Getting started with editing a wedding video in Premiere Pro

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Course contents
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Weird Stuff I wish I knew when I started with Premiere 16:39
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Project 2 - Wedding 2:46:34
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Audio 2:27:17
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Final Class Project 8:20
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Shortcuts 33:06

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Course info

142 lessons / 16 hours 34 quiz questions 10 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor.

I am here to help you learn Adobe Premiere Pro and to show you the tools you need to become a successful video editor. Premiere Pro is the industry standard used by professional designers to create stunning, high class videos and, after completing this course, you too can become a confident, skillful and efficient creator of stunning videos. 

This course is aimed at people who are completely new to Premiere Pro. 

If you are self taught using Premiere, this course will show you techniques you never dreamed were necessary or possible and will show you efficiencies to help speed up your workflow.

The course covers many topics - all of them on a step-by-step basis. We will use real world video editing examples to work through:
  • An interview
  • A wedding video
  • A short commercial
  • A documentary
  • Social media advertising videos
  • YouTube ‘how to’ videos
  • Talking head footage mixed with screencasts and voiceovers

We will work with text, animation, motion gfx, special effects and we will add music to our video.

We will learn how to do colour correction, colour balancing and also how to create amazing video transitions within our movie. Technical ‘guru’ topics such as HD v 4K, frames per second, exporting work, fixing up bad audio, balancing and synching audio will all become manageable tasks for you. Best of all...I will show you amazing shortcuts and techniques to speed up your workflow.

Throughout the course we will work on mini projects and I will be suggesting assignments which will add value to your portfolio.

Start your Premiere Pro training now and fast track your career as a video editor.

* Please note, you have full permission to transform and upload any work using footage of Daniel as a part of this course. 
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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Transcript

Hey everyone, it is time for another project. We are going to edit this 'Wedding'. So let's have a little look through it, just to kind of see where we're heading. 

"Marriage is what brings us together today." "Marriage, that blessed arrangement." "That dream within a dream." "Marriage is the promise between two people, who love each other." "To trust that love." "To honour one another as individual." 

Okay, you get the idea. So we got lots of footage taken on a wedding. We're going to add music, there is a nice kind of a dialogue from the celebrant, we're going to mix in. We're going to do filters, to kind of give it a look. Yeah, lots to learn in this particular course. So let's jump in. 

All right, before we start inputting the footage, I need to know a slight difference, between my footage that I'm going to be using and the stuff I've given you. You'll see, this is my stuff that I'd be using in the course. The big difference is that, you'll notice down the bottom here, there is no watermark, the ones that I've given you, have to have a watermark, can you see, footage provided by EditStock. It just means like, EditStock is a company that has supplied me footage for this course. It's a paid thing, that they sell. So Misha there said, "You can use it, you just got to keep it watermarked for your students." 

If you do want to remove the watermark-- there's no real difference other than, it's an annoying watermark, if you want to use it for your portfolio, or-- we've got just a limited amount as well. Part of the deal is, I get to use a few of the footage, but not every single thing from the whole wedding. So we've got a limited amount, there is probably another 200 videos that you can use, that are downloadable from EditStock. 

So if you do want to use it, for whatever reason, either you just want to remove the watermark, because you want to use it for your portfolio, or that you want to get more footage for this wedding, because there's going to be a project at the end, you don't have to, you can go out to EditStock, go to bringyourownlaptop.com/editstock. 

Also note that some of the links that I do in this course are affiliate links, just means, misha@editstock gives me a small commission on any purchases that you make. You can go around me by going to EditStock directly, but these guys are pretty amazing regardless. 

The cool thing about EditStock is that, if you want to become, or practice being an editor, especially if you want to kind of get out, of just editing your own YouTube videos, or whatever you're doing, the cool thing about this is you can go in and actually start looking at films. EditStock have done deals with kind of independent film makers, and what it is, is, let's say you want to start working on a music video, or let's look at 'Wedding', because that's the one we're working on. Click on 'Wedding'. You can grab the rest of this 'Wedding'. Kammes, Krammes, Kemes? Can't remember, but you can see in here, you can download it, it's not that expensive, 29 US dollars, and you get all the footage, high quality, no watermarks, and you get to play around with it. 

They give you the ability and the license to actually start editing it, and adding it to your own portfolio, and practicing. The cool thing about it is, there's so many cool things in here, you wouldn't get a chance to edit otherwise. It's hard to become a world famous editor, when you don't get to work with world famous directors and camera people. So there's really cool stuff in here you can practice with. So check it out, go to bringyourownlaptop.com/editstock, and you can download the rest of the wedding footage, if you want to remove the watermark, but it's not essential to this course.

I've got everything that we need right here. The other thing I didn't mention is, obviously, there's lots of other things you can practice with. We're going to do a couple more from EditStock, as part of the course, but there is loads up here, just, of amazing, kind of raw footage that you can start editing yourself, and practicing. I practiced with the Jacuzzi the other day, just because it was shot in New Zealand, and uses New Zealand actors, and that's where I'm from. It was just a really nice experience to work on stuff. I end up, tend to working on, kind of video that's less in the, kind of cinematic shot film world, and more in the going up to the internet type world, so it was really fun doing that. 

The other cool thing is that the-- people that make the film get a commission on the sale as well. So it's just a way to kind of-- it feels like a bit of a win-win. They get to share their footage, you get to edit it, which is really hard, to get hold of raw footage, and they get a bit of a cut back, which is really cool. Lots of cool stuff on here, but let's get back into editing our Wedding video.
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