Premiere Pro CC - Project 01

After a lot of thought I have finally decided to purchase the Adobe Suite! As a teacher/tutor I am able to purchase the entire suite for $14.99/month. I have been interested in learning some new software and I think this is a great opportunity to do so. Over the next 12 months I hope to educate myself on a few new Adobe programs such as; Premiere Pro, After Effects and InDesign, and who knows, I may even learn more this time next year. My first program that I am set out to be successful at is Premier Pro...here we go!

I have been inspired to learn Premier Pro after watching many YouTube videos over the years. I have used Premiere Pro once before for a small animation project at TAFE, but am excited to learn so much more that the program has to offer. The first place I thought would be a great place to start is to create a small project using some sample files from Adobe. Adobe has a great tutorial for beginners such as myself to help introduce you to the program.

After downloading the sample files and opening Premiere Pro after a long time I was excited to get learn heaps! At first the interface looked daunting, but after listening and watching to a couple of videos it soon all made sense! The sample files came with a collection of videos, photos and audio named in the order of which they are to appear. Next was to bring all of the media into Premiere. There are many ways to do this, either through the Media Browser, double clicking in the Project Browser or through the file menu.

Once all the media was in the program and sorted correctly it was really just a matter of dragging and dropping it into place, sounds easy. I soon got my timeline looking something like what its supposed to be. The way the sample files were named as I mentioned before was handy because it was just a matter of dragging 1, then 2, then 3 etc. The tutorial suggested to add markers which made it twice as easy to add the footage. The markers really just help to give you limits on how long you show a photo or video for before it becomes boring.

Adding the audio was not as hard as I thought either, simply drag and drop. Adding the key frames in the background audio made it easy to fade during breaks in the narration audio. This helped to make sure that the audience didn't fall asleep.

The next step in editing the documentary was to make it a bit more interesting with transitions and effects. Premiere has a lot of different options when it comes to this and it all really depends on what you would like to achieve. For most of the project I simply used the default fade transition.

I finally thought about creating a title. The title that I got shown through the tutorial was very plain so I thought that I would jazz it up a bit and I decided to look at a couple of tutorials to get the look which I ended up with. I have seen this look a fair bit over YouTube, so I thought that I would try it out. I am actually really happy with it!

Exporting the finish project I was nervous of doing, Last time I remember doing it there were just so many different options, and it was all confused. The tutorial luckily guided me through on what settings to apply and before too long we had a video uploaded to YouTube.

Check out the end result.

Let us know what you think, and if you have any suggested projects which I could work on.

My first project was a quite a simply project to look at, but it was once of the best introductions to Premiere Pro I could have asked for. The project included a lot of cool techniques which I hope to continue to use. The time in took to make and the result I got surprised me. I thought it would take so much longer than it actually did.

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