Premiere Pro
Topics
- Inspiration
- The Premiere Pro Environment
- Getting Started with Premiere Pro
- Downloadable Sources
- How to Upload to YouTube
- Additional Resources
- Exercise
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materials for this week's lab
1. Inspiration
2. The Premiere Pro Environment
The following diagram notes the different Panels and sections that we will be using in the lab.
1. Project Panel
This is where you keep all the bits
and pieces of your project — still images, titles, clips, After Effects renders, and sound files. These are all called assets.
2. Media Browser
Use the Media Browser to look
through and preview your files
for assets to import into your
project.
3. Effects Panel
Audio and Video effects can be
"drag and dropped" onto clips from this panel.
4. Timeline
This is where you do your actual
editing. You can drag and drop clips, titles or pictures here. Drag
effects from the effects panel onto clips in the timeline. Use tools to
cut, expand, or move clips around on multiple audio and video tracks.
Zoom in and out of the
the timeline to see small clips with the slider in the lower left
corner or with the - and + hotkeys.
Scrub back and forth in
your video with the playhead, or use the arrow keys to fine tune your current
time or use the space bar, and j, k, and l hotkeys.
Make cuts at the play head
with Command + K.
View your entire timeline using the back slash character (\)
5. Source Monitor
Preview and crop clips here. You can use the i and o hotkeys to select "in" and "out" points.
6. Effect Controls
Audio and video effects that you
drag onto clips can be adjusted here. The properties of a clip can also
be adjusted or animated over
time here using keyframes.
7. Program Monitor
See a preview of the sequence you
are building in the timeline, complete with effects, in real time. The
quality of the preview can be adjusted, but it is limited by the
processing power of your workstation.
8. Essential Graphics
This is useful when you are adding text and shapes to go with the text.
There are also some text templates that might be useful.
3. Getting Started with Premiere Pro
The following two videos include details of how to create a colour slide show video:
Editing intensity Part 1/2 - Week 1 (Video for Educators) from Edge Gain on Vimeo.
Editing intensity Part 2/2 - Week 1 (Video for Educators) from Edge Gain on Vimeo.
The following is a great video on making and animating titles:
Making titles with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 from Edge Gain on Vimeo.
Notes for this week:
- get some images from pexels by searching color: insert_color_here. The size should be close to 1920 x 1080
- make sure to save them in a sub directory called "Images" where you are going to be working on your Premiere Pro project
- click on the "New Project" button
- for the "Location" choose the parent directory of the "Images"
- for the "Name" choose one that makes sense to you
- create a new sequence: Main Menu > File > New > Sequence...
- select AVCHD > 1080p > AVCHD 1080p24 (means, the frame size is 1920 x 1080 and the frames per second is 24)
- type a "Sequence Name"
- click "OK"
- import the images: File > Import... or right click on the Project Panel and select Import...
- use the shift key to select all the images at once
- click and drag the images onto the timeline
- zoom into the timeline using '\'
- change the length the image is displayed by clicking and dragging on the edge. For more specific time, you can:
- using the playhead at a certain time and snap to the playhead
- use the ~ to see any panel in full view
- change the Scale and Position of the image by double clicking on it in the timeline and then adjusting settings in the Effect Controls Panel
- use razor tool to cut the length of the image clip
- use delete to get rid of empty space
- use the ripple edit to shift back all the clips
- add effects to the image transitions
- For instance, to dip to black, go to the Effects Panel. Choose Video Transitions > Dissolve > Dip to Black
- Drag the effect between two clips on the timeline
- put a title against a color background
- in the Project Panel, right click and select: New Item > Color Matte...
- click on OK for the size
- choose a colour
- give your background a name
- drag the background from the Project Panel to the timeline
- select the Type tool in the Timeline Panel and click and drag a rectangle in your Program Monitor Panel
- adjust your "Fill" in the Effect Controls Panel to change the colour of your text
- change the font type and size
- extend the duration of the text to match the background matte
- add animation by adding keyframes in the Effect Controls Panel
- export your video
- make sure that your sequence is selected
- Main Menu > File > Export > Media...
- Format: H.264
- Preset: YouTube 1080p HD
- click on the "Output Name" to select where it is going to go (put it in your "Export" folder)
- click on the "Queue" button to open in Adobe Media Encoder
4. Downloadable Sources
Music
Here are some great places to find free, Creative Commons-licensed music to use in your videos (list is taken from the Adobe Generation Pro Class "Video for Educators - 2018"):
- http://99sounds.org/ - This one is great for drones and beeps and other sounds, not as musical as the others but certainly a very useful bank of free to use sounds.
Images
Video
5. How to Upload to YouTube
Once you've exported an mp4 file, you can upload it to YouTube and create a link in your learning journal. The following link provides instructions (and a video) on how to upload a video to YouTube.
