar to the key framing we went over. So the most satisfying speed ramping happens when you have slow motion footage, but you can speed ramp normal footage. And I'll show you what I mean. So your clips are on your timeline. I want you to go to this line right above wherever your top clips are. Click it, drag it up. Doing this will allow us to see the key frames for our speed ramping. Now you see these boxes right here that says effect. We're going to right click on that and we're going to go to time remapping and speed, that line that was at the top is going to drop to the bottom. And now this is a speed ramp line. Go ahead and press the letter P for a pin tool. So what you want to do first is figure out where should I speed this up? Where should I slow it down? And I wanted to slow down right about here. So I place my blue line over where I want to make the mark. And I'm going to just click there. And now this line is separated at that mark. All you have to do is literally click this line and drag it up. And you can see the clip has been shortened. We'll play that through, and you see it's fast in the beginning and it slows down to end. If you want to go even faster, just pull it up again. If you want to make it more of a transition, you can go to this pointer here we made. And we can click on the left side and drag it to the right. And you can see that diagonal starts to show up. And now we played it and it's a little bit more of a smoother transition from fast to slow. And now you have this epic pull out shot of the mansion. And it slows down, it's amazing. So sometimes your drone footage, your camera footage may be shaky and you want to put a warp stabilizer on it. So if you use time remapping, you cannot use warp stabilizer on that same clip unless you nest the clip. Now we've nested clips before, all you're going to do is press the letter in. If we did the keyboard shortcuts, if not, you can just right click and just fine nest and then just press okay. And now that we nested this clip, we can go to the effects panel here and we'll type in warp stabilizer. Okay, you'll find this one and you'll just drag that onto your footage. Now it's going to say analyzing and what this does is smoothing out your shaky footage. So guys, this does not just apply to drone footage. You can use this on anything. So now let's go over the match cut effect. 15. Color Correction & Color Grading: Color correction and color grading. Let's talk about it. So color correcting and color grading really has its greatest effect. When you shoot in log. You can think as log as, like a raw image. It's stripped of all the saturation, but it retains a ton of information. And you can pull things back to extreme levels and create a look that's special to you. Now if you're not interested in doing all that, I understand, you will probably be shooting in standard mode, which is what this is. And this is the automatic mode that will give you that saturation contrast in everything you will want out of a good looking video without you having to do a lot of things in editing. But at the very least, whether you shoot in rog or standard profile, you will have to color correct. So let's learn how to do that now. When it comes to log footage, you cannot edit it like this, you can't see anything. So what you'll have to do is convert it to seven oh nine, which is a standard profile, basically like this but for log footage. So in your project folder, you're going to go down here, go to adjustment layer, and it will auto load the dimensions of your time line. You can just press okay. So you can double click on this adjustment layer down here and we can rename this wreck seven oh nine. Now we're going to place this adjustment layer overhead our footage. And these adjustment layers are great because whatever you put on them, everything underneath it will receive those changes. Now we're going to go up here to window work ****** and color collapse this basic correction by just pressing it there. And then you're going to go to the Creative tab now where it says, look, this is where you're going to search for your conversion lot. Now Higley suggest you to invest in a conversion lot. Okay. It won't be that expensive. And it will get you from log to standard in one click. This is the one I use. I don't know why, but I named it new, new, new. But when I open it, you see I get a lot of that contrast in that color back. And if you're shooting off a standard footage like this, you don't have to do anything yet. Now the next thing you want to do is select your clip and go over to Lumetri scopes. Now this is your regular wave form. Now you have things like the vector scope in the histogram. We're not going to mess with any of that, let's just keep it simple. Let's learn how to read this. So this wave form is going to read your video from left to right. The very top of your wave form here is your highlights. The very bottom is your Blacks. You don't want the bottom of this to touch or go past zero, And you don't want the top of this to touch or go past 100. If I raise the exposure and I go past 100, you can see everything is too bright now. And if I take the shadows in the blacks down, you can see all of this lost information in here is reflected at the bottom here. And that's why it's very important to expose properly in the field. So you're going to be looking for colors that stick out too much. It looks pretty balanced to me, but there is a lot of red at the top. So we'll go to the temperature up