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okay so I'm back from Vegas myspace is all cleaned up so it's time to show you my video editing workflow I actually don't wear these these are gaming glasses they eliminate the blue light that make everything orange so sometimes I wear them during the evening just to make sure that I can go to bed right after doing an intense edit and never wear these when doing anything color related so many of you have requested to see my editing workflow in Premiere and I have four main tips for you today organizing storyboarding cutting and color grading so let's begin right after this so it was kind of a love at first sight you know there's really nothing like this exterior I love the metallic color the tinted glass panel the RGB fans at the front it's basically a see-through case and who doesn't love that your graphics card can convert a cool the top is radiator friendly and the right side is so unique when exposed thanks to these cable covers so you can show off everything you've got with the aged 500 P my cooler master check it out inscription below alright guys so today we'll be talking about something that's natural to me but I understand that many people's editing workflows are super different so bear with me in terms of me outlining my steps exactly how I would start a new project from start to finish so I have a main SSD onto which I place all my current live projects and then that gets moved into an archive but right now I have a different folder for this particular project so my editing workflow and then into that I have a footage folder into which I import all my jh5 footage and I would label them accordingly if let's say I'm recording with multiple cameras those files will be placed into its own folder so that I can differentiate between the footage and obviously one major advantage of having everything sort of compact into one nice folder is that if you were to archive that thing it can be easily just copied pasted into your you known as or whatever storage solution you used to backup your footage and your files and that way if you want to reiax s those b-roll shots or project files or final rendered video files it will be all contained in one folder instead of what Ybor does having the three different folder for your footage for your project files and then for your final rendered videos I think that's a bit of a mistaken way to kind of organize your files and can be easily get lost and confusing if you're trying to find something more specific and so starting with Premiere Pro every single time I create a new project and this is to eliminate any potential issues that Adobe might throw at me and the name is Kim follows in the same footsteps of the actual folder and to which this project is in and ended with PR indicating this is a Premiere Pro file in case I need to search for other projects that say in the past and it also allows for that visual distinction between a different of Adobe projects so if it's an after effects file I would call it a E if it's no audition file I would call it a you just easier distinction when I'm viewing things inside the folder as lists in just setting is this is something quite interesting so there are multiple options you can work with in your footage so I actually create proxies but multiple people transcode their footage of taking something that your cameras captured entrance quoting it into an easier to edit Kodak I do not trance cold because the amount of space the transcoded files require is 4x versus the original files so that means if I should let's say 100 gigabytes of b-roll that transcoded footage would be to 400 gigabytes and then just way too much in terms of archiving so I create proxies for better and smoother editing instead and so I choose 720p centerfolds proxies which are super small they're really easy and smooth to work with and yeah annachi is super easy and fast to actually render out and they actually have a separate SSD for proxies specifically that way when Premier's try to access files we're not bottle linking any of that bandwidth so inside the new project and create a new footage folder into which I place all my files and I don't use the project media browser inside premiere I just simply import them from a folder inside my window browser and that way actually allows me to see what files I've recorded and I go through them and I delete the things that I know I will not be using so let's say I have multiple takes of one shot that I know I won't be using I simply delete that from the folder and then I import everything into premiere and so that opens up the Adobe Media encoder which will render out those proxies that I've to do as an ingest settings and so this allows me to do this automatically so that anytime I import any new files into my project those proxies will be rendered automatically and I don't have to worry about having to select it and render the proxy for particulars everything is being rendered in proxies as soon as they are imported and while this is happening I don't touch premier because sometimes with crashes and they would not recognize my rendered proxies I would have to redo the entire procedure again so it's just a little bit of waiting time but the actual smoothness that you get after you know editing with proxies is excellent now here's a tip dropping any of your files into this little thing creates a new sequence based on that footage specifications so I'm using 4k 24p and it automatically creates that thing and then just rename the actual sequence and I reposition it inside outside of the footage folder so that I can access it easily and you can see its main 4k at 24 P just a little distinction that I know if I have to create something at 60 P or 1080 P time lines those will be labeled accordingly and for videos where I am on camera that would be its