Adobe Premiere Pro CC – Essentials Training Course

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott, and I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor. In this course, you and me are going to learn how to make beautiful videos together, using Adobe Premiere Pro.

You made it; welcome to the course. First thing we need to talk about is 'Getting Started'. First up, exercise files. So you need to download the exercise files. There'll be a link on the page here somewhere. Be warned though that they're pretty big, 1.4 Gigabytes. So if you are somewhere where you've got, like a limit on how much you can download, you might have to go to work, or go to school, the library, and download them. They'll take a little while but you need those first to get started.

A question that comes up a lot is, "What is the difference between Premiere Pro and After Effects?" If you already know the answer you can skip this video, if you're unsure, stick around.

Hi there, this is going to be our first project. We are going to take some video captured on a camera, stitched together here on our Timeline. We are going to fix the color, we're going to fix the audio. We'll add some lower thirds and some background music.

Hi everyone, in this video we are going to add a couple more videos. We're going to edit it in a different way. Different from using the Razor Tool, like we did in the last video. Also I'm going to show you what to do when your computer starts running slow, and I'll show you how to make this waveform bigger and edit from it directly. I'm ready, you're ready, let's get going.

All right, it is class project time. Don't think of it as homework, think of it as exciting practice that you get to do. So what I do to facilitate this is, in your exercise files, there is-- 'Exercise Files', there is a folder called 'Z Class Projects'. Z. So in Class Projects, open it up, and the main one you want is this Word doc, so open up 'Class Project Notes'. You'll see this, there'll be more class projects coming up. I'm kind of adding them as I go through the course.

All right, I hope the practice went well. I'm going to show you a little bonus, for this one, is 'File', 'Edit', it's-- it's not painful, it's just a long way, you can double click anywhere there's space. So it's a lot easier if you're in List view. Does work in Icon view if you can see a space, just double click in it, and you go to 'Import'.

Hello, it is time for Color Correction time. Before we get started I just want to quickly define two terms for you that are important. One is Color Correction, the other one is Color Grading, and Color Grading, grading, accent, is a term that gets used a bit flippity-flop, but you need to be reasonably clear about it, when you are working as a Video Editor. Somebody asks you to do some color correction or color grading, they're very different jobs.

in this video you will learn how to add transitions between videos in Premiere Pro

Hey everyone, this video we are going to look at adjusting the video's volume, or leveling or balancing. Basically what it means is, we need the volume to be at a certain level. At the moment it's too quiet, and you have no idea, you're like, "What? Sounds fine," but we need to kind of reach a consistency with the rest of the world. So we need to be able to send this video off, and it not to be too quiet and not to be too loud, compared to everything else that's either on YouTube, or on the television or at the cinema.

In this video you will learn how to automatically raise your audio in Premiere Pro

Hi everyone, we are going to create something called a Lower Third. It's called a Lower Third because it's lower, in the third part of the screen. Not half way, not on the top, that's Top Third, there's a Lower Third. Doesn't really matter if it's on the right hand side or the left hand side, we are doing a Lower Third. If you want to call it just text on a screen, that's what it is as well, Lower Third is more like a generic term, for something like-- traditionally it's this, I'll show you.

All right, it's time to export. We've imported some footage, we've done some basic cuts, some basic transitions. We've fixed the audio and the color. There's a lot of what we do in Premiere Pro. Now it's time to export it.

All right, it is Class Project number 02 time. This one's a little bit more involved. So what I have done is, you need to save and close your current project. So in Premiere Pro go to 'File', and 'Close Project.' You can quit it and come back in, just save it and close it, because we're going to start with a new project.

Hi everyone, it's live me again. I just want to check on you, see if you're still awake. You look all right. This video is all about checking some of the weirdness that goes on in Premiere Pro. So you might have run into a few issues already, that you're like, "Oh, what's wrong with it?" So this video is going to hopefully save you from those ones, and hopefully prevent some in the future. Premiere Pro is a big program, it does a lot of things, and there's just some quirky bits that you need to get used to. So let's jump in now and look at the weirdness.

Hi everyone, this video is about File Management, and what happens when this big red scary box with all these languages on appears. We'll cover what to do when you delete it, rename it, move it, we'll go and find footage. I can tell you're excited for this one; File Management. Let's do it anyway.

Hey everyone, it is time for another project. We are going to edit 'Wedding'. So let's have a little look through it, just to kind of see where we're heading

All right, I promised you exciting, editing a wedding, and it's going to be great, I tricked you. We're actually going to be organizing the files within Premiere Pro, but doing it right.

