Premiere Pro 101

1. Introduction to the Course: Hello, everyone. My name is Maric Marchi, and welcome to this Premier Pro one oh one course in the basics of video editing using a Premier Pro, in which we're going to work on this Tie sequence, and we'll be exploring different features inside of Premier. We'll explore the interface. You do have access to the exercise files. So you can access the exercise files, images, videos, and the project files as well. But we're actually going to create a project from scratch once we know a bit more about Premier. And we explore features like importing content obviously, and adding videos, images, sounds, adjusting the volume of the sound as well, how to make the sounds louder, quieter. And I'm going to show you one of the revolutionary features where you can make the sound file like a piece of music, pretty much any duration you like. How you can make it not only shorter, but also longer, which is an amazing feature inside primi P. Okay. So without further ado, let's embark on this journey in Premier Pro one oh one. We're going to start learning, video editing inside Premiere Pro, with me Mark Mogi and hopefully enjoy it. Hopefully enjoy creating your own project. And any questions, let me know. So without fo. Let's get started with Ado Premier Pro, one oh one. 2. Your Exercise Files: Welcome back. As part of the course, you have access to the exercise files, so you can follow along if you want, or you can use your own custom content if you prefer. In your there's a download, you can download the exercise files, which has a folder with images and a folder with videos. There's some stock content. The videos in here, this one is here from Pixabay. The link is attached in this text file here. If you want to, you can go to this link and you can you know, thank the person who created this content here. Okay. There's the link in here. You can see the link. You can also download much more content from Pixabay as well. You also have a project file, you can follow along, and there are two project files because there's one that I'll be working on, which is in current version of premier 2024. But if you don't have the latest version or if you don't have version 2024, then you also have access to the older version of the project, which will also work on the older versions of premier pro. So you can follow along. Now we're going to use this project initially, just to explore premier interface, customize it, optimize it, to get the best possible performance. But then we're going to create our own project from scratch and we'll continue building on it. Without further do, let's jump into Premier and let's get started. 3. Open a Premiere Pro Project: So let's start a DB premier pro. Open premier on your computer, whichever version you have, and we're going to open a project. When you open premier, depending which version you have or depending on which update you have installed. The welcome screen Mo be different. It looks like this right now at the moment of the time of the recording, but it may change a bit, but you're always going to have the options to open a project or make a new project. In this case, we're going to open a project. If you prefer, so mine is going to be here. If you prefer, you can also just go to your desktop, so you can go to so I can go to Explorer here, open the folder, and just double cle on the project. Remember, you have two versions of the project in here because depends which version of premier you have installed on your computer. So there is an older version as a backup. I'm going to open this one here, the 2024 version, or maybe just to show you something. I'm actually going to open the older version to show you what happens. Because I'm trying to open the older version, premier will ask us what you want to do Well, what we want to call the new version and what we want to save it. It's going to make a new version. It's not overwriting anything. So I'm going to put it in the same folder. That's fine. Okay. So say, I'll call it Ce Project 24, for example, let's say, I'm going to call it Premier Pro 11. Okay? No click okay. This will make a new version. If you get messenger boss crash disks, just accept D for just click okay. And Prem is going to open with this project. At the same time, Prey is checking the links as well, more on that later. And normally should see something like this by default. Of course, depends on the version of Premiere going to use because a D may change it. At the time of the recording, you get this web space here. I just want to talk a bit more about the project files first. In this file we have in here, where are we? So this is the new project file, which at this moment is a premier 2024 project, okay? As you saw, when you try to open a project from the older version of Premier, Premier will always prompt you to make a new version, and you get Premier 24, 23 or 25 project. This project, well, each Premie project is a project of specific version of the software. What this means is that this project I've got in here, the Premier P one oh one, which is my Premier 2024 project, cannot be opened in all the versions of Premier. I can't open this project if I have Premier 23 or 22. Okay? That's why I'm giving you the old version of the project, which you can open in all diversions of premiere. Now, just to clarify, this other project will not work in, premier CS six or CS five. We don't go that far. You do need to have premier PCC critic Cloud, and you need to have at least version 2020, which shouldn't be a problem because you can't access 2020 version anymore anyway. With a DOB critic Cloud, you can only access the last two versions of the applications. I shouldn't be a problem unless you haven't upgraded for a really long time. So something you need to keep in mind with the project is that the project file is a project of specific of the application. Where this may become a problem, a challenge is when you work with other people, and different members of your team have different versions of premier. In a nutsew, if you're going to work with other people, you need to make sure that everyone has the same version of the software. Because anyone with new software can open the older project, but if you have the premier, you can't open new a project. Which shouldn't be a problem because all subscription and you have acclat this version, but you may not be able to upgrade your software if you work for large organization. Okay. So in the next video, we're going to start working with the interfacing premier and customizing it. So keep your project open. 4. Premiere Pro Workspaces: Continuing from the previous video, and normally by default at this moment, when you open a premier project, or when you make a new one, you'll see something like this. You'll see this interface or this work space. If you worked with other AOB applications, you may be familiar with the work spaces. If not, we'll talk about them right now. So if you go to the window menu a top and we spaces, Premier Pro comes with a number of we spaces. At the moment, the default we space in Premier is the learning we spaces, you can see here. We're not going to use it. We don't need it because we don't need this big learn panel on the left hand side of the screen here because we're going to do everything together. We're going to learn everything together. We're going to switch the x space to editing, which used to be the default a few years back. When you switch to it new x space, the entire interface is going to change. The panels will appear in different places and they'll be different. You're going to see something like this. The idea behind the we spaces, if you want to play with them, is different we spaces, give you different panels, and the panels may also appear in different locations on different we spaces. Just to show an example, at the moment, if you have look around, in a top right corner, we have a panel called program. Top left is the source panel and a few more. Bottom left is the project panel, and a few more as well. Bottom right, this one is the timeline, which doesn't give its name, but this is the timeline panel, you can find on the window and timelines here. By the way, if you're looking for any panel at any time, you can find it on the window menu. They all here, listed alphabetically, so they're easy to find. That's how we can access the panels. Just to show you how the webspace change the interface. Let's switch to a different webspace. Maybe audio because this will make your interface look very different. You still have the program in a top right, but not in the corner, but then the project move to top left. It's not in the bottom left anymore, and the source panel is actually here behind other panels as well. Things look very different. We want editing we space because that's what we're going to use. This we space will give you the panels you need to start working, and if I just swish to editing we space. This is the window we spaces editing. We'll customize editing web space, we create our own custom web space, but this is a good starting point. When you equ with web spaces, you can customize them. For example, I'm just looking at my editing web space. I've just noticed that for some reason, my property project panel in the bottom left corner disappeared. I'm looking at the libraries right now, and I can't see the project panel anywhere here. I mean, it's there, but it's now underneath this arrow here there. But it was visible by Default just a moment earlier. If anything doesn't look quite right, go to Window menu, we spaces, and reset to save layout. When you reset your work space, any wx space, it's going to go to its default state. When I reset to save layout, the project panel comes back in the bottom left corner. Also, it got a little bit shorter because that's what you get by default in here. This was window, we spaces, reset to save layout. Here's another example where this might be useful. If you ever come across a minor glitch, you expect some glitches in Premier, then restive layout might be a good idea to fix it. Okay. I'll mention some examples may be in the next video. 