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General Q&A

Lesson 12 from: Adobe® Premiere®

Larry Jordan

General Q&A

Lesson 12 from: Adobe® Premiere®

Larry Jordan

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12. General Q&A

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and we have, ah, question in the studio audience. This goes back a little bit, but when you go to file new sequence and I didn't see any presets for progress in there, for instance, because those air cameras right. But there are some cameras that shooting Flores. Um, how would you go about making a protest sequence? You click on the settings tab and you leave the editing mode. You'd switch the editing mode to custom set the time base to the frame rate your camera shot, which in most cases for progress is 59 94. You would set your screen size to the size you're using either 27 or 1920 10 80. Remember those to the two HD sizes? The pixel aspect ratio goes to square fields is always progressive. The display for Mattis This is 60 frame per second drop frame, so that's a correct setting. And then, under, um, you go to file format quick time, and under Kodak, you set the Kodak to progress. Now there's five flavors of progress. Progress four by four at the extreme high end and 4 to 2 H Q. Th...

en 4 to 2 than 42 lt than proxy. The best pro rest choice in almost all situations is progress for 22 and only because it's the end of the day. I'm going to just let that be there, but I'm happy to back that up, so we'll leave it to progress for 22 We've got our our width and shoot me are width and height. Leave these guys unchecked in general. Both Maxwell, but depth and maximum render quality. They will be OK as is and then click. OK, wait would give us a name, so we'll call this pro rez 7 20 p setting and click OK, once you've saved it. Now, when you go to file new setting, which I did with the keyboard shortcut of command in there's now a new folder here called Custom. The Custom folder only appears once you create a custom setting and there's pro rez for 22 and that's the stuff I dialed in. So Duke in Park City would like to know, Does premier work, um, default Lee in drop frame time code? Or do we need to set a preference to use it or not drop her in time code is generally set based upon the video format that you select. So if you were to select NTSC video, that's always dropped from I know it varies by format. 29 97 NTSC is dropped. Frame palace not drop frame drop frame exists in the NTSC environment does not exist in the pal environment. If you shoot 24 frame a second NTSC, it has not dropped frame, if you should. 29 97 NTSC. It is dropped frame. And for HD formats, you need to look at the camera and see what frame rate the camera shoots generally. No, there is no general statement, so it really varies by format. Okay, Question from Snafu. Who says what? If you want to move a clip to another track on the timeline, is there another way to do this besides dragging to try shoe. But wait till tomorrow. Okay. Great. Perfect. And, um, hang on. Let me just elaborate. Yes, please. Tomorrow we're gonna talk about organizing the timeline. We're gonna take a look at how to move clips around how to move clips between tracks. Why you want to move clips between tracks? We're gonna integrate audio. There's there's it's like all the fine details. We've covered the basics here, but there's a whole lot of additional stuff we can do that's coming tomorrow, Errol asks. When I opened my media browser, it shows the files in list form. Is there a way to change that to thumbnail? If you beats me, I have no idea. Okay, Um, let's see. I may be Let's go up to Premier Preferences And that would be general. Uhm, I'm going to say, Probably not, but I'm not going to swear to that. It's a really good question, though, and I know seven people gonna right in with the right answer, but I'm not sure, and I don't think so. All right, Eric Sash would like to know if you can see audio wave forms in the time, absolutely, and that we're gonna spend almost all of tomorrow doing that. Awesome. However, the default setting, Where do you go? There you are. The default setting is no, but it's easy to add wave forms, and I'll show you how I think this is perfect because people are starting to ask, you know, wanting to dive into the edits. It's perfect time to for us to do that tomorrow. So that's great. Good page. And this might set us up for tomorrow. How is Premiere Pro for long form editing? This is from Joe. Will we be seeing features or blockbusters edited and premier in the future? So you have Already The long form editing capability of Premier is as good as the long form editing in Final Cut seven. Avid is equally good at long form, so the answer is yes, absolutely. You could you could do Ah, four hour select like a first cut and trimmed that down to a three hour editor's, cut it and trim that down into the release cut absolutely inside premiere. Now you kind of have a couple of options. One is to edit everything and decide a single sequence. The other is to add it scenes, as each scene is its own sequence. This makes it easier to man to manage a project. All your clips air inside the project, but you have scenes t make it so that you're not zoom so far out you can't see what you're working with. You can work both with with what are called final cut calls them nest. What do they call them? Here? Mind is blanking, but the answer is yes, we absolutely can. And, um, you've seen lots of broadcast television cut in premiere, and you've seen lots of feature films cut in Premiere Avid is still the leading application for doing feature film editing. I've seen 90% of all feature films or cut in an avid, especially avid within Isis system, which gives actually multiple editors the ability to be in the same file at the same time and simultaneously see changes. Much better file handling built into the Isis. But we're talking, ah, lot of money to be able to do that. For the For the Hollywood six, the Big Six studios, the money has already been spent. It's not an issue for independent films where they've got to spend their own credit card dollars to be able to afford it. You gotta have a tradeoff, Premieres absolutely an excellent trade off for doing for doing a feature length independent films. Yes, great Larry What, Like I said, there are a lot of people that are ready to dive into the editing process, so we'll save those questions for tomorrow I have one final question for the day, and I think because you are the probably the premier, no pun intended person to ask this question. The question is, Larry, can you tell us what it takes to become a top notch editor? Yeah, that's a really, really good question because it isn't what you expect. The thing people feel most insecure about is their grasp of technology and in understanding of technology, is critical to editing. There's no question about that, but it's only 25% of the job. And what happens is, is that editors who are starting out I think that if only I had the latest software, if only I had the latest hardware, I could be a successful editor. And so they spend themselves into oblivion, buying the latest