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PREMIERE PRO CC (VERSION 2015.2) EDITING GUIDE (EDIT SUITES) Version 3.3 (FEB 2016) PREMIERE PRO CC EDIT GUIDE - La Trobe University 2015 latrobe.edu.au

2 What do you want to do?

3 1. Back up SD card footage Pg. 5 2. Set up a new project Pg.7 3. Import footage from an SD card Pg. 11 4. Import other media (mp3/jpeg/etc.) Pg. 13 5. Open an existing Premiere project Pg. 15 6. Basic editing Pg. 17 7. Adding Titles Pg. 21 8. Keyboard Shortcuts Pg. 25 9. Export your movie for ARCHIVE / TV STUDIO Pg. 27 10. Export your movie for YOUTUBE / VIMEO Pg. 31 11. Troubleshooting Pg. 35

5 1. Back Up SD Card Footage ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR FOOTAGE BEFORE IMPORTING / EDITING TO AVOID LOSING YOUR WORK. 1. Create a project folder on your hard drive and name it accordingly. Create 2 additional folders in your project folder. 1: PREM and 2: SD CARDS. See below 2. Make a new folder called CARD 01 folder inside your SD CARDS folder. 3. Insert your SD card into the back of the computer; double click the SD Card icon on the Desktop to open it. Please note you will not be able to view your footage at this time. 4. Copy the PRIVATE folder/icon from your SD card into the CARD 01 folder. Do not make any changes to this folder. 5. Once the data has finished copying, eject your SD card. 6. Next time you add new footage make a CARD 02 folder and so on until you have completed filming.

7 2. Setting up a new Premiere Pro CC project. THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR PROJECTS FILMED USING CAMERAS SUPPLIED BY LA TROBE UNIVERSITY. IF USING OTHER CAMERAS, THE SETTINGS BELOW MAY NOT BE CORRECT. 1. Make sure you have created the folders on your hard drive as outlined in Section 01 Back Up SD card footage. 2. After opening Premiere select New Project from the Welcome Screen. 3. In the New Project window, name your film. Set the Location to the PREM folder on your hard drive by clicking Browse then selecting the folder. Click the Scratch Disks tab and ensure all 5 read Same as Project. No need to change anything in the General tab. Click OK.

8 3. Once the program is open, set up your Workspace by clicking Window > Workspace and selecting LA TROBE EDITING. 4. Create a new sequence by clicking File > New > Sequence. 5. Select one of the following settings (see below) from the Custom folder in the New Sequence window according to which camera you ve used. Then click OK. LA TROBE NX5 For footage shot on Sony NX5 cameras. (DOC, SCV, MPT) LA TROBE NX100 For footage shot on Sony NX100 cameras. (MME, JPW, BEJ) LA TROBE XA-10 For footage shot on Canon XA-10 Cameras

9 6. Now you are ready to add footage to your project. Refer to Section 3 Importing Footage from an SD Card.

11 3. Importing SD card footage THIS IS ONLY RELEVANT IF IMPORTING FOOTAGE FROM SD CARDS. 1. Make sure you have copied the material from your SD card onto your hard drive. DO NOT IMPORT DIRECTLY FROM YOUR CARD. 2. Make sure your Workspace is set to LA TROBE EDITING (See Pg. 8). 3. Use the Media Browser to import your footage. Navigate to your footage on your hard drive i.e. STEFAN. Your footage will be located in the AVCHD folder. Click CARD 01 > PRIVATE > AVCHD Now drag & drop video clips from here into project window. 4. Organize your clips into Bins (folders). To create a new Bin, Right click in the Project window and select New Bin. Rename the bin then Drag & drop files.

12 5. To open a Bin double click it. To go back, click the Back icon. 6. When finished click File > Save (CMND S).

13 4. Import other media (i.e. music / photos) into PREMIERE ANY MEDIA YOU ADD TO PREMIERE MUST FIRST BE SAVED TO YOUR HARD DRIVE. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH YOUR PROJECT IN THE FUTURE. 1. First copy the files you want to use in Premiere to your project folder on your hard drive. Make new folders in your project folder if necessary i.e. STILLS or MUSIC. 2. In Premiere click: File > Import and select the files you wish to import. 3. Your files will appear in your project browser window and are ready to edit. Make sure you keep your Project window organized. Again make new bins (folders) and drag and drop your files to organize. An example of a well organised project! 4. Click Save (CMND S).