5. Resetting a Workspace: Following from the last video where I mentioned that sometimes some things may happen, some things may not work. There may be some glitches, where resetting wx space is usually useful. Let me put it this way. If you encounter a minor glitch in premier, this is the first thing you can do. Before you start restarting pi, reset the wx space first. I'll give you some examples that I've heard from people in for rooms I haven't had these issues touch the wood. But for example, what people often mention at the B forums is the program panel here in the top right corner, we can do the playback of your timeline of your sequence, as we call it. What happens sometimes is when you hit the play button, which does change to the stop button, but nothing happens. I mean, the playback doesn't happen. This playhead doesn't move, the video doesn't change. This is a min neglige and resting we space helps to fix the problem. Another thing people mentioned quite often to be forums is when in the program panel, all the buttons at the bottom disappear, the program panel seems to be cropped at the bottom. Again, resting we space helps. There was one more glitch we encountered on one of my courses recently, where in the program panel here, which we'll explore in greater detail soon. But in the program panel, when you have more content, you get a scroll down the side here. Something we had issues with a couple of days ago was you would scroll down or scroll up to access some other content. When you release the mouse button, it would scroll automatically back down or back up. And we couldn't scroll and stay there. But resetting x space helped. So just another minor glitch. There will be some minor glitches we will come and go. If you try to reset the xpacee, and this still doesn't work, then restart premier. If this doesn't help, I'll show you something else later in this series. In the next video, we're going to start exploring the interface and the panels here inside Premier Pro. 6. Program Panel: Welcome back. Let's start exploring the interface. So all these little windows, you see here, panels. They call panels in every AB application, so I'm going to stick the name panels. They normally give you the name on the tab, it says program or source, effect controls, audio clip mixer, metadata. All of them give you the name except the timeline, but this is the timeline. You can find them under the window menu. For example, if I do choose timeline here, followed by the name of the sequence, it's going to make Timeline active. The timeline panel gets this blue border around it in here. If you want to open any panel, you can find it on the window menu here. These are all the panels available inside Premier Pro. We also we're actually going to close some panels as well and we'll keep some open because we just focus on what we actually need here. As we to add interface, we start from a top right corner here from the program panel here, first, and then we move clockwise. First, just to clarify the program panel here, officially it's called a program monitor. Some of the source panel, which is the top left corner, officially is called a source monitor as well. But I'll continue calling them source panel and program panel because these are all called panels in every application. So for consistency, I'll continue to call them panels. E. So this is the program panel. The program panel shows you the preview of what your sequence is going to look like when you export it. Just to back up a little bit. When you start working in premier in your project, you create a sequence. When you want to put videos together and then export them, you create a sequence. Sequence is what you see on the timeline here. That's the name of the sequence. And program panel shows you the preview of the sequence here. You've got some playback controls, I can play and stop. You can also use the space but for the playback. So I can press space but to play, space but to stop. We can also move this playhead, as we call it forth and back to check what's in here. You should be able to hear the sound at this stage as well because these videos have sounds. Also, this playback controls here. You can also go forward, one frame at a time, backward, one frame at a time. You can use left or right arrow keys for that as well. I use the arrow keys, left. Ob using space for the playback. We focus on a program panel for now because there are quite a few features which I want to share with you in here. In the bottom right corner of the program panel, this is the duration of your entire sequence. At any time, you can quickly check how long is your sequence by just looking in the bottom right corner of the program panel. This sequence is 38 seconds. The time code is always going to be hours, minutes, seconds and frames. It says 38 seconds, zero, zero frames. In the bottom left corner, this is the position of your playhead. My playhead at the moment is at 6 seconds one frame. If you want to move the playhead using the time code, you can click on this value and you can type in the numbers. And if you keep the value highlighted, you don't have to worry about typing the columns, you can type in just numbers. Just remember, the last two digits are always frames. Here's an example. If I want to move the playhead to say 15 seconds, I'll type in 1500. That's 15 seconds. Pers enter to move the playhead to 15 seconds. Or here's a quick tip for you. If I click on this value again, if you want to move the playhead to the start of your sequence, you just type in zero, zero, you know. Let's move the playhead to the start. Or here's another tip for you. If I click on it again. If you want to move the playhead to the end of your sequence, Here, type in any number bigger than the duration of your sequence. You don't have to type in 30 800. I could type in say 50 seconds, for example, and the playhead will move just to the end of the sequence because the sequence is only 38 seconds. It's not 50 seconds. When you get to the end of your sequence, you always going to see a black frame in the program panel. Yes, that's normal. But you can see the planet is right at the end, and he is also right at the end as well. L et me just move the playhead back to add the way here. You can just scrap the playhead as we call it. A couple more things in the program panel. This job done here is the Playback resolution. You can adjust it to get the best possible performance out of premier. This Playback resolution doesn't affect the export. This is just to give you better performance inside premier. I usually leave it at half because you get better performance because plan is only going to play half the pixels. You can set it on full if you want to if you have a fast computer. However, what I would suggest is, have a look at half and full and see if you can tell any difference. Now remember this is for the playback. If I set it to full, for example, I'll just move the playhead back a little bit, and I'll look in the video, I stop, move the playhead back, so it's the same video. I change to half, It looks pretty much identical. Because I can't see any pixelation, then half is just perfect. Test it yourself. You normally may see a difference at a quarter. Video make get slightly pixelated. I can tell a difference here right now. Remember, this is just for the playback resolution. When you stop, you get full resolution automatically. When you play and stop, you can see a difference. Play and stop. Some of the options for the plag resolution, like the one eighth and one 16th, become available automatically when you work with high resolution media. They become active when you work with four and beyond that. For high definition, you only get access to full, half and a quarter. For tick it to your liking for the best performance, I'm going to leave it at half to get the best possible performance because I couldn't tell the difference with full, half is just good enough. In the bottom left corner, we have a job done, we can use to zoom in and out into the video here in the program panel. For example, we can zoom to 100% view to check the quality to make sure that nothing is speak selated. Now there are more features. I want to show you about the program panel. So I'm going to continue the next video, so videos don't get too long and you can pick what you want to watch. Let's keep it zoomed in for now, and I'll continue the next video. 