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 today's video i'm going to show you how to create a really cool slideshow animation effect between two photos plus add some sound effects let's get into it so here in my timeline i have these archival photos of bananas that i got from the wikimedia commons and by the way if you're a documentary filmmaker or a journalist and you need access to some really cool archival source photos wikimedia comments has a ton of public domain photos that you can use for free in your videos so for this particular effect 

i'm going to add a slight blur and just a very subtle zoom effect between these photos and this effect was inspired by johnny harris's documentaries on his youtube channel and also his recent video on the history of bananas in central america highly recommend it that's why i chose these banana archival photos so the first step is to select the second photo here we're going to start with just adding an animation to the very beginning of the second photo so we're going to go up to effects and search for gaussian blur and drag and drop this or you can double click if you have the photo selected double click to apply it and now over in effect controls you can see we have the gaussian blur now we want the photo to start out blurry 

so we're going to increase the blurriness here to 40 and then we want to keyframe so we're going to select the stopwatch the toggle animation to create this first little keyframe here now we want this to be a fairly quick transition it's a very subtle effect so we're going to move around six frames forward so you can play around with different timings but i'll just use my arrow keys to go one two three four five six and i'm going to reduce this to zero so now between these two keyframes we have this very short little blur effect

 so now we need to add a subtle scale and animation but we're not going to animate the scale and i'll tell you why in just a second instead you're going to go over to effects and search for transform and this is underneath distort and we're going to double click to apply this to the same photo and here we have transform and here we're going to add some animation to the scale so if you want it to start more zoomed in we can increase this let's say to 125 we need to press the toggle animation and now we can move six frames forward and let's bring this down to 110 and then we can move like two frames forward just to have it zoom out a little bit more let's do 108. and then to make it more smooth we can lasso and select these keyframes and control click and select ease in or you can right click and this one we can ease out

 so now when we play it back it looks really cool just a very subtle zoom out with a blur just like that it's very simple but it's effective and when we add sound effects later in the video it's really going to come to life now we can copy and paste these effects that we added so we can press command or control to select both of the effects press command c or control c to copy them then we can go to the next photo that we want to apply this effect to let's say the third one here and we can go up to effect controls move the playhead to the beginning make sure you have this window selected and then command v to paste it and now it's applied to this photo and remember i said i would explain this the reason why we applied the keyframe animation to the scale of the transform effect and not at the regular motion controls is that way if we ever want to make any changes to the scale or the position it won't screw up the keyframes that we had so we can go up here and if we want to zoom out a little bit here

 let's see down to like 32 it's not gonna mess up the animation that we did down here and we can always make some adjustments and you can repeat the same process to every photo so now we have this really cool slideshow effect and it's really subtle to do and the next thing we need to do is add some sound effects and by the way my name is kelsey and welcome back to gal if this video is helping you out so far be sure to give it a big thumbs up and subscribe so that way you see when my videos and my tips become available on youtube and this video is sponsored by epidemic sound epidemic sound is my go-to source for sound effects and music and it's unlimited you can download as much as you want and it's social media friendly youtube friendly so you won't have any copyright strikes for using any of the sounds and you can use my link below to get 30 days free so that means you can get 30 days free of unlimited music and sound effects to download and try out in your videos if you're looking for some really cool background music some like lo-fi indie tracks that go well with voice i've put together a playlist if you just go to epidemic and you search premiere gal you'll find my premiere gal editing essentials playlist and it has some great tracks to help you get started so use my link below to get 30 days free and now i'm going to show you how to use some other sound effects to spice up this slideshow effect so between the two slides here 

i want to have a projector slide so if you go to epidemic sound you can see that there's music and then there's sound effects of course you can browse by their featured sound effects as well as by category down here but you can also just go to search and from sound effects we can search for projector and it will bring up a bunch of different sounds that we can play and try out so we can try projector screen one projector screen two it's not really what i need let's try this that's a nice slide sound effect and also if you want some ambience behind the slide sound effect for example if a machine is just playing some slides this slide projector 8 is just a nice background noise that you can add to your video so we can go ahead and download these and once they're downloaded you can import them into premiere pro's product panel you can see i've already done that so then we can just drag and drop these effects into the timeline so slideshow projector 14 is the slideshow effect so i can zoom in here and just place this at the cut point i can press option to duplicate that and just repeat that great and then we can take the slideshow projector 8 drag and drop it down there press c and cut at the end and delete that excess play around with the level and let's see how this sounds and look at that just two sound effects and already it's feeling more like a projector screen like a real life one and you can add some music from epidemic if you want to bring it to life so if you're looking for a quick way to do the slideshow effect on multiple different resolutions let's say you want to do portrait vertical stories square 4k and 1080p hd and you don't want to build it all from scratch i've put together a photo slideshow creator template that's on sale on my website and it has four other different types of transitions so if you just don't want the zoom blur transition i also added you know swipe left swipe right up and down and it's really easy to use it's just drag and drop in your own videos or photos and you can use it let me just quickly show you how it works once you download and purchase the pack you will see here that you can import your own footage 

