Video Editing In Adobe Premiere Pro For Beginner YouTubers

1. Introduction: Video Editing is impossibly hard. That's what I told myself after a few times of trying and failing to do it. But that was two years ago. And after making hundreds of YouTube videos using Premier Pro, I've gotten so used to this process. I taught myself how to edit videos by watching YouTube tutorials and experimenting myself. And so over time, I refined my editing process to be extremely efficient. So in this course, I'll take you through my Video Editing Workflow if you want to create your first video, but you're not quite sure how to get started. Then this course is for you. I'll tell you everything you need to make a YouTube video from start to finish. Firstly, we'll walk over all the basics like how to create a project, navigate Premiere Pro, interface, import and organize Footage, Create Sequences and cuts, transitions, Effects and Keyframes. Then we'll learn how to edit Fast by using keyboard shortcuts, Adjustment Layers, and other effective editing techniques. Next we'll explore The Art of storytelling and engagement, which will allow us to make videos even without showing her face. And finally, we'll add a cherry on top with audio and sound effects to create an immersive experience for our viewers, I'll be going through things step-by-step. So feel free to skip sections that you feel like you've already mastered or slow down and rewind. If you miss something in this course, you'll see me using Premiere Pro because that's the software that are used for Editing my videos. But most, if not all, the things that you'll learn should work in any other popular editing software, such as the Vinci Resolve, you'll probably just need to figure out how it's called and where to find it. I designed this course for complete beginners. So you don't need to know anything about creating videos in order to start, all you need is a computer and a Video Editing Software, in this case, Premiere Pro. So yeah, thank you for watching and hopefully we'll meet on the other side. 2. Class Project: Awesome, Welcome to this course. In this lesson, I'll tell you about the class Project and it's going to be very simple. By the end of this course, I want you to make a simple video by using the key takeaways from this course. It doesn't have to be anything extreme. Just a short video with some of the editing techniques that you'll learn later and then post it in the project gallery so others can take inspiration and see the progress that you've made. But the main thing that I want to emphasize here is that it's very important to try out new things that you learn yourself. You see our brains are not designed for keeping information when we don't put it to use. That's why I encourage you to open Premiere Pro and go along with me pausing the course along the way and trying the Keyboard Shortcuts, tips and techniques yourself. As I showcase them, that way you're going to improve your chances of actually remembering stuff when you need to use it in the future. And with all that said, I'll see you in the first lesson. 3. The Types Of Videos I Create: Now before we jump into things, I want to show you what Types Of Videos I make and how I go about making them so that there's some context as to why I'm showing you the specific editing tips and techniques in this course. So essentially there are two types of videos that I Create for my YouTube channel. Number one is a Voiceover Video, and number two is a talking hands Video. Conventionally, it would be called a talking head video because people usually show themselves, not their hands, but that's what I do. Now it's different as to how I put each of these videos together. Let's start with the Voiceover video. So the first thing that I do is write out a full script for this video and then record a Voiceover. I then lay out the Voiceover in my Editing Software, which is Premiere Pro, and then Cut up the Voiceover and remove all the mistakes. Next, I gather or record Footage myself and add it on top of the Voiceover and thus compose the video that way. And for the second format with the talking hands, I usually don't write a full script for such a video, but just bullet points or a rough outline. In some cases, I do scripted out fully. Next, I record my hands as I speak and then import that footage into The Timeline. This is called an aryl, and then I record and add different Clips on top of my a roll, which is called B-roll, and thus can pause the video that way. I usually never create videos outside because I'd never go outside. And that's why most of the shots that are used for my videos are stationary or handheld and shot inside. So in this course, I'll show you how I make these Types Of Videos. So a Voiceover based video where you can just showcase your screen recording or some footage on the screen and they talking hands or a talking head video, because they're essentially the same, just like this one. Now, these formats are pretty versatile for YouTube videos because essentially you can create almost any type of video with this format. The only exceptions being vlog style videos and spectacle style videos like Mr. Beast mix. That's why in this course, I will not be focusing on holding your camera or color correcting because that's a thing that I don't do frequently for my own videos. So let's open up Premiere Pro for the first time and see how to do it. 4. Creating A New Premiere Project: Let's open up Premiere Pro for the first time. So this is what you're going to see once you install the software on the screen that opens up, you'll be able to see your recent projects and then open a new project or create a new project, I'm going to click Create New Project. At the top-left, I can see project name where I'll be able to name my project. I'm going to call it less than one. Then in the project location, I can expand this and choose where I want to save my project. I'll click Choose location and select my desktop. Now, I usually ignore all of this, which lets you import footage from this screen into Premiere Pro, and they usually do it later. So now I'm going to click Create. There we are inside of Premiere Pro. Right now it's empty because there's no footage inside, but that's what we're going to figure out next. So this is how you create your first project. 5. Layout Of Premiere Pro: When you first launch Premiere, this is probably not how it's going to look like because you can move all of these panels around and resize them around however you want. I've resized them in a way that it fits my editing style. You'll probably see something like this in the very beginning. And this is just too cramped for me. But let's see how to move these panels around and place them wherever you want. Essentially, if you want to resize a panel, just click on it to highlight it. And then on the border here, just click with your mouse and drag and you'll be able to re-size whichever part of Premiere Pro that you want. Now at the top of each panel, you'll see its name and this hamburger icon. You can click on the name and drag it somewhere that you want. You'll notice these blue boxes appear and this basically indicates where you want to please the panel. If I want to place it on the very left-hand side of the screen, I can move it left and then a little more left. And you'll notice this green bar. That means that the panel will take up the whole left side of the screen. I'll show you my favorite layout and you can copy it yourself if you want. The Project panel goes up here by the Effect Controls. Then I close out the libraries, I close out the Media Browser, I close out the info Effects, go here at the top. Markers I close and history I close. Now you'll notice that the timeline spans across the whole screen, which is what I want. The Timeline is where I do most of my work when editing a video. It's where you see all of your Clips and you can move them around. Now this panel is the audio meter. It will jump up when there's some sort of audio playing in the timeline. But you'll notice if you expand it just a little bit, it starts showing the audio levels and that's what I want. So I'll keep this panel very tiny, but not too tiny so that I can see these Audio Levels which will be important later on. On the left, I have all my tools here. I have the Project panel, the Effects panel, and the Effect Controls panel. Then I close the Source panel because I rarely use it. And if you accidentally close the panel that you didn't want to close, you can always go to window and look for that Panels name. So I just close The Source Monitor. I can click on it and it will open back up to close it. I can just right-click close panel. Now, there are a few more Panels that I like to add to the default layout that I use quite frequently. Essential Graphics, Lumetri, Color, and essential sound. Now you'll notice that now these Panels take up the whole right-hand side of the screen. So I can take each of these Panels and attach them to the right side of the Program Monitor. Now if there are separate like this, I can click and move them into one single panel. Now when I want to change between them, I can just click like so. This is my preferred layout. I have the timeline over here, the tools on the left, the audio meters on the right, The Program Monitor in the center, the Effect Controls Effects and the project panels on the top-left and the Lumetri Color and essential graphics panel on the top right. Let's import some files to see what each of these panels can do. 6. Importing Footage & Housekeeping: In order to Import Footage to Premiere Pro, you can either go to Import on the top here and then browse for the footage on your computer through this Premiere Pro interface. But I don't really like that. What I usually do is just drag and drop stuff in here. So for example, I have this folder here on my desktop with my footage. I can just take it and drop it into the Project panel. It's important that I drop it in here in the project and not in the timeline. This is how it would look like if I was using my own layout, I'll be using it moving forward. Now there are few important things to mention when talking about organization. So right now I have everything in one single folder, which is not the best way to go about things. What I usually do is create new folders for specific projects that I'm working on. So for example, this will be Video one than another folder for video two. Now, let's please this footage inside of video one and see what happens inside of Premiere Pro. If I go back, you'll notice that it located media for a little bit. It was trying to find it, which means that Premiere Pro doesn't actually store files within the program. It's sort of locates them on your computer and then link them together. This helps keep this project file small. And that also means that if you move your footage around, Premiere Pro will not be able to find it. So for example, if I place it on my desktop and not within this folder and go back to Premiere Pro. You'll notice that it didn't find my footage. It doesn't know where it is. It's asking me to link media, but I can do now is click Locate and then go through here until I'm on my desktop, which is not ideal and I would rather not have to do this because my footage is usually deep inside some of these folders and not on the desktop, but in this case, I can click desktop Footage and click Okay, and now it linked it back together. The folder structure that I use for my videos is something like this. I have a folder for each video. Then inside of it I have a folder called B-roll, which basically houses all of my visuals. So Footage would go into the B-roll folder. Then I have a new folder called unedited sound because I record my audio separately and I'd like to keep the original after I edit it, and that's pretty much it for the Video folder now somewhere separately on my computer. So not within these Video folders, I will have a music and sound effects folder, which will house all of my sound music and sound effects from everywhere that I've gathered. When I open a New Premiere Project, I will always go back to the place where my music and sound effects folder is and drag it into Premiere. I've imported my actual music and sound effects folder, and you'll see that I can click this arrow here to expand it. And I have sound effects, music and Video Effects. If I expand music, you'll see that I have a bunch of music tracks here, since I don't really want to redownload music and place it within each video. Every single time I work on a new video, I just have it separately and import it into Premiere Pro every time I Create a new project. Now for the projects, I have a separate folder as well called Project. So my projects live separately from the Video Footage, and the video footage lives separately from music and sound effects. Now you'll notice that Premiere created this, but it is, is basically Premiere Pro saving your project automatically for backup. So if you're Premiere crashes or closes unexpectedly or you lose power to your computer, you can always go back to this autosave folder and open the recent Auto Save to save your project once you work on your footage, Premiere Pro will add even more folders, which will include audio and video previews. Those just make it easier for the program to work. But whenever I want to work on a new video, I will just create a new folder, name it Video three, and then drag it into My Premiere Project. I usually do is work on phi Videos within one single project. And then I move on to the next project. I found five to be the sweet spot, because if I add any more, Premiere Pro gets cluttered and there's too much stuff going on. And it feels like I often lose control of what I'm doing, trying to fiddle with all the Footage and all the timelines that I have. 7. Creating A New Sequence: Now that we have our footage inside of Premiere Pro, what we can do is create a Sequence. And the sequence is essentially a container within which you'll be able to place multiple Clips of Footage, sound effects, audio, and compose your video To Create a Sequence, there are really two options. The first way is to right-click, go to new item and then sequence. But this is going to bring up a very confusing menu which I don't know how to use. So I'm going to click Cancel and then use the second method. The second method