[0:00]These viral minimal edits have been blowing up all over Instagram. Clean design, simple shapes and minimal graphics. And although they look super complex, they're actually super beginner friendly. What if I told you that you can create viral edits like these using only Premiere Pro? In this video, I'm going to teach you everything about this white, minimal and abstract editing style. First, we'll break it down to the effects to understand how everything is created. Then, we'll set up our inspiration board, a guide that will help us create this editing style. And finally, using everything we've learned, we'll create this stunning viral minimal white edit all inside of Premiere Pro step by step. And we're going to do all of that in just the next 20 minutes. And if you're a beginner editor who wants to learn how to edit and get paid $1,000 per month to edit other people's videos, click the link down below and watch this video over here. This is the complete guide to creating viral minimal edits inside of Premiere Pro. Let's dive right in. In order to understand how this viral style is made and make it ourselves, first, we need to know what this style looks like. So let's take a deeper look at this editing style. After collecting a bunch of animations in this editing style, what common things can we see? First up, the elephant in the room is the white background. This is a staple across this editing style. And interestingly, another common pattern we can see is that the scene takes on either a white or a gray color, except the main object, which is usually found in the center. Which means if you just make sure that your background is white and that your main object is in the center and has some color, and your secondary text is somewhere around it and is colored gray, you pretty much nail the style down. To better understand this, let's take a look at a few different scenes from this editing style. First is the character animations. They typically have a character in the middle with some shape or text behind. Second is the object center of focus, where there is an object in the middle and text or elements around it. Third is the interactive object and text. This is where the object takes half of the scene and the other half is taken up by some stylized text. Fourth are graphics and shapes. These are scenes mainly made up of graphic or shapes with colors. Fifth is our minimal shapes and icons, where the center of the scene is a minimal icon interacting with some kind of text. And lastly, sixth is our text-centric animations, where the text is the center with some elements off to the edges. But let's not make this too overwhelming. We understand the elements that can make up this editing style, so let's structure them into a guide that we can follow in order to create this editing style. We call this process gathering inspiration or creating an inspiration board. It is a board filled with animations from this editing style that will give you creativity and essentially allow you to copy this editing style. To do this, first, we need to find a bunch of reels all edited in this style. Then, we need to collect a bunch of their animations as inspiration onto this board. So first, we boot up Figma and open up a white board. Then, I'm going to need to find some reels edited in this style. I found these four creators: Aurelian Visuals, Aurelian VFX, 3WDD effects, and Yevor QQ. Then, I watched through all of the edits they made and collected every single animation as a screenshot on Figma. And after doing that for around 30 minutes, you'll end up with this. A big mass of animations. So let's organize them. Our first category is the character animations. So we add a text for that. And then we place all of the animations with a character in here. Now I added the text for every animation category we have: object center of focus, object interactive with text, graphics and shapes, minimal icons, and text-centric. Then, I simply organized every animation under the title it belongs to. And after doing this, we end up with examples of every kind of animation in this style. So now comes the real question: We understand the fundamentals of the editing style, and we've built an inspiration board. So now, how do we use both of these to create this editing style? The concept is really straightforward. We simply want to take a look at the script of the video that we are editing and ask ourselves what kind of animation would fit in here. And in order to teach you guys how I did this, before we create the animations, I'll take a minute to walk you guys through why I chose to create this animation, how I planned it, and what it's even made up of. And I'm going to be doing this to every animation we're going to create. So what are we waiting for? Let's bring our footage into Premiere Pro and start talking about how we can create this editing style. But real quick, before we dive in, are you a beginner editor watching this? Because a lot of beginner editors feel like learning video editing is such a huge mountain to climb. There's just so much to learn, and they don't even know where to start. And you might be feeling overwhelmed by just how much there is to learn or simply