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so i can go in and just take some of my photos here and let's say that you wanted to use the portrait you could go into the slideshows let's say we want the swipe one and see what this looks like if you want to update these to your own photos we can then just go ahead and for example this placeholder you can double click on the first placeholder and drag and drop in your own photos replace this with some dogs here so if you want to add this french bulldog go ahead drag that in go up to effects and scale it into place and then when we go back to the portrait you can see that that photo's been replaced just like that and you'll notice that there's a film crop you can just turn off the visibility if you don't want that and there's a portrait color adjustment layer that you can turn off if you want the original style of the photo and there's some light leaks as well that you'll see that you can turn off as well that i generated and again underneath edit you'll find the same exact sequences for hd 4k portrait square and vertical and there's two different types so there's the classic which is that zoom blur effect and then there's the swipe effect which goes up or down just like that and you can move around so you can take any of these and change it for example you can go down to the swipe transitions and if you want it to swipe left for example you can go down here and this is vertical 

so you can go into vertical and you can take you can open this up and you can copy this transition go back to vertical and you know make sure you're on video layer 2 when you paste this you can literally delete that command v to paste that transition and now after you press enter to render it out very quickly you will see it's a swipe left transition so you can you know modify which direction you want the swipes to go and one more thing i wanted to mention let's say you already have a premiere pro project file open and you want to import the template into the premiere pro project what you can do is just drag and drop the file so here i have the download you will see here the alight Motion pro project file just drag and drop it into the project panel and then it will ask you to import the entire project and you can create folder for the imported items and allow for duplicate media press ok and then you'll see all of the same folders here that you can open up and reuse and you can import this project file as many times as you want if you want to create new sequences with new media for example and the sound effects are included so the media that's included in this template is in the public domain 

so all of these archival photos of bananas are included in the template so that way you know which placeholders are where and you can just replace those images with your own photos so definitely go check that this slideshow pack and anytime that there's an update you will get that update after you purchase it and you can use it in any type of video so yeah that's it for today's video i really hope that this slideshow effect helps you out it's going to be great for documentary films for weddings for just sharing personal stories too thanks again to epidemic sound for sponsoring today's video don't forget to use my link below to get 30 days free of unlimited music and sound effects thanks so much for watching and as always keep creating better video with gal see you next time bye 

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hi my name Rc Edits and in this tutorial i'm going to teach you some tips about exporting frames, and even being able to arrange your own youtube thumbnails all in premiere now typically i would suggest that you just do this in Alight Motion or some sort of design program if you don't have Alight Motion, but if you are working kind of in a quick moment in premiere there are little things that you can do that you can just make it in premiere as well just as well so i have a little book club playlist on my channel which is not the traditional type of thing

I do but when i upload the videos sometimes straight from my phone i want to get a good frame i don't want to get a frame where i'm looking stupid so what i thought to do was simply take the video in premiere find the book cover online so i have a couple different options, here and i can kind of arrange them in in premiere as their own graphic layers i can move them to where i need just like this or even scale them up and make them big enough to fill in the whole side.

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 if i want and if you want an easy way to just move stuff around just highlight the selection tool make sure you're in the program window and highlight that position parameter in the effects control, panel and you can just move it around kind of very similar to Alight Motion, you can scale it exactly how you like and i can put it there in the corner and then i can kind of just scrub through find a good frame maybe where i'm looking thoughtful, or not stupid looking i can even add text if i wanted like with the type tool i can write out whatever i want and move those around and even in the essential graphics panel adding backgrounds and strokes for these.

 Just a simple way to build text and titles if you did want again something that you might not need to go to Alight Motion or if you don't have Alight Motion, another tool for you something like this i do always like to remember that the timestamp right now is in the corner on youtube so maybe not to put too important information there in that corner and you also have all these different video effects, that you can generate so if i wanted to generate a gradient or a ramp i can do that as well on perhaps like a new black video so new black video add that on a layer in between maybe add a ramp and in this way i can add different colored.  

Alight Motion or if you want to just check out my tutorials i've made for making thumbnail tips and basics in Alight Motion, i would recommend you do that because 90 of the time i'm making them in Alight Motion but hopefully you enjoyed this little idea and got some tips from it whether that just be the export frame button, or you picked up some other tips as well if you did enjoy this video check out my channel for more subscribe to stay tuned for all my new videos thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in the next one.

