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title: 'Full Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial: How to Edit YouTube Videos'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=QPXGuqeUo6g'
video_id: 'QPXGuqeUo6g'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 2074
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# Full Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial: How to Edit YouTube Videos

> Source: [Full Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial: How to Edit YouTube Videos](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QPXGuqeUo6g)

## Summary

This video is a beginner-friendly, end-to-end Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial focused on editing a YouTube video. The creator walks through project setup, importing and organizing footage, basic cutting, adding B-roll, text, music, captions, and exporting. It also includes a paid sponsorship segment for Storyblocks and a bonus proxy tip for smoother editing.

### Key Points

- **Target Audience and Scope** [00:02] — The tutorial is designed for first-time editors who feel overwhelmed by Premiere Pro; it covers uploading footage, starting a project, cutting clips, adding text and music, and exporting.
- **Premiere Pro Pricing** [00:43] — Premiere Pro costs $22.99/month; Creative Cloud Pro is $34.99/month and includes 20+ apps like Photoshop and Lightroom.
- **Creating a Project** [02:20] — Click 'New Project', name it, choose a save location. The creator recommends editing from an external SSD to free up computer storage and reduce lag.
- **Interface Overview** [04:11] — The Edit tab contains panels for Project (media library), Timeline, Source, Program, and Properties. The blue outline indicates the active panel.
- **Organize Media in Bins** [07:31] — Before importing footage, create bins for A-roll, B-roll, music, and graphics to keep all assets in one place and avoid slowing down the edit.
- **Check Sequence Settings** [11:47] — Match the timebase/frame rate in Sequence Settings to your camera's frame rate for the best export quality.
- **Core Editing Shortcuts** [12:28] — Use C for the cut tool and V for the cursor, delete clips with Backspace, and undo with Control+Z.
- **Edit with AI Transcript** [14:54] — Premiere auto-generates a transcript; you can delete mistakes and pauses directly from the text, which auto-updates the timeline.
- **Create Slow Zoom with Keyframes** [20:08] — Select a clip, toggle animation on Position and Scale, adjust settings at the start and end, and Premiere interpolates the zoom.
- **Exporting the Final Video** [28:48] — Set in/out points with I and O, go to File > Export > Media, choose H.264/MP4, and click Export.
- **Bonus: Use Proxy Files** [31:22] — For 4K footage, create proxies to edit at lower resolution; toggle proxy playback to keep playback smooth.

### Conclusion

The video successfully delivers a complete beginner workflow for editing a YouTube video in Premiere Pro, with clear explanations and actionable shortcuts. The bonus proxy tip is particularly useful for anyone working with high-resolution footage.

## Transcript

the heck out of you because it looks too hard or sounds too complicated, this tutorial was made for you. As someone who used to feel that exact same way and now solely uses Adobe Premiere Pro, I wanted to create a video that simplifies
the need-to-knows if you're editing your very first video on desktop without getting too overwhelmed. We're talking uploading your footage, starting a project, cutting your clips, adding text, music, exporting, all the things.
