Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial

GETTING STARTED

Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a video layout software that can be used to create videos as well as

manipulate video and audio les. Whether you plan to put a video together or alter video and audio

with the use of effects, Premiere Pro offers all the tools needed to produce professional videos for

even a beginner. This tutorial will take you through some of the basic uses of Premiere Pro CC.

In this tutorial, you will learn the following:

1. Getting Started

2. Setting Up a New Project

3. Work Space

4. Toolbar

5. Toolbar Description

6. Importing Files into Premiere

7. Sequence

8. Titles

9. Video Motion

10. Video Opacity

11. Transitions Panel

12. Effects Panel

13. Color Correction

14. Adjusting Video Speed

15. Saving Your Project

16. Exporting Your Video

17. Conclusion

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. GETTING STARTED

Begin by opening Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

On a PC, click Start > All Programs > Adobe > Adobe Premiere Pro CC, or click on

the Premiere Pro short cut on the desktop. (Figure 1)

On a Mac, click Applications > Adobe Premiere Pro CC, or click the Premiere Pro

icon in the Dock. (Figure 2)

Figure 2

2. SETTING UP A NEW PROJECT

Setting up your project correctly from the start will make your job much easier as you work

through your project. When starting your project, you are going to set up your general video settings and

your scratch disks. This will tell premiere where exactly you want everything to be saved and the videos

general settings.

Figure 3

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1. When starting Premiere Pro CC, you will be prompted to start a new project. To create a new project

within Premiere Pro CC, click File > New > Project. This will open the Project Settings dialog box.

Here you will be able to set the duration and size of your composition. Options include, but are not

limited to:

Name: This is the name your project will be saved as.

Location: By clicking browse, you can navigate to the place in which you choose to have your

project le save to.

General: This is where you set up the formats of each part of your project. You set the video

display, audio display, and capture display settings.

NOTE: when you drag your video clips into your project sequence later, premiere sets all of

these settings for you.

Scratch Disks: This is where you set the destination for premiere to save the captured video,

captured audio, video previews, audio previews, and project auto save les.

NOTE: Make a folder for your project and create a folder within that titled “cache”. Save all

your scratch disks to the “cache” folder that you created.

2. When you have entered all of your composition settings, click OK.

NOTE: If you enter incorrect information in the Project Settings dialog box, or if you need to

adjust any of this information while you are working, you can make changes any time by clicking File >

Project Settings > General.

2. SETTING UP A NEW PROJECT CONT.

3. WORK SPACE

The Work Space is the entire area of premiere. It is broken into different panels which all serve a

different purpose for creating a video. When starting premiere, all the panels will be blank until you

bring video and audio les into the program. See Figure 4 for an example of a new Work Space.

Figure 4

Project Video Display: This area is where you see your project timeline displayed. The point your

marker is placed on the timeline is what will show up in this window. If you play your project, this

is the window where you will see it played in real time.

Selected Clip Display: This is the area where a selected clip will be displayed. You can select a clip

from your project timeline or your project panel and it will show up in this window. Along with the clip

view, you can select the effect controls tab in this panel to display video and audio effects you can

control such as video sizing, video blending modes, and volume controls.

Project Panel: The project panel is where you import all your les. You can import video les, audio

les, and pictures. You can group your les together using a folder system called bins. Your sequences

also show up as les in this panel.

Project Timeline: This is where the timeline of your project is displayed. Your project timeline is

referred to as a sequence. You can have multiple sequences in a project and they can be selected from

the project panel. Within the project timeline, you can layout your project les. You can get les into

your project timeline by dragging and dropping les from the project panel to the project timeline.

Toolbar: This is where all the different tools you can use are located. They all have various useful

purposes that are covered in the next section.

3. WORK SPACE CONT.

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Exploring the Work Space:

A. Project Video Display

B. Selected Clip Display

C. Project Panel

D. Project Timeline

E. Toolbar

The workspace is lled up with many different panels. Each one has its own purpose that helps

create a video. Figure 5 shows you the different panels of the premiere workspace:

Selection Tool (V)

This is the most used tool. It can select a clip by clicking on a clip in the timeline. You can also resize the

clip length by hovering over either end of the clip and then click and drag left or right.

Track Select Forward Tool (A)

This allows you to click on a clip and it selects everything from that point forward in your timeline.

Ripple Edit Tool (B)

Click and drag the edge of a clip to change length and it moves the rest of the les in your timeline.

Type Tool (T)

Allows you to add text wherever you click on the composition.

Razor tool (C)

Use to cut a clip by hovering over a clip and clicking. It cuts the clip into two different pieces.

Slip tool (Y)

Select a clip and simultaniously change the in and out points of the clip without changing its length.