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 i wasn't sure i was gonna make this video i wasn't sure if you guys were ready for it but you know what i said the heck with it let's do it in today's video i'm gonna be showing you guys how to make three essential transitions in  Alight Motion  not only are these transitions essential to know they will make your videos pop they will make your videos slack they will make your videos 10 times better just by using these transitions and you can make them all entirely in adobe Alight Motion

 we're not going to use after effects none of that so who's ready if you're ready hit the like button down below and let's get right into it first transition i'm going to be showing you guys how to make is a simple flash transition i actually think that the default additive dissolve transition that Alight Motion  has is absolute garbage so we're actually gonna make this flash transition completely from scratch so let's just check it out so you can see it just hits on the beat it slaps on the beat and it makes the video knock harder

 so let's get into how to make this from scratch what you want to do is come down here to your left panel and go to where it says new item hit adjustment layer go ahead and just hit okay it's as easy as that and you're just going to pull that into your timeline right here in order to make this effect you're going to come up here to your effects panel you're going to type in brightness and contrast pretty simple pretty self-explanatory and we're just going to make this flash transition lasts about six frames start here at the very beginning 

we're just gonna tab over six frames one two three four five six we're just gonna chop this excess off right there we're gonna come to this middle frame right here and we're gonna make two keyframes one on brightness one on contrast so we're just gonna go ahead and bring up the brightness a ton we're gonna change the contrast a ton and we're just gonna get creative with it you know play around with it there's no right answer there's no right way to make these flash transitions this is just one way to do it that i think is super dope you're gonna go three frames to the left one two three this is where the very beginning is and we're just gonna reset these parameters right here so that's just gonna make a new keyframe right here at the beginning and set both of these values back to zero so now when i tab over you can see it gets really bright now we're gonna go all the way to the last frame on the right one two three and we're gonna do the same thing we're just gonna reset so it's gonna get really bright and then it's gonna go right back to normal at the very end take this adjustment layer and place it over two clips just like that so now let's check that out pretty easy very simple love this effect flash transition all the way it will always be one of those effects that i use in every single type of edit i do i think making them from scratch looks way better than additive dissolve let's move on to our next effect 

so this next effect is so dope it's just a quick blur effect it's a super subtle way to transition from one clip to the next i really love this effect i think it slaps it makes the beat go crazy so let's check it out so i don't even know if you guys noticed it or not but there is a transition happening in between these two clips right here and you can see right there it just gets blurry and then it goes back to normal so check this out now there's no transition at all right here so it just goes right into the next clip what we want to do to make this transition work is just go three frames to the left from this cut one two three and then you wanna slice that clip like it's some turkey on thanksgiving so we're just gonna make a cut right there and we're gonna go six frames to the right one two three four five six we're gonna make another cut right there and we're just gonna take both of these clips that we just cut and right click them and hit nest nesting will basically bake both of those clips into a little layer so they're their own clip now you basically combine two clips into one basically so pretty cool feature in adobe Alight Motion  and then what you got to do is come up here to your effects tab and just look up this effect called fastboard

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 we're gonna throw one of them puppies on there and we're just gonna hit this blurriness right in the middle we're gonna keyframe this blurriness but not for horizontal and vertical no no no no that looks really blurry not really cool at all do not do that so we're just gonna pick horizontal or vertical for this i'm gonna go with the horizontal classic and we're just gonna increase the blur amount as much as we want so we can get very blurry as you can see like this but when you pick horizontal you get these kind of streaks across the screen instead of having horizontal and vertical where it's just all blurry that's why i like using horizontal and vertical personally and then what you got to do is go to the very beginning and we're going to go ahead and reset that keyframe we're going to go all the way to the end and hit reset again so now it's going to get not blurry then it gets blurry and then it gets not blurry again so let's check it out in full motion right here let's move on to the last transition which is also probably the most fire transition you can learn how to make there's a lot of ways to make it so let's get into it so for this last example 

i'm going to show you guys how to make a quick mask transition in  Alight Motion  masking is essential if you want to be good at editing videos it's something that i use in a lot of projects and there's a lot of ways to go about masking but i'm going to show you guys a creative way to use masking to create a transition in adobe Alight Motion  so check out this mask transition right here very quick very subtle very simple yeah i have my second clip that i'm transitioning to above my first clip that i'm transitioning from so that's step one you gotta have your second clip above your first clip step two is to just start right here at the very beginning and click on your top clip you're going to come up here to opacity and you're going to hit this pen tool right so what you're going to do is on this first frame you're just going to make like a shape or cut out whatever you want to do i like these like jagged cutouts that type of vibe so it looks like that and then what i like to do is decrease the mask feather we don't want that mask feather coming around here from this point you can see our first mask it's pretty dope i love this i love the way it looks a lot of ways to get creative with this so what i'm going to do from here is just keyframe our mask path right there at the first keyframe i'm gonna go ahead and go two frames to the right one two i'm gonna hit another keyframe right here and that's gonna basically just save this mask where it is now 

'm gonna go one more frame to the right i'm gonna retrace this mask a little bit so i'm just gonna drag these points out a little bit more now that we're a little bit farther into this transition we're revealing more of that clip underneath just tweaking each point that we've made and we get something like this right so pretty dope and now what we're gonna do is just go two more frames to the right one two we're gonna hit another keyframe on this one so this one saves right now we're just gonna go one more to the right and we're gonna come back up here to our mask and we're just gonna take each of these points and we're gonna keep dragging them out and it's as easy as that guys all you got to do is go frame by frame just drag these points out until you get something that looks dope you might do this a few times before you get a good result now we have that one done we're going to go ahead and finish up now so we're going to come two more to the right one two make our last keyframe there and now we're gonna reveal the entire clip underneath

 so now we're gonna go one more to the right and we're gonna highlight our mask and we're just gonna pull all these points to the edges just like that perfect this is excellent great work and boom that's all it takes so now when we kind of hover back over it you can see the transition kind of just popping out at you and when we play that back in real time check out what it looks like thanks so much for watching today's tutorial i'm feeling very excited about these next couple of videos i'm coming out with these effect videos are only going to keep getting better i'm doing a ton of research on how to make better effects and digging deep into some of my old files as well to find old effects that i've used and created 

