Hi everybody, this is Zach from UCF Film.
This is the second of our three-part series on using Adobe Premiere CS6.
In part one we went over setting up the interface and now I want to talk about some basic editing
techniques within the program.
What I'm going to do actually next is open up a pre-existing project that I've edited
on the sequence.
This is a scene from Jeff Lehmann's film, The Taylor's Apprentice and what I want to
show you is the tracks.
In the tracks you have several options, you have an eyeball which means toggle track output
which means you can turn that track on and off, toggle sync lock, you can lock the sync
between two or more clips.
This defaults on so everything is sync locked by default, toggle track lock, you can lock
the track so it doesn't make any changes and then you have this arrow key collapse and
expand track.
Once the track has expanded you can then make this track as big as you want.
Now FileCut only gave the option to make every track small or large.
This gives you the option to make certain tracks small and large.
For instance down here this is the camera audio and this is the sync audio.
I know for a fact I won't be using any of the camera audio so I can expand these and
make them my primary dominant audio tracks to work with while ignoring these for the
most part.
And I can also click and rename Cam L Cam Right and I'll call that Dialog L Dialog R
and you can also stretch it out like that if need be.
I like to keep it close.
And you also have some more options down here, set display style.
You can ask it to only show the name or you can tell it to show the waveform, the peaks
and valleys of the audio file.
And then you have this key frame option where you can ask it to show the clip key frames,
show the clip volume or show the track key frames and track volume.
Now the difference between clip and a track is this is a clip and this is a track.
So you can affect the volume of the clip or you can affect the volume of the entire track.
But make sure you know which one is highlighted while you're working.
I wouldn't adjust track volumes until you are confident that your clip volumes are consistent.
And now let's get into some editing.
Alright, now if we go into our project browser and click on a clip, we can also go to info
and learn everything about that clip.
Seeing it's 48,000 hertz or 48 kilohertz for mono tracks and it's 23.96 frames per second.
Right next to info we have effects.
I'm not going to show you all the effects that this has but I'm going to show you the
standard transitions like dissolve.
If you right click on any of the transitions, you can set them as the default transition.
So when you click on something, you can apply the default transition and now we have a default
transition.
Or select that as a default transition, apply default transition.
I like the film dissolve as the default transition.
Now if you want to bring a clip from the source monitor to the sequence, there are number
ways you can do it.
First you could just drag and drop it or you can set the playhead where you want it.
You can either insert or overwrite.
Now make sure you highlight wherever you want the clip to go if you use these two buttons.
For instance if you overwrite, there it overwrites everything up until you're in point and out
point.
If we undo that, if we insert it, it just goes right next to it.
Make that bigger.
And if we say have this not selected and we overwrite, it'll give you all the sound because
that's highlighted but it won't give you any of the video.
So be aware of what is highlighted on your sequence.
The other way you can do it is just take it and drag the whole file down.
Now this will overwrite it but if you press command, a bunch of these little arrows come
up and that will insert it instead of overwriting it.
Another great function are these two little icons which is drag only the video, which
means you drag only the video without the audio.
And of course the reverse, drag only the audio and not the video.
Now let's explore the timeline a little bit more.
Now this is our test sequence and this is our timecode.
By clicking on that and moving left and right, you can affect the timecode and thereby affect
the playhead position.
Right here we have a snapping and we also can set on-core chapter markers if you're
going to burn this to a DVD, you can set chapter markers right on your sequence.
And this is just adding markers, you can add a marker there, add a marker there and then
over here you see what the markers are and you can make notes like good laugh, he looks
too nervous.
So let's talk a little bit about the tools you'll use for basic editing.
Now our first tool is a selection tool and it's your basic everyday utility tool.
You can click with it, you can highlight with it, you can use your modifier keys and click
on select tracks.
For instance if you hold down option while you click you can select only the video or
select only specific audio files and if you hold down shift while you click you can also
select other clips.
Let me undo that.
Or you can hold your mouse button down and move the icon to highlight things.
So basically the selection tool is the tool you'll use most and you'll continually go
back to as you edit.
Now this is the track selection tool, it's a very good tool and what you can do with
it is if you click on a clip it highlights everything on that track behind the clip so
you can just move everything in that track.
And if you want to move video and audio together you just hold down shift while clicking on
a clip and you can move everything.
Ripple edit.
This is the ripple edit tool, ripple edit means moving an edit point and causing the
rest of the timeline to move the same amount to compensate.
So if you adjust a clip, say for instance if we shorten this clip a little bit, it ripples
throughout the sequence.
Which is different than a rolling edit tool which doesn't affect the timeline at all.
Rolling edit basically a trim tool so it doesn't have a rippling effect throughout the rest
of the timeline.
And then there's the rate stretch tool, let me show you what this does.
You can shorten or extend clips without changing their in and out points thereby slowing them
down or speeding them up.
I know, I know, I'm also a very useful tool.
Then you have your razor tool, this is also known as the blade tool in Final Cut.
And it is your all around utility knife for cutting clips and you can cut single clips
like just the video or you can hold down shift and cut the video and the audio together.
The slip tool is interesting because what you can do is take the clip and change the
in and out points without affecting where it is in the sequence as opposed to the slide
tool where you can take the clip and move it around so you can find the right spot it
should be in between two clips.
I don't really use that tool too much because I can always just move it to another track
and move it around to wherever I see fit.
Next is the pen tool and that's a very important tool for keyframing audio or video.
If you set a keyframe here and here and affect the placement of one of them, we just created
a fade out.
And you can do the same for video and what that does, it creates keyframes of animation
and then you can right click on the keyframe and make something more easy and organic by
clicking ease in but I'll get into keyframing in our next video.
The hand tool is important because you can grab the entire timeline and go left or right
with it which is the exact same thing a magic mouse can do if you just scroll your finger
on it.
And then there's the zoom tool and you can zoom in on your timeline but frankly I don't
use this tool as much because there's this really wonderful zoom slider down here which
you can zoom in and out just by stretching this bar at the bottom of the screen.
The last important thing you need to know is this little bar.
What this little bar is is a work area and it's very useful because let's say you just
want to render everything in this clip turn snapping on let's say you just want to render
everything in that clip well you can go sequence render effects in work area and it will render
only things in this work area and of course you have options here you can also get rid
of the work area bar but I like the work area bar to be visible so I know where it is.
And that's it for part 2 of using Adobe Premiere CS6 be sure to watch our final installment
part 3 effect controls slugs and titles.
This has been Zach from UCF Film have a good day.