7. Program Panel Part 2: Continuing from the previous video, we zoomed in on the program panel here. There's some more things I want to share with you here, so I thought I would just split into two videos. When you start zooming in, say if we all zoom into 100% view, the size of the video here or the size of the zooming may be different. Be depends on your screen resolution. For example, say, if I were to work on a four K screen, the 100% view will look more like this probably. But maybe like this. Okay. So depending on the screen resolution, you see different level here. When you start zooming in, one of the changes that Doby did in one of the updates to 24 version was to remove the scrolling bars when you zoomed in. You may still have them if you're on old the version of premier. What we do nowadays is we go to the tool spanel here at the bottom. We grab the hand tool, we compress H for the hand tool. A is the hand tool to just pan around to check different parts of the video here like this. Okay? When you're done, I would usually recommend to switch back to selection tool. We'll be exploring tools as we do different exercises. But normally selection tool, this is what you get selected by default. Okay. And change this Zoom level back to fit, which shows you the entire video frame. Okay. Now, program panel, like every other panel, actually, has what we call a pop up menu. These horizontal bars, next to the name of the panel. They all have it, the same in the timeline. They have different options, but they all have the pop up menu. Same here. What they all have in common is when you click on a pop up menu for the panel, you can go to panel group settings and maximize panel group, which will give you almost like a full screen mode, like this. You can use this feature for the program panel to show your sequence to someone, so I can just play it. Then use the same pop up menu for the panel and panel group settings and restore panel group size to exit maximized mode. Every panel has this option. And with the program panel, we actually do have a proper full screen mode, which is this pattern here. We can play your sequence in proper full screen mode. So use space but to play or space butt to stop. And then we can use the escape key to exit maximized mode. Just keep in mind that if you're going to use full screen mode, maybe to show the sequence to a client, for example, if you meet in person, or even if you do it online, just keep in mind your playback resolution. This sequence, if I go back towards the beginning, may or may not look great at the resolution. Let's see if I go to maximize mode, and if I play it, doesn't look too bad, but I saw how the quality went down a little bit when I started to play. If I stop, these edges are straight. When I play they slightly jag it. Not a big deal, but noticeable difference if you look at some details, If I were to use the maximized mode, I would probably change the pleis temporarily. Remember, the program panel shows you what your sequence is going to look like and sound like when you export it from premier. That's all you need to know about the program panel for now. So in the next video, we're going to continue into the timeline. 8. Timeline Panel: Now it's time for the timeline, which is right underneath here. Time is what we're going to spend a lot of the time. So I would want the timeline to be as big as possible because that's where we're going to see all the content, your tracks, which are like layers. So we can adjust the height of the timeline by moving this line up. I would usually do about half and half vertical split between the program and the timeline. Maybe about that. In No Talon, you're going to see all your clips. You know, videos, images, sounds. We tend to call them clips, like video clips, audio clips, and so on. And by default, In premier, you've got separate tracks for video and audio. V one, V two, V three are video tracks. A one, A two, A three are audio tracks. Okay. By default, you get three tracks each, but you can have as many as you want. You can always add more tracks later. Okay. Before we start doing anything in the timeline, make sure that the link selections turned on, I'll show what it does. And make sure selection tool. With Link selection turned on, if you click on any video on your timeline, it'll select video and audio together. It's supposed to because the audio, this one here is part of this video, the part of the same video file, and it should be selectable together. If it disable link selection, you can select just the video or just the audio. If you're wondering why this might be useful, well, you may have a video where you may want to remove the audio and maybe put some music in instead. If the link selection disabled, you can click on just the audio and then use delete Key on your keyboard to delete it. I undo. You know, you can always undo anything you're doing here, so just undo here. And let's make keep link selection turned on. Something I can recommend is if you keep link selection turned on all the time. And then if you need to select just video or just the audio, you can hold old key on your keyboard, and then select just the video or just the audio. This would temporarily select just one part of the clip. Make sure you hold old key first. And then holding old key, you click to select video or audio. Also, snapping should be turned on by default. When you move the clips, they're going to snap to add the clips or to the playhead. I'll show you, but first, when you start moving content here, if I select any video, If we start to move it sideways, click hold and drag. You can see snapping in action, it's snapping, snapping here as well. If we drop it somewhere else, it'll overwrite another video. Lets. Be we moved the video to a different place, and as a gap where the video used to be. I do. If you move them vertically, video audio move separately. I can move just video to any truck you want in here, or just the audio. This. Let's say, I'll put them on A two and V two right now. The tracks here do work like layers. I'll show what I mean. So I I move the playhead, say here, that's the video we're looking at on a timeline, and this is the video here. If I put the playhead there. If we put this video on top of the other one, all you're going to see is just this video. What you see here is the video on V two, not on V one, because the video on V two is in front of the video on V one. If I move this video on V two to the left again, what you're going to see here is the video on V one again. They do work like layers. The track on the top is always in front, the track underneath is always behind. With Audio, they actually going to play together because it's audio. You can't see it, you can only hear it, and both sons are going to play at this stage. Which may not be what you want. Okay? Let's just put it back here. Just explain a bit more about what we can do with the timeline here, some of the basics, so you know main options here. Every track has a padlock icon, where you can lock it, and if you lock the track, it's protected from any edits. Right now, we can select this video. We can't move it, it's protected. Be careful when you start locking the trucks because like in here, if you lock V two. But if you don't lock A two, you could move the audio, say accidentally, and audio becomes out of sync. The good news is, premier will tell you it's out of sync. It gives you this out of sync indicator. Mine audio video are 12 frames out of sync there. So I can move it back. If we lock in V two, I should have locked A two as well. Because they work together. There's only one file on the desktop. That's one here. With video tracks, they have the icons, we can turn them on and off. For example, if I turn off V two, you won't see anything here. There's nothing now. I mean, the sound is still playing, but it's no video because V two track is hidden. And if we export the sequence, is going to look like this. There'll be no video for a few seconds. With audio tracks, we have a feature where we can mute the truck. If you mute the truck, there'll be no sound. If I mute A two, there'll be sound on A one, but then sillas on A two. When you meet in the tracks, audio tracks, you also have the slo button. If you slow a track, it's the one that's actually going to play. If I slow A one, A one is going to play, but A one is going to be the only track that's going to play, there'll be no sound coming out from A two or A three. For example, if you want to play, let's say we have Audion A one and A two, and A three. If you want to play just the sound on A one, you have two options. You can mute A two, A three, or you can slow A one. You get identical results. This is just two different ways of doing it, you can choose how you want to do it. At the bottom of your timeline, this slider here, you can move the slider to pan across your sequence, or you can drag the circles to either zoom or zoom out. When you drag the circle inwards, when you drag it outwards, out. If you like keyboard shortcuts, you can also zoom in and zoom out in your timeline by using plus or minus on your keyboard. Just plus to zoom in, and just minus on a zoom out. It has to be the plus and minus on the main keyboard, not a numeral keypad. As you add more content, your sequence gets longer automatically. So at the moment, our sequence is 38 seconds, but we can easily make it half an hour or even an hour. Premier is used for film making films. You can make real long sequences. Okay, I think there's on to know about the tunnel right now. In the next video, we're going to move on to the project panel. So keep the project open for the next video. 9. 