Importing Parkour footage into Premiere Pro

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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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Hey everyone, in this video we are going to create a sequence, import footage, and you're like, "We've done this loads of times," we have. I'll throw in another little shortcut, to make it a little bit more worth your while, but just some basic setup before we get into our project. 

Let's get started, let's go to 'File', 'New Project', or hit the big button, and in this case we're going to call this one 'Parkour V1'. We're going to stick it in, we've got a folder in our 'Exercise Files', 'Project 5 - Parkour', and inside of here, 'Project Files', that's where I keep everything. Let's click 'Choose', and basically when you are, from intro to medium level, you won't change anything else on the screen. You will move into some of the more hardcore ones in the advanced parts, but for the most part just click 'OK'. Just need to tell it what it's called, and where it goes. 

So you might get this quite often, like I do, because I'm forever plugging speakers in and microphones in, and Premiere Pro, like we saw before, is very, like, "Hey, the thing that was plugged in before is not plugged in,” What do I do? I'm going to hit 'Yes', just because, because you can see, my default input-- we're not using the microphone here, so I don't really care about that one at the moment. The output though, where is it going to? So I had some speakers plugged in before, my headphone speakers, headphone speakers? Just headphones. So they've been unplugged and it freaks out. So I'm going to put it to this thing here, that's a little headset that I wear when I'm recording, but yeah, you're going to have to come in here all the time and change it, if you do like to plug things in, and unplug things. 

To import our footage we could use the boring way, which is 'File', 'Import'. You could use the sneaky way by double clicking this area down here. Let's give you a third awesome shortcut. This kind of jumps straight into the rough cut; I love it. So you need to have your window kind of hovering above Premiere Pro for this to work. It might not work on your system. I don't know all versions of Windows, and whether this works. Seems to work on my version of Windows, and every Mac that I've owned, but I'll show you.

So in 'Exercise Files', 'Project 5', there's a 'Footage' folder. What you can do is you can click the top one, hold 'Shift', grab the last one, and I don't need the end credit right now, but I can just click, hold, and drag it straight into my, where my timeline is, and watch this, magic happens. Look at that, it dumped it all in, imported it, created a sequence for me, and then put everything into the sequence. You might find this is just, if you've done some good logging, this doesn't work if you've just got crap everywhere, but it works really good if you've done some serious logging, and everything's kind of in some sort of order. 

It's just a nice way to get it all onto the Timeline, all at once. Let's tidy it up a tiny bit. So the sequence, you can tell by the icon. I'm going to call this one 'Parkour V1' as well, and we are going to create a bin. This bin's going to be called 'Footage'. I don't really need to do my fancy search thing because there's only mp4s in here. Now I'm not sure if you know how to do all this kind of file stuff, but click the first one, hold 'Shift', click the last one, and on my Mac, I hold 'Command', and click that guy to deselect them, or on a PC hit 'Ctrl' and deselect them. 

So if that's a bit fancy just drag them all in, however you can do it, drag them into footage. Let's bring in a couple of other folders. I could dump on my audio in here but it's not what I want. So I'm going to double click in the dark area, and I'm going to find, in my 'Exercise Files', under 'Parkour', let's bring in 'Footage', no, got that already, 'Audio' and 'Graphics'. You can bring them in individually, or hold down the 'Command' key to click them both on their own, or 'Ctrl' key on a PC, let's bring everything in. 

There's a bunch of stuff in here that could not be supported. Graphics have a bunch of things in here, there's actually nothing in that folder. Don't bring in graphics, it's for later in the course. Audio, all in there nicely. Before we go let's delete everything off the Timeline, because we're going to be a little bit more purposeful with this edit, because I want to show you some tips and techniques, but totally if I was working on my own now, just dump them all on the Timeline, if they were in some kind of order, and we could start rough cutting on the Timeline, rather than up here in the Source Monitor. 

All right, everything's in, we're ready to go. Hit 'Save', and I will see you in the next video.
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