here, and we're going to cool it down just a little bit. And we can see the red begins to subside, and now the magenta is sticking out at the top here. So let's move over to tint, and we're going to introduce a little bit more green tint to balance out that magenta. And now you can see at the top we have a smooth line. And it may not look like we did a lot, but you can see before and after on the wave form, we balanced everything out. So guys, that is color correction and you need to do it with your standard footage too. So we click over to the standard footage and you can see this looks way more crazy than what we had. The first thing we notice is the highlights are touching 100 this time. Let's go to the curves tab. And we're going to use this to balance everything out. So this will act the same way as all of these sliders here, But you have a lot more control here. So we need to lower the brights a little bit, bring that down from 100. And I'm going to raise the blacks in the shadows a little bit too. And get it away from zero. So you see that thick layer of red right there. You would think, you would have to fix that. But it's very important to use the wave form. Yes. But you also need to use your eyes sometimes. And my eyes tell me right now this looks fine. So I have other footage here that I have not color corrected. Let's color corrected, but I see that magenta at the top. I'm going to balance that out with the green. Then I'm going to go to the curves, and I'm just going to bring these highlights down, away from 100. And I think the midtones would be used a little bit less, just like that. And once you balance one clip out, if you have other clips that are recorded in the same light around the same time, you can go ahead and just copy paste attributes. And we're gonna paste that lumetri in color. So now all three of these are color corrected and our standard footage is color corrected. The standard footage, all you got to do is color correct. And then really you're done with that. We can move that out of the way. Now we can color grade. Now a lot of people buy luts and then they always wonder why the luts don't work with their footage. It's almost always because of two things. They did not color correct their image first and they did not apply the lut the correct way. So now that we brought this footage from log to rec seven oh nine and then we color corrected, now we can put a grade on it. Again, I would find a look that you already like that someone else has created and just make it your own. So go ahead and create a new adjustment layer and then we're going to name that one grade or color grade, whatever you want to name and then place that on top of your Rex 709. So if you've color corrected properly and you converted it to wreck seven oh nine, this is the funnest part because depending on the lets you have, you can pull out some really cinematic edits. So we're going to go back up to window work ****** and color. People will apply their lut here. And that's not good because you cannot control the intensity of the lut there. Okay, close that one up. Go to creative. Now on the look, now we're going to search for our lut. I'm going to use this one. I know it to be nice and bright, and very vibrant. And I literally bought this from somebody. So once I open it, look at how great this footage will look. Boom. Now this will be closer to your final look. You see how everything just came together like that. Now obviously it will change your way form a little bit, so we will have to go back in and color correct a little bit so we can see those reds are peaking up again. So we're just going to bring that back down, just like that. And we're starting to lose some information at the bottom there. So we're going to go to curves. We're just going to ever so slightly bring up those blacks in those shadows. So guys, we went from this to this and it's basically just three steps. Convert to Re seven oh nine. Color correct and then color gray. Now going to this next clip, you can see how saturated this is. Now we can go under here and we can just drive down that intensity of the lot And you can see with none of it we have basically just our Re seven oh nine conversion And we can just bring in just a little bit of it like that and I think that's just enough and because I shot these at the same time, I know that I can just extend this and it will look just the same. So guys, that is color correction and color grading. I will leave some options for you guys to purchase some rec, seven oh nine conversions and some grades. And hopefully you'll be able to find a look that suits you the best. So next we're going to go over graphics and effects. 