Adobe Premier Tutorial 1

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Getting Started with Adobe premierIf you have installed your Adobe Premier Pro software then we can begin with a first step.

Run your installed Software and you will see this window appearing

As you can see the window has three options like New Project (Start new project), Open Project

(Open unfinished project) and help for the help option. Since, we do not have any unfinished project

so we will start from New Project.


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So this pop up window appears. We do not need to change anything here except the location. Now

another window will appear and we do not need to do anything just cancel it.

This window appears and you can see four sectors. The project Sector is where your video, audio all

sources will be lined up. TimeLine is for length, layer distribution etc. The coolest thing is you can

change the sectors (workplace as you wish) Its more like drag and drop. Also you can keep or

delete panel as you wish by simply from the window drop down list by ticking. But if you feel

comfortable with default you may go to window button>click on workspace>reset current

workspace.

Importing objects in Adobe Premier pro

Now we can import object by key board short-cut or simply double click on project workspace.


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So you have imported the video and you can check it and zoom it as you wish. You can keep it little

bit with zoom and it will appear in the timeline same. But right now you need to create sequences

which we have ignored previously. We cannot start aligning in the timeline without sequences.

To create new sequence Just click on flipped page icon and click on sequence. And as a result you

can see following window appear.

If you want to customize the settings of sequence you can click on settings option.


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After setting the sequences you just need to click Ok. Now you can see that your timeline has

changed and giving you a view like picture below.

Now we are going to import object into timeline (Its now possible because we have created a new

sequence)So just drag and drop alike stuffs.

Now we will start to edit files that would help us to decide which part of video or audio we want to

keep or cut. To do this lets change the main file name by clicking on it(If you want to).Now to do so

you need to take the clip into the source box. Just click on the re-named video and it will appear on

source file box.


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Now you can see that your intended clip has exported to source area box. Now lets explore what

we have in the source area. Especially some options are here being familiar to you. So lets not

discuss them but discuss those are not familiar to you or new. Like by using snap option you can

take snap from your video clips.

Now if you want to use only source area for your initial editing then press the keyboard button ~which is exactly below of the button esc. So you will get a full view of your source area. Actually

you can use the same button to zoom out too.

Selecting preferred video portionBefore you start picking up your preferred video part please delete the old timeline (video) and will

nullified timeline and provide place for your new video clip.

Once you have imported the video into the source area you can cut out of your preferred video

portion from the main video. To do so you need use make in and mark out option. Mark in will point

out from where you want to start and mark out refer to the end point of your selection. In betweenyour Mark in and Mark out is your preferred video portion.

Now you can see that video has been selected and ready to import in the timeline for further

editing. Lets import video in the timeline by clicking on Drag video only and DO NOT mess with the

selected timeline (video clip) because you may lose your selection. By following the same steps you

can import your selected video clips and put one after another. The great part of Adobe Premier is

using its keyboard shortcut but please do not use it now. Now you can do timeline zoom in out by

pressing minus and plus button or you can do same by Mouse drag option too, Which I am about to

show you.


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So thats it you can see multiple clips in the timeline.

Insert and over right editing

In this lesson we are going to import multiple files for this editing. Once we import multiple videoclips lets import it in the time line. It would look exactly like upper picture I posted earlier but will

have more clips. By using Insert option we can put a new video clip between other video clips

where over right replace existing video clips. Over right can be done also by dragging video file

from source area to program area.

Ripple Delete & Ripple EditThe main purpose of using Ripple Delete and Ripple edit, cut out unwanted video clips or portion of

the video clips by not affecting the whole timeline. Cripple deletes option use to delete unwanted

video clips from the timeline where cripple edits do that for unwanted portion. During cripple edit

please hold your Shift key completes the job. By using Cripple delete and the cripple edits timeline

gets smooth and without blank sector.

So in this picture we are deleting first video by using Ripple delete. To do so just select the video

and click on the right button of your mouse. You will see a window appear just like the picture


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below. Now just click on ripple delete and you are done.

For ripple edit if you wanna cut out certain parts of your video just put the cursor on the video and

select mark in the option. Now click on ripple edit option hold the shift key and drag into your

timeline new point.

Creating sub clip

Usually you will need this when you will try to edit a long video clip. To do so lets import a long

video clip and double click on it so it will appear in the source area but before you do so please drag

your video into the new clip option to create composition. Now select the specific portion of the

video clip and use mark in and mark out options. Once you have selected the video clip just click on

the Cliptab and select Make Subclipa small window will appear and here you need to rename

and hit ok. Now you can see new subclip already in your imported area.


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Composition created (How to create it? Just drag the video clip into new item option).

Selecting the portion of video (Mark in & Mark out option).Then click on Clip to make new sub clip.

