Setting Up Your Video Project for a Smooth Workflow is key to the success of your project, both now and in the future.

It’s like building the foundations of a house, if you rush them and they aren’t right, then you will encounter all kinds of problems in the future.

So we’re going to carefully lay the foundations of our project by following some best practice guidelines and advice for setting it up for success.

Let’s go!

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to open Premiere Pro, set-up a new project and choose your workspace layout.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to find high quality video content and the best practices for sourcing it.

In this section, you'll learn how to import your very first video files into the project.

In this section, you'll learn best practices for file management to help you and your team to work seamlessly on Adobe Premiere Pro projects.

This is what it’s all about, editing video clips together to craft our story.

We will learn about the layout of the editing panels in Adobe Premiere Pro.

And we will start using the range of editing tools that are at our disposal.

This is exciting, let’s jump right in!

In this lesson, you will learn about the layout of Adobe Premiere Pro and what each of the panels is used for.

In this lesson, you will start editing your first video clips together using the Razor tool.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use some fantastic time saving editing tools including the Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide video editing tools.

In this lesson, you will learn how to speed up your workflow by editing in the Source Monitor and automating.

Welcome to Section 4.

In this section, we're going to learn how to add a soundtrack to our video project.

We’re going to learn where to find high quality soundtracks, how to find the right one on those platforms, then import it into our project and add it to our sequence.

We will then learn how to adjust the volume and check the levels of our soundtrack as well as time the soundtrack to our edits.

Finally, we will learn how to add audio transitions to our soundtrack.

By the end of this section, you'll know how to find high quality soundtracks, add them to your video projects, adjust the volume and add audio transitions.

Let's get started.

In this lesson, you will learn how to find royalty-free, high quality soundtracks for your videos.

In this lesson, you will learn how to import your soundtrack into your video project.

In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the volume of your soundtrack.

In this lesson, you will learn how to time your video edits to your soundtrack to add impact to your video.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add smooth audio transitions and how to remix manually.

Welcome to Section 5.

In this section, we're going to learn how to frame our shots perfectly and how to put our video into a cinematic format.

Firstly, we’ll add safe margins to make sure that our text and our action are within these margins on all devices.

Then we will convert our video into widescreen cinemascope format.

And lastly, we will learn how to reposition and scale our footage to make sure that each shot is framed perfectly.

If you wish, you can use the project file that I have supplied in the Completed Project Files section - Section 4. Soundtrack - Complete

By the end of this section, you'll know how to scale and position your shots in order to frame them perfectly.

You'll also know how to add safe margins, and you'll know how to put the whole video into a more cinematic format.

Let's get started.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add Safe Margins to your video for important text and action content.

In this lesson, you will learn how to convert your video to a more cinematic format by adding black bars to the top and bottom of your video while staying in a 16:9 format.

In this lesson, you will learn how to convert your video to a more cinematic format into cinemascope 2.35:1 so that your video utilises more screen real estate on mobile devices.

In this lesson, you will learn how to scale and position your video content, as well as the importance of video resolution.

Welcome to session 6 of this course.

This is one of my favorite sections - Visual Effects.

First of all, we will add green screen video on a video background.

Then we will implement slow motion on a clip.

Then we will stabilize some shaky footage to make it smoother.

We will add a photo to our video and we will blur a face in the background and track it as it moves.

Finally, we will reverse some footage.

If you wish, you can use the completed project for the last section, by going into your Exercise Files, into your Project Files and into Completed Project Files, choose number 5. Framing Your Footage - Complete.

All of these tools are really useful when creating your narrative.

Let's get started.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add green screen video content on top of a video background.

In this lesson, you will learn how to make your video content slow motion, as well as the importance of frame rate in doing this.

In this lesson, you will learn how to stabilise shaky video content.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add images and photos to your video content. We will both insert images as well as overlay images on our video content.

In this lesson, you will learn how to blur a face as well as track it as the person moves across the screen.

In this lesson, you will learn how to reverse video footage in two different scenarios.

Welcome to Section 7, which is all about color correction and color grading.

We will adjust the white balance of our video content, as well as modify the other basic corrections that we can do in Lumetri Color.

Will compare the before and after of our changes as well as use the Creative options that are at our disposal in the Lumetri Color.

We will add a Vignette to each scene to put focus on our characters as well as change the look of a scene

from day to night in order to fit our timeline. Lastly, we will adjust the skin tones of our characters to make them look more natural after the previous color grading.

If you wish, you can use the completed project file for the last section by going into Exercise Files > Project Files >

Completed Project Files and then 'Section 6. Visual Effects - Complete'.

