 Welcome everyone to the University of Bristol Premiere Pro video tutorials. This is part 1 introduction. This video will take you as far as importing and logging footage. The next videos in the series will be editing. There will probably be two editing videos getting started and more advanced editing. And then in the rest of the Premiere Pro series there will be titles, effects, sound and finishing or exporting. So let's get going with this first Premiere Pro video tutorial part 1 introduction. So in this session we will be going through organization, backing up your project, downloading and launching Premiere, importing footage, reviewing footage and logging footage. And so that's as far as we'll get this time. So let's get going. So organization, first off I'll talk about hard drives and then we'll go into the server and backing up your project. So you'd be working at home obviously rather than working in the department where we would normally work. So because of everything that's happening at the moment, your setup is going to be different, it's going to be a home setup. And the handouts that we have are obviously at the moment they're all geared towards working in the department and working at the edit suites that we have there. So this is going to be a slightly different setup. So normally what we have in the department is a server, a media server where you can save all of your footage and all of your projects. And not only do you save your projects there you also work directly from the server and you can access that server from any edit suite and that's how it works in the department. So it's going to be slightly different obviously now. However you will still have access to the server and what we would like you to do is to use this server to back up all of your projects. Everything in your project footage, project file, everything that goes in there we want you to back it up on the server. That way if anything happens to your personal computer you won't lose the entire project. Also if you happen to be the only one in your group that has the project on their personal computer and you're not available for any reason then the project is still going to be on the server and available for other students to use. Unfortunately because of the speed of connection between home and the server it's probably not going to be possible to work directly from it. Apparently some students have tried and had some success but it does depend on your own internet connection and potentially what other traffic is going on at the time as well. So it's not something you can rely on being a fast enough connection all the time. So ideally what you would do is back up to your own drives, sorry work from your own drives. So what we would always recommend is backing up to an external hard drive rather than your system drive. So on a Mac you'll have this Macintosh HD that is the icon on your desktop and that is what's called your system drive. It contains all of the files that your computer needs to work not just the files that your photos, videos, whatever all that sort of stuff but the actual system files that the computer needs to boot up and run the operating system. So ideally it's always recommended that you don't save your project to the system drive, that you get an additional hard drive, maybe an external hard drive something like that that you plug into your computer USB something like that and you back up to those drives instead. Editing video can be quite taxing for a hard drive so it's making the drive work quite hard and the more you work your drive the more chances there are that something can go wrong with it basically. So that's why it's recommended that you use an external drive. If you crash out an external drive then you'll lose the data that's on there, yes you'll lose a project and it can be quite disastrous. But if you lose your system drive you'll lose your entire computer, you'll lose the whole thing. So yeah it's always recommended to use an external hard drive. You can get these sort of small drives quite cheap nowadays. This is a two terabyte drive and you can fit multiple projects on a two terabyte drive that would potentially last you your entire university career. So that's what we call an old style spinning disk drive. It actually has a disk inside spins and the data is read off like that. And then you have SSD drives, almost identical but a bit smaller maybe. An SSD drive works in the same way that your sort of little USB sticks work, they're just much bigger. They're kind of relatively new, they are starting to become more stable. You might notice from using USB pen drives, stick drives whatever you call them, that they can crash out quite easily. It's not so much of a problem nowadays as it used to be but it's still not as good as it could be I suppose. So I don't think there's any one is better than the other at the moment, SSD drives are faster but they're also more expensive. So I wouldn't recommend one or the other, it's totally up to you what you go for and price is probably the biggest thing that will determine what you go for. I personally would always say it's not worth spending a lot of money on a hard drive because expensive drives can crash just as easily as cheap ones can in my experience anyway. So I wouldn't spend the most amount of money you can on a drive, perhaps not the least either but somewhere in the middle would be fine. Also it's not recommended to buy a huge say 8TB drive or something like that, rather than buy one 8TB drive by four 2TB drives. That way you can spread the data and your projects amongst those drives. If you've