Using Markers TechniquesBasically Marker techniques are useful when we need to use multi-layer clips (Audio and Video). To

do so lets import multiple video and audio file into the timeline.


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If you want to delete your specific marker you can click on that and choose delete option from

appeared window. If you want to delete all markers together then you have to click on Marker tab

and hit clear all markers.Now if you feel that you need to re-arrange your multiple clips along

with the marker and you want to do by dragging. Then it does not work that way. To do so you just

need to click (Double) on the clip and let it appears in the source monitor. Now you can set your

marker from here and dragging option will work. Sometime in source area marker may not bevisible, in this case you need to right click on main marker and tick on show markers. Now you can

customize your markers.

Navigation TechniquesThe navigation technique used for identifying large project timeline markers, audio, video clip

position and so on. But, if we will try to use it easy way. Regarding the inspecting long timeline and

big projects we can look into the program window instead of looking into the complex timeline.

Please remember that timeline output is the program window. So anything regarding the editing

timeline we will try to find spots from the program window.


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TransitionsTransition option uses to blend video, audio clips in one complete video clip. We need to use the

transition option to blend timeline multiple clips adjusting so they can give us smooth outline. To

apply transition we need to import multiple clips in the timeline. Once we are done with importing

files we need to click on the effect tab (located in file window).

Now you can apply transition as you wish. To apply transition effects , you need to decide where

you want to apply it.

Now click on the transition point(in my case I put it between two clips).In source panel you will see

the fx panel appeared. Now you can increase/decrease your transition period from this panel. After

you fixing this tick on Show actual sources which will give you closer look about your editing.


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Advance editing tool

In this part we will do some advance editing like increase/decrease clips length, Slicing clips and so

on.

Now by using the Rolling Edit tool you can increase or decrease video/audio clip length. While you

are doing so it will have an effect on next clips. To do this you need select the video clip you

intended to increase and decrease. Go to the end of the video clip and drag as much as you want in

your timeline.

Rate stretch tool mainly use to speed up or down video clip. So how we can do so? We need to select

video clip and clicl on stretch tool and left click on the video a drop down menu will appear where

you need to hit on Speed duration.

Now you can play around these options. You can also increase decrease the duration by dragging

the edges of the clips. Now the slip toolusually can bring back edited out clips you want to back in

your timeline where the sliding tool just slide video clips back and forth. The pen tool is just to

indicate the key frames in the timeline. You can check it in the source file fx. Regarding these tools I

encourage you to mess around so it will give you an intimate understanding about the tools.

Title EffectsTo create a title effect just imports any video in the source working space. Create a sequence.

Transfer to the timeline. Select the video clip and click Title tab. Select Default Still.A window will

appear.Give a Title name and hit ok.


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Now regarding this option you can see that most of the options are alike Microsoft word hence you

can easily discover about it.

Letslook at some effects like generate effects for video. Click on the effects in source file>Video

effects>Generate. Now you can see many effects name in a list.

Here you can change the opacity and change the blending mood to multiply now you can see the

effect is working properly.

Applying Adjustment layer

Adjustment layer work as undercover layer and it set top of the main layer. Itsvery helpful and itcan apply layer upon main layer without effecting main layer. To get an adjustment layer please

click on new item option in project file panel and hit adjustment layer.


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Now we can use our own settings according necessary like motion, multiply effect and so on.

Still MediaIn this part we are going to work with images or pictures. Before proceed to the still media process

we need to change the settings because the default settings. If we dont do that then the image

quality will be hampered. So we need to change the default setting first. Itsvery easy just click on

edit and hit preferences. Select General un-tick default option.


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Letsimport still media into the source area. Double click on file so it would appear in source

window. Create sequence as usual but do not change the settings.

Now we can use fx option to zoom in zoom out and add a little motion into the picture. So, to begin

with fx setting you need to click on effect control. Click on motion and you can play around with

this tool. You can add a little motion if you want. To do so click on scale and increase or decrease the

number (percentage) through the source timeline. It would atomically create motion paths.


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Organizing all sequences and clips?While you are running your project you may be working with many sequences as well as clips. To

organize this you can change your window outline. To do so you need to press shift+alt+6 key

together if it does not work just click on Metadata. Now you can see the windows already there.

Please import multiple file in the source panel and you can sort them through creating folder for

their own kind.

Please remember that you should create a new folder for sequence because once your files keep

increasing it would appear to be a mistake to keep sequence file with normal clips. So, just create

another folder by clicking on the bin. Switch to icon view, it will show you all folder now you can

click on each folder and drag sequence file into the sequence folder. Now if you wish to rename file

you can but I recommend you to do so.

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