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Touring Adobe Premiere Pro Lesson 2 Starting the Lesson There has never been greater demand for high-quality video content, and today’s video producers and editors work in an ever-changing landscape of old and new technologies. Despite rapid change in camera systems and the distribution lands...

Touring Adobe Premiere Pro Lesson 2 Starting the Lesson There has never been greater demand for high-quality video content, and today’s video producers and editors work in an ever-changing landscape of old and new technologies. Despite rapid change in camera systems and the distribution landscape, however, the goal of video editing is the same: You want to take your source footage and shape it, guided by your original vision, so that you can effectively communicate with your audience. You’ll begin by reviewing the essential post-production workflow that most editors follow, and then you’ll learn about the main components of the Premiere Pro interface and how to create custom workspaces. Performing nonlinear editing in Premiere Pro Premiere Pro is a nonlinear editor (NLE). Like a word processing application, Premiere Pro lets you place, replace, and move video, audio, and images anywhere you want in your final edited work. You don’t need to make adjustments in a particular order; you can change any part of your editing project at any time—that’s the nonlinear part of an NLE. You’ll combine multiple pieces of media, called clips, to create a sequence. You can edit any part of the sequence in any order and then change the contents or move clips so that they play earlier or later. You can blend layers of video together, change the image size, adjust the colors, add special effects, adjust the audio mix, and more. You can combine multiple sequences and jump to any moment in a video clip without needing to fast-forward or rewind. Organizing the clips you’re working with is like organizing files on your computer. Using the standard digital video workflow Lesson 2.1 Using the standard digital video workflow As you gain editing experience, you’ll develop your own preferences for the order in which to work on the different aspects of your project. Each stage requires a particular kind of attention and different tools. Also, some projects call for more time spent on one stage than another. Whether you skip through some stages with a quick mental check or spend hours (even days!) dedicated to perfecting an aspect of your project, you’ll almost certainly go 1. Acquire your media: This can mean through the recording original footage, creating new following steps: animated content, or gathering a variety of assets for a project. 2. Ingest the video to your storage drive: With tapeless media, Premiere Pro can read the media files directly, usually with no need for conversion. If you’re working with tapeless media, be sure to back up your files to a second location because storage drives sometimes fail unexpectedly. With tape-based formats, Premiere Pro (with the appropriate hardware) can convert the video into digital files. Use fast storage for smooth playback. 3. Organize your clips: Your project may have a lot of video content to choose from. Invest the time to organize clips into special folders (called bins) in your project. You can add color labels and other metadata (additional information about the clips) to help keep things organized. 4. Create a sequence: Combine the parts of the video and audio clips you want as a sequence in the Timeline panel. 5. Add transitions: Place special transition effects between n clips, add video effects, and create combined visual effects by placing clips on multiple layers (called tracks in the Timeline panel). 6. Create or import titles, graphics and captions: Add them to your sequence along with your video clips. 7. Adjust the audio mix: Adjust the volume of your audio clips to get the mix just right, and use transitions and effects on your audio clips to improve the sound. 8. Output: Export your finished project to a file or a videotape. The best format for exporting a video for the web is H.264 Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Lesson 2.2 Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Premiere Pro has easy-to-use tools for video editing. It also has advanced tools for manipulating, adjusting, and fine-tuning your projects. Advanced audio editing: Premiere Pro provides audio effects and editing tools unequaled by any other nonlinear editor. As well as producing a soundtrack mix, you can clean up noisy audio, reduce reverb, make sample-level edits, apply multiple audio effects to audio clips or tracks, and use state-of-the-art plug-ins as well as third-party Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plug-ins. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Color correction and grading: Correct and enhance the look of your footage with advanced color- correction filters, including Lumetri, a dedicated color correction and grading panel. You can make secondary color-correction selections that allow you to adjust isolated colors, adjust selected areas of an image to improve the composition, and automatically match the colors in two images. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Keyframe controls: Premiere Pro gives you precise control over the timing of visual and motion effects without using a dedicated compositing or motion graphics application. Keyframes use a standard interface design; if you learn to use them in Premiere Pro, you’ll know how to use them in all Adobe Creative Cloud products in which they’re available. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Broad hardware support: Choose from a wide range of dedicated input and output hardware to assemble a system that best fits your needs and budget. Premiere Pro system specifications extend from low-cost desktop computers and laptops for video editing up to high-performance workstations that can easily edit 3D stereoscopic, high-definition (HD), 4K, 8K, and 360 video for immersive experiences. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro GPU acceleration: The Mercury Playback Engine operates in two modes: software-only mode and graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration for enhanced playback performance. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Multicamera editing: You can quickly and easily edit productions shot with multiple cameras. Premiere Pro displays multiple camera sources in a split-view display, and you can choose a camera view by clicking the appropriate screen or using shortcut keys. You can automatically sync multiple camera angles based on clip audio or timecode. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Project management: Manage your media through a single dialog box. View, delete, move, search for, and reorganize clips and bins. Consolidate your projects by copying just the media used in sequences to a single location. Then reclaim storage space by deleting unused media files. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Metadata: Premiere Pro supports Adobe XMP, which stores additional information about media as metadata that multiple applications can access. This metadata can be used to locate clips or communicate important information such as preferred takes or copyright notices. