 Alright, so it's about noon. I think we should just get started. It's a 30 minute workshop and there's a lot to cover. So I kind of want to dive right into this. I am recording it. So we will We will be putting this on our YouTube page so that if anybody misses it, they can see it there or you have to leave early. I'm going to ask you guys to hold your questions until the end. I'll hang out till afterwards for a while and we'll talk if you guys have any questions. My name is Guy Stoll. I'm the media services specialist in the library multimedia center. Over in the side here to the chat. I hope everybody, all of you can see this. I've posted a link to a survey that I would like you to complete after the workshop. I've also put my email in there. I've put a link to the appointment page. If you wanted to make an appointment with me if you had any questions or needed some one on one help And also the link to the YouTube page. Also, as you know, this is a this is a workshop for rush And the thing that I'd like to The thing that I'd like to let you guys know also is that I looked at the CSUSB webpage earlier today and I put a link over here to where you can get the software. I'm noticing in there that Adobe is offering this software Adobe Creative Cloud free of charge to students through October 31, 2020. So it's a great deal to be able to use this stuff for free for basically the whole year. Anyway, so let's get started real quick here. Can you send those links again. They don't appear for people who came later. Let me see. Let's see. How's that got him. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen with you guys. And I'll see my screen now right. We already talked about how to get rush. We're going to talk about creating a project folder. Starting a rush project. We're going to tour the Adobe Rush interface a little bit. Then we're going to show you how to work with some media assets and then finally exporting your final project. So one of the things that I think is important when starting any media project is to create a project folder where you can keep everything nice and neat and organized. Over here. You can all see my screen. I hope if you can't give me a screen. I've created a project folder for the project I'm going to be using as an example today. This is a project folder for the Great Cycle Challenge 2020. It's a fundraising event that I participated in in 2020 raising funds for children's cancer research. So it's basically just a folder. And if you click it open, I've divided it down to other folders inside of here. You would want to do this for any media project that you create because it keeps things nice and neat neatly organized. And if you need to get something quickly, you know where everything is. You can see these other folders in here video and that's as you guessed it's where I keep all of the videos for this example today. I only have four in here. I'm only going to use one, but all the video that we have will go in here. Still images. All of the still images will go in this folder and you can see that I've further broken this down further. Same thing with audio. I put audio in here. I only have one right now. I only have one audio file that I'll be using and then later I'm going to explain this folder right here. This is exports. We'll get into this later. So I'm going to close this out and I'm going to open rush so we can kind of look at it a little bit. When you first open rush it'll open like this, but for you guys if you've never used it though there will be a tutorial that opens with it and it's super helpful to go through that and it will show you a lot of stuff there too. But I've kind of pushed that aside because I've already done it myself and we're going to work on my project the great cycle challenge 2020 it's a basically a thank you video for all of my sponsors that sponsored me throughout the event. I'm just going to show you how I kind of got started creating it we're not going to cut the whole thing obviously that would take longer than the 30 minute workshop, but this will give you the basics on how to get started in a media project that you might be doing. So the first thing that you're going to want to do is you'll click create a new project over here. Then you'll get to this screen down here you want to title this. I'm just going to title this GCC 2020. Okay, and then this little gear icon here if you click this, it'll open up and it'll allow you to check the select the aspect ratio of the project that you're creating. Because I shot everything in 16 by nine I'll just click this and we'll go here. Some of the still images that I will be working with are not in 16 by nine but that's okay you'll see how we handle those in a minute here. Then over here this is everything that you know the different places we can go on our computer to find project files or assets and here is the project folder. That I just showed you on the desktop and again that project folder can be anywhere on your computer or any hard drive that you might attach to your computer. If I click and open this we see the other folders that are inside the project folder and I know that I want to start with my audio first so I'm going to click in here. And here's my audio and I'm going to select this you'll notice a one comes up right there because it's going to be the first thing that goes or is imported into this project. Then I'm going to come up here I'm going to go click the back button. And I know that I want to start this video out with some still images so I'm going to go into here. And you can see I have these all broken down for different parts that I want to use in this video. I've looked through this footage quite a bit so I know exactly how I wanted to organize this and this is why it's a good idea to organize all this stuff. If you go into intro images I know I'm going to use some of these stills and I know that the first two images I want to use are the great cycle challenge and this one because this kind of starts to tell the story. This is a great intro image because this is what it is the video is about and this is the goal of the video and you can see these numbers one two three. If I select this it'll be for and that'll be the images order that they're imported into this project but I'm just going to use these for now. So you'll see what happens when I come down here and I click create. This might take a little minute while it's preparing the media. And then this pops up into the user interface. This is the rush user interface. It's pretty simple. If you look up here this right here is the preview monitor. This is where you can see everything that's going on or what you're doing or the things that you're adding to your project down