own folder called on cam and that way it will have the actual video file and the audio file because I'm recording that externally the clap always helps to synchronize audio with video and I used to do this manually like align the audio file to the video and Link the audio from the video file and then do this whole process but now you can just select all your files and click synchronize and boom all you have to do is clean up the handles in the beginning and the end and you're good to go so now the organization aspect is covered making sure that your proxies are being rendered making sure your footage is organized inside the folder on your computer and inside premiere and so now let's talk about the second most important thing about video editing in my workflow is storyboarding this is by far my favorite feature about Premiere and any other video editors that I've tried Final Cut and resolve don't have this built-in so storyboarding allows you to organize your footage in the order that it will be actually displayed in your timeline and this way you don't have to find the footage and drag it into the timeline and then drag another one that you think will follow up well you can do that all inside a very organized folder you can even increase the size of the thumbnail and your in and out points inside the projects folder before it gets inserted into a timeline so you basically complete your entire edit or almost entirely without being inside timeline and it helps to save me so much time and that way when it's actually inserted into the timeline all I have to do is just like refine those edges and make sure that my handles and transitions are all good and just for reference final cut does not let you organize and sort manually footage just like you would in Premiere and that means that despite its rendering performance is much faster actually editing procedure it's not as good as Premiere and that is of course for me personally now many people get confused as to how the proxies actually are displayed in your timeline and when they are being used by Premiere so by default the proxy toggle is not inside the window so you have to click on the plus and you have to drag and drop basically customize your little menu here underneath the preview window and that way you can enable and disable toggle proxies at your wish so if you want to see the full resolution file you can but if you want to be editing smoothly enable proxies and then when that's in blue that means that proxies are being used to preview your files and that means that you can edit smoothly it's very slow to edit in original 4k files and if you have the proxies you can fly through that edit a few misconceptions even if the toggle proxies is enabled and when you're exporting the file it will still use your original file premier is not dumb it will not you just start using your proxies to render out your final thing and just yeah make sure that your toggle proxies icon is inserted into your playback controls so you can see when the proxies are being used and when they're not used and now the huge advantage with working with proxies if they are on and you reopen the project all the thumbnail previews for your footage will load instantaneously so you can resume working and finding your files and everything like that just instantaneously as soon as the project is open if the proxies are disabled all the footage thumbnails will take forever to load with original files at least for my GH 5 footage that is 8-bit at 4k in the 24 P or 30 P and so that takes a while for it to load and may take a while for you to resume the edit even if the project is fully open and so now with storyboarding out of the way you've compiled all your footage in order that you will see it in the timeline let's talk about cutting and color grading at the mi get yo in 20 minutes it's better to edit in chunks anyway so I'll be back shortly and I'm back yoga was great gotta cut my body some slack I said so much speaking of cutting let's talk about my cutting tips so first of all if you're not using the ripple trim tool you're wasting your time instead of you know cutting a certain portion and then cutting it the next portion that you don't need and deleting that file and then moving everything over you just simply use ripple trim and then move your file to point where you want to continue on from next without having to do that whole thing manually I always insert audio fade between clips and I set it by default to do like 10 frames and you can change the duration of that easily just so that we don't have any hard cuts in audio and just to helps to smooth out any variation in volume for extra dynamics between Clips I like to extend the previous clip by 5 frames letting the audio from the next clip to already start to play before the video resumes and this creates this proper visual breakdown between my talking points without slowing down the overall pacing I also like to change out the zoom just to emphasize the next talking point or to bring your attention to my emotion now you see this blue icon it tells you if the footage or the audio are used in your timeline and clicking it shows you where it's already been used and I look at this icon all the time to see if I have any b-roll unused and I want to populate it in certain sections of my timeline so that I don't waste footage for visual groupings have you seen get into a habit of color coordinating your Clips inside your timeline this can be easy to assign to a keyboard shortcut so for example my intro is one color my a roll or my own camera portion is another and my b-roll is another and this way if you accidentally move one the clips outside of where it's supposed to be it might potentially signal your attention to that area and potentially highlight that air so you can fix it now while cutting you want to avoid using crossfade