15 5. Opening an existing PREMIERE PRO project 1. Either double click your Premiere Pro project file located in your PREM folder 2. Or click Open Project in the Welcome Screen and navigate to your project file. 3. If Premiere is performing background tasks please wait for the progress bar (bottom right of screen) to finish. 4. Make sure your Workspace is set to LA TROBE EDITING.

17 6. Basic editing with PREMIERE PRO THERE ARE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR MOST EDIT FUNCTIONS. SEE PAGE 14. THESE WILL MAKE THE EDITING PROCESS EASIER / FASTER. PROJECT WINDOW SOURCE WINDOW PROGRAM MONITOR MEDIA BROWSER / EFFECTS TAB SEQUENCE/ TIMELINE AUDIO METERS TOOLS 1. VIEWING YOUR CLIPS Double click on any clip in the Project window and it will appear in the Source window. SPACEBAR = Play / Pause LEFT / RIGHT arrow = Move frame by frame when paused OR use the controls

18 2. PLACING YOUR CLIPS ON THE TIMELINE A) To add an entire clip, simply drag it from the Project window onto the timeline. B) To add part of a clip, double click the clip to load it in the Source window. Mark an IN and OUT point around the part of the clip you want, then drag and drop into the timeline. MARK IN POINT (or hit I on the keyboard) * CLICK ON THE IMAGE AND DRAG DOWN ONTO TIMELINE MARK OUT POINT Or hit O on the keyboard 3. ADJUSTING CLIPS ON THE TIMELINE A) Select the ARROW from the Tools Palette and hover over the end of your clip. It will become a Red Bracket Arrow. Click and drag to adjust the clip s length. B) Using the RAZOR tool you can cut a clip in two. After cutting the clip, change back to the ARROW tool, select the part of the clip you don t want and hit delete on the keyboard. 4. ADJUSTING JUST VIDEO OR JUST AUDIO Each clip has a video element and audio element. Video and audio are linked together. To adjust the video element of a clip without affecting the audio you must Lock-off the audio tracks then adjust the video track and vice versa. LOCK-OFF tracks by clicking the padlock icons. Locked off tracks are greyed out

19 5. ADJUST VOLUME OF A CLIP To adjust the volume of a clip, drag the white Volume Line up or down accordingly. N.B. If the Volume Line and Audio Waveforms are not visible you need to increase the height of the track. Click HERE and drag up/down to adjust height. Ideally your levels should be peaking between -12dB and -6dB -6dB -12dB To adjust the levels of a section of Audio use the Pen tool to create keyframes along the volume lines, and then adjust.

20 6. TRANSITIONS & EFFECTS Transitions and effects can be found in the Effects tab. Simply drag and drop the desired effect / transition onto video and audio tracks in the timeline. 1. 7. RENDERING Rendering is PREMIERE processing a file to play smoothly. Coloured lines will appear above a section of your time line that requires rendering. To render, click Sequence > Render In to Out. To render a highlighted section, click Sequence > Render Selection. Always Render In to Out before exporting your work! A green line means footage has already been rendered.

21 8. ADDING TITLES 1. Click Title > New > Default Still 2. In the New Title window, name the title accordingly. 3. Click OK. 7. Now the Text Creator window will open. The image displayed in the frame depends on where your play head is parked on your timeline. The background can be toggled on / off using the Show Background button.

22 5. To add text, select the Text tool and click on the image where you want your text to appear. 8. Once you have typed your text, highlight it, then use the appropriate controls to change font, colour, size etc. FONT SIZE COLOUR There are loads of options for adjusting your text so do some experimenting. You can even select from a list of presets. 6. Go back to the Selection (Arrow) tool, then click your text to reposition it or change its size using the bounding box.

23 9. You can also add shapes to your titles using the Shape tools. You will need to right click the shape and select Arrange > Send to back in order for your text to appear on top. 7. When finished, close the Text Creator window. Your title will now appear in your Project window. Drag it down into your sequence above the desired video clip. 8. To make changes to a title simply double click it to re-open the Text Creator window.

