Organize using folders

• If you don't see your home or your computer go to Finder -> Settings (or Preferences) -> sidebar
  

Application folder

• With video editing you need to know where your files are .
  
  
  • Video files are large and you cannot edit your video if your files are stored remotely on the network (cloud, remote server..etc)
    
    
  • It has to be stored locally. This means directly on your computer or a external storage device connected directly to your computer via USB
    
    
  • Do we know what is local and what is remote?
    
    
    • Google drive, iCloud are all remote (very slow!)
    • Connected though physical cable (USB) or inside the computer is local (fast!)
    
    
    
    
• Video Editing Software like Premier will use referneces to your video files. It won't copy it. So if you tell Premier that it is in
  
  Home -> Desktop -> DigitalVideoClass -> Project1
  
  it will expect that the files to be there next time you open the project

One of the goals of this semester is to go over some fundamental abstractions used in digital media. I argue these abstractions are independent of specific products (Premier or AfterEffects) but widely adopted and integral to how we think about and manipulate digital media.

If film theory had conventions and language unique to film (eg. montage), time-based digital media would have something unique to it too. We'll look at:

• Key-framing
  
• Layers
  
• Masking/Maps

1. Sign in via Adobe Creative Clouid
   1. type in your Reed email address
   2. click "Company or School Account" which should take you to the familiar Reed log in page
   3. type Reed username and password
   
   
   
2. Start Premier Pro
   
   
3. Create New Project
   • Name Project and specify location - I recommmend your hard drive (when you get one)
   • Make sure you know where you saved it
   
   
   
4. Import Media
   • File import or drag and drop into project pane.
   • You must remember where your source media is. You are not copying the files into Premier. Premier is only referecing it (telling it where it can find it).

Helpful things to remember

To reset workspace
   Window -> Workspaces -> Reset to Saved

Keyboard short-cut "~"
   to enlarge/minimize the panel that is active

- This is where all your resources go (video, audio, images, sequences)
- Desktop interface
- Organize with Folders (Bins)
- Files are links to the actual files on the computer. Not copied. If you move the files, the link will be broken

1. Save your project with a name. (File-> Save As). A project is a container for your edits.
   
   
2. Drag files or right click to import
   
   - Create a Bin (folder) named "Source Videos" and put all your imported vidoes into the bin
   - Use the List View to see video information (resolution, frame rate, duration)

- This is where you cut/modify your original clips

1. Double click or drag clips in the project pane to display on source monitor.
   
   - Video player interface. Things are "playable". And what way is it playable?
   
   
   
   
   - Keyboard Shortcut to navigate: Premier/Final Cut/Quicktime (rewind, stop, play, slowmo, fast forward) -- j,k,l, spacebar
   

       spacebar: play/stop
       j: rewind
       k: stop
       l: forward
   
       k+j: one frame back
       k+l: one frame forward
       jj: fast rewind
       ll: fasat forward
   

   
   
   
2. To make an edit:
   
   
   1. Mark In (i), Mark Out (o) to make a selection (called clips)
      
      option-k to play from in to out. option-x to clear in/out points. Alternatively, look for the commands from Finder -> Marker
      
      
      
   2. Drag and drop into the timeline.
      
      This creates a sequence. A sequence represents your end product (all your edits combined). You can have multiple sequences in your project (eg. different versions of your movie).
      
      When you create a new sequence from an existing video, it inherits its video properties. This is helpful!
      
      You can create an empty sequence from the File -> New -> Sequence but you have to deal with the complex video formats which I'd rather not go into now.
   
   

Gives you two views of your sequence (edits).

• Program Monitor -- visual representation
• Timeline -- based on representation of time that goes across the x-axis

Keyboard shortcuts in timeline:
- backslash (\) to get full view
- +/- to zoom in/out
- Spacebar to play/stop
- Up/Down arrow keys to go through edit points

• Drag & drop clips into the timeline:
  
  
• Insert edit: keyboard shortcut "," or the insert button on the source player.
  
  
  • make sure you have the timeline picker to the point of edit
    
  • make sure you have the source track selectors (V1 and A1) (if you just select the audio track selector you edit audio)
    • A1/V1... Source Patch - connect track to source clip
    • (A1/V1 on the right Track Target - for example, copy and paste target)
  
  
  
• Overwrite edit: keyborad shortcut ".", or the overwrite button on the source player
  
  
  

• File -> Export -> Media
  
  
  • Under Export Settings:
    
    Preset : Match Source ...
    Format: H.264 (for video)
    Output Name: FILENAME -- double click on the filename to set destination folder
    H.264 is a codec that compresses your files so suitable for posting online and for class submission.
    
    
  • Export

File -> New -> Sequence

Don't bother choosing. There are hundreds of settings.

• Instead, say OK.
• Drag a selected area from the source monitor into the newly creaed sequence. Premier should ask you the following
  Select change sequence settings to match the clip's setting. This will ensure that the video you are editing has the same dimension, framerate...etc as your source footage
  

1. A video with mathcing video and audio with the complete panagram "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog".


2. A re-mix video/audio which turns the panagram into a rhythmical musical piece. (eg. TheTheTheThe QQQuick,ck,ck...etc). Must use multiple tracks. (Yes, not necessary, but for the sake of practice, use multiple tracks).

If rythmical is not your thing, you can also approach it geometrically (see image below)

image found on the internet

3. Export the second "re-mix" video into a movie file (compressed in H264) and show instructor