How to make a Black & White video in Premiere Pro

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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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

Hi everyone, this video is all about making black and white videos. The short version is, you select your clip, go to 'Lumetri Color' and pick 'Monochrome', from the Creative Look Panel, but this video goes into a little bit more detail, mainly around, sequences, and kind of getting multiple sequences going in our learning experience. So hang around for that as well. All right, let's jump in, let's make some black and white video. 

What I want to do first is, let's go back to our 'Project Window'. So remember this little arrow here and go back to 'Project'. What I'm looking for is-- you might have to close them all up, tidy it up a little bit. I want to find our footage. I'm going to use the little arrow to get into it. I'm going to open 'C Cam', and I'm going to go down to something called 'CO19'. That's why I like List View for looking for file names. 

What we're going to do is right click it, and we're going to go to 'New Sequence from Clip'. It's giving it the same name as our movie. Yours are going to be dot mp4, '.mp4', because I've reformatted them to make them a little smaller for the exercise files, but it should have the same name. We're going to call this one Experiments; Experi-ments, that's close enough. Now it's in the wrong folder, remember how to get it back to the root? You click, hold, vaguely drag it around here, and it should disappear from that list; scroll up, and there it is down here. Experiments, that does it for me. Cool. 

So what we're going to do is we're going to experiment with black and white, plus a few other effects we'll learn in the next couple of videos, and I want you to get used to toggling between these two Timelines. You now have a project with more than one sequence. We're going to keep it pretty light for this course, but I want to show you a file, wait there. So this is a file I just grabbed out of my archive, because it looked impressive. Look how many, can you see all these folders here? So this is one Premiere Pro project that has 92 different separate sequences in it. So you can see, it's up in number 3. There's a video that I've made, it's the third video in this series, and is a 4K version, but I also made a version that's not 4k. I made a version that gives away some free stuff at the end, so there's a different version of it. 

They're all separated into their own little bins, there's a 4K and an HD version, and that goes on forever. So you can get projects that are huge, in terms of the amount of sequences they have. You can see, all mine are open over here, all the different Timelines. My media's missing at the moment because I didn't want to, download and link all that up because it takes forever, but just know that we've got two new projects now, right? 

We've got our Wedding one and our new Experiments. We're going to toggle between them, but you might end up with ten, five, or me, a hundred and-- well, was it 92. So I've now got two projects open at the same time, which is real confusing, we looked at this earlier, I'm going to go to 'Close the Current Project'. And by doing that you need to be on the project when it closed, not this one, I want to close this one, this is just an example for you. You don't have this file so you can't play along, but I'm just going to show you. I close this project, and this is going to disappear, all the sequences that are all open, in a second. I'll speed it up, and I'll see you again in a sec. 

All right, so we're back, we're in Experiments, practiced toggling between these two. What we're going to do with this one here, is we're going to apply the black and white look. So with it selected here, make sure Lumetri Color's open, remember, 'Window', Lumetri Color', and where it says Creative, click on that, go to 'Look'. You've probably discovered these already. Let's go to 'Noir'. So either of these three, 1965, I quite liked, but you can maybe click through them, click on them, decide. 

Now the thing is, with black and white there's different kinds of black and white. There's another one here called Monochrome, where are you? There's, these group, different-- They have these things like Kodak and Fuji, just to kind of represent old-style actual physical film. Remember, you might not remember, but there were film that went into cameras, and they were-- Kodak had their version and Fuji had their version, of what black and white should look like, and they're just different, and it tries to mimic it here digitally. 

Anyway, pick your black and white. What you can do though is once you've picked that Look you might go back down to Basic Correction, and start adjusting it in here. Things like the blacks and whites, and shadows, and against there, at the bottom, and just kind of work through and decide what works for you in this film, to get it how you want it to be. 

What I think is quite cool when you are doing black and white, is to look under Creative, I click these words just to close them up because it does get confusing. So under-- close down Basic Correction, open up Creative, and the Faded Film effect is pretty cool. Just kind of built into there. So you can decide on, whether that works for you. Let's add some noise in the next video. Kind of hopefully finish off our lovely black and white look. 

Lastly, before we go, let's just practice toggling between these two, closing that one down, you can close both of them down. There's still here, my Project Window, so I can open up Experiments, and Wedding if I need to, I can close down Wedding, but still have Experiments open. Was getting used to having multiple sequence in a Premiere Pro project. One project, potentially lots of sequences. In this case there might be a small version and a long version, like a 36-- a 30-second version that's kind of more of a promo one and then a real long version. 

That's what we had for-- that's what I had for my wedding. Just a short one, everyone. Good to see, was quite cool and quickie, didn't last very long. Then there was the one that only me, Mum, and Nanna sat down and watched where-- it's the really wrong-- and my wife, sat down and watched. So in this case you might have two sequences. All right, let's get into the next video, we'll look at Film Grain.
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