In this lesson, we're learning about
all of our different editing tools over here
so that we can edit our footage on our timelines
in a very efficient way.
That's the goal, is to make you efficient editors,
just like a pro would be.
To learn how to do this, let's start a new sequence.
I'm going to take some of my B-roll clips
and add it to just a new sequence that we can work on.
I'm going to take this Cruising Down Street MP4
and just drag it onto a new sequence.
And sometimes that pops up.
It seems like it's asking you to add
a completely new sequence.
Just press Cancel.
And then, it's already added this new sequence.
So I'm just gonna call this Broll Edits.
Then I'm just going to take Cruising Down the Street 2,
drag it onto the end.
Then let's just do Working on the Chair,
and maybe one more, Photo of Anthony and Laarnie.
So I'm gonna just have all four of these clips back to back.
The entire clips are on there.
So let's go through our tools.
First is the Selection tool, and whenever
you hover over any of these tools,
you see the keyboard shortcut.
V for Selection.
This is your most popular tool.
It's what you're going to use to select and move around.
Sometimes this modifies to a different tool,
for example, when you hover over in between a panel,
it changes, so you can change the panel size.
When you hover on the side of a clip on your timeline,
it changes to the Trim Edit tool.
What that is, it allows you to select a clip
and drag the end point in,
or the in point in or out.
So now, if we play through this,
it gets cut off right there, instead of
going all the way to the end of the clip,
and cutting to that next shot.
So, just using the Selection tool and the Trim Edit,
you are able to edit these clips down.
And one thing you can see, when I actually
am making that edit, when I have this selected,
and I drag in or out, you can see
up in the Programme Monitor, you can see
where I am about to edit in or out.
So say I want to edit before he gets to that truck.
See right here?
Maybe I wanna edit the end right there.
So now, if I play through this, it goes and cuts right there
before he rolls past that truck.
There's different ways to get it
to be at that point, though.
So let me just extend these sides.
I'm going to skip over to this Razor Blade tool.
Think of it as a razor, where you can cut your clips up.
So I can just cut around, and it cuts
the clips into different pieces.
I'm gonna undo that, just pressing Control,
Command + Z on my keyboard, Control + Z if you're on a PC.
If I wanna cut specifically at this frame
right before he gets to the truck,
I can take my Razor Blade tool, and just trim right there.
So now, we have an edit right at that spot.
I can go back to my Selection tool,
just pressing V on my keyboard,
select this second part, where he's going behind that truck,
and delete it, just by pressing Delete
on my keyboard, on a Mac, or Backspace on a PC.
Say I want to cut right there,
but then go directly into this clip right here,
which hasn't been color-corrected, to about this point.
I can take my razor blade tool, again,
to trim right there, take my Selection tool,
select this first part, delete it.
Then I can select all of these clips,
or just this single clip, and drag them
over to the left to where they meet.
You'll notice that a lot of the things I'm doing,
it seems like there's a magnetic touch.
As soon as you get over to the left, it snaps into place.
That's because I have this Magnet Snap button selected.
And that's very useful, especially when you're making edits.
When you want to specifically make a cut
where your timeline indicator is,
with the Magnetic Snap button on,
it will automatically help you edit to that point.
It will help you move things specifically to that point.
If I don't do it, if I don't have snap on,
I have to eyeball it, I have to get it
right there where they meet, and that's
a little bit harder than with the Magnetic Snap tool on.
So that's one way to move these clips
all the way to the left.
I'm gonna move them back, and I'm
gonna show you a different way.
You can click in this area between the clips
and press Delete on your keyboard,
and that does a ripple delete.
It's the same thing as going right-click
and choosing Ripple Delete.
It deletes the space in between,
and it moves everything on the right side to the left.
You can do a lot of edits with just those tools,
just with the Selection tool, where you can
choose the end of a clip, or the beginning of a clip,
to drag in or out, and the Razor Blade tool.