25 8. Keyboard Shortcuts Keyboard short cuts can be learnt by looking in the drop down menus or by hovering the mouse over a tool. Here are some common ones. SHORTCUT SPACEBAR I O V C P COMMAND S COMMAND Z ENTER COMMAND / TOOL PLAY / PAUSE IN POINT OUT POINT ARROW / SELECTION TOOL BLADE TOOL PEN SAVE UNDO RENDER EFFECTS IN TO OUT +/- ZOOM IN/OUT ON TIMELINE (WHEN TIMELINS SELECTED) COMMAND L S COMMAND K A LINKS / UNLINKS VIDEO & AUDIO OF SELECTED CLIP TURN ON / OFF SNAPPING (CLIPS MAGNETIZING TO EACH OTHER) ADD EDIT TO SELECTED CLIP (WHERE CURSOR IS PARKED) SELECT EVERYTHING FORWARD OF THE POINT YOU HAVE CLICKED. PRESS V TO RETURN TO SELECTION TOOL AFTER MAKING YOUR SELECTION

27 2. Export your movie for ARCHIVE / TV STUDIO USE THIS VERSION FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. THIS WILL NOT BE SUITABLE TO UPLOAD TO YOUTUBE / VIMEO. EXPORT USING THESE INSTUCTIONS IF YOUR FILM IS TO BE USED IN THE TV STUDIO 1. Render your sequence. Sequence > Render In To Out 2. Mark IN and OUT points around your footage. To do so move your play head to the start of your footage then hit Mark IN ( I on the keyboard). Then move your play head to the end of your footage and hit Mark OUT ( O on keyboard). MARK IN & MARK OUT buttons in Program Monitor IN & OUT points 3. Make sure you have your time line selected. (When selected there will be a blue border around it). 4. Now go File > Export > Media.

28 5. In the Export Settings window set Format to QuickTime and Preset to either LA TROBE NX5 ARCHIVE, LA TROBE NX100 ARCHIVE or LA TROBE XA-10 ARCHIVE depending on the footage you have used. Make sure Export Video and Export Audio are ticked. 6. Set Source Range to Sequence In/Out and tick Use Maximum Render Quality. 7. Click Output Name and name your file. 8. Make an EXPORTS folder on your hard drive and select it. Click Save.

29 9. Click Export and wait for your film to be exported. 10. Watch the export from start to finish to make sure it has exported correctly.

31 3. Export your movie for uploading to YouTube/Vimeo THIS WILL BE A COMPRESSED VERSION OF YOUR FILM NOT A FULL QUALITY VERSION! 1. Render your sequence. Sequence > Render In To Out 1. Mark IN and OUT points around your footage. To do so move your play head to the start of your footage then hit Mark IN ( I on the keyboard). Then move your play head to the end of your footage and hit Mark OUT ( O on keyboard). MARK IN & MARK OUT buttons in Program Monitor IN & OUT points 2. Make sure you have your time line selected. (When selected there will be a blue border around it). 3. Now go File > Export > Media.

32 4. In the Export Settings window make sure Format is set to H264 and Preset is set to either LA TROBE WEB 720p (VIMEO) or LA TROBE WEB 1080p (YOUTUBE) depending or where you are planning to upload it. Format Preset Make sure both Export Video and Export Audio are ticked. 1. Ensure Source Range is set to Sequence In/Out and tick Use Maximum Render Quality. 2. Click Output Name then name your file and make sure you are saving to your hard drive. Make a new folder on your hard drive called EXPORTS and click Save. 3. Click Export and wait for your film to be exported.

33 4. Watch the export from start to finish to make sure it has exported correctly before you upload it. 5. After uploading it to YouTube / Vimeo, make sure you watch it again!!

35 4. Premiere Pro Troubleshooting SOMETHING NOT WORKING? LOOK NO FURTHER! 1. User-name not working at login: If the computer is asking for your login details, simply Restart and the computer should start up without needing login info. DO NOT LOGIN IN WITH YOUR OWN DETAILS. 2. Hard Drive is not showing up on desktop: Disconnect your hard drive, restart the computer and reconnect your hard drive again. 3. If you are missing any windows in Premiere or the layout isn t quite right: Window > Workspace > LA TROBE EDITING. You may need to click Reset Current Workspace if layout still appears to be a mess.

36 4. Sequence doesn t match clip settings: If you get the following message you may not have your project set up correctly. Please ask for assistance. 5. If red numbers appear on the clips in your timeline: This means your audio and video are out of sync. Please ask for technical assistance ASAP. 6. The Link Media window pops up when opening a project: a. This means you have imported files into your project that hasn t been saved onto your hard drive first. b. Find the missing files and copy them to your hard drive. c. In the Link Media, click Locate, then navigate to the file on your hard drive and click Connect. d. Alternatively, right click the file that is Offline in the Project Window and select Link Media. e. Finally, if none of this works, ask for assistance. 7. Can t figure something else out: Refer to the quick start guide, Google it or ask for some technical assistance.