ADOBE PREMIERE PRO Lesson: The Basics 1. Insert your flash drive and make sure it shows up on the Desktop 2. Click on the Premiere icon 3. Click on Create New Project
4. Name your project LEARNING_yourlastname 5. Save your project in your flash drive before you do anything. Go to the tool bar and click File > Save As > then find your flash drive under Devices on the left column.
6. After you save, you are ready to import your footage that is saved on your flash drive. You must save all of your footage that you are importing onto your flash drive- NOT YOUR DESKTOP. This is important because after you take out your flash drive and open this on a different computer your footage WILL NOT BE THERE AND YOU WILL HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH. Go to File and then Import. Then find your flash drive and the footage you want. Double click on it. 7. Your clip will show up under the project tab. Double click the clip and your footage will show up in the Preview window on the left.
8. Now your footage will show up in your time line. You need to change the sequence settings for our Tricaster and TVs here at BVA. Go to the toolbar and click on Sequence and then Sequence Settings. It should be good- If it is NOT identical to this when you put in footage, change your frame size horizontal to 582 and vertical to 480, overall it should say 97:80.
9. The box on the top left is your PREVIEW/SELECTION window (where you see the rainbow looking clip) This is where you can select exactly what you want to take from that clip into your timeline without taking the ENTIRE clip in (for example say you only want to take the clip from seconds 5 onward). This is called setting IN and OUT points. Short cut keys for this are I and O. 10. SCRUBBING (scrub means to move your playback head from left to right in your footage- you will hear screeching type noises as you move it from left to right) Scrub back and fourth over your footage using the yellow playback head.
11. Move the yellow playback head to 40:09 seconds and press the I key. 12. Scrub to the right and stop at 52:03. Then press the O key. Once you do that you will notice that there is a highlighted chunk by your yellow playback head. This shows you what piece of your footage is selected from start to finish.
13. Click on your footage and drag it into your timeline (right below in the empty space). Once you have done this your screen will look like this: Only what you selected and wanted (where you pressed I and O) is now in your timeline. 14. To cut your clip in half, hit the C key to change to your razor tool. Remember- C=cut. When you do this, you will notice your mouse turn into a blade. Hover anywhere over your clip and then click somewhere over the blue to cut it in half. Once you cut it in half, you will notice a bar dividing where you cut. If it was an accident and not where you wanted, hit the keys Command Z and it will undo. 15. To get your mouse back, click on the letter v or the arrow button.
15. To stretch out your clip so you can better see where to cut things, stretch it out by moving the right part of the toolbar on the bottom of your timeline. 16. To add a transition, click on the effects tab in the toolbar. Then click on video transitions. You have a lot to pick from. Drag the transition you want onto the cut in between the two videos you made or at the end or beginning of the clip.
17. If you want to edit the duration of your transition, click on it, and then drag it out or in. 18. To add a video effect (black and white, etc.) go to effects again and then click on video effects. Click the effect that you want and put it directly on the clip. 19. To speed up or slow down a clip, click the control key and click on the clip at the same time. Then, click speed/duration. Where it says 100%, if you make the number above 100 it will become faster. If you make the number below 100 it will be slower. This is good for Time Lapses. If you click reverse clip it will make your clip go backwards.
19. To remove the audio from a clip, control click the clip and click unlink. This will allow you to now select the audio and adjust/remove it without messing up the video. Once you unlink it, select the audio and delete it. 20. Highlight the clip and then hit command C to copy it. Move your playhead over to the right where it is not on top of your clip. Then in the blank space in your timeline, click command v to paste it. You now just made a copy of your clip. Drag that copy on top of your first clip.
21. Another way to shorten or drag out the length of your clip without cutting it is to drag the end of it. Click on the top clip, and hover over the end of it and you will see a red bar appear. Click on it and drag it. 22. To export your video, click on File > Export > Media or Command M
23. Then, click on your output name in yellow and rename it to BASICS_lastname and make sure that it is in your flash drive. 24. Then click on Export. It will process and then show up in your flash drive folder when finished. It is a good habit to open your finished file when it is done and watch it to make sure that it exported properly.