Table of Contents
Accessing Adobe Premiere #
- Create a free Adobe account at adobe.com
- Open Adobe Premiere on any computer in the HCC
- Log in with your free Adobe account credentials
Creating a Project #
- Open Adobe Premiere
- Click “New Project”
- Name the project
- Select media if you have it ready
- Click “Create”
The Video Editing Workspace #
- Source
- For playing back individual clips – you can close it
- Program
- For playing back your entire project
- Add “Toggle VR Video Display” button
- Project
- Media files you can drop into your project
- Download the sample file and add it to your project
- Timeline
- The place to rearrange media, trim clips, add audio, etc.
- Add the sample clip to your timeline twice and practice trimming and rearranging
- Use the text tool to add text to your video
Exporting Your Video #
- Click File > Export > Media
- Name your file
- Preset – Match Source is fine, but you can specify 1080p or 720p if you prefer
- Click Export
Sharing Your Video on YouTube #
- If you don’t have a an account, you can follow these step-by-step instructions to set up a YouTube account
- To upload, click your profile icon and “YouTube Studio,” then the “Upload Videos” button
- Select your video and start the upload
- Set the visibility
- Do not select “Private.” This means it is only viewable by you when logged into your YouTube account.
- Select “Unlisted” if you want your video to be available to people with whom you share the link, but not to appear in Google searches
- Select “Public” if you want the video to appear in Google searches
- YouTube should automatically recognize your video as 360 degree footage and treat it accordingly
Making Your Video Accessible #
- If anyone speaks in your video, it should be captioned. YouTube auto-captions are a great start, but they always need a little clean-up
- In YouTube Studio, select “Subtitles” and click your video
- Find the English (automatic captions) subtitles and click “Duplicate and Edit”
- Review and edit the automatic captions as needed. Click “Publish” when you are done.