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1. 1-1 Introduction : Welcome everyone to this Premier Pro Skill Share course. So I'm gonna quickly go over what we are going to be learning in this course. And then we can just jump right into it. So in this course, we're gonna start off with some introductions, some things that'll help you get started on the course. We're then going to go into the basics. This is going to be teaching you the basics of premier, how you can manipulate the effects. We're then going to move into some beginner affects, some really simple things, but very powerful things will start enhancing footage. There we're gonna start changing the field of footage just as one step farther than enhancements because we're now making the entire footage feel differently. We're gonna have some fun with some animations. We're gonna go over a couple of things to save time when you're editing. We're going to work on at transitions. Then do the audio, the other side of Premier, which is some audio effects between the really, really fun. We're going to end it with some advanced and then 3D effects. And then we're going to wrap up. And that point you're going to do your project, which is going to be based on using affects learned from these 11 sections together to create your own effect. So that is going to be the skill share Premier Pro effect course. I'm really excited for you guys to get started. So let's jump right in.
2. 1-2 Download Files: So for this course, there is going to be a file. You can download this not mandatory, you can use your own footage in the course, but if you would like to follow along with the exact footage that I am using. There is a link on my website, so this is my website. This isn't some side website that can be hacked and have spam or anything like that. This is my personal website and I have a downloaded link right here. So if you type this into your address bar, you'll be presented with this page right here. You go to the download button and you put in this password and you will be able to download all of the footage that I am using for this course for free to follow along with. So go ahead and do that if you'd like to follow along, pause the video right here, and then put it all information, download links, and then you can follow along with me. Or if you don't want to just grab some your own footage and all these facts can pretty much be accomplished with your own footage. So that works too.
3. 1-3 Let's Jump Right In: All right, everybody, welcome to the course. I wanted to just jump right in and show you something. Now, a quick disclaimer on this video. If you can't follow along right now, that is perfectly fine. Just watch me. If you want to see something cool, be created and Premier. Or you can follow along if you would like to create this yourself. As we get in the future, we're going to be starting with a more simple building blocks and this stuff that you will build a fall along with. So if you are an absolute beginner, don't worry, just sit back and watch with Premier can do. If you have a little bit of experience, go ahead and follow along with me. It's a fun thing to accomplish. And what we're accomplishing is essentially creating an effect within Premier by combining a whole bunch of things together. And with those things combined, what we're actually going to do is create an effect with no stock footage. So we're actually have generated our own entire clip within Premier Pro. And this is what we're creating. Essentially, it's going to be like we're passing a son or a big star in space and that's what we're creating. We've created the star field, who created the sun, moving, the movement of the camera. And overall we created a fun effect. So let's get started on this effect. First thing you need to do is create yourself a project. To do that, all you have to do is click New Project, or if it opens up on the default screen right here, like so, I'll save changes. Wait a second, and then if it opens up right here, what you wanna do is click on the new project button. Mine is this one right here. So I'm just gonna reopen up intro effect, but if you click the new project, you're ready to go. Then you need to go up to File New Sequence and go down to this HDTV folder right here. Go to ten ADP, 30 frames a second. That's the one I chose. If you want to match me exactly any of those ones, it works too because we're generating this effect, so it doesn't have to match footage. Once this is all opened up, we need to go into our project folder, which is right here. If, if any of this doesn't look the same, click up here to editing and window workspaces reset to save layout and it should reset it to generally this view right here. If you can't find anything, if you go to window and I say like open up the libraries. If you click on the library's, it'll actually highlight that area. But anyway, Mine is the project here. I'm actually going to move that to the very beginning. I like the project on the left here. Again, if you can't find that, it's just the projects and you can find it if you click it, it'll highlight it. And in here, we're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna create a new sequence as well so that we have the other effect preserved. Click OK. We're going to have this sequence three right here. I'm gonna name this to stars. And now we're good to go and opened it up over here. We're then going to take a black video and we're gonna go New Black video to get that. So there's bottom-right here, nu or up here, File New. And then down to black video, either those works. We're going to generate that New Black video. And we're gonna take it and we're going to drag it in. Now, I am going to drag it to the second spot on the timeline right here. With this, I'm then going to go into my effects. I'm gonna search for generate. And so video effects generate. There's a whole bunch of different things down here. And you see what we're gonna do is we're actually going to go to Generate and then grid and drag and drop that. My bad not grid, cell pattern, cell patterns or we're gonna put on here. So the effects tab has all of the effects within Premier. We're gonna go to the video effects that generate find the cell pattern and stick it on that black video we created. If this is really zoomed out and grab this little dot and just drag it on over and we can zoom this in a little bit. Now this effect is, we're actually gonna be using this to create the star is it's pretty crazy. What we do is we click on the cell pattern up here, in effect controls