got four projects going then put one on each drive, that way if you lose one then you're only going to lose one project. It's not ideal but it's better than losing all of them. So yeah, I would always recommend an external drive and smaller and many rather than one large one and price don't spend a lot. So yeah, the server like I said you can still access the server. What you need to do is you need to download and install a VPN virtual private network. There is a piece of software called F5 VPN and you just install that and then this site here is a university page and it will tell you how to install the software, what software to download and how it connects to the server. And then once you've done that there is details on Blackboard, on the planning and making your film site, on how to actually connect to that server once you've installed the VPN. I'm going to maybe foolishly attempt to connect now to see how easy it is. So in my applications folder I have somewhere in here F5 access. So let's open that up. So double click that and then I get it appears on my toolbar at the top. Then I just scroll down to connect to UOB VPN and I can sign in. For some reason sometimes when I sign in email is different. Okay, so now the F5 access icon has a green light. So that means I should be connected. And now all I have to do is follow the instructions which are in Blackboard. So whether you're filmmaking fundamentals or tech and tech or any other unit. Once you've got into your unit page, planning and making your film down here, select that. Go into the planning and making your film link at the top. And down here media server instructions, how to connect to the media server. So from a Mac, what I'll have to do is click when I'm in Finder that is command K. And if I just put in, I have the address already in there because I've connected before. The first time you come to this, this will be blank and you'll have to type in this URL here. Once you've done it once, then it should remember it the next time. So whether you're year one or whether you're a post grad, so that will be PGA or PGB. I can just click connect. I have to put in my password every time for some reason. I don't think you will. And that's a bit strange, but let's go down. So down in your toolbar on the left hand side of your Finder window, you should now have this little server location. So I've got the archive, PGA, PGB, teaching year one, year two, year three. You will only have access to the year that you are in. So dissertations folder, tech and tech. It's not looking like it should actually. But this, that is how you connect. This could be something to do with the fact that I'm recording my screen and it's not allowing me certain access. So I'm going to leave it there, but that is how you do it. So hopefully once you've done it like that, you'll just get in and you'll be able to see the folders from your year. Okay, so that's drives and server backing up. So the other thing I want to talk about now, this is all under organization, of course. So I want to talk about using the folder structure. So when we work at the department, we give you a folder template and we like you to work within this template because it keeps your footage in your particular folder and it doesn't get messy. It's very easy for us to help you if something goes wrong. If you've saved all of your footage in all the right place, all the files in all the right place, then it's going to be much easier for us to help you if something goes wrong. And also it's just going to make it easier for, you know, if you have to share your project with other people in the group, you know where everything is. A million reasons why it's good to be organized and keep your footage and files in the right folder structure. So this is kind of how it looks, really simple to set up. So I haven't got an external drive connected right now. If, for example, I was going to save my project in my movies file, I'm going to create my initial project file. So Premiere Intro Project. So that's my project file there. Let me just make sure if I put those there, I'll appear at the top so you can see it easy. So this is my Premiere Pro project. Sorry, my main project folder. And inside this, I'm going to create an audio folder, a final export folder, footage folder, grades for color grading, Premiere Pro Project folder. That's not easy to say. And a export folder. You can add folders as you go, but this will be a good starting point for you. So there you go. I have initially the first thing you're going to do. So normally at this stage when we're teaching editing, you'll have already done the first camera sessions and all that kind of thing. And we've been through some sessions with you. Well, sort of introducing you to the phone setup that we're going to use. So you may have some footage that you can drop into this footage folder already. I'm going to put something in there as well. So I'm going to create a new folder. I'm going to call one of them phone, shoot one. And the other one will be Sony FS5 shoot one. So we call these shoot one because on the first day you go out shooting, you'll come back with a card and you can download it and stick it in this folder shoot day one. Day two, you create a new folder called that shoot two, et cetera, et cetera. The reason you do that is because with the Sony footage, you always end up with the same folder structure on the card. So you can't copy folders of the same name into the same place on a computer. So what you need to do is create individual folders to drop those cards into. Otherwise, they all come out with the same