now that we have a little bit of a better idea of what these different panels are. Let's go ahead and import our footage. Going to drag this up just a bit to make our project panel a bit bigger so we can see it more clearly to import media. There's lots of different ways we can do it. We can double click just right within the project panel itself. We can go up to file import or we can press command I on our computers. Command I for Mac users control I for pc users, I'm using a Mac. So whenever I say can man you'll use a control button on a pc. Another way is just to simply drag and drop your files right here. So let's do it a couple of ways. Let's double click here, you'll find a resources folder. It's a zipped up folder that I've put together for you in the supplemental resources of this course. So you can unzip that and you'll see there's video clips, photos, music, and a lut. We'll talk about all these things throughout the course. But let's start out with the video clips to select ...

one video clip to import, you can just find that one and click import or you can select multiple. I'm just selecting the top one and then pressing shift and clicking the last one to select multiple. Or if you have specific ones you want to import, you can command click control, click if you're on a pc the ones that you want to import. I'm just going to select all of these and say import So that imports of our video clips to our project. Let's stay organized as we go. Let's create a new bin or a new folder by clicking this new bin button right here. You can also right click and say new bin or you can press command B. Control B for your Windows people and then type in the name of this bin. I'm just going to call it video for now and I'm going to select all of these clips, selecting the top one shift, clicking the bottom one and drag it into this bin or this folder. We can open and close these folders with the dropdown toggle on the left hand side. An easier way to import. A folder is to just drag and drop it in. So I'm going over to my finder on my Mac. I'm pressing command tab. There's an option to do that. I think it's control tab to tab between your different applications you have open on your computer and I can simply click my photos folder and drag it into my project. And you can see now it has that photos folder. It also has a music folder that I'm going to Dragon. And this is all copyright free music that you can use. I found it on the Youtube audio library, which is a free to use music library for your video projects. Commercial or personal projects. So these are all the files will import, will learn about the letter later on. We can organize the video even further or any of these files any further. I'm going to add a new bin and call it B roll B roll is any of the video photos or graphics that you cut away to or you inter cut with the main shot for example, in a documentary, your main shot might be your interview and then you might cut away to some action footage or some kind of video that describes more about what the person is talking about. And let me just open up these clips to show you what I'm talking about. So we have interview a an interview B camera and these are the interview video clips and then I have this B roll, just extra footage that we shot that shows more about the person's life. It's the descriptor, it's just that additional footage. So I'm going to move all of this footage, that's not the interview footage into a B roll folder. Depending on how big my project is. I might have many B roll folders. This is actually from a documentary. I'm making a short documentary about Anthony and in the actual documentary project. I have B roll folders for our street session for his photo editing session for um when he was with his wife, all kinds of folders and then I'm also going to add an interview folder to put this interview footage. The key with organization is that there's no set rules. I just want you to be organized so that you can find your footage when you're looking for it. And that's the key thing to be able to find footage when you're looking for it. I try to keep my folder structure similar to how to how it is in my documents. So if you look at my finder you see I've music photos and video clips. And usually this is just called video actually. But I titled that video clips for this folder and that's how I keep the structure of my project file in my project of premiere pro. And then sometimes I have a graphics folder. Sometimes I have a an audio folder if I have sound effects or or voice over or something like that. But for here we just have music photos and video clips. And that's how we're going to keep it here in our project panel. We can rename these bins or these files if you would like. So say we want to add more description. So here's photo one and photo to. We can rename it by just selecting it, pressing return on your keyboard or it's the enter space on your keyboard. If you're on a pc and just typing a new name, photo of Anthony and Laramie, which is his wife who was his wife at beach beach. Let me spell that right. Photo two. Open it up and I'll rename this photo of Anthony and Loni in front of the building. So it depends on how much you want to get involved with renaming. Sometimes I won't rename files. Sometimes I will. It just depends on how big the project is. Just a quick mention. A couple of things you'll see um in this project panel are these tabs? So we have the name, we have the frame rate. So this is the frame rate of the video that we shot. If I scroll to the left using this slider at the bottom, you can see lots more information. So you can kinda just see all of the different information we have for each of these clips, video clips or audio clips alike. That's how you import and organize footage. Please go ahead if you haven't done so already import the footage that I've included in the supplemental resources and organize it in a similar way. Thanks. And we'll see you in the next lesson.

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Importing and Organizing

Importing and Organizing

Lesson Info

3. Importing and Organizing

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video