Plus, at the very end, I do have a bonus tip that will make your editing run noticeably smoother. So, be sure to stick around for that. As always, timestamps are down below. Use them if you need them, and let's jump in. Let's
start with the most important thing that you need to know. Adobe Premiere Pro is not free. As of right now, a subscription for Premiere is $22.99 a month, or you could sign up for Creative Cloud Pro at $34.99 a month, which gets
you access to over 20 other Adobe products under one price, like Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. So, if you're looking for a free editing software, this video likely won't be for you. But, as somebody who has been
paying for Premiere for more than 5 years now, to me, it is genuinely worth it for how many videos my team and I put out. I have over 100 videos in my online
courses, and we've edited all of my course content with Adobe Premiere. So, it definitely is my go-to editor. So, what are my credentials? Well, I've been on YouTube for over 14 years, and in that time, I have tested a lot of
editing softwares, and Adobe Premiere Pro is the one that I just keep coming back to, not because it's the easiest, because it's not, but because once you get the hang of it and get through the learning curve or that initial learning
curve, honestly, every other editor just feels slower or like less efficient. Now, all of my YouTube videos, all of my online course videos, and I'd say 80% of
my short-form videos are edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. And no, this video is not sponsored by them. So, allow me to introduce you to the simplified, broken-down tutorial of Adobe Premiere Pro, starting with creating your
project. When you first open Premiere Pro, you'll land on this screen. All you have to do is press new project in the top corner, and this dialog box or this
box will pop up. What you're going to do is give your project a name, just to kind of summarize what you're working on, so like Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial or weekend my life vlog with the date. And you're also going to choose the
location for where to save it. So, I actually choose browse, and then I'm actually choose browse, and then I'm going to make sure that the project is added to my external hard drive. So, I have this SSD card plugged into my
computer right now, because when I'm actively editing, I edit off of an external hard drive. I prefer to do it this way, that way my computer storage is freed up, and I feel like it helps create less of a lag when I am editing
off of an external hard drive. This isn't the hard drive that I will like save archive all of my footage, it's just the SSD for active projects. So, anything I am actively editing or working on that isn't live yet. So, I am
working on that isn't live yet. So, I am going to find the correct path, put this, course videos. We're going to edit a course video, which is similar to like a little bit shorter, so for the sake of time for this video, I'm going to choose
course video. This is where we're going to be having our project, and press create. After you press create, this pop-up will appear, and this is where you can start importing your media, but I actually I just completely skip this
organized first. Now, when you first open up a project, this is what it's going to look like. It's a lot of panels, so let's just orient ourselves before diving in. Little overview tutorial. So, up top, home is where you
go back to all of your projects like that first screen that we were at together. Import is the screen we were just at. Now, we're under the edit tab. editing will go. And then when you're done editing, you can switch to the
export tab or go to file, export. We'll get to that. Now, when I click around, each of these boxes on the screen are panels. And each panel offers you
panels. And each panel offers you different views for tools, effects, and overall functions. You notice as I'm clicking around, there's like a blue highlight around the panel, and that blue outline will tell you which panel
is currently active. This matters because sometimes like keyboard shortcuts will only apply to certain panels. So, it's just a good thing to note which panel is active for those keyboard shortcuts. Now, going over the
panels that are actually on our screen, bottom left, this is our like project panel. This is where all of the media that we are going to be importing lives. Think of it as your media library. So, this is like the library of all the
content that you can search through, A-roll, B-roll, music, graphics, all the things. This is that library is going to be here. Next panel we have the timeline or sequence. This is the entire bottom portion. This is where you actually edit
your video. So, you'll drag your clips, the audio, text effects to arrange into the full video that you'll be exporting. You also have the little audio channel here just to see where your audio gain is at to make sure your speakers aren't
being blown out or like your audience's ears when they well, the video back, it's the volume is not too loud. Top left, this is our source panel. This has have the source panel here. This is where you can preview individual clips
before adding them to your timeline. I don't really use it that often. I mostly that's just what we're going to be focusing on in this tutorial. Top middle, this is our program panel. This is where the actual edit, like every
watch it back, playback. This is your video in real time. And then finally, we have the properties panel, top right. When you have something selected from your timeline, a piece of media, text,
there are some properties here that you'll be able to change certain things, clips. Again, this will all make sense as we get into editing. Just knowing that there are panels and within each panels, there's like tabs. Think of
panels, there's like tabs. Think of panels as multiple Chrome browsers, right? And then when you open like your Chrome or whatever internet browser you use, you could have multiple tabs within a window and then you could open a new
window with multiple tabs to kind of like keep yourselves organized. These are basically windows with multiple tabs. If your view does not look like this, just go to window, workspaces and click on editing and all of your panels
will rearrange to this exact view. There's a bunch of pre-saved workspaces that will like move panels around. So, as you get more familiar with panels and you find yourself using certain things a little bit more, you can actually
customize, oh, I like effect controls. I want to keep that here and I actually you could customize and move things around, but I feel like that's when you want to customize it for your own liking. So, let's start working on our
project and import footage. For me, before I import any footage, I'm going to start a new bin. I like to stay organized and start folders, so I'm just pressing this new bin option. And now we have a bin. I'm going to rename this,
and it's going to be my A-roll. A-roll is my talking-to-the-camera clips, the main storyline that I'm focusing on. Going to add another bin. focusing on. Going to add another bin. This is my B-roll. I also add one for
music, and then I also add one for graphics. That's just screenshots, photos, overlays, anything else. Sometimes I do slideshows. So, any additional media that doesn't really fall into A-roll, B-roll, or music. Here
is where I'm zooming in and out of my media. To get our footage in here, the simplest way for me is just like dragging and dropping the clips into this panel. You could also go to media browser and search through your media,
but I personally, I'll just open my finder and find the footage that I need. finder and find the footage that I need. So, let's go to here, course videos. do this.
