Premiere Pro & Dreamweaver - Fullscreen background video for a website

Getting our website setup in Dreamweaver

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15 lessons / 2 hours

Overview

Hi there, I’m Dan. In this course we’ll learn how to create and edit a video for our website. Then we’ll go and build the site from scratch. It looks fancy, but it’s not particularly hard. 

I built this course for beginners. You do not need to know how to code or how to edit video to take this class. We’ll start with the super basics. This could totally be your very first website, wouldn’t starting with a video background be a super cool first project?

We’ll go through the full process. I’ll show you where to find some video, I’ll show you how to edit it in Premiere Pro. We’ll do cool video effects like blurs, tints and transitions. I’ll show you how to export the video so we can get the file size super small. Once we’ve created our video we’ll build a basic website together and make our video all cool and full screen. 

We’ll also create a second option where the video peeks in through a specific box.

In this course I’ve got exercise files so you can play along. I’ll also save my files as I go through each video so you can compare yours to mine - handy if something goes wrong. We’ll be using Dreamweaver & Premiere Pro but 95% of this can be done in generic web & video tools. 

Remember: I’m happy to help & I’m pretty handy with replying. Also - there is a handy cheat sheet you can print out, plus there are teacher resources if you need them. 

The best thing - is that it’s not that hard. But super awesome video background will impress the heck out of your clients. 

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Dreamweaver CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe .

  • It will be handy if you know some basic HTML before this course. It’s focused more on video backgrounds and not the entire web design process. 

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 15 lectures 2 Hours 18 minutes of content!

  • You'll learn to build a website with a video background.

  • Pros, cons & cool examples of video backgrounds. 

  • How to edit your video in Premiere Pro. 

  • Where to get video. 

  • Basic editing, adding texture, fading, texturing, blurring, coloring. 

  • Premiere or After Effects? Both?

  • What size should it be. HD? 4K? 

  • Minimising file size

  • Exporting in the right video format

  • Media Encoder. Webm, mp4, ogg, ogv. 

  • How to create a basic website. 

  • Add fullscreen background video

  • Add a background video to a hero box. 

  • Integrating with an existing Bootstrap website. 

  • Make the site responsive. 

  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.

  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.

  • Techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. While no previous Dreamweaver experience is necessary, it would be good to do one of my other intro courses before attempting this course.

  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS.

Course duration 2 hours

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, in this video we’re going to go through, and set up our Dreamweaver settings, so that we can start building our site. So, first thing we need to do is-- let's just make our work spaces the same, so you can follow along, and you can work in 'Standard', that's fine, I'm going to work in this new one called 'Developer', just going to click on that, and it's just that cleaner version, we're going to work more encode in this video. In previous tutorials, I worked a lot in Standard, and that's fine, but this one, let's switch to 'Developer', and work in this one.

Now before we get started on any project, we need to define our site, so go to 'Site', go to 'New Site', and all this does, is tells Dreamweaver where you're going to keep the files for this project.

So, my site name, I'm going to give it a name, this one's going to be called 'Bring_Your_Own_Laptop Design Agency'. Where am I going to keep it? This is where the local site is, let's click 'Browse', and I've put mine on my Desktop, and I'm going to make a new folder, and I'm going to call this one 'BYOL-- and this one's going to be 'Website'; 'BYOL Website'. Click 'Create'. Let's click 'Choose'.

One thing you can do when you are defining a site, it's really handy to go to 'Advance Settings', and then, there's this 'Default Images Folder', click on 'Browse', and you can see, this has defaulted to inside there, the folder we just made, and then inside here, we're going to put 'Images'. And it just means, if I click 'Choose', it means whenever I grab an image, say from the exercise files in this class, it's going to grab it out of there, and put it into the right folder, and not have to ask me every time, it just kind of knows this by doing this.

Now I'm not going to go through this setting up servers now, I'm kind of connecting to the net. We'll do that on the final video when we go to 'Publish'. But for now, that's all we need to do to get set up. Let's click 'Save'. Cool. And on my desktop here, if I have a quick look, there's my desktop, there's my folder that I made, and inside of it, is nothing except that empty folder for images. Great!

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