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Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

Lesson 8 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete Guide

Abba Shapiro

Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

Lesson 8 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete Guide

Abba Shapiro

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Lesson Info

8. Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

Summary (Generated from Transcript)

In this lesson, the instructor gives a tour of the Adobe Premiere Pro CC interface and explains how to work with video tracks. He demonstrates how to import clips, mark in and out points, bring in only the video part of a clip, and arrange clips on different tracks. He also shows how to use the snapping feature, scrub through clips, adjust clip durations, and hide/unhide clips in the timeline. The lesson emphasizes the importance of making intentional editing decisions and developing a story through the arrangement of clips on the timeline.

Q&A:

  1. What is the purpose of hitting Option and double-clicking on a clip in the media panel?

    Hitting Option and double-clicking on a clip in the media panel opens it in a new tab for easy access.

  2. How can you bring in only the video part of a clip?

    Instead of grabbing the picture, you can grab the little video icon to bring in only the video part of a clip.

  3. How can you mark in and out points directly in the project area?

    You can scrub through a clip in the project area and mark in and out points by clicking and dragging on the clip timeline.

  4. How can you adjust the duration of a clip?

    You can select a clip and mark a new out point wherever the playhead is located to change the duration. You can also drag the clip to make it longer or shorter.

  5. How can you hide a clip in the timeline while still keeping it in the timeline?

    Right-click on the clip and uncheck Enable to make it invisible in the timeline.

  6. How can you rearrange clips on different tracks?

    You can drag a clip to a different track to rearrange it. Clips on upper tracks will block anything on lower tracks, and stacking shots on top of each other allows for easy comparison.

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Understanding Editing: Bootcamp Overview

07:25
2

Understanding Editing: Overview

25:25
3

Understanding Editing: Video Examples

25:07
4

Tour The Interface: Digital Video Workflow

16:38
5

Tour The Interface: Project Panel

12:28
6

Tour The Interface: Choosing Your Shot

07:18
7

Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over

10:31
8

Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

05:26
9

Tour The Interface: Edit Markers

08:46
10

Building a Rough Cut: Cut Planning

21:46
11

Building a Rough Cut: Selecting Media

25:01
12

Building a Rough Cut: The Edit

30:50
13

Building a Rough Cut: Edit Points

13:43
14

Refining Your Edit: Preparation

10:29
15

Refining Your Edit: Making Cuts

25:19
16

Refining Your Edit: Using Markers

16:31
17

Refining Your Edit: J and L Cuts

15:57
18

Refining Your Edit: Replace Edit

05:04
19

Working with Audio: Overview

17:43
20

Working with Audio: Levels

13:36
21

Working with Audio: Music

10:00
22

Working with Audio: Mixing And Syncing

14:50
23

Transitions: Overview

13:44
24

Transitions: Effect Controls

09:31
25

Filters & Effects: Overview

18:05
26

Filters & Effects: Using Multiple Filters

22:18
27

Motion & Animation: Motion And Animation Overview

09:40
28

Motion & Animation: Movement With Still Images

26:56
29

Motion & Animation: Picture In Picture

10:57
30

Motion & Animation: Motion Effects

17:08
31

Titling & Graphics: Overview

27:11
32

Titling & Graphics: Advanced Tools

11:03
33

Titling & Graphics: Roll And Crawl Effects

08:01
34

Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop

12:17
35

Speed Changes: Overview

21:12
36

Speed Changes: Stills And Variable Speeds

06:23
37

Color Correction: Overview

07:39
38

Color Correction: Lumetri Scopes

11:32
39

Color Correction: Contrast

21:37
40

Color Correction: Advanced Tools

15:12
41

Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

07:45
42

Finishing: Prepping for Output

14:53
43

Finishing: QC Edit Points

24:56
44

Sharing & Exporting: Overview

29:05
45

Sharing & Exporting: Size And Quality

24:46
46

Ingesting Media:

28:39
47

Ingesting Media: Transferring And Importing

31:15
48

Media Management & Archiving

26:10
49

Multi-Camera Editing: Overview

14:26
50

Multi-Camera Editing: Creating A Sequence

20:04
51

Multi-Camera Editing: Switching Multiple Cameras

15:31
52

Multi-Camera Editing: Finalizing

12:37
53

Creating Timelapses: Shooting Strategies

18:04
54

Creating Timelapses: Editing Images

14:21
55

Creating Timelapses: Importing Strategies

18:47
56

Creating Timelapses: Animation

05:58
57

Advanced Editing Techniques: Take Command Of Your Timeline

22:36
58

Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

07:57
59

Advanced Editing Techniques: Keyboard Shortcuts

12:00
60

Advanced Editing Techniques: Preference Hacks

21:15
61

Thinking Like an Editor: Editing Choices

31:55
62

Thinking Like an Editor: Telling the Story

23:50
63

Special Tools: Warp Stabilizer

17:59
64

Special Tools: Morph Cut

06:56
65

Special Tools: Green Screen

20:16

Lesson Info

Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

I'm gonna jump back into our main panel. I have all of these raw clips. I'm going to go ahead and hit Option. Double click. It again puts it into its own tab. I like that. Moving it all the way over to the left. Now I have actually three tabs of my media that I can easily access. I like to look at this as icons, 'cause I can then see my images. Down here, I have a little slider, if I wanna make it bigger or smaller to see more things. To edit this in, I could load all my clips. Usually I would. I mean, normally, I wouldn't cut this in an hour. I'll go through, and I could load these very quickly and get an idea of what works. This is nice, this is people interacting. What's the moment? What's the moment that I find is special here? She's showing her stuff and she's smiling. That's pretty cool. That should be my out point. Then, maybe I'll scroll back here. She's showing, that's my in point. I can see the duration's about two seconds and 18 frames. I can go ahead and grab that. I just w...