confused not knowing where to start learning video editing. And I totally understand that. So I actually made a video for you showing you how beginner editors can learn to edit videos like these and get paid $1,000 per month to edit other people's videos within three to four months. If this sounds like it would be useful to you, the video's going to be linked down below on our website. But with this out of the way, let's get into creating this editing style. The first step of editing any video is cutting out the silences and creating some subtitles. So let's go ahead and do that. First, we're dragging our footage into our timeline in Premiere Pro. To create my cuts, I'll zoom into here, select my razor tool, and make a cut right after I stop speaking. Make a cut before I start speaking again and isolate the silence. Click delete and bring my clip back, and we're going to do this to the rest of the short in order to remove all silences. Now these cuts are good, but I prefer using J cuts. J cuts are a type of cut where the audio begins before the video making the transition between clip A and clip B much smoother. To do this, just hold down alt, drag your video back and overlap the clips like so. This creates a J-cut. Now do this to the rest of the timeline, and there we go. Cutting is done. Now it's time to create our subtitles so that we can use them in the edit. First, start by clicking on window and opening your text panel. If you don't understand how generating subtitles works in Premiere Pro, it's really simple. Watch this. First, we click on transcribe. This is going to turn the audio into a script. Then, we select the captions tab and click on create captions. This is going to turn our script into subtitles. Now for the settings, I want one-worded subtitles, so I'm going to drop my characters all the way, set the time to two seconds and set this to single. Now, these are our subtitle layers. However, they don't look good. So let's make a text style. Open up your properties panel, select one layer, and first we're going to increase its size using the slider. Then, we're going to click on the center zone and drop its Y value a little to place it like so. As you know, our short is split into thirds. In short-form content, the upper third is where our eyes are, and the lower third is where our subtitles are. But the next step is adding fonts to our text. When it comes to fonts, I usually want to have two, one basic modern font for subtitles and one special font for special text. The fonts I'm using are the Birch font for the special text and the Coolvetica font for our regular text. And since this is my basic subtitles, I'm going to switch my font over to the Coolvetica. And if I like the way it looks, I'm going to click on this plus sign, create a text style, which will apply this text style to the entire timeline. Now I'm going to select all of my text, go into graphics and titles and click on upgrade graphics to captions. This turns our yellow layers into pink caption layers, and these are just way easier to work with. And with that done, we have completed the cuts, generated subtitles, and created a text style that we can reuse throughout the entire video. Which brings us to our first step of creating this editing style: creating the hook animation. Let's go ahead and break this down. This two-second hook text animation is the easiest thing to create. First, we have our text laid out, and each text has a pop-in animation with a blur at the beginning. So first, we're going to create the text pop-up animation and then we're going to lay out our text. And then in the second half, we have just the word confusing pop-up with a glitch fade in, and then two question marks also pop up with it. And of course, everything is topped off with a nice zoom in, and this effect makes our background darker and more blurry. This is going to be really easy to create, so let's go ahead and make it. First, I want to create my pop-up blur text animation. So, to do this, first, we add the transform effect to one of our texts. And to create our pop-up, keyframe our current position, move it to the middle, then move back and start it slightly lower. Then to make it snappy, click on this arrow and drag this back to get this slider, which makes it more snappy. To make it then blur in, we're going to add in a Gaussian blur, keyframe it at zero, and move that to the end of the animation and start it at 15. Finally, to have it fade in, we're going to keyframe the opacity at 100, move that to the end of the animation, and start it at 50. And just like that, we have a pop-in blur-in animation. Now, if you're wondering how we apply this to the rest of the text, we simply select all of our effects, click on save as preset and make sure to have it anchored to the endpoint. Then, just search for it in the effects panel and drag it onto any text. Perfect. Our text is animated and now needs to be placed in a nice layout. First, we're going to stack all of these layers like this and extend them so that they all appear on top of each other. Then, to place it nicely, just select your cursor tool and drag your text like this around the screen. I'll place the word 'this' up here, then