Category: Adobe Premiere Pro 📽️

  • Adobe Premiere Pro: How to make a simple countdown effect (easy)

    Adobe Premiere Pro: How to make a simple countdown effect (easy)

    Tutorial on how to make a countdown (5-1) overlay for your videos.

  • Premiere Pro: Filling in background when the media doesn’t fit

    Premiere Pro: Filling in background when the media doesn’t fit

    You have probably seen this in news programmes, there’s an incident and someone nearby has filmed it on their phone. The problem is they filmed it vertically which doesn’t fit within the horizontal aspect ratio (1920×1080 or greater) of broadcast television. Just adding it on would result in rather distracting letterboxing (black bars) on the…

  • Premiere Pro: Getting started with editing video

    Premiere Pro: Getting started with editing video

    Adobe Premiere Pro is, as the name suggests, a professional video editing software used in television and film (movie) industry along with Final Cut Pro for Apple Macintosh. The version I am using is Premiere Pro CC 2024. Note that Rush is a different though related software for video editing quickly. Basically a stripped-down version…

  • Premiere Pro: Fixing letterboxing

    Premiere Pro: Fixing letterboxing

    Correcting letterboxing in Premiere via crop For the purposes of the tutorial I made the sequence extra tall to induce letterboxing. Premiere automatically set the clip to fill when I added it so had to resize to show this. As you can see, the video has bars at the top and bottom. Go to Effect…

  • Premiere Pro – how to speed up videos

    Premiere Pro – how to speed up videos

    This is just a micro-guide. Let’s say you recorded the process of making a digital artwork/edit in OBS (free) or similar and you want to share it. The trouble is at default speed the audience is going to fall asleep with boredom. Luckily speeding it up is easy. Import the footage (obviously). Now there are…

  • Adobe Premiere Pro: Removing and/or Replacing Audio (easy)

    Adobe Premiere Pro: Removing and/or Replacing Audio (easy)

    Slightly waffly introduction So for this tutorial I’m using a Minecraft screen recording with audio from a video/other media source a was listening to which I don’t want in the final piece if posted to YouTube. This happens a lot if I’m recording my screen when making an image in Photoshop and then intend to…

  • Premiere Pro: Scaling images and media & animating motion

    Premiere Pro: Scaling images and media & animating motion

    So here’s the scenario. You have a video clip that forms part of most of video but you also want to include additional photographs or videos. Easy, right? Just drag and drop. However, the additional media does not fit the aspect ratio of the original or the sequence output (e.g. YouTube). This results in the…

  • Adobe Premiere Pro tips

    Adobe Premiere Pro tips

    Updated 14-4-22 Default Transition If there is a transition you use the most often (crossfade in my case) you can set it as the default. That means you can right-click on the clip handle and choose to add that default. Apply the transition as normal, right-click Set as default transition. Since I’ve already set mine…

  • Adobe Premiere Pro – rendering for YouTube

    Adobe Premiere Pro – rendering for YouTube

    The two element that are useful here are Adobe Premiere Pro itself and Adobe Media Encoder. The latter is a useful external program for rendering out footage from Premiere and After Effects. One of the key advantages is that it’s possible to still use Premiere while rendering out with Encoder simultaneously. This can allow you…

  • Adobe Premiere Pro CC: How to add a logo watermark

    Adobe Premiere Pro CC: How to add a logo watermark

    Originally published on Quora Go to File>Export>Media (demo clip from Video by Tom Fisk from Pexels ) Go to the Effects tag (I’ve hidden the Export Settings to fit the screen better) and check Image Overlay. Use the dropdown for Applied and Use Choose and locate the image file in Finder. I recommend using a…