 Hello everyone and welcome to the Premiere video tutorial part 5 finishing. So this is obviously the fifth in the series and it covers exporting your video and everything you need to do to prepare for that process. And also obviously the settings that you use for exporting. So let's get going with part 5 finishing. So in this session we have duplicate sequence and final bin, setting the timecode, checking the audio and picture levels, preparing the sequence for export, export settings and finally saving and testing. Okay so let's get going. So duplicate sequence and final bin. Again it's all about organization and making sure everything is where it should be. You need to use these little organizational tricks otherwise you can end up working on the wrong sequence right at the very last moment. So you want to avoid that kind of thing. Let's go to Premiere. So this is fairly straightforward. We just need to go into our project browser window and I'm going to expand this one out to fill the window so you can see what's going on. And all I need to do is I'm going into my sequences and I'm going to go to my final sequence which is this number 6. So you can see that I've got quite a few sequences here in this particular video. And it's normal practice for you to duplicate your sequences as you're working at least once a day, maybe more. So at the end of your edit process you'll have quite a few sequences in your sequence folder in your sequence bin. But the final one, we need to sort of duplicate that one and make sure that we know that it's the final one and that that's the one that we're going to be working on to export. So it's just a matter of right clicking, scrolling up to duplicate and I'm going to just rename that instead of calling that number 6 copy. I'm going to call that one final and enter there. And I'm also going to create by right clicking again in this black space here, new bin. And I'm going to call that final 2 and I'm going to move my final sequence into my final bin just by dragging and dropping it there. So now if I close that down, I've got my final sequence in my final bin. Also very important thing to do is to actually open this sequence. So if I double click this sequence now, I've now got my final sequence open and I'm going to close down all these other ones just in case just to make sure that I don't end up working on any of them by accident. So now just using this X I can close that one and that one and that one. So I've got my final sequence open and I know that that's the one that I'm going to be working on. So the next thing we need to do is set the timecode. So this process here, it won't affect your export in any way, shape or form. There's no need to do this for the terms that we're working in right now. However, if you get a job in a post house or something like that and you end up working on a TV production, then you will be expected to do this as part of your final export process. And it's just something that happens to all exports in TV world basically. And I'll show you exactly what it is now. There's some debate as to why it happens. So I'm not going to talk about that right here, but I will show you what to do. And I can guarantee you that this does happen in all TV productions. Sorry, back to Premiere. So what you need to do is in your sequence, next to the name of the sequence here, those little three lines, we know from previous tutorials that these are menus. So if I click on that there and I scroll down to start time and select that, I get this start time window and in here into the timecode where it says start time, I need to add a one right at the very start. So the start time in our timecode for the entire sequence is 10 hours. And like I say, don't ask me why this happens, but it does. And it's just something that you should get used to doing basically. So just click OK and that's done. And you can tell if you look at the timecode here again, now wherever your playhead is, it will start at 10 hours. OK, so checking the audio and picture levels. Basically this process here is all about making sure that we haven't got any audio clipping and any picture clipping. So we don't want any of our picture to be overexposed or underexposed for that matter. And we don't want any of our audio to be distorting. So the only way to do this is basically what you need to do is go through your entire film, watch your entire film through. I'm just going to mute this so I can talk while it's playing. So you're playing back, that's no good, you're playing back your entire film and you're watching the level meters just here. And basically you're making sure that the level meters are all averaging somewhere between minus 12 and minus 18. That is your basic output level that you want. It can go higher and it can go lower. Obviously dynamics of a film mean that some parts of the film will be quiet, some will be loud. That's fine, we want that to happen. But especially dialogue should be averaging about minus 12 dB. And if it goes up to zero and especially if you hit the red. So I'll try and let me just boost this. And you can see, sorry about that, you can see that when it hits the red it leaves these red indicators up there even when it's stopped playing just so that you can still see afterwards that at some point it's hit the red so you need to check that. So all you need to do, if anything hits the red is just use all the skills that you've learned in the sound tutorial just to mix those sound levels down again so that they're back to When we get the footage a more reasonable point exactly where you want them. So that's how to avoid sound clipping. It's just about mixing it down by watching it on the level meters. It's literally watch the whole film through but looking at the level meters the whole time making sure that they're hitting exactly where you want them to hit. Okay, so to avoid picture clipping it's a little bit more complicated. What you need to do is go into the color tab at the top and where the picture is selected. If you come over to the source