HOW TO : edit and export a video

1. Create a new folder. Copy the pictures, sounds, videos, you'll use for your future video.

2. Don't change the computer you'll work on. Or verify that you will work on the SAME Adobe Premiere version (Premiere CC is not Premiere CC2014 or CC2015). If you need to work on another computer with the same version, then copy the entire folder you've created.

3. Open ADOBE PREMIERE PRO. New project. Specify the path of the new project : your new folder just created before (with your pictures, etc)

4. Files / new / sequence. Go to "settings" (réglages). You have to define your sequence parameters. For our first exercise, these are our settings :

(please, translate from french to english)

24 images per seconds

1280x720 (720 p format)

Square pixel

Non entrelaced (progressive scan)

5. Import your pictures, sounds, etc. 

6. Drag and drop to the montage window. Edit, cut, copy, paste, keypoints, add effects, opacity, new title / still title, etc.

7. Save your project somewhile.

8. If windows look like a mess, go to Window/workspace / re-initialize your workspace

9. To finish your project, you need to EXPORT your Adobe Premiere project :
File / export / media

(please, translate from french to english)

24 images per seconds

1280x720 (720 p format)

Square pixel

Non entrelaced (progressive scan)

About the quality, numbers to change :

10. Name your video : first name_name

TIPS 

Free FX sounds sound-fishing.net or universal-soundbank.com

Lesson 1 : Subject & References

SUBJECT 1

Make a video essay of duration 1minute30sec/2minutes30sec with Adobe Premiere Pro.
(Please, check the settings recommandation on the first post)
Use 10-12 pictures of your own. Try to find a relationship between them : narration, thema, characters, place, context, time, atsmosphere,...
Your video could be an essay, a video poem, a documentary, a thought, or a story.
Place a title at the beginning or the end of your video. (make it simple : no move, no effects, no weird typography)
Try to use "effects" (effect control, effects, animation, photoshop layers) and sounds (voices, poems, FX sounds) to create more than a slide-show, but a video/motion images.
You can use some music samples (if you're not playing, then credit them at the end), but not over all your video : this is not a videoclip.
ZOOM in/out are not allowed. Take your picture at its largest. Do a cropped version of it. Then insert one then the other one after. This is a focus.
DON'T create two movements over the same rush (left to right, then to up, etc).


Here are some examples that you could get inspiration from :



Chris Marker "La jetée" 1962

Jean Eustache "les photos d'Alix" 1980

 
 Exhibition Alix Cléo Roubaud, BNF Paris.