We're going to be spilling that sauce on the internet for the foreseeable future so if you want to be a part of this community and learn and grow with us definitely consider hitting that subscribe button below and if you could only use one of these transitions that i showed you today which one would it be comment down below i'm excited to see some of your guys's responses and if you're a video editor who is serious about making videos and better edits check out my website venturevisuals.com i got a lot of sauce on there you can try out some of my products completely for free so definitely check that out i'll include a link below like i said before i'm excited for these next series of videos so stay tuned and again guys thanks for watching my video i'm jake venner peace out you 

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Everyone wants good-looking visually pleasing videos and one of the first steps to achieve this is by color correcting, your video now in orbital color corrector video you have to understand the color workspace, in Alight Motion and if you're ready for that next step and maybe this is your first time here hi and my name is Lila so lovely to meet you and on this channel I share my best filmmaking tips, and tricks video editing tutorials and basically everything you need to know in order to start creating better videos all of the links are in the description.

Color Correction:

so make sure that you check that out including my color correction vs. color grading video because it is of vital importance and when I say phyto importance I mean vital importance to understand a difference between color correction and color grading if you're ready let's open up the color workspace on the left you see some intimidating complicated graphs but trust me they are not really that complicated and on the right you see different tabs such as basic correction.

 first as you can see this circle is this beautiful gradient of all the colors on the spectrum and then there is this white mass or blob or thing I am not sure what it's called to be honest this white mass or a white blob represents the amount of color in the video as well as what colors are in the video if I up the saturation and make the video more colorful make the colors.

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 what happens to the waveform as I adjust the exposure of the contrast and all the others I think exposure and contrast speak for themselves now these four the highlights the shadows and whites and the black they all work together and they affect each other so for example if we change the whites it will also affect the highlights too but only in the waveform the slider won't be affected 100 represents the whites and right here is the highlights the shadows and the blacks in case you have a lot of clipping going on you can raise the blacks a little or you can lower the whites a little bit but as you can see if I've raised the blacks it removes the blacks from the video 

Frame:

so I am going to keep it at zero in this case instead I'm going to adjust the shadows a little bit and remove a little bit of the contrast we know that the waveform represents the exposure and all the tone settings of the frame so see what happens if I play through the clip as you can see right here this is gizmos face so it literally represents the frame of your video if at any point you're just like oh my god I just need to start over it it looks like a mess I was too ambitious I was too enthusiastic with it don't worry you don't need to double click on every slider what you can do is just click on the reset button right here and you will reset all of the tone settings now this is the fun part if you go up here to this check mark and you uncheck this box see what happens  

this is where we started I mean I love this so much I could literally check and uncheck the box all day this is so so freakin satisfying, if you liked this video please let me know in the comments and make sure to subscribe and hit that notification bow, in case you want to be notified when more videos come out and if you can't wait for the next video which is totally fine and understandable, because you just want your videos to be so much better click on this video 

hey guys Rc here for alight basics a weekly series where i teach you all the ins and outs of adobe premiere pro and today i'm not doing it alone we have a feature today with no one other than storisium now today we are going to teach you eight different transitions that are so simple that you don't even need presets for them so without any further ado let's get started and fire up adobe alight now let's start with a visual transition that depends on your shots when transitioning from one shot to another look for a second shot with visual elements like rocks trees or other objects now place the two shots behind each other then duplicate the second clip and freeze frame the first frame now place that above the end of the first video track then we're going to take our time and properly mask around an object now this can also be a rock a billboard a person whatever if there are multiple objects on screen you can duplicate the layer and mask these objects as well okay once you've masked your object nest the layer and go to the effect panel take the transform effect and drag it onto your nested layer then go to the effect controls panel and deselect the composition shutter checkbox set a custom one of 180. then animate the object so that it pops on screen you can do this by placing keyframes for the position property now don't forget to ease your keyframes once you've made this animation now you can make this longer by dragging the layer more over the first video of course and if you have multiple objects try and play around with different speeds and different directions and as a finishing touch you can always right click on the cut between the two video clips and add a cross dissolve but make it quite short this will give you this result hey jill thanks for having me on your channel it's awesome to be here the next transition is one of my personal favorites and i like to call it the glow transition it's a little similar to the dip to white effect that is built into premiere but also a little different anyway you'll see inside premiere we're going to use these two clips on the timeline for the demo i'm going to start by adding an adjustment layer you can do this in the project panel click on the new icon and then select adjustment layer you can accept the default settings and click ok we can now drag the adjustment layer over to the timeline and place them on top of the two clips of course you can choose any duration for the transition but in this case i'll go for two seconds and i also want the adjustment layer part on the second clip to be a little longer than the part on the first clip    