is to either drag your footage into The Timeline and it'll create a Sequence. You'll notice that the video popped up here in the Program Monitor. Or what you can do instead is right-click on the Footage and say New Sequence From Clip. It'll do the exact same thing. Now you'll notice in the Project panel, a new sequence appeared. It looks like this. You can make these icons larger or smaller, or also toggle between different views. So right now I can see this is my Footage and this is my sequence. They look the same now because they essentially are, since I have my footage inside of the sequence. So let's go back here. Now for example, if I have a screenshot or something and then I import it into Premiere Pro and then Create a Sequence From this. You'll notice that the sequence sort of inherited all the aspects of the screenshot. So the size is smaller. The FPS over here is also different. This essentially means that whatever clip you use to greet your sequence will have its settings applied to the sequence. So if you want to create a video in 30 FPS and your footage is in 60 FPS, your sequence will be 60 FPS. How do we change that? We can go up here into Sequence and click Sequence Settings cure. You'll be able to customize various different things about the sequence. For example, the size of your video. I'm going to make it HD for this example. So 1920 by ten at, now, I want it to be 30 FPS and not 60 FPS here in the Time-based, I can expand this and choose 30 frames per second when I click Okay, and then OK, again, my sequence will have changed. You'll notice that my footage is 60 FPS and the sequence is in 30 FPS 8. FPS - What Is It?: Fps is essentially how many times per second your Video refreshes. So if it's 30 FPS, that means every single second that the video plays, your eye will be able to see 30 images. Because a Video is essentially just a bunch of images put together. They just switch very quickly, so our eyes interpret it as a Video. Now, what kind of FPS Should You Use? Well, for YouTube videos, they are essentially three options that you could choose from. The first one is 24 of PS. This one loves the copyist, but it's what most people are used to because most movies are shot at 24 FPS. This makes your footage look cinematic. Then there's 36. This one doesn't look super cinematic, but it's also not too smooth. So it's a nice middle ground. Graders like Peter McKinnon or Ali Abdallah use 24 FPS in all of their videos. And creators like MTBE HD use 30 FPS. So it's really just a matter of choice. And then there's 60 FPS. 60 is best for something like gameplay footage where you want stuff to look super smooth. Now if you're doing screen recordings like I'm doing right now, your footage will usually be recorded at either a 30 or 60 FPS. Which means that if you want to make a video that has a lot of screen recordings, you should probably make your Sequence either 30 FPS or 60 FPS. The good news is that footage that you record it at 60 FPS could easily be converted into 30 FPS to know if your footage easily converts, what you can do is simply divide the larger FPS by the smaller FPS. And if you get a nice round number, like to hear, that means that you can convert from 60 FPS To 30 FPS without experiencing any drawbacks such as repeated frames. Now, what if I wanted to convert 60-24? I would divide 60 by 24. And you'll see that I don't get a nice round number. That means that it will not convert very nicely and that will get repeated frames after some time. Now if you're interested in learning more about this topic, this is a great one-hour long video from Terran, who was a former editor for Linus Tech Tips. He explains everything there is to know about mixing different frame rates. In this video, I highly recommend watching it. But if you don't really care, just know that 24 usually looks cinematic. 30 is a nice middle ground and can be converted down from 60 Without any drawbacks. And 60 is good for smooth playback. And if you're starting a gaming channel, basically, it looks very nice and smooth 9. Mastering The Timeline: Once we have the clip in our timeline, we can start editing the video first things first, you can zoom into your timeline by using these sliders over here, but these are kinda finicky and hard to get used to, which you can do instead is hold Option on Mac or Alt on Windows, and just zoom in with your scroll wheel. Next up you'll see this blue thing and that's called the playhead. If you move it two different spots in your timeline, you'll notice that the footage in your Program Monitor is changing and now the video is paused. So if I want to unpause it, I can click Space-bar or this Play button here, and it'll unpause. You'll see that the play head is moving along as the videos playing. Now you can click with your mouse on this clip and move it around. You can move it either left or right or up and down. Why would you want to move it up? You'll notice a bunch of stuff here on the left. These are called tracks. So each line here represents a track. And what attract basically is, is for example, if I import something else here like this screenshot and place it on the timeline, you'll notice that it was put on the second track. If I start the video and play head moves onto this clip, you'll notice it will appear on the Program Monitor. That's how you can stack multiple clips together in Premiere. Now there are three Video Tracks and three audio tracks. You can add a new track by simply moving your clip up where there's no tracks and a new one will be created or moving your audio down here and a new audio track will be created. If you've done something that you didn't want to do, You can press Command Z on Mac or Control Z on Windows to undo. So let's talk about these tracks here. Let's not worry about all of this stuff here, and let's focus over here so you can click the mute button and it will mute the audio from this video. Now you'll notice that if I play it, There's no Audio. If I click this again, there is Audio. If I have multiple audio tracks and mute this one, I will still be able to hear the other one beneath it and the letter S, Let's use Solo attract. So no matter how many tracks you have, you can have 50 or 100 tracks. If you click S, only this track will play. It's very useful so you don't have to mute everything else like this individually. One more thing that you can do in the timeline is click and drag to select multiple clips. I want to delete all of these audio clips. So I'm going to press Delete on my keyboard and they're gone. What I can also do is lock attract. So if I click this lock icon here, I will be able to move the top track anywhere I want and do whatever I want with it. And if I start cutting up this Footage, you'll notice that this track doesn't change at all. You can also lock video tracks. So now I can screw around with audio and the Video Track doesn't change, it stays in place, and there's nothing I can do to it. Now, you'll notice that when I click on the video track, the Audio Track Select as well. And that's because I have this option enabled Linked Selection. If I disable it, you'll notice that if I click on the video track, it selects separately. I like to keep this on at all times because if I select and move audio separately, it will now not be sync with my video. So it's a good practice to always keep this on. This option is called snap in Timeline. So if I have another clip in my timeline and I disabled the snap feature, you'll notice that if I move my clip, it's very hard to align it. I have to zoom in and align it exactly. It doesn't snap into place. If I have snapping enabled, if I start moving my clip close to this clip, you'll notice that it snaps in place so it makes it easy to align Clips, which you can also do in the timeline, is adjust the size of Clips. If I move my mouse at the very edge, you'll notice my mouse cursor changes into this red thing and they can click and drag left to make the clip shorter. Now, I can do the opposite if I want to make it longer and once the clip ends, it will no longer. Let me make it longer. One more thing that you can do is click this I here and it hides the track. It doesn't lock it, but it makes it invisible. So for example, if I had this screenshot here in the middle of the screen, and I want it to work on the bottom clip, but this one is blocking the view so I can just hide it and do something with the bottom clip, maybe make it shorter or add some Effects. I'll be able to see it because this is not blocking the view to make this clip visible again, just click on the eye and it will become visible. I'll talk about the track targeting later because it's not important for us right now. Now if you have a small screen which you can do is make your tracks bigger, you'll notice that if I hover my mouse over the edge of both tracks, I can now drag it up to make it larger, or drag it down to make it smaller. I can also do the same with audio tracks. So I can see the audio waveforms. If I hold the shift and double-click on this gray area right here, it will make all the tracks the same size. The first time you do it, it makes them the default size. And the second time that I hold Shift and click on this gray area, it makes them double sized. So now all the video tracks or bigger, if I do the same on the audio tracks, hold shift and double-click, make audio tracks bigger. If I want to return back to default, I can do it manually or I can hold shift and double-click and it will return how it was before. Another way is to use a keyboard shortcut Command or Control plus on Windows will make the track bigger and command minus or Control minus on Windows will make it smaller. I usually never make my video tracks larger. I only do it with audio because when I'm editing Clips, I look at my audio waveform and based on that, I cut them up more about that in another lesson, you'll notice that there are a bunch of tools here on the left. So let's find out what you can do with them. 10. Duplicating Clips Fast: The first tool in our arsenal is the selection tool. It's basically your mouse pointer, but you can do with it is click on your clip, drag it around, and also click on the empty space. So for example, if I have to Clips like this and I click on the empty space, I'll be able to click, Delete and delete the empty space. It will join these clips together. I can click on the empty space here or here, and also click Delete to delete that space. With this tool, you can move and resize everything that you want. Now it's very important to memorize the keyboard shortcuts for these tools because that's what you're going to want to use. It's very slow switching them with your mouse. And you'll have to do with thousands of times, which will cost you a lot of time. So the keyboard shortcut for this tool is V. If I have another tool in my hand and click and V, it will toggle back to the Move tool. The next tool is the Track Select Forward Tool and the keyboard shortcut for that is a, what this tool allows you to do is select everything on the right of these arrows in your timeline. So if I click here, it will select everything on the right. You'll notice that it didn't select this first clip. If I move my arrows here where it covers the first clip and click once you'll notice that it's selected this clip as well, what I can also do is select with my move tool, the keyboard shortcut is V, so I can just click and drag to select. However, the move tool is not always useful for selecting stuff. If you have a super-large Timeline with a lot of Clips, then it's going to be very hard to select everything precisely with the Move tool. That's why we can use the track select tool. If I want to select everything from here onwards, I can click a to bring up the track select tool, and then just click here and it'll select everything up until the very end. Keep in mind that if you have your track locked, it will not select it. You will not be able to move your locked tracks with any tool, whether it's the Move tool or the track select tool. What you can also do is hold shift, and instead of two arrows, you get one arrow. This will let you select everything in only one track. So if I click on this track, it only selects footage that's in that track. So if I want to move only the bottom track, I can select it, press V on my keyboard to bring up the Move tool and just move these tracks like so. The next tool is the rate stretch tool and the keyboard shortcut for it is our, don't worry if you don't remember all the Shortcuts, just try to use them every time that you switch a tool and you'll remember them over time. If you forgot a shortcut, you can just hover over the tool and it'll tell you it's Shortcuts. So what the rate stretch tool can do is change the speed of your Video. I can either increase the speed, like so. And you'll notice if I play it back, it became wave Faster. And they can stretch it out the other way to make it slow motion. You'll see that now the clip plays very slow, but this tool doesn't really allow you to change your speed precisely. You'll see now it's at 46.79%. What if I want to do 50 per cent? It's going to be very hard to use this tool and adjust my clip to where it's 50% exactly. What I can do is click command R or Control R on Windows. And it'll bring up this clip and Speed Duration panel. The other way to get there is to right-click and click speed and duration. Now I can type in 50% click Okay, and my Clips speed is now 50%. Cool. Next is the eraser tool. If I hover over my clip with the razor tool, you'll see this line up here. And if I click, it'll split the clip. So if I come back to the Move tool V and then move this clip, you'll notice that it's separate from that clip. Then I can press C to go back to the Cut tool and then make all the cuts that I want. I can then bring up the Move tool with the V Keyboard Shortcuts and move all of these clips around. However, I don't recommend using the Cut tool because it's very slow. I'll show you a keyboard shortcut, which will allow you to Cut up your Clips like so Without using the Cut tool later on, because cutting is the action that you'll do very often when editing videos. Let's move over to the next tool, which is the hand tool. I'll skip over these three tools. So the slip tool, the Pen tool, and the rectangle tool, because as a beginner, you're probably not going to use them and