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Hello and welcome to our 

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series of videos
 on digital content production.

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On this section, we're going to start
 to look at video editing

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and the software that we commonly use
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starting with Adobe Premiere.

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So first off,
 we're going to open up our application

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and the version of Premiere that
 we're using today is Adobe Premiere 2022,

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which is currently the most recent version,
 

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your machine may use an older version

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and you may not have updated
 to the latest version as yet.

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Generally, everything will look the same
 depending on what version you're in,

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and the features that we're going to be

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focusing on mainly are going to be

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very generic across
 all versions of Adobe Premiere.

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So if your screen does
 look very slightly different, dont

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worry too much but the focus of the video

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will hopefully cover
 everything that you need as well.

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So when you first open up Premiere, 

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if it's your first time opening Premiere
 again, it may look slightly different.

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They do 

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offer a lot of tutorials and guidance

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for the first usage.

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And so it's something that I work on day
 in, day out and say,

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you can see as we open up,
 it brings up a lot of recent projects

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that I have been working on,
 and so I can quickly head

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back into a project
 that I've been working on recently.

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But what we want to do first
 is look up in this top left here.

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And I want to create a new project.

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And you have a couple of options
 here, we can open project,

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which will take us into our Windows
 Explorer to find a specific project

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that maybe is not included
 on our recent list

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and we have our Learn tab here and again,
 this will take us to a lot of tutorials

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on various things. 

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So if you do want to learn more
 after completing

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these videos,
 have a look in at what Adobe provide.

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And you know, 

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they could have some good pointers
 and some good tips for you on there.

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So we're just going to go back to home
 here and I'm going to click New Project.

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So when we start a new project,
 we have our new project

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window open, and

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it gives us a few options
 and that we can kind of set

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for our project. 

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The first one is obviously the name,
 so I'm going to call this

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Premiere introduction

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and it asks us where we want to save it. 

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So, for myself, I'm going to click Browse,

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and this will take us to our Windows 

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Explorer
 if you're working on a Mac OS then again,

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it may look slightly different,
 while it will look slightly different

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this will bring up a Finder window
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And I'm going to go 

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into my Adobe
 Premiere folder that I created previously,

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and I'm going to use this folder
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and my footage and things like that. 

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So I'm going to select this folder. 

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Im going to have a little quick
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We have a few options
 that generally we're going to leave alone.

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I mean, this talks about what

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your computer is going to use to help
 with rendering and things like that.

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So the default option should be fine
 for just starting out.

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And one thing I do want to just talk about
 very briefly, is this tab here.

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So this is your scratch disks, now
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your scratch disks are saved

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in the same location as your project file.

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So that Adobe Premiere folder
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that's where it's going to save. 

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That's
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Now what a scratch disk is
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basically, that's going to increase
 the memory and make more memory available

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to help with the 

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processing and the running of the video
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Now, video editing itself is a very memory
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especially when we start to work with 

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high resolution footage, such as 4K,
 and then we're adding motion graphics

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and after effects files,
 it can be very, very memory hungry.

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So what a scratch disk does, this creates

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a folder in the same area that is used to

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create video previews and things like that

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that's going to help your application
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Now, like I said, as default
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and as long as your project is stored on a

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A drive with lots of space available and,

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you know, a fast drive,
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The only time you may need to worry 

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about your scratch disk location
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maybe a little memory stick or something
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You know, you always want to try
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as much storage as possible
 available for your scratch disk.

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So I'm going to go back to general, 

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and we've called our project Premiere
 introduction and we've given it a location

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and I'm going to click OK.

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So that is how we create a new project
 in Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Up next, we're going to have a look
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and how we customize our user
 interface to suit our needs.