All language subtitles for 26. My 6 Awesome Editing Tips (that make a HUGE difference!)

Already welcome back.

It's Brad here again with another Adobe Premiere Pro Sisi tutorial where I'm going to be sharing with

you six simple editing tricks that I've been using for a while now when I edit my blogs for YouTube

and Facebook and prime and all of that.

And I thought I'd just chuck everything into one video 10 15 minutes long.

Nothing crazy that's really going to help speed up your workflow make it a lot easier for you to edit

your logs without sort of goes for the trial and error that I've been through editing you know almost

a thousand videos now over almost three years.

So the first thing I'm going to do before I go into the little tips is I'm just going to show you what

version I'm using so we're both on the same page there about anyway.

So you got to help and then go down to about Adobe Premiere Pro.

You'll see that I'm using version thirteen point zero point to build 38.

So if you're using a previous version this is the latest version but if you're using a previous version

don't distress it shouldn't be too different.

It should look pretty much the same right that you see here.

You can just go window workspaces click on editing right.

So that we're all working on the same page.

I've got a little bit of a custom workspace but it's not much different to the editing workspace anyway.

So let's get straight into it.

So the first little tip that I want to share with you that I've been using for years is called audio

ducking.

Now audio ducking is something that I will demonstrate just by playing a vlog.

Back to you.

This is one of my blogs that I edited yesterday and it hasn't yet been released on YouTube and prime

yet but this is what it looks like.

But don't worry about that.

We're just going to focus on just a small piece of it.

So if I play this back you'll know what I'm talking about.

So let's go.

You can do if you're training a tiger mai tai or anywhere along the street in this video you know.

Okay.

So what's happening there.

They got some background music there and you've got me talking and you can hear the background music

and then you can hear me talking.

Now what happens though when we get to this point the video fades out and then the background music

picks up.

Right.

So gets louder.

So this is your audio ducking and it's easy to do.

And I've been doing it for a long time now and there's two ways you can do it.

There's the manual way and then there's the automatic way the automatic way is through essential sound

up here.

But I'm not going to show that this time I'm just going to show you the manual way of doing it.

This is actually not that hard.

I think if you just do it manually then you can play with the automatic method later on.

So the first thing we're gonna do is that we're going to select the pen tool first.

So over here in our little tool box we've got like a little pen icon.

So just click on that where you can hit the P on the keyboard and it's gonna select our cursor to be

a pen tool.

And then all we actually I'll just go to a different sequence and we'll just start with the first sequence

right.

So I got some background music here and I've got my dialogue here.

So if I play this back a while in this video I'm talking about subtlety.

So as you can see like it's just me background music's too loud and you know you just can't hear what

we're saying.

So we're going to do is you'll see that there's a line here.

That line is actually the volume line of the background track.

So all you need to do is with your pen tool is you just select anywhere.

Now you can zoom in on this.

You select around here to drop a little point that creates what they call a key frame and then you click

on another point next to it and you drop it down like that right.

And by dropping it down you can see the decibel label there is reducing so down at minus seven right

minus eleven right.

And if I scroll back I cut another point here right at the very beginning and I drop it down to zero

as you can see there.

So as the as we play this sequence the background music is getting louder and louder and louder but

not by much.

So if I play this back if you're training at Tiger movie tie or anywhere along fitness series you can

hear us in this video just like that right.

So my dog finishes and then the background music it's louder.

Right.

And then if I want I can drop it down to make it quieter.

If there's more dialogue coming up just like that.

So that's called audio ducking and it's something I've been using for years if I go back to this sequence

just to finish this off.

You can see if I zoom in closer you can see the background music here is louder and it's a little bit

softer because I want the sound from the more ty to be a little bit louder

louder so early louder softer.

So you can see I've gone through manually and you can do this through the software automatically but

if you go through manually just click here click on the next point.

And what I usually do is I hold the old key down on the keyboard by doing that and I move the mouse

up and down I get more accuracy with my decrease in my my increase in my decibels.

If I take if I if I take my finger off the old key then this is what happens.

Just out of control I can't get the same level of accuracy.

Now I can by moving my mouse over here and I can't hold down ult using the scroll wheel on my mouse.

I can make that bigger.

Which does help as well.

But if I just click on this this little key frame here hold down the alt key on my keyboard drag this

down I can get a much more accurate level with the background there with the background music just like

that.

All right.

I this back softly.

Louder

and louder

now you can hear me hitting the pads.

So that's this track here I'm second of April to that and then I'm dialoguing over here.

And then the back row music has been ducked out over here.

2nd of April 2000 and that's it.

So that's audio ducking.

