How To Make A Movie Using Adobe Part 1
*Recent discovery - Try playing with the "C" and "V" keys to edit clips.*
Video Transcript: Here we are in the welcome screen of Adobe Premiere Pro!
As you can see right here are all of my old projects but for the purpose of this assignment we're going to start a new project. You can see the blue button over here and this footage is coming off of my drive. So I'm going to click the "Untitled" and then I'm going to go in to find the footage.
It'll show you a preview frame of all of the footage. I know that I'm going to need the last one because it was the last thing I filmed. So as you can see I can highlight it and it turns blue.
Now up here is important because I'm going to copy media, push this little toggle over. If I was taking footage off of the computer I wouldn't need to but since this is a separate drive I want to store the footage on the computer while I'm editing.
Now as you see I can't start without naming it so up here in the corner it says project name just give it your name there. Then go down to "Create".
This is the editing screen for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. As you can see here's the footage and here's where you can preview your movie. I can drag and drop it here if I go over here to source and then drag and drop it you can see a little preview screen of the raw footage. If I drag and drop it over here this is the timeline and now I see a preview of the movie.
Now I need to import the audio track for this video. I'm going to go over here to where the preview of the movie is and I'm going to go to "Import". As before, I am going to locate the drive and I'm going to copy it because I don't want it on the drive I want on the computer while I'm editing.
You could do new bin too if you're doing a big project like this having audio in its own bin and having footage in a different bin. Because of the size of this example, I'm just going to do it like this.
Now I'm going to come over here and make my screen big, grab the audio, drag and drop it on the second row and now you see right there this bump goes here. Kind of like in iMovie you can zoom in/zoom out to get the bumps to line up perfectly. As you can see it looks pretty good.
Now it's time to edit. As you can see I have a little bit of an extra footage here. There's two ways to do it you could left click and you have all of these options. You can cut it there or the easier way is to go over to these tools. As you can see, you have a variety of tools.
Click this little razor and as you see your mouse changes and you just click on the desired cutting spot. If you like keyboard shortcuts, you can also click the "c" key to get the cutting tool. Use the "d" key to get back to the selecting key.
You can also just drag and drop it to the end that does the same effect. Down here I have a little extra footage so I'm going to deselect the whole chunk and then bring just the audio clip in and then of course I only want one track to be done so I can easily just mute the original track and then it won't even play that track it'll just only play whatever is not muted.
You have other video tracks up here and other audio tracks down here in case you need sound effects or music you can use these two extra tracks. If you ever needed to you could always add another track by left clicking and then adding a track. Also you can make things so that one is a main track, the other is the secondary track, one's the third place track.
There are lots of little things you can play around with. It's a good idea to get a simple project and just kind of play with it for the first time and then you can kind of get a better hang of the tools and stuff.
That is a rough beginning intro on how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. It's mostly just learning how to import footage and once you're there getting kind of a rough project you can kind of just play with the tools.