Social Media and Final Export

[00:00:00] then the outro animation remains and I

[00:00:00] think it's quite distracting. Welcome to

[00:00:00] my living room. I want to show you how I

[00:00:00] took it from looking like see that. So

[00:00:00] instead of making the clip shorter, I'm

[00:00:00] just going to cut the clip right there.

[00:00:00] So I just eliminate the outro animation.

[00:00:00] So both the lower third and me go away

[00:00:00] when I cut to the B-roll clip. I took it

[00:00:00] from looking like this to this.

[00:00:00] In my last video, that was more of a

[00:00:00] vlog. Let's add captions. And because we

[00:00:00] already have the transcript, adding

[00:00:00] captions will be a breeze. It's the same

[00:00:00] exact window as before. So, the text

[00:00:00] window, and you can see we're on the

[00:00:00] transcript tab, and we have the whole

[00:00:00] transcript here. But if we wanted to

[00:00:00] create captions, we just have to go to

[00:00:00] the caption tab and select create

[00:00:00] captions from transcript.

[00:00:00] It'll ask us what are our preferences

[00:00:00] for these captions. Personally, I like

[00:00:00] to do single line captions.

[00:00:00] And I want their minimum duration to be

[00:00:00] maybe 2 seconds cuz I want them to not

[00:00:00] anticipate the next thing I'm saying too

[00:00:00] quickly. I want the maximum length in

[00:00:00] characters to be well, let's do 40.

[00:00:00] Right now, we don't have a style set and

[00:00:00] the format is subtitle. So, with this

[00:00:00] information, we're going to click create

[00:00:00] captions.

[00:00:00] And there we go. All the captions are

[00:00:00] now on their own little track up here

[00:00:00] called the subtitle track. So, these

[00:00:00] captions are what's called burned in

[00:00:00] because they're on the video. It's not

[00:00:00] like you add them as an option later

[00:00:00] inside a video player. Um, we can adjust

[00:00:00] them though because this is the default

[00:00:00] look and color. So to adjust them, just

[00:00:00] click on any single one of them and that

[00:00:00] pops up their properties in the

[00:00:00] properties panel. You can add your

[00:00:00] favorite font.

[00:00:00] You can adjust the font size, although I

[00:00:00] kind of like the font size, the font

[00:00:00] color. So in this case, for the font

[00:00:00] color, I'm actually going to pick my

[00:00:00] skin color. For the shadow, I'm actually

[00:00:00] not going to have a shadow, but I would

[00:00:00] like a background. I'd like that

[00:00:00] background to be black and maybe have a

[00:00:00] little bit of corner, have a little bit

[00:00:00] more padding, something like that. Thus

[00:00:00] far, I've only adjusted this one

[00:00:00] singular caption, right? All of the

[00:00:00] other ones are the same. So, in order to

[00:00:00] push that look to the other captions,

[00:00:00] all I have to do is here under track

[00:00:00] style, press this button.

[00:00:00] And this is going to redefine the style

[00:00:00] of all the captions in the track to

[00:00:00] match this one. They are still a little

[00:00:00] bit too far. They're a little bit too

[00:00:00] low. So, I'm going to just select all of

[00:00:00] the captions and then use this align and

[00:00:00] transform control to move it up a little

[00:00:00] bit. Maybe the opacity of our background

[00:00:00] could be a little bit less.

[00:00:00] All right. Now, if you wanted to save

[00:00:00] this caption style and use it in the

[00:00:00] future, you could. You just go over here

[00:00:00] to track style to the plus button create

[00:00:00] style. For example, you're going to call

[00:00:00] it like soft captions because the color

[00:00:00] soft, the shape is soft. You can save to

[00:00:00] project and save to your local styles.

[00:00:00] You can see it put the soft captions

[00:00:00] caption file just in the regular folder.

[00:00:00] So, let's move that to our graphics

[00:00:00] folder. Now, we have these captions in

[00:00:00] English, but let's say that we wanted to

[00:00:00] translate them to another language for

[00:00:00] another video that we're making. So, we

[00:00:00] can go over here to this three dot

[00:00:00] button and go to translate captions.

[00:00:00] It auto detected that English is the

[00:00:00] language that we're working with. But

[00:00:00] our target language, let's just say it

[00:00:00] is just for accuracy. Let's go to

[00:00:00] another language that I speak, Spanish.

[00:00:00] Style, soft captions. Advanced

[00:00:00] preferences. We can do the same thing,

[00:00:00] right? Minimum duration in seconds,

[00:00:00] maximum length in characters is 40,

[00:00:00] single line and translate.