This is my A-roll, and then let's get our B-roll. B-roll is basically the our B-roll. B-roll is basically the secondary footage of your project that of what you're talking about. So, I have like this whole folder that's just like
my default B-roll that I use almost all the time in like YouTube videos or within my content. And all of this B-roll, here we go. Perfect. All of this B-roll that I have right here, this is from Storyblocks. I also have music.
This music is also from Storyblocks. You could also add like sound effects or anything else here that you could find from Storyblocks. Basically, just getting all of your footage organized before you even start editing.
these additional assets instead of trying to jump around between a bunch of effects, extra clips. It just keeps things simple because everything is in one place, which saves me so much time, especially when I'm jumping into an
edit. Like the last thing that I want to do is in the middle of editing go trying it takes up so much more time and it stops the flow. So, having everything just from the jump organized in folders keeps the entire editing process that
editing a session and I feel like it needs a little bit more visual support, I could just go into Storyblocks, grab B-roll, drag it straight into Premiere,
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for that, and Storyblocks honestly solves all of it by keeping everything solves all of it by keeping everything you need in one library for footage, music, sound effects, templates, all the things, so you can just stay in your
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is everything, all of the footage that is in there is created by real looks and sounds professional and doesn't feel random or out of place within your videos. Plus, everything is royalty-free and pre-cleared, so you
don't have to second-guess if you could use it in your YouTube videos or if because everything is already good for you to use in your content. And right now, they're offering 15% off any annual plan for a limited time, and that
discount is only available through my link down below. I personally have been using Storyblocks for years, so if you want to make your editing process smoother and have everything that you need in one place, you could definitely
or in the description below. And thank sponsoring this video. When you feel like you have everything organized, I just jump straight into my A-roll and I drag it onto my timeline. Before I start
editing, I just like to make sure that this panel, this is like my sequence, I want to make sure the sequence has the proper settings. So, if you filmed this A-roll footage on your phone or on your camera, just check your phone settings
specifically your frame rate, and we're going to make sure that frame rate matches in Adobe. What we're going to do is go up to sequence, sequence settings, time base, and we just want to make sure this is what matches our camera
settings. Most of the time, if you just like drag the clip onto the timeline, should match, but it's definitely worth when you export your video, it has the best quality possible. So, now let's
familiarize ourselves with the actual editing. Down here, this little scroll bar, you could use this to zoom in and out of your footage. So, if I just click here and I drag it to make it smaller, it's going to zoom in to my clip,
whereas if I drag it out, it's going to zoom out. So, in zooms in, out zooms out. Pretty self-explanatory. Alternatively, for keyboard shortcuts, if you press the plus on your keyboard, you'll zoom in. If you press minus,
you'll zoom out. Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, I use those often. I feel like that is the flow that has made Adobe 10 million times easier for me. My default is C and V. C is the cut tool, so I could just
quickly skim, I could see my audio and where like pauses are, so I could quickly just be like, "Oh, let me just cut this section out." V goes back to our regular cursor, so I could select on a clip and backspace will delete it. If