window. Again, all of this, if you're not following long or it's a little difficult to follow along. Just sit back and watch the effect. Don't get frustrated right now we're going to start way slower than this, but I want to show you the power of what this course is gonna be able to teach you. Anyway, go up to effect controls cell pattern. And we're gonna go to crystals HQ. With crystals HQ, we have these little crystals right here. We're going to take the contrast and we're actually going to take that and bring it down to about 60. We're gonna take the disperse and bring up to 1.50. And what that's gonna do is gonna make them a little more jagged, a little more random. We're gonna take the size, I'm going to bring that down to ten, and now they are small. The next step is we're going to take a, another effect and this is where it's fun. This is what the course is about is taking these effects and combining them, we're gonna get a brightness and contrast and put it on the video. We're gonna take it that contrast and want to go to 98. And so you see right now we've taken this and now we have this really bright star field. And so essentially what I'm doing here is just adding an effects into the effect controls. If you click on anything and drag it over here, it brings them to the top left. You can see I've cell pattern. And then beneath that the brightness and contrast might too. And all I've done is manipulate parameters to generate what I want to generate. The last step here is that we want to take this opacity and bring it down to 1%. Now, you can't see anything at the exact moment, but that's because we need to do something else. What we're going to need to do is we're gonna need to take another black video and drag it beneath. This is going to basically allow a layer for it to project onto. And so when the blackbody on beneath comes on, you now have a very good-looking star field going. The effect is almost over. Now what we have to do is create the Sun. To do that, we're gonna go to the black video. So we have three of these at this point, you wanna start renaming things. The middle one is going to be your stars. The bottom one is going to be, I'm right-clicking on this rename and we're going to name it. I got background. And then the top video up here is going to be renamed to sun. And now it looks a little better. And said a black Video, Black video, Black video with the sun. We're gonna go to effects and in generate, we're going to look for an effect called Lin's flare down here. Drag and drop that on. And now we have our lens flare, but we can't see what's behind us. Well, we're gonna take this blending mode right here. So we'll make sure you click on the top. Europe in effect controls, you're down to opacity blend mode. And we're gonna take that and go to screen. And what that's gonna do is gonna filter downwards so that we can see the stars again and the sun stays right there. So now all we have to do is little animation. And I'm gonna say this disclaimer one more time. If you're starting to fall behind and you know, it's not all click and right now that's perfectly fine. Just sit back and watch or keep rewatching it and trying it over and over. That's how you learn in effect. But we're gonna go up to the position of the sun, so we don't want this position that's gonna move the entire clip. We want the lens flare position. Go to the flare Center. And we're just gonna take this and move it over megawatt there. And then we're gonna click on the flair center, the little button right here, which toggles the animation. And we're just gonna move it over a little bit. Now, that problem is if we move it over right here, nothing happens. So what we need to do is we're going to move into the future. So let's go to ride around the anterior around seven seconds and just move it and over. Now if we go ahead and play this back, you're going to see that we have a moving son. The last thing that I did was I took the stars and I went to the top here, the motion. I went down to scale and I scaled it up to 120. Why they do this? Well, it allows me to move the stars as well. You see I have a little space on each side. So now you can take the Stars and started off on the left here. Let's go back to the beginning of the clip position. And we don't want it to move as much as this. The stars are really far away, so we just want a tiny movement over time. So we're gonna go here and we're gonna move maybe the stars that much. And now what we have is this almost 3d effect, where it looks like we have the star is moving in the background, but the sun in the foreground moving quicker. And you'll see that the dots disappear. That's because it's not fully rendering out. It's trying to play it back at, at full speed. To render it out, all you have to just click the Enter key and it will render all the read-out. I'll give you your final product. And there you have it. We now have a beautiful stars that was created entirely in Premier Pro. So like I said, at the very beginning, this is a decently complex effect. But look at what we've been able to do by combining the effects in Premier Pro. We're not just using them one-off, We have a lens flare going, we have the cell pattern going. We're using brightness and contrast. We're using just the black video to create a background and then we're animating at all and were able to create something really neat. And throughout the course that's going to be doing, we're gonna be using different effects to create things that are really, really neat and fun. So I cannot wait to get started with you guys. So lets, the next lecture, we're going to bring it all the way back. And we're going to start at the very beginning here, where me going over what all of these panels are, how they all work together. And we're gonna be slowly moving forward and building onto him, onto it until you're at this point. By the end of this course, you're going to be able to come back to this video and follow along and it's all going to make perfect sense. And that is an amazing thing. So let's get started.
4. 2-1 Basics Introduction: And everybody, let's dive into our effects. In this section, we're gonna be going over some very basic effects and some basics of Premiere Pro dissection will be slightly different than the rest of the sections. And there might be a little bit of a lecture here in there just so that you understand the grasp of Premiere Pro. But most of them will be effects that we can accomplish and things that you can actually see it happen on the screen. Really excited. So let's jump on it.