hardware, buying the latest software and wondering why they don't have the money to pay the rent. Editing, I think, is three things. The first is editing is a business and you're the product. When somebody hires you to edit their film, they're hiring you the editing product toe work with them on their film, and you can't lose sight of the fact that the reason you're in this business is not because you like working with tools That turns you into a hobbyist. The reason you're in this business because you want to earn a living doing it, and you've got to focus on the business of the business. How are you gonna pay the rent with the money you earn is an editor. How you gonna charge your feet high? Gonna determine what your fee is. And a lot of a lot of creative types. A lot of right brain types say I want to be an editor, and they don't even worry about how they gonna make any money. And the biggest challenges is how do you run the business side of the business? If you don't want to run a business partner with somebody but you got to eat, you got to pay the rent. Second rule is never buy equipment and software with your money. Always buy equipment and software with client dollars. Jim, you're a man who loves to shop. You can tell just by looking at you that shopping is your life. If I suddenly walked up to you today and gave you $5000 how long would it take you to buy a computer? It's already spent. That's what I figured. But if you bought the computer for $5000 you didn't have any client, how hard would it be to pay the rent extremely hard. And yet so what do we do? We spend our dollars buying equipment when all we have to do is get a client to write us a check and the rules are real simple. 50% down, 50% on delivery. If somebody hands me 50% of the money I need for a project I buy within a nanosecond whatever gear that I need, you buy gear with client dollars. You don't buy gear with your own money. So that means the first thing you have to focus on is not buying the latest hardware, the latest software, but finding the clients and the clients gonna tell you what kind of jobs they need. If the client doesn't need the latest Wiz bang solution, you don't need to buy it. You just need to buy what the client needs. Then you get another client and they help you get more gear and another client to get more gear and you start to accumulate gear. Always buy gear with client dollars. So the first part is don't lose sight of the fact this is a business. Also keep in mind is an editor. And you guys have all worked as editors that if you're a freelance editor, you're unemployed for some period of time during the year. Always assume for the curse of purpose, of budgeting that you're unemployed for six months of the year. 50% of your time you're not, um, you're unemployed. So figure out how much money you need to live. Let's say you need toe earn, say, $52,000 a year, whatever your number is. That means that you need to earn $ a week, but you're unemployed half that time. So when you're working, you need to earn $2000 a week to be able to put that $52,000 in the bank so you can pay the rent. She take $1000 or make it $2000 a week. Divide that by 40 hours. 2000. Divide by 40 is $ an hour. That means that when you're editing, you're charging $50 an hour for your time, which gives you the money that you need to pay the rent over the course of the year. Anything that you do that's less than $50 an hour means you're losing money and you're not able to pay the rent. Number one editing is a business number two. Editing is a person to persons of people business. You're sitting in a dark room for a long period of time with people, and you darn well have to get along with them and you're not in control. The director, the producer is in control. All you're doing is you're telling the story. Actually, you're doing more than they are, but you can't let them know it because their egos are bigger than yours are. So your job is people skills. How do you work with people who don't understand editing? Were trying to tell you how to tell the story when they don't even understand what you're doing, and yet they're in charge. That takes some serious managing up, and you can't do it if you're trying. If you're one. If you don't take a bath except once a month, if you wear clothes that nobody wants to be seen in public. Your people skills are another is if business is 50% people skills, or 25%. The last 25% is technical skills. As soon as you start to focus exclusively on the technical skills and you lose sight of the fact that editing is a business, then you're into a hobbyist mode because nobody's gonna hire you anymore. So how do you get clients by gear with client dollars? How do you work with people so that they want to come back and work with you? You got to be a person that people want to associate with because you're never left alone in the editing room. And how do you manage clients to people skills and then the technology? When I teach, I teach it U S. C, which is a small school you may have heard of in Southern California when I teach my kids at USC. One of things that I stress with them is it's easy to get blindsided by all the flashing lights. Goodness knows I am. I love flashing lights and toys and everything else but all the flashing lights in the world that don't enable you to pay the bills means that you're left with the feeling in the pit of your stomach That life has fallen apart. If you got more money in the bank than you have bills, you're happy. Camper, If you got more bills, you have money in the bank. You've lost sight of the fact that the technology is taking charge and you can't. The business has to be in charge. Hobbyists do whatever you want. Play as much as you want, become a dilettante. But if your goal is to become a professional, focus on the business first people second and technology third. And that's why we come here to creative life is to learn stuff like that. Thank you. That was fantastic.

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Jfraz
 

I love this class. It is highly technically, but there is an awesome wealth of information to be had, even if you are a beginner. I've been struggling for a while, trying to look at YouTube videos and whatnot, but this class helped me make better sense of what I needed to do in all of my video editing. You get such a great foundation that's going to help you go further.

Valentine
 

I recommend Larry Jordan's course there is a lot of in-depth information that will help the beginner as well as the advance premiere editor. The only thing is that his humor is a big corky for my taste but if you look beyond that you get a lot from his teachings. He genuinely wants his students to succeed and get paid well in this field which its nice.

a Creativelive Student
 

This is one of my favorite courses on Creative Live. Larry Jordan teaches in a way that I can follow and is easy to stay focused on. He has a crazy amount of knowledge about this topic as do all the Creative Live teachers. I love this site so much, has done more for my business than all the other sites I have used combined. Keep it up CL!!

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