[00:00:00] You can see it will add another line of

[00:00:00] subtitles above our current subtitles.

[00:00:00] And then we can either hide or unhide

[00:00:00] them to see what language it is. So, for

[00:00:00] example, I can hide the English titles

[00:00:00] and I can turn on the Spanish ones. I

[00:00:00] had to figure out a way to trim that.

[00:00:00] And a friend of mine, he said, "Well,

[00:00:00] why don't you just use your jigsaw?" I'm

[00:00:00] like, "That's a great idea." Now that we

[00:00:00] have three tracks of video, an

[00:00:00] adjustment layer, a graphics layer, we

[00:00:00] also have two subtitle layers, it's

[00:00:00] getting to be a pretty hefty project,

[00:00:00] and it's not playing back as smooth as

[00:00:00] it was before. What helps is to be able

[00:00:00] to render the project. I think of

[00:00:00] rendering as almost like preheating the

[00:00:00] oven. So, it's easier to play back a

[00:00:00] clip if it's rendered first. And I'm

[00:00:00] sure you've noticed here above the

[00:00:00] timeline, we have a yellow

[00:00:00] line. That means this footage is likely

[00:00:00] to play back fine for you, but it might

[00:00:00] stall. If the line is red, then that's

[00:00:00] really difficult to play the footage

[00:00:00] back on your computer. You can always

[00:00:00] obviously drop down to like quarter

[00:00:00] resolution to play it back. But if you

[00:00:00] want to play it back at full resolution

[00:00:00] and your computer is not letting you, I

[00:00:00] would render first. You can either

[00:00:00] render the entire video or you can

[00:00:00] render a section of a video. For

[00:00:00] example, if I wanted to just render this

[00:00:00] jigsaw section over here, I can put my

[00:00:00] playhead where I need it. Put I for in,

[00:00:00] O for out. So, I've designated that this

[00:00:00] is the section that I want to render.

[00:00:00] over here to sequence render into out.

[00:00:00] And it takes a few seconds,

[00:00:00] but you can already see that that line

[00:00:00] is turning green, which means smooth

[00:00:00] playback. I recommend rendering the

[00:00:00] entire video before you export it. You

[00:00:00] can also change the subtitles after

[00:00:00] you've created them. You don't have to

[00:00:00] go all the way back to the transcript

[00:00:00] level. For example, over here, it

[00:00:00] actually skipped a word. He said, "Well,

[00:00:00] why don't you just use your jigsaw?" I'm

[00:00:00] like, "That's a great idea." I said,

[00:00:00] "I'm like, that's a great idea." So, I'm

[00:00:00] going to add a question mark. I'm

[00:00:00] like,

[00:00:00] and then because this was a quote

[00:00:00] quote. That's a great idea. So, I will

[00:00:00] go through this and clean up all of the

[00:00:00] captions so that they are accurate and

[00:00:00] then we will export. Before we go ahead

[00:00:00] and export and watch this, let's say you

[00:00:00] wanted a version for social media, a

[00:00:00] vertical version. How would you do that?

[00:00:00] You might rightclick, reveal sequence

[00:00:00] and project. Then duplicate this

[00:00:00] sequence.

[00:00:00] Then do 09 social.

[00:00:00] Open that up. And then go ahead and

[00:00:00] change the sequence settings. So, up

[00:00:00] here in sequence settings, instead of

[00:00:00] 1920x 1080, flip that around to 1080x

[00:00:00] 1920. Press okay

[00:00:00] and then see what happens. Oh, well, it

[00:00:00] just changed the sequence settings, but

[00:00:00] it didn't adjust the clips. Some of them

[00:00:00] might work, some of them don't.

[00:00:00] Sometimes I'm centered, sometimes I'm

[00:00:00] not. But regardless, all of these clips

[00:00:00] have to be refframed, right? So you

[00:00:00] would go to the first one, let's say a

[00:00:00] cam, and here under properties, you

[00:00:00] would scale it up,

[00:00:00] right? And what is that line right here?

[00:00:00] That is our adjustment layer. So you

[00:00:00] would scale up the entire adjustment

[00:00:00] layer as well.

[00:00:00] And then every single one of the B-roll

[00:00:00] clips, you would also have to reframe,

[00:00:00] resize.

[00:00:00] Takes a long time. So instead of doing

[00:00:00] all of that, there's an automatic way to

[00:00:00] do so. So I'm going to delete this

[00:00:00] entire 09 social delete. Go back to the

[00:00:00] latest version, which is 08 graphics.

[00:00:00] And instead, I'm going to go to

[00:00:00] sequence, auto refframe sequence.

