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Adobe Premiere Pro How to Crop Video

Learning how to crop video in Adobe Premiere Pro is an essential skill when creating professional video content. Cropping allows you to focus on specific elements, eliminate distractions, and improve the overall composition of your videos. This guide will show you the steps for cropping videos in Adobe Premiere Pro while also introducing you to the comprehensive Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 course offered by LearnKey. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to advance your skills, this course has everything you need to succeed in the digital video industry.

Understanding How to Crop Video in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful tool with many features that can elevate your video editing skills. Cropping is one of the most used techniques for enhancing your content. Here’s a quick breakdown of the steps involved:

  1. Import Your Footage: Import the video you want to crop into Adobe Premiere Pro. Then, drag the footage into your timeline to begin editing.
  2. Access the Effects Panel: Go to the “Effects” panel and search for the “Crop” effect. Drag this effect onto the clip in your timeline.
  3. Adjust Crop Settings: Navigate to the “Effect Controls” panel, where you can crop the top, bottom, left, and right sides of your video. Adjust these settings as needed to achieve your desired framing.
  4. Fine-tune with Keyframes: Use keyframes to animate the crop, creating dynamic effects such as zooms or gradual cropping over time.
  5. Export Your Video: Once satisfied with your cropped video, export it using the appropriate settings for your intended platform.

These steps offer a basic overview of how to crop video in Adobe Premiere Pro. However, mastering this and other video editing techniques takes practice and a structured learning approach, which is precisely what LearnKey’s Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 course provides.

Course Overview: Adobe Premiere Pro 2024

LearnKey’s Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 course is a comprehensive program that covers everything you need to know about working in digital video. Spanning 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 43 seconds across five in-depth modules, the course is designed to equip beginners and advanced users with the necessary skills.

Taught by Emmy award-winning video editor and Adobe Certified Professional Aaron Colburn, this course prepares you for the Adobe Certified Professional exam. It boosts your employability in the digital video industry. Let’s explore what each module covers:

Module 1: Working in the Video Industry

The first module introduces the basics of working in the video industry, from understanding your target audience to mastering key terminology. You’ll learn about format requirements, design plan communication, and intellectual property rights, all critical aspects of professional video production.

  • Lessons Include:
    • Purpose, Audience, and Audience Needs
    • Format Requirements
    • Design Plan Communication
    • IP, Permissions, and Licensing
    • Understanding Key Terminology
    • Principles and Best Practices
    • Photographic and Cinematic Principles

Each lesson is structured to build foundational knowledge, setting the stage for more advanced techniques later in the course.

Module 2: Project Setup and Interface

Efficient project setup is crucial in Adobe Premiere Pro. This module dives into creating projects and sequences, managing interfaces, and customizing workspaces for an optimized workflow. You’ll also learn how to import assets and work within the timeline.

  • Key Topics:
    • Create Projects and Sequences
    • Interface and Panels
    • Workspaces
    • Preferences
    • Using the Timeline
    • Markers and Guides
    • Importing Assets into a Project
    • Essentials and Integration
    • Working with Assets

By the end of this module, you’ll have a solid understanding of managing complex projects effectively.

Module 3: Organizing Video Projects

Good organization is the backbone of professional video editing. In this module, you’ll learn how to manage tracks, sequences, and multi-cam setups, ensuring your projects remain structured and easy to navigate.

  • Lessons Include:
    • Managing Tracks
    • Managing Sequences
    • Managing Multi-Cam Sequences
    • Enabling and Disabling Track Output

The skills learned in this module are essential for maintaining efficiency, especially when working on large-scale projects.

Module 4: Creating and Modifying Visual Elements

This is where the core of video editing happens. In addition to learning how to crop video, you’ll explore tools and techniques for adding effects, managing audio, and enhancing visual elements. This module is packed with practical lessons that can be directly applied to real-world projects.

  • Key Lessons:
    • Core Tools and Features for Editing
    • Adding and Animating Titles
    • Text Formats
    • Transforming Footage
    • Transforming Digital Media
    • Transforming Audio
    • Using Effects to Modify Video
    • Applying Effects Presets
    • Effects on Multiple Clips
    • Using Tracks for Composites
    • Using Keyframes
    • Managing Audio
    • Audio Effects and Transitions

Mastering these skills will improve video quality and increase efficiency when working on demanding projects.

Module 5: Publishing Digital Media

After completing your video edits, the final step is preparing your content for distribution. This module covers everything you need to know about exporting, rendering, and archiving your digital media for various platforms.

  • Topics Covered:
    • Preparing Sequences for Publishing
    • Exporting Sequences
    • Rendering and Archiving

By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to deliver high-quality content that meets industry standards.

Why Choose LearnKey ‘s Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 Course?

