Adobe Premiere Pro Basics
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing app developed by Adobe Systems and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. First launched in 2003, Adobe Premiere Pro is a successor of Adobe Premiere.
it is a very advanced software that can be used for making not just normal videos but for making movies, commercials, etc and a lot of professionals use this software to create professional-looking movies.
This software is not just any normal software that you can download and start using the next hour, it requires learning, understanding, executing and the most important practicing, to master the software.
Well, we aren't going to talk about how to master the software in this blog, let us leave that topic for another one.
So now you have an idea about what the software does, now let's talk about how to use this software, in other words, let us get into the basics of the software.
Above is an image of how the interface of Adobe Premiere Pro looks like,
at first, you will find it extremely confusing but you will get to know things with time.
Alright so let us start from the top, on the top you will see 8 tabs which are extremely important to understand, the first one is 'File' which can be used to Import/ Export projects and media files, under the 'Edit' tab you can change the preferences and key bindings, the 'Clip' tab can be used for creating/ modifying the clips and for many other tasks but lets keep it basic for now, under the 'Sequence' tab you can create/ change the sequence settings, Premiere Pro has a vast number of supported file formats which you can select under this tab, the rest three tabs are not much necessary to understand right now.
By default in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019, there are 9 workspaces present which are fully customizable, you can create/ modify your own workspace.
Let us learn about the various panels in Premiere Pro,
1: This is the Timeline, a place where you will spend more than 90% of your editing time, this is the place where all the media files like Images, Videos, and Audio meet, after creating a new sequence you will bring all the media files over here and start editing.
2: From here, you can control the effects that you will apply to the clip, you can adjust the position, scale, size, opacity, etc under the Effects control Tab, whenever you apply a new effect to the clip, you will come here to make any adjustment, it is a place where magic happens, a seed is turned into a whole grown tree.
3: This is the Program panel where you will be able to see what you are editing, basically it is a panel which will show you the clip which you are editing.
4: This is a place where you will need to come every time while making any kind of video, yes, it is the Effects panel, a place where the key to the magical world is hidden, you will find a lot of effects over here that you can apply on your clip which will make your clip better, it contains not just some video effects but everything from transitions to color correction, and a lot more, we will talk about this panel in detail later.
5: This is the Lumetri Color Panel, you can color correct/ color grade your clips from here, every little adjustment to the look of the clip could be made over here.
6: The Project Panel is the place where you will import all the media files, this is where you would begin your editing by importing all the files.
Alright, so now you have an idea of how the interface of Premiere Pro looks like, so now let us start editing our project.
So the first thing that you need to do is to open Adobe Premiere Pro, it will take some time to load depending upon the speed of your computer, after it gets loaded, click on File > New Project > Give the Project a name > Click ok, and a new project will be created.
Now you need to create a new Sequence, A sequence is a project within your Adobe Premiere Pro project that will appear in the Timeline Panel with the media composed and edited together.
There are two ways to create a new sequence:
1) The first one is the easiest, all you need to do is drag and drop any clip into the timeline and a new sequence will be automatically created, in this case, you don't need to worry about changing the sequence settings.
2) The other way to create a new sequence is after creating a new project, go to File > New > Sequence, here it will ask you to adjust the sequence settings, there are a lot of sequence settings available in Premiere Pro, under the Sequence Presets tab you can select a preset that matches the settings (dimensions) of your clip, or you can change the sequence settings under the settings tab manually,
once you select all the required settings, click on ok and a new sequence would be created.
Let us learn about the various panels in Premiere Pro,
1: This is the Timeline, a place where you will spend more than 90% of your editing time, this is the place where all the media files like Images, Videos, and Audio meet, after creating a new sequence you will bring all the media files over here and start editing.
2: From here, you can control the effects that you will apply to the clip, you can adjust the position, scale, size, opacity, etc under the Effects control Tab, whenever you apply a new effect to the clip, you will come here to make any adjustment, it is a place where magic happens, a seed is turned into a whole grown tree.
3: This is the Program panel where you will be able to see what you are editing, basically it is a panel which will show you the clip which you are editing.