In this video you will learn how to Import & organize your footage inside Premiere Pro

Hey there, this video we're going to talk about where to get free background music. We want some background music for our Wedding. I'm going to show you the couple of places that I use. If you've got a place that you're like, "Ah man, this is a cool spot everyone should know," drop it in the comments, and if you're a student watching this video, check out the comments, there might be some good other places to get free background music.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to get our workspace all in order, and then save it. By workspace. We're going to save it, in case everything gets lost, we can at least come back to this lovely laid out version. Before we do that we need to get our sequence going, so we can lay it all out.

In this video you will learn rough cuts using source monitor in Premiere Pro

Hi everyone, welcome to the video. This one we're going to talk about Source Patching and Track Targeting. We're also going to show you another way of editing. So let's look at the other way of editing. I want to show it to you because-- I don't use it myself very much, because there's a couple of ways of doing it, right?

Hey there, this video we're going to start mastering the bins. We're going to have separate bins, looking differently. We're going to show you little tricks, what these icons mean. Let's jump up and do it now, jump in, let's jump in instead.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to look at Audio Transitions. We've done video transitions, where they cross dissolve. We do the exact same thing with audio, so they kind of blend together and merge.

Hi everyone, we're going to do some audio editing. There's a celebrant that we're going to do. We're going to cut it up, we're going to mess with the audio. Not much different than editing video, but let's have a quick little listen of what we're going to do.

Hi there, the next kind of group of videos, we're going to start looking at Color Grading.

All right, in this video we're actually going to apply some Luts and Looks ourselves. It will be a bit clearer why they're the same but different. So I've got my wedding video sequence open. I'm going to be-- it doesn't matter which one but I want to see a person. Either this one or that one, or whatever. It's probably best to make sure that the Look doesn't make the person into an alien, or some wrong color.

In this video you learn how to compare before & after video in Premiere Pro

Please do not upload your videos to Youtube as they have a tendency to remove the video and suspend accounts that do so.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to look at this thing. It's an Adjustment Layer, we stick it on top of all my clips, and then we can add our Look to that, instead of doing it each individual for every clip. It's really easy to adjust, cover everything up, we turn it on, we can turn it off. All in just one lump rather than trying to do it for every single clip. Let's jump in now and I'll show you how to make it.

Hi everyone, this video is all about making black and white videos. The short version is, you select your clip, go to 'Lumetri Color' and pick 'Monochrome', from the Creative Look Panel, but this video goes into a little bit more detail, mainly around, sequences, and kind of getting multiple sequences going in our learning experience. So hang around for that as well. All right, let's jump in, let's make some black and white video.

Hi everyone, this video we are going to make our video have a bit of film grain, kind of noisy stuff.

Hi everyone, we're going to look at adding a Vignette. It's this lovely dark stuff around the outside. You can add white stuff as well around the outside, very different effect, but very easy to apply, let's jump in now and apply a vignette.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to look at an effect. Orange & Teal is just a really kind of a popular Filter or Look, or Color Grade at the moment

Hi everyone, we're going to create a preset. We're going to add some noise to this film, we're going to add a bit of color grading to it, then we're going to turn it into a preset, and then we're going to grab random of the footage and apply it. Ready, steady, apply.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to look at how to find and import other people's presets, free ones from the internet, and get them into Premiere Pro, drag them onto our footage, and, ah, like we did in the last video, but using other people's downloaded presets.

Hi everyone, this video is about speeding up your computer. If you are ready to throw your computer down the stairs because, it runs real slow, and the bouncing ball of doom happens on a Mac, where you get the hour glass on a PC, and it just can't work, and you're super frustrated. Even if you're not, you will be soon. The more that we go through this course, the more effects, and presets and filters that we're going to do, and it's going to slowly drive your computer to overheat. If that sounds like you then this course is for you, or at least this video is.

Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to get Premiere Pro rocketing along nice and fast, by making everything green, not yellow, not red, but green. Green is good, yellow is okay, red is bad. To make things all green we're going to have to look at something called Rendering. Okay, what is this Rendering business, I call it Pre-rendering all the time, because I feel like the final export is rendering, but it's not, in Premiere Pro they call this rendering where we, kind of, at the moment, it's something that's running really slowly, running really badly. What we can do is we can render it inside of Premiere Pro, just temporarily so that it runs nice and fast.

