Hey everyone. We are now in the latter stages of our video project we've put down our clips, we've applied our story, we've told our story using the video clips and some music. And in this video, we're going to apply what we call the finishing touches to this project, so we're going to do things like keyframe, or resize our 4k footage because this is an HD project, we're going to deal with applying logos adjustment layers and some effects. So right out of the gate here we're looking at a palm tree in 4k, and it looks a little bit cropped in so in the timeline, you can right click and you can select Set to frame size Sometimes that will zoom out or scale out the video clips so that it fills the entire frame. But here you can see some borders at the top and bottom that are not covered.

So we're going to go over to Effect Controls. And we're just going to increase the scale a little bit just to cover that up. Now because we're using 4k footage in an HD project, we have the ability to what we do what we call a keyframe zoom, so it can zoom in slowly or fast while the video is playing. So that's a advanced technique that's covered in another video. But that's available to you when you use 4k footage in an HD project. Okay, so when I'm ready to publish video to YouTube, I like to protect it.

And I have a company logo that I've already imported into Adobe Premiere. And what I'm going to do is look for that in the media browser and then drag that to one of the higher video tracks so that it applies to everything. And then if we move the needle over to where the logo is, we can get a preview in the monitor. Have what that looks like. Okay, so it's right in the middle. It's got 100% opacity, and it's probably going to irritate the users.

So to deal with that, first I'm just going to adjust the duration of the clips. So that it covers the entire video project, because I want the logo to display during the entire video. And then I'm going to adjust the opacity so that it's not. Yeah, so it's a bit less visible. So the lower the opacity, the less visible that it is. And I can adjust the scaling and the effect control as well just to make it a bit smaller.

And the final touch is to just click the motion area, so we get the frame handles so we can move the logo wherever we want in the frame, and I like to place it in the corner so it's there but it's not right smack front of the video. Okay, I'm just going to click and place it in the top left corner. And it's a good idea just to play it back and see what the logo looks like with some of your different video clips because they have different colors and they might be that more visible with certain colors. And then after you do that, just make sure the logo applies over your entire video project. Okay, our next technique is to apply what we call an adjustment layer. So we can do that by going to File New Adjustment Layer.

And we can select the width and height so it's full HD, and the frame rate over there so this is all good. And the reason why we want an adjustment layer is because we want to apply a little bit of saturation to the entire video project. As you can see, there's a lot of clips that are cut up in the timeline and to apply some saturation evenly to the entire video would take a lot of work. So with the adjustment layer, we're expanding the duration so covers entire project it's on the higher video track the five was covering all the video that we wanted to apply to. And I've just hit tilde it to expand the timeline so it's a bit easier to work with. So that's all set up and later on, we're going to be applying some saturation to that adjustment layer.

Right now I want to look at fading out this portion there because the video ends very abruptly and then it just goes to a black background. So we can head over to our effects. And what I'm looking for is a video transition. I'm just gonna look in the search bar is called dip to block. There's a lot of effects in Adobe Premiere. So sometimes that search bar comes in handy.

Actually, it's a video transition, and it's under dissolved. So I'm just going to drag that dip to black transition over to the end portion of the last clip, just so the video ends a little bit smoother. And I could even expand, zoom or zoom in and just drag the handle of that effect or that transition, just to adjust it and make it hang a little bit longer. So I'm just playing your back just to see what that transition did, how it's gonna look and good idea just to save your project after you make a lot of changes. Okay, so I'm about to apply Some saturation to the entire project. So I just want to place my playhead needle in the timeline over a clip that would be a good example.

So a good example is a clip that looks a bit flat. This one has a bit color, but this clip right here does look like you could use a bit of how this palm tree seen also looks a bit flat. Okay, so now we're going to go over to the panel that allows us to adjust the color. So what this panel is called is the lumetri you can go over to the essential graphics or lumetri color workspace. And in the lumetri color workspace, we can highlight the adjustment layer. And we have a number of options here.

So what we want to do is just increased the saturation. And you can see that it's already making quite a dramatic difference to those palm trees making it a lot more colorful. You can make any of these color adjustments and remember they're applying to the entire project. You can press reset if you want to start again. So we're gonna settle on something that's not as dramatic saturation at 140 1.5 not a bad idea just to play back the In your project to see what the video clips look like, and then fine tune your saturation value based on what looks good for all the clips. So this is a good idea to time save.

Okay, now we're going to look at a different area. So if we go over to the panel, we're going to build lumetri scopes to look at our exposure. How bright is our video clips are they overexpose and within the the lumetri scopes we can display our Luma waveform RGB parade. This is a little bit more advanced. these are these are areas that color graders typically spend time in and as a stock Footage videographer when I'm counting stock footage clips, I do look at things like the exposure, the highlights the shadows and mid tones. But basically what we're trying to do here is keep the highlights those are the top portion of the waveform under 100.

So usually that involves adjusting the highlights. And if we want to adjust the shadows, that's at the bottom, we want to make sure that the waveform is above zero. And so we can adjust the shadows to do that, and we can also play with the mid tones. So basically our goals keep the waveform between zero and 100 and keep it balanced. So for stock footage we're normally dealing with single clip but for a video project like this, where you have so many different clips that are shot in different lighting conditions. This can be a bit cumbersome.

So unless a clip in your video project is highly under overexpose, you probably don't want to apply an adjustment layer where you're adjusting the exposure for the entire project. It's up to you depending on how much time that you have, but this is a lot easier to do for a single clip. So there are different areas in lumetri color where you can make color adjustments that are a bit more advanced. But we're gonna hop over into the creative area in a second. The color wheels is another area you can adjust the highlights, mid tones and the shadows as well as the colors. And some of this is just personal preference how you'd like to color it.

For any Final Cut Pro X users, the color wheels and the waveforms are new ways of coloring your project. Personally, I prefer to stick to basic correction and the creative area. So in the creative area, we have the ability to use lookup tables. So lookup tables are like Instagram filters, they're color presets. And with the playhead needle over clip, we can click those arrows to the side to preview what some of these look up tables or lots look like. So I'm just going to scroll through some of the looks over here.

And if there's one that you like, you can double click on that little screen to apply it and because we have the adjustment It's gonna apply to the entire project. So I'm just gonna preview which one looks best in my opinion. There's a lot of them. Okay, I'm going to settle on this Fuji 125 by codec, and you can see that it's applied to the clip in the monitor. So it is a little tense does make the shadows more noticeable. So you have the ability to adjust the intensity of this lookup table.

If it's a bit too much, you can just dial that back down so that's a good option for you. Also good idea to just play back your video but to say See what exactly that lookup table did to the other video clips because they're shot in different lighting conditions. So I'm going to dial back the intensity just a bit, so it's not as intense. So there's a lot of options that you've been given here to polish up your project. You can apply different effects, you can use titles, you can use an adjustment layer to give a little bit of saturation or in a different basic color correction. Or you can even add on a lookup table on top of that, to give your video a custom look so it's not so generic.

So our next step, now that we've polished up our project is to export a video project to the Adobe encoder and then We're going to publish our video over to YouTube. So stick around