they're quite complicated. So what the hand tool allows you to do is just click and drag on your timeline. That's it. You can use it instead of scrolling. But I found that using my mouse scroll wheel to move horizontally through the timeline and using alt or option to zoom in and out is just a lot easier. Next is the type tool. Once you select it, you can come up to the Program Monitor and click once to add a text to your video. Text appears as a separate element in your timeline, which you can resize, move around, and place anywhere that you want. I'll talk about manipulating text in the next lessons. The only annoying thing with this tool is that you can switch back to the Move tool by using the keyboard shortcut, because if I press V, it just Types the letter V. So what you have to do is just click on the Move tool with your mouse and then you'll be able to get back to it. That's the only drawback of the type tool with any other tool, you can toggle between them by just using keyboard shortcuts. So this was the overview of the most basic tools 11. Tools & Basic Keyboard Shortcuts: Now you'll notice that I'm always duplicating Clips. There are two ways to do that. You can either click on a clip, press Command C on Mac or Control C on Windows, and then come somewhere else and Command V or Control V to paste. However, this is very slow, but I can do instead is select a clip hold Option on Mac or Alt on Windows and just simply drag. This will duplicate my clip 12. Cutting Clips Fast: Cutting stuff inside your timeline with the razor tool is kind of slow, especially because you have to constantly switch between your move tool and eraser tool. It's a lot faster To Cut Clips with a keyboard shortcut like this, and I'll show you how to set it up. So to find keyboard shortcuts, go to Premiere Pro and keyboard shortcuts. Here you'll be able to customize every single shortcuts in Premiere Pro. And there's a lot of them. So you can see the basic ones like the zoom tool is Z. You can also click on your modifier keys to see Shortcuts with those commands. So for example, command Z would be undo, and I can click on command to see just the default Shortcuts. Now I think the default shortcuts to split the clip is Command K, control K on Windows, but the control and command keys are very far away from the K key on your keyboard. And since you're going to be cutting up Clips a lot, it's better to set a more easy to reach Shortcuts. So what I have done is set my S key to add, edit, edit, edit basically means split a clip here in the search bar. I can search ad edit. And then over here where it says shortcut, I can click on it for you. It's going to look something like this command K. So I can click here, click the X, click again, and then press the shortcut on my keyboard that I want. So it's going to be S for me. So now once I click, Okay, I'll be able to hover over my Footage and hit S on my keyboard and it will split it immediately. This is going to save you so much time because you won't have to constantly switch to the Cut tool and then back to the Move tool. I would recommend working not with your mouse but with keyboard shortcuts because that's going to greatly improve your editing speed. Also, if you've made a lot of cuts and then you can't go back with control Z. As you can see, I'm pressing Control Z and nothing's happening. You can select the Cut like so by just clicking on it and then click Delete on your keyboard and it will remove it. So as long as the clip is the same, you'll be able to remove the Cut. But for example, if I move this part over here, I will not be able to remove the Cut because obviously it's not from the same clip. It's not continuous. But if I move it back where it was before, I'll be able to simply hit delete and remove the Cut 13. The Effect Controls And Effects Panels: Let's talk about the Effect Controls and the Effects Panels. The Effects panel lets you search up different Effects and add them to your footage. And the Effect Controls panel lets you customize those Effects. If I go to Effects and look for something like horizontal flip, I'll be able to click on the Effect and then drag it onto my footage in the Timeline. And once I let go of my mouse, this effect will be applied. So you'll notice that my Footage flipped horizontally. This is how it was before. This is now before. Now, what I can do now is go to the Effect Controls. And here I'll be able to see all of the Controls for this clip. Now if you don't see Effect Controls, That's because you don't have a clip highlighted. So once I click on the clip, all the Effect Controls appear for that clip. Now, every single clip has these Effects, Motion, Opacity and time remapping, and anything else that you add appears on the bottom. If your clip comes with Audio, you'll also see Audio Controls. You'll notice that horizontal flip has appeared. So every single time that you apply an effect to your footage, it's Controls will appear within the Effects Controls panel. But for now, let's go back to the Effects. As you can see, there are a bunch of default Effects within Premiere. You can also create your own presets and your own Effects like I have done here. So here you'll find Effects for Audio like various filters and equalizers, noise reduction and everything that you can possibly apply to your audio. It's easier not to go through these menus and simply search for an effect with the search bar, because there are a lot of Effects here and you'll waste a lot of time looking through these folders. Now, one of the most common Effects or Video Transitions, for example, if I Cut up my video like this and move it to the very end, you'll notice that when these Clips change, there's a very harsh Cut. Let's look at that again. What you can do is apply a transition if you want to make it more seamless. So let's go to Effect than Video Transitions. And here you can pick from any transition that you want. These folders are full of interesting transitions. So I'm going to click dissolve and choose cross dissolve. This is the most popular transition that you'll see out there. It basically fades from one clip to another. Now, normally you would apply Effect by dragging them onto the clip itself. But with transitions, this sort of live in-between two Clips. So that's where you need to drag it. So I'm going to pick it up with my mouse and then drag it in between both Clips, like so. Now you'll notice that when I play both of these clips back, they nicely fade together. It's very hard to see the harsh Cut. Now if I don't like the length of this transition, I can zoom in. And then when I hover my mouse over the edge of the transition, you'll see that I can pick it up and extend it or make it shorter. Let's see how it looks. If it's shorter, the Cut is still not visible. Now for YouTube videos, you don't really want to use a lot of transitions. It's better to use just hard, simple cuts, but it's useful to know that transitions exist. I'm going to add a blur to this clip. So I'm going to search for a Gaussian blur, which is the name of the blur effect. Click on it and drag it onto the clip. Now you'll see that on the Effect has been applied to the clip because this Fx here has turned green on Clips that don't have customer Effects. You'll see this yellow rectangle. And here on the clip that I've applied a customer Effect, you'll be able to see a green rectangle, but nothing happened. Nothing became blurry. And that's because I need to control the Effect in the Effect Controls. So if I scroll down, I'll be able to see gaussian blur. This wasn't here before because I hadn't yet applied an effect. So here I can see blurriness and I can input a number. So for example, 100. This will now blur my clip. Now instead of clicking on the number and then entering it, you can simply hover over it and then drag right or left to increase or decrease the value. If you want to go to the default value, just click this arrow here and it will reset it to default. This works with any effect that you apply. So these are the basics of how to add effects to your Clips. 14. Linked Selections: If you want to detach your clip from Audio, you can select, right-click and choose unlink. Now when I click on my footage, I'll only be able to see Effect Controls for this clip because it's separate from the audio. Also, I can now freely move this clip without moving the audio track. There's also a keyboard shortcut for this. It's Command or Control L. So when I press Command L, the footage will be unlinked. And if I select both of them again and press Command L once more, they will be linked. This little V here indicates that the footage is linked. So once I unlink it, the V disappears. It's an easy way to tell if your footage is linked with Audio. Now, if you want to remove audio from a clip, you can hold Option and select only the audio and click Delete on your keyboard. The same goes for footage. If you only want to select a certain part of a linked clip, you can hold Option and click on the part that you want to select. It will select them separately. Keep in mind that you can link multiple things together. So if I unlink and then link again, all three of these clips are now linked. So even if I select this text, everything moves together and you can see that it's linked from these V indicators. They might not be visible on some Clips if you're zoomed out too far, but if you zoom in, you'll be able to see it. So this is how Linked Footage works in Premiere 15. Mastering Effect Controls: Once you click on a clip inside of your timeline, you'll notice that in the Effect Controls panel, there are bunch of controls that appear. All of these controls are usually default for every single clip and they let you change the motion of your clip, the opacity of your clip, and the speed of your clip. If you're clip has Audio, they'll also let you change the audio of the clip. So let's explore what they do. Let's start with the position. This is the horizontal position, and this is the vertical position. Now the scale Controls how much your clip is zoomed in. So if I drag it to the right, you'll see that it zooms in more. And then if I drag it to the left, you'll see that it zooms out more. If I click this reset arrow, it resets it back to how it was before, but it only reset the scale if I want to reset motion as well, I'll click on this arrow and it'll reset motion. Now what I can also do is click on the word position and you'll notice that this blue rectangle appeared outside of my footage, which means that I can hover my mouse inside of the program, monitor and control the position with my mouse. So I can just drag this clip wherever I want it to be. The same goes for scale. If I want to increase the size of the clip, I can simply hover my mouse here and adjust the size. Now if you forgot to highlight your clip, which you can do is come to The Program Monitor and simply double-click on the clip and it will select it like this. You'll be able to move it around and resize it. One important thing to mention, if I have another clip on top of this clip and I double-click onto it. It will select that clip, but it will not select the bottom clip. That's why if you have a bunch of layers of Clips, you'll most likely want to select the clip first, then click on motion, and only then move it with your mouse. You'll also notice that when I move this clip around, the numbers on the left in the Effect Controls panel are changing and the same thing happens with scale. Now, rotation is pretty self-explanatory. If I drag it right, it's going to rotate it right? And if I drag it left, it's going to rotate the clip left. If you want to adjust these parameters in smaller increments, you can click on the number and click the up or down arrow key, and it will rotate it by one. If that's too slow, you can add shift and these numbers will jump intense. So if I have the rotation set at zero, I click inside of it, hold Shift and click the up or down arrow. It's going to change the rotation in increments of ten. Now, if I hold Control and click Up or down, it's going to change it in very small increments by 0.1. And if I just press my arrows, it's going to change them by one. So that's also the way that you can control these parameters. Now, let's look at opacity. It controls the visibility of your clip. So if I drag it down to zero, the clip becomes invisible. And if I drag it up, it becomes visible. Blending modes basically work the same as in Photoshop, but I'm not going to go through them right now. Now. I usually never changed speed in this panel because I can use the Rate Stretch tool by clicking R and then adjust the Clips speed like so. Or I can click command R and then input the speed that I want. So if I want the clip to be at 100% speed, I'm just going to say 100 here and click Okay, and the clip became 100% speed. Now the reason that this clip didn't become longer is because this clip was in its way. So when it became 100%, this Clips cut into this clip. You'll notice that in Premiere, if you move one clip over another cliff, it overrides the other Clips. So if I wanted to return back to how the clip was before, I would have to move it back and then stretch it back out. And if I check the Clips, speed is at 100%. So this is how you change Basic Controls of a clip inside of Premiere Pro 16. Copying Effects Across Clips: Now what happens if you've Cut up your clip a bunch of times and you want to apply an effect to multiple clips at once. The first way to do that is to select a bunch of Clips and then drag your Effect onto multiple clips. But this is not very efficient because you'll still have to change the Controls for that effect for every single clip individually, it will not change all of them at once. Another way is to set up all of your Effects on one clip, then go to Effect Controls and edit all of the effects however you want. And then select the clip, hit Control C, select all the other Clips, then right-click and choose Paste Attributes. A new window will pop up and it'll let you paste attributes from one clip to another. And attributes are basically Effect. So here I can choose what I want to paste. Right now. I don't want to paste volume, so I'm going to deselect it. I only want to paste the Gaussian blur and the Zoom amount. So I'm going to leave motion and Gaussian blur checked once I click Okay, All of these other Clips