transition especially if you're doing things on camera it does not look make sure that you're doing a hard cut when you're talking to the camera or actually just get into a habit of using hard cuts more often so that your composition and your pacing aligns better to those hard cuts while cutting avoid too much breathing room see that was way too long a pause between that cut so make sure that if you are talking and there is a pause to continue the cut now kind of appropriately so that the spacing is natural and you don't have those very long pauses that makes everyone very uncomfortable to watch and once the on-camera edit is finished I insert my b-roll that's already been storyboarded previously so that all the files are in order all I have to do is insert them into the timeline and clean up between the cuts and so a casual five to ten minute video would take me about one to two hours to complete in the timeline that's cutting everything making sure everything is flowing well and that is because I storyboard in advance and just simply insert everything into the timeline and clean out those handles so that things are properly aligned and the pacing is good so now we're going to talk about color grading so the number one tip I can give you regarding color is to use adjustment layers so instead of color grading individual Clips anything you apply to the adjustment layer is already automatically applied to anything that's below it so you can easily do a blanket grade throughout your entire video or like certain portions of the scenes that you know are familiar for example for me I shoot in the studio with the same light all the same settings so my white balance doesn't really change and so that means that I can apply the exact same grade across pretty much my entire b-roll shot and then be pretty happy with it so I use lumetri looks that's built into Premiere it's super powerful and I use my white walls as the benchmarks for to get that perfect white and I use the RGB parade on the left side to adjust my white balance between the tint of the like temperature and then the tint as well to make sure that I'm not too green or too purple and then making sure that my graph the RGB parade aligns accordingly where those Peaks happen now in terms of exposure adjustment I normally just crush my shadows on my blood bring them to contrast a little bit so that we have a little bit of pop in the scene because I shoot in a slightly flatter profile with my jh5 and to make sure my exposure is correct I refer to the luma waveform because my monitor is color accurate and it's calibrated but sometimes you need to know when you are clipping the highlights and when you're crushing your blacks too much and the lumen waveform shows you exactly that and once I create that blanket grade using adjustment layers I would normally go in and make sure that my clips match up an exposure and color and do little tweaks here and there if needed for example in these white scenes one is a bit darker than the other and making sure that they match creates a seamless cut instead of you noticing that one was not properly exposed out of camera and some of you may be wondering how I decide on my grade normally I would just add a little bit of teal or blues into the shadows and lit with oranges into the mid-tones to warm up that scene and don't touch the highlights at all because they're perfectly white already and sometimes I would send in some screenshots to some people and wondering what they think about certain grains and that way you get a little bit of an idea on like what people like not just what you're looking at but some people may give you suggestions on like make this scene a bit warmer it's too you know too cool or something like that that happens in my work for quite often the most important thing is the skin tone and so that could be a reference point it is why I add a little thing on the creative side because it like makes my skin a little bit more pink than it is out of camera it's like two yellow outer camera which is not which is not what I look like anyway but making sure that your skin tone is fine in the grade it's kind of like your reference point and then from then you can add little things here and there to spice it up if you want to go for a particular look and so the final thing is obviously to watch your entire creation I normally do that render it out send it over for a little approval within our team so that if there are any mistakes they're being picked up by other people and so that gives us a little bit of leeway from me finishing a project and then from us actually publishing it on YouTube and for the export settings I use the YouTube 4k preset because it's quite standard quality is awesome but I do bump up by the bitrate to 60 minimum and maximum up to 90 and I renamed the file following resolution the name of the project and revision number so that if I have to rerun the things in different resolutions or different revisions I know exactly when things have been rendered and it's not just like a copy of your final project copy copy copy of your final project it is all by provisions all right so that's how I edit I hope this workflow video has been helpful for you to maybe learn something new and if you have any tips on how I can improve my overall efficiency in the timeline or whatever let me know in the comments and in terms of archiving I just you know once the project is finished and it's uploaded I just cut that knife folder into mine as for archiving so that I can access anything from that entire project later on so I say absolutely everything for future use potentially but I don't know like 95 percent of time I never open any folder once it's been archived so maybe I should rethink my archiving strategy but yeah that's it I'm Dimitri thank so much for watching we'll see you in the next video