When working in Premiere Pro, you will utilize the toolbar often. (Figure 6) Each

different tool within the tool bar has a distinct different purpose. Utilizing all of

the toolbar’s capabilities will help save on time and efciency when creating your

video.

4. TOOLBAR

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5. TOOLBOX DESCRIPTION

Pen Tool (P)

Use this to set or select keyframes. Also used to adjust connector lines in a timeline.

Hand Tool (H)

This is used to move the viewing area of your timeline by clicking and dragging right or left.

5. TOOL DESCRIPTION CONT.

6. IMPORTING FILES INTO PREMIERE

1. To import les into Premiere Pro, click File > Import or double click the project panel. This

will open the Import File dialog box. Here you will be able to navigate to and select the le(s) that you

would like to bring into your project.

Common File Types:

AVI - Video le type

MP4 - Video le type

MOV - Quicktime video format

JPG- Image/Photo le

MP3- Music/audio track

2. After you have chosen the le(s) that you would like to import, click Import.

7. SEQUENCE

1. When working in Premiere Pro, your project time line is refered to as a Sequence. To start a new

sequence, click File > New > Sequence. Figure 7 shows the new sequence dialog box that lets you

pick your sequence settings and name your sequence.

Figure 7

7. SEQUENCE CONT.

2. After starting a sequence, you can drag and drop video les, audio les, and photos into the sequence.

Figure 8 shows a sequence with les in it. The top half of the sequence timeline is video le layers labeled

as V1, V2, etc. The bottom half is audio le layers labeled as A1, A2, etc.

3. There are some helpful buttons to use in a sequence’s layer sidebar. The most used are:

Track Output: turns the visibility of the layer on and off in the project display window.

Lock: locks a layer from being editable.

Mute: mutes an audio layer from being heard during playback.

Figure 8

8. TITLES

1. Create a new Title by going to File > New > Legacy Title

2. This will bring up the New Title window. Figure 10 shows the New Title window. Here is where you

can set the size of your title screen and name it.

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8. TITLES CONT.

3. After choosing your settings, a Title Editing window will come up. Figure 11 shows the window and all

the different areas within it.

A - Title editing area

B - Tool Bar

C - Title Properties

D - Title Styles

Title Editing Area: this is the area

that you make your title screen. You

can make shapes, put down text, and

many other things.

Tool Bar: this is where all the tools

are located to use for your title. The

most commonly used are the Type

Tool and the Shapes Tools.

Title Properties: this window shows the properties of a selected item in your editing window.

Common things you can adjust in this window:

Title Styles: this window has presets for typography styles. By selecting a style in this

window and clicking in the editable area, you can use the font presets.

Font Styles: here you can chose the font family and font style of

your text

Stroke: you can use this to outline your text. Inner Stroke will

outline the inside of your text and Outer Stroke will outline the

outside of your text.

Drop Shadows: here you can add a shadow behind your text.

Color: changes the color of the shadow

Opacity: changes the transparency of the shadow

Angle: changes to angle in which the shadow is cast

Distance: changes how far the shadow is from the text

Size: changes the size of the shadow

Spread: changes how far the shadow spreads out

Figure 10. Title editing window

Figure 11. Font style editing box

Figure 12. Stroke editing box

Figure 13. Shadow editing box

9. VIDEO MOTION

1. The Video Motion panel allows you to adjust very basic elements of your video. To nd it, select the

video that you want to adjust on your timeline. Then look at the window at the top left of your screen.

Select the Effect Controls tab. Then click the Motion drop down arrow.

Position: moves your video left/right or up/down.

Scale: increases or decreases the size. If you wanted your video to scale only horizontally or vertically,

you can uncheck Uniform Scale and have access to those adjustments.

Rotation: adjusts your 2d-rotation of the video left or right, depending on the direction you drag the

number.

Anchor Point: adjust the point from which your video scales, moves, or rotates.

Anti-icker Filter: allows you to eliminate icker that tends to occur when putting images in your

timeline that have sharp lines.

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10. VIDEO OPACITY

1. The Video Opacity panel allows you to adjust other very basic elements of your video. It is located

under the same Effect Controls panel that “Motion” was under. Click the “Opacity” drop down arrow.

2. Mask: a system allows you to draw shapes that hide or reveal footage relative to that shape. The

Circle and Rectangle buttons draw those respective shapes in your footage. The pen tool allows you to

draw your own shape. By default, the mask you drew will reveal footage only within that mask. If you

would like it to hide footage inside of it, the Inverted checkbox will make that happen.

Mask Path: allows you to drag the mask elsewhere on the footage.

Feather: option softens the edge of your mask.

Opacity: adjusts the visibility of the footage inside of your mask.

Expansion: allows you to detract or add space inside or outside of the shape you drew.

3. Opacity: allows you to adjusts the overall visibility of your footage.

Blend Mode allows you to change how pixels in the image are affected by other layers below it.