will now look the same as the first one, because I've pasted the motion attributes which are positioned, scale and rotation, and also the Gaussian blur attributes. What you can also do is select multiple clips or one clip, then right-click and choose remove attributes. Here you'll be able to change which attributes you want to remove. So let's say that I want to keep the Clips motion, but I don't really want to keep the Gaussian blur. So I'm going to deselect everything and choose to only remove the Gaussian Blur once I click. Okay, you'll notice that these three Clips kept the same scaling, but there is no longer the blur effect. And the other Clips still have the blur effect. So this is how you can easily paste attributes from one clip to another and remove attributes from multiple Clips 17. Mastering Keyframes: Now you know how to zoom into a clip by using the scale attribute. But if I click play on my keyboard, this clip is not moving. But what if I want to zoom in on this rock? One way to do that would be to cut my clip in half by clicking Command K or S to split the clip. Then on the other clip, I will just adjust the scale attributes and the position attributes to where they're positioned on this rock. Then when I play the clip, it's suddenly just zooms into this rock. But what if I want to make it a gradual Zoom? What I can use are called Keyframes. If I click on the word scale here, it will add a keyframe. This right side right here, acts the same as your timeline. You'll notice when I move my play head, it also moves in my timeline. And over here, It's just zoomed into this clip. So if I move it to the very end, you'll notice that it's at the end of my clip. So essentially when I select my clip, this is a zoomed in Timeline into the clip. It's very useful for adding Keyframes. Now let's add another keyframe, and you can do that by clicking this diamond here. And now I have two keyframes onto this clip. Let's see what happens when I play the clip. Absolutely nothing, because I haven't adjusted these Keyframes. Now to select and adjust the keyframe, you can simply click on it with your mouse and you'll notice it turn blue. I can now move my play head onto the keyframe, which will allow me to see what I'm doing. By the way, if you hold shift and move the playhead around, you'll be able to snap exactly on the keyframe. So now let's increase the scale. What happened now is you'll notice if I scrub left, it's sort of gradually zooms in. And that's because this keyframe is at 89 and this keyframe is at 300. Let's look at what happens if I play the clip. It starts zooming in when it's in-between these Keyframes. What you can also do is just click on the keyframe and move it a little bit to the left to make the zoom and faster. So if I play this again, you'll notice that the zooming happened a lot faster. So that's what you can deal with Keyframes. Now, if I wanted to, I could click on the first keyframe as well, then hold shift and move to it with my playhead so that I can see what I'm doing and zoom even more out like this. Now if I play back the clip, you'll see that in-between these Keyframes, it's sort of gradually changes the Zoom amount until it reaches the second keyframe. What I can also do is add another keyframe here and then say that I want to zoom back out To this. I'll just move them closer together so it happens faster. And you'll see that when I play my clip, it zooms in until it hits this keyframe and then sorts zooming out until it hits this keyframe. Now since there are no Keyframes here or here, when I play it in the beginning, the clip just stays stationary. One very important thing to note is that if you make your clip shorter on the timeline, you'll only be able to see some Keyframes because you cut off the others. Remember that this zooms in only on the clip, on The Timeline. So if you want to see other Keyframes, you have to expand the clip. So and now all the Keyframes are visible. To remove a keyframe, you can click on it and press Delete on your keyboard. Or you can remove multiple Keyframes by simply clicking and dragging over them and then clicking Delete. Now, I can also add Keyframes for deep position. So if I add a keyframe here, this will lock the current position. I will move my playhead to the right and specify another position. And once I added one keyframe, I don't really have to add another one. As soon as I start changing parameters, it will automatically add another keyframe for me. This makes my job a little easier. So now I'm going to move my clip to the top-left, like so. And let's see what happens when I play my clip. There are no Keyframes here, so the clip isn't moving and then it starts moving to the position until it hits this keyframe. And then it stops moving because there's nothing here as well. Now you'll notice that the transitions between two keyframes are harsh. So if I want to zoom in, this, Zoom in, sort of starts and stops abruptly. What you can do to make the transition nicer is right-click on the last keyframe and then choose ease in and right-click on the first keyframe and choose Ease Out. You'll notice that now the transition becomes a lot smoother. That's because it's not linear. If I click this arrow here, you'll be able to see the curve of the transition. If I zoom in here, you'll notice that it's a nice Ark. But when I had them both set to linear, you'll notice that it's very harsh. It's sort of starts moving in instantly and then stops instantly. But when I select the last one and choose Ease In, you'll notice that the ending becomes very smooth. And when I choose the first one and choose ease out, the beginning becomes very smooth. And so it starts off slow, then gets faster, faster, faster, and slows down at the end. You can also control the speed of these transitions with these handles. But for now, just know that if you click ease in or ease out, the transition is young to be a lot smoother. The same goes for the position attribute as well. So if I set my position here and then I want to move the clip here, you'll notice that if it's set to linear, it will start moving very quickly. Then stop moving very quickly. I can select the last keyframe, right-click Temporal Interpolation, and choose ease in and for the first keyframe, right-click Temporal Interpolation and choose ease out. Now you'll notice that one might Clips moves. It eases into the movement and eases out of the movement. Like so. Now, if you've selected this clock, which enables Keyframes, you'll notice that if I want to adjust the scale or position of my clip, it automatically adds a keyframe and then if I want you to do it here, also adds a Keyframes. So if you want to stop Keyframes and adjust the clip just normally without any transitions, you can simply click on this clock and choose, Okay, and it will remove Keyframes. So it doesn't matter if I adjust the position here or here, the position will stay the same throughout all of the clip, I can do the same for scale as well. So now whenever I adjust the scale or position, and if I move my play head to the left, nothing will change. It will not transition from one position and one scale to another. Now, if I add keyframes, adjust the size here, then move here and adjusted again, you'll see that it added to Keyframes. And now if I play it, it's transitions through both of them. So if I don't want that, I can just click on the clock, remove the keyframes, and now if I adjust the Clips scale, it will stay the same throughout the whole clip. And you can add keyframes to any effect within Premiere Pro. So for example, if I add a Gaussian blur effect to my clip, and if I want to start blurring my image slowly, I can add keyframes to blurriness, then move my playhead right and increase the blur to 100%. Now if I play back the clip, you'll see that the blur sort of emerges slowly. And this works with virtually any effect within Premiere Pro. You can set Keyframes, or if you don't want that, you can just adjust the blurriness normally, but it will not transition and stay the same throughout the whole clip. 18. Mastering The Program Monitor: This is called The Program Monitor, and it's where you see what's happening on your timeline. So if I scrub along with my playhead, you see the changes that are happening in the Program Monitor. Now there are few interesting things about this Monitor. The first thing is that if your footage is running slow, you can actually decrease the resolution at which it's playing yet. So if you click here where it says full, you'll be able to select the resolution. If I select one-fourth is going to play at a lower resolution. Now, nothing seems to have changed right now because when the video is paused, the resolution is actually false. So you can see the exact image. But when I click Play, you'll notice that it becomes a lot more pixelated, like so. And if I stop, it shows me the normal picture. So if you have a lot of things on your timeline and then you notice that Premiere starts lagging a little bit. What you can do is simply decrease the playback resolution. You can go all the way up to one-sixteenth if you have a big enough Video file. Now let's say we add a few pieces of text here. Let's say turtle. Let's duplicate it by holding Alt, clicking on the clip and dragging. Then let's put another word, ocean. I'll go back to the Move tool and then move this text down. Now you'll see that both of these are not really aligning very well. So what I can do is enable guides. Now, if you don't see these guides button, you can click on the plus icon and then pick it up from here and simply drag it down here. Guides are basically these blue things here. You can remove guides by dragging them out of your canvas. And you can add new guides by enabling the ruler. To enable the ruler, just click Command or Control R on your keyboard and you'll see this ruler up here. I usually don't have it enabled at all times because I just don't really use it whenever I needed. I just enable it with Command or Control R. Then from one of the rulers, you can just click and drag out a guide. Now I will disable the ruler with Command R. And you'll notice if I pick up my text, hold Command on my keyboard or Control on Windows and drag my text close to the ruler, it snaps in place. So I can do this with both of these text elements and they will align perfectly. Now what I can do is add a horizontal ruler like so. And now the text will snap to both of them, which is very useful. What's also cool is that you can right-click on your guide and select edit guide. Here you'll be able to enter the exact position of your ruler. Now you can either choose to specify pixels or percent. If I say 50%, this guide will jump to the exact middle of my screen. Now if I remove this one and then right-click on the vertical one, edit guide, choose percent and say 50%, it'll jump to the exact middle again. So right now I figured out where the exact center of my footage is. And now I can pick up my text and snap it exactly in the center of my footage. If I turn off the rulers with Command R and then turn off guides right here. I know for sure that the text turtle is in the exact center of my frame. Now, a simpler way to do this is to just click on the text, hold Command on Mac or Control on Windows and then drag texts. You'll see that these pre-made guides appear. Premiere Pro has these two default guides just here at all times. So you don't have to create guides yourself. But if you want it to snap texts, for example, here or here, then you can create your own guidance. I also recommend adding this Effects button, which turns off all of the Effects on your footage. This is pretty useful if you're Timeline is full of Clips that have complex Effects to handle for your computer, you can simply click on the FX button and it'll disable all the effects temporarily. Of course, you can click it again and all the Effects will reappear. So for example, if I blurred this Footage, like so, and then if I mute all global Effects, you'll notice that the blur disappears, but I can toggle it back on anytime that I want. This option will also help your Premiere run a lot faster because it doesn't have to worry about showing you all the effects that you've applied to your Clips 19. Mastering The Source Monitor: What's you'll notice is that if you double-click on your footage inside of the Project panel, it will open up any new panel called The Source Monitor. This is not the same as your Program Monitor. The Program auditor shows what's on the Timeline and The Source Monitor just shows you your footage. Now if you accidentally double-click on the name, you'll be able to rename the Footage to open The Source Monitor. Just double-click on the icon or in the empty space right here. But why would you want to see your clip inside of another Monitor and not in your timeline. You see there may be times where your footage is very long and when you drag it into your timeline, it takes up a lot of space and you have to keep scrolling in and out to see various points. So that's what The Source Monitor is for. It allows you to grab certain parts of your footage and insert them directly into your timeline. So here at the bottom, I can scrub through my Footage, just like with the playhead on The Timeline. And I can choose to either insert only the video part into my timeline or only the audio part into my timeline. I can also just click on the Footage and insert everything, the video and the audio. Now whatever I want to only include this part into my timeline, what I can do is click on my keyboard, which will set an endpoint. And then I can scrub along and click on my keyboard, which will set an out point. This basically tells Premiere that I care about this specific part of my Footage. Now, if I click on the thumbnail and drag it down, you'll notice that the clip is a lot shorter and it's because I only picked up this part. Now you can move your in and out points like so, or adjust the ends of it to make your clip shorter or longer to clear in and out points. You can right-click and choose clear in and out. Or you can press Option X and it'll clear the in and out points. Now what's cool is that you can use in and out points in your timeline as well. So if I press I and then oh, here, you'll notice that it's selected this part of my Footage. Why would I want to do that on the timeline? Well, for example, if