5. 2-2 Basics of Effect Controls: Alright, so let's get some building blocks ready before we start diving into all of the effects. The first building block I wanna go over is the effect controls. So that the effect controls essentially what we wanna do is find out how we can manipulate the effects that we're adding. So let's get started by just first-off building out our process. So go ahead and open up Premiere Pro. Get it to a screen that looks like this. So create yourself to project a blank project and then start from here. The next step is, let's make sure our windows are all exactly the same. So go up here to window, go to workspaces, and then click on the editing button. This will set you back to this. It should look basically identical to this. If you have a wide screen monitor that's gonna make it look different. If you have a really small monitor, a laptop, it'll make it look slightly different as well. But generally, all of your boxes should be exactly like this. In the bottom left, we're going to right-click on this and we're going to go to Import. Once we click on the import, we can then go into the different areas and find our footage. It's going to be in Unit one and then stock footage. And we're gonna go ahead and click on the walking to the window, click open on that, and then click this and just drag it on over to your timeline. You now have the ability to view your footage. If you click the spacebar, it'll play it back in real time. And then you can drag this to go forward and backwards. So let's go into our Effects tab right here. And we're going to drag on the color balance effect and the tint effect right here. And you're gonna see this going to turn it black and white. And then we're also going to have some more controls. Now, the effect controls, if we go up here to the top left, you'll see effect controls. We have motion, opacity, time remapping, color balance, tent, and then down here, volume, channel, volume and pan. Or we'll talk about these later on up here or the video ones, these three right here, a default. So the motion is essentially just going to be manipulating the video in this space. So we can move it right to left, up to down, and we can scale it in and out. We can rotate. It just allows us to basically move everything around. If we want to animate it, we can click on any of these buttons, will have lots of tutorials on how to do that later. A very good thing to know is this reset parameter. You click on that, it's going to reset to what the default value was. And so now you see it's exactly what it started out as. So play around with these and you'll see what they end up doing. The anchor point we'll talk about later as well. A lot of effects used the anchor point rather than the, the center. A quick test is if I move the anchor point up here, whenever I rotate it, it'll rotate on that point instead. So as you can already see, that would be very important for something, some sort of effect later on. Also, you've gotta make sure that the anchor point is whenever you reset it, it's going to reset it to wherever the anchor point is. So you gotta make sure that goes back to center if you're gonna manipulate that to get everything back here. Anyway, this is just the motion. Opacity is how see-through it as, so if we lower it down, whatever it's beneath it, we will see if we raise it all the way up, it becomes completely opaque, which means that it's going to be the star of the show. There's nothing behind it you're gonna see in this situation, we have a black screens. All it's really doing is fading into black. But in other situations, like if we put text or something, we wanted to be able to see what was behind this. We would lower the opacity on the text blending modes. We will also talk about at some point as they are important in how this footage will blend with the rest of the layers. Now, let's go to the effects that we added. So we went to our effects, we went to the color correction, we grabbed ourselves tent and then the color balance HLS, the color balance HLS. We have this ability to use the hue, lightness, and saturation for this test, what we're gonna do is we're going to manipulate the heel. Now you can see right here that because of the tent, the hue isn't doing anything. But if I click on this little button, the fx button, it'll turn that on and off and actually have a kind of a fun effect. Your, I can manipulate the hue so that for example, we can meet, I'll make the interior walls a little bit of a brownish color instead of the yellow color they have there. And that's actually everything sort of looks exactly the same. You might actually be looking at some, maybe some unintended greens and stuff coming into here. But that's one use of the effect. Now, what I wanted to highlight with these is that the order that these effects go in is very important. So for example, if I took this tent and dragged it up here, or let's actually drop it down right here. And let's go to this map to black or matte black to, let's just go ahead and make that a red color. You're going to see that there's a red color right here. Now, no matter what I do to the HEW up here, it's just going to make it different shades of red. We'd have no more control. It's now tinted to read. It processes from top to bottom. So the color balance was applied first and then the tent was applied after it. If I take the tent and drag it up here to the top. Now suddenly the hue can be, can move again because first we're taking the tent and we're making it a red piece of footage, then the q is actually taking that red and it's skewing it to whatever it wants. So just by ordering these differently, we now have two different effects. The color balanced on the top, it's just different shades of red, the color balance. And on the bottom we have different shades of really anything that we work with. So that is a very important part of the effect control panels up here is that it starts from top to bottom and there are different layers in here. So whatever effects are at the top is going to be applied than this one, than this one and this one and so on with however many effects you have. So if something isn't working right and makes sure your layers are in the proper order. Also, we wanna make sure that we understand that the effects themselves can be manipulated in different ways. For example, with the, you can cut things out, you can add things, you can animate them with all of this, we're gonna be talking about all of that throughout the course. But just know that there's a lot of manipulation you can do which has a single effect. And that's why it's very powerful to be learning about these effects throughout it. Because once you know all of them, you can combine them to create really anything you want in Adobe Premiere Pro. So the effects have.git control are, get very familiar with the effect controls up here, drag whatever you want and do it, play around with a couple of them. And then let's keep going and start talking about some of the other basics like adjustment layers and black videos and such.