you delete anything and you see this space between two clips, you want to get rid of that because if I were to export this timeline while leaving this black space there, it's actually going to keep that space. So, my video would look like
this. And then this black space would be exported. So, I'm just going to click on that and press backspace. To undo, press control Z and it'll undo anything you need. There's so many other ways to like trim
your clip. So, if I click on my clip right here and I bring my cursor to the like drag it in and I'll cut the beginning like that. Or for this video, there's an intro here. If I wanted to delete everything to the left of my
playhead, all I'd have to do is press Q and everything just got removed. If I wanted to delete everything to the right of my playhead, I'd press W just going to undo. You'll figure out which keyboard
You don't have to use all of them, but those are the ones that I I'm using the those are the ones that I I'm using the most: C, V, backspace. You could also That's something that I talk about in my Adobe Hacks video. So, I have a video
need to know or that you didn't know. And adjusting the keyboard shortcuts is just a fun hack to increase your overall editing flow. So, that's one way to make simple cuts. Now, what's really cool about Adobe is if I have this talking
head clip, I can actually use AI in a sense to quickly edit this for me. So, I'm just going to make sure this is selected. We're going to go to the text tab in this panel. Oh, look. The close captions are already there. For the
transcript is already there. It looks like this video auto did the transcript for me, but there's these options here: transcript, captions, graphics. You transcribe and it would transcribe the whole clip. And now I can see visually
what this transcript is, and I can see where I repeat or where I mess up, and I could quickly edit from the transcript itself. So, I see I had the honor, I had say that over and over cuz I messed up the intro so many times. So, I think
here is where I could just drag, and then backspace. When I delete the timeline. So, now my timeline is starting correctly with the proper intro. Then all these little dot dot dots, those are the spaces or pauses,
completely. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to press filter, going to do pauses, and it's highlighting all of the pauses for me, and I'm just going to press delete, delete all, and as you can see it timeline it auto edited for me.
So, now I'm like quickly editing my A-roll by or at least the talking to the camera stuff is so easy to just quickly edit by skimming the transcription. If you have multiple talking head pieces, for example, if you're doing like a week
in the life vlog, you can drag and drop clips around for like rearranging the order. So, if I just click on this clip and I just drag it, and then I could move them back. I'm going to move this one forward. Boop. And there's like that
magnet where it just automatically snaps those clips together. I love having the magnet on. If yours is not like snapping together like that, you want to make sure this snap in timeline option is turned on cuz if it's off, it's going to
be harder for me to like perfectly line up the clips. You see, it's like, "Ah, where do I go? I don't know." But, with the magnet on, it just snaps into place. be sure to give this video a thumbs up. If you learn two new things by the end
of the video, consider subscribing since it's a simple and free way to support my channel, and it allows me to continue to create free content for you every single week. Once I have my A-roll done and I'm happy with like A to Z storyline of my
in my B-roll and those extra layers there. So, what we're going to do, let's say A-roll's looking beauteous, looking perfect, we love. We're going to go back to our B-roll folder. So, back in this media panel, again, we have these tabs.