I have a bunch of separate videos in one Timeline, for example, lessons for a course, I can select only a specific part that I want to export. I'll show you how to export footage later on. But now just know that if I selected only this part, then only this part will be exported. What it's also useful for is rendering Effects. So whenever you apply a complex effect to your footage, maybe add some Keyframes or something else. It becomes complicated for Premiere to play back that Footage nicely. This depends on how powerful your computer is, but if you add a lot of Effects and color correction, almost any computer will start to struggle. So if you want to preview the final version of your footage, which you can do is set an end and an outpoint, then go over to Sequence and choose render in and out. Now Premiere will render out only this part of the Footage and it to let you play back smoothly. Now this yellow line at the top of your sequence basically means that the Footage hasn't been rendered, but Premiere doesn't have a lot of trouble playing it back. But if you have a red line, it means that Premiere is struggling. It's probably not going to playback smoothly. So what I can do now is hold Shift and then move my playhead to the very beginning of this clip so it snaps in. I can hit I on my keyboard, then hold Shift again and move it here, click on my keyboard, go to Sequence, render in and out. Once Premiere renders it out, you'll notice that it plays back smoothly. So these are the main places where you'd want to use in and out points. Now when I edit my footage, I very rarely Use The Source Monitor. I usually work with short clips and drag them directly into the Timeline and resize them there. Or I trim clips with the default preview tool on Mac beforehand. It's a very great feature that macro has has, And you basically press Spacebar to preview a file. Then click here, and you'll be able to trim either the beginning of a clip or the end of the clip that you'll know you will not use in your video. The reason I do this is that some stock footage just takes up a bunch of space. And if I know that I will not use it, I'd rather just save the space on my computer so I don't have to keep buying hard drives to fit all the previous footage for videos that I've made 20. Using Nested Sequences: One of the coolest things in Premiere Pro or Nested Sequences. If I select a clip or multiple clips, I can right-click and select Next, this will create a Nested Sequence. Now I can choose a name for it, but I usually just keep a default name that Premiere gives me. If I click. Okay, you'll notice that in the project Monitor, a New Nested Sequence appeared. If I double-click on it, it will open a new sequence like this. So this is my normal sequence, and this is a Nested Sequence. You'll notice that the footage inside of my normal sequence became green. And the Nested Sequence is basically a container that can hold multiple Clips of Footage. So if I go to my Nested Sequence, you can see all the clips that I have here. But why would this be useful? For example, if I wanted to zoom out on the turtle clip and also on the text at the same time, I would have to go into the turtle clip, then go to Effect Controls, then set up the Zoom that I want. And then I would have to do the exact same thing for the text. And it would be very hard to get the Zoom amount exactly right. So what I can do instead is go back to my normal sequence and set up the Zoom here, which will zoom out everything that's inside of my Nested Sequence. So everything together. So a Nested Sequence is just a great way to apply effects to multiple Clips at the same time, which otherwise would be so annoying to do. Of course, if I wanted to zoom out only on the turtle clip, I can just go into my Nested Sequence and zoom out the turtle clip separately from the text. Now if I go to my footage, you'll notice that now only the turtle Clips slowly zooms out and the text stays in place. So essentially, Effects that you apply to a Nested Sequence will apply to everything that's inside of the Nested Sequence. And the fact that you apply to separate Clips will only apply to those Clips. And you can re-size the Nested Sequence however you want and fiddle with it just like you would with a normal clip of any Footage. So you can add any transition Effect, Set Keyframes and do anything that you want. Now if you delete a Nested Sequence inside of your timeline, you can go back to the project Monitor and simply drag it back in, which we'll drag all these separate clips that are inside of that sequence. However, if you delete this Nested Sequence From the project Monitor, it will delete everything, so you will not be able to drag it back in. You would have to select all the clips, right-click, and choose nest to setup a New Nested Sequence. And as you can see inside of it, live all three of my Clips. So by using Nested Sequence, you can easily apply an effect to multiple Clips of Footage at the same time. 21. Cropping Clips: When you select a clip inside of Effect Controls, you can do many things like move it around or scale it in or out. However, one thing that you can do by default is Crop your footage. So for example, what if I wanted to show only half of this lake here? Well, I can go into my Effects panel and search for Crop. Then I can drag this effect onto the footage in my timeline. If I go back to Effect Controls, you'll notice that Crop has appeared. I want to crop the left side, so I'll drag the left slider and you'll see that it crops my footage. However, this is very inefficient if you're constantly cropping a bunch of clips, which you can do instead is click on the word Crop and you'll notice these handles appear on my Footage. Now if I click and drag on the handle, it will crop in automatically. So this is a great way of cropping your footage efficiently. 22. Adding & Customizing Text: Inside of Premiere, you can click T to bring out the Text tool. And if you click on The Program Monitor, you'll be able to type any text that I want. So I'll say Text. However, this text is blank. It doesn't have a shadow and outline. So To Add those things and modify your text, we're going to use the essential graphics panel. We've added it before here on the right side of our Premiere, and here it is at the top left. Now if you don't see this panel, you can go to Window Essential Graphics and it'll appear, Of course you can please the panel anywhere that you want. I prefer to have it on the right side of my screen. Now to edit your texts, you'll have to double-click inside of it so that it highlights like so if you click only once on your Text, it'll bring out the motion Controls and you'll not be able to change things like the font size or add any fancy effects to your text. Make sure you double-click inside of it so the text is highlighted in red. Now here inside of the essential graphics, I can select my text, which is selected by default if you only have one piece of text on the screen. And if I scroll down, you'll notice that I can change various things about my text. This is the font size. What I like to add onto my text is either a stroke or a shadow. A stroke is basically a thin outline on the outside of your texts so that it stands out better right now the color is white, so I'll set it to black and click. Okay, I'll place the text on top of my Footage so you can see the changes that are making. Now I'll double-click inside of the text again to be able to edit it. And if I scroll down, I'll be able to increase the thickness of my stroke. Now you'll notice the Text stands out from the background. What I can also do is add a shadow here inside of the shadow box. I'll select the shadow to be black and set its opacity to 100% so it's fully visible down here. I'll increase how big the shadow is. And here I'll increase the spread of the shadow. You'll see that if I drag it over to the very end, the whole background of the screen becomes black. You'll have to fiddle with these settings yourself to find a text style that fits you best. Now what I can do, just hold Option and duplicate this text. Or alternatively, I can add another piece of text within this box of text. If I want to add more text, I usually just duplicate these textboxes. Instead of adding another piece of text inside of one single textbox, it just makes things a lot more simple, but nevertheless, I'll show you how to do it. So over here, you can see Text. If I click Control C to copy and Control V to paste, you'll notice that another piece of texts appear. I can now move it elsewhere. And all of this text is inside of this one text box. Instead of copying this text, what I can do is select this box, then select my Text tool and click anywhere on the screen and it will add another piece of text. And if I type something, you'll notice that there's a third piece of text here. But for me this is quite complicated. And what I usually do is just hold Option, Duplicate the clip, then double-click on the text and add another piece of texts, say nature. Then I choose my move tool and move this text wherever I want. That way, I have both of these texts in separate boxes. And if I want to edit them individually, I can just select the textbox that I went to edit, double-click on the text and make the changes that I want. Of course, these texts Clips act just like normal Clips of your footage. So you can also animate them by adding various Keyframes and increasing their size or their position. I usually just pick and have one text style across all of my YouTube videos so that I don't have to fiddle with Text every single time that I want to add it onto my Videos. It's a good idea to experiment with a text style that you want and then pick and use it across all of your videos. This means that you'll have consistent branding and also save a lot of time since you won't have to style your text every time that you make a new video. So that's how you Add and manipulate text in Premiere Pro 23. Mastering Adjustment Layers: One of the coolest things that you can use in Premiere to improve your workflow is Adjustment Layers to add an adjustment layer, click this icon right here, and select Adjustment layer. This is going to show you settings that you have for your current sequence. So usually you would just click OK and you'll notice a new adjustment layer has appeared in the project panel. Now I can click and drag it to my Timeline. Now you'll see that if I move over the Adjustment layer with my playhead, nothing is happening. And that's because there's nothing here because I haven't yet applied any effects to the Adjustment Layer. So what the Adjustment Layer can do is if you apply a bunch of effects onto the Adjustment layer, they will all be applied to everything that's below the Adjustment Layer. For example, if I add a Gaussian blur onto the Adjustment Layer and then increase the blurriness from zero to something like 100. You'll notice that the clip below the Adjustment Layer became blurry even though I applied the effect to the Adjustment layer itself. If we move over here where there was Text, you'll notice that the text is also blurry. So everything that's below the Adjustment layer has inherited this effect. Now if I move here, you'll notice that there's no more blur. This is very useful in one specific situation. If you have Cut up your footage like this, and then you want to apply a specific effect to every single clip in this footage. What you would have to do normally is go to Effects, apply a Gaussian blur, then tweak its parameters, then hit Command or Control C, select all the other Clips and hit Command Option V to bring up the Paste Attributes panel and then deselect all of these and only paste Gaussian blur. You'll see that now everything is blurry. However, it would have been a lot easier to just add an adjustment layer and simply add the Gaussian blur effect onto the Adjustment Layer instead of fiddling with all these Clips. What's also great is that if I decide that I don't want blur on this clip anymore, I can simply cut the Adjustment Layer into two pieces and delete the middle. And now this clip is not blurred and everything that's covered by the Adjustment Layer is blurred. And this is how Adjustment Layers can improve your workflow in Premiere Pro 24. Color Mattes: In the project window, if you click this button, you can add more useful things. In particular are Color Mattes. A color matte is basically just a solid color. If I click Okay to apply the sequence settings to my color Mattes, you'll notice that a color picker pops up here. I can choose a color. For example, let's pick this coral red. And if I click Okay and choose the name of my color Mattes, it'll appear in the project panel. Now if I drag it to the timeline, you'll see that the color matte is just a plain color. For instance, if I wanted to re-size this clip, I wanted the background not to be black. I can move all of my Clips up and then place a color matte underneath. And so I'll get this background color. Now if I remove the Adjustment Layer that adds a blur, you'll see that the background is no longer black. What you can also do with color Mattes is insert transitions inside of my project panel. I will add one more color matte, and this time I'll make it full white. I will drag it to my timeline and then duplicate the bottom color mat on top of it. Now, I will add some Keyframes in the Effects Controls panel. I'll select the clock next to the motion to start adding keyframes. I'll move the first keyframe to the very beginning and then move this color Mattes down, like so. I will right-click on the last keyframe, go to temporal interpolation and choose ease in, and they'll choose Ease Out for the first keyframe. Now you'll notice when I play it back, it's transitions to a wide color, but the transition is slow. So I'll move this keyframe closer to the first one. Now the transition is a lot faster. What I can do now is copy these keyframes, come up to the white color matte and paste them here. Then I'll adjust its size so that it starts after the first Color Matte has already started moving. We'll do the same for the last Color Matte as well. And now this is what we have. However, the transition starts abruptly with this color. So what I want to do is extend this clip here, then grab the first keyframe and move the color Mattes out of the screen so it's not visible. And