So have a play with that and let me know hey go the second tip that I have for you is locking layers.

So what that means is if I'm working on my log for example and I play this back and I just jump to a

random spot here in this block which beaches can you go to.

What activities are there.

I'm talking to what or I don't hold off until a week off.

I don't want to make.

Right.

So for example if I just want to cut this piece out I don't want that in my vlog anymore.

If I hit W. on the keyboard what's going to happen is it's going to chop that piece out.

But it's also going to chop into my adjustment layer as well as you can see my adjustment layers now

being cut into two pieces.

Now I don't want that if I continue moving along my my vacation just to be just removing about training.

So in this video when I talk about that.

So just by removing pieces out of my vlog then I'm chopping up my adjustment layer and I don't want

to do that.

I want to keep my just bit layer the same.

Right.

I want it to be unbroken.

So what I do is I hit the padlock over here and you can see that locks down that adjustment layer so

that I can do all my editing over here on my track one.

So video one audio one tracks and it's not going to impact my judgment layer and this is also handy

if you have background music as well.

I can lock down the background music layer so that this becomes untouched and the adjustment layer becomes

untouched.

And that allows me full flexibility to work within these tracks within V1 and V2 in everywhere else.

Right.

So that's a very handy.

I've been using that one for a while now.

It's so handy.

And then when I'm ready to make adjustments as you can see I can even click even if I try I can't even

I can't even delete the adjustment I can't it's completely locked down until I hit this again.

It unlocks that layer and I can chop away at it right.

I want to do that just undo undo undo undo undo.

Right.

That's it.

So locking layers is very very handy.

Just keep that in mind.

The third one I have is text over video now text over video is one that's what I'm talking about is

if you're adding text for example I'm going to chuck it on my own.

Throw some text on my t shirt right here.

I'm just going to say I'm gonna put my name right.

Brad Newton right now as you could see like white T-shirt white text I mean does it really stand out

that much.

And if I move this text around I mean it stands out more up there.

It stands out where it wherever there's a a darker background in the video.

So over Robin's top like really stands out.

But over my T-shirt it doesn't really stand out that much.

So what I usually do with this is this is just a simple little trick that will save you a lot of headache

and it's so simple blow your mind.

All you got to do is you got a central graphics.

Now if you can't see that you just go to window and you go down to a central graphics and make sure

this is ticked and then down to stroke you'll see here it says appearance fill stroke you tick the tick

box for stroke click on this and then you select black and you'll see that the edge.

Right.

If I zoom in or just make that a bigger screen you see the edge of the text is now black see that difference.

It's a big difference.

Now I can change the thickness of that stroke from one point to three points into and it makes the background

it makes the black edge thicker.

See that so that there's no stroke.

1.0 3.0 1.0.

Nothing.

Big difference now of course you can go extreme and you can you know.

I'll show you the extreme version if we just set that to black.

Again and then we set this too.

I don't know 20 or 12 right.

It just makes the text pop a lot more.

Okay so that's something to keep in mind.

I usually do this often when I have text over the top of my video and sometimes the video falls against

the sky where it's really bright and you lose the text.

You can't really see the text it kind of blends in with the video.

So that's a good little trick to keep in mind the next one the fourth one is moving static images so

I'll use an example of I'll just go into another sequence and what I mean by that is if we are okay

just setting up something really quick here.

So I've got me talking away in this video coming up.

So we just have an image not doing anything it's a static image but what you can do to make it more

interesting is you can make it you can make it a moving image just by setting basic key frames so all

you gotta do is you select the image here on your sequence timeline.

Do you go over to scale over here that says 100 percent.

You click on the little tiny clock icon here and that creates a key frame right over here.

Creates a key frame and then all you need to do is you move that you move that play head over somewhere

around here.

Doesn't matter exactly.

Just put it somewhere around there.

And then all you got to do is increase this scale to say I don't know whatever you want and then you'll

see by doing that it automatically drops another key frame at the position of the play head right here.

Right.

Then all you got to do is you click on this play on this key frame and you can move this key frame any

way you want.

You can move it right to the end or you can move it halfway right.

But we want the effect of the scale to apply across the entire image over the entire duration.

So if I move that key frame right to the edge and I move this key frame right to this other edge then

you'll see that the change of scale is being applied over time.

If I play that back in real time

it's just that basic.

So it just makes it a little bit.

It's a very small adjustment but it just makes it a little bit more interesting when you're presenting

still images inside of your logs.

Okay the last one.

So the second last one I have for you is thumbnails for YouTube.

I do this one very frequently where I am I'm creating on my vlog and I need to create a thumbnail and

I'll just go into a previous example of where I've created a thumbnail for one of my previous YouTube

videos.

