3. Getting Started
1. Copying footage from the camera to an external hard drive. Back up
in another location.
2. Create these folders on your drive:
1. Video
2. Photo
3. Audio
4. Project Files
5. Graphics
6. Scratch Disk
7. Exports
5. Getting Started: Premiere Pro
• Set Location and Scratch Disks to external drive.
• Scratch disks will usually be saved to the same spot as your project
file.
6. Getting Started: Making A Sequence
• A sequence is the
timeline of your
movie where you will
arrange all the clips.
• Choose the correct
sequence preset.
• Name the sequence.
7. Getting Started: Creating Your
Folders Within Premiere
• Create these bins:
o Video
§ b-roll
§ interviews
o Audio
o Graphics
o Sequences
Project Panel:
8. Getting Started: Importing Footage
• File: Import
o OR
o Find the files on your computers and drag and drop into the
correct bin.
• Categorize in correct bin
9. Getting Started: Premiere Pro
Interface
• Adjust the interface throughout the project.
• Flexible panels that are completely resizable and mobile
• Panel that is selected is indicated by the orange border.
• Keyboard shortcut: ~ key makes any panel full screen
10. Getting Started: Premiere Pro
Interface
• Source Monitor
o Where you can preview files before you put them in your
timeline.
o This is where you choose which parts of the clip you want to
insert into your video.
11. Vocab:
• ‘select’ – The part of a clip that you choose to
put in the timeline.
• The best part of a clip.
• Why make selects?
– There may be shaky moments in a video clip or the
clip is too long.
12. Getting Started: Source Monitor
• To select a portion of your clip
to insert into your timeline, drag
the current time indicator to
that moment, then click "Set In
Point" or press i on the keyboard
.
• Press the space bar to play from
that point. When you've gotten
to the point where you want the
clip to end, press space bar again
and then press "Set out point"
or O to set your out point.
13. Getting Started: Source Monitor
• To insert the shortened clip you have just designated, drag the clip
into the timeline OR press the comma key OR press 'insert clip'
button.
14. Getting Started: Timeline
• Once your clip is in your timeline, press + to zoom in or - to zoom out.
• Timeline is where you assemble your video- arranging your clips in
order.
15. Tracks
• Video tracks are above the middle line
• Audio tracks are below the middle line
• Whichever video clip is vertically highest will
show.
16. Layering Clips in the Timeline
• If you stack a clip on a higher track than another clip, it will visually
cover it up.
o This is how you will overlay b-roll on top of your interviews.
17. Sequences
• You use multiple sequences to organize the
different categories of footage you have.
• For example, one sequence for your
interview selects and another for your b-roll
selects.
18. Getting Started: Timeline
• In order to see the image that each clip represents, toggle the
arrowhead next to 'video 1'
• Each track is adjustable in size.
Collapsed Video track 2
Expanded Video track 2
19. Getting Started: Program Monitor
• Program Monitor is where you can preview what your assembled
video in the timeline is looking like.
o It will only show you clips that are in the timeline.
• The program monitor will display the video for wherever your current
time indicator is.
20. Getting Started: Arranging Clips
• In the timeline, to rearrange clips, you can't just pick up a clip and
drag it to where you want to put it.
• It will do an "overlay edit" in which it overs up the other clips.
• You have to move clips out of the way.
22. Interview Selects
• Insert the entire interview into a sequence.
• Press C to turn the cursor into a cutting tool.
• Press V to return to the normal cursor.
• To delete a clip, select the clip with the arrow
cursor and press delete.
23. Interview Selects
• Delete any part of the interview where you
are asking questions or where the person
isn’t saying anything of value to the story.
• Delete the gaps by clicking on the gap and
pressing delete.
• At the end, you will have a seamless
sequence of the best parts of the interview.
26. Create interview and b-roll
selects for all of your footage-
including the photos.
27. Categorize the Interview Selects
• Create a set of sequences for the story arch.
– Beginning, middle and end – for starters
28. Categorizing Footage
• Create a new sequence by pressing
command n (on mac) and control n (on PC).
Call it ‘putting it together.’
• Create separate sequences for each major
part of the story arch.
• For example, “problem” “AHA moments”
“impact”
29. Copying & Pasting
• Go through interviews and copy and paste
each of the interview selects into the
appropriate category.
• Copy = command C, control C
• Paste = command V, control V
30. Putting It Together
• Start building the audio structure for your
video by copying, clip by clip, the parts of the
interview you want to use from your
categorized sequences and pasting them
into the putting it together sequence.
• Re-order and shorten the clips until you have
a solid story structure.
31. Putting It Together
• Re-order and shorten the interview clips
until you have a solid story structure.
32. Add B-roll
• Look through your ‘b-roll selects’ sequence
and choose the b-roll and photos that you
want to include in your video.
• Copy those clips into your ‘putting it
together’ sequence.
• To select the track that the clip will be pasted
onto, click on the track name so that it turns
a lighter gray.
33. Laying B-roll
• Re-arrange the b-roll above the story
structure so that the images appropriately
depict what the subject is describing.
34. Rendering
• Once you have clips on multiple videos
tracks, playback will become jumpy.
• In order to fix this, you must render.
• Rendering is a process by which Premiere
generates an accurate preview of how all the
visual and audio elements are working
together.
37. Getting Started: Applying Visual
Transitions
• Get from one clip to the next
o Often the best transition is just a cut
• Open effects panel (if you don't see it, go to 'Window', 'Effects')
• Open the Visual Transitions folder
38. Applying Visual Transitions
• Open Dissolve folder
• Drag the desired transition onto the beginning/end of the clip in the
timeline.
• Some transitions can also be placed on 2 clips so they dissolve into
one another.
• Drag the edge of the purple transition indicator to shorten or
lengthen the transition effect.
39. Applying Visual Transitions
• Cross Dissolve
o One video clip blending into the next
o Use at beginning of video and the end.
• Additive Dissolve
o Flashes white/bright
• Dip to Black
o Goes to black
• Dip to White
o Goes to White
40. Applying Audio Transitions
• Go to the ‘Audio Transitions’ folder under
‘Effects.’
• Click, drag & drop ‘Constant Power’ effect
onto the beginning or end of an audio clip.
• Adjust the purple effect indicator to
determine the length of the transition.
41. Adding Music
• Adding music to your video will help you as you
refine the flow of the video.
• Drag the music clip that you want from your
hard drive into the project panel.
• Drag the music clip into the Audio 2 track or
lower.
• Adjust the ‘yellow rubberband’ up and down to
control the audio levels.