after tweaking a few Keyframes, this is how the transition looks. Now, I can simply cut off the end here because there's nothing visible on the screen. So now if I have to Clips of my footage, for example, one clip of a turtle and one clip of a lake. So and then if I place my color Mattes like so, I'll get a nice smooth transition between two of these Clips. Now this is quite large. So what I can do is select, right-click and choose nest and click. Okay, now the transition becomes the single clip that I can Duplicate around and move to another place where I want to apply it. What I can also do is come back to my project window and switch these colors around, for example, into a dark blue and then into this coral color in the middle. And you'll notice that my transition updates. Now when it plays, one of the color is blue and the other one is that coral red color Mattes are not only useful for adding a solid color background to your Clips, but also for making interesting transitions 25. Using Ripple Delete To Edit Faster: Ripple Delete. It's a very useful trick for Editing a lot faster. So let's see, I have this clip here and I don't really like this part. I want to cut it out from the middle. What I could do is bring up the Cut tool or the razor tool by hitting C on my keyboard. Then make a cut here, here, then switch back to my move tool by hitting V on the keyboard, select the clip, delete it, select the space and delete it again. Now, you could do this a lot faster with Ripple Delete. All you need are two cuts inside of your footage. And if I hit option Delete or Control Delete on Windows, this clip will be deleted and everything else on the right side of the Timeline will be moved to the left. This is very useful because it's going to save you a lot of time when editing. So again, if I want to get rid of this part of the clip, I will come here, hit my keyboard shortcut for Add, Edit. And for me the keyboard shortcut for that is S. By default, it's Command or Control K. But I've showed you how to change it to the ascii before. So now if I press S, it's going to split these two clips here. And then if I press S again, it's going to split here. Now I just have to have this clip selected and press Command Backspace or Control Backspace on Windows. And it'll delete that middle clip and move everything that was on the right to the left. Now, Control or Command backspace is on a different end of the keyboard and you'll probably have to remove your hand from your mouse to hit this keyboard shortcut. That's why I've set up a custom keyboard shortcut for Ripple Delete. The keyboard shortcut that I like to use is the letter X. If you want to do the same, just search for Ripple, Delete, and simply pick it up and the drag it to the ax. If you want to add it to another key, you can just drag it on top of that key and you'll see that now, if I press F 11, it's going to Ripple Delete, but I'll just keep mine to the X using Ripple Delete is a very fast way of trimming clips without having to constantly switch between these tools. It's going to save you a lot of time. 26. The Q And W Keys: There are two more keyboard shortcuts that can save you a lot of time when editing a video. These are called ripple trim, previous edit to play head, and ripple trim. Next edit to play head. I've set them to my Q and W Keys so you can search for ripple trim and then scroll down, and here they are. So I've set ripple trim next, edit to play head to my W key and ripple trim previous edit to play head to my Q key. You can do the same by simply picking up this text and dragging it on the letter that you want to assign it to. I'm going to click Okay and show you what these keyboard shortcuts can do to better illustrate what's happening, I'm going to add a few markers on this clip by clicking M on my keyboard. Markers are basically used to mark specific points of eclipse. So you remember where they are. So now, if I come to the beginning of these markers and hit Q, you'll notice that the beginning of the clip disappeared and the rest of the clip moved back into its place. Now if I come to the end of this clip and hit W, you'll notice that it just cut off at the end. So that's what Q and W Keys can do. Let me add some more footage to The Timeline, and I'll add a few more markers here just so it's easier to understand what's happening. And so if I move over here and hit Q, you'll see that what was on the left of my playhead got removed and the rest of the clip got moved into place. Now if I want to remove the end of this clip, I'm going to hit W and it'll just trim the end of the clip and move everything that was on the right to the left in the beginning, Q and W Keys are going to be a little hard to get used to. But once you do, you're going to be able to edit a lot faster 27. How I Use The Q And W Keys To Edit Fast: Here I have some footage from previous lessons of this course that I haven't yet edited. And I'll show you how I Use the Q and W Keys To Cut up the Footage a lot faster, you'll be able to see the keys that I'm pressing here on the left. So I edit my Clips based on the audio waveform, as you can see here, is where I start my sentence. So I'm going to hit Q, and this is where the clip we'll begin. Then I'm going to hit S here because let's say this is a word that I don't want and then move here and hit Q. So it will delete that word and move everything from the right to the left. Here, I have a space, so I'll hit S and then Q as Q, S, Q as Q. I'll notice that these sentences are both the same, so I'm going to hit Q to remove the second one, or I can remove the first one by Ripple deleting For me the keyboard shortcut for that is X. So I'm going to Ripple, Delete that split here, Q, split Q and move along like so. Let's say that I want to keep this section and then remove this section. I'm going to split here. Then come here and hit Q. It removed everything and move this clip to the left. If I wanted to do this manually, I would have to hit C, Cut here, click V to bring up the Move tool. Select this clip, Delete, select the space, Delete. That's a lot slower, whereas with keyboard shortcuts is just so much faster To Cut up your Clips like so, remove silences or sentences that you don't want. So that's the power of using Ripple Delete, and the Q and W Keys 28. How I Set Up Keyboard Shortcuts: Now when setting up your keyboard shortcuts, It's important to have them on the left side of your keyboard that it's easy to reach with your left hand because you don't want to be removing your hand from your mouse and then clicking a key on the keyboard and then coming back to your mouth, it's going to waste a lot of time. That's why the keyboard shortcuts that I use most often are on the left side of the keyboard. I can simply use one hand to perform these Shortcuts, and I don't have to lift up my other hand from the mouse and place it on the keyboard to perform the Shortcuts. That also saves me time over long periods of Editing. Of course, if you run out of space here, you can simply add a modifier key, like command or shift, or Command and Shift and then set a shortcut here. So for example, I don't have a keyboard shortcut with Command Shift X, and instead of setting it to the minus key, it's a lot better to set it to Command Shift X because I'll be able to perform this keyboard shortcut without moving my hand over here. Well, assuming that your hand naturally rests on this area of the keyboard. So that's one thing to keep in mind when creating Keyboard Shortcuts. 29. All My Premiere Pro Keyboard Shortucts: So here are all of my keyboard shortcuts for Premiere, I'll show you the most interesting ones that saved me the most amount of time. I've talked about a few of these previously, but I'll go over them again just to have everything in one place. So first I have set S to add edit. What it does is if I hover over the clip with my playhead and hit S, it's going to split the Clips right here. I have the queue set to ripple trim previous edit to play head, which as we've seen before, this where it removes the first half of this clip and then moves all the other Clips to where the beginning of that clip was. I have W set to ripple trim. Next edit to play head, which does the exact same just to the end of the clip. So if I call it W, This part is going to get deleted and this clip is going to move in its place. Then I've set D to enable the clip. What it does is it basically disables or enables the clip. When I clip is disabled, you can't hear it or see it. So it's the same as pressing this eyeball here. So my D key just simply hides or shows the clip. Next, let's move over to the Shift key. The first one is shifted Z, and I have it set to open the project window. So to find it, you're going to search for projects. And under application, you'll find projects right here under workspaces. By default, it's shift one, but I've said it to shift Z. Basically what it does is it lets me get to the Project panel no matter which other panel I have opened. So if I have the Effects panel, I can click Shift Z and it will jump to the Project panel. Next, shift X is the Effect Controls panel. So no matter which panel I'm at, I can press Shift X and it'll jump to Effect Controls panel. And the final panel is Shift C, which jumps to the Effects panel. So no matter where, if I click Shift C, it's going to open the Effects panel. I switch between these three panels constantly and having a keyboard shortcut to do that for me, instead of having to go here with my mouse is a lot faster. By the way, the keyboard shortcuts to get to the Keyboard Shortcuts is option command K. So that's pretty much all that I use the Shift key for. Another useful shortcut is Option X, which clears in and out points. So if I've set an in and out point, instead of having to right-click and choose clear In and Out, I simply hit Option X and it clears the in and out point. Of course, there are many frequent shortcuts that I Use with the command key command Z to undo, Command X to cut, Command C to copy and Command V to paste. Also Command S to save. One more very useful keyboard shortcut is this over here. It's the tilde key on keyboards that have a US style layout, this key is right here, but if you're from Europe, you're going to find it next to the Shift key. This is the key I'm talking about. It's the squiggly line. So when you press the squiggly line, it will maximize whichever window you have selected. So if I select The Program Monitor by clicking on it and press the squiggly line, It's going to maximize it than if I press it again, is going to minimize it. I can do the same for the timeline, for the Effects panel, for Essential Graphics. Anything else within Premiere, even the toolbar. This is very useful when you want to manipulate something inside of the Program Monitor or your timeline. Because right now The Program Monitor is small. So if I hit T on my keyboard to bring up the Text tool, and then I type something here. It'll be quite hard to edit this text because it's very small. So what I can do is hit the Tilde key and it becomes a lot larger. Now, I can move it precisely, exactly where I want. Maximizing is also useful for creating masks with the pen tool, but more about that later, I also frequently used the G key to adjust the gain of audio. So if I select an audio track by holding Option and clicking here, because these two clips are linked and if I press G, it's going to let me adjust the gain of my audio. So if I say minus ten, it's going to lower my Audio Levels by 10 db to more amazing keyboard shortcuts that I've set or on the comma and the period key. Whenever I highlight the keyframe and press comma, it will set its temporal interpolation into ease out. And whenever I highlight the keyframe and press period, it will set it to ease in. So it's a lot faster than right-clicking, going to temporal interpolation and then sending it manually like so, here's how to set it up. So just search for keyframe temporal. And you should see both of these options here. Set your period key to and the comma key to ease out. Now whenever you have to, Keyframes just come to the first one and click the comma key, which is on the left, just like the keyframe. So it's easy to remember and then come to the last one and press period, which is on the right side of your keyboard. So it's easy to remember. There's one incredibly useful keyboard shortcut in Premiere Pro and it has to do with selecting a clip. So normally if you have a clip and then something else above that clip and you double-click inside of your Program Monitor, you'll notice that it selects whatever is on top. So in this case, it selected the Adjustment Layer and it's letting me move the Adjustment Layer instead of the clip What I have to do is click on the clip and then click on the motion attribute inside of the Effect Controls panel. And only then will I be able to move the clip itself. So what I can do is set a keyboard shortcuts for that. And I've set it to command T, because in Photoshop, if you have something on the layer, you can simply hit Command T and control the position of that thing. So that's why I've said the same shortcut for Premiere. Now you'll see that if I have my command key highlighted and click on the TI, it will show me the shortcut, which is activated direct manipulation in Program Monitor. So you can search for that, activate direct. There it is. And then simply drag this keyboard shortcut onto the letter T. It will apply it automatically. I'll click. Okay, and now whenever I click on the clip, I no longer have to go to my Effects Controls panel and click motion. What I can do instead is simply click on it and press Command T on my keyboard and I can move the clip. You'll see that now I'm not moving the Adjustment Layer, but the clip underneath this keyboard shortcut makes it so much faster to adjust Clips inside of the Program Monitor without having to do it with the motion attributes, especially useful for YouTube videos because you usually have to adjust a lot of things like texts and other elements that pop up during the video. So I would highly recommend using it. Also, I Use N to nest my clip. I believe this is not a default keyboard shortcut, but I usually nest Clips very frequently. So I've set up my N key to Nesta clip instead of having to right-click and then search for Nest. Next are the J, K, and L Keys. These