16. Audio Editing: Is audio more important than video, or is video more important than audio? That argument is a timeless one, and if you have any friends that do video, ask them and that will start up a really good conversation with you guys, I promise. So let's see what we can do to make audio sound good now. First of all, when capturing audio, you might want to use a reliable source, whether it be wireless microphones, a studio microphone that you have, or if you have one of those road shotgun microphones. Please do not use the scratch audio from your camera because in most situations that's not going to cut it. But this was the final clip I recorded in Miami and the audio has not been edited. We're going to look at how we can fix it. This guy's crush it this week. Yeah. I cannot get enough of this Miami trip. I love these guys. Okay. But do you see how in the corner there when it was playing, it's going all the way up to zero? That is terrible and we need to limit that. Now you usually want to sit around negative 12 and this is how you can limit that. We're going to go to the effects tab here and we're going to type in hard limiter. It will be underneath amplitude and compression. We're going to click and drag that on to our audio track. Now we're going to go up to the effect controls and you'll see the hard limiter has been loaded as an effect here. Go ahead and go to the Edit button, and this box will pop up for you. All we need to worry about is this first one up here. We're going to click on this option here and we're going to type in negative 12. So when we play this back, you'll notice it won't go past negative 12. Here we go, guys, crush it this week. Anything past negative 12 decibels is going to start being too loud to the point where it's almost irritating to listen to. Now, there won't be any in this, but if you do have white noise in your audio, this is how you're going to take it out. If you don't know what I'm talking about when I say white noise, it sounds like this. You hear that? That's white noise. Again. We're going to go to the effects tab and we're going to type in noise underneath noise reduction in restoration. We're going to click that and drag it onto our audio clip. Go up to the effect controls panel, and the noise will be loaded here. Go ahead and go to edit. And we're going to switch this icon to this one, and this is going to focus on the lower frequencies. Zero is going to do nothing. 100 is going to do a lot. What you need to do is see what it sounds like at different numbers. And depending on what you captured your audio with, this might be a little bit too much. Because if you do too much, it'll start to sound like this. So I usually start at 50 to see if it sounds okay. And if it doesn't, I just begin to walk it back down until I'm satisfied with the amount of the white noise that's gone and how the audio still sounds in the video. Using the D noise can lower your audio a little bit so you can raise it back up with this game bar here. And obviously in the effect controls panel, you can edit the volume here as well. Now you're going to be key framing audio a lot, especially when it comes to using music and your videos. Because some part of your videos is just going to be role and then some part of your videos is going to be a role where you're actually speaking and talking. So you don't want the music to be overpowering your main dialogue. So we remember how to key frame. It's going to be the same way with audio. So right here, I want the audio to decrease, so I'm going to press my stopwatch here, create my first key frame. Then I'll go to where I want the music to stop lowering. And now I'm going to type in negative 30 DB. We'll play this through and we'll see the audio lower by itself in and amongst the. Leave it up tomorrow. You and even tomorrow. So when we all started actually talking, lower the audio so you can hear what we're saying. Right. So guys, that is audio editing. Use the hard limiter in the D noise and then the audio panel to raise and lower your audio. So guys, that is how you edit your audio. Let's move on to graphics and effects. 17. Effects & Graphics: So let's talk about effects in graphics. Now down here in the effects tab, you will have a library of things that are available to you. In the last lesson, we use the hard limit, A D. Noise Those both are effects. There's audio effects, video effects, and transitions. Now you can go on line and buy effects transitions, and they will be loaded into here. And I definitely recommend you do that because it will put extra edge on your videos. So this effects pack are actually free and there's a lot of free ones out there. And I would suggest you look for those first before you go buy some click in here. They'll be labeled what they are, so let's go into zooms. And I'm just going to drag and drop that onto my clip. And now at the beginning of the clip, we'll have a very quick zoom, but you could slow it down once you load that effect. It will be up here in your effect controls, you'll see the name of the effect and what it's doing. So we can click into transform, and that's going to be the movement portion of this. We can extend that effect further here. You can change the position of this effect where it zooms in here, you can zoom in and out with the scale. It's just like the key framing of the motion up there. All of those effects work the same way, you just drag and drop and they'll be placed onto your clip. Let's do this blur. Now you see we have a blurry transition there, that is effect. Let's go and talk about graphics. We're going to go up to window work ****** and captions and graphics. Your graphics tab will pop up on your right side here and you can scroll through this. I have bought some graphics. Again, you can buy graphics. Click on one. You drag and drop it. It's going to load on your timeline. And now we have a title. We'll be editing them in the Essential Graphics tab here. So you just click into these and you can move these graphics around. You can change the text, you can change the colors of almost everything. There's a lot of customization options when it comes to graphics, and it can really put that umph on your videos. Now you might run into things like Motion Bro, which they are a graphics platform you can buy from. And their graphics will come in the form of extensions. You'll go to window extensions and my Motion Bro extension is right there. And as you can see, it's a huge library of a bunch of useful things, literally all through this video, I was using graphics. The Villa one, 12:30 P.M. that's a graphic. All of this right here, the Instagram, the title graphic. So if you think your videos could use stuff like this, I will leave some links for some free graphics, some ones you can pay for if you have the money. They are definitely an investment. So guys, that is effects and graphics. We are finally almost done. Our next and final lesson is going to be export settings. 