names and it gets really confusing. The phone footage, even though this is not entirely true for that, you still want to keep your shoot days separately so you know exactly where you are. Again, it's all about organization. So I've got a couple of things from previous places. It's just one phone clip that I've got, but that's fine. That'll go in there. And then I am going to find some footage to go in there as well. So let's just shift this one over. So this is my FS5 footage. So when you shoot on the Sony FS5s, which you will do at some point sooner or later, this is the folder structure that you will see on your SD card. Once you take the card out of the camera, put it into a card reader, open it on the computer and you'll get this folder structure. There will be a private folder, a folder on the SD card called private, and inside you'll have all of these folders as well. You need to copy across the entire private folder. Everything that's in it will come with it, but make sure you copy that whole folder over. Don't go looking for the clips inside there and trying to copy clips out. You need all of this stuff. This is all important metadata that goes with your video clips and it's all necessary, so you have to copy the whole private folder across. You need to stress that really importantly. That really needs to happen. So that's how you initially just copy footage into your footage folder, which is organized neatly in this folder structure. I'm presuming that you all know how to create folders and know your way around your own computers so you can save things in relevant places. I'm just showing you the best way to organize yourself for your project. There we go. That's setting yourself up to start your project. Let's go into downloading and launching Premiere. Again, for downloading Premiere in the Planning and Making Your Film section, whatever unit you're in, there should be a section that shows you how to download Premiere. It's not currently there so I'll make sure that that goes in, but you will have also been sent an email with instructions on how to download Premiere. So follow those instructions from IT. I know some of you have already done this so I know that it's happened. Those of you that can't find them, you need to go back through your emails and look for emails from resource managers or IT regarding Premiere Pro, and you download the Creative Cloud app. Once you've done that, it should be relatively easy to follow downloading the apps within Creative Cloud, which include Premiere Pro and a whole host of other things which you've kindly been given by the University. Once you've downloaded that and all of those apps inside your Applications folder, you'll have all of the Adobe Creative Cloud programs. I've got twice as many as I should have because I've got 2019 in here as well as 2020, so you'll only have half as many as this. Premiere Pro 2020 is the one you're after. This is not the app, this is just a folder and the app is inside the folder. So you just go inside there and working from a Mac, you can drag this down onto the dock and place it onto the dock. I've already done that on mine, so once you've done that, go down to your dock, click the Premiere Pro app and that will open up. And then we can get started with that one. So this did take quite a long time for a bit quicker this time. Okay, so this is my home window for Premiere Pro. I have several projects in here from things that I've been doing previously. You will have nothing initially the first time. So what you need to do is create a new project from this little button over here. So if I go create new project and then you get the new project window. So let me just get rid of that for now. New project window. First thing you need to do save your project, rename your project, sorry. So I'm going to call this Premiere Introduction. You need to call the project something relevant that's, you know, it could be your group number, you know, something that you're going to remember. You might not have a title for the film yet, so, you know, a group number is a good one to start with. So yeah, just call that something that you're going to remember. And then importantly, before you go clicking OK, you need to make sure you're saving it in the right place. So we need to click on browse in the save location. And I need to save that in the project folder that I created earlier. So into the project folder into the Premiere Pro project folder and then choose. So now, as long as I haven't touched anything else in here, I can now save this project. Importantly, this in this little tab here, all of the scratch disks need to be same as project. They default to this. So don't worry about that as long as you just don't go in there and change anything. That'll be fine. It might be worth just having a quick look just to check. But what happens is you get files that are created during working in Premiere. Auto saves, video previews, audio previews, render files, all these sort of files. And those files need to be kept with your project at all times. So wherever your project is saved, all of those files need to be saved in the same place too. So as long as that's all good, I can now click OK. Once I do that, I get Premiere Pro open. So that is downloading and launching Premiere. So now let's go to importing footage. So some of you will probably have already used Premiere. Some of you may have used it a lot. Some of you may have used it once or twice. The way that I'm teaching you how to do this now is the way that we prefer you to work in the department. And it's a way that suits our workflow best. So