the word 'age' under it. Then, I go into the scale of the word 'age' and make it bigger. Then place the word 'is' over here. Then place the word 'getting' over here and scale it like this. Then place the word 'quite' over here, and just like that, we get the simple animation. And finally, for the second part of this animation, start by scaling the word 'confusing' up and placing it like so. Now, to create my pop-in glitch, I start with a transform effect and create a pop-in by keyframing the current position, moving back and starting it lower and making it snappy. Then, to make that glitch effect, keyframe the opacity, move forward, increase it, move forward and decrease it, and keep varying just like this until you get to the end of the animation, where you end it with a 100% opacity.
[8:58]And this is going to give you a simple glitch fade-in just like so. Perfect. Let's add the zoom in and the blur on the edges before we work on the question marks. To blur in the edges, right-click and add an adjustment layer, then simply add it under your text layer. Then, we're going to add the brightness and contrast effect and make our scene darker. Then, we're going to add the camera blur and make it more blurry. Now, to mask it to the edges only, use the circle opacity mask, scale it up like this, then invert the mask and increase the feather like this. Perfect. To top this off with a simple zoom, select your raw footage, keyframe the scale, move to the end and bring it up to 120. Click on your arrow and smoothen out your animation just like this. All right, last thing for the intro, let's add the question marks. This is going to be easy. Duplicate your confusing layer by holding down alt and dragging the layer up. Use your text tool to replace the text with a question mark. And in our vector motion, add some rotation and place it here. Then, just start the layer after the first text pops up. Now, duplicate this layer again, start it later, scale it up and bring it down here, and there we go. The final piece is going to be coloring both of these, which is going to take just two seconds. First, add a four-color gradient. Select your effect and bring your gradient points down to here. Set two of them to black and two to a lighter color. And place the blacks like this on the edge of your number and set the blending mode to screen. Setting the blending mode to screen means only the lighter values are going to show through and the darker values won't. We're going to do the same thing to our other text over here, and there we go. This completes our intro hook animation, which ended up looking like this. This age is getting quite confusing. 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Our students joined as complete beginners and end up landing real clients within just a few months. So if you want to make $1,000 to $2,000 per month editing videos, click the first link down below and watch this video we made on our website. But with all this being said, let's get back to the video. Our first animation is this amazing fast picture section with a simple text and circle pop-up. The first section is made up of our white background, which can be created with a solid and a four-color gradient. A red colored square, which can be created with a shape and a four-color gradient to color it. Then, multiple pictures of influencers that flash through quickly, which are just pictures without backgrounds, they are desaturated and placed in a quick sequence. And our second scene is made up of three texts placed like so. We can simply reuse the text we made in the intro with a red circle that scales in, which we can create with a shape and a four-color gradient. So with all this being said, let's go ahead and make this in Premiere Pro. This is a section we are working with. And the first thing we need to work on is our background. First, I right-click and add a color matte layer, which is a layer with just a flat color. I drag it into here, and to color this, I add a four-color gradient, set one of the colors to white, then make them all white, and to make a nice background, we simply set color two to a gray and color three to a gray. I also want to add these shadows that make these backgrounds look really realistic. These are actually called shadow overlays. I head over to Google, find a good shadow overlay like this one, download it and place it on top of my background, and set the blending mode to multiply. Finally, to make this background look better, I'm adding a paper texture. Head over to Google and find a paper texture overlay. Bring it into Premiere Pro, scale it up, and there we go. And with a white background, a shadow overlay and a paper texture, we end up with this amazing background. Now let's go ahead and get all of those characters so that we can work on our scene. We're going to need a bunch of pictures of a bunch of influencers. So, I searched up Justin Bieber, Iman Gadzhi, Alex Hormozi, Logan Paul, and Ashton Hall. And believe it or not, I ran out of influencers to search up for. Now let's find a picture of the influencer that's pretty high quality. And then, we want to get rid of the background. So bring the image over to AI background remover and let