window you'll see this little additional tab called Lumetri scopes. So if I just click on there give that a second. Okay, and you can see that we've got this visualization of the exposure in your image. Don't worry too much about what's going on in here. If you've watched the color grading tutorial you'll probably understand what this is. But otherwise all you need to make sure is that you haven't got any of your picture isn't peaking over 100% or down below 0%. You can see this tiny little bit here. See where this little red line is there? That's telling me that that is peaking over exposed. So what I can do is over in my Lumetri color panel. I can go to the color wheels, select the color wheels, go to my highlights and this little slider next to the highlight color wheel. So I drag that down then that takes that sort of over exposed area out and that's removed that exposure now. So the whole picture's gone a little bit darker there so I can adjust that again using the mid-tone slider. Push that up a bit to make it a bit brighter. And I can just again make the dark, the blacks a little darker etc. You know it's all about adjusting these but the most important thing is making sure those highlights are down. And if you have the opposite problem where you've got underexposure so you've got some of your picture is bottoming out at 0. Then you do the opposite with the shadows. You get the shadow slider and you push that up to make sure that those underexposed areas are now into a proper picture area. So like I say don't worry too much about exactly what's going on with those scopes. Just make sure that there's nothing peaking above 100% or bottoming out below 0% and use the shadows and the highlights to lift or lower that back. And you can use the mid-tones to use any sort of exposure adjustments that you need to do. So preparing the sequence for exporting. Let's go back here. So you'll notice now that I've done a little bit of adjusting on this clip that above the clip I've got a little yellow line whereas all the rest of this is green. So this is very important actually. So the green area is telling me that the all of the video clips there are fully rendered and they are playing back at 100% quality. The yellow area is telling me that there are some effects or something has been added to this clip and therefore the picture quality is no longer 100%. So the software is trying to adjust the picture quality so it's made it a little bit lower so that it doesn't have any trouble playing it back. But in doing that you've obviously lost some of your picture quality and that will come out in your final export. So what you need to do is make sure that you render all of the clips that aren't green. And that's fairly easy to do, very easy to do in fact. All you need to do is go up to where it says sequence, select sequence and you can render into out. So what will happen if I do that? So I can create in and out points in my main timeline in the same way that I can create them in the source window. So if I have in and out points set in my main timeline then this will render between those points. So and if I've got no in and out points set in my timeline then this will render the entire timeline and in lots of ways that's exactly what I want. So I can render into out because I know I've got no in and out points set there. So rendering can take quite a long time. It's practically exporting your video. So this is only one small clip that's not rendered. If this was the whole thing this could take easily 10, 15 minutes to render. But then this is a 35 minute piece of video. So the longer the video is the longer it will take to render. Also the more effects that are in there the longer it will take to render as well. So when that's fully rendered that's all good you're good to go. But remember if I do any more adjustments to here then it will probably need rendering again. So rendering is the final thing that you do to your sequence. So the other thing is like I said before if I have in and out points set in my timeline I need to get rid of these at this point now. Because if I export and if I export in a certain way it can export only what's between the in and out point. So I just need to make sure that there aren't any in and out points here. So I need to right click in the top of this ruler bar here. Anywhere in there and clear in and out. So a couple of other little things that you need to do. So if you have been a messy editor and this does happen so don't worry. But you may have clips lying around at the end of your edit that aren't actually in your edit. They were sort of clips that you were maybe thinking about using but you decided not to in the end. You decided not to put them in or maybe you took them out for a bit and just left them there. And they might be just lying around in this space in the end of your edit. So you need to get rid of those clips as well. Again if I'm not careful with my export settings I can end up exporting the entire sequence which will include all of those clips that you've left lying around in the end of your video. Obviously that's not what you need. Just a matter of getting rid of them, deleting them. You can also see that my edit here is very neat. All of my video clips are on track 1 and all of my adjustment layers are on track 2. And then I've got a couple of little images and text on track 3 and 4. So I've just done that just to make things neat and easy to export. Really you should be kind of editing in that way anyway. You don't need to use additional tracks and build castles up to the sky. It's all about trying to keep things as neat as possible. And you won't come into any trouble exporting clips that you aren't meant to if you do it that way. So I haven't got any clips here that aren't supposed to be there. I haven't got clips hidden underneath other clips and they're all gone. So try and keep everything on track 1 and if you can't, if you need to use another layer then go up to track 2. But just try to keep a lid on it the whole time. Use as few tracks as