bin, or if you're not seeing the option up here, there's this little arrow that See, we were in A-roll, we're going back, so now we're going to B-roll. We adding in these layers, I kind of want to zoom in a little bit. So, I'm going
to zoom in. Okay, right here it says Grover, so I want to add this B-roll on top. So, I'm just going to drag and drop the clip onto my timeline, and I like to want it to be added. So, I'm going to like play and pause right where it want
that clip right there. As you can see, the B-roll is playing while I'm talking. I actually want the B-roll to start a little bit sooner. So, let me zoom in. We're going to select C on my keyboard, cut. Now, I could delete this, but I
still want my B-roll to start right here. So, I'm just going to drag this to here. So, I'm just going to drag this to replace it. Boom. We'll cut this, and then delete that. And then the next one that I want to do, yeah, we'll do this
one next. Okay, so as you can see, I just dragged this clip in. It probably has different properties. The original clip probably has the properties that I filmed my footage in, so it's like cropped in weird. So, I'm just going to
select the clip, go to effect controls, and this is where you can zoom in and out of your footage. So, I'm just going to go to scale, and I could go like this. There's also, as you can see on the right-hand side, properties, scale,
same thing. We're going to have it fit right there. With effect controls, you This is especially helpful if I wanted to like add a specific screenshot. Let's add this B-roll, it's really cool. So, I'm going to actually make this B-roll a
little bit smaller. You could select the B-roll, double-click to select the clip, and like drag and drop it this way, or you could use the positioning, drag it clicking on it with my mouse, and then moving my mouse left to right, and it's
adjusting the overlay or the B-roll. So, let's see what that looks like. Cool. I like that. Effects is where you could also rotate a clip if you wanted to add rotation. You could also crop
to add rotation. You could also crop left or crop right, cropping your clip, it somewhat see-through. So, this is like all the effect controls are here under effect controls. But, I'm going to press undo
controls. But, I'm going to press undo cuz I still want this one as is. Okay, next, another feature that I think a lot of creators look for is being able to like slowly zoom in and out on a clip while it's going. So, on my face, let's
do it on me. So, I'm going to press C. I'm going to cut it because I only want to edit this portion of my talking head video. We're going to zoom in, and now we're going to create that like slow zoom effect by doing something or adding
something called a keyframe. It's basically the key moment of your frame, and connecting two key moments within your frame, basically. If you're like,
and you can't figure out where the beginning of the clip is in this the playhead here. I'm just going to drag that playhead to the very beginning.
which is the beginning of our zoom. So, I'm going to select here toggle animation on both position and scale. So, this just created a keyframe saying, "Hey, this crop, this zoom, we love it.
"Hey, this crop, this zoom, we love it. Keep it. Slay. Yes. Keep as is." Then, we want to tell Adobe, "Hey, Adobe, We want you to zoom into a different shot now." So, we love this first shot, but Adobe, can you zoom in to this shot? So,
we're actually going to drag our playhead to the end of our clip, very, very end. Perfect. And now, this is where we're going to just zoom in. My little hack is like I like to put my finger right where my eye line is, and
then when I zoom in, I want to match my eye line. There we go. Cool. And it automatically created, as you could see here, our new keyframes. It's like, "Hey, Adobe, I just adjusted the zoom. This is the new spot that we're going to
zoom into." So, if you just watch the video back, it's doing that slow connection between the two keyframes that you've created. the two keyframes that you've created. Perfect. Cool. Let's do this. If you
don't want that like slow zoom, you could just do quick crop in, crop out. So, for example, this one's cropped out right here, cropped out. There's a little pause there. Let me delete that pause. Going to highlight both of these
and just drag them there. Boop. Okay. So, here, we're zoomed out. This next clip, I want it zoomed in. Again, I'm going to do my little eye thing, cuz I want to keep that eye line. Zoom it in, bring it down, and now it'll crop in.
different steps that I go through when I'm editing. I do the A-roll, and then I add B-roll, and then I'll add music and text. Let's say we finish all of our B-roll, we're happy with the project, and now we want to add things to help
video, the cropping, zooming in and out, the sound effects, the text, any sort of animations. So, I'm going to go back to my music, and before I add my music, what I'm going to do is I'm going to just get a gauge for my audio levels
currently. Like default talking-wise, audio level is about at 18 to 12. Jumps up kind of six, but average, it's around 18. That's good for me to know, because when I add music, depending on if you want music to be the main focus or in
the background, you'll want to know where to kind of adjust the audio. So, right now, let's say we want audio in the background. That means this audio it needs to be way down. Right now it's like now my audio is way up here. It's a
little distracting. So, we're just going to go, you know, we have our music music selected. We could literally just bring the level down like this. Up and down, and it's just going to adjust the audio levels.