4: This is a place where you will need to come every time while making any kind of video, yes, it is the Effects panel, a place where the key to the magical world is hidden, you will find a lot of effects over here that you can apply on your clip which will make your clip better, it contains not just some video effects but everything from transitions to color correction, and a lot more, we will talk about this panel in detail later.
5: This is the Lumetri Color Panel, you can color correct/ color grade your clips from here, every little adjustment to the look of the clip could be made over here.
6: The Project Panel is the place where you will import all the media files, this is where you would begin your editing by importing all the files.
Alright, so now you have an idea of how the interface of Premiere Pro looks like, so now let us start editing our project.
So the first thing that you need to do is to open Adobe Premiere Pro, it will take some time to load depending upon the speed of your computer, after it gets loaded, click on File > New Project > Give the Project a name > Click ok, and a new project will be created.
Now you need to create a new Sequence, A sequence is a project within your Adobe Premiere Pro project that will appear in the Timeline Panel with the media composed and edited together.
There are two ways to create a new sequence:
1) The first one is the easiest, all you need to do is drag and drop any clip into the timeline and a new sequence will be automatically created, in this case, you don't need to worry about changing the sequence settings.
2) The other way to create a new sequence is after creating a new project, go to File > New > Sequence, here it will ask you to adjust the sequence settings, there are a lot of sequence settings available in Premiere Pro, under the Sequence Presets tab you can select a preset that matches the settings (dimensions) of your clip, or you can change the sequence settings under the settings tab manually,
once you select all the required settings, click on ok and a new sequence would be created.
Now it is the time to import media files into the timeline, there are three ways to do that:
1) Simply drag and drop the media files into the timeline.
2) Go to File > Import.
3) Click Ctrl+I on your keyboard.
If you import files using the 2nd or the 3rd way listed above, then the files would appear in the Project Panel, you need to drag and drop them into the timeline panel to start editing.
Now you must be seeing a lot of Panels and options everywhere on the screen, don't get confused, I am still here to help you out,
let us start from the Timeline Panel, you will see all the media files over here, a 'double-line' separates the audio and video files, you can extend any panel from the edges of the Panel, if you right-click on any clip you will see a lot of options to work with.
let us start from the Timeline Panel, you will see all the media files over here, a 'double-line' separates the audio and video files, you can extend any panel from the edges of the Panel, if you right-click on any clip you will see a lot of options to work with.
From here you can Cut, Copy, Clear, Render, Enable/ Disable, Nest, Label, Rename, change the speed, etc of the media files.
If you want to add any audio files into the project then you need to place it below the 'double-line' marking at the center of the Timeline Panel, you can have as many video and audio tracks as you want.
On the left of the Timeline Panel, you will see a lot of options that enables you to lock/ unlock, mute/ unmute the track, a particular track.
On the right of the Timeline Panel, you will see a vertical bar that shows the audio levels of the clip being played.
To view the Program Panel from a larger size, click on the twiddle key (~) on your keyboard which is basically the key right below the escape button, and for viewing the video in fullscreen mode simply click the 'Ctrl+ ~' key on your keyboard.
Alright so that was everything about the basics of Premiere Pro Part 1, let us leave any other topic to be discussed for another day
I hope that this blog helped you in some other way, stay tuned for upcoming blogs, goodbye!
If you want to add any audio files into the project then you need to place it below the 'double-line' marking at the center of the Timeline Panel, you can have as many video and audio tracks as you want.
On the left of the Timeline Panel, you will see a lot of options that enables you to lock/ unlock, mute/ unmute the track, a particular track.
On the right of the Timeline Panel, you will see a vertical bar that shows the audio levels of the clip being played.
To view the Program Panel from a larger size, click on the twiddle key (~) on your keyboard which is basically the key right below the escape button, and for viewing the video in fullscreen mode simply click the 'Ctrl+ ~' key on your keyboard.
Alright so that was everything about the basics of Premiere Pro Part 1, let us leave any other topic to be discussed for another day
I hope that this blog helped you in some other way, stay tuned for upcoming blogs, goodbye!
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