All right, this video is about speeding up your workflow, with a few extra shortcuts. I've got some that are appropriate for us now. We're going to learn a few more throughout the course. I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but I'm going to put all the shortcuts and tips into one video, right at the end of the course, just so you've got one place. There'll also be a PDF that are in the exercise files for all the shortcuts, in one little place, but for now let's look at, the ones that are appropriate for us, right at this second.

Please do not upload your videos to Youtube as they have a tendency to remove the video and suspend accounts that do so.

Hey everyone, it's class project time, an exciting one. I feel like we've got our skills to a certain point where, "Man, we can do quite a bit in Premiere Pro now." So this is a bigger project. What I want you to do is close down everything you've got. So close down the project, save it. We're going to start a new project, a new sequence. We're going to focus on the Pre-wedding, kind of like what we've been doing now, but this one with a lot more artistic license, this is up to you.

Hi there, this next section is going to be kind of a new project. The new project is, taking that first project we did right at the beginning of this course, and adding more kind of sparkles to it. I think I've called it Sizzle. So the first one was good, it was simple, it was the sausage. We're going to add the sizzle now, and make it look more professional. We're going to both, enhance audio and fix problematic audio problems. We're going to do things like animation and gradients, just to kind of raise that first video that we made, is level up, to a lot more professional standard.

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to crop this video, and zoom in a little bit, and reframe it, because it's going to go from this to something more like this. Exact same shot, just cropped in, gets rid of the microphone that I left in the video by accident. I'm going to show you some of the hard and easy ways to use Position and Scale to achieve this, let's get going.

Have you been sitting there thinking, "Man, I wish there was a way to copy Position and Scale, and Lumetri color, that I spent all that time doing onto all the other clips at once."? Well, you my friend, are in luck. Basically you select it, you hit 'Edit', 'Copy', then you go to 'Paste Attributes' on all the rest of them. It's pretty much that easy. There's a couple little quirks with Premiere Pro, that I want to share with you in this video, so let's jump in.

Hey everyone, it's me, back, I'm live, and look, you can't see my microphone. This little section, we're still working on that same project. So my XD Talking Head project, adding a little bit more excitement to that, but we we're going to fix up a bit of the audio from it, but also go on a bit of a tangent to cover a lot more audio, that's kind of related to this particular project, but I want to kind of jam it all together, so that you've got a nice little segment in the course to work with audio.

All right, we're in our own separate little fresh video. Let's talk about organizing our footage, and I'm going to share with you the super secret shortcut, because scrolling in here is a pain in the bum, because it's really small. You can start extending it and readjust your workspace. Shortcut I'm going to show you is going to be really helpful for a zillion different things in Premiere Pro, and it's the Tilde key.

Hi everyone, in this series we're going to talk about fixing audio, making it amazing, but there are times we just can't fix it. I'll let this guy with the headphones in the freezing cold explain why.

Hi everyone, in this series we're going to talk about fixing audio, making it amazing, but there are times we just can't fix it. I'll let this guy with the headphones in the freezing cold explain why.

Hi everyone, we're going to try and remove some background noise. Have a little listen, I'm going to turn the repair on and off, that we're going to do. Let's have a listen. All right, to look at repair we're going to try and remove some background noise.

Hi everyone, we're going to remove the echo, or the reverb. You can't call that echo, if you call that echo, you'll have a bunch of people saying, "It's not echo, it's reverb." Whatever you want to call it, it's the kind of bouncing noise.

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to automatically sync audio.

Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to manually line up audio with video, in case the automatic feature doesn't work. I'll show you a really cool nudge shortcut as well, if you do hang around and watch it. It's like a little bonus there at the end. All right, let's manually line up video in audio, in Premiere Pro.

In this video you will learn how to customize our workspace more in Premiere Pro

Hi everyone, in this video we are going to extend our background music.

Hey everyone, this video we're going to talk about some more of the technical problems that happens with audio. So up until now we've just had like bad audio, it's been recorded fine, just not the best. From now on, in the next sections, the next few videos we're going to talk about just really kind of technical problems that can happen with audio.

All right, so let's talk about Stereo sound. Stereo just means that there are left and right speakers. So when you put headphones on, some music comes out the left, and some comes out the right.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to quickly talk about Dolby. Mainly because we are in the whole, learning about stereo versus mono. There are actually more channels that you can use. Let's have a quick little look at it.

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at how to fix when you've got audio coming out of just one speaker. You can see it here, coming out the left, but not the right. We're going to convert it into mono, so it comes out both, left and right. Let's do it now together.

In this video you will learn how to separating stereo into two separate mono audio files in Premiere

Hey there, in this video we're going to describe the difference between vibrancy, ooh, nice, and saturation, oh, not so nice, and I can feel a vignette in our future. Yes, I can.