you may have other ways of doing things. You may think you have quicker ways of doing things. But ideally, we've set things up to work in a certain way. And you will benefit from doing these things the way that I'm telling you how to do them now. There are always, you know, there's 10 different ways to do 10 different jobs in Premiere. So, you know, and you might never do the same thing twice. But, you know, the way that I'm showing you now is the way that we really want you to work. So let's get into importing footage. And the reason I said all that is because I know that there's several ways to import footage. I might show you a couple of them now, but I'm going to show you importantly the one that we want you to do. So in Premiere, I have these main four windows open at the moment. And the reason I have these four windows is because I'm set up in a certain way right now. And that is because of these tabs at the top. If you're on a different tab, your windows will look very different. You don't need to worry about this. They're all the same windows as such. But it might get confusing if you're sort of looking at things in a different way. So we usually just start with the editing one. So the editing tab is probably the one that we sort of use the most. And within the editing tab, you'll notice that when I click on each window, you get a blue box that sort of surrounds it. That is telling me that this window is the one that's selected currently. It does make a difference which window is selected. I can go to the menus at the top and they will be different depending on which window is selected. And sometimes I might tell you to do something, but when you go up there, the parameter for that actual thing is grayed out. And that is because you might have the wrong window selected. So just be aware of that. Different windows create different menus. So we have the source window. This is where you view your footage before you do anything with it. You have the program window. This is where the footage gets seen when it's in the timeline. So this is a visual representation of the timeline. Then you have the timeline window. This is where you do your actual editing. And then you have your project browser window. And this is where all of the files that you will bring into your edit are saved, including your sequence files. Everything comes from the project browser window. So it's again, it's really important to keep your project browser nice and organized. Folders within folders. Yeah, just make sure you have lots of folders well named and you know where everything is. We'll come to a bit more organization later on when we do editing. But one thing to note right now is folders within Premiere are called bins. So you may sort of think of a bin as some way where you throw footage away like the trash on a Mac or something like that. That's not the case within Premiere or any editing software actually. All editing software calls the folders bins. That's kind of an old hang up from film editing days. So yeah, so if I want to import some footage to work on inside into Premiere, you can see here it says import media to start. So all I need to do double click that and I get the import window. So then I need to make sure I'm importing from the right place. So I need to go to my project folder again into my footage folder and then find my footage, select it here and click import. Okay, that is a very quick way to import footage. And with your phone footage, that is a perfectly acceptable way to import clips with the phone footage. With the Sony footage, it's really not the best way to import at all. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through the other way to import and we can import both types of footage the other way as well. And the other way is using the media browser. So we click on the media browser tab in the project browser, then we find where our footage is. So I know mine's on my hard drive. It's in users. It's in my home folder. It's in movies. And it's this one, a premiere pro premiere intro. And then it's in footage. And then I can go into my. So now if I click this, I'm cooking clicking the drop down arrows the whole way through. But when I get to the final one, where's my clip gone? And don't worry about that. All you need to do is click on the folder and then your clip appears just here. So then it's just a matter of select the clip, right click on the clip or control click. Seems to be you can only do it from here. Now it used to be. There it is. How strange. Anyway, right click on the clip, select import and away you go. So now I'm going to create a new bin by right clicking in here. And I'm going to call that one phone clip. And I can drop that phone clip inside there. And then I've got the little drop down arrow to get to this clip. So there's another way I can do this by and that's by importing my clips directly into the bin that I've just created. So if I create another bin now by right clicking in there and call this Sony FS521. And then now if with this selected, this folder selected, if I then go into the media browser, because I've already navigated through to my footage, I can now just click off the phone folder and onto the Sony folder. Actually, no, because I need to drill down even further with the Sony footage because I need to go into the private folder. Then I need to, once I'm in the private folder, I click on this folder here. It looks like a file, but it's actually a folder called AVCHD. And once I've done that, then I get all of my other clips just here. So you'll notice at the moment that these are all what we call thumbnail