are not custom, but they're very useful. They're basically just like pause, play, and rewind buttons. So the J key will start playing backwards. The KCI will stop the playback, and the L key will start playing normally. Now this might not seem so useful, but if you press J or L twice, it's going to double the playback speed. So if I'm looking through my footage, I don't have to do it at one speed because it's just very slow. What I can do is hit L and then hit L again, and it's going to start playing a lot faster. If I hit L one more time, it's going to start playing even faster. I think if you hit L twice, it's going to play Add to speed. And if you hit L1 more time, I think it's five X or even ten. I'm not sure, but it's very fast. So you can quickly playback your footage by using the L key than stop with the KCI and rewind a little bit with the J key. If you've missed something, these three Keys are very useful for previewing your finished video or just looking for errors in your footage. Of course, the minus key and the plus key or the equals key is zoom in and out of your timeline, which is pretty useful. Or you can use Option or Alt on Windows and scroll with your mouse. Let's move over to the Command and Option key. So they're really only two shortcuts that are used for this, and it's Option Command C and option command V. What they can do is if I have an effect applied to the clip, for example, Gaussian Blur, I can hit Command C and then come to another clip and hit Command Option V. And it's going to bring up the Paste Attributes panel, which lets me paste attributes or Effects from this clip to another clip. If I click, Okay, Gaussian blur will be applied to this clip as well. These are the main keyboard shortcuts that I Use. There are many more, but you'll learn them along the way if you feel like they're useful to you 30. Editing Horizontally: When you're editing your footage, It's a lot faster to do it Horizontally and did not vertically. So instead of only working on this beginning part, cutting it up exactly as I want, then adding effects than adding something else on top, then adding something else, maybe a transition here. It's a lot faster to work Horizontally. Instead of finishing everything with this first clip, what I will do is just move along and Cut up everything right here until I reach the very end of my footage. Then during the second pass, I will add zoom ins or blur things that I don't want people to see. During the third pass, I will add animations. During the fourth pass, I will add sound effects and doing the final path, I will add music. It's a lot easier to edit Horizontally and not vertically. Because when you edit vertically, you're going to spend so much time perfecting this one clip. And then if you move to another clip and add a bunch of stuff here, you won't have so much energy to do it all over again. Your video, we'll just have gradually less cool things And Effects. So for example, the first thing that I do is Cut up my footage like this. So there's no ohms us and breaths in between. And then I will go over it again and add zoom ins and animations. Then I will do the third pass across all of the Footage and add transitions and so on. With each new task, I will come back to my Footage and go through it all. Again, working on that one specific thing, it's going to make your edit a lot faster rather than just piling everything on top from the very beginning. Here's an example from one of my YouTube videos. In the beginning here I have a bunch of stuff and things going on, but I didn't start off like this. The first thing I did was layout all of these Clips at the bottom. These were my main footage. Then I moved on to the second layer and added more things. And finally, I added nice touches on top, like this animation here. Next, I moved over to sound effects and added all of these sound effects here. And finally, I added the music as the very last thing, this let me work horizontally, not vertically, which means that I saved a lot of time and also didn't spend too much time on one specific area of the video. 31. My Editing Workflow: This is how Premiere Pro looks when I edit one of my YouTube videos, you'll see that there are three videos in this Premiere Project, my music video, and then a Sequences folder. In the Sequences folder, I just keep all the Sequences because if I want to come back to one of my videos from awhile ago, I'll just be able to find the Sequences that I want instantly. Now this is the progress of the video. It says done, but when I'm still in the progress of editing the video, it says unfinished. When I finished editing it, I'll just rename it to done. This is the number of the video and that's the title. What I usually do is edit five videos inside of one Premiere Project. If I start to do any more than five, it just gets very messy. So for now, I've done three in this project. Inside of one of these folders is the video. There's the B-roll and there's the audio. Now How are usually go about this is record all the B-roll in the beginning and then Create a New Sequence From the clip. Like so, this is just a shot of me closing my hands. Now the next thing that I will do is find my Audio and then drag it into the timeline. I usually edit audio in Audacity, so I don't have to do it in Premiere Pro. It's just part of my workflow. But if I don't edit it before, I'll just go in Premiere. And the first thing that I'll do is Cut up my audio. Next, I will lock the audio track and start importing my B-roll. You'll see here that I didn't really named my B-roll in correct order. So now I can't really remember what goes after what, but usually I do. It's a good idea to rename your Clips like so. If this clip was the first one, I would name it 1.1, then one point to and when I come into Premiere, I'll know exactly which Clips is going first. But for now, let's pretend that these clips are all in order. So dialed in goes first.in the X goes second, then drag and drop and so on. What I'll do is drag the first clip into the timeline, then play it, listen to the audio and see where it lines up. I will then cut it up accordingly and drag in the second clip, I'll go through this process for the whole Timeline. So I'll just lay out my a roll like so. You'll see that here. This is the part where the arrow is. Then after I have everything laid out like so, I'll move over to the second step, which is filling in the gaps if there are any gaps. So sometimes there may be gaps because I didn't have anything recorded for this section, which means that they'll usually get footage from the Internet, like stock footage, gifts, photos and stuff, or I'll just make something in Photoshop. So the second step is to fill all the gaps. And you'll see that in this video all the gaps are filled. Then I'll move over to the third step, which is adding nice things, for example, Text. And I will not worry about anything else as I'm adding taxed. The same goes for any part of this process. If I'm cutting up my a roll Clips in the beginning and I know that there's going to be Text here. What I can do is simply cut it up a part of my footage where the text is going to be and then go to label and choose a different color. That way, I'll know that they're supposed to be something above this clip. If I forget that there were supposed to be Text here, that means it probably wasn't so important. So even though I know that I should put something here, I will not do it when I'm going through my first pass. I'll only add those things later when the time comes next. I'll move over to the intro and make it extra fancy because that's important for YouTube videos. Then I will add a bunch of sound effects, and finally, I will add music. Finally, I will watch the final video and improve things or add something that I feel is missing. This is pretty much my whole editing process. Some videos that I do look like this and others looked like this be in this example, there are a few things that I show on the screen, namely the shot of my MacBook and the screen of my MacBook. So I'll have three main layers here. This at the bottom are just these dots in the background. So the first layer is my full screen footage. Then the second layer is this picture in picture thing, and the third layer is my screen recording. I'm disabling and enabling them with the keyboard shortcut that I showed you previously, which is D, It's very useful in these situations when I went to toggle between different cameras or views. And this is how a simple 10-minute YouTube video will look like 32. Importing Third Party Footage Fast: One of the things that will slow you down a lot while editing a video is importing Third Party Footage. So if you have those gaps in your timeline that I mentioned before, you're probably going to want to find Footage to download and import to Premiere Pro from the Internet. Now this process is pretty slow because if you want to download an image or a stock video, by the way, pixels is a great website for finding free stock footage. And if you're looking for something nicer, I think Envato Elements has a great subscription. So stock videos, photos, templates, sound effects, and music all in one subscription. So it's pretty good for finding footage for YouTube videos. So as I've said before, every single video for me, it looks something like this. I have the state of the video, so unfinished. Then I will have number of the video, let's say 69. And then the name of the Video, Video, one inside of this folder, I'll have two more folders. One will be called B-roll, which will hold all My video clips. And the other one will be called audio. That's because I usually record audio separately from my Video Footage. So how do you make this importing thing superfast? Well, whenever I download the clip onto my desktop, I immediately move it to B-Roll, and then from B-roll, I drag it into My Premiere B-roll. What I usually do is double-click on my B-roll folder and it'll pop up as a separate panel. So I know that here I will find every single clip that I need for my project and then I'll simply drag it onto the timeline. If I see that I need another clip again, I'll go to my stock photo website, whichever one it is for you, and then search for that clip. So for example, Keyboard, I'll download this shot of the Keyboard now landed on my desktop, so I'll quickly hide my browser. You can do that on Mac with Command H. Then I'll switch to my Finder or File Explorer, go to my desktop and move it to B-roll than from B-Roll into My Premiere Pro and then it can go onto the timeline. I found that having folders open like this in new tabs rather than separate instances is a lot faster because you can simply drag files from one place to another. If you have them separate like this on Mac, you can go to Window and merge all windows and it will place them inside of one window as tabs. And I can quickly switch between Premiere, my Finder, and my browser by using Command Tab on my keyboard. If I keep holding command and then press Tab, it will just move from one app to the other. When I released the tab and Command key, it will jump to that app. So this is a very quick way of switching between applications. And it's especially useful when you're downloading footage from the internet that you want to import into your Premiere project. It also works the same on Windows and the keyboard shortcut for that is Controls tab. So that's my process of downloading and quickly importing Clips into Premier Pro 33. Batching Videos Together: One of the best ways to speed up your video production process is to batch Videos Together. So instead of working on only one video at a time, you could be working on multiple videos at a time. This can save a lot of time since you eliminate the setup process. For example, if each time that you want to record a video, you set up your camera, you turn on the lights, remove the battery from your ticking clock so the audio sounds better and do a bunch of things. Then each time you lose so much time, what you can do is set up your camera once and then record five videos at the same time, which means that you will eliminate four times of the setup process. Another reason why this strategy works so well To save time is that you don't have to get into the mental state of recording videos. If you batch the task, you only have to get into the mental space of doing that task only once. However, if you work on only one Video, then each time you have to do another task in the video production process, it's going to cost you some mental energy. For example, if I were to do each video separately, then I would have to create a new folder for each video, set up a New Premiere Project, import all the Footage and late all out on the timeline. However, if I work on five Videos, I can do all of this at the same time. So I'll create one project for five videos, then create five folders for each of the Videos, and then import everything at the same time. It's so much easier both time-wise and your mental energy wise to just do it all at the same time. The same goes for editing. If you've recorded four or five videos, what you can do is edit them all Horizontally at the same time. For example, instead of laying out the B-roll for this video and then Effects on top of it, and then Sound Effects. What I'll do is lay out the Bureau for this video, then go to another video and do the same for this video. Then for the third video, until all five of them are finished. Next, I'll move over to Effects and do them across all five videos. This makes the editing process a lot faster because you don't have to multitask and switch your brain to do different tasks. Once you get started with one thing, it's a lot easier to keep going and doing that thing instead of switching, I found that switching a task is a lot harder than just continuing the same task that I have been doing with inertia. So batching Videos Together, Both in the editing process and in the production process. So scripting, Recording, Voiceover recording, B-roll, and doing anything else. If you batch up these tasks together, you're going to save so much time and mental energy and your output will be the same. It's very useful for YouTube in the beginning because at the start, every one of us sucks at making YouTube videos. You need to put in the work and make a lot of them to get good at making videos and