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11. TRANSITIONS PANEL

1. Transitions allow you to make seamless crossovers from one clip to another, be it audio or video. To

nd the transitions, look to the bottom left of your workspace and click the Effects tab. Within this

tab there are two different types of transition folders. One labeled Video Transitions and the other

labeled Audio Transitions.

Video Transitions Audio Transitions

2. To apply the transitions, open one of the folders, grab the transition you want and drag it onto the

edges of the two clips you want a transition between. The dissolve folder would contain transitions that

most people are used to seeing for videos.

12. EFFECTS PANEL

1. Effects allow you to make adjustments to your clips that range from distorting your clips, to reducing

hums in the background of your audio, to adding a drop shadow to your video. To access these effects,

look to the bottom left of your workspace and select the Effects tab. Within this tab, there are two

folders that involve effects:

Video Effects

Audio Effects

13. COLOR CORRECTION

1. There are multiple ways to color correct your video. Among the most popular effects for this task are

the RGB curves, and Tint. To access these effects, look to the bottom left portion of your workspace

and Click on Effects > Video Effects > Color Correction. A drop down list will contain the above-

stated effects.

Figure 17. Color Correction Dropdown

12. EFFECTS PANEL CONT.

2. To apply the effects, open one of the folders, grab the effect you want and drag it onto the clip that

you want. You can change how the effect changes your video under the Effect Controls panel at the

top left of your workspace.

Figure 16. Effect Controls Panel

13. COLOR CORRECTION CONT.

3. Curves is a useful tool to make minor adjustments to your color. It contains a Red, Green, Blue, and

Master adjustment. To raise the brightness of a color, you would simply click on the diagonal line of that

color, and raise it up. To remove that color from the image, you would simply pull that line downards.

The Master channel changes the brightness of the image in the same way. Another useful feature of the

curves effect is the ability to change the contrast. You can do this by making a slight “S” shape with the

diagonal line.

4. The Tint effect allows you to change the overall color of your image, desaturate your image, or make

it entirely black and white. By default, the Tint effect makes your image black and white. To change the

color of your image, you would click once in the “Map White To” colored box. This allows you to change

the color. If you left your “Map White To” color as white, any percantage above 0% will start to desaurate

your original image.

Figure 18. Contrast added with RGB Curves

14. ADJUSTING VIDEO SPEED

1. Select the clip in your timeline that you’d like to adjust and hit Command + R, or Clip > Speed/

Duration....

2. The Clip Speed/Duration window should pop up allowing you to adjust the percentage of the speed

relative to the original, as well as the option to reverse it, maintain the audio pitch, and ripple edit the

trailing clips.

3. To slow down the footage, insert a “Speed” number lower than 100%. Conversely, speeding the

footage up requires a number higher than 100%.

Figure 20. Clip Duration Pop-up Window

Figure 19. Tint Effect

15. SAVING YOUR PROJECT

1. Remember to save your work often. Saving frequently reduces the risk of losing the work you

have been doing. To save your Premiere Pro project, go to File > Save as. This will bring up the Save

Project dialog box that you see in Figure 21.

2. Make sure to save your project under an “Adobe Premiere Pro Project” format. This allows you to go

back and make changes to your project.

3. Once you have renamed your le and chose where you want to save it, click Save.

Figure 21. Save Project dialog box

16. EXPORTING YOUR VIDEO

1. Once you have completed your project, you will want to export it. Simply press File > Export >

Media.... An “Export Settings” window will pop up that should look like Figure 22.

Figure 22. Render Queue

14. ADJUSTING VIDEO SPEED Cont.

4. “Reverse Speed” ips your clip so it plays backwards. “Maintain Audio Pitch” keeps the same pitch

of the clip as the original. “Ripple Edit” means that the clips following the one that you’re changing will

maintain the same distance that it held from that clip after the time conversion.

17. CONCLUSION

After reading this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of Adobe Premiere Pro. Please come to

the Collab Lab if you have any questions about this tutorial or would like to learn more. The Collab Lab

is located in room 122 of the Jerome Library.

2. Here you have control over all the settings that you’d like your movie to export under. If you are

satised with the settings, click the blue text next to “Output name”. A window will pop up that will

allow you to edit the le name, and where the exported le will appear once completed.

3. At the bottom of that window should be an “Estimated File Size” text that will give you a rough idea

of how big your le will be. If this le size is too big, you have the ability to trim your project down, or

export the le under a different preset that will compress the nal product more.

4. Click Export.

5. A pop-up window will show you the estimated time left to completion, as well as a progress bar

indicating how much of the project has exported.

6. Once completed, play your video to make sure that your video is working correctly.

16. EXPORTING YOUR VIDEO CONT.