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completion and then we need to create two more keyframes with the value 100 and then put these two at the beginning and the end and also here we're going to make it a bit more smoother by right clicking on the first keyframe and then select ease out and then right click on the middle keyframes and select bezier and for the last keyframe we'll select ease in and if i now open up the graph you can see that there's a nice curve this will give more smoothness to the animation in some cases mainly depending on the footage the cut between the clips might still feel a bit rough but you can fix this by adding a simple cross dissolve effect between the two clips this will make it blend a lot better and that is all you need to know to create this awesome drawing transition let's have a look at the final result [] wow that was awesome now guys if you want to see our next four transitions then head over to sterezium's account the video is also linked in our credit scene so go ahead and look at those other transitions if you want to master all of them i'll see you guys next week for a new live stream and a new tutorial and as always stay creative

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hey guys Rc here for alight basics a weekly series where i teach you all the ins and outs of adobe premiere pro and today i'm not doing it alone we have a feature today with no one other than storisium now today we are going to teach you eight different transitions that are so simple that you don't even need presets for them so without any further ado let's get started and fire up adobe alight now let's start with a visual transition that depends on your shots when transitioning from one shot to another look for a second shot with visual elements like rocks trees or other objects now place the two shots behind each other then duplicate the second clip and freeze frame the first frame now place that above the end of the first video track then we're going to take our time and properly mask around an object now this can also be a rock a billboard a person whatever if there are multiple objects on screen you can duplicate the layer and mask these objects as well okay once you've masked your object nest the layer and go to the effect panel take the transform effect and drag it onto your nested layer then go to the effect controls panel and deselect the composition shutter checkbox set a custom one of 180. then animate the object so that it pops on screen you can do this by placing keyframes for the position property now don't forget to ease your keyframes once you've made this animation now you can make this longer by dragging the layer more over the first video of course and if you have multiple objects try and play around with different speeds and different directions and as a finishing touch you can always right click on the cut between the two video clips and add a cross dissolve but make it quite short this will give you this result hey jill thanks for having me on your channel it's awesome to be here the next transition is one of my personal favorites and i like to call it the glow transition it's a little similar to the dip to white effect that is built into premiere but also a little different anyway you'll see inside premiere we're going to use these two clips on the timeline for the demo i'm going to start by adding an adjustment layer you can do this in the project panel click on the new icon and then select adjustment layer you can accept the default settings and click ok we can now drag the adjustment layer over to the timeline and place them on top of the two clips of course you can choose any duration for the transition but in this case i'll go for two seconds and i also want the adjustment layer part on the second clip to be a little longer than the part on the first clip    

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completion and then we need to create two more keyframes with the value 100 and then put these two at the beginning and the end and also here we're going to make it a bit more smoother by right clicking on the first keyframe and then select ease out and then right click on the middle keyframes and select bezier and for the last keyframe we'll select ease in and if i now open up the graph you can see that there's a nice curve this will give more smoothness to the animation in some cases mainly depending on the footage the cut between the clips might still feel a bit rough but you can fix this by adding a simple cross dissolve effect between the two clips this will make it blend a lot better and that is all you need to know to create this awesome drawing transition let's have a look at the final result [] wow that was awesome now guys if you want to see our next four transitions then head over to sterezium's account the video is also linked in our credit scene so go ahead and look at those other transitions if you want to master all of them i'll see you guys next week for a new live stream and a new tutorial and as always stay creative

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 Here's our complete Alight Motion  Tutorial for beginners. I'm gonna show you everything you need to know. All the key features and a ton of video editing tips to get you cutting videos in Premier like a pro fast. Now, if you've already been using Premier for a while, drop a comment down below while you're watching with your number one tip for editing in Premier to help out others that are new. All right, so jumping straight into it. 

We're here now in Alight Motion  on a Mac. Now, the process is gonna be pretty much exactly the same if you're on Windows as well. So this is what you'll see when you first open up the program. You have a list of all your recent projects in the middle here. So, if you wanna continue working on a project, this is where it will be. Or if you wanna make a new project like we're gonna do here, you wanna come up the top left to new project. So, what we're seeing now is essentially this import tab. The three primary tabs or areas in Adobe Premier now. Import, edit and export. And it's really the three processes or the three main steps that you're going do when you're making a video. So, the first thing 

we're gonna do though, is we're gonna give our project a name. So, I'm gonna go Justin edit. We can choose where we want our project to be saved. We can come over here to our import settings and we get to choose whether our media or in any of our files are gonna stay on our computer where they currently are, or if we're gonna copy our media to the same location that we've created our project in. I'm gonna leave this one unchecked. We'll leave our media where it is. We can also specify here to create a new bin or a new folder for any of the footage that we wanna import straightaway here. And we can also choose if we wanna create a new video sequence yet or not. And a video sequence is essentially your edit or your timeline. Now, I can go ahead and turn that one off as well for now, because I wanna show you how to set everything up correctly so that you know that you're using the right settings for your footage and for the videos that you're making. So, we could go through here and we could find our video footage. For me, I've got some saved on the desktop, on the video files. I could come through here and select the footage that I wanna import. But to me, I'd rather do it the more traditional way with Adobe Premier. So, we're just gonna go ahead down the bottom here and hit create. 