But Premiere Pro comes with some other tools
that are even more helpful.
I'm just going to get this back to where we were,
where the entirety of all of
these clips are on our timeline.
One tool I wanna talk about is the Ripple Edit tool.
B on the keyboard.
See what happens when I select that tool
and I hover over the edge of a clip?
When I'm not hovering over the edge of a clip,
it doesn't look like it can do anything.
It's not gonna let me select anything.
But if I hover over the edge of the clip,
and I drag to the left,
see what happens when I let go?
All of the clips on the right
automatically jump to the left.
So it automatically does that ripple delete
of that space that was between,
where before, we had to delete it ourselves.
This is just a one-step process.
Same if we go to this next shot,
and we drag in to the point where we want.
It's going to edit to that point,
and make all of these clips jump over to the left.
Let me show you what happens if we were
to do that same thing without the Ripple Edit tool.
And so, I just undid that, take my Selection tool, drag in.
There's that space right there.
But with the Ripple Edit tool,
it automatically will jump all these clips
to the right over to the left.
So now, we have this edit right here, to here.
You got it?
And this clip is not color-corrected.
You might be thinking, wow, why does that clip look so bad?
We're going to learn how to color-correct
this footage in a future lesson.
It's because we've shot basically raw footage.
That's what that LUT, that L-U-T file, is all about.
And we'll learn about that during colour correction.
So that's the Ripple Edit tool.
A quick way to get to the Ripple Edit tool,
let me just zoom in a little bit further on my keyboard,
is when we are hovering over our timeline
with our Selection tool, just press Command
on your keyboard, or Control, if you're on a PC.
See what happens now with Command selected?
My Selection tool becomes the Ripple Edit tool,
that yellow tool,
and when I select and drag in,
it acts as the Ripple Edit tool.
You'll notice when I have the commands,
I'm still at present command, there's this other tool.
This is the Rolling Edit tool.
It's red, it has four arrows.
What this does, it will move this cut point
to the right or left, and it will
edit the left or right sides.
So see what happens when I click this
with the Rolling Edit tool and drag to the left?
This first clip becomes shorter.
And the second clip became longer.
We could do that ourselves just with the Selection tool
by clicking with the Trim Edit tool,
and then clicking this second one
and dragging it to meet it.
But the same thing happens when
we use the Rolling Edit tool, drag to the left,
or when we have our Selection tool selected
and we press Command on our keyboard
and we go in between when we see the red
Rolling Edit tool highlighted and drag.
There are two more tools that
I wanna go over really quickly,
the Slip tool and the Slide tool.
Let me just make this clip a lot shorter.
I'm just going to make this clip very short right here.
I'm just gonna delete that space in there.
I can just take my Slip tool, Y on my keyboard,
click on this clip, and then drag to the left.
You can see that there's two videos
popping up in the Programme Monitor.
The video on the left is where the video will start.
The video clip on the right shows where that clip will end.
So say we wanna get him already rounding
this current corner, and end right there
when he gets into the shadow of that tree.
It's basically slipping this clip to the left,
the timing of it, so that it starts and ends earlier.
Or we could slip back, dragging to the right,
so it starts and ends later.
I hope that kind of makes sense.
I know it's a little bit confusing,
but I think playing with these tools yourself,
you'll start to understand what's actually going on.
The last one is this Slide tool.
Say I have three clips in a row.
If I select this middle clip, and drag to the right,
or drag to the left, see what happens?
It moves this clip to the left.
It edits the first clip shorter,
and it makes this third clip longer.
Or, back to the right.
So it's taking that middle clip and editing
the clips around it, the first
and the third clips in this sequence.
The tools that I mainly use are the Selection tool,
with the modifiers of the Rolling Edit and the Ripple Edit.
This will make you a very efficient video editor.
I wanna show you one more thing back on our main sequence.
I'm going to delete these two B-roll clips that we have,
just by selecting them and pressing Delete on our keyboard.
