Learning Premiere Pro/Organising Footage Evidence

Learning the Basics

Getting Started 

Importing Media

Preparing Your Clips

Editing Your Clips

Exporting Your Work

Creative and Stylistic Edits

Changing Speed of Clips

Adding Titles

Adding Transitions to Clips

Working with Audio

Adjusting Colour of Clips

Things I have Learned From These Tasks

From the Editing Clips section, I learned how to zoom in and out of certain clips to have more detailed editing by being able to extract or insert sequences together frame by frame.

Exporting Your Work section taught me how to properly construct my media files to be exported into complete sections and keep their original quality.

I learnt how to enhance and change the colour of the original footage of a clip in the Adjusting Colour of Clips section which will allow me in the future to make my footage appear to be at a different time in the day or allow me to colour code my frames for extra meaning.

Organising Footage Evidence

During my projects, I organised my footage for the ease of the editing process. As it allowed me to locate what I needed for each stage of editing, despite the vast number of video files.

Folders

I separated my footage into separate files for different elements of the project, for example during my Music Video Project I filmed on two different days so I created two different files one for the first shooting day "Lust of a Vampyre SD1" SD being short for Shooting Day. This allowed me to better find the footage from both days easier.

Re-Naming Files

I also renamed specific pieces of footage I wanted to use in my production, this was to better fit these shots into the edit as I filmed them for certain segments in the sequence/project.

Raw Project File's

Had my project files saved on adobe cloud in their still editable state allowed me to re-edit certain details after seeing the exported version to fix problems I didn't see while editing and allowed me to go back and take screenshots for editing evidence.

Final Project with All Footage Files

After the project was complete I organised them into folders with the footage I used for each of them. This was so I could go back to look for certain pieces of footage that I wanted for other projects but also keep my computer organised for future projects by operating footage from complete sets of work (which was particularly useful when I was doing multiple projects at the same time).

Bins

Organized my Bins for the ease of the editing process, allowed me to pick shots for certain beats of my sequence structure that I planned out with my storyboard for example I separated the exterior shots I wanted for the establishing shots at the beginning of my music video so I could find them more easily while editing. This also saved me time as it meant I didn't need to rename each but footage to know what it was.