6. 2-3 Black, Transparent, Adjustment: The next thing we need to talk about is the transparent video Adjustment layer and then the black video. Those are three really common layers that we add into our timeline to manipulate the effects and to manipulate our footage. So let's go ahead and create one of each. So if you go to the bottom left down here and you click on this button, or if you go up to File and then New, you have them all right here, you just wanna create yourself a transparent video. And then you wanna go ahead and create a black video and just click through the prompt l it saying it's how big do you want it? And then we can go ahead and create our adjustment layer. So what is the difference between all of us? Will the transparent video and the black videos share the property that they're an actual element within the timeline, meaning we can apply effects to it and it doesn't just funnel the effect down. This one is just a fully opaque black video, and this one is just a fully transparent, transparent video. Now the adjustment layer is special in that all the effects applied to it get applied downwards. Think of it like a master control. So if we had, for example, two of these rate here, and we wanted to apply the exact same effect to both of them. We would put an adjustment layer over the top, like so. And now whatever we applied it, this, we can get crazy with it. Let's go and go Color Correction back to our HLS and change the hue up. You'll see that the hue is the green over here as well as over here, where if we applied it to just the first one, we took this and instead of applying it to just malaria, applied it to the first one, and we changed it over. The second one does not have the effect, as you can see right there. So that is an important step right here is to make sure that we apply the effect to as, as much as we want and we don't just try to individual apply them. There's also held, for example, if we're like, oh, we don't actually want this color. We want it, you know, this color will, if we apply it, copy and pasted this effect in a 90 different ones, we have to change 90 different files where if we just created a single adjustment layer, we just changed the Adjustment Layer and everything changes behind it. Then it's also important to realize these two because some effects are going to change depending on how you apply them. Let me explain that. If I take a transparent video right here and I drag it out over this footage, and I go to our effects and we're going to search for an effect. There's a search bar right here. You can search for anything if you know it by name. Once you start learning by name, it's a very quick way to get to them. We're going to look for an effect called crop. So video effects transform crop. We're going to take crop and drop it onto the transparent video. Now if we drag the left side, you'll notice nothing happens. We're cropping the transparent video. No effects are being applied downwards. Now, if we go ahead and go into our basics here or the project video and let's go to the trends are the Adjustment Layer and drag that on top. Now if we take our effect called crop, drag it onto the adjustment layer. If we move the left, you'll see it actually cuts the video down here because it's cropping this video. Essentially crop is being applied to this which does nothing. And then it's going to be applied to the next one down here, which is our video. So it's cropping off the entire left side of our video because it's an adjustment layer. So that's something really important to understand with, with the difference between the Adjustment Layer and the transparent video is effects will be applied differently. Another sort of example that we can go with here is why would we use a black video when we have a transparent video, certain effects require it. If we go ahead and drag the transparent video in, and we go to our effects and we look for one in the video effects and it's in the generate the four-color gradient. First off, if we applied this to our regular footage, if we had this layer right here, it overtakes our regular footage so we lose some footage, so we don't want to do that. We need something to put it on. So if we drag it onto the black video rate here, you'll notice that it works, that the gradient is applied to this. And now we can manipulate it where if we drag it onto the transparent video, nothing happens because it needs that color in the background to actually manipulate something. So the transparent video actually it is incompatible with this effect. So that is why we would use a black video. And then we wanted to look good. All you have to do is go the blending mode and then use, for example, screen. And that essentially is going to just take the colors and blend it with the background. It, I believe it chooses the lightest and the darkest and blends those together, but we're going to talk about blending options later on anyway. Now we have the effect that we can apply where if we wanted to drag before color gradient on the bottom here, there's really nothing we can do to save that's all it is. It's just going to be the four colors right here and we don't have any footage anymore. So that's really the difference between these three. These three we're gonna be using a lot throughout the course. I just wanted to give you a good basis for them so you understand them when we drag and drop them in, we're going to be learning a lot of properties about them as we apply them to various effects. So yeah, transparent video, Adjustment Layer, Black video. They're going to be really, really helpful in using throughout the course to create certain effects.