learn the ropes of YouTube. So with batching, you can create more videos Faster and thus learn faster. So batching Videos Together to produce more videos in less time and waste less mental energy 34. Enhancing Audio: So here I have a recording for some of the lessons of this course, and I'll show you how I process this recording. So for Editing my audio, I use a software called Audacity. It's basically just a free open source software that anyone can download from the Internet. It's available for Mac and Windows. So just go to their website and click download Audacity, you install it just like any other app. So I'll open Audacity and drag in my Sound Recording. You'll see that it's pretty long and that I make a lot of mistakes when recording my Voiceover, but nevertheless, here's how I process my Audio. The first thing that I do as soon as I hit record is just wait 10 s, just sit completely silently and just wait for 10 s. This gives me this silence in the beginning of my clip, and I will use this silence to remove the silence from the whole recording. So I'm going to select the silence by clicking and dragging, then go into effect and noise reduction. What this does is it basically analyzes this clip of my Audio and keeps note of the noise profile. So it gathers information for what to remove in the rest of my recording, I'm going to click Get Noise Profile. Nothing will happen. Then I'll double-click to select the whole recording, go into effect and noise reduction one more time. I will leave all of these settings default and just click OK. It will do its magic and the hissing noise in the background will be gone if there was any. The next thing that I do is again double-click to highlight all of the clip, go to Effect and normalize. I have it set to my end keyboard shortcut. What normalisation basically does is it changes the volume of your overall clip by a fixed amount to reach a target level. So it basically makes your Audio quieter or louder based on a certain standard, which is usually minus one decibels. So I'm going to leave minus one decibels here and click Apply. You'll see that my Audio became slightly more silent. Next, I'll go into effect and compressor for me the keyboard shortcut for that is C, to set your own keyboard shortcuts within Audacity, you can go into Audacity preferences and then Keyboard. Here you'll be able to set keyboard shortcuts, highlight your clip, Effect and compressor. For most of my recordings, I Use these settings for the compressor, but the default ones that come built into Audacity work just as fine. If you want to use my settings, you can copy all of them right here. And if you change something and you want to go to the default preset, just click Presets and settings, Factory Presets and defaults, and then click Apply. What a compressor does is it basically makes the quieter parts of your audio louder and louder part quieter. So it just compresses everything and makes it so the person listening can hear the quieter parts and the louder parts are not super loud. Once I have the compressor applied, I'm going to normalize the footage once again. So again, go to Effect and normalize. And that's it. I'm going to zoom out to see if there are any strong peaks like this. This is probably just a mouth sound that I made. Nevermind. It's me sneezing and sometimes there will be loud peaks like this, which will make the normalization not work. So if there's one super loud part, it's just going to decrease the volume of the rest of the recording. So what I can do is highlight this part and hit Q on my keyboard. And what Q does is it basically silences a clip. So I'm going to search for Q within Keyboard Shortcuts. And you can see that it has silence audio. It's under the Edit menu and remove special. If you don't want to set the keyboard shortcut for this, you can go to Edit, Remove Special, and then silence Audio, and it will just silence this part of the audio. The reason that I don't remove this part of the audio with Command X, which basically cuts out a piece, is because I'm going to sink this Audio To my screen recording. And it would make it super annoying and almost impossible to sink my Audio if it was a different length. So the way I do my recordings is I record this Voiceover on my iPhone and then I'm going recording the screen as well as the computer's microphone on my computer itself. The reason I'm doing this is because I can get my iPhone closer to my mouth and I can't really get my laptop's microphone close to my mouth with the ability to see the screen very well. That's why I'm recording it separately. And so if I remove this part of the audio, I will now have trouble sinking it up with the audio that comes from my computer because the audio from the computer is just going to be a little longer. Once I silence it, I'm going to double-click and normalize my Audio once again, it should become a little louder, and it did. Now I'm going to double-click to select it again, go to File, Export and Export Audio. I'm going to leave all these settings default, then pick a name for my clip, and then click Save. I'm going to click, okay, and this will be exported. So now I can import this into Premiere Pro and use it as my Voiceover audio. 35. Balancing Audio Loudness Levels: Now here I'm inside one of my video projects and I'm going to show you how to balance out the audio. As you can see, I used different audio tracks for different parts of the audio. I Use the A1 track and the A2 track for my Voiceover. The reason why I need to trax is because overlap my audio clips on top of each other. This helps reduce empty space in between sentences and are not sure that it works in terms of audience retention. And it also takes a lot of time. So you should probably not do this, but basically what it is is just the end of one sentence overlapped with another anyway. So I have my Voiceover on A1 and A2 tracks and I put nothing else here, so no sound effects and no music. Then on A3, A4, and A5, I have sound effects. These three tracks are always reserved for sound effects because I sometimes have to stack them on top of one another and they usually require three tracks at most. I always put music on track number 86. And there's a very good reason to do this. There's one more panel within Premiere Pro that I Use that I haven't showed you before. And it's the Audio Track Mixer to enable this panel, go to Window and then under Audio Track Mixer, select your Timeline. So it will basically change based on whichever Timeline you're on. So if I go to another video, it now changed to this Timeline. And if I go to the previous one, it now changed to this Timeline. And as you can see, I can balance my audio within these meters. So this says Audio one, and it basically means the audio of the first track. This is Audio two, and this is the audio of the second track. This panel basically allows me to add audio effects or change volume of the whole track. So instead of me having to change the volume of this clip, then paste all the attributes to all the other clips. I can just do it in here and the fact the whole track, That's why I have the Voiceover, all the sound effects and music on separate tracks so I can change their volume separately. So I'm going to solo the first two tracks, which are basically only going to play the Voiceover. And when I play it, you'll notice that in the audio meters here, the audio levels hit between zero and -12. And this is where I want my audio to be. So if it's not there, let's say it's somewhere like here, it's very silent. I'm going to boost up the audio with these meters. You can either do it with this slider here or just input a number. So let's say two. So it's going to be plus 2 db. I'm going to do plus two for both of these tracks because my Voiceover is on both of these tracks. And now when I play it, the Voiceover is loud enough. Now for this video, I had many different sound effects and I wasn't really consistent with their placements, so I changed volume of sound effects individually. So this is a whoosh. The Effect and the volume of it is actually -10 db. And this is a typing sound effect, and the volume is also -10 db. But for example, here it's -3 db, so it's not consistent and I didn't do it through the audio track meter, but usually I'll keep my sound effects within this range. So in-between -24 db and the -18 db. And finally is the music. I always set my music to be in-between -24 and -30 db. So here you can see that I've set my A6 Audio Track Two -24, and everything that's in this track is at -24 db. Now if I play back the video, it is that Sound effects are too loud. I can simply come here and just take these three just a little down so that the sound effects become a little quieter. And if I notice that my music is too quiet, I can simply bring this up a little bit and the music Across all My video will become louder. So to summarize, I tried to keep my Voiceover levels in between minus three and -12. My sound effects in between -18 and -24, and my music in-between -24 and -30 db 36. Exporting Footage: You've added transitions, some animated text to your video, and now you're ready to export it. Now, make sure to unmute all the tracks that you have muted before because they will not be audible in the final exports. Also, if you have gaps in your sequence, you can close them by using the Delete key. Or if you want to export only a specific portion of your sequence, you can come to the beginning of your Clips, kid I on your keyboard to set an endpoint and then come to the end and hit 0 to set an out point. And now you're ready to export a keyboard shortcut that I always use to export my Clips is Command or Control M. On Windows, it'll bring up the Export Panel. Now, another way to get there is at the top, just click this Export button. And here you can set settings for your footage. The best preset for YouTube videos is already built into Premier, so you don't have to configure anything. Click here inside of presets and simply scroll down until you find YouTube for K ultra HD, if this is not here, press more presets and then look for YouTube. Here you can favorite that these presets, and then they will show up in the preset menu. So if my sequence was in for K, I'm going to use the fork a preset. If I want to export a ten ADP video, I can use this preset and so on. I'm going to select it and click okay, here in this panel, you can see two columns, Source and output. Source is basically what you have in your sequence, and output is what you're going to get after your video is exported. Now let's take a look at the resolutions. You'll see that my Source video resolution is a lot smaller than the Export one. And that's because I've applied this preset. If I wanted to keep my original resolution, what I could do is customize the preset. I could go into video and here are fine frame size. So basically the resolution that it's going to export that. But I know that my original resolution is a lot smaller. So what I can do is click Match Source and you'll see that the resolution in the output has also been updated. In this panel, I can tweak just about any setting about my video that I want to change for the Export. In the video section, I can also click More and see even more settings that I could customize. For example, the bit rate, but the preset that I chose before already set very good settings for a YouTube video. So I don't have to think about any of this right now. The only thing that I wanted to change, what's the resolution of my Export, what I would potentially be interested in, as well as changing the FPS. You'll see that now it's at 60 FPS. But what if I want to export at 30 FPS instead of going to edit and then sequence, sequence settings and changing the Time-based of my sequence. I could instead use to edit in 60 FPS and then Export in 30 FPS. You'll find the frame rate below the video resolution in the Video tab, I will unselect this box so that it doesn't match the source clip and then pick 30 FPS. Now you'll see in the output it says 30 FPS. Now here in the filename, you can also set the name of the new file that's going to be exported. And you can choose the location by clicking here. I'm happy with my desktop, so I'm just going to click, Save and then Export. Since my clip wasn't super long and there weren't too many Effects. It Export it very quickly. Now if I go to my desktop, I'll see Footage one, and this is my footage. If I play it, there should be an animated text and the transition. There's the text and there is the transition. One more thing that I can do in the Export tab is saved my preset. So now what I've done is set match source for everything else except the frame rate. And I can save this as a preset. You'll see in the preset section, it now says custom because they've customized this YouTube for key preset. If I want to export all of my videos with this custom preset, instead of having to go into YouTube for K and then change it up every single time I can save my own custom preset. I can click on these three dots and click Save Preset. Then I'll choose a name for it. Demo preset and click. Okay. Now, even if I have another preset set to my footage, I can simply click here and find my demo preset. And when I selected, all of the settings will change to the ones that I wanted before. So this is how you export your footage inside of Premiere Pro 37. Conclusion: Congratulations, you've done it. Thank you for embarking on this incredible journey with me. I hope that now you'll have all the tools that you need to make incredible YouTube videos. Because look, all that it takes is analyzing other people's videos to see what works or doesn't. Then applying those lessons for yourself, recording the video and putting it together in your video editing software. So if there's one thing that I hope you take away from this course is that creating videos doesn't have to be a super hard and daunting process. You can just have FUN experiments, see what works or what doesn't, and go with that. That's why I encourage you to share the video that you've made in the project gallery. I really hope that this course was helpful and I'm looking forward to your feedback. Could you do me a favor and helped me improve by leaving a review for this course, I hope that you enjoyed and gain some knowledge from it. Thank you once again and good luck creating amazing videos