By the end of this section, you'll know how to color correct your footage to make it look more realistic,

but also how to color grade it to add the tone that you would like in your video to your content.

This section, which is all about color, is so exciting.

Let's get started.

In this lesson, you will learn how to color correct your video content in terms of white balance, exposure and contrast.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add a look to your video by color grading it using Lumetri Color.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add vignettes to your scenes in order to focus the viewer on the characters more.

In this lesson, you will learn how to change Day to Night using Lumetri Color.

In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust skin tones to make them look more natural when they have been over or undersaturated.

Welcome to Section 8 of our course.

This section is all about Text.

We will learn how to find high quality fonts for our project that can be used across multiple platforms.

We’ll learn how to add text to our video, position it, scale it, as well as change the font and the weight of that font.

We’ll work on the opacity of our text as well as adding color to it.

We then get more advanced by adding the text fade effect, animating our text using position, adding motion blur to our text, doing the text knockout effect, as well as the text behind effect.

Finally, we will brand our video with a logo.

If you wish, you can use the completed projects file, which is located in Exercise Files > Project Files > Completed Project Files > 'Section 7. Color Correction and Color Grading - Complete'

There is a lot in this section, so let's get started!

In this lesson, you will learn how to add, format and position your text.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add and format text at scale.

In this lesson, you will learn how to position your text with precision.

In this lesson, you are going to learn how to color your text titles.

In this lesson, you will learn how to create a text fade effect.

In this lesson, you will learn how to animate your text by changing its position over time.

In this practice exercise, we will use what we learned in the last lesson to animate our text using position.

In this lesson, we will animate our text by changing its position over time and adding speed blur for realism.

In this practice exercise, we will use what we learned in the last lesson to animate our text by changing its position and adding speed blur for realism.

In this lesson, you will learn how to animate your text by changing its position and angle of rotation over time.

In this lesson, you will learn how to animate your text by changing its position, scale and rotation over time.

In this lesson, you will learn how to do the Text Knockout effect.

In this lesson, you will learn how to do the Text Behind Effect.

In this practice exercise, we will use what we learned in the last lesson to implement the text behind effect on multiple video clips.

In this lesson, you will learn how to add a brand logo.

Welcome to Section 9 of this course.

This section is quite short, but it's really important - Adding transitions to your video.

Firstly, we will add a dip to black transition and adjust its duration to make it smooth.

Then at the end of our video we will add a dip to white transition. We will also alter its duration.

If you wish, you can use the completed project file from the last section which is in your Exercises Files folder >

Project Files > Completed Project Files > 'Section 8. Text - Complete'.

Let's quickly go through how to add these video transitions.

Let's go.

In this lesson, you will learn how to do the Dip to Black video transition.

In this lesson, you will learn how to do the Dip to White video transition.

Welcome to Section 10 of this course, which is all about adding sound effects and dialogue to your video.

This section is crucially important in terms of constructing your narrative.

Firstly, we'll look at where you can find high quality sound effects.

Next, we'll start adding sound effects to our sequence and adjusting the volume of each sound effect. Then, we will go through how to record quality audio directly into Adobe Premiere.

Next, we'll look at where you can find high quality voiceover artists.

We will begin editing our dialogue by adjusting the volume and we will then use our Essential Sounds panel

to adjust and repair our audio.

Then we will utilize the audio track mixer to make our audio sound more professional.

Finally, we will go through the entire video and test our sound mix to make sure that everything is blending well together and is optimized for maximum impact.

We will then make our video more accessible by creating and perfecting our transcript and then exporting it to an SRT file, which can then be uploaded to multiple platforms.

We will also add and style our own subtitles directly into our video in Adobe Premiere Pro.

If you wish, you can use the completed project file from the last section by going into your Exercse Files > Project Files > Completed Project Files > 'Section 9. Transitions Complete'

Sound is vitally important to any video. Bad sound can kill a video. Great sound can make a video.

So let's get started!

In this lesson, you are going to learn how to add sound effects to your video.

In this practice exercise, we are going to use what we learnt in the last lesson to add our remaining sound effects to our video.

In this lesson, you will learn how to mix your sound effects with your soundtrack.

In this practice exercise, we will use what we learnt in the last lesson to mix our remaining sound effects with our soundtrack.

In this lesson, you will learn about the importance of quality sound recording as well as how to do it.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Essential Sound in Adobe Premiere Pro to adjust the volume of your dialogue, repair issues with it, as well as increase its clarity.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use the audio track mixer.

In this lesson, you will learn how to test and optimise your audio.

In this lesson, you will learn how to make your videos more accessible by using the Audio Track Mixer in Adobe Premiere Pro.