Advanced Digital Video Editing Techniques with Adobe Creative Cloud
- Beginning this lesson
- Trimming clips in the Timeline
- Incorporating RED footage
- Adding transitions
- Creating effects in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adding titles with the Adobe Premiere Pro Title tool
- Editing closed captions
- Stabilizing footage with the Warp Stabilizer
- Rendering your Timeline
- Posting to Creative Cloud for review
- Review questions
- Review answers
Learn how to use more advanced editing techniques to create a static title with the Abobe Premiere Pro Title tool; work in your Timeline to apply various clip-trimming techniques, apply and modify an effect to clips, incorporate RED footage, create simple dissolve transitions between clips, and generate a preview render of your Timeline; edit closed captions, use the Warp Stabilizer effect to smooth unsteady camera movement in a clip, and upload a file and sync your settings to Creative Cloud.
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Lesson overview
In the previous lesson, you created a basic edit with Adobe Premiere Pro. In this lesson, you’ll use more advanced editing techniques and learn how to
- Apply various clip-trimming techniques in your Timeline
- Apply and modify an effect to clips in your Timeline
- Incorporate RED footage into your Timeline
- Create simple dissolve transitions between clips in your Timeline
- Create a static title with the Abobe Premiere Pro Title tool
- Edit closed captions
- Use the Warp Stabilizer effect to smooth unsteady camera movement in a clip
- Generate a preview render of your Timeline
- Upload a file and sync your settings to Creative Cloud
This lesson will take approximately 120 minutes to complete.
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Beginning this lesson
If you are continuing from the previous lesson, feel free to continue with the Adobe Premiere Pro project you already have open. Skip ahead to “Preserving your rough edit in Adobe Premiere Pro.”
If you are starting here
If you are starting at this lesson, generate your own Adobe Premiere Pro project file from a copy of one provided for you.
- Navigate to the Assets > Lessons > Lesson 04 folder on your hard drive.
- Double-click to open the Adobe Premiere Pro project Lesson04_Start.prproj.
- In Adobe Premiere Pro, choose File > Save As.
- Navigate to the Lesson 04 folder on your hard drive. Name your Adobe Premiere Pro project file Poolside Edit 02. Click Save.
Preserving your rough edit in Adobe Premiere Pro
Because you are continuing with a previous version of this edit, you’ll first save a new version of your sequence. This allows you to go back to the previous version if need be and is a recommended best practice in the video editing workflow.
- In the Project panel, twirl open the Sequences bin.
Click the Poolside_BTS_01 sequence to select it. Choose Edit > Copy to copy it to your clipboard. Then choose Edit > Paste.
To modify the name of the sequence, click the name of the sequence to select it.
Potential error messages
When opening an Adobe Premiere Pro project file that was last saved on a different computer, you may encounter a couple of error messages. Don’t panic!
One such error message will tell you that the local scratch disk is not in the same place.
If this happens, choose File > Project Settings > Scratch Disks, then, for all settings in the Scratch Disks window, click the Browse button and navigate to a local folder on your hard drive where you want Adobe Premiere Pro to save your Captured Video and Audio, your Video and Audio Previews, and your Project Auto Saves.
Another error message you may encounter is one that tells you that there is a missing renderer.
This just means that the project file was last saved on a machine that was using a graphics processing unit (GPU) that is not present on the current machine. Again, don’t panic. Just click OK and carry on.
Change the name of the sequence to Poolside_BTS_02, press Return (Enter), and then drag it into the Sequences folder.
- Double-click the Poolside_BTS_02 sequence to load it in your Timeline.
Note that the sequence appears in a new tabbed Timeline in front of your original sequence.
Having multiple Timelines open simultaneously can be useful in certain situations, but it can also be confusing. For the time being, you’ll close the first Timeline to eliminate the possibility of accidentally modifying the wrong sequence.
- In the Timeline, click the Poolside_BTS_01 tab to select it.
- Press Command+W (Ctrl+W) to close this sequence.
The new sequence is now the only one visible in the Timeline, which will ensure that you are working on the most recent iteration.
- Press Command+S (Ctrl+S) to save your Adobe Premiere Pro project.
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