08 project panel intro Final: In this video, we're going to have a look at the project panel. The first fin we're going to look at is, so we've got this folder here in the project panel called Videos, which seems to have 19 items inside. First of all, the folders in pi are called bins. This is actually a bin. If you have a look at the bottom of the project panel towards the bottom right corner of the project panel, there's a new f the icon here, and when you roll over it, it says new bin. This is a bin. We have a bin here in this project with 19 items. If you double in a bin to open it, you'll see some content inside. You may want to scroll down. There's a lot of content here. Excuse me. Remember, you can recess the panel if you want to as well. First, the project panel has three different views. In the bottom left corner, you got the list view icon view or the free phone view. We're going to explore all of them first, all of them in just a minute. For now, we'll just focus on the icon view and we'll explore the icon view features because we're going to focus on the project panel for just a moment. I will take it to maximize mode, and I'm going to show you a shortcut as well. As you know already, you can use the project panels menu and panel group settings and maximize panel group. What we can also do is for any panel in premier, you can double click its name to go to maximize mode. And then double click its name again to exit maximize mode. We can just double click the name of the project panel. Now, this is a project panel, even though it says Bin. It does say bin because you inside a Bin, but this is a project panel. In the icon view, you got these fan nails. You can change the size using the slider here at the bottom. You can make them big or smaller. Also, like in a timeline, you can use the plus and minus key. I can use plus key to make them bigger or minus to make them smaller. O them as they are right now because there's quite a few of them in here. Here's some things you can do in the project panel in the icon view. You can roll over over the video to preview what's in the video here. When you roll over from the left, you see the start of the video. If you roll over on the right, you see the end of the video. If you roll over in the middle, you can see the middle part of the video. It's really clever. You can also click once on the video to select it, and you can use space but to play it. This will play with the sound in this case. If there is an sound in the video. Just be careful single click on a video because if you double click on a video it is going to open in the source panel, we'll talk about source panel later. F now, just ignore it if you did double click. So just click one and play. Can also do is when you click on the video to select it. At the bottom, you see this little square, the CCO playhead, and you can click and drag on the square to scrub the playhead like this left and right. L say if I want to play this video from the beginning, I've selected the video already, but I want to play from the beginning. I'm going to move the playhead to the left, this. Then press space but to play it from the beginning. Project panel also shows you the duration of the videos. This one is 11 seconds and 18 frames. Also on the rollover, you can see more information like the resolution and the framed as well. It's quite a bit of information. But if you need more information about the clips in general, use the list view. In list view, you get much more data. You get to see the frame rate. You get to see resolution, which is the video info on the far right here. You get different color els for different type of content here as well. Now, just to clarify, a couple of things I want to clarify here first. If you have a version of premier before late spring 2024, the colors for the color els are going to be different shades of these colors. Adobe change the colors, the shades in an update. Second fin. Normally, videos will have this bluish color. However, a video has sound or doesn't have a sound, is going to have a different color here. This makes it a bit trickier. But these labels, there'll be different color label for different type of content. A sequence will have this darker green color. Video will have this darker blue or this teal color. Bins will have a different color and so on. You can change colors. You can just right click on a video and choose label and change the color la. This color is ris, parently. This color here is violet. You can change it if you want. When we create sequences, which we'll be doing soon, it's going to be important to know what's the resolution of the content of the videos, especially, so we know how to set up our sequence. What I would recommend to do and what I'm going to do here now as well is to move video info column to the left. You can just drag it by its name. So I can click and drag. I'll show you why in just a second. If we drop it say right after the frame rate here, We can make the frame it column a bit narrower because it doesn't have much data. Here's why we move in this column here. If you double click on top of the project panel to exit maximized mode. We want to be able to see the resolution in the project panel without going into maximized mode every time. So we can just see it right here. So when we switch from icon view to list view, you'll be able to see the resolution. Okay? Okay. What about the free phone view? Let's go to maximized mode again. Going back to icon view for a second in icon view, the clips appear on a grid of rows and columns. In free from view, you can put the clips freely however you want to. If I just zoom out a little bit here, what we can do here is we can move them like this. That's the only difference. You can't do that in icon view because icon view will always have them on the grit. Which view you choose when you in the project panel will depend on you really. I prefer the icon view because it's more structured. But it's a mat of preference really. I think this would be enough for now. In the next video, we're going to talk a bit more about in the project panel. Keep this open as it is, and we'll continue the next video. 10. Project Panel Sorting: Continuing from the previous video. In the icon view, this will apply specific to icon view. This doesn't apply to the free phone view. In icon view, the icon here is where you decide how you want to sort the content, how you want to sort the icons. Normally by default, this is set to used. This should be the default, which allows you to move the content around. Now, the clips here will have to stay on a grid with rows and icons. We can move them left and right. Say I could take this video and I can drag it and drop it here. This can go maybe somewhere here, and so on. I could put the metro videos together. The four, I think, That's in icon view. In Free from view, as you know, you just rearrange the clips however you want to. In List view, you can sort using the columns on the top, by clicking on them. If I click on name, the be sorted at the moment a to. If we click on the name column again, we sort in two a. In a similar way in the icon view, we can sort if we pick sorting by name, for example, as well. We can sort ascending a to that or descending two a. You can choose all types of metadata here for sorting black name or media duration or media type, where you have videos together next to each other, images together, and audio clips together, and so on. For now, I'm going to leave it as a user order, which is the default. And in the list view, I will just list by the name from A to Z. This is fine in here. Okay? Okay, so let's stick to Con view. Let's exit the maximize melt in here, okay? And in the next video, we're going to have a look at customizing the bin because at the moment, something you may have noticed is that when you open a bin, every time you double on a bin, it opens in a separate tb. Got these two tabs here at the moment. Basically, we have two project panels here at the moment, instead of one. We're going to change it, customize it. I just want to mention one more feature before we wrap up for this video, and we move on to customizing bin behavior. Sec we're going to use a lot is in the bottom right corner of the project panel, and not the trash icon, now you can use it, but I just tend to use the delete Keyon keyboard. What we're actually going to use a lot is this new item icon. We're going to use it a lot for making sequences. Okay? In the next video, we're going to have a look at customizing the Bins behavior, so we don't end up with multiple project panels, multiple project taps, which becomes a mess. So leave it as it is, and we'll continue the next video. You don't need to save anything because Premier has auto save, which we'll talk about more later as well. 11. Project Panel Bin Behaviour: Okay. Continue from the previous video. I was going to show you how to customize the behavior of Bins or the project panel of bins specifically. You don't end up with multiple project panels. Because at the moment, I've got two project panels here, two separate taps. If you want to check how many you have, have looked on the window menu and projects. As you can see by the name that appears on this drop down, this one project. Premier Pro 101 dot p approach. However, there are two project panels. You see by default in Premier. Every time you double click on the bin, it opens in a new tab. So imagine you have say 20 bins in your project. If you open them all one by one, you end up with 20 project panels or 20 project tabs. Let's keep one of them. Let's say we'll keep the project panel which this project. And on the other one, well click on this pop up menu and we'll close it. Listen one project panel. If you want to double check, if you only have one, go to Window projects. Okay. Now, we're going to go to premier preferences to customize it. This is one thing that's different on MAC and windows. On windows