Alternatively, if I zoom in There's like this line right in the middle. I don't know if you can see it, but if you click, you could drag down and up. So, that's another way. So, now
let's play back. Still way too loud. With audio being in the background of talking, you want to almost barely hear it. That's really the There we go. I like that. Now, if you wanted to cut to like a B-roll montage
where you're not talking, let's say like here there's no Milli, B-roll is the main moment, and we want our audio to be the main moment with it, what you would do is make sure the transition between your voice volume and the music volume
is the same here. So, here we saw that my voice was hitting around 18. So, hits. Music's too loud cuz it's hitting around the six or negative six. So, we need to make sure we're adjusting this.
Perfect. So, now the audio levels match a bit better, and that way we're not blowing out somebody's ear if they're wearing headphones, and it's just like abrupt music out of nowhere. We want to make sure it's a pleasant watch or
viewing experience for the viewer. Now, let's spice things up a little bit. We have our animation, we have our zooming, we We our B-roll, we have our music. Let's add text because I feel like that's another common thing creators and
YouTubers like adding to their videos. So, there's this text option here on your toolbar or you could simply press T with your keyboard. And now, when you hover over your video up here in this like program panel, you could select or
click anywhere and your text would appear here. Text here. With text, the main properties are going to be in the right-hand side. So, you could your text. You could also, when you double-click,
You could also, when you double-click, adjust the font. Let's do Anton, that's adjust the font. Let's do Anton, that's my go-to font. Regular font size. I'm going to probably center it. Let's center it. There we go. And let's bring
it down. That's how we're adding our text. >> I had the absolute honor to interview >> Same thing with um any sort of thing that you're adding to the timeline, to shorten it, make it longer, you could
just drag and drop the edges, press C to cut, V drag and drop. So, all keyboard that you're adding within the timeline. I like to sometimes uh especially with
my short-form, a lot of people ask about how I edit my short-form videos. If I have the text, the right font size, placement, all the things, and I'm happy with it, I'll just duplicate this same thing and then apply it throughout the
video whenever I want text to appear. To duplicate it, for keyboard shortcut, I'm going to hold down Alt, click and drag, and then it just duplicated that same clip. So, now if I want text to pop up here, I don't have to like re-add new
text. It's the same font, same thing, same placement. It keeps that branding consistency that much more cohesive across your entire video and entire a lot specifically with short-form. I do use it for long-form like within my
so much text happening, that's something else you could do. When you have your text selected, if anytime you click on the text here, that's where you can make the text here, that's where you can make changes to the font, colors, size, if
you want to add let's say if we want did want a background and we wanted let's do black with no opacity. So that's how you could get kind of like that look. Let's go back here, click here. We could also increase the borders on it, make the
edges a little softer. You could add a shadow. Basically, any sort of editing you want or effects happen with your text that is here under properties. If you're somebody who wants closed captioning on your videos, that
could be done. Highlight my whole thing, go to text. So what I would do is like make sure the entire A-roll transcript looks good. You can make changes by literally typing here. And then here I'm
going to create an entire new caption track. Format subtitle style default, just press okay. We're going to create captions from transcript. Subtitle
create just keep everything as default. I like single line, but yeah. I like single line, but yeah. And create captions. Now at the top of your timeline, this is now where you have those closed captions. Now to
reposition everything, I'm just going to highlight all the text and here under properties, we're going to change the font to something simple. I like we're going to do bold spine.