7. 2-4 Get Your Effects Moving: So let's talk about masks and animation. This is essentially the basis for animating everything in Adobe Premiere Pro. So what we're going to be doing with this is essentially throughout this course as we create a facts, we wanna be able to control them over time. So you don't want to just have it as a single change to what? We don't want to just change the colour one time we went to go into the change and then come out of it. We want to locate it on one side or the other side of the clip. We want to be able to control it in both space and time, and that is what masked and animation allow us to do. So if we go into our brightness and contrast here, so we're gonna go into our affects, video effects, color correction, and then brightness and contrast. Drag that onto the left footage over here. And you'll see that right down here and brightness and contrast. We have the brightness rate here, which we can drag up and it makes it brighter, drag down, it makes it darker. And we also have the contrast which just makes them go back and forth. So let's say that we want to do something sort of analog artsy. We wanted to start off with normal contrasts. And as we get closer and closer and closer, we wanted to go and do really extreme, or let's do the opposite. Let's say we wanted to go really, really contrast at the beginning. And then once we make it to the window, we want it to be perfectly visible. So if we go ahead and start at the very beginning here and our set, our contrast to 100, we can begin an animation by going over here into the stopwatch, the toggle Animation button. If I go ahead and click on that right, like so, I can then drag this forward and find the space where I want it to be right here. And then I'm going to drag this contrast or I can just type it in by clicking on it to 0. And so now what we have is this transition over time. So you're gonna see as we play this back, it starts off looking like a really high contrast. And as we get closer and closer to the window, it then lights up to the original, kind of a cool effect here. Now let's say that we don't want this to be applied to the left or the right window, we just want it in the center window. We can create ourselves a mask rate here, brightness and contrast. We click this box and it's going to create a mask right in the center. If I drag this mask up the points so that I get a column here, all you have to do for this is just click on it. Whoops, not rotate it. Click on one of the points and you see I go left and right. If I click the Shift button afterwards, it locks it to like certain like 45-degree angles and stuff. So if I drag it up, it'll make a perfect line upwards. So I click, hold Shift, dragged down, click, make sure you click first, hold shift, drag down. And now we have just this column in the center with our masks. We have this thing called feathers, which is what, how much it's going to blend with the edges. So if I take this, I bring the feather way up. You'll see that it blends in with the edge is a whole lot more. We have the opacity so we can see how strong we want the effect to be applied. Then we have the expansion so we can expand it out from the line we drew or expanded in from the line we drew. So I'm going to expand it out a little bit, add a little bit more feather. And yeah, let's go with that. And so now let's go and animate through. And you're going to see that as we get closer, it'll slowly go back into normal. And we have this like interesting beginnings of an effect happening. We can also animate them ask paths or if we wanted to start at the left side, for example, if we click on the animate button here, we can go and click on it and maybe have it start. Maybe over here. And then over the course maybe halfway through, we'll have a sort of cycle onto the other side. Now we have this fun little moving across but also disappearing as you go across it. It almost looks like there's a shadow in the room which is kind of a cool effect if you wanted to keep it maybe at a lower contrast the whole time. For example, if we turned off the contrast animation and kept that 62.3, OK, it actually looks like there's a shadow that runs across the room. Might be good for a horror movie or something like that. But anyway, the basis of this is that we have the ability to create masks by using these buttons. This one allows you to draw. One, creates a square, creates a circle. We have the ability to animate that and with the ability to animate basically everything in Premier Pro and create amazing effects from those animations.
8. 2-5 Keyframe Manipulation: So let's talk about keyframe manipulation. Keyframes can actually be manipulated themselves and it gives us a greater sort of ability to change the motion over time. So let's grab brightness and contrast and just drop it back on here. We'll do a quick one. Say at the Contrast, what's actually the brightness? Let's delete those right here we'll go brightness is going to sort out 100. And then once we make it to the window, we're going to animate it down to, let's say negative 100. So there's a big change here, you can see it gets darker and darker, kind of a cool effect there like the light is what's doing something to the camera. And then as it adjusts, but we just went to negative here. And so you can see that it's a very linear motion. So what I mean by that is if this was a 0 and this was 100, it would essentially just go 1234567. You get to the middle, it's at 50, you get over here, it's at 75. It's very predictable. However, we can make this unpredictable. We can actually add a little bit of fun and flair to it. If we drop this down over here, you're going to see that we have these two menus. One of them over here is the motion and the bottom is the velocity. So you'll see that it has a velocity right here of negative 30 every second. So every second the brightness is going to be, is going to go down by 30 value points. In this situation. I mean, there's no real like unit for any of this, so I just call it a value 0.100 is the highest brightness, negative 100 is the lowest brightness. So it means every second we're gonna go down by 30. So if we go to 1 second in the film, Well, we're at exactly 7100 minus 30. So it's a very linear fashion as a formula for it. Now, we can actually manipulate this and kind of have some fun with it. So if we right-click on this, we can create these sort of auteur defined once like a Beziers, where would a busy air is gonna do? It is going to sort of rounded off. So if I grab this and I pull it over, you'll notice that now we have this sort of S curve here. So what we're going to have is c, the velocity down here, the velocity is going to increase. At some point we're going to be at almost one negative 120 for like that split second. And then it's going to come back down. And slowly gets slower and slower and slower over time. So we have this big change from 100 down to essentially 0 in the first, second. And then after that we go from 0 to 100 in the last, about five seconds. So we have the ability to create something that looks like this. Take a look at this. So you can see it as this quick adjustment and then slowly over time, it goes into the black. And we can actually, if you hold the Alt key, you can duplicate things. So let's duplicate this and just make this back into a linear one so we can watch them back to back here. So I'm going to bring this up to full screen and let's just take a look. So the first one, the brightness falls off really quick and then it slowly goes dark. The second one, the brightness slowly comes down over time. You'll notice that the brightness is about halfway, maybe three seconds into it while the brightness gets to that point right here at just the first step, right when that person's arm comes in, while in this one, you'll see that when that person's arm comes in, it's still really bright in here. So keyframe manipulation is important. It's something we're gonna be talking about throughout the course and we're actually gonna create effects using it. But understand that these are here. You don't have to do a linear change over time and you don't have to animate the change over time either. Like for example, you don't have to keep putting keyframes down here and make it go quick and then slow and quick. You can do it all from right here.