is edit preferences. On the MAC, it's prem pro settings, and then general category on both. Here, you have this bin behavior section here. As you can see by default, double click opens a new tab. Control or command on Mac opens in place, old or optional amc opens a new window. What I recommend to do is to swap the first two. Double click will open in place. Controller command will open a new tap, which I'm never going to use. But we'll be using double clicking a lot, so open in place. What may be useful sometimes is you may use the Separate window option where you get a project panel in a separate window, so you could say move it on different screen if you wanted to. And then when you don click, you only need to do it once because we change in premier preference. You don't have to do it for every project. Now just once. Now, if you open the bin, there's only one project panel. The name does change to Bin yes, but this is a project panel. Now to go back up, use this point in narrow icon here, and then you open the bin again. And you see that on the window menu and projects, there's only one project panel. M. So this now is going to work more the way pal explorer works on windows or find on a mac. When you double click the folder, they don't open a new tap on both mac and windows. That's the same behavior. We now get inside premier pro here. Okay? Okay, that's how you can customize the bin behavior, so you don't end up with a number of taps project panels. So this doesn't end up as a mess. Okay? Now, in the next video, I'm going to show you how we can tidy up a bit more our interface work space and how we can create our own custom we space as well to keep it. So keep it open and I'll see you in the next video. 12. Customise Workspace: Okay, you've been working inside premier a little bit, and you've been customizing the interface and the work space. For example, in the bottom left corner, we've got quite a number of taps in here. I've even got the double arrows because they don't all fit in here. There are some panels here which we're not going to use in this course, and you may not use them potentially even at all. For example, the info panel, we're not going to use that. If we click on its menu pop up menu, let's close it. Okay. Let's do the same for the libraries at least for now, so we can close them. Also for the markers as well, history panel up to you. If you use history panel in S photoshop, keep it open. I won't using it here. I'll just be doing Control Z or commands the Mac to do. So I'm going to close the history panel to keep it nice and tidy. What we do need is the effect panel, media browser, and the project panel. If you closed any of these mentioned panels by mistake, just go to window menu to reopen them. For example, if I close effects by mistake, to reopen it, just go to window effects. So reopen effects panel in its place where it's supposed to be, which is the bottom left corner here. Let's keep the project panel active for now. Now we can access any of these panels really quickly. They all here at your fingertips. Now because we've been making quit a lot of changes in here. To keep them. We're going to create our own custom x space. So if you go to Window menu, we spaces and save this new X space. Just so you know, I'm going to create a Wexpage, which I already have called Max. I'm going to just so you know when I type Mack, it's going to ask me if I'm sure I want to override the previous version, which is fine. Okay. So new Xpace, whatever you want to. And I click Okay. Now you have your own custom x space here. Basically, this we space remembers the layout in the interface inside premier here, and remembers which panels are open and where they are, how big they are, how small they are. One of the main reasons why we save this we space right now is because we made some changes to the interface, we closed some panels, and if you were to get one of the glitches right now and you were to reset your wx space, you would lose all the changes you've made unless you save them as a new we space. Like Right now, once we made a we space, if we do reset to save layout, nothing happens. Okay? Because we've just saved our custom work space. Okay. Okay, these are all the main panels you need to know about right now. We'll explore some others as we continue working. This is going to be the end of this let's say first section, and in the next video, we're actually going to start working on our own project. We're going to create a new project and we'll start importing some content and set up a sequence and so on. At this stage, we can actually close this project here. So we can go file. Actually do close the project because we're going to import well, I'm going to import the same content. If you follow along with the same exercise files, you'll be importing the same content as well. Close the project. It doesn't matter if you save it because we don't need this anymore. It doesn't matter really. And the next video, we'll start with a new project. So this is the end of the first section. Now we know more about how to make your way around premier interface. 13. Create and Customise a New Project: Welcome back. Let's make a new project then. Back on the Welcome Screen, we'll click on new Project. If you don't see Welcome Screen for an reason, you can always use File M on the Top File new new project. When you make a new project, you may see some videos here in the center because often you get some videos from ab from Crito Cloud. If you don't don't worry. First, in a top left corner, we'll name our project here. I go to call it Premier 101, as an example. Then you choose where you want to save your project. Now, what we're creating now and what we're saving here is just the project file, the P approach file from Premier. So you can name your project whatever you want to. This could be say YouTube videos or social media, whatever you want to call your project. Okay? Choose where you want to save it. I'm saving it inside our folder on a desktop. Now at the moment, we're not importing anything yet. On the right. At the moment of recording, if you open organized media, the new bin actually, well, at the moment of recording, one of the options here is turned on. We want everything to be turned off. I think it's the new sequence option, which is turned on by default. O tended off, that's why it's turned off. Basically, make sure that this is all turned off here right now. And click Create. This creates a new project and you're ready to get started. We're ready to start importing some content. But I just want to show you some project options first. If you go to File menu and project settings in general, just want to show you explain a few options in here. First, whenever possible, premier will try to take advantage of your graphics card acceleration, your GPU acceleration to give you the best possible performance. If it doesn't, don't worry about it. If it just says engine software only, that's okay. It's going to a just fine. Technically, with GP acceleration, you get better performance in terms of effects being rendered more quickly. Although you wouldn't normally see any difference. That's why you don't have to worry about it. If the GP acceleration option is not available, it often means that the graphics card that you have is not officially supported by adobe. But it's still going to at just fine. We're going to work with the time code for the video. Yes, Prem does support fit and frames as well. If you had to work with film traional film, and audio samples for audio, This used to be really important and more basically in the past, if you were to create some being for broadcasting for TV, you will need to create action safe and title safe. Basically, any action would have to be 10% of the edges of the video frame. Any text would have to be at least 20% of the edges of the frame. This doesn't apply anymore because it's all digital nowadays, and everyone's got a flat screen TV. B this would apply to the old big bulky CRT TVs which have curved screens. Just to mention a few more options here in the color up. If you have HDR content and if you have HDA monitor, you can set up the brightness of the whites in the video. We'll leave it. Maybe we'll talk about some other options later. So click for now. Our project is here, we're ready to start importing some content, which we're going to do in the next video. Keep a project open. I will normally do controllers because you never know, Primit does have auto safe and we'll have look at this soon, but just to be in a safe side. Keep it open, and we'll come back to it. We'll start importing content in the next video. 