Planning: Learning To Edit

I have developed my technical skills and have learnt to edit using Adobe Premier Pro. For now I have learnt the basics and edited together some clips to create a simple video.



Open up Adobe Premier Pro.

Select 'New Project' or if going back to a project, select it under 'Recent Projects'

Name the project so that it doesn't automatically name it 'Untitled' and click 'OK'

Adobe Premier Pro opens up to look like this.

Then change the workspace from 'Editing'  to 'Editing (CS5.5)'

This workspace makes it much easier to edit.

To import the footage, go to 'File' and then 'Import...'

By selecting the folder with all the clips in, all of the clips within the folder will be imported.

The files won't take long to import.

All of the footage will appear as a folder on the left.

Clicking on this folder will open it up and all the clips can be viewed. You can scroll over a clip and quickly view it using the space bar.

Or by double clicking a clip you can view the clip in a larger size and edit it ready for the timeline.

Here you can select what part of the clip you want. By clicking the open bracket to start the clip and the closed bracket to end the selection.

You can just drag the video without the audio into your timeline by dragging the footage in by a button which resemble a video roll.

Here I have began to add clips together.

If you want to shorten clips you can use the razor tool on the left and cut the clip.

I also added audio into my video. To do this I imported the audio just as I did the footage as shown above. I used effects on the music, such as fading it in at the beginning. I achieved this by selecting 'Effects' on the bottom left-hand side and then 'Audio Transitions' I then chose the transition I wanted and dragged it on to the desired clip.