views. They're all little video clip views. And if I scroll over them, it actually plays through them, which is quite neat. But this is because I'm in thumbnail view just down here. I can also go to list view and that will just put them in a list for me. It doesn't matter which one you're in at the moment. So once I've got my clips here, I need to select them all. A quick way to do that is command A, then right click again, control click. Sorry, why is it not doing that? Control click, select import. And there we go. Now these are already in my Sony bin that I created earlier. Okay, so that's how we import files using the media browser. And the reason that we use the media browser rather than just a direct import is because the media browser takes note of all the metadata. So remember I said all of those extra files that come with the Sony footage. If you go through the media browser, then Premiere will take a note of all that metadata and it will be available for your clips later on if you need it. Okay, so let's go to reviewing footage. So I've shown you the tabs at the top and the fact that we are currently working in the editing tab. That's all fine. So we've been through that. So the next thing to do really is just show you the tilde key first actually. So again, depending on which window you have selected, let's just go back to that's the wrong place, which window you have selected, if I click the tilde key, which is that one with a little squiggly line next to the Z key on this keyboard, it expands this window out fully. So now my project browser window is taking up the whole screen. Click the tilde key again, jumps back. It's just really useful if you suddenly think you need a lot more space. You're not interested in the other windows for now. Just concentrate on what I'm doing in this window. I need a bit more space to work in then tilde key really useful. Okay. So after the tilde key, we can now go into reviewing footage properly using the J, K and L keys, amongst other things actually. So when you're ready to actually review your footage, you need to just find the clip in your folder down here. So that's either one of these. And so reviewing is important for the next stage, which we're getting to, which is logging. But I'll just show you how to review clips. So any one of these clips, I can now double click and it will open in my source window. So once I've opened up the clip in the source window, now I can see what it is. I can rename it something useful. But before I do that, I need to scroll through the entire clip because I could rename this clip depending on what I can see in the first frame. But that doesn't tell me the whole story. If I scroll through the clip and, you know, a UFO lands in the middle of the field over there, but I've not seen that in the first frame, then I've sort of missed the important part of the whole clip really, haven't I? So yeah, I need to scroll through it and make sure I'm not missing anything important. A couple of ways to do that. I can grab this little blue thing here. This blue playhead and just scrub it through. That's called scrubbing. Just dragging it through there. Or I can just click anywhere in this little timeline ruler bar and just scrub through that way. Or using the J, K and L keys, J will play my clip backwards. K will stop it. L will play my clip forwards. K will stop it. So that's all good. And it's a bit slow. If all you want to do is just scrub through quickly and find out what's in the clip. So let me just get this to the beginning again here. So if I press L once, it will play at normal speed. If I press L twice, it will double speed. And three times, again, speeding up. So every time I press it, it gets faster and faster. So L, so you can see. And the same with J going backwards. And then K will stop it at any point. OK? So that's how you can kind of scrub through your footage. To see what's in there. OK, so that was relatively easy. Scrubbing and reviewing the J, K and L. So logging footage. Logging footage is really important. There's kind of some examples of logged footage there and some naming conventions. The reason it's really important is because imagine you have a project with how many clips, who knows, hundreds and hundreds of clips in it, which is really easy to happen. And you'll notice this as soon as you get going with filming. It's very easy to end up with more clips than you can possibly deal with. And it happens with first-time shooters all the time. You end up shooting way more than you need to. And then the editing process becomes really difficult because you've got so much footage, you don't know where to start. And just even watching it all through becomes a nightmare. So it's really important to name your footage as you go through. So logging footage is just simply renaming the clips. And you need to rename a clip so that the name tells you what's in the clip without you having to open it. So if you have given the clip a name that says Video File 1 or something like that, it tells you absolutely nothing about what's inside that clip. So you're going to have to open it to check. And if you have to open the clip, then renaming it has been a total waste of time. So you need to give a clip a description of what's in there visually, what you've actually shot, the subject. But it's also got to have a description of the type of shot that it is, whether it's a wide shot, close-up, medium pan, tilt, crane shot, all this sort of thing. Is it any of those things? And then finally, you just need to add whether it's take one, take two, take three, take four, et cetera, et cetera. Sometimes