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So, we're just essentially creating an empty project. So, you can see now that we've done that, we're actually now over on this edit tab. If any time we wanna go back to the import one, we can click that up the top here, edit and export, which we'll get to a little later. Now, quick overview of the interface up here is where we'll be able to view our source video clips and play them and preview them before we're actually using them in our project. We've also allow effect controls and volume and everything. All of that happens up here in this top left corner. Over here on the right, this is our program or playback window. This is where we can preview everything that we are editing. Down the bottom here is your main editing tool. This is the editing timeline. We've got our audio bars over the side here, or the visual representation of how loud or quiet our music and sound effects are. 

We've got our editing tool panel in the middle here with a lot of our core editing tools and features. This is where we'll access those. And then down the bottom left hand corner here, this is by default, this is your project window where we can see all the media and assets that we've imported. We've also got access to a media library here and even all of your effects and transitions. They're all down in this area. So, we're gonna leave this for now back on a project. So, this is where we'll be importing our footage. It's down in this area here we can right click and we can choose import, or we can come up the top to file import and we can navigate through and find the video files, music, all the assets that we wanna use in our video. So, mine's on the desktop under video files. I'm just gonna hit import on this to bring in those three folders. And you can see it's actually kept the file and folder structure here as well, so that everything is organized as it was on the computer. The other option you've got is to open up a file browser like in Windows Explorer or in Finder, and you can drag and drop your files into your project that way as well. So now that we have our files in, the next step is to create our editing timeline or our sequence as Premier calls it

So, what I like to do here to make sure we're getting everything set up correctly is I wanna go and find my primary video footage. And I wanna click and drag that into this area. It even says here on the screen. Drop media here to create a sequence. So when we let that go, it's going to create our timeline, our sequence, but it's also going to use the exact format, frame rate, and settings that were used for our primary footage, so that we know that it is an exact match. So, we don't have to manually go in and configure everything. It's going to apply the settings from that main file. So, you wanna go ahead now and drop your primary footage into your timeline here. We can then come back over here. You can see we've got our timeline here, our sequence. We can call this Edit V1 version one. And maybe we'll move it out of this footage folder here and drop it down the bottom so that it's out there on its own.  cut our clip. K for cut. Makes perfect sense at that time. So, then all we need to do is select this clip. We can press Delete on the keyboard and it's going to remove it. Now, once again, this does leave the gap here in the timeline. So if we delete that, so we've still got that cut, still split into two clips. We can actually select this clip on the left that we wanna remove and we can press Shift + Delete on Windows or Shift + Function + Delete on Mac, and it's actually gonna remove the clip and it's going to close up the gap automatically. So, it's a ripple delete. 

Now on Mac, you can also use Option + Delete. So, you're pressing one less key and it's gonna do the same thing. Now, if we zoom back out, we go across to the end of our video here. Zoom back in a little bit. You can see that I actually stopped speaking here. So, let's assume the video finishes here and we wanna remove everything on the end. We could just come across here again, grab the end of our video and let it go where we want our video to finish. Or another really fast way to remove all of this with one keyboard button press is just to press W on the keyboard which is a ripple edit to the right. So, it's essentially going to automatically, when we press it, make a cut in our timeline, it's then going to select everything back to our previous edit or to the end of our clip in this case. And it's going to select it and remove it and close up the gap. So, if I press W now, you can see that all of that has happened with one keyboard button press. So, that's to the right, but this also works to the left as well. So, let's say we got a cut in our timeline here. Control + K to make a cut. And we want to remove just this first piece here and start this . So, we can play through or scrub through our can just come over to the type tool. We then come up to the top here and we can draw out a text box and we can literally just start typing. And we can see that that's generated a title down in our timeline, this little pink thing here. Now, if we double click on that pink title, and this is where we can open it up and get far more control over the look and feel of this title. So if I select the text here, then I can change the font. Let's go Oswald. This is our primal video font. Let's go semibold. We can also add a background behind it. We can adjust the opacity on that box. So, let's make it like a light blue, like a primal video, kind of blue. Something like that. Now, if we wanna change the position and maybe move it down a little bit, where you can come over here to our transform tools. So, we can bring this down a little bit here now, and we can even save this once we're happy with it as a style. So, we can come over here to styles. We can choose create a style. 