here. This is the timeline and this is where all the magic happens. This is where all the editing happens and I'm going to show you how these things work together. So if we go back up here to the project or the preview monitor and we look at these different things you'll see these numbers down here right these numbers represent where the play head over here is on the timeline. If I move this play head. Obviously I don't have any images right here in this track but I do have audio here. Okay, but this is the play head is now a minute and four seconds in. Okay, I'm going to move this back down to the beginning of the timeline. This is how long all of the the actual timeline is right now. This piece of music is about one minute 49 seconds roughly. Okay. This is a play button typical like you would see on any tape recorder. And if I hit that it starts to cycle through the things that I've added to my timeline. I'm going to pause that this button here view exit full screen does exactly what it says it does click it and it goes back. This will loop your playback. If you hover the cursor above any of these. It'll kind of pop up to what it does this right here is to change the sequence or aspect ratio. Remember we selected 16 by nine. Then these little two dashes over here adjust the monitor size and if you click and hold down on this, you'll see that it it makes it smaller and consequently makes the timeline bigger or smaller and that's basically how you can adjust things doing that and sometimes that's helpful and I'll show you why here in a little bit. Like I said down here. This is the timeline. This is where all the editing magic happens. Then you have some little menus down here. If you click this right here and hover over it, it says control tracks. Well, I'm going to click that. And that opens up this section right here. This allows you to control certain aspects of each track. If you don't want to see the video, you can click this and you can see those gray out right there. I want to see those though right now. So I unclick it. This will mute anything in this track and this right here will actually lock anything in the track so you can't perform anything any edits in here. So why this is helpful if you have a track that you don't want to make any edits to and you want to protect it from anything you could lock it out. But we are going to edit in here and we do want to hear in here and we want to see then down here you'll notice is a slider bar. This slider will allow you to slide through the timeline. Okay, and then these handles down here will allow us to expand it and I like to do that. If I click and I hold that down and pull this down this way, you can see that it stretches out our timeline so we can see this audio waveform better and we can all also see our images up here better. Okay, then another thing I like to do is down here at this button is expand the audio and I like to do that and you'll see why I click this and it makes the audio bigger and I like to do this because in a project like this I like to cut to the music. It makes it more interesting to be able to see images change with the beat of the music and you'll see in a minute how we do that. So in order to, well let's do this, let's complete the interface. If we come up here to this plus button and you click it, here we can add a title, we can add more media and we can do a voiceover. We'll be talking about this a little bit later. The title button, you could add a title here but I think there's a more effective way and I will show you that in a minute here. So I click out of this, this button here will open the project panel and here you can see the project assets, anything that is that we're using in our project right now is right here. Here's our still that we imported earlier. Here's the other still. Here's the music. And here is the sequence and the sequence is basically just this everything that you have on your timeline. Okay. So I'm going to close this for now by re clicking the button, then I'm going to come over here to the right side of the screen. And I'm going to show you what some of these things do. This is titles. Remember I showed you titles over here, but I think this is a more effective way to do titles if you come over here and you click this button. You'll see that these pre programmed templates, if you will, for titles will pop up. And as all you have to do is click and drag one of these over and change the text and I'll show you how to do that in a little bit here. Then we close it again right click it and close it again. Then we come down here. This is effects that we do can use in our project. I'm going to close these I'm just going to briefly go over these because I'm going to be going over I'm a little bit more in depth in a few minutes here. This is colors they have pre built in things here. Then we have this this is speed ramp. This is I'll talk about this a little bit because we're not going to be using this so much in our workshop today. But maybe in a future workshop. This will allow you to speed your clips up or slow them down or create a really cool effect called the speed ramp. We can talk about that more later. This is your audio you allows you to make basic audio edits. If you click it again it closes it and this right here is the crop and rotate and it allows you to do basic things like create picture and picture or scale things up or down and I'll show you that in a little bit. So I'm going to close this and click this to close it. Then I'm going to come down here. We're going to start working with our image images and assembling this project. I'm just going to kind of move this play head out of the way. I want to take and move this still image kind of out of the way because I just want to work on this one right now. I'm going to expand this a little bit so that you can see the time or the audio down here a little bit better. But I'm going to be working with this image right now and I know that I'm working with this because I have this orange outline around it. If I click this this turns orange and you know that we're working with that same thing with the audio we're working down here with the audio now it has the orange around it. But I want to work with this image and what I want to do with this image I want it to play for as long as if you look down here at the wave form down here. You can see that there is an audio event right here and it kind of falls off here then it spikes again here. I want this image to play as long as that little audio event right there. So I take the play head I drag it down here and then I'm going to take if I click and I hold this down at the end of this still image and I drag it past that then I can take the play head