18. Export Settings: So you've edited your video and you want to export. Now what is the best export settings? Let's talk about it. If you remember the keyboard shortcut for exporting, raise your hand. Okay, I'll see. You see a couple of people command or Alt M will bring you straight to the exporting panel. So this will be a part of your data management. You want to be able to find this video later, so let's give it a good name that we can find it with Miami Blog 2023 too easy. Now we're gonna pick a location. Where do you want this to be saved? I usually just put it on my desktop and then I'll move it to where I want it to be. But if you already know where you want it to be, you can just go ahead and find it here and save it there. And then you're gonna press Save. So it will automatically be on match source. If you want to leave it there, that's fine. That is a good option. The format is going to be set at 0.264 That is basically the standard for most platforms you're going to be uploading to, so keep it there. If you want to save a very high quality master file, you can come back to later. I would go ahead and put it in quick time here. So now let's click into video, and this is where you can down sample if you want to. I recorded this in four K. If I wanted it in ten ADP, I'll just uncheck this box. I'll click here and I'll just go to full HD. And now this will export in ten ADP. If you want it to remain what it was, just click that check box again. It'll go right back. I check render at maximum depth and use maximum render quality. And then for a four K video, I'm going to have a target of a 40 bit rate. And I have mindset at VBR, one pass. If you're exporting a vertical video for social media, I put my bit rate at 15. And guys, that's it. A lot of people overthink exporting your video. If you're uploading to social media, you don't want a large file because it's just gonna be compressed and it's gonna look worse than what you intended it to be. But you can click something like high quality ten DP, high quality four K, depending on what your video is. And it will be just fine. So after that, you just click Export. Now you just wait. So guys, that is export settings. You now have the whole editing process down. How does that feel? So let's go ahead and wrap this class up with a conclusion. 19. Conclusion: Guys. So we talked about a lot of things during this class. Everything from constant ideation, importing and exporting your footage and everything in between. If you forget any of these concepts, feel free to come back to the class so you can go back over it. And you can also find the workbook I'm going to create for you guys. It's going to have all the information we cover in the class, but in written form, not everything but the most important things. Now I'm hoping that you guys can use this class as a foundation for your video editing and your video career in general. So I want you to keep going, keep building upon what you just learned here and you'll be a pro in no time. So I have some words for you guys from me about a month ago in Miami. I just wanted to include this clip at the end of the class. I'm on a trip in Miami right now with a bunch of other content creators. This trip just fell into my lap. And I wanted to give you guys this class a lot sooner, but I just couldn't say no, you know, I just wanted to show you guys the byproduct of just trying. Just constantly trying and constantly pushing. So there's been a lot of times where I wanted to quit, but look where I am now, you know, and this is just opportunity meeting preparation. You know, I prepare it for this moment and I was able to take up the opportunity. You can kind of see people in the background and stuff, but hell man, if you would like go ahead and join the discord. The Plug In community is going to be a community of other video creators just like you. You can go there and get your questions answered. Go there and just hang out. Meet new friends. The more people you know, the better in this thing. So let's, let's kill it. This year, say yes. Don't forget to join the plugged in community. It's going to be other video creators like yourself. What do they say? It's not what you know but who you know. This is very true. And please do not forget about the class project. You're going to record, edit your video posted anywhere on social media, drop the link in the project, some resources, share it with the class. And finally, if you did enjoy this class and you feel like you learned a lot, go ahead and leave a review for me. Tell me everything I did right, so I can make these classes better for you guys. If you happen to miss my other classes, go ahead and check them out. You might be able to learn something there as you did here. And I wish you God speed in your endeavors. Piece out and I'll see you in the next class.