Let's call it PV for primal video. Go okay. Now, next time we wanna create a title, we can just select, we can type in our text and we can select that text and pick our style. And it's now using the same settings as what we saved down the bottom here. Let me come up the top here, where we got that second layer of text. I'm just gonna clear that to delete it. And we've now got some text down the bottom that will appear at this point in the video, at the start, and it will disappear at the end. So if we zoom in on this now, then these also behave just like every other clip so we can shorten them, we can extend it, we can pick it up, we can move it around. So, you wanna go through now and add in any titles or text into your video. Now, you also noticed that when I double clicked on this to open it up, it actually changed up our interface here. We've now got this new essential graphics panel that's appeared here on the right. We can actually at any time go to Window, Workspaces, and we can just go reset to save layout and that's gonna change everything back to our normal layout. So, you wanna go through now and add in any titles or text into your video. From there, we're gonna add in any transitions or effects into our edit. So, if we come over here to effects. Then down here we've got video effects and we've also got video transitions. So, if you open up video transitions, let's just go to dissolve. Now, there's a lot in here to choose from. And a lot of them can make your video look pretty cheap or pretty amateurish. So, what I suggest is that you stick in to things like the dip to black, dip to white or cross dissolve, or even a film dissolve. They're a much more popular, much more widely used in broadcast transitions without going overboard. So, let's say that we wanna fade in our title at the start here. Let's come back to the start of our project and pressing plus to zoom in. We can grab this cross dissolve transition, and we can drop it on the start of our graphic here. And you can see that it goes green, and we now have this cross dissolve on here. So, as we play through this now, you can see that for the length of that transition on here, our clip is fading on. Now, we can shorten that, to speed it up, or we can lengthen it to slow it down. But that's how easy it is to add some of these effects and transitions onto your timelines. So, maybe we'll have one at the end as well. So, our title can fade back out and we'll make it a little bit quicker as well. So we've now got a title that fades in, stays on the screen, and then fades back out at the end. Now, you can also add these transitions between your video clips as well. So, say if we grab this dip to black and let's drag it to the join between the two clips here on our timeline, then our video would play through, would fade out or dip to black and then come back in. 

So, if you want to fade between one scene and another, then that's normally something you would do with a transition. Now, in terms of a transition in a video like this, where essentially it's the same shot before and after the transition, I wouldn't normally do this. So, I'm gonna click on that and I'm gonna press delete to remove it. Instead, what I would do with our YouTube content is just zoom in on one of the clips so that it'll look like it was essentially a separate camera angle or a more zoomed in shot to break it up for the viewer. So to do that, I would just select one of the clips. Come up here to affect controls, come down here to scale, and I would increase this number. Now, you don't wanna go too much depending on how you've shot this and your setup here. You could actually be lowering the quality of your video slightly. So, don't go overboard with this. And you can see now if we look at the difference in the shot. That's the original, and then when it hits this point, it zooms in for this next part of the video breaking it up for the viewer. Now, in order to really sell this effect, you wanna make sure that if you've got someone's face on screen, you wanna try and keep their eyes in a very similar position. So, I'm just gonna move this across now to try and line up my eyes. So it's not perfect, but it's much closer now that that effect is gonna be more subtle for your viewers watching. Now, when you're going through in adding effects, if you do wanna speed up or slow down a clip or play a clip backwards, you can just , these are just the same as every other type of clip. We can click on it, pick it up, we can move it around. So, let's make it start at the start of our video. We can go across to the end of our video, make sure that it's going to finish at the same time as our edit. So, we trim the end off. And if you needed to make any cuts or remove any sections or even repeat sections of your audio track, then again, you can use it using this same tools I showed you for editing at the start. Sot back and I'm gonna see what that sounds like. And then we can make adjustments up and down from there if it's too loud or too quiet. Now, one other thing I like to do when I am adjusting my volume levels is to zoom in on this section of the timeline as well. Now, we can do it down here with these little sliders here, going up and down on the side. We can make these video layers bigger or smaller so we could stretch this up. We can then slide this down and then we can access more detail on what it is we're looking at. 

Now, you can also see that now that we've zoomed in, we also have this little line across the bottom here. Now, this is also our volume level. So, if I click on this and drag it up, we can see that the volume has increased back to, in this case 0.1 decibels. And we can drop that back down to where we had it at minus 33, just by lifting this line up and down if I undo that. But what we can also do is key frame or manually adjust our volume levels throughout the entire track, because sometimes you'll want it louder in one point and then quiet in another. We can do all of that with key frames. So, let's say that we wanted our audio here starting at the minus 33. And then for a section up here, we want it much louder. We want it back to full volume. We can click on this little create key frame button. We can then come across along a little bit more and we can add a new key frame. And then from here, we can grab this line again and move it up to the volume that we want. And our volume now is at that point for the remainder of the video. So, then we work out where we want it to come back down to a quieter volume. 