A little bit bigger. We're going to do no shadow. Keep it simple. Maybe a soft shadow. And then can like change the zone of like where you want the closed captions to be. We're just like again drag and drop and it'll change all of
>> worth of debt in 3 months. >> See, it appears everywhere. Once you have everything finalized and you're happy with your video, let's go over exporting because this is where it can get fun. So first thing you want to do
is set your in and out points. This is basically telling Adobe where your video starts and where your video ends, which you would assume, oh, it just starts ends, but we have to tell Adobe where it starts and ends because a fun fact is on
your timeline, you can actually be editing multiple videos at once. So, if I have multiple, for example, my online courses, there's multiple lessons within a module and I'll actually edit all of my lessons in one timeline. For example,
I'll just like, this is lesson one, this is lesson two, this is lesson three. And then I could just tell Adobe, hey, only export this video. Okay, now export Adobe gets really cool. But, we're keeping things simple, we have one video
here, so we need to tell Adobe the in and out points. So, I'm going to drag my playhead to the very beginning where it says 00000000 and press I, that is the in point. And then I'm going to just click to the end,
press O, that is the out point. Now, remember, Adobe does export any black space or any empty space, so we're just going to magnetize our out point, boop,
right to the edge of end of our video. So, now we have the in, the out points set and this is the video that is going to be exported. Very simply, we are going to go to file, export, and select
export media. Or you could simply switch to the export tab. We're going to set a to the export tab. We're going to set a file name. save it. I'm going to choose the same place that I have the project. So, this
Now, I'm going to create like a new folder and be like, edited version. Now, we have our edited folder. Oh, I meant to say, test video. Save. So, now we have the file name, we know where it's being saved to. We're going to make sure
our format is H264, just the standard format for everything YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, all of it. And it's going to export as an MP4. The preset part, you'll see that Premiere has pre-built presets for popular
platforms. You'll see options for like 1080, 4K, different things like that. match source because it's just matching the sequence, it's just going to match everything together. And we're just
going to leave it as is and export as is. Here, you can preview your video to make sure the proper in-out settings are good, everything looks good to go, and then you can choose export and it'll start saving your video to your files.
Okay, this is the final bonus tip that I promised you for making your editing process that much smoother. This is especially helpful if you are somebody who's editing 4K footage or you find your computer like lagging a lot, this
is what you need. Most of the time, what's happening is when Premiere tries to play back a high-resolution video or footage in real time while you're editing like here in the preview screen, your computer is using a lot of
like processing power and that can have your playback when you're watching the video back feel choppy or like look like it's lagging. So, the solution is to create a proxy file. A proxy file is basically the low-resolution
copy of your footage. It doesn't change anything. It's basically just telling Adobe, "Yo Adobe, my footage, it's way too much for you. So, just make like a little baby copy, less resolution. You're going to edit the baby copy, but
when we're done and we export, you're going to take those edits, apply it to good stuff." So, you don't have to anything, it's not going to be a big deal. We're just like telling Adobe,
"Hey, do less so that I can do more." This step I usually do like at the very beginning of a project. So, what you're going to do is like select our clips, going to do is like select our clips, right click, proxy, create proxies.
Depending on how much your lag is, you could do like half or quarter frame size. Keep everything the same and just create a proxy. Once your proxies are created, you just want to make sure proxy playback is enabled by looking for
the toggle proxy button in your program monitor. It looks like this. And then when your proxies are on, you'll see your editing run dramatically smoother. So, you can press that toggle again to turn it on and off and see your full
like double-check on quality. But, this is something that I would do if my computer was lagging. If you don't want to do like full proxies or you're like, That's too advanced for me." Not a problem. In your playback, you could try
to just adjust full to half or quarter and your playback quality will just be like half or quarter quality. So, you'll see it be a little bit blurry, but to you want, just toggle it back to full and it'll be the full quality of your
footage. So, that's just like a simple hack that you could do if your playback is starting to lag and not really match the pacing of your play head. And that's know when it comes to like the basics of editing a video from beginning to end in
to you and you'd like to see a little bit more advanced or like that next step with your editing, things like color grading or repurposing a YouTube video things like that proxy tip that I was talking about, just let me know down in
further with your content and you want to start planning out your content ideas over the next 4 months, I have a free workshop that literally teaches you how content for the next 4 months so that you always have video ideas on deck.
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