Preliminary Task : How To Use Adobe Premiere By Hamza Hasan

this post outlines the details about the process of using this program that we learned in Class with accompanied Screenshots



Step 1:Opening/Creating A new File

 you, of course, create a new project. This window will pop-up when you start Premiere Pro.



In the next screen, you'll select the name of your project and the location for all the clutter Premiere crates.

 


Next up, you need to select the preset that matches your source video to the letter.



There are many already built in to choose from


In the final tab, select how many video and audio tracks you want. This will depend on whether you want to add text or other graphics (these have to be overlayed into their separate tracks, or layers) or extra audio, such as background music.



Once you're done with that, the main Premiere Pro window will open. May seem a bit daunting, but it's very logical and simple.



The first thing you'll need to do is import your footage. You can do this by clicking File --> Import, or by simply dragging the files from your file manager into this pane:

 

Now you need to drag the imported footage onto the timeline. Note that if you click on the filename, it'll want to rename, click and drag the icon to the left. It's just a little quirk of Premiere Pro, but can be frustrating if you don't know about it.


 

Now at this point you just have to find the points of the footage where you want the video to start and end and drag the ends to that. Easiest to place the position marker on those points and the ends will snap to that frame when you drag them close enough.

If you want to cut a portion of video out, the easiest way to do so is to place in and out markers and extract. Place the position indicator on the beginning of the footage you want to get rid of and hit the Set In Point button.



Do the same for the end point, but click the Set Out Point button.



Now hit the extract button. This will remove the footage between the in and out markers and move the now separate segments together, so there's no pause in between.



Now that your footage is cut down to the length you want, you might want to add a few transitions for a bit of polish. I almost universally use Cross Dissolve for video and Constant Power for audio. In the window to the left ot the time line you can either navigate the effects tree to find them, then drag to the footage (it'll snap to either the ends of the video or where you placed the cut).



Or you can start typing into the effects search bar and the tree will automatically shrink the list to include only the effects that contain those words. Quick and easy way to get to the effect you want.



To adjust the length of the transition, you can either drag its outer edges or click on it and type in the length into the effect controls window.

Now to avoid any black frames at the beginning of audio drag a rectangle around your entire video to select everything and drag it to the very beginning of the timeline. Make sure you're zoomed out and scrolled all the way to the left.



Now all there's left to do is exporting the video. Hit File --> Export --> Media. If that option is grayed out, the focus must not be on the timeline. Click somewhere blank on the timeline and try again.


Since the intended destination for your video is probably youtube, select the applicable YouTube preset from the drop down menu.

 

Click on the output name and select your destination and filename.

Since YouTube doesn't care for any framerate that's over 30, we'll have to select either 25 or 30 from the framerate dropdown menu, if your original footage is 50 or 60 fps respectively. YouTube will reduce the framerate on its own, but you'll end up with a filesize that's 2x as large for no reason.

Also, if you have time and a powerful enough machine, select VBR 2 pass from the bitrate encoding dropdown menu. This will take longer than 1 pass encoding, but will produce a nicer image.



That is it. Now just hit Export and wait for your video to render.