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Okay so after recording that little instructional video I realized that there is some issue
between renaming the extensions of .mov and .mp4 as is often times with Premiere or technology
in general you run into unexpected issues when doing things for the first time so I
have a bit of a work around for right now this is not the most efficient way to do this
and is not typical of a re-linking process for projects that involve many, many, many
files but for this particular instance and moving forward with just a few files it all
work okay. So going back and I've renamed the high resolution files or .mov still and
the low resolution files are back to being .mp4 and now I am re-linking as you can see
these are all offline they were originally the high resolution files .mov and I'm going
to have to manually re-link them to the low resolution files and I have to keep them as
.mp4 because Premiere did not like it essentially when they were .mov so I'm going to have to
manually re-link base on the file name. So this one is htl add signature to photo and
I'm going to re-link it manually to the .mp4 version and that re-link find now I have to
re-link the next one actually that's still the same one. I don't know why it's making
me re-link it twice but for whatever reason it is probably because it needs the audio
and the video so there is a Lion one I'm going to do that one to Lion.mp4 and I'm going to
do a shortcut to mp4, it's going to ask for that again, and I'm going to do Mac OS and
I'm going to do a spot light once and that's okay, that's fine. So as long as that looks
okay there and it does we can hear it, I can see it and all is good. Now, you'll see here
in my sequence that my sequence settings I want to expand this window here you're going
to see my sequence settings are 22.976 frames per second and they are a video size of 1920x1080
which is big and then you look at the specifications for my files and you'll see that they are
also the same frame rate but quite a bit smaller 854x478 and so when you drop a smaller size
frame into a larger size timeline you get what you expect which is that it doesn't fill
the frame so we're just going to do that as an example here. I'm just going to just drop
this in here, put it where it won't cut anything off and you can see it's much smaller than
the frame size so in this instance what I'm going to do is I'm to control click it and
I'm going to select the "scale to frame size" and that's going to bring it up to fill the
dimensions of the frame of the timeline and so that all have be done for each and every
clip so I'm going to get started here with what I would do to edit one of these tutorials
and let's walk through really quickly what all the different elements there are that
exist in the timeline already. First, you have the intro which is this little guy who
walks over here, you've got the sound effect of me saying that and then he falls down and
then we have a nice little cool intro and then we have a special effect here called
life hacks with sound effects that explodes and then we have the end here a little subscribe,
thanks for watching thing. So I'm going to suggest actually that moving forward we ditch
this little white intro saying what the episodes are because it's cute but I don't think it
really adds that much and I want to suggest that we ditch the life hacks graphic as well
here, so I'm just going to take these out of here and delete them should be catching
up here and then basically all you left with is the nice intro and the nice outro. And
so then all you really have to do is fill in the middle with whatever content we are
working with and I'm dragging this outro graphic to the very end here because I don't want
it to get cut off when I drag in my content which is this center video so I want to put
this in the middle here and then I'm going to tighten that up by heading delete. You
can see here is the files here, here is the graphics and all I did was I highlighted this
space in between them and hit delete and that shorten the gap up so I'm getting a little
bit of a lag here from my preview which can happen sometimes, sometimes something that
will alleviate that is changing if you're on full resolution down to quarter or half
resolution but for some reason it's just not keeping that and I'm guessing that is because
I'm doing the screen recording at the same time as doing these playing with all these
stuffs so I'm going to hit save. It's always a good policy to save early and save often
when you working on these we will close the project and exit out of here and I'm going
to open up Premiere again and see if it doesn't fix that issue. Premiere can be a little bit
of a fickle program sometimes depending on what you put in through it if you really making
that work hard for things it can get kind of a little uncooperative so I'm going to
open this backup again it's refreshing which is good and it looks like it unloaded all
the media which is great sometimes you want to just give it a second to process everything
and again you can see that there is a media that I drop in here is way too small for the
frame. This fills the frame perfectly but this is way too small so again what I'm going
to do is I am going to "scale to frame size" and that's going to fill that frame up right
there and so now I'm ready to edit this and before I do that I want to make sure I had
the one that I'm working on and I want to make sure that my naming of my timelines are
always as specific as they can be so because this is SQ add signature to photo I'm going
to call this sqaddsig and I'm going to get started editing this. The secrets to adding
a tutorial video like this is to cut out the mistakes that I make and hopefully I will
get better about making less of them and it just over all kind of cleaned up so let's
walk through that really quickly I'm going to turn up the volume here so hopefully we
can hear it out okay. Okay so I heard myself kind of goofing around there and getting set
up which is fine but I want to cut that out of the tutorial obviously so I'm going to
hit "Command K" right where the play head is and I'm going to remove that piece and
again I'm going to select the negative area in there, the gap, and I'm going to close
that gap by pressing "delete" and now my tutorial starts of like this after he falls (Playing
Video), looks like I had a sound effect left in there, get rid of that, what I'm doing
here is I'm playing for your timeline, I'm zooming out and in to get more detailed with
my edit (Playing Video) that is just a little (inaudible) I don't really like when I go like tsk, tsk and make that sound
of my tongue so I'm just going to cut that out, if you can cut it out whenever necessary
that is great I'm just jogging back and forth using the J, K, and L buttons move my cursor
back and forth and up and down will jog me to my edit points there and "Command K" makes
a cut mark through any piece of footage that is on a highlighted timeline. So if I take
this off of here, if I deselect that timeline and I hit command K it's only going to cut
the audio because the audio was still highlighted there so just something to be aware of. I'm
going to hit "Command Z" to get rid of that, I'm going to highlight that clip that were
making that little audio mistake and just going to cut that whole thing out of there
and guess what you can't even tell if there is an edit there because it's just a screen
capture so I'm going to keep playing this (Playing Video). So okay you can hear obviously
I made a big mistake there in that I told the viewer to go to tools and annotate and
then I couldn't find the actual shortcut so I'm going to cut that out of here because
I don't to look like a *** so it's really easy, I'm going to start from "um, basically"
and I'm going to find the part where I left off that would be a good lead in for that
(Playing Video) I
made another edit mark and I know that all of these content in between this edit mark
and this edit mark is me making mistake so again I can just delete that out of there,
close that gap and let's watch the edit. I'm just hitting shift back arrow to kind of jog
backwards a little bit there (Playing Video) it sounds pretty good except that kind pop
the microphone there a little bit (Playing Video). Okay so now I got you to the end there
and it's a little bit long at the end (Playing Video) that is me sounding like a chipmunk
at the end there is a little bit of extra tail on here that just is not needed so I
want to cut that out of here and I'm going to close it up with this nice little subscribe
end marker. Hopefully that is helpful and I know it's a lot of content but hopefully
it gets you started in the world of editing tutorial videos.