ant the video. I don't want all of the sound, the background sound. There's lots of way to control bringing things in or not bringing things in. The easiest thing is, instead of grabbing the picture, I grab this little video icon. It only brings in the video part of the clip. Put that in right there. I bring it next to it, and there's something called snapping, and it snaps right next to that clip. Let's go ahead. We're quickly watch that. (pleasant instrumental music) These days, everybody talks about-- I can go through and put all these clips. I'm gonna do some things very quickly. I wanted to show you some of the controls. We're probably not gonna finish this. Instead of bringing the clip all the way up into my source monitor, I can, right here, scrub through it, and mark my in and out points directly in my project area inside this bin, and drag it there. I realized, I made the duration of this to be something ridiculous, six frames. Six frames is one fifth of a second. That's a little bit too short. I can go ahead and select that and wherever the play head is, I just mark a new out point. Now it's 10 frames, obviously I'm very zoomed in. It's gonna be once second. I wanna show you that. It's one second, I've marked it here. Drag it over. If I want it longer, all I have to do drag it out, and now I have. These days, everybody talks about print your work, print you work, as photographers. Okay, that's pretty good. I'm not locked into that. I think that's long enough. I don't want it to leave the, the frame, the image. I'm gonna grab one more picture. Actually, I'm gonna grab a couple of pictures. I'm gonna do something here. I'm gonna go ahead, click on this. This is where you can make yourself look like you really know what you're doing. One, don't use the shots that are bad, that you never like settled the camera, and two, the beautiful thing is, you don't have to show them the parts of the image that you didn't quite have focus at. It goes back to, if it's a still image, just crop out the mistakes, and you're good. I like this, I like the depth of field. We see Ken again. I'm gonna mark an in point and an out point. Throw that in. I'm gonna go down and look at this. I want you to see that. (pleasant instrumental music music) These days, everybody talks about-- It's nice. But you know what, I think it would be really cool if we started with Ken handing that up. We're not limited by the fact that we've already placed it into a certain order. Lot's of ways to move things around. I could drag this, put it over-- I'm gonna intentionally put this on the next track. I don't normally do this, but what I wanna show you is when I do that, you'll notice that anything on the upper track blocks anything on the lower track. It gives me some flexibility. You'll also notice that I have a moment where I see the scene below it. There's some danger to that, but it's also another way of thinking that, "Oh, what shot do I wanna use?" I don't wanna make the decision. Maybe I'll stack two shots on top of each other. I'll come back later and then I can look at each of them individually. As a matter of fact, there's a great little feature that if I have this shot, and I'm gonna do one thing here, so I don't get that little flash frame. I'm gonna stretch it out a little bit. Now it covers it completely. If I don't wanna see that, I can right click on it and uncheck Enable, and now it still is in my timeline, yet it's invisible. I can go back and do that. That's kind of a nice thing I can do. You know something? I just wanna flip flop these. There's lots of way to do that. I'm gonna bring that down. I've changed my story. What is my first image? (pleasant instrumental music) These days everybody talks about print your work, print your work, as photographers, and nobody does, and so we-- We're establishing a story here of, you know, what's happening, what she's talking about. I see print your work, that was very serendipitous, that I put that clip. You can listen and make notes. This is how you start developing what you're doing and you're throwing it onto a timeline.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Abba Shapiro's Work File Information
Building a Rough Cut - Project Files
Refining Your Edit - Project File
Working with Audio Project File
Motion Effects - Project Files
Titling and Graphics - Project Files
Speed Changes - Project Files
Color Correction - Project Files
Finishing - Project Files
Multi-Camera Editing - Project Files (Large Download - 3.25GB)
Creating Timelapses - Project Files (Large Download - 1.25GB)
Thinking Like An Editor - Project Files
Special Tools - Project Files
Photos

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I've never even tried video editing before this class. I opened the program once and panicked. After only 9 lessons I was able to throw a short video together (basic of course, but still pretty cool). I wish all of my teachers growing up were just like Abba. He goes over everything without dragging anything on for too long. He repeats things just enough for me to actually remember them, and he is funny. He keeps it fun and shows that even he makes mistakes. I can't even believe how much I have learned in less than a quarter of his class. I have a long way to go and am very excited to learn more. This class is worth every penny and more! I was hesitant on buying the class because I have CS6 and he works with CC, but I have already used what I've learned in his course to create a video. The first 9 lessons were already worth what I paid for the entire course. Thank you, Abba! You are an awesome teacher! You have me absolutely obsessed with creating right now! I highly recommend! You won't find this thorough of a course for this decent price!

a Creativelive Student
 

Just bought this yesterday and cannot stop watching!!!! What a FANTASTIC teacher-- just love the way he explains everything. For someone like me (who has a zillion questions) it is perfect. As soon as he introduces a feature, he explains several aspects in such a way that's easy to grasp and remember. So, so happy I got this. Thank you Abba and CreativeLive!

a Creativelive Student
 

I am only on lesson 19 and I am so glad I bought this class, so worth it and Abba packs so much information into these lessons its crazy. I will for sure have to come back and watch again when I need to remember to do stuff or need a refresher. He is funny and quirky and a great teacher. I so recommend this to anyone wanting to become a better video editor!! I am coming from being self taught and using iMovie and he makes it so simple and understandable. Can't wait to learn more :)

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