Hi everyone, we are going to get our video to kind of dip from colorful to black and white, and lower the exposure over time. It's going to allow us to learn the fun world of Keyframes.

In this video you will learn how to create custom lower thirds using the Essential Graphics panel

Hi everyone, we are going to change it from clunky to smooth, using Easing in Premiere Pro.

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to change our little background box. So instead of just coming in from the side we're going to get it to scale in. Ooh, we're going to get to move a little bit as well. That's some easing for a bit of practice, let's do that now.

Hey there, this video is a class project, you're like, "Hooray." What I want you to do is add this text here towards the end of your clip. Let's have a little listen.

All right, how did it go? If you found it a little bit frustrating, that's totally fine at this stage. I'm hopefully going to, if you did have some problems, I'll show you what happened, if you didn't have any problems, and you're going pretty good, probably watch this video anyway. Just, yeah, can be handy sometimes.

In this video you will learn how to fade in overtime using opacity keyframes in Premiere Pro

Hey there, little micro class project. Opacity Change

All right, it's a reasonably easy one, there was a little bit of a squirly thing in there, to kind of test your reflexes, and your adaptability, hopefully you got it going.

Hi there, this video we're going to talk about some of the weirdness that goes on, I won't say weirdness, the complexities of the Essential Graphics Panel. It's awesome but it's also, has some things we just need to recap, and a couple other things we need to address. So let's look at this first bit of animation here.

Hi everyone, we're going to learn how to grab gradients, and then apply them in Premiere Pro. See the background there, sweet gradient. Let's jump in and I'll show you how to add them.

Hello there, it's time to get very technical. No more exciting Page Peels, we're going to be talking about things like, 4K, 8K, UHD, HD, Frame Rates. Sounds nerdy but it is stuff that you need to know to become a professional Video Editor. We'll start with a nice simple one. We'll look at how to find out the properties of the videos, that we can discuss some of the terms. Let's jump on in.

Hi everyone, it is time to talk about the difference between HD and 4K. I apologize in advance, this is going to be nerdy and confusing until the end, and hopefully it will be a revelation.

Hey there, this video is all about mixing 4K video with HD video. We'll discuss how to scale the small stuff up, and the big stuff down.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to talk about Frame Rate, or Frames/second, or FPS.

Hi everyone, this video we are going to cover the differences between exporting your video via Adobe Media encoder and Premiere Pro.

Hey everyone, this video we are going to make our video really small, lower the quality so that the file size is nice and small, for either emailing or, I'm not sure, you've got a reason in your head for making the video small, because otherwise sometimes it can get really, really big.

Hey there, I've got some 4K footage that I want to export, as just a little old HD, a smaller size, and I want to do it while I'm exporting it, rather than trying to resize it all here in Premiere Pro. I do this, often I've got some places that I share videos with, that don't currently accept 4K, so even though I'll edit in 4K, I need to actually scale it down for them, and instead of like duplicating the sequence and trying to scale it all down, I can just do it when I export; let me show you how.

Hey there, this video we're going to talk about the main file types to use, mp4s or mov files. We'll also look at codecs, what they are, and what the main ones you'll use are. We can export anything, I'm going to export something a bit smaller.

Hi everyone, to round out our exporting technicalities, we're going to export Stereo footage to Mono, but instead of doing it here in the Timeline like we did earlier, we're going to change it when we export it through Media Encoder, plus we'll do a little recap of where we're at now, with our learning on Premiere Pro; let's get going.

Please do not upload your videos to Youtube as they have a tendency to remove the video and suspend accounts that do so.

Hey there, it is time for a class project, it is project number 7. More sizzle; great name, Dan. Basically I want to take the project that I set for you, project no. 2. Remember the Web course you did right at the beginning of this experiment. That one there you did at the beginning, I want you to add more sizzle, like we did for this last section. So grab that old exercise, duplicate it. I want you to do the following. So change the framing, so reframe it. Remember we did it in this last project, remember, kind of, I'm standing kind of halfway, and in this one here we zoom in, that's what I mean.

Hi everyone, this section is more weird stuff that Premiere Pro does. I've broken it up from that first chunk of it. We did it earlier in the course, just so that-- this kind of stuff is more for experienced people, like yourself, just some of the quirks of Premiere Pro.

Hi everyone, this video we're going to continue on the weirdness, by looking at things down here in the Timeline, and the funny things Premiere Pro does in this little panel.