14. Import Media: Okay. Let's start importing some content. You may see this import media button in the project panel and say drag media here, import media to begin. So we could click Import media button. However, let's cancel it for now, this gives you the normal import window old s. How about we do it differently? We're going to use the import in the top left corner of your screen here. In the top left corner, you have the import edit and export tabs there. If you use alli version of premier before April up date 2023, you don't have this, so you're going to do the previous technique. Or you could also use file input. Here on the left, you have a link to the locations. I've got the files on the desktop in here and inside videos folder, we have some videos. Using input tab, you can preview the content, you can see what's in here. You can preview the content with rollover. So you can see what's in the videos. You can't play them I'm afraid. If you try to click on the video and then say press space bar, or select clicking on the video we ticket. Pressing space bar will tick it and tick it again. You can also change the preview here from the icons to the list view to get more data or stick to the icon view for now, the grid view. You can adjust the size of the fans. You can make them bigger or smaller. Or leave them as they are. You can also search and you can filter as well. You can see the path on the top where you are. Now, we've put in everything here. I'm going to scroll down, and I'll just click and drag to highlight everything. You can also click on them one by one. Or you can do pop you could do control or command on them to select everything. And then we'll click input. Here, which impose them all into your project right in here into your project panel. There we go. I got 19 items apparently. Now the way I would normally organize them is I would make a new bin for the content. And to make it quicker, we can select all the clips here. I'm going to click 11 and press Control A command I to select everythin we can drag and drop them onto a new bin icon, which makes a new bin and puts the video inside the bin at the same time. We'll give them some names. Let's say this is going to be a tie project, for example, let's say this is our project, but this is going to be in our project as one sequence. Got a bin with 19 items inside. We'll have some images probabils well and some music and so on. Then we can open the bin to see what's inside. Because in one of the previous lessons, we were customizing the bin behavior. This should now open in this one tab. This shouldn't make any new taps, which make it easier. In our next video, we're going to create a new sequence. Keep it open, stay tuned and let's make a sequence in the next video. 15. Create a Sequence: As mentioned in the previous video, we're now going to make a new sequence. Just before we create a sequence, we need to check the settings for the videos. Because we want to create a sequence with the same settings as the videos, a list the same resolution, mainly because p doesn't resize anything on its own. We don't want to resize every single clip one by one. In the project panel, if you switch to list, Also, just to show you how when you reorganize the columns in your project panel, this is all project based. That's why I can see the video info column here. I'm going to take the project panel to maximize mode just for a second. Or move the video info column to the left for the last time, M this narrower as well. Then we can exit maximized mode with double click. We can see son. These videos are all 12 80 by 720 and the 25 frames per second. We'll start making a sequence and we'll talk more about resolutions and frame rates. Click on new item icon, and we'll make a new sequence here. At the moment of recording, this will look like this. Okay? So when it comes to resolutions, The 12 80 by 720, which is the resolution of our videos is actually the lowest high definition resolution, which you may want to use. Now you wouldn't normally use this low resolution because any content you're going to work with is going to be much bigger. We just got these videos at quit low resolution because they smaller files, and it's easier for you to download them as well to fg, okay? You won't normally be using 12 80 by 720. It's too low for nowadays. But don't worry, we'll export the sequence at high resolution. That's not a problem. If we need 12 80 by 720, which we do in this case, will open legacy, digital SLR and 720. If you select any preset here, on the right, you see the frame size is 12 80 by 720. This is the lowest high definition, so called standard HD or 720 P. Let's talk more about resolutions first. This is the lowest high definition resolution. The next one up is 108 p, which is 1920 by 1080, which is what we call full HD. The next one is or ultra HD, which you have in here, which is 840 by 21 60. You may have a lot of content which may be four K because every, every mobile phone now can shoot video at four K. But what we need right now is 720 P. When it comes to frame rates, if you look under HD ten ATP, the most popular ones are going to be $0.24 per second or sometimes 20 3976, 25 and 30 or 2997. 25 and 30. Well, they were typically used for broadcasting in the past, for TV. 25 is what we used in UK, Europe, and most of the world, actually. 30 or 2997 is what they used in the old NTC system, which was North America, US, Canada, Mexico, also Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Europe, Southeast Asia. Okay? For anything else, it's typically 24. Go back to 720 P, 24 is going to be perfect for the web. T four is typically used for DVD and Blu ray, and cinema is also typically 24. With frame rate, you have a lot of flexibility. Our videos are 25 s per second, looking at the project panel. If we make a sequence 24, premier will play the videos at $0.24 per second. It's going to remove one frame from every second. It's going to drop, as we say, one frame every second. You never see a difference. Even if your videos are $0.30 per second and you make your sequence 24, six, six frames out of 30 is something you never going to see. B six frames out of 30 is one fifth of a second. So choose the preset. You can always change the frame at later. For example, So if I were to go for full HD, and there is no preset for exactly $0.24 per second, you can go to setting stop on the top and change the time base, which is your frame rate. Go back to sequence presets. Name your sequence at the bottom here. And then click. Te tie and click Okay. Now we have this new sequence here. We can switch back to the icon view. Your sequence is normally going to be at the bottom by default. That's a sequence. And that's our sequence in the time here. That's our sequence for now. 16. Create a Storyboard: Once you have a new sequence, you're ready to start adding content to your sequence. If you want to edit sequence settings, maybe change your mind about resolution or the frame rate. At any time, with your sequence selected in your timeline or in the project panel, you can use the sequence me and then sequence settings. At any time you can change your sequence resolution and the frame rate, technically can change anything you like. But I wouldn't change the resolution at any time. The one thing you need to keep in mind, a premier doesn't resize anything by default. If you make your sequence now or later, bigger or smaller than your content, you'll need to resize your content manually. If you want to change the resolution, do it now. If you want to change the frameate, you can do it at anytime because this will just play your videos at different frameate. Click Counsel here for now. I'm not changing anything. We'll have to look at the videos to see which one is going to be the first. We'll create a storyboard in here. We'll have look at storyboarding. So I'm going to take the project panel to maximize. I will have a quick look at the videos, rolling over. To see what could be our first video. Maybe this could be the first one. I can just move it, and maybe this could be actually the first. This could be second, and we could give the Buddha. This could be the third one, maybe potentially, this could be fourth and this could be fifth. If you're trying to renge the clips and you can't, check the s in your project panel, it should be on user order. W is what you get by def. We don't have to rearrange everything right now. We can do just a few. We can get started just so we know what's going to be the first. Let's put it this way. Remember, you can roll over over the videos. Maybe Buddha could be first. We can play them, we can click once and press space but to play. Maybe you want to check if the videos have sound. Because some of them may not have the sound. Like this one doesn't. You can actually tell because if the video has no sound, it doesn't have this icon. This has no sound and these as well. Okay? Take your time, re arrange the clips in the order, you want to use them. At least some of them for now, we can customize the rest later, or focus on these first here. These five videos. Once we credit our storyboard, we can exit maximized mode, and in the next video, we're going to start adding videos to the timeline. We'll create this rough cut in the timeline here. 17. Add a Video: Once we've organized the videos, at least some of them, we're ready to put them on a timeline. One of the techniques we can use is if we pick the clip we want to use first, B this one as the first video, you can go to your project panel. We're going to jug and drop it into the timeline. So on the selection tool, click on the video, hold them as button down, drag it across and drop it on the first track right at the beginning. It's going to snap here, and you may get this dialog box as well. This clip does not match the sequence settings. If you get this dialog box ever, or anytime you get this. What this is about is basically your sequence has a different frame rate from your video. Or your video has a different frame rate from your sequence, which is true in this case, because these videos are $0.25 per second, I made the sequence 24 frames per second per second. Well, I want to keep the sequence to be $0.24 per second, w, which means I want to keep existing settings. Keep always are stick If you want to, so you get this dialogue box, you couldn't take it if you wanted to if you're always going to use existing settings because this is the default. Just to mention about this dialogue box, this will only appear once per sequence. We're not going to see this again on this ti sequence. Kept settings. If you want to double check if your sequence is the settings you want, remember, equ the sequence sequence settings, and just to double check especially the frame rate. Okay. Okay. We can hardly see this video, so I'll zoom in with this time line selected. I'll just press plus a few times plus plus plus, we can see it better. Okay. Maybe we can organize our sequence a little bit more in the next video. 