back here and I can park it right. Right there where that audio event ends. Now I can come over here to the scissor icon and I can click this and I can split the clip and it's it splits it into two different sections. Okay, and then if I don't want this part of that still image anymore. I just hit the delete button on the keyboard or you could hit the delete over here the trash can off here to the left hand side and that goes away. Okay. The other button that you're noticing is the duplicate button. If I'm working with this image right here and I click duplicate. It will do just as it says and duplicate that image, but I didn't want to do that I could either hit control Z to undo that, which I'm going to do now. Or I could hit delete and delete that other image that I duplicated or hit the trash can icon right here. In either case, here is the still image that I've now cut to this audio event. Now, as you can see here, hold this out. There are four different audio events before the music takes a different turn right here. And I want to do that with these four images I want to take why only have to now I'm going to show you I'm going to import the other two in a minute, but I'm going to take this image now I'm going to I want to work with this one so I drag it down here, and I but it right against that one. Okay, then I take the playhead stretch it out. Then I click down here and I hold this stretch it out. I'm going to take the playhead put it back to the end of that audio event, or the beginning of this one. And then, before I use this and I split the clip. You don't even have to do that. You can click right here, hold it down and just drag it back to the playhead. And it's as simple as that to fit this in here with this audio event. I'm going to import two more still images so that we can have our intro completed to do that. I come up here and I click the plus button. Select media. And it opens up into our intro images folder from our project folder. In this case, I want to put this one next. It says a one will come over because it's a next it's the first one I'm going to be importing in this import session. And I want to put in this next. So it will import it in that order one and two. And if I click add, it'll put it wherever I have the playhead here. So I just click add and see what I mean. And now they're in there. If I want to close the project window I just click here. Now I can come back here and start editing these still images. Again, taken I'm going to move this one up out of the way. I'm going to do it with this one. I'm going to do it just like I did the other two. Stretch this out. I'm going to come back here right to the beginning of that audio event. Or over a little bit right there. Click hold and drag back. Then I want to work with this one. I drag it down. Put it right there. I'm going to stretch it out. I'm going to come right here to this audio event and I'm going to click hold and drag this back. Now you can see I have four images that are going kind of in time with these four separate audio events. I'm going to play that so you can see what it looks like. You can see how it changes on the audio event. And if you listen, the audio will do something different after this. So something else happens there. I'm going to put some video in there. But before we do that, I'm going to show you how to work with these still images a little bit more. If we go back and I drag the playhead to this one, I have the orange outline around this still image. So we know that we're working on this one. Sometimes still images can be a little bit boring unless they have some motion to them. But if you're old enough, you will remember a documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, and he kind of made this style really familiar where he took still images and he made them move as the story was being told on the screen. And you can kind of do this in rush. And I'll show you how it's real simple. It's just a button click. If you're here and you go up here to it's actually in the crop and rotate menu and you click on that. And I lied. It's not there. It's in the effects. So it's in the it's in the effects menu and you click pan and zoom. You'll see when I click this again, you'll see how this I play it now, you'll see how it kind of moves. Okay, but you notice that you can't really see it real good, right? You can't see that still image. So we do need to pan and zoom this. I'll click on the crop and rotate here. And if you click fit, it will fit the image into the preview monitor. And now when we play it, you'll see it move and you can see all the words. We might want to do the same thing here, but in this case, the image is smaller. So let's blow it up a little bit. And then I'm going to close this and I'm going to go back to the effects and I'm going to hit pan and zoom. Okay. I'm going to move the play hat down to this one right here. I'm going to hit pan and zoom. Do the same thing on this image and hit pan and zoom. Now if I plan, you'll see, you see they kind of move now. And if you don't like, I don't know I like how this one kind of moved because it goes. The word goes out before we hit the next image. So you can click, let me close this here. I click this again. If I click, if I click in the image, I can actually move it around up here. Okay. And I'm going to put it here because I think that that will move better. Yeah, it looks a little bit better. You can put it however you want it. Okay. Now. Remember, like we said, this music changes here. So I think I want to put some video here. I have to import the video if I come up to the plus sign and I go to media. It'll default to my intro images that we had before, but we need to go to the video folder from the project folder. So we click back right here. I need to go back again because I'm still in the still images. And now I'll go into my video folder. These are four mountain bike rides that I took while completing this mountain bike riding challenge. I'm only going to use one for the sake of time. I'll use this as one of the rides I did. It's called the aqueduct or the California aqueduct. If I select this. And I put my play head right at the end of that still image. I could also use this button up here in the preview monitor, go to previous edit point. And you can see how it, it clicks it right up against there. I've selected this and I click add. That video is now added right next to that still image. And I'm going to show you how to work with that right now. If you click here, we come out of that. It's easier to edit this video if I move it up to its own separate timeline. And I'm going to do that now when I work with this video. If I play this video, we're going to see it up here. I'm