We can again add a transition point or a key frame it's called where we want that transition to start and where we want it to end. And then we can make the adjustments in there back to lower our volume back down. And these are things that you can come back in and you can adjust afterwards. You can pick them up, you can move them around all to really get that granular control over your sound. Once we're done with our volume levels, the next thing we're gonna do is to color grade or color correct your video footage. So again, I like to do this on the first clip first, because you'll probably find like in this case, it's the same camera, same light, so we can apply the same color grade or color effect that we're gonna apply to the bulk of our footage and then make any minor tweaks or adjustments to individual clips as we need to. So, we're gonna select down first clip. We're gonna come up here to Window and we're going to turn on what's called Lumetri color. Now, there is a ton of settings in here all to help you really dial in and bring out the look and feel for the video that you're after. So, we are by no means gonna cover off everything in here. But by default under this creative tab, so if you're not seeing it, you can click on creative. This is the default panel that shows up. In here, you've got some looks and think of these as if they're like Instagram filters, where you got different presets or different looks that you can go through and apply to your videos. Now, obviously we can go through, we can customize these up with a bunch of tools in here as well. But the idea here is if you find something that matches close to what you're after, it might make sense to start with one of these looks first and then make minor adjustments instead of starting with your raw footage, and trying to work towards one of these looks. But because we're not gonna go overboard with color correcting here, I'm gonna go back to the top here and select none. So, we don't have any of these filters or looks applied. 

And what I'm gonna choose here is the basic correction panel. And the first adjustment I'm going to make is to the exposure or the brightness of the shot. So, I'm gonna come down here, I'm gonna grab this slider. If we wanna make it brighter, we drag it to the right. We wanna make it darker, we drag it to the left. So, you wanna make sure that the brightness is where you want it for your shot first. And again, I want you to remember that this is art. This is a creative thing. There is no right or wrong. This is gonna help with the feeling that your video is creating based on how it looks. So, I usually start off first with the exposure and then the contrast. Again, if we slide this one way, we're going to remove contrast. We're gonna increase contrast if we go the other way. So, I've darkened up some of those blacks. The next one I adjust is the white balance. Now, we could just grab this little eye dropper here and select something white in our scene, like this shelf here and that's gonna get it pretty close, or we can manually use these sliders here for temperature and add more blue or cool down our shot a little bit, or likewise back the other way add more warmth by adding more orange, and the same with the tint. We can add more green or remove green by adding more pink using the next slider. Now, if you wanna see a before and after we can come up here where we've got basic correction. This little check box here, we can turn that off and on. So, this is the before. This is the after.

 So, we've really just brightened it up and added a bit more color. And the last slider that is pretty helpful as well is the saturation one here. If we wanna boost the colors or amplify them, we can just move this a little bit. You don't wanna go too much or you'll look totally sunburnt. But likewise, back the other way you can remove color too. So, it might add a little bit more color here. Something like that. And again, if this is something that we wanna apply to the rest of our clips, we can come over here to our effect controls and you'll see that we've got the Lumetri color tab in here. Again, we can copy the settings that we've applied there. We can select the rest of our footage here and we can paste it. Edit, paste. And that's gonna apply those same color grades or same effects to the remaining clips. So, you wanna go through now, color grade all of your footage including any of your B-roll clips as well. And then, it is time to export your video. So, I wanna come over here then to the export tab. And then as with everything in Premier, you got a ton of options in here. Now, there are presets for things like YouTube and Vimeo and Twitter. You can see here down the left. And if you're going to use these, you can automatically upload your video to YouTube as well. As you can sign into your YouTube channel, enter your title, description, all of that, all from Premier. So once your video has finished exporting, it's also going to upload to YouTube for you. Now, this actually does work really well, but personally, what I do instead is I go for a media file. So, I'm just exporting an MP4 or a regular video file and saving that to my computer. And I'm manually uploading it once I'm happy with it.

 So, I wanna preview it and check it's all good before it goes off to YouTube. So for that, we wanna go to media file. We can choose a file name here. We can choose our location where we're gonna save our file. Now, typically the settings here by default are usually pretty good because they're based on your project settings which were based on your primary footage when we created our timeline back at the start. So we can see here just the default settings are matching 1920x1080, 25 frames per second. That's our video source. The output that it's suggesting is 1920x1080, 25 frames per second, so it's matched that. And it's also got a suggested quality or a target bit rate here as well. But what I like about this in Premier is it also tells you the file size that it's going to create for you too. So, if you need to create a video with a specific file size, or you need to try and keep it small, then this is gonna give you an estimated file size here before you have to wait for the thing to export. Now, if you ask someone who needs to customize everything up, obviously you've got all the settings in here to be able to really dial everything in. 

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But again, for most people, you'll probably find that default settings here are going to be pretty close to what you're after. Then all you need to do is hit export and your file is going to save out. Once it's done, you wanna play it back and preview it ideally on a mobile device as well. That's where a lot of people are gonna be consuming your content. You wanna make sure that you're happy with how it looks and sounds and everything there. If you've got any changes, come back into Premier, make them and obviously export again. Once you're happy with it, that's when you can go ahead and share your video out. So, that's a complete walkthrough using Adobe Premier. Now, if you wanna print out and download the exact step by step process that I just took you through in this video that will actually apply to any editing app or program to help you edit faster and more efficiently, then grab your free copy using the link on screen now, and I'll see you in the next video.