it do the job for you. I did this with the rest of the images until we had five pictures of influencers with no backgrounds. Now, back in Premiere Pro, I wanted to make my red square. So I select my square mask, and holding down shift, I draw a square. Then, I add the four-color gradient to it, place the points on the edges, and use dark red and black as my colors. Now, let's go ahead and bring in all the influencers. I drag all my images in. So starting with Ashton Hall, I add a Lumetri Color effect, go into the creative tab, and drop the saturation. Then I add a drop shadow, increase the softness and opacity to get this. Now let's bring in our next influencer. I'll scale him up until he fits flush with the square. Then copy and paste the saturation and drop shadow effects on this image. Now, just do this to the rest of the images, bringing them in, scaling them correctly, and copying and pasting the effects. Now to create our quick camera sequence, I cut all the images like this and placed them next to each other. I noticed that these cuts were too slow, so I brought them really close, and now that looks good. So I selected them, and holding alt, I drag to duplicate, and keep doing this until they fill up the section here. And with that done, the last part of this section is these two texts in the bottom over here. So I'll bring in some of these subtitles we made earlier, and write out the word 'economy'. Then, let's place it like so. To color it, I apply the four-color gradient from the square and place it on just like this. I also chose to set it to the heavy condensed font type to make it look special and scale it accordingly. And for animations, I just applied our animation preset, which we made earlier in the intro. Now for the description, we just duplicate the text, write out the phrase 'built on influencers'. Use a regular font type and scale it down like so and just place it here. And there we go. The first part of our animation is done. To transition into the next segment, we want this part to move to the top and for our next animation to come in from the bottom. So we're going to select all of these layers except the background, and nest them. Then, we add a transform effect to them. Keyframe the position, move forward, and bring them up to the top like so. Start this animation slow and make sure it ends fast to get this smooth to top animation. Now for our next section, this is going to be easy. Let's start with the text. First, let's bring our text up to the top here. Then write the word 'they', set the color to gray, and duplicate the layer two more times. Write the word 'are' on one of them, and write the word 'everywhere' on one of them. Now, set the font of the word 'everywhere' to Birch font, and scale it up and place it like so. Then place the word 'they' over here and the word 'are' over here. Finally, to make this look 10 times nicer, add the four-color gradient to the word 'they'. Make all the colors dark but make one of them white. Place the dark up top and the white in the bottom corner here. And now just copy this effect on the other text and place it like so. Don't forget to drag on our minimal text pop-up preset, which we made earlier. And finally, of course, for the circle, we simply select our ellipse tool. Holding down shift, we draw an ellipse over here, and then place it under our text layers. Copy and paste the four-color gradient from the square we made earlier, and scale it down a little. To create our scale-in animation, just keyframe the current scale, move all the way back, and start it at zero. Make sure this is moved out the animation just like this. Now, let's nest this last section. Keyframe the position in the middle of the screen, place it here, then move back and start it lower on the screen and smoothen it out just like this so that it comes in while this one pops out. And ladies and gentlemen, there we go. This is how you create this beautiful animation inside of Premiere Pro. And real quick, before we keep going, if you found any of what we've covered hard to follow, then you definitely need a bit more practice in Premiere Pro before diving into the editing styles. So let me hook you up with some free courses to get you started. You see, learning Premiere Pro as a complete beginner is very difficult with just YouTube. That's why in Ultimate Editors, we've created the step-by-step complete Premiere Pro masterclass. And today, you're going to get access to five free courses from this module. If you're new to video editing and want to see how much easier it is to learn with step-by-step guided courses, click the link down below and get access to our five free Premiere Pro masterclasses. And with all this being said, let's get back to the video. With our first animation and the hook animation complete, let's dive into our second animation. This eyeball depth of field with a beautiful zoom in. Let's break it down. In this first scene, we see the same white background as before with the shadow overlay. Then there's the eyeball pop-up, an image of an eyeball with a scale pop-up animation. Then one pops in the top left and one in the bottom right. Both have a heavy blur, probably using the Gaussian blur effect