18. Organise Your Timeline: Before we start adding some more videos or before we start trimming the videos here, let's organize our tunnel a little bit. What I mean is, I would make this track or tracks a bit taller because I want to see the names and I want to rename them here. Just make this track a bit taller. So it doesn't take too much space. Same of the audio. Just as as necessary. They can right click to rename. This is going to be our a role. This is going to be well, let's say a dialogue, for example. There's no one talking here yet, but we may have a dialogue. Also going to have some music on A two, A two, a bit and V two is typically a roll. We may have some roll content here and V three is going to be graphics. There are going to be some graphics here. There'll be nothing on A three, so I'm going to leave it as it is right now, a. With this video, let's see if we need the entire video or shall we trim it. I can show you how. Let's see because this one is quite long. 16 seconds, actually is way too long. So basically, we're going to have a look at the video, we'll play it. And then we'll move the player ahead to when you want this video to start. Let's have a look. T. It could be any part of the video, actually. Let's say we want to choose maybe like a middle part. If I move the play head to what I wanted to start, maybe from here, for example, I was listening to the sounds in the background as well. Using selection toll, make sure the link selection is stand on. Be we're going to trim this video. And maybe we can do the next video, so keep each video about something different, so you can pick and choose what you want to watch. Keep it open, and let's do a trim on the next video. 19. Trim Video: In this video, we're going to trim this video on a tannin here. The key we're going to use here is you move the player to where you want this video to start. Within selection tool, make sure link selections stand on, so we're going to trim video and audio together. When you move the cursor the video, it looks like a white arrow. However, if you move your cursor to the start of the video, you get this icon here. That's where you can click and drag to perform a trim. You can make the video shorter. Just before we do it, anything you do in premier on a timeline is non destructive and re editable. You can make this video. Say if I make this video shorter like this, because we have snap in tend on the playhead or discuss snap to the playhead, which is perfect. Because it's all readable and non destructive in premier. At any time, you can make this video longer. That's not a problem. It's all non destructive. Now we don't want to gap at the beginning, so I'm going to move the video like this. Then now, I wouldn't make this video too long, just to have a bit of varieties. I'm going to play it and stop it after a few seconds. I think about 2.5 to 3 seconds will be enough for this one video for now, at least. Let's trim it from the end in the same way as well. We'll put the case of the end, and we trim the video like this. I've got 2 seconds, 22 frames of this video, almost 3 seconds. Let's just preview. Let's play it, Ptole bit closer as well, the pk. Okay. This will be good for now. So this is one way you can trim the videos. In the next video, I'm going to show you another technique. Keep it open. I'll show you another technique on a different video next. 20. Trim with the Source Panel: Let's have a look at another technique we can use to perform a trim. This time. We'll pick another video. I'm going to use this a video from the project panel, this one here. In the project panel, we'll double click on this video, which opens this video in the source, in the source panel in the top left of your squen here. In the source panel, we'll choose the path we want by setting these in and out points. Then when you add the video to your timeline, it's going to inset just into out. Let's have look at the video first. Again any part in here. So going to start from the beginning. Maybe the camera moved a little bit. Maybe this is it slightly wonky. So we can start from here. This will be the end point. Again, just a couple of seconds, 2 seconds, maybe 3 seconds will be enough, I guess. And this could be the outpoint. Got this in and out here on this video. Now, because we made in and out in the source panel. In the bottom right con of the source panel, you can see the duration of your in and out. So mine is just under 3 seconds as well. Also because this video now has in and out, which is saved within the project. In the project panel, the duration of the video is also showing just 2 seconds, 21 frames. No 16 or 17 seconds. Now we can take the clip from the project panel, drag and drop it onto the timeline like this. Or if I just it undo, you can do the same from the source panel by dragging on the video itself and dragging and dropping it into the timeline. That. Now we have these two clips on the timeline, which appear one by one. Even the sound transition sounds perfect with the birds singing I think this is okay for now. We can always add some other stuff to it later. These are two main techniques you can use for now. That's we normally do say on the 11 course. If you want to spend a bit more time putting the videos together, this could be your task for now and we'll meet in the next video. Let me may be safe because you never know, even though we do have auto safe, we'll have look at the auto safe, maybe in the next video. 21. Auto Save: Go ahead and I put together a few clips here for now, and in the meantime, as you put in the clips together, I wanted to tell you a bit more about the auto safe. Ss you working on your project, a premier creates backups of your project in the background. It creates auto safe. Ss you're working on your project. If you go to your desk, if you go to the location where you have your project, This is my project. This one. There should be a folder here called adobe premier auto safe, which is created by premier automatically, and this folder is going to have backups of your project. This is from the project we opened the other day. I'm going to delete these ones. We don't need them anymore. Just these ones here. Each backup is a full backup of the entire project. Project doesn't contain your media, they just links. That's why the project files are so small. Into backup your media yourself. Premier will just back the project file. I've got a backup from I don't know recently. Okay. And Prime creates backups on a regular basis. So if we go to premier preferences, edit preferences on windows, premier pro settings on a MAC and auto save, you can customize the frequency and how many backup does it. Normally primi does backups every 5 minutes. I normally change it to every 15 because I keep saving from time to time anyway my project using controllers. But you can decide how often you want the backups to be created. Depends how much you do in five, ten, 15 minutes. You can also decide how many backups you want to have. Preme does normally up to 20 backups. At this moment right now, as I'm changing the backups to be done every 15 minutes, Prem will do on average three to four backups every hour because it's like on average every 15 minutes. If it does say three to four every hour, it's going to back up the entire day, because that's 20 backups. You can also have auto save save your current project, and you can also have the backup project to be safe to your crit flat account if you want to as well. I'm going to click to make changes to apply the changes. Premier we'll keep doing backups automatic in the background. This is turned on by default as you saw so you don't have to worry about it too much. You may see me saving from time to time, but in general, we don't have to worry about anything happened to our project. If anything happens to your project, you can just open the latest backup in Premier because the backups are the P approach files. They just premier project files. 