9. 3-1 Basics Introduction : Now that we've got a good foothold on Premiere Pro, let's go ahead and start tackling some beginner effects. Let's get started.
10. 3-2 Rotation in Premiere Pro: So the first effect we want to cover is a very, very simple effect. And all it is is how to rotate a video. So if we go here and we hit right-click and import, we can go unit to stock footage and then people walking. That's the one we're working with here. Drag and drop that in, and you'll see that it's over here. Now let's say that your sequence or our mind, your workspace looks a little bit different. Maybe it looks something like this, and you wanna get it back to default. You can always go up here to window. And then whoops, not that button. Always go up here to window and then workspaces and then reset to save layout. And all that's gonna do is it's going to reset everything back to the very beginning. And essentially the workspace was saved as well. If we click on, for example, graphics, you'll see that it adds a graphics panel over here. And if we do all of this again and we removed the graphics panel by closing it and we wanted to reset it back to what the graphics was. We go up to workspaces, reset and it's going to reset it to what it was, were working editing. So make sure you're clicked on editing up here. If this window has gone as well, you can always go up the window workspaces and click editing right there. We're going to click that. Someone's going to drag it over. And you'll notice that rotating a video is very, very simple. All you really have to do is just go down to motion and then rotation. And you have the ability to rotate the video. Now if you wanted to do some fun effect with the rotation, for example, you want it to spin. You can always animate this as well. So if we go and click on that and go up to, for example, five seconds and then rotate it. Maybe 23. Let's go three times. Now when we play it back, you'll see that there's actually an animation behind it. A little bit more of an advanced way to rotate is we don't have to use these controls. If we wanna do this to an effect, we can actually do that. So if we go to our effects and look for the video effects to store it, transform, and drag that on. You'll notice that we have all of the different things down here as well. One of them being rotation. Why would we want to do this? Well, transform can be applied to a Adjustment layer. So if we go up to how to rotate a video, click new Adjustment Layer, create that Adjustment Layer and put it over here. If you notice, if we rotate the adjustment layer, nothing happens beneath it. So what we need is the effect. So now we can actually go into our facts and look forward, transform, drag and drop that on the Adjustment Layer. And now when we rotate, you'll notice that the bottom rotates. So we can actually have footage that rotates wit over time. We can actually multiple pieces of footage rotates. So for example, if we created just a duplicate of this using the alt button. And then we do the transform rate here. And now all we have to do is we just click on the rotation animation and we move across the cut here and we keep it rotating. You'll notice that the rotation stays and right there, that little cut there, it changes. This is a way you can rotate everything. So that is just another way that you can add rotation. Like I said, rotation is a very, very simple effect in Premier Pro, but it's good because now you understand that as a transform as another way to add it. And we can actually do multiple different effects later on with this basic effect.