to make it look like a depth of field. Then there are four lines that draw out the back. The line is a shape drawn out of the animation and can be made using the linear wipe effect. Then the camera cuts into the scene. This is achieved with an adjustment layer that animates in with a blur, and we've got two text pop-ups, just like the one we made before. All right, this all seems really, really simple. So let's go ahead and make it. This is the section where our second animation will take place. Let's first work on the background. First, we're going to need a white background. So select the white color and the paper texture, hold down alt, and bring them over to here. For this animation, we want a square grid on the background, too. So we head into Google and search for a square grid overlay. Get one like this one here and bring it into Premiere Pro, rotate and place it like so. We want to fade it out, so add a circle mask, shape it like so, and increase the feather to get smooth edges. All right, let's start working on the eye animation. In Google, let's search up for a 3D picture of an eyeball. Grab one that's facing any direction. Bring it into the AI background remover to remove the background. Then, grab a high quality one that's facing the viewer and also remove its background. Now, bring our main eyeball into the scene and place it like so. Let's stylize it with a drop shadow effect, increasing the softness and opacity to get this. And add your second eyeball, copy and paste the same shadow, and scale it down and place it here in the top left. Hold down alt to duplicate it and place it down here in the bottom right, facing the top. To create the depth of field effect, add a Gaussian blur to the eyeball and increase it to 15 on the top left one. Then paste it on the bottom one and make it 30 since it's closer to the camera. This scene looks amazing. So let's go ahead and add some animations to it. For the main eyeball, I keyframe the scale and rotation here. Move back and start my scale at zero to have it scale in, and start it with a 25-degree rotation. Make these fast in the beginning and slow towards the middle. You'll get the scale-in and rotate animation. For our eyeball in the top left, keyframe the position, move back and start it off-screen to the left, and also smoothen this animation as well. And for the bottom eyeball, create a pop-up from the bottom of the screen as well and make it smooth. Perfect. Now all three eyeballs pop in. To finish this scene off, we have the four lines that draw out. To do these, just go ahead and select your pen tool. Click where the center is, zoom out a little and create a curved line like so. In the properties, remove the fill and add a stroke. Make the stroke a little thicker, and there we go. Now to create the animation, honestly, I should have just used the linear wipe effect, but I decided to make it in the harder method. So go ahead and nest the line, add a square mask, keyframe it here at the beginning, move forward, and make it draw out like so. And increase the feather. Once you're happy with it, duplicate the animation three more times, and rotate each duplicate to a separate corner like so. All right, now we have an eye pop-up with the lines that draw out. We're almost done. Let's download an image of a barcode, bring it into Premiere Pro and place it up here. And drop its opacity until it looks nice. Now let's finish this off with our text pop-up. I'll go back to this text pop-up we just made and copy the text into here. Now I'm going to change a lot about this text. First, make the word 'there', change the font to the Birch font, and place it like so. Then, set the colors of the four-color gradient to a red theme and use one color as white. Finally, duplicate this text and write out the word 'currency', bringing it down to the bottom over here. Move your four-color gradient points and change the white to a black. And there we go. That's it for the text section. Now, to finally create that camera zoom-in effect, it's going to be really easy. Add in your adjustment layer, place it where you want your zoom-in to happen. Add a transform effect and start it zoomed in like so. Keyframe the position and scale, move forward, and have it zoom in a little more. Then, make sure the animation starts fast and then slows down. Now, to really sell this effect, add the Gaussian blur, keyframe the blur at 30, start it at the beginning and have it go down to zero. Finally, also duplicate that shadow overlay on top of everything, and there we go. After all that, you end up with this beautiful eyeball pop-up animation with a beautiful camera shot. 