LearnKey’s mission is to Improve Employability Every Day. This Adobe Premiere Pro course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of video editing and prepare you for real-world challenges. Whether you aim to pass the Adobe Certified Professional exam or want to elevate your video editing skills, this course has you covered.

With expert instruction from Aaron Colburn, you’re learning from one of the best in the industry. Aaron brings over 20 years of experience as an Emmy award-winning video editor and Adobe Certified Professional, ensuring you receive top-tier training.

Enroll Today

Ready to master cropping and other advanced video editing techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro? Enroll in LearnKey’s Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 course today at ENROLL HERE. For just $99, you’ll gain access to this comprehensive course for an entire year, helping you enhance your skills and advance your career.

Conclusion

Learning how to crop video is just the beginning of what you can achieve with Adobe Premiere Pro. With LearnKey’s Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 course, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the basics and advanced techniques, setting you up for success in the competitive world of digital video production. Don’t miss this opportunity to take your video editing skills to the next level.

FLVs and Creative Cloud 2014

Last week, Adobe released an update to their Creative Cloud software. A major change from previous versions of Adobe’s software is now they have removed the ability to encode video into the FLV and F4V formats.

Yes, you read that right. After Effects CC 2014, Premiere Pro CC 2014, and Media Encoder CC 2014 can no longer export video to the FLV or F4V formats.

Interestingly enough, Flash CC 2014 can still import FLV video. Those who use embedded video in Flash can still import video as usual, but Adobe no longer provides the tools to create those videos.

Flash Import Dialog

Luckily, there are many other tools out there to do the job. A quick Google search will bring up a myriad of websites and free tools for converting video to FLV.

Another option is to keep older versions of Media Encoder and After Effects installed alongside your CC 2014 versions. If you’re like me and have already uninstalled your earlier versions of the Adobe software, there is still hope. From the Creative Cloud panel, you can install CC 2014, CC, and CS6 versions of the software, so simply reinstall an older version of the program you need.

Under the Apps tab, scroll down to the Find New Apps section and change ‘All Apps’ to ‘Previous Version.’

All Apps Dropdown

Click the Install button next to the desired software and you will see a dropdown giving you the option to install CS6, CC, or CC 2014. Select the option you want, and once the software is installed you should be back in business.

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LK Designer by Day…Illustrator by Night

I joined the Design Team at Learnkey in 2009, and in doing so, I like to feel that I brought a new and unique approach the team. You see, although I work as a Designer that would be a secondary definition to my artistic strengths. I am primarily an Illustrator, and even more specifically a Comic-book Illustrator.

Comic books, graphic novels, comic strips, and the like are some of the best ways to tell a story in my opinion. Comics go beyond words on a page, and in some respects go beyond some of the limitations of film-making. It is a unique and treasured storytelling medium to me and to many others! I have illustrated many small comic books as personal projects, and have been commissioned to do illustrations for clients. You can check out samples of those works here at my personal website.

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Web Browsing Tips – Tab Groups

Personally, I usually use Chrome for the majority of my web browsing. Being LearnKey’s webmaster though, I need to at least have a copy of the major browsers around to test things, and I recently installed an update to Firefox 5. Our graphic designer Kari pointed out a pretty cool and useful feature Firefox recently added to their updates – Tab Groups.

Say you’re working on a few different projects at once, and you don’t want to mix up the different tabs you have open between projects. You could open a new browser window and separate them that way, but Firefox’s Tab Groups feature lets you keep it all in one window, and switch between groups easily. It’s fairly similar to the Spaces feature in Mac OS X.

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Web Browsing Tips – Disable Compatibility View

When you work with websites for a living, you tend to pick up on the different quirks of all the web browsers. You know which ones have trouble with spacing, or which ones work better with certain Flash objects, and so on. For most people who don’t live their lives inside a web browser, it can be confusing – and that’s why we’re here to help!

Internet Explorer 8 and 9: “Compatibility View”

At first glance, you may see Compatibility View and feel the need to turn it on, or else your web experience might be glitchy and broken. That may have possibly been the case when IE8 was first released, but these days it does the exact opposite. To understand what I mean, there’s a few things about Internet Explorer you need to know.

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Learn “Little Known Windows 7 Shortcuts” with Expert Tom Carpenter

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Here at LearnKey, when we say the people who present our training courses are experts, we mean exactly that. We don’t find some random guy on the street who can read from a cue card, we find people who really know their stuff and are considered experts in their various fields. When they provide us with tips, we listen!

Tom Carpenter has been an expert for LearnKey in a variety of different courses, and since he also has his own blog with tidbits of information, we thought we’d showcase some tips from the source himself. In his post Little Known Windows 7 Shortcuts, he showcases…well, little known Windows 7 shortcuts. These tips will make using Windows 7 much faster and more efficient. Plus you can show off to your co-workers and look like you are a Windows 7 expert yourself! Check out his blog and enjoy!