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00:00:00 – 00:28:00
Mr. Escamilla walks students through practical tasks in Adobe Premiere Pro, focusing on skills needed for certification. Key techniques covered include trimming clips with the Ripple edit tool, applying effects like 'tint' and 'lumetri color' via adjustment layers, managing audio keyframes for smooth transitions, and animating opacity. He also demonstrates advanced editing actions such as creating text titles, cropping clips, synchronizing multi-camera sequences, and ensuring effective video-audio linkage. The instructional video highlights the importance of accurate clip management, naming conventions, and task-specific editing tools. It concludes with the proper order of post-production steps, offering a comprehensive guide for students to ace their practice exams.
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In this segment of the video, Mr. Escamilla introduces the Geometrics Premiere Pro practice exams for his class, focusing on the first practice exam. He explains the benefits of using training mode, which provides a help button with step-by-step guidance on how to answer questions. He walks through some initial practice questions, such as archiving a project and exporting a single frame as a JPEG. He then addresses a task where students need to trim a guitar clip to five seconds using the Ripple edit tool without leaving gaps in the sequence. This guide aims to help students prepare for their upcoming certification test.
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In this part of the video, the instructor demonstrates how to use the Ripple edit tool to trim a clip to five seconds without leaving any gaps in the sequence. The Ripple edit tool is preferred over the selection tool for this reason. The instructor then explains how to scale a microphone clip to 150% by selecting the clip and adjusting the scale in the effect controls panel. After scaling, the next task is to add an adjustment layer over all clips in the sequence and apply a tint color correction to it. The adjustment layer allows a single effect to impact all underlying clips, streamlining the editing process.
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In this part of the video, the speaker demonstrates how to apply the ‘tint’ effect to an adjustment layer, affecting all clips associated with it. They emphasize this technique is relevant for test questions that require adding effects either to individual clips or adjustment layers. The instructor also explains how to apply the “lumetri color” effect to a specific clip (guitar MP4) and change its creative look to “SL Blue Moon” via the effects controls panel. This alters the clip’s appearance, adding a blue tint. Finally, they begin task eight, where they need to fade out an audio track between 15 and 20 seconds using volume settings and timeline markers.
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In this part of the video, the speaker demonstrates how to manipulate audio and video keyframes in Premiere Pro. First, they explain adding and removing keyframes to fade out audio starting at the 15-second mark by ensuring the audio is selected and using the keyframe buttons at specific timeline points. They meticulously adjust the keyframes to achieve a smooth audio fade-out by the 20-second mark.
Next, the speaker moves on to task nine, where they address animating the opacity of a “Stars one” layer to fade out from 100% to 0% between five to six seconds. The process involves selecting the correct layer, navigating the timeline, and adjusting the opacity settings in the effects controls. They ensure that keyframes are set up correctly to achieve the desired fading effect to reveal the underlying clip seamlessly.
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In this part of the video, the speaker demonstrates several key video editing techniques. First, they adjust the opacity of a clip to zero at the 600-second mark, creating a fade-out effect to transition into the next clip. They then explain how to crop the top and bottom of a video clip by 5% using the crop effect located in the effects panel, resulting in black bars on the top and bottom of the clip. Next, they show how to create and customize a text title using the type tool. The title “sweet” is formatted with Arial font, a size of 250, a stroke of 5, and no fill, and is aligned to the bottom left of the screen using the alignment tools in the essential graphics panel.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses several tasks involving simple yet specific actions in video editing software. Firstly, they highlight the importance of ensuring clip durations match and demonstrate adjusting clip edges. Secondly, they cover audio equipment by explaining shotgun and lavalier microphones. Thirdly, they guide on creating and renaming a new sequence, and removing it from a footage bin to a project bin. Next, they show altering auto-save settings to save every 10 minutes. Following that, they illustrate creating a multi-camera sequence using three clips, emphasizing the importance of naming conventions and sync points. Lastly, they explain adding a marker at a specific time on a clip.
00:18:00
In this segment of the video, the presenter performs several specific tasks using a video editing software. First, they add a marker at three seconds, name it ‘start credits,’ set its duration to one second, and confirm the changes. They then address task 17 by demonstrating how to remove gaps in the sequence without altering the length of any clips. For task 18, they place three video clips (‘Street crossing’ 26, 28, and 27) in a successive sequence on the same track. Moving on to task 19, they apply a constant gain effect to the first two seconds of the audio clip, ensuring the duration matches the required two seconds for a gradual fade-in effect. For task 20, they rename a file from ‘oven MP4’ to ‘cookies’ and change its label color to teal. Finally, the presenter begins task 21, which involves making an additional edit without creating extra audio tracks.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker demonstrates how to add and rename a video track in a sequence. They instruct to right-click, add a new video track, and zero audio tracks, and then rename the new track to “extra track.” They then proceed to delete all image files (JPEG and PNG) from the video bin, retaining only the video clips (MP4s). The speaker also links audio clips to their corresponding video clips by matching file names and right-clicking to link them. Additionally, they demonstrate how to move the audio track of “video three” to start at 32 seconds without altering the video track’s position.
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In this segment, the video explains how to place an audio track towards the end of a sequence by unlinking it from the video track. The speaker right-clicks the video three clip, selects ‘unlink,’ and moves the clip to the 32-second mark. Task 26 involves dragging and matching to merge layers correctly. Task 27 requires matching various editing tools to their functions, such as the selection tool, ripple edit tool, razor tool, slip tool, pen tool, hand tool, and type tool. For the next task, depth of field, rule of thirds, and slow shutter speed are matched based on image characteristics. Finally, the functions of rate stretch, slip, and rolling edit tools are matched, and it is noted that asking a client about the color profile is unnecessary as it is the videographer’s responsibility.
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In this part of the video, the presenter addresses the final question of a practice exam for Adobe Premiere Pro, specifying the correct order of post-production steps: ingest footage, edit video, audio, color correction, and export video. The presenter then submits their test, noting the completion time of 25 minutes. They encourage viewers to ask questions if needed and sign off by wishing everyone a good day, emphasizing that the choice of making it a great day is up to them.