11. 3-3 Flip Footage in Premiere Pro: So let's talk about how to flip a video. We're back here at the main page. We're gonna go has edit, create ourselves a new project right here. Click on that. I'm in it too, then flipping video. And you'll see that we actually have different settings in here if we ever wanted to change those settings up. But for right now we're not going to touch them. Just know that they're here. Click OK to create a new project and then we're back to this window. Let's say again that for example, maybe the last time I closed that project panel and now I want to get it back as always, window workspaces reset and then also always look for the keyboard shortcuts. You can see that it's Alt Shift 0. You can click that pretty quickly with your fingers and you can start doing that to reset the workspace. So you don't always have to go up there and look for it. I'm going to right-click here. Click Import weren't gonna unit to stock footage and then cars driving. We're then going to take this and want to drag it over to this empty space. Now what are we doing when we create this? We're creating a timeline. What exactly happens though when we drag it over like so what happens is we create a timeline with the exact specification of the footage we add to it. So for example, this footage is 60 frames per second. The more frames per second, the smoother the motion, the more data there is. In this instance, we created 60 frames per second sequence. That's good if all of our footage is 60 frames per second. However, if we wanna export to a more cinematic quality, we 24 frames 29.97, then we actually need to create our own sequence and then drag footage into it. To do that, we just got File New and then sequence. And we can actually choose our presets here and change stuff around like for example, a 29.97 frames per second. So understand that I'm doing this drag and drop thing. But you can create your own so you don't have some, an unintended consequence like your frames per second being a little bit too high. And then if you add a 30 frames per second to it, it looks jittery, stuff like that. So I'm just gonna go ahead and do what I did before. And again, we're just touching on that right now. We're going to talk about that more later throughout the course. I'd like to introduce the topics early on. And then we're going to keep reinforcing. That's what this course is all about, is building blocks. Building blocks over building blocks. So now we're back to the car's driving. I'm going to click on this and we want to add an effect that's very, very simple. All its called is horizontal flip right here. If we drag that on over, you'll notice that the footage flips. What am I doing this for? Well, you can see that the left side of this car's driving is cars driving forward on the left and then backwards on the right. That suggests they drive on the left side of the road. Probably somewhere in UK, Europe, somewhere that drives on the left side of the road. What we want to do though, is we want the footage to look like it's driving on the right side of the road. Why would we want that? Well, let's say that we want to try to drop this into a foot piece of footage and make it look like it's somewhere in the Americas. So to do that, again, we need to make sure that we flip this footage. If we drag the horizontal flip over, we get just that, which is a quick drag and drop. It now looks like we're somewhere in the US. If of course you don't look at the license plates, it looks like you might be somewhere in the US and with a quick hit, it won't throw your viewer, audience off. It looks like we're driving on the right and they're driving back on the left. It's very easy to find Video FX transform horizontal, and we also have the vertical flip if we wanted to make it upside down like so. If we click on this and we go to the effect controls, you will see that the horizontal flip, all it has our waste a mascot. So if you wanted to create a mask, you can actually create sort of a mirror effect. If I take this and I drag it out to this center here, like so. You'll see that with a quick little button right there. We've actually created this sort of mirror effect because we're applying the flipped to one side and not the other. So it creates a, both the same information in opposite directions on each side anyway, and that is how you flip footage in Premier Pro.
12. 3-4 Adding Text: So now let's go over how to add in text. There's going to be advancing the course into a new area, which is the graphics. So we're gonna go ahead and hit Create or two here and then adding text. I'm going to go and right-click over here and click import. And I'm going to import my footage as normal. Now if you'll notice over here on the right, I have a new panel open. This is the essential graphics panel. I'm here because I'm in the graphics workspace. We are typically in the editing workspace, but I clicked on the graphics because we're actually using graphics as time. So having this open, it's helpful if you don't see this attentional graphics panel. You go to workspaces, go to graphics here, or you can just open it up individually by coming down to a central graphics and turning it on right there. And if we take our footage and Dragon over, you're going to see that it's just the same footage as last time. However, what we wanna do is add text. So we're gonna go over here to the tools or to look for the Type Tool. And we have two ways of creating text. The first is to draw a box. The good thing about a box is that it's going to make sure that you create text only in the area you want to create text. It's not ever going to get away from you. The bad thing about a box is that you'll see that it starts cutting things off. So we are no longer allowed to really just create whatever text we want. We have to try to fit it inside here and you'll see that we don't look at it properly. So we don't look at it properly. It cuts off and we can actually render something out that doesn't have the texts that we want. So if I delete this the second way to create texts, it's just the click. And then to type out your text and it will adjust if I click the Enter key, it'll go down another layer like so. So you can see that with this, it's very, very expandable. I can make it larger and smaller and the box is going to move with it. So depending on what you wanna do, you need you have two options to create your text. In our situation, we want that adjustability. So I'm going to click here and I'm gonna type, for example, London u, k. And then if I wanted to make it larger, I'll have to do is double-click here and drag this up a little bit. And you'll see that what we have is it's just a touch larger and now it looks pretty good over there in that corner. But why did it disappear? That's because what we've done is we've created a Graphics Layer. Essentially what that means is that this Graphics Layer was added here and then the effects for that Graphics Layer, or over here, it actually has two layers. We can add effects to it from the effects controls like anything in the effects panel. We can add over here like a normal piece of footage, or we can do the special graphics effects over on the right here and the essential graphics. If I click on this text, you will see that I have all of these effects and we'll cover these as the course goes on. Things like line height and the width between the spaces, the different texts that's all in here. And the size though, is really the one that you want to look at for right now. And then also maybe you want to look at something like changing the text up to a different one. Also, color, stroke, background and shadow at the bottom here. If we go to the fill, we can change the fill to anything we want like black, and you'll see that it changes the fill in there. If the stroke is the outline, you can see there's a white outline here. If I wanted to, for example, add a red one, I can do just that. We have a lot of different controls within here. Now if we create two different pieces of tax, so this is the second piece, right? Like so you'll notice that it all it does is it creates another layer in here, but it does not create another layer over here. This helps keep the timeline clean. If you want to add different effects, for example, anything in here to different texts layers, then you need to make sure that you're creating separate graphics layers. Otherwise, it's going to be applied to everything within this individual graphics layer. We can also sort of order these. So whichever ones on top is going to have the you'll see that it has the I don't know, I guess you would say the priority. So it's gonna look like it's on top of the other. You'll see if I drag it down. Now the second comes out and it looks like it's there in the London goes behind. So the order is really only relevant for that. You can also create groups and stuff to organize your, your layers up here. But that is the basics of how to add text. Note that the main parts of this is that you click the text view, drag it. It's going to be a set. You click it and type. It's going to be adjustable, it's going to be flexible. And then make sure that you look in the essential graphics panel because that's where a lot of your effects are going to be for manipulating the text within. Here. A quick prototype, by the way, is effect controls. You can also see the text is over here you have a couple of quick sort of things to do over here. You can use the size and the texts and all that over here in your effect control so you can adjust some of this stuff from two places, but a lot of the stuff like a lion and transform will only be in your central graphics panel. So now we've covered the basics of texts. In the next lecture, we'll actually be animating this text a little bit and maybe making it type in like a typewriter effect. So that'll be a neat sort of addition to what we've been doing. And we'll keep working on the essential graphics and typing.
