In this Premiere tutorial, we're going to look at the basics of importing footage, working
with footage in the timeline or editing, and then exporting footage from Premiere.
So when you launch Premiere, this is what you're going to see.
You're going to see this window, and you have a choice here, recent projects, if you've
had something you've already been working on, a new project, you could go and open another
project.
Third choice is Help.
If you click on Help, this is going to launch a web browser, and you can see here, here's
the Help for Premiere, what's new, the interface, if you come over here, you can also get started
looking at tutorials.
So this is a good resource if you're just starting out to kind of get a feel for Premiere.
So here we're going to pick New Project.
If you had a project already created, you could open it.
Like if I wanted to go back to this project, I could open it.
I'm going to say New Project, and down here under Capture, if you were going to bring
your footage in from HDV instead of DV, you could pick that there.
I'm going to give it a name.
I'm going to save it to my desktop, and I'm just going to call this demo.
I'm going to say OK.
And then here it's asking us what kind of footage you're working with, because it wants
to know, OK, if you're working with DV, then I'll make your sequence basically match DV.
We don't need to worry about that right now, so I'm just going to say Cancel, and we're
just going to launch the project here.
So we've got the project, and we want to import the footage, and when we say import, this
is the footage we've captured from a camera, or brought in from, you know, like a HD SLR
or a RED camera, a Flip Cam, something that's tapeless.
So basically once you've already put your media on your hard drive, then you import it.
So to do that, I could get a file, I could get an import, click there.
I could navigate to my footage on my desktop.
I could grab a clip, and just say import, and that's going to bring in that file, that
video clip, OK.
I could also double click in here in the project, and then double click on a clip to do that.
I could also get down to my media browser here at the bottom, and I could navigate this,
go to home directory, come over here to desktop.
And then the nice thing about using the media browser is that it gives you a few more options.
So I just want to find where is my project, and there it is.
So here, if you basically right click, you could say open in source monitor, and what
that would do is just bring your footage in here to the source window, but it's not living
in the project, so I could just look and see if I like this footage.
Now if I like it, and I think I want to use it, I can just click here on the video, drag
it over, you'll see a hand plus icon, it will drop it in.
But if I didn't like it, I could just come up here and just close it, OK.
Also here, you could click on a clip, you could right click, and your other choice is
you could basically just say import, so you could say import, and that will go ahead and
put it in your project, OK.
So I've got four clips here, I'm just going to double click, and bring a couple other
clips in, and I've got a little soundtrack clip here, because this footage doesn't really
have usable audio, OK.
So I don't have a sequence yet, and the sequence is where we're going to assemble this footage,
it's basically going to be our program, OK.
And so I've got some footage here, and down here this is the new item icon, I'm going
to click on this clip, and drag it down, and let it go on the new item icon.
And in just a second you'll see it'll update, and so now we have a sequence that fits our
clip, OK.
And if I want the footage to fit the whole sequence here, if I hit the backslash key
I can basically see all my footage.
This is a CTI, it's a current time indicator, if I drag this through, you can hear it, I'm
actually scrubbing through the audio, OK.
And if you notice here, watch what happens when I move the CTI down here in the sequence.
You see it also moves up here in the program, so the program is a visual representation
of what you're doing down here in your sequence, OK.
So if I hit play up here, and then hit stop, so dragging through here is the same thing
as dragging up here in the program, OK.
Or hitting play up here, OK, all right.
So I'm going to select this clip, I'm just going to drag down, hit delete.
And when I bring it in this time, I don't want to bring in the audio, OK.
And I'm going to go up here, the source is where you look at the footage, and so the
source is a separate window, the source is where you kind of audition the footage that
you want to put down into your sequence that you'll then see in your program.
So I'm going to hit I on my keyboard to set an end point, or I can basically click this
little icon right here, scroll through, and click the mark out or hit O. Now I just want
to put the video down and not the audio, because audio as you can hear is not usable.
So right here, drag video only icon, click on it, drag this down, now I just have my
video.
Now I need some music in here, so I'm going to put this soundtrack wave down in here.
And it's really long, so what I'm going to do, it's like four minutes almost, I'm going
to double click to load it up here into my source, I'm going to go to like 30 seconds
and hit O on my keyboard to set it out, and then here I'm going to put my hand over the
drag audio only speaker, drop it in.
Now it's going to be too loud.
We don't want it to ever hit zero, and it doesn't, it's just a little close, so just
to be safe here though, I'm going to click and give myself more room here, and on this
yellow line I'm going to drag it down.