[00:00:00] And here I can name it something. So I'm

[00:00:00] going to name it 09 social

[00:00:00] target aspect ratio vertical 9 by6 and

[00:00:00] then motion tracking. This is telling

[00:00:00] the software do you have a lot of very

[00:00:00] fast motion in this that it should be

[00:00:00] aware of for refframing purposes or do

[00:00:00] you have slower motion or should you do

[00:00:00] default? So I'll just do default. And

[00:00:00] then for clip nesting, this is like that

[00:00:00] Russian nesting doll thing where you

[00:00:00] have sequences inside sequences. I'm

[00:00:00] just going to say don't nest clips.

[00:00:00] Okay. And then I'm going to click

[00:00:00] create.

[00:00:00] Now, normally you would also do a

[00:00:00] shorter version for social, right? You

[00:00:00] would do like a 1 minute version of

[00:00:00] this. But just for argument sake, I want

[00:00:00] to show you how quickly this

[00:00:00] accomplished it. So you can see here it

[00:00:00] actually auto refframed everything so

[00:00:00] that

[00:00:00] the central action is happening in the

[00:00:00] center. Remember here if I reveal in

[00:00:00] project

[00:00:00] I was actually in this portion of the

[00:00:00] clip I was to the right side of the clip

[00:00:00] but it auto refframed me in the middle.

[00:00:00] Sometimes it doesn't get it perfectly

[00:00:00] right. Like in this example it focused

[00:00:00] on my face but I really want it to focus

[00:00:00] on the actual nailing of the nails. So,

[00:00:00] I'm going to select that clip, go to

[00:00:00] auto refframe, and then adjust the

[00:00:00] offset of the auto refframe by dragging

[00:00:00] this X value to the left.

[00:00:00] There we go. Cuz I want to focus on the

[00:00:00] hammering. Okay, are you ready to

[00:00:00] export? We will go to file, export,

[00:00:00] media, or controlM. We'll find the

[00:00:00] destination. So, it should be in the

[00:00:00] exports folder on our drive. Make sure

[00:00:00] that the preset here is highquality

[00:00:00] 1080p HD. And let's name it 2025

[00:00:00] 0501

[00:00:00] molding underscore

[00:00:00] subs cuz we're adding subtitles

[00:00:00] underscore horizontal.

[00:00:00] What's important here also is here under

[00:00:00] captions you make sure that this caption

[00:00:00] checkbox is enabled because if it isn't

[00:00:00] then you won't have the captions track

[00:00:00] and then your export option are either

[00:00:00] burn captions into video or create

[00:00:00] sidecar file. So this is the file that

[00:00:00] you can upload to like the back end of

[00:00:00] YouTube but in this case we want to burn

[00:00:00] the captions into the video entire

[00:00:00] source and click export.

[00:00:00] Congratulations, we're at the end of the

[00:00:00] tutorial. I'm about to play the final

[00:00:00] video for you. Don't forget that there

[00:00:00] are resources in the description,

[00:00:00] including a PDF booklet that I wrote

[00:00:00] that has a lot of this information in

[00:00:00] very easy to read terms. Thank you so

[00:00:00] much for trusting me with your Premiere

[00:00:00] Pro education, and I hope you learned

[00:00:00] something new.

[00:00:00] Once again, if you want to connect with

[00:00:00] me, here are my social media profiles,

[00:00:00] and let's not waste any more time. Let's

[00:00:00] watch the last video. Welcome to my

[00:00:00] living room. I want to show you how I

[00:00:00] took it from looking like this to this.

[00:00:00] In my last video that was more of a

[00:00:00] vlog, I showed you how I did the track

[00:00:00] lighting in the ceiling. But as much as

[00:00:00] I love light strips, I don't love

[00:00:00] looking at them. I like the effect they

[00:00:00] make. You can see here on the curtains,

[00:00:00] it just highlights those folds and makes

[00:00:00] it really lush and cinematic. In this

[00:00:00] video, I want to talk a little bit about

[00:00:00] my crown molding balance project.

[00:00:00] Usually, people put LED light strips

[00:00:00] that face the ceiling and they put their

[00:00:00] molding on the wall and I decided to put

[00:00:00] my molding on the ceiling and put the

[00:00:00] LED light strips pointed down the wall.

