In the editing process of my final project for the VR Storytelling class, I found that I didn't know as much about Adobe Premiere as I thought I did... for starters, I didn't realize that 360° videos could be edited in Premiere. This lead me to a Lynda course on learning about the basics of Premiere.

The first important thing that I learned about Premiere comes with exporting. When we originally tried to export our final video, we exported it in .mov not realizing that there would be an issue if the video was exported in a different format. After looking up the proper formatting on the style guide for the class, this course taught me the differences in all of the different export forms and why .mp4 was the best for uploading to Youtube.

Another very important thing that I learned from this course was how to get rid of the black bars that are placed on the top and bottom of the exported video. While these bars have never even been a concern for my previous use of Adobe Premiere, they proved to cause huge issues in editing 360° videos because they wrapped around to create what I like to call " terrifying black holes of death" at the top and bottom of the video. These black bars proved to be what prevented the "flawless" appearance of stitching the camera footage together. I first realized that this was caused by exporting in Premiere as it did not happen with my first 360° video assignment as we didn't edit together multiple scenes. Getting rid of these bars greatly improved the over all look of the final product.