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This is an object and text interactive animation, which has a camera cut in the middle. The first thing we notice is that white background and shadow overlay as usual. Then there's a gem pop-up in the middle. This is a picture of a gem with a scale pop-up animation. There's one in the top left, and there's one on the right side. Both are blurred out to create a depth of field effect. Then there's this graphic down here, which is just a shape with a gradient that fades out. And finally, there's a text behind the gem, and a few texts that switch around. This is done with a simple pop-in animation. And with all this being said, this is going to be really easy to make, so let's go ahead and dive in and break it down. This is the section which we're going to be creating our animation. As usual, let's get started with our background. We're going to be selecting both the color and the paper overlay and duplicating them over to here. Now let's work on our gem icon pop-up. Search for a 3D image of a gem, find a nice looking one. Bring it into the AI background remover to remove that background, and there we go. Back in Premiere Pro, let's drag it in, rotate it, and scale it like so. Let's add a little drop shadow to it. Then, let's duplicate it, place it up here in the top left, and then duplicate it again and place it over here on the right. To create the depth of field, we're going to add the Gaussian blur to the left gem and increase it to 20. And then, add one to the right, too. All right, looks beautiful. Let's go ahead and layer on our animations. Start with our main gem. Keyframe the scale and rotation, and bring it to the center. Start the scale at zero and move that keyframe to the back. Then smoothen out the animation. As for the rotation, add a heavy rotation keyframe and place it on both ends of the image, so that it's constantly rotating. For our top left gem, let's have it slide in from the left. And for our right gem, let's simply have it scale in, too. All right, this scene is looking good. Let's work on the graphic at the bottom. Select the pen tool and draw two points up here. Then, go down to the bottom and add two more points drawing out a shape like this. Remove the stroke and add a fill to get this shape. Let's start by coloring it with a four-color gradient, placing the points on the shape like so. Make your first color gray and then a dark red. Then your last two points a white. Set the blending mode to multiply and place the layer behind our gem. Finally, to have it animate in, let's add a linear wipe effect and set the angle to 180. Add some feather. Keyframe the transition at 100%, move it to the beginning, move forward, and bring it up to 20%. Now, all of this stuff animates in like this. The final part is that text animation, so let's work on it. First, duplicate the text we just recently made and bring it over to here. Place it on the top of the gem just like this, and change the word to them. Then, change the font to Coolvetica and place the layer behind our gem. Then, to create the sliding text, start by duplicating the current text layer and writing out the word 'like'. So, go to your first keyframe for the position, and change it to the same Y value, but on the right, so it fades in from the right. Then move forward after our animation and start bringing the Gaussian blur back up to 15. Then move the word to the left a little, making it start slow and end fast. And then, fade it out as well. So, this way, the text moves in from the right, and then disappears to the left again. Finally, scale it down and place it like so. And now that one is done, let's do it for the rest. Duplicate the text over to here. So that as the first text moves to the left, this one comes in. Then change the word to 'share'. Do that again and change the word to 'save', and do it again and finally change the word to 'everything'. And with that done, you get this simple text slide animation like so. To finish things off, make sure to duplicate that shadow overlay over to here to get that cinematic look. And we're also going to duplicate the adjustment layer with the camera zoom blur since we already made it. And with all that being said, that completes our third animation: a cinematic gem pop-up with a text slide. Ladies and gentlemen, with the first, second, and third animations complete, I took this video and used my sound design workflow to bring all these animations to life. I added whooshes, textured sound effects, and risers and hits with a mysterious soundtrack in the background. I wouldn't cover it in this video, but if you guys want to learn how I do this, check out this other video I made on sound design over here. But with all this being said, check out the final result we end up with after using only Premiere Pro and our inspiration board to create this viral minimal editing style. This age is getting quite confusing. An economy built on influencers. They are everywhere, grabbing your attention, which is essentially become their currency, indirectly forcing you to like them, share them, save them, and everything. So what else can you say besides? Ladies and gentlemen, as always, thank you so much for watching all the way to the end of the video. I want you guys to comment down below the word 'rock' if you made it all the way to the end. And seriously, if you guys are beginner editors, click the link down below and check out this video. It's specifically made for people like you. God bless all of you guys. Stay tuned for the next upload and in the meantime, you guys can watch one of these two videos over here. As usual, thanks a lot for the 100k subs. I don't know how to thank you guys, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye-bye.