[00:00:00] First, I found crown molding that was

[00:00:00] actually made of styrofoam, which was

[00:00:00] great because I knew that I would have

[00:00:00] to be putting it on the ceiling. I just

[00:00:00] didn't want to overload the ceiling with

[00:00:00] too much weight because there's already

[00:00:00] curtain tracks on it. This crown molding

[00:00:00] came in giant 8ft strips and the corners

[00:00:00] were already mitered, meaning they were

[00:00:00] already at 45°. So using a hacksaw, I

[00:00:00] cut each piece into two so I would have

[00:00:00] eight halves so I could put together the

[00:00:00] corners first. And then I noticed that I

[00:00:00] didn't really have a good point of

[00:00:00] contact. This crown molding is meant to

[00:00:00] go on the wall and on the ceiling. So it

[00:00:00] has three attachment points to where it

[00:00:00] goes on the wall and one attachment

[00:00:00] point to where it goes on the ceiling.

[00:00:00] Well, because I was only using the

[00:00:00] ceiling, that is not enough surface area

[00:00:00] for me. So, I had to figure out a way to

[00:00:00] trim that. And a friend of mine, he

[00:00:00] said, "Well, why don't you just use your

[00:00:00] jigsaw?" I'm like, "That's a great

[00:00:00] idea." So, we figured out a way to move

[00:00:00] the crown molding against the jigsaw to

[00:00:00] get these perfect cuts so that I had

[00:00:00] more surface area on the top of the

[00:00:00] crown molding so that I could adhere it

[00:00:00] to the ceiling. How do I adhere it to

[00:00:00] the ceiling? I tried to do it in my

[00:00:00] garage with a couple of scraps. The

[00:00:00] first thing I tried was a glue that's

[00:00:00] specific for styrofoam and it actually

[00:00:00] really sucked. It didn't work at all. So

[00:00:00] then I tried uh caul, just regular caul.

[00:00:00] And it worked okay, but I thought, okay,

[00:00:00] I could reinforce it with a nail gun.

[00:00:00] Well, the nail gun didn't work at all.

[00:00:00] It's a lot easier to paint crown molding

[00:00:00] on the ground than to paint it on the

[00:00:00] ceiling. So before mounting each piece,

[00:00:00] I actually went ahead and painted it.

[00:00:00] One thing about the painting was that

[00:00:00] because there were so many styrofoam

[00:00:00] pieces, they just kind of got

[00:00:00] everywhere. So before painting a piece,

[00:00:00] I would take a rag and just sort of swat

[00:00:00] off the styrofoam to make sure that none

[00:00:00] of it got caught in the paint. The first

[00:00:00] piece went over my front door. And I

[00:00:00] tried to do it with only just like

[00:00:00] the manufacturer said to do except it

[00:00:00] kept falling. So I took two seastands to

[00:00:00] hoist it up there and hold it up there.

[00:00:00] Well, they actually created dents in the

[00:00:00] molding. So for the second piece, I

[00:00:00] decided to put tennis balls on the end

[00:00:00] of the stands and hold it up that way.

[00:00:00] It was just taking way too long. And I

[00:00:00] was racking my brain and thinking, "Oh

[00:00:00] my god, is it going to take me like 8

[00:00:00] days just to put these corners up?" And

[00:00:00] then I realized nails exist. Just

[00:00:00] regular finishing nails. So even though

[00:00:00] it was tedious, I nailed each piece in.

[00:00:00] And of course, where the joints meet, I

[00:00:00] added extra coaul and I tried to smooth

[00:00:00] it out as much as I could. As I kept

[00:00:00] going, I kept getting better. After I

[00:00:00] glued all of the corners and reinforced

[00:00:00] it with nails, it was time to figure out

[00:00:00] how to do the middles. And instead of

[00:00:00] measuring, I actually just held up other

[00:00:00] pieces of the styrofoam and I marked

[00:00:00] where to cut with a pencil. I took my

[00:00:00] hacksaw and I cut off those ends.

[00:00:00] Obviously, painted them, stuck them on,

[00:00:00] nailed them in, and tried to the

[00:00:00] seams as best as I could. The white

[00:00:00] needed to be painted, and of course, it

[00:00:00] was three coats of paint, but I got it

[00:00:00] done, and now I get to relax in my

[00:00:00] beautiful living room. I also did a few

[00:00:00] other things like swapped out some

[00:00:00] curtains, swapped out the rug, added a

[00:00:00] mirror, and I'm waiting on the last

[00:00:00] piece, which are these beautiful dark

[00:00:00] wood bookshelves that are going to go

[00:00:00] floor to ceiling along this wall over

[00:00:00] here. Uh, they're just going to come in

[00:00:00] 2 to 4 months. Thanks for watching. I

[00:00:00] hope this inspired you to do your own

[00:00:00] DIY project. Until next time. Bye.