And same with this audio, selecting it, pressing Delete.
Or Backspace, if you're on a PC.
We have these two clips, Interview A and Interview B.
If I take my, say, Razor Blade tool,
and I go through this, and we're listening,
and we find a good spot that we want,
I can either make an edit to both clips
by clicking one after the other.
And then, say we play through this,
and we really like this soundbyte
that he's saying right now, and then we stop,
and we want to take that selection again.
Now, we can, with the Selection tool,
take this selection and move it around,
or take this first selection and delete it.
Whatever we want.
But that was a two-step process.
I'm just going to undo that.
So, say, let's just open up this waveform again.
I'm gonna zoom in here on my keyboard.
Say we want starting here to here for both clips.
We can take the Razor Blade tool again.
While we have it hovering over our timeline,
press Shift on your keyboard, which makes it
a razor blade tool that cuts everything
on the timeline at this point.
With the regular Razor Blade tool,
it just cuts that track that you click on.
With the Shift double razor tool,
it cuts everything on the timeline.
So it's just a faster way to cut everything,
because you might have not only audio,
you might have B-roll, you might have
all sorts of other things and you wanna
just trim everything at once.
Another way to do this, there's always another way,
so I hope you're sticking with me,
because this is really important.
For this audio track, what we're going to do
is we're actually just going to delete the B-camera audio.
So to select just the B-camera audio versus the video,
you have to Option + click the audio.
Alt + click if you're on a PC.
See, if you just click one or the other,
it selects both the audio and the video.
So if you press Delete, it will delete
both the audio and the video.
But if we just wanna get rid of this audio A,
what we can do is press Option + click,
and it just selects the audio track
of whatever clip we select, and then delete it.
Or, we might not want to actually delete this audio track,
because we might want to save it just in case
the audio from camera A gets messed up
or something like that.
It's just backup, we never really wanna delete it.
We can just right-click, and you'll see again what I did.
I actually just right-clicked,
and it selected both the audio and video.
What I'm going to have to do is
Option + right-click, and then check Enable.
What Enable does is similar to what
this Toggle Track On and Off button does,
but instead of turning on and off an entire track,
it turns off just a single clip.
So now, the audio from camera B is off,
if we play through this, but it's still there
in case we need to enable it later on.
It's time to play a little bit around with this edit.
What I want you to do before we start
the next part of the project is go through this interview
and find the parts
that you want to save for your video.
So this interview clip is seven minutes long or so.
The final project for this course
is to have a one-minute-long video.
And I know a minute might or might not sound long to you.
A minute video, for a lot of people, is long nowadays.
But when you have an interview like this,
it is hard to kinda pick and choose
the points that you want to edit.
So go through the interview, using the editing tools,
make your selections, and cut it down to just one minute.
So by the next lesson, you and I will have
a sequence that just has one minute worth of video,
with both interview camera A and B,
interview audio A on, and interview audio B off.
And it's just going to look like a sequence like this,
but it's going to have a bunch of edits,
and it's going to be a minute long.
Now, in the next lesson, I'm going to jump ahead
to adding B-roll and making a good sequence.
But, at the very end of this course,
I'm going to put together a bunch
of the longer lessons, including one
where I walk through my entire editing process
for finding the right audio clips for this interview.
This is seven minutes long.
Anthony talks about a lot of different things.
And it's interesting to see, perhaps,
what you are going to create, what I wanna create,
what I think is important, what you think is important,
or maybe it's not the most important thing,
but just what you think would be
interesting for a minute-long piece.
So if you want to see me edit
this entire interview clip down to one minute,
there will be a lesson later on in the course.
I just am explaining that I don't wanna put it
in the very next lesson, because some people
might want to just do it themselves
and jump onto the next lesson, where we'll learn a bit more.
So, anyways, I've talked about this long enough.
Enjoy that lesson, if you want,
and we'll see you in the next lesson,
when we start adding more B-roll to our footage.