Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial For Beginners

Hey in this blog, I'm gonna show you,

easy way to get started editing

in Adobe Premier Pro, let's go.

- Hey, what's up, it's Omar Takrori with Think Media,

helping you build your influence with online video,

and in this video, I wanted to show you how to properly

kinda set up your workflow to begin editing in Premier Pro.

I think a lot of times throughout your workflow,

you can mess up along the way,

and starting your project correctly,

and also organized is really important,

so I just wanna make this really quick.

I think the only thing I wanna preface

this tutorial before I start screen-sharing

is you wanna make sure your settings

are consistent throughout, so even the settings

on your camera is a big deal,

based off of how you're gonna edit your video,

and then how you're gonna export your video,

and so if you wanna learn how to set up your camera,

whether you're vlogging,

or you're doing YouTube videos,

as well as in the YouTube card,

but once you've got that dialed in,

you've got your camera settings good,

you've shot your video,

So now we've opened up Premiere Pro,

I'm gonna hit New Project right here on the top left,

and I'm gonna call this, again, what it is, 2020-02,

I think 05, and then a Photo.

Now, I used to just start the project right here,

but I'm gonna browse, I'm gonna hit this Browse button,

and I'm gonna put the project file in the project folder.

You know, I think a lot of people actually disagree

with this workflow just because it might

use the same part of the computer.

I found I'd rather be able to reference my stuff

in the future, sacrifice a little speed to do so,

and so I'm just gonna save that file, that Premiere file,

in this folder, so all the autosaves will be in that file,

as well as your main project file,

so you can always reference everything you need

in that folder.

Once Premiere Pro is all opened up,

I'm going to double-click right here in Import Media

to start, double-click, go ahead and go to Desktop,

M50 Photography Tips, and then I'm just gonna select

everything I want to edit right here.

All right, once all your files are imported into Premiere,

I do like to see it in the icon view

instead of the list view,

'cause you can kinda see what's going on,

and you can also scrub through your video in here,

which is really cool, but all you have to do

is right-click your clip, and then go down

to New Sequence From Clip.

And then based off of the settings from your video clip,

it will create a sequence for you,

'cause a lot of people don't even know how to,

you know, if you start a sequence by File, New Sequence,

then it gives you all these options,

and it's like, "What do I even decide?"

The cool thing about just right-clicking

and starting a new sequence is it starts a sequence

based off of the clip settings,

so if you got all your settings right in-camera,

like your frame rate, and your shutter speed,

and things like that, then you're gonna be good to go

to just right-click your clip,

and then start a new sequence,

and that's how you get started with Premiere Pro.

So, when you started a sequence based off of the clip,

the sequence is gonna be titled The Clip,

so the sequence that I started is titled C002,

So if you start a Premiere project file,

and maybe you're doing the same kind of videos,

or you're using the same intro, the same title cards,

or the same music, it's gonna be very helpful

if you have an assets sequence.

You know, I've learned this because I've done a lot

of client work, and I'm always referring back

to old projects, or even using old projects

to start new ones, right?

And so, how 'bout before you actually import

all your footage, create an Assets folder

in your Premiere Pro project.

So what do I mean by Assets folder

is just include your YouTube bumper,

include all your music.

Maybe if you have titles, like your name,

or if you've created titles, like tip one, tip two,

and if you notice here, I'm just gonna show you real quick.

You know, there's a few different intros we have.

At Think Media, we have this kinda intro.

You've probably seen it in a previous video,

or we also have this kinda intro,

where it goes like, "Just press record."

And so, you know, also titles,

like anytime I need a title, I just go in here,

and then I, you know, just copy-paste,

and so even my top view right here

is my social media handle and stuff,

and so having an asset sequence where it just has

your intro, and your music, it's very helpful

'cause you're not always having to dig for it

in your computer, but that's just a power tip.

And what you can actually do now

is once you have an Assets project file,

you can just File, Save As, you know,

call it Assets, and then save that somewhere

you know you're not gonna lose it,

like in your Documents or something.

I'm just gonna put it on my Desktop,

so whenever you're gonna start a new project,

you just double-click your Assets project file,

and then you can just import your new files

that you're gonna use,

and then Import,

right-click Start a Sequence From Clip,

and then I'm gonna name this M50 Photo,

and I'm gonna File, Save As,

and then just save that in my project file

under the M50 Photography Tips,

So now I'm starting a fresh project

with all my assets, like my music,

my intro, and things like that,

and so you don't have to try and fish for it anymore,

so that's just a power tip.

I hope that really helped.

Thank you so much, and let me know

in the comments section 

what tutorials in Premiere you'd like to learn.

I would love to make those blogs for you,

and in the meantime, why don't you check out

our Adobe Premiere playlist?

You'll find it super helpful,

and you can check that out by clicking

or tapping the screen,

and I will see you in the next blog, peace.