16.10.2020 - Editing for video, the timeline, colour, sound and more - Part 1

Today Matt gave us all a refresher course on the basics of Adobe Premier. Luckily i had been doing some volunteering fitness videos for where i work and had to use Adobe Premier. I am thankful for this as its kept me from forgetting all of my Adobe Premier skills however, i did not have to use them all.

Matt reminded us where everything was and what they did. For example drag and dropping footage as opposed to importing, making rough cuts, source window, timeline, play head, header and tail footage, video tracks, audio tracks, project window, types of cuts, how to export and more.

23.10.2020 - Editing for video, the timeline, colour, sound and more - Part 2

So today we learnt how to add text to your footage and add in video transitions. I did learn this in my first year however it was really good to have a refresher. To add text you need to select the clip you want to have text over and select the T button for text. Once you have done this you have a selection of buttons to choose from to customise your text. You can also use motion and set key frames to make your text enter and exit the screen differently for example bounce off the screen.

We also looked at colour grading which is what I needed to learn for some footage I had shot for my 1 minute video. Colour grading helps you to alter the clips colour even if you just wanted to apply a filter. You can also alter all your clips rather than one at a time if you wish which is really helpful because it appears on the timeline a separate clip which you can just delete if you do not like it and have your original colour graded footage. I have issues with my footage changing colour in one clip, going light and dark and some blues and yellows, I am not sure why. Possibly because I shot on auto. Either way next time I shoot I will have my camera set to manual and see if that helps me at all. Hopefully I will not have to colour grade to much.

Further to colour grading we looked at key frames. I've been using Adobe Premier for just under a year now and I can never remember how to access key frames so this time during Matts presentation I was sure to screen shot what he was doing so that I would not forget.

Additionally another editing problem I've had with Adobe Premier is with importing images and getting them to change size. In my first year I had a problem with my laptop during Matts demonstration and never really learnt how to do this. He went over this today and now with some practice I can successfully say that I now know how to do it.