Music Video Production for Beginners: From Script to Screen
Editing Your Footage 1
A course by David J East , Director and Photographer
About the video: Editing Your Footage 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you the basics of using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit your footage together. These basic editing principles will still help you if you choose to use an alternative editing program. ”
In this video lesson David J East addresses the topic: Editing Your Footage 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Video Production for Beginners: From Script to Screen. Discover how to create a high-end music video on a budget and learn the basics of editing on Adobe Premiere for professional-looking results.
Partial transcription of the video
“Editing Your Footage We'll go through some basic steps for the post-production of your video, as well as promoting your work online. Now we'll see the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro to edit your footage together. These editing principles will still help you if you use another editing programme. Let's take a look at importing our footage. We're gonna start a new project on the top left, and we're gonna call it "I Need A Friend", by Mark, and I'm gonna click OK. We wanna start a new timeline, a new sequence. We go Sequence. That little button is to start new sequences or adjustment layers, we'l...”
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Course summary for: Music Video Production for Beginners: From Script to Screen
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere -
Areas
Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Music, Music Production, Storytelling, Video, Video Editing

David J East
A course by David J East
David J East is a British director and photographer raised in South Africa. After studying cinematography in Cape Town, he went on to pursue his career in directing short films, music videos, and commercials throughout Europe and the US. The aim of his work is to convey the visual language of a story, song, or product.
Throughout his career, he has filmed commercials for Mercedes, Jaguar, Cristiano Ronaldo’s CR7 Denim clothing line, Bose, and Guinness. David directed music videos for Foals, Melanie C, Charlotte OC, Gengahr, The Japanese House, Jelani Blackman, Sam Sure, and Thor Rixon. He has also directed his own short films like Down Days and Exert.
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