Straight to Media Encoder basic editing & joining footage

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146 lessons / 17 hours 49 quiz questions 14 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
• There won’t be anything you can’t mask or blur.
• We will get your computer running at warp speed using Proxies, Scratch Disk & Cache management. 
• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi there, in this video we're going to look at going straight to Media Encoder, going around Premiere Pro, not even having it open. I'll show you how to just kind of do small edits using Media Encoder, and I'll show you how to join footage using Media Encoder. All right, let's get started. 

Now for basic edits you can actually just use Media Encoder, straight without Premiere Pro, rather than like dumping them into a sequence, and then bringing them into here, just to do simple trims or re-encoding. So I do this very often, like especially for my exercise files here, let's say I want to grab all of these and I need to add a watermark, or make them really small, I can drag them straight into Media Encoder. 

You can do basic edits, remember, you can do it with the in point, and over here you can either drag them, or you can click on this. Your I and your O works in here for in and out points as well. It might be that you need to just remove the audio, there's a lot of things you can just drag straight in here. You don't have to use-- I do a lot of dragging and drop, from my Finder or the Windows, you can use your media browser, it's the same, look, media browser, oh, I've got Premiere Pro closed, so I can't show you, but remember, we did the media browser earlier in the course, it's the same thing up here, they're not connected, like the favorites don't come along, but over here, remember, with the media browser you often end up in here, and you're like the wasteland of the back end of your operating system. 

If you go to the top here and say, Local Drives, actually, that's the default, go to 'Home Directory', and you end up at a nicer spot, and in my case, I do a lot of my work in Dropbox, and I can say, actually, I want to add this episode here, right click it to 'My Favorites', because I need to do a lot of work in here. Then under my, that logo, I can switch to 'List View', and I can start looking at my raw files, and I can actually start maybe re-encoding these, making changes, dumping them into here. 

Not much different from what I was doing, dragging this way, except you get all the benefits of being able to, kind of do that previewing stuff, so we can actually see things using this, especially if there are maybe file formats, that your finder can't process very well. Same benefits of using the media browser in Premiere Pro. 

Another feature of Media Encoder allows you to join footage, so I'm going to get rid of this, let's say that you want to grab these ones, and watch this, when I drag them over, you get the option, down here, if you just drag them normally, you'll end up with Add Separate Sources, like we just did. Can you see this option over here, says Stitch Them Together, so this will actually make them one big long video, so we can go, you see, those are the sources, you can reorder them if you want to make sure that one's first and this one, it might be a bunch of B-roll that you need, to kind of send out as one format for somebody to watch, and what you might do is add that time code. 

So remember, under 'Effects', scroll down to find 'Time Code Overlay', and at least now that they can go through and say, yes, no, at this many minutes, this is the one we want to use. I don't use it very often, it's a feature, you might find a really good use for it. If you do let us know in the comments, because it seems cool when I discovered it, but I haven't found a really good use case for it, but let me know what you're doing, and how it might help. 

There is a longer way if you're not into that whole dragging and dropping thing. You can actually do it via, either right clicking them here, and 'Stitch Them Together', but if you're not using the media browser, you can, when you add sources you can hit '+', you can grab a bunch of these things, let's say we're going to join all these up for some reason, where it says Options, you can say 'Stitch Them Together', does the same thing. 

 All right, that is going straight to Media Encoder, I go straight to it all the time to do simple edits, to make smaller sizes, to add watermarks. We'll do watermarks in a video coming up, heck, let's do it next because I've mentioned it, amazing for bulk edits, combining it with your presets, you can be a media encoder superstar. All right, on to the next video.

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