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Creative titles: Create titles and graphics with the Essential Graphics panel. You can also use graphics created in almost any suitable software; Adobe Photoshop documents can be imported as flattened images or as separate layers that you can incorporate, combine, and animate selectively; Adobe After Effects motion graphics templates can be imported and adjusted directly in Premiere Pro. Enhancing the workflow with Premiere Pro Advanced trimming: Use special “trimming” tools to make precise adjustments to the start and end of clips in sequences. Premiere Pro provides both quick, easy trimming keyboard shortcuts and advanced on- screen trimming tools, allowing you to make complex timing adjustments to multiple clips. Touring the Premiere Pro interface Lesson 2.3  Touring the Premiere Pro interface It’s helpful to begin by getting familiar with the editing interface so you can recognize the tools as you work with them in the following lessons. To make it easier to configure the user interface, Premiere Pro offers workspaces. Workspaces quickly configure the various panels and tools on- The first few times you launch Premiere Pro, the screen in ways that are helpful for Home screen shows links to online training videos particular activities, such as editing, that will help you get started. special effects work, or audio mixing. A Premiere Pro project file contains all your creative decisions for a project, links (referred to as clips) to your selected media files, sequences made by combining those clips, special effects settings, and more. Premiere Pro project files have the extension.prproj.  New Project to create a new empty project file. You can name a Premiere Pro project file anything you like, and it’s a good idea to choose a name that will be easy to identify later (in other words, Touring the don’t use New Project). Premiere Pro Open Project to open an existing project by browsing your storage drive for the project file. You can also double-click an existing interface project file in the macOS Finder or Windows Explorer to open it in Premiere Pro. Home takes you back to this screen if you have clicked Sync Settings. Whenever you work in Premiere Pro, you Sync Settings allows you to synchronize your will be making adjustments to a project user settings across multiple computers. file. You need to create a new project file or open an existing one to use Premiere Pro. There are a few important buttons on the Home screen, some of Open Premiere Rush Project opens which look like text but can actually be an existing Premiere Rush project in clicked (look out for text that works as a button in the Premiere Pro interface): Premiere Pro. If you have used Premiere Rush to create a project, it will be available to open.  Timeline panel: This is where you’ll do most of your editing. You view Project panel: This is where you and work on sequences (the term organize the links to your media for video segments edited Touring the Premiere files (referred to as clips), together) in the Timeline panel. One Pro interface sequences, and graphics in bins. feature of sequences is that you Bins are similar to folders—you can can nest them (place one Some important interface elements are place one bin inside another for sequence inside another as follows: more advanced organization of sequence). In this way, you can your media assets. break up a production into manageable chunks or create unique special effects. Tracks: You can layer or Monitor panels: Use the Source composite video clips, images, Monitor (on the left) to view and graphics, and titles on an unlimited select parts of clips (your original number of tracks. Video and footage). To view a clip in the graphic clips on upper video tracks Source Monitor, double-click it in cover whatever is directly below the Project panel. The Program them on the timeline. Therefore, you Monitor (on the right) is for viewing need to give clips on higher tracks your current sequence, displayed in some form of transparency or the Timeline panel. reduce their size if you want clips on lower tracks to show.  Touring the Premiere Pro interface Some important interface elements are as follows: Libraries: This panel gives access to custom Lumetri color Media Browser: This important Looks, motion graphics panel allows you to browse your templates, graphics, and to storage to find media. It’s shared libraries for especially useful for file-based collaboration. It also acts as a camera media and RAW files browser and store for the Adobe Stock service. For more information, go to Touring the Premiere Pro interface Effects panel: This panel contains the effects you will use in your sequences, including video filters, audio effects, and transitions. Effects are grouped by type to make them easier to find, and there’s a search box at the top of the panel to quickly locate an effect. Once applied, the controls for these effects are displayed in the Effect Controls panel. Audio Clip Mixer: This panel is based on audio production studio hardware, with volume sliders and pan controls. There is one set of controls for each audio track on the timeline. The adjustments you make are applied to audio clips. There’s also an Audio Track Mixer for applying audio adjustments to tracks rather than clips.  Touring the Premiere Pro interface Effect Controls panel: This panel displays the controls for any effects applied to a clip Effect Controls panel: you select in a sequence or open in the Source Monitor. If you select a visual clip in the Timeline panel, Motion, Opacity, and Time Remapping controls are always available. Most effect parameters are adjustable over time. Tools panel: Each icon in this panel gives access to a tool that performs a specific function in the Timeline panel. The Selection tool is context-sensitive, which means it changes function depending on where you click. If your pointer doesn’t work as you Tools panel expect, it might be because you have the wrong tool selected. Using and setting keyboard shortcuts Lesson 2.4 Using and setting keyboard shortcuts Using and setting keyboard shortcuts The Most Useful Premiere Pro Keyboard Shortcuts Before we learn about all of the default and customizable keyboard shortcuts options, let’s go through the most useful ones first. Think of this as your quick cheat sheet for your most common tasks. Using and setting keyboard shortcuts Clipboard Shortcuts Need to make a bulk change or copy something throughout your project? Well, these shortcuts will be your best friend to get the job done. Essentially, clipboard shortcuts make editing a little easier and are very similar to the functions on a word document. Fortunately, most of these are pretty straightforward, so let’s get to it. Using and setting keyboard shortcuts Paste Insert: Insert copied clips without overwriting others. Paste Attributes: Insert effects from another clip to your selected destination. Ripple Delete: Delete clips and keep the extra space and your sequence intact. You can also now fill that deleted clip with something else. Using and setting keyboard shortcuts Tool Shortcuts Now we’re at the video editing shortcuts that you will definitely want to commit to memory. All the tools you need to make top-notch videos are located below. And likely for you, these keys are the same for both PC and Mac users. To make sure you’ve got this down 100 percent, we have explained the function of each tool below