Transforming Raw Footage into a Polished Showreel with Taylor Gray

Taylor Gray guides you through the process of transforming raw footage into a polished showreel using Adobe Premiere Pro. Drawing from his recent trip to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, Taylor demonstrates how to select clips, organize them in a timeline, and craft a cohesive narrative. This session covers essential video editing techniques, including enhancing voiceover audio with the Essential Sounds panel, color correcting and grading with Lumetri Color, matching cuts to music, and more.

Taylor Gray is a photographer and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area https://taylorgrayvisuals.com/
Jacob Phillips is a videographer and editor based in California: https://jacobphillips.media/

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00:00 Start
00:45 Taylor’s introduction, footage for today’s stream
03:44 Picking selects from footage
08:06 Intro hyperlapse, script overview
09:12 Choosing music as a starting point
12:00 Previewing footage with voiceover
14:17 Adding a speed ramp to intro using time remapping
19:25 Adding warp stabilizer to nested clip to allow us to add the speed ramp
22:02 Adding keyframes for speed ramp
24:01 Adjusting easing on keyframes
27:13 Done is better than perfect
29:02 Voiceover walkthrough
31:58 Another speed ramp, frame blending
34:49 Music transition to extend length, constant power tool
39:12 Choosing the audio for the right clip, adding sound effects
40:51 Essential sound panel, voiceover edits using preset
43:18 Hard limiter, what it is and how to use it
45:58 Audio before and after adding different presets from essential sound
51:43 Identifying clip as voiceover to use enhance speech, before and after
55:57 Chat Q&A how Taylor chooses selects
57:04 Reintroducing Taylor, continuing showcasing selects process
1:01:08 Walking through color correcting footage using adjustment layers, edits in lumetri color panel
1:05:21 Adjusting contrast, adding storytelling to footage while shooting
1:08:23 Comparing adjusting contrast and saturation instead of adding LUT, to adding a LUT
1:11:30 Chat Q&A which lens would Taylor use if he could only use one
1:12:50 local adjustment on dark and green footage, adjusting foreground, adjusting background sky with mask
1:17:37 before and after color corrected footage
1:18:38 Color correcting last clip
1:21:37 Playback final edit
1:24:25 Outro