going to drag the preview monitor down a little bit. This is part of a trail. And I just hit the space bar. By the way, the space bar also pauses your video. If you hit it again, it'll continue. Now I know this part of the video I want to edit because if you look here. And you go right here, there's some ugly bricks. I don't really like that. I want to cut that out. So I want to move the play head a little bit past this. And I figure there's a good time that I want to go into this video. So I can click and I can drag this over to the play head. Or I could split it using this and then use delete. Let's just do that. Now it splits these in two. I don't want this section. So I click it and highlight it. And then I hit delete. Now that section of with the ugly bricks is gone. I can take this video now and come back over here and butt it right up against there. Now remember I told you this, you can see that the part of the ugly bricks is gone. I want to stretch this out because I want to see the timeline down here and I want to see, you can see how we cut these four still images right here to these audio events. I want this video to play during this audio event right here. And then you can see something else happens here. It's all I really have to do is take the play head, put it right there where that next audio event happens. Click, hold this and stretch it back to the play head. Now you can see how it all works with the audio events. Okay, you can also hear my bike. I don't want to hear that. What I want to hear is just the music. So remember I told you you could expand the audio. I'm going to expand the audio and you can see the audio right here for this video clip, but I don't want to hear that. I just want to hear the music. Simplest way to do that is to come up here to your audio button, click it, and just say mute and you'll see this blue right here turned to gray. And now it's edited out. It's all you hear is the music. Now remember I told you that this was the California aqueduct. You want your viewer to know that. So you're going to want to put a title here. So I'm going to come back up here to our title menu, click title. Remember I said this is the best way to add titles because they have all these prebuilt things right here. Okay, and I know that the one that I want to use in particular is the classic web caption. If I click down on this, hold this and drag it over to the video. You can see I'm going to close this now close my titles by clicking it again. You can see that we have some titles up here superimposed over this video, but it doesn't say what we want it to say right. So if you click in there. And you double click this, you can just it's a simple text editor. I know this is the or this is the California aqueduct. So now that changes our title, but I don't like, I don't like that font for this. There's one I do like. And then if I go over here, I think that looks better. And again, the way to do that is just to go into the edit of the title menu and you can edit anything color and font. I want to close this. And now you'll see that this is the California aqueduct and the title pops up right where we have it. And it goes away. You can actually make this longer or move it around anywhere in the video that you want. Let's just leave it there for now. If you look at the video and you say, well, that's kind of interesting. It does look kind of cool. But you want to give it a different look or a different color. Come on up here to the color button. Click it. And they have all these built in presets for you. And if you click on any of these you'll can see how you can see over here how it changes cinematic film look different ones. If I picked this one, it gives it a black and white look. Let's leave that there. And then also, you can also edit these further yourself down here if you want a completely different look. So I'm going to close the color button. We're almost there now. If this was your project, you would continue adding footage and images and different assets throughout this timeline in the same way that you have done this. The only thing I haven't really shown you yet. I mean, there's a lot of things that Rush still does that we don't have time for in a 30 minute workshop. But one of the cool things you can do is add a voiceover. So let's take the playhead, move it to the very beginning, come back up to here to this add media button. And if we click voiceover, it will enable this track right here for recording a voiceover. So I'll show you what I mean. I just click this and you can see how this turns red. Now when I click this, wherever the playhead is, it'll give you a three second countdown. And then you can start recording your own voiceover and I'll show you how that works right now. I just click it. This is the great cycle challenge USA. So I just click that button again to turn it off. And now you can see your voiceover right here. And one thing I might add that I didn't do that I should have done before I did this is silence this, because you don't want to hear that music as you're doing as you're doing your, your voiceover, the mic will pick up anything in the room. So make sure that you mute any music or anything that you have before you do your voiceover. But then it sounds like this. This is the great cycle challenge USA. The only thing I didn't do that I'd like to do real quick is I might put an effect right here called across dissolve. And if you go up here to the effects menu and click it, click the cross dissolve, hold it down. And you can put it right there and you can see how it looks. It just crossed dissolves from one image into the next. After you're done doing at any or editing all of your project together, you're going to want to export it so that your friends or you might want to share share on social media. You're going to come up here to the share tab. Click it. I'm going to call this they just want to know what you want to name it. I'm going to call this the GCC. 20. Okay. Where do you want to save it to. Well, if you click here. Remember that I said in the beginning, we're going to save everything to our project folder. If you click in here. Remember our exports folder. Every export that you do saving here that way everything self contained in the project folder. And now that we have that selected and we select the folder is all we have to do is select export will take a minute. It's done. Now we can minimize this. Go look into our project folder under exports. And here it is. I'm going to play this with this. This is your completed video. This is the great cycle challenge USA. And of course, if you had more images and stuff to edit in you would have done that. And that's basically how to create a video in rush.