possible. Basically we have our sequence prepared and we're now ready to export. So let's go straight up to file, export and export media or keyboard shortcut command M. So export settings that we want you to use are format at the top. Format needs to be H.264. That is a really high quality compression setting. It'll give you a small file size for putting your film up on social media sites or that kind of thing, YouTube, Vimeo, all those sort of sites. But the quality will be really high. If you need to do a really high quality master that's up to you. That's not something that we're asking for. You can do your own version if you like. You might need to choose a different codec altogether. But for now we want you to choose H.264 as your export codec and format. So there you go, H.264 and under preset select this drop-down menu. Scroll down to Vimeo 1080p Full HD. So that's all we need from you. Even if you've done a 4K film or whatever resolution you've used, we just want a 1080p Full HD version. So there you go. So there you have it. That's all the video settings you need to use. But I'll just point out another couple of little things. This one down at the bottom here, time interpolation or interpolation, however you say it. You might want to choose frame blending here because that's a better algorithm for slow motion effects. So you might want to set that to frame blending. But only if you've got slow down clips. If you haven't, don't touch that. It's not worth doing anything with that. And then this thing over here, source range, this is going to determine which part of your sequence is exported. So at the moment it's going to export the sequence between the in and out point. Now if you remember there is no in and out point. So it's just going to export all the clips that are there. And like I said before, if you had any clips lying around at the end, you would also get exported there. And if you did have an in and out point set, then you'd only export whatever was between the in and out point and not the entire video. So make sure you take all of your in and out points out. And then you can just export the sequence between the in and out point. If you can, there's a little drop down menu here. You can also set this to entire sequence if you like. So if you do have in and out point set, then that will ignore them and it will export your entire sequence. But this will also export those little clips at the end if you haven't got rid of them. So there's no right or wrong way there. It's all about how you prepare your export in the first place. So either one of those will do. And then we're ready to export. But before we do export, the final thing is about saving and testing and something to do with naming conventions. So let's have a look at that. So just before you're ready to export, this little bit here that says output name, you need to click on the blue text and you'll get this little export save window. We are going to save our final video on the local drive of our computer. So where our project folders are all stored, then we're going to save this video in that final export folder of your project. Wherever that is. So if that's on your local drive or if it's on the server, then either one of those you can save it in the final exports folder. More than likely at the moment you'll be saving it locally. So you can save that into your final exports folder. But what I want you to add to the end of your film title. So at the moment you can call this whatever you like, but just make sure you underscore H264. And you can call this the name of your film, the name of your group, whatever you want to call it. However, I will say when you upload this to Vimeo, in the Vimeo instructions, there are very specific naming conventions about how you should name your film. That's because there will be so many films being uploaded to Vimeo. We need to make sure that we can keep track of them all. So you don't want your film to get lost in the ether of Vimeo. So please give it the naming convention that is in the Vimeo upload instructions. Other important thing to remember, if you are putting this in your final exports folder, and if this is going on to the server in your final exports folder, then this is also the place where it could be picked up for assessment. So you need to make sure that there is only one version of your final export in this folder. If there's more than one version, then the people who are doing the assessment will not know which version it is, and are likely to just pick one at random. So please make sure that you only ever have one film or one video file in your final exports folder. So you can click save once you've set that to the right place and given it the right name. You can click save. So then it's just a matter of clicking export. So this one is going to take a long time, so I'm just going to cancel that for now because we don't necessarily need to see that do its thing. But when it's finished, it will appear in your final exports folder. And what you need to do is watch the video that appears in your final exports folder. Open it in QuickTime or in VLC or any kind of video player, but make sure you watch it through fully. I know that the last thing you want to do once you've finally exported your film is watch the thing again after you've been editing it for days or weeks or whatever. But it's really important that you watch the final export through. Things can happen during that export process. You can get glitches, whatever. If you did accidentally leave an in and out point in, you need to know about it before it goes out for assessment. So make sure you watch your final export because we can't be certain that whatever you've given us isn't exactly what it's supposed to be. If it's only half the film, we're not going to know that. So please make sure you test, re-watch your video at the end. That's the final Premiere video tutorial. Part 5 finishing. And that's the end of the Premiere series. So thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon. Thank you. Bye.