If you want to edit videos, you don’t necessarily need a powerful PC anymore. You can also go a long way with smartphone apps. For this article, we’re looking at Adobe Premiere Rush, which is free to download for Android and iOS. Mounting videos on a smartphone is easy with this app.
With the Adobe Premiere Rush app, you can put together the most beautiful videos in an instant, which you can then share on social media. You can simply mount that on your smartphone or tablet. As mentioned, Premiere Rush is free, but a paid subscription is required for a number of functions. You can recognize them by an asterisk.
As soon as the app starts, you will be asked to create an (also free) Adobe ID. This can easily be done from the app. An alternative is to log in with, for example, a Google or Facebook account.
You may already have an Adobe account, so it makes more sense to sign in with it. You use exactly the same Adobe ID for all Adobe apps such as Photoshop Express and Lightroom. Even if you have Adobe programs on your PC or Mac, you may already have an account.
Adobe Premiere Rush cannot be installed on any phone or tablet just like that. Here you will find a list of supported devices.
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You can get started by clicking on the home screen of Premiere Rush Create new project or the plus sign at the bottom of the screen. Choose Add media, afterwards Videos and choose one or more movies. Enter at the bottom Project name immediately give a name to this project and click on To make. Your videos are now being loaded.
At the top of the screen you will then see a preview with which you can view the editing via the row of play buttons directly below. The so-called timeline is located in the lower part of the screen. This is the place where you put your film together. All individual videos that you have just indicated have already been placed in sequence here.
Now the goal is to trim all the loose movie clips, leaving you with a movie with only the very best footage. To do this more accurately, zoom in by placing two fingers on the timeline and moving them (horizontally) apart. Then tap a clip so that an orange lever appears at the beginning and end.
Press and drag your finger on the front lever to find the correct starting point, then do the same with the rear lever to set the end point. You do this with every clip on the timeline. If you change your mind later, the orange levers can also be slid back. So you have not lost the footage permanently.
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Divide
Also in the middle of clips there are often pieces that we would rather lose. For example, because nothing interesting happens for a while. You can do this by cutting the clip into pieces, after which you throw away the boring part. Dividing it into multiple clips is also ideal for moving part of a clip to another place in the timeline, or to give just that part a special effect.
First, find the place where you want to split the clip in two, or where the footage you want to extract begins.
You do this by dragging the playhead (blue vertical line) with your finger across the timeline. Found the right place? Tap the scissors icon that appears when you swipe left on the toolbar at the bottom. This will cut the clip in half at the current position.
Now you have two loose clips. Only if you want to delete a piece of material that starts at this point, then find the point where it ends and split the clip again. After which you tap on the middle part to select this and delete with the trash can in the work bin.
You can also remove complete clips that you don’t want to use afterwards from the timeline. To move a clip to a different position on the timeline, touch and hold it until a narrow orange frame appears around the clip, then drag it to the new position. The video is automatically inserted exactly between two clips, or placed neatly at the back or at the front.
Adjust transition effects and speed
Now it is time to add transitions. By default, one clip turns into the next clip abruptly. That’s fine in itself and is often used in movies, but you can also add a transition effect by selecting a clip from the toolbar at Effects and choosing an effect. You can also give one side of a clip a transition effect. In that case, drag the effect from the toolbar on top of that side of the clip.
You can set the duration of a transition effect via the slider that appears as soon as you click in the toolbar Expensive ticks. Or tap the transition itself in the timeline and drag the little orange handles. If necessary, zoom in to get a better view of these levers. The start and end levers and these smaller transition levers can be operated separately.
What always gives a nice effect is to adjust the speed of a clip. This way you can significantly increase the playback speed of a long fragment. For example, part of a walk, bike ride, or car ride. Choose a clip in the timeline and tap Speed in the toolbar. Tap on Speed ​​in range (Speed ​​range at Apple) and use the slider to indicate the acceleration – up to a whopping 1000 percent.
You use slowing down to emphasize something, for example because an action would otherwise go too fast to follow properly. You don’t have to split the clip into fragments to speed up or slow down a section. Move at Range (after you hit Speed just tapped the blue levers of the slider.
You can also move the blue range handles in the timeline. Not sure what speed is needed to speed up a two-minute clip to a 10-second clip? Then adjust Clip duration the duration, so you leave the difficult calculations to Premiere Rush.
Working with layers
A very nice option is to play two videos at the same time, or show a photo on top of a video. This is very easy by dragging a video or photo from the timeline on top of another copy. This will create a second video track. The top image material covers all lower video tracks.
So tap the top movie or photo to select it and choose Transform in the toolbar. Tap on Scale width (Width at Apple) and use the slider to shrink the view. Then you slide it through H position and V position (Horizontal position and Vertical position at Apple) in the desired location.
Now you have made a so-called ‘picture in picture’. This is useful, for example, to show photos that you have taken in the same place, or to simultaneously show a video that was taken from a different point of view or by someone else.
Add audio
To add nice music or sound effects, tap the blue plus sign on the left of the toolbar. Choose Audio to make a choice from the range of the app itself. Or choose Media, Audio to use music or sounds from your phone.
If you share the film (online) with others, always use royalty-free music. In that case, it is usually sufficient to indicate the source.
Add titles and texts
Finally, to add titles or comments to your movie, tap in the toolbar Pictures, Add picture, Titles, Lake, choose a nice layout and finally tap Add. You can set the font, size and color using the toolbar.
Don’t see these options? Then tap again Pictures. Tap the preview so that a blue box appears to drag or resize the title (or use the previously mentioned option here Transform in front of). Tap on the title itself to enter your own text.
Once your movie editing is complete, tap the share icon, change if necessary Quality settings the resolution and tap Export. Now the final movie is generated and saved on your phone. You can also share the result directly from the app on social media.
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