13. 3-5 Typewriter Effect: So now let's discuss animating via text. So that's gonna be our next effects, how to animate text. So let's go ahead and first I'm going to go ahead and reset this and something more visible, just a white text. And then I'm going to undo the fill here. So now we just have this plain white text and let's say we wanted to animate it so that it comes in with an animation like it's being tight, like a typewriter effect. To do that, all we need to do is go to the text and then go to the left side over nor effect and trolls go to our text here, drop that down, and then look for our source text. You'll notice that we have the toggle Animation button over here. So in the last lecture we edited the tax on the right side. But whenever we want to do things like that, work with the time or wheel and to add effects to it, we need to look on the left side over here. And the effect controls so that we can actually go to the animations. So I'm going to first do is I'm going to click the toggle animation and I'm going to erase everything except the L and then go into move forward five frames. You can look the frames rate here. So you can see 12345. And you can see there's, we're now at the fifth frame. And I'm going to go in here and get to the end and then type in o. Go five more frames typing in. And this is a bit tedious, but it does create the animation. A quicker way to do this is if you hold the Shift button and then click forward, it goes ahead five while you do it. So this will save you a few clicks right there. D o n comma u k. So now what we have right here is the animation. So let's go ahead and just play this back. And you'll see that right there. It types out from beginning. And of course, if you move this forward a little bit, the reason you start with the L is because it's going to pop in with the L. So might as well have it start off with a letter so that the beginning of this is the actual beginning of the effect. And there we have it. Now we have a very nice animated text right here. And we can actually un-annotated out. So we've done the animation inward and we can just do the exact same things outwards. So maybe right about here, start the animation is still going. Now whenever you're doing an animation on the reverse side, what you want to make sure you do beforehand is go up to here and add another key frame rate before you begin. This is going to make sure that whatever happened rate here, this last key frame right there is going to maintain throughout it. Because if, if you start editing right here, it's actually going to try to basically change over time from here. Let's say you're changing the color or the size or something. And something is really large here and you wanted to start shrinking. Well, if you begin shrinking here, it's going to go from large and then slowly go to small as it gets here. So you want to lock in that large again so that you can begin animating it from that point onwards. So that's what we're doing. We're just making sure that we're locked in right there. We're going to move forward. Five, delete, five, delete, five, delete, delete. And you'll notice that a lot of stuff in Premier Pro is tedious. Editing can be a tedious thing. However, the TDS ness is what creates the neat effects. Now, again, with this, I could make it disappear, but I want them to just go with the, just end on the effects. So I'll just bring this back to here. Or actually I need to go I believe forward five. Let's see. So yeah. Okay, so I deleted that keyframe there. I think I hit controls either. So I wanna go forward five and then delete it right there so it sticks with the animation. So now we can just take a look right here and we have come in, go stays for about three or four seconds and then it undoes itself and then it's gone. So that is how you animate text. It's a great little thing and this is just one of the things you can animate. You could animate the color over time. You can animate, for example, changing the text to different things. There's lot of different fun effects that you can do with this, but this is the most basic way to animate your text.
14. 3-6 Color Ramp Effect: So now let's create a video overlay on our video and we'll go over a couple of new effects with that. So first off, I'm gonna go ahead and click import and I'm going to import the beach in our stock footage folder. I'm going to drag that over and just let it generate a sequence for me. Now you'll see we have this beautiful shot of this. What looks to be this girl sitting in front of a beach. But we want to change this style. This is looking a little bit like a cool sort of feeling to it. And instead of that, what we wanna do is want to make it feel a little bit more sum
Kurt Anderson, Computer Scientist, Multi-Media Designer