22. Add Text: Continuing from the previous lesson. I've added some more videos in here, so this is the entire sequence for now, so have something to work on so we can soon export it. In this video, we're going to add a t here as well. You put your playhead where you want the text to be. Let's say we put a playhead right at the beginning here, and then you got a panel here. Type tool is used in the program panel, not in the timeline. In the program panel, we're going to let's say, for example, if one text to be right in the center of the video frame, we draw a text box the size of the entire video frame from top left corner to bottom right, Lads. You see y in a second. Well put some text in. Let's say Thailand, for example, when you finish typing, switch back to selection tool, just can see this better. So we can see just a text on its own. Let's move all the videos. Let's highlight all the videos here with selection tool, and we just move them so they appear after the text like this. Okay? I can see text better. If you keep the text clip selected here, which I'm going to move to V three actually there. So it's here. In a top left of your screen, you have defect control spanel, and this is your text layer in here. And if you open it, you can customize the text in here. You can change the font family. You can anything from your computer, say, I'll go for Lato font, maybe a bit thicker and we'll have the text to be center lined horizontally and vertically as well. This is the font size. Can make it smaller, mine is really big, so make it smaller. Say maybe about 60. Any text properties are here, if you s, this is also fill, which is the color of the text. We can also make it all caps. Maybe maybe a little bit smaller as well, mine is really big. Maybe about this size. Whenever you add text, to customize it, use the effect controls panel here. When you text in your program panel, primary creates a new clip automatically in here. Well, at the position of the playhead, whatever your playhead is, let's say if you want to do one more, we'll put the playhead at the end. If you want to move the playhead right at the very end, as you move your playhead, if you hold shift, shift will make it snap to each cut. Here as well, is. You can put some text if you want to. I'm going to leave it as it is, just the text at the beginning here. About a bit, so we can see everything. Just the text in here. Get some text and in the next video, we're going to add some transitions. We can make this text fade in and fade out and make the videos fade in and fade out. Just use transitions for that in the next video. 23. Add Transitions: Following from the previous video, well at some transitions here. We'll make the text fade in and fade out and the first video fade in and the last video fade out as well in here. Transitions are effect. Go to the effects panel, which normally sits in a bottom cf screen. If you can't see it, you can find it on the window window effect. If you open video transitions and dissolve, you find the most popular transitions in here. Specifically, cross dissolve and deep to black, also deep to white sometimes as well. But Dp Black is the very popular one. Depo black is what you see on every film trailer. The way it works is you take a transition and you drag and drop it into the timeline, and you drop it on the cut like here, is highlight. You can drop transition in the middle of the video or graphic has to be at the start, like that. Now, when you apply deep to Black, this will actually make the video deep two black, but actually fade in instead. The text will now fade in like this. Like a quick animation technique in a way. We can also then apply deep two block to the end of this clip to make this text fade out in here. Let's also make the first video fade in. Okay? Let's make the last video fade out right here. I'm also going to apply one more transition between these two clips here, because got two different sections. We've got these videos with Buddha and this like a monastery. Now we have a section with the metro with the underground. Because we have two different scenes in here, I apply deep to black on the cut between these two videos right here. Because one example we use transitions is when moving between the scenes like in here. If you want transition to be longer or shorter, selection tool, put a cursor right on the edge of the transition. You cursor look like this, and you can click and drag to make transition longer, which makes it slower or shorter to make it faster. You can also double a transition to typing duration, if you want to. O transition selected, click on the transition here. In effect controls p, you can also customize the duration or even alignment here as well. If you don't want transition anymore, you just select it on your timeline and just delete it deleted. Or if you want to apply a different transition, you just drag and drop it on top of the existing one to replace it. Because you can only have one transition at a time. If you drop a new transition on top of the previous one, it's going to replace the previous transition. So Fin this will do for now for the transitions in here. In the next video, we could add some music, and then we could talk about exporting. Keep it open and we'll add some music next. 24. Add Music: In this video, we're going to add some music to our sequence here. I've already went to Pizza Bay, and I found this Tai music, this one here. Which I have already downloaded. Now we need to import it. So I primer, or go to the project panel here. Here into Tai project is fine. Or my mistake of call it Tat T. T. This has been open. We can also do if we're trying to import. We could do file import or control I or command Mac. Okay? And I've got it right here in our folder in videos here, this piece of sound. For now, we're going to drag and drop it onto the timeline on a separate track. Some clips may have some beeps at the start, you mean to trim it. This one is fine. It's obviously way too long. I'm going to use the raiser toll of the raiser toll, I'll make a cut on the music at the end of the sequence, right here. That was switched to selection tool, select this bit of music here and just delete it. So the music will only play for the duration of this sequence. Okay? There are some other techniques which we're going to cover on the premier two oh one course. For now, we just focus on the basics here to get you started. Okay, got some music in here. And for now, we're ready to export the sequence. We get some finished products ready to be used. So keep the sequence open, I'm going to talk about exporting next. 25. Export Your Sequence: In this video, we're going to export our sequence. We have something ready to be uploaded some online, and then we're going to add much more to the sequence on the 22h1. You select your sequence in your timeline. And in the top left c of your screen, we have this pot next to dit. Normally by defol premier will create a video file. He can choose where you want to save. I'm going to put it right inside our folder. S right here. Media file should be turned on. By default, primary creates MP four file. You can choose the name if you want to, or you can change the name if you want to. If you're not getting MP four file, make sure the format is set to H 264, which is actually a codec, not a format. H264 is a codec. It's the most popular codec for creating MP four files. P four is we want for the web because MP four can play on everything on all kinds of devices. P four will be perfect using H 264 codec. Normally by default, the preset will be set to much source adaptive high Brate, which is perfect. You get a preview on the right hand side, we can play. You get estimated file size in the bottom right corner as well. By default plan will export your sequence in the some resolution. That's fine. I'll show you how to scale it in the next video. For now, we just export here. And in just a moment, we'll have this final video file ready to be uploaded. It's going to play on all kinds of devices, going to be a small file as well. So if I navigate this folder here, This video is only 22 kilobytes. It's a high definition video 30 seconds. If I play it, it'll play just fine on any device on any video player. Any devices. Good quality. Even though P four applies a lot of compression, but we get a high quality video that can be uploaded or sent to someone. Okay. Now in the next video, we're going to export this video bigger because videos only 12 fty by 720, this sequence will upscale this video to Full HD. So keep it open, and we'll do another expo, we'll do some upscaling next. 26. Export and Upscale: In the previous video, we exported this sequence. We using the same settings as the original sequence. This became 12 80 by 720 video. But I'm going to upscale it to full HD, which is more of a size you want to use for nowadays. The sequence selected again, we'll go to Export. We're still doing MP four file. I'm going to rename it, so I know which one is switch. This is going to be ten ATP, which is full HD. We're going to change the preset to high quality ten AP HD. You can even up scale to four K if you want to. But full HD is going to be perfect. This will give us bigger file size obviously. But still reasonable size, just 77 megabytes, estimated, might be a bit less than that. Exporting still as MP four file is in H 264 core. But this time we're exporting it bigger. It's going to be ten ATP. If I hit export, because going to take a little bit longer. But when you hit the export is going to upscale the sequence, it's going to make it bigger, it's going to make every video bigger. But typically it keeps the quality. There there should be no visible pixelation. Let's have a look. Let's see, for looking the same folder, that's the ten ATP version. It's 70 megabytes. The previous one was 22, 23. That's the full HD version. So scaled version with no visible loss of quality. Primits an amazing job upscaling content. Upski in your sequences, will you export them. Pretty much the same quality as the original. But this is now much bigger because this is now 1920 by 1080. This is the full HD version of our sequence. So if the videos you have are smaller, you can always upscale it. This will do for now. This is thank you for joining me on this course in here. I'm going to start working now on the second course, which is going to be P two oh one. We're going to get deeper into more techniques. In Prime Pro. So thank you for watching, and I hope you're going to join me on Perme Pro two oh one next.