So as a general rule of thumb, you want your main audio to average around minus 12, and
this is by Red.
Drag it down a little bit more, okay, so set our audio, and we have a clip in here.
So right now we've got one video clip, okay, let's say we want to add another clip here,
I'm going to click on these clips here, you can see them pop up right here, and the thing
to remember about these, these clips are not the actual media on your hard drive, okay,
these are like pointers to it, they're a reference.
My point being that if I select these clips and hit delete, and it says yes you're removing
stuff, I'm not removing stuff from the hard drive, I'm just removing it from the project,
okay, so if I hit Apple Z, or go back and say edit undo, I can just be back to where
I was before, so be aware of that, this is non-destructive editing, if I basically remove
something from the project, I'm not removing the media from the hard drive, okay.
So I'm going to go find another shot here, double click to load it in the source, and
I'm going to go where this guy is looking down, so I move the playhead down here in
the sequence to where he's looking down, hit I, hit the space bar to play it, hit O, again
I don't want to put audio down here, okay, and the same thing you do down here so I don't
mess up my soundtrack, is this little box right here, if I click it it will lock my
audio, so this will keep me from accidentally messing up this audio, and now I'm just going
to click on this video drag only, and drag it right here to where my CTI or current time
indicator is, so I'm going to play it, okay, so we've got three clips here, what if I wanted
another clip to be the beginning, okay, maybe let's say I wanted, I did want to start with
this clip instead, okay, what I could do here is you see there's these two icons here insert
and overwrite, so instead of dragging if I wanted this clip to be the first clip and
push these clips down, if I basically just click the insert button it'll put that clip
down and push the other ones down for me, I'm going to hit apple Z, your controls Z done
do that, I could also drag the video down, and I'm going to trim this up, this clip is
really long, so I'm just clicking on the ends here to kind of shorten this clip, I'm going
to drag here, and now when I drag if I hold down the apple or the control key you'll see
the icon changes and this is telling me that it's going to insert the footage into the
timeline instead of overriding and replacing the footage there, so I'm going to let go
of my mouse and then it makes room for it, so we have this clip here, now it basically
does the same thing in this clip here and we don't need that, so what's a quick way
to get rid of this, we can select this clip and just right click and just say ripple delete
and that'll pull that clip out, so it pulls it out and then closes the gap, you could
also close a gap, let's say this footage wasn't touching here, it could have the playhead
or the CTI here and to basically right click and I could say ripple delete and that would
also close the hole, okay, I'm going to hit my backslash key to kind of see everything,
I'm going to unlock my audio and click on the end of the audio and drag it down so the
video is the same length and you see here when you drag, it's kind of snapping, you
see those little arrows popping up, that's because snapping is turned on here by default,
so if you turn this off when you drag things won't pop to the edges and a lot of times
that means that you accidentally won't line things up, so in this situation snapping is
good, so you won't snapping on and you can see it just kind of pops, okay, now I would
go and save this, so file, save and let's say that I want to export this now, I would
go file, export and since I'm going to export media here and I have choices, let's say that
I want to do a web movie here, so I could go over here to format and pick h264 or I
could pick flash which would be a good web format, if I wanted to match sequence settings
that would be in a situation where I want to output a master format which means what
we output is going to match what we edited with and then we can make different versions
from that, then we can make a couple different web movies or a DVD movie, but in this example
we're just going to uncheck that and we're going to get a preset here and so you see
you have different presets, so let's just say here that we were going to use, you know
so we're going to do it for a Vimeo or you know you could also pick YouTube, so if I
was doing Vimeo HD I just click here Vimeo HD, it sets things up for me, it shows me
here what things are, I do know though that this footage should be 24, so under frame
rate I would just pick 24 for this footage and then output name is the name of it, so
you want to click here and name it, so I'm going to call it you know test for web, give
it a specific name and I'm going to basically save it to my desktop, hit save and so basically
it's ready now so it's saying this is the file and basically if I come down here and
I hit export it's going to go and encode the movie, so it's building the movie so it's
going to be a regular QuickTime file that will play, so we'll let it finish encoding,
okay I'm going to hit Apple H to hide Premiere, I'm going to right click and just say open
with and pick QuickTime and so now we can see our little test movie we did, I'll play
it, okay so hopefully that gives you guys an idea of how to you know get footage into
Premiere, how to do some basic editing and then to export your footage out of Premiere.