And this is it.

Right.

Very easy to create.

Nothing fancy here but these are all still images that I've pulled out of my videos from Adobe Premier

Pro.

This is how I do it.

So for example I will pick a point of the video just say where I'm going to position my play head right

there and there's an icon right here.

That's if you run your mouse over it says export frame.

Right.

If you click on that what's going to happen is that Adobe Premiere Pro is going to take a snapshot of

that frame and it's going to save it as a jpeg BNP.

What you've selected PDG.

I usually just select J PAC right here right.

You can create the name and then you can browse and select the location to save that that still image

click Okay.

In my case it's going to go to my desktop.

Click Okay.

And then if I minimize this then you can see here Adobe Premiere pros dropped an image that's taken

directly from my video on my vlog so I don't need to take a separate photograph I can just take still

images out of my video and that's that little icon there.

If you can't see that icon it's probably because your window has been collapsed or you know if you if

you collapses right down you're not going to see everything.

You might have two little arrows there you click on right.

Actually it's going to pop up there.

If I move this out there we go it's gonna pop up here.

See you see it looks like a little camera icon there.

That's it.

Right.

Just like and what it does is it will take for example if I move my play head here or just tired it

is a little bit if I move my play head here you'll see I've got top and bottom cinematic bars added

here at this point of my sequence if I hit that export frame button save it to my desktop you'll see

that it's also captured those cinematic bars as well.

Right.

So we've got to do is I just turn off those cinematic bars just like that and then I take that same

snapshot.

And now I have a frame and then I can use that frame I can upload that by going add photo upload photo

and go to my desk.

That's not the one I meant to click anyway so I'll upload this steel frame here and then I can start

creating my thumbnail for my video on YouTube and all that.

So keep that in mind really cool little trick I've been using for a while.

Know it's really handy anyway so I'll just undo that.

Okay so let's go back into the software and the last one I want to share with you is blurry background.

So what I mean by that is if I just import this really quickly while I'm talking and then I'll show

exactly what I mean sometimes what people do.

What I used to do a lot is I used to put my Instagram Stories Inside my blogs and by doing that because

of the aspect ratio.

You'll see that my phone like it's a vertical form video but it's inside a 16 by nine canvas.

Now of course this looks really shitty right.

And my old of logs I never did anything to fix it because I didn't know how.

I just kind of dropped it straight in and I just I'll just mute that track and 20 2012 in classes now

I'm just finishing.

Doesn't matter what I'm what I'm talking about.

But anyway.

So this looks a little bit tacky.

So what I suggest you do this is really cool is you dragging your you know your Instagram story or whatever

it is.

And if you drag it in and you got a 16 by nine wide screen here canvas all you gotta do is you click

on this video track.

Here hold the old key down drag it up on your timeline that's going to create a duplicate.

All right.

Now you have to exactly the same.

Then what you're going to do is you're going to grab this video here on track 1 video track 1.

Then you go to go to effects controls over here.

Then you're gonna go to scale and you're gonna scale it up like that.

So it fills the in all of that black gets filled out like that.

And when you do that you just play with it like that.

The next thing you'll do is you'll go click on these two arrows here.

Then you'll go to effects and then you go to find Gordon blow G A you write and you just have to type

in a few letters and or come up down here so you'll see here cause caution blur what you do is you drag

that effect over the top of video track one just like that when you do that.

If you have a look over here and this window it automatically drops in this here into your effects panel

right then all you gotta do is you change blurriness from zero point zero up to as much as you want

and you can see that would changing how much blurriness were applying to video track one.

Right.

Zero blurriness all blurry.

So we're just I usually set it to around 60 or 70.

Watch what happens goes on just between classes now I'm just finishing up an edit so you'll see if you

ever watch TV and like you know the news is reporting you know something that's happened locally or

whatever else and then they've taken the video clips from a member of the public and they've recorded

on their phone what they'll do the editor will just apply this pretty much the same technique they'll

pretty much just do that and you'll see that on your TV screen you've got you know your widescreen TV

and then you've got the video playing off you know someone's phone export.

That's pretty much all you do is pretty basic.

Right.

So that's another little trick that I use blurry backgrounds have a play around with that.

That's all I have for you if you have any questions let me know if you want to see other examples of

how I edit my videos you can go to my channel YouTube dot com slash Brad Newton where all my blogs kind

of live these days and continue to play with them check out the other videos as well where I break down

some of these tactics in more detail I hope this is helpful.

Have an awesome day.

Enjoy the editing.

Enjoy blogging.

It's awesome.

And I'll see you and another video.