 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to add in a background image and or a color background to your video. Here is what we've done here. This is a final example. This is a dog video. We've got a dog up in the top right left and the bottom right and they're just doing their thing and in the background we put in a nice cool little doggy print video and I know it's pretty small here. Let me go ahead and just increase the size so you can see it and also well if you don't want to do that and you just want a solid color in the background I can just go ahead and I'm going to turn off this layer here and we've got a nice solid teal light bluish color in the background there as well. This is very very popular for companies that want to have their logo or their background colors in the video. I will show you how to do it. Let's go ahead and delete everything. All right and now let's get going. The first step uh actually I'm not going to delete everything. I'll just delete the bottom two pieces. That's all I need to do. So here we go. We've got the videos of the dogs here running and doing their thing and it's on a black background. This is standard. Now normally these videos and the images would be on the bottom three layers like this. This is what it would be like. Your first video goes on the bottom. Your second video let me turn that on. Your second video and your third video. What we want to do now is we want to move these videos up in the stack. So I'm going to go ahead and select them all and I'm going to shift them up two for this demonstration. If you just want to do a background image or a background color and that's it you would just want to shift them up one. The next step here is you want to take your image. In this case I've selected a doggy footprint image and I'm going to drag and drop that on below all of these stacks here to the uh second video track. So v2 and if I move my playhead back to the beginning you'll see the image. It's very very small and it's centered and it's not the right size. So I'm going to go ahead and do a couple things. First I'm going to increase the size of it. So I'm going to increase the length of it. Pardon me. So we're going to go right to the end and then the second thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and make sure I'm selected on that image. I'm going to double click on it and then I'm just going to drag it out by the edges holding down the shift key on one of the one of the points and I'm just going to make sure that it fills up the whole screen. Something like that's a bit too small. Let's go a little further right about there. Okay so that might be all you need to do to put a background image into your video and presto we're done. If you want to go a little further you can go ahead and create a color mat. You want to go to a new item. Now down here at the bottom left or bottom right of your project panel there's a new item little button here. If you do not see it and it's possible that this will be minimized to like this size just drag this out and eventually you will see the new item. Click on new item and then go to color mat. This is very important. When you click on color mat go ahead and just set it to the size. So just hit okay. It will set it automatically set it to the size of your composition. I'm going to click it and now we can set the color. So for this one I don't know let's go with a new color. Let's go with some sort of cool green color. Alright left click on okay and left click on okay we're just going to call it color mat and presto in your project panel the color mat will show up. Now drag and drop this color mat underneath all your video and even underneath your image. You won't see it yet don't panic we're going to get there. I'm going to just increase this length of it to the whole composition and then in this instance I have to turn this layer off because we've got that doggy footprint on top of it. But if you didn't have that doggy footprint on top of it you would just see the color mat or the underground or underlying color layer just like that guys. That's all there is to it. Thanks for watching. Be back soon.