you don't always get these things right, but it's important to try your best to name this stuff as well as you can. And the reason it's important to do that is because when you're editing, you'll be editing through your projects, whatever, you'll suddenly think, oh, I remember there was that clip that would fit in perfectly just here. And then you have to go in there and try and find it. If you've renamed everything really well, you'll be able to tell where it is, not only because you will see the name, but you also know from the clips that are close by it where it was. And that will save you maybe 20 seconds in your edit. So it doesn't sound like a lot, but if you think that the whole process of editing when you're starting is finding clips, and if you can save yourself 20 seconds every single time you find a clip, over the whole length of your project, you may save yourself two, three, four days of actual editing time. And that's going to, later on in life, if you're doing editing for a living, it's going to save your employer money and you're going to get employed again and again every time you do that. But if you're just working for yourself, it's going to make your day rate go up and it's going to make your life just easier. Also, importantly, and I see this time and time again, students will, you know, they'll get their video clips back from their first shoot and they'll start watching them because that's what you want to do, you know. But they'll start watching them and they'll click through every single one and watch every single one, but not rename them as they go. And I've seen this happen and I've gone through to people who are doing this and halfway through watching their clips and why aren't you renaming them as you're going? And oh, we're going to watch them first and then rename them. But you're watching them now and not renaming them. So why don't you just rename them now and then you won't have to do the whole thing twice? You know, it happens, really. So, yeah, the first time you go into your clips to watch them, start logging straight away. Otherwise, you're just going to have to watch them all again. It's a time saver and a lifesaver logging footage. So just a quick one about naming conventions. I've covered that really, haven't I? So, yeah, it's important to know what's in the clip. So this one, for example, split tree dialogue. I know that's a shot of a tree that was split by lightning and I know that it's got a person talking next to it and I know that it was take three. What I haven't put in here is whether it was a wide shot or anything but I do know that all of these split tree shots were all locked off on a wide shot so I can see the person and the tree in the same shot. Sometimes when you know that a whole host of clips are all the same shot size, then you don't need to put that in every single time. As long as you know it, then that's fine. It's when you have... I might have filmed that split tree as a close-up, as a wide, as a medium. So, yeah, if you've got lots of different size shots then make sure you put them in. Also, the important thing about naming conventions is try and keep the file name as small as you can, as short as you can. So, wide shot could just be a W. A mid could just be an M, close-up, CU. So, your shot sizes can just be abbreviated. Then you need to have a little bit of detail there about what's actually in the shot and then a take one or a take two. So, how you actually name the clips or log the clips is very simple. It's just a matter of going to the clip itself in here. So, here we also have icon view or list view. I always find list views easy to work with, especially when you're renaming clips in this stage. Although, having said that, you can, in icon view, you can also obviously see what's in the entire clip. So, rather than have to load it up into the source window, you could just rename it directly in the project browser. And the way you would do that is just literally click on the name and type in whatever it is. So, that's wide. I haven't even looked at it really. You can scrub through using this little player as well. So, that's a wide, handheld HH and that's Nona, that's her name. Looking window. And that is take one. Okay? Very simple. I can put that back into list view and there it is. So, when list view is just a matter of clicking once on the name to select it twice to get it into edit mode. So, you have to actually click on the text itself. You can't do it on the icon. That won't work on the text. Okay? So, that's how you actually rename the clips. If it's an interview, for example, you might come up with an abbreviation that tells you who the interview is by, who is of, who's the interviewee. Just maybe their initials, something like that. Because you don't want to be writing their name out every single shot. You might have several shots of this interview. And what I would do there is for each shot just a little bit that describes what they're talking about in that, in the shot. So, you know, because you know there's nothing visually going on in the interview other than a person sat there. So, the interview is more about what they're actually talking about. So, it's about kind of making sure you've got a description of the dialogue rather than necessarily the actual action in the shot. Okay? So, yeah, that's logging footage. And I think we're basically done. So, that is Premiere Part 1 introduction finished. So, look out for the next videos in the series editing. Then we've got the sound titles, effects, and finishing. So, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Cheers.