YouTube Help OR How To Properly Upload Videos To YouTube
6. Additional Resources
- Premiere Pro tutorials (from the Adobe website)
- Beginner tips for Premiere Pro
The above page includes the following topics:
- Grab your footage and take a look around
- introducing major panels
- importing using File > Import
- importing using the Media Browser Panel-- right click on desired media and select Import (use the ~ to maximize a panel)
- using the hover scrub in the Media Browser Panel
- creating bins in your Project Panel
- resizing panels
- reset the interface with: Window > Workspaces > Reset to Saved Layout
- shortcut keys for jumping around on the timeline
- resetting the timeline tracks (if you've played around with the sizing too much): Click on the wrench icon and select Expand All Tracks
- if you experience stutter on playback, set your playback resolution in the Program Monitor Panel to 1/4
- Assemble your clips
- dragging clips onto the timeline
- using the command key while dropping a clip between two clips to insert in between
- using the source monitor to select in and out point (i and o shortcut keys)
- using j, k, l shortcut keys (l is forward, j is backward, k is pause)
- dragging audio or video only
- showing audio in source monitor
- using command-z to undo or the History Panel
- Move around the timeline
- quickly zooming in and out using + to zoom in, - to zoom out, and \ to bring sequence into full view
- adjusting the track heights (to better see the waveform) by dragging the edge with the mouse or using a scroll wheel
- resetting the timeline tracks (if you've played around with the sizing too much): Click on the wrench icon and select Expand All Tracks
- using the up arrow and down arrow to move the play head to earlier clips on the timeline and later clips on the timeline
- deleting a clip with the backspace key and eliminating the gap by clicking on it and hitting the backspace key again
- using the razor tool
- shortening a clip with the move (V) tool (when the cursor is positioned on the edge of the clip, you will see a red arrow with a red bracket)
- using the ripple trim tool (letter B)
- snapping to line up elements, use the magnet icon to turn snapping off or on
- Apply cool effects and brighten colors
- adding a cross dissolve between two clips
- noting the first and last frame of a clip (icon is a triangle in the corner)
- applying a "Dip to Black" transition: Effects Panel > Video Transitions > Dissolve > Dip to Black (drag between two clips on the timeline)
- adding lens flare to a clip: Effects Panel > Video Effects > Generate > Lens Flare
- adjusting the settings of the lens flare in the Effect Controls Panel. Click on the rectangle beside fx for the Lens Flare to click and drag in the Program Monitor
- reducing stuttering frames on playback. You might need to render frames: select clip, then Main Menu> Sequence > Render Selection
- resizing images: right click on the photo clip in the timeline and select Set to Frame Size
- resizing images in the Effect Controls Panel by adjusting the scale value
- adding keyframes by clicking on the stop watch and adjusting values to create animation
- adding colour effects using the Color Workspace and the Lumetri Color Panel
- adjusting the Temperature and White Balance in the Lumetri Color Panel
- Adjust audio levels
- using the audio icon in the source monitor to view the waveform
- using the + and - keys to zoom in and out of the waveform
- adjusting which audio tracks are being heard in the timeline by clicking on the M (for Mute) and S (for Solo)
- adjusting the volume using the Audio Clip Mixer Panel
- dragging the white line at the center of an audio clip to adjust the volume
- creating audio fades using the Pen tool to create two keyframes on the white line, then drag the point at the end down
- deleting extra keyframes while using the Pen tool by clicking on the point and pressing the delete button
- separating grouped audio-video tracks by holding down the Alt key and clicking on the audio or video component
- Export your masterpiece
- exporting a still image by clicking on the camera icon between the Program Monitor Panel and the Timeline Panel
- exporting the video by selecting: Main Menu > File > Export > Media...
- Format: H.264
- Preset: YouTube 1080p HD
- Output Name: Choose the desktop and type a descriptive name
- Click on Queue (to open Media Encoder)
- adding a timecode by changing changing the settings on the Export Window: In the Effects Panel, scroll down and click on the "Timecode Overlay" checkbox
- publishing to the Creative Cloud (not accessible if you don't have a Creative Cloud license)
- clicking on the green play button icon to start the queue
7. Exercise
Create a slide-show with audio using 8-10 still images that are based on a single color. The video will contain text credits for the sound and images. Attempt to time your image changes to the beats of the music. Try and make the exported video 15 seconds exactly.
7.1 Your submission:
Add an entry into your learning journal. Your submission should contain:
- A heading for Lab 8 and a brief description of what tool was used and what you did (i.e. for this lab, it might be something like Lab 8: Premiere Pro)
- One image of your final Premiere Pro work environment with all the layers(use Command-Shift-4 and space on a mac to take a snapshot of your Premiere Pro window)
- A link to your finished animation that you've uploaded to YouTube.
- A learning journal entry which might contain any or all of the following: a description of what you've learned, challenges faced, any YouTube videos or tutorials that you found useful, any credits for content that you got from "open source", and anything that you might want to remember about what you've done for the future.
7.2 Mark Distribution
- Lab 1 through 11 will be marked based on:
- learning journal in Adobe Spark (3 marks)
- this mark will be based on the description of what has been learned, any problems encountered, and solutions found
- if nothing (or barely anything) is indicated, then the mark will be zero or one
- if there is a good documentation on learning, then the mark will be two or three
- exercise submission (5 marks)
- 3 marks will be given for following the exercise precisely
- to get 4 or 5 marks, the submission will have to use innovation and substitutions of bits and pieces (outside of the box of what was taught). If you get a 5, that means that you have WOW'ed me
- The punctual attendance mark works differently from other labs (it is a subtraction system if you do not attend the labs):
- 1 late/non-attendance is forgiven
- 2 lates/non-attendances will result in a 10% loss of your total lab grade
- 3 lates/non-attendances will result in a 25% loss of your total lab grade
- 4 lates/non-attendances will result in a 40% loss of your total lab grade
- 5 lates/non-attendances will result in a mark of zero for the lab