Premiere Training Course Synopsis
Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful program for editing digital video. Premiere helps you create dynamic video or film. This course helps you understand and work with basic through advanced concepts and features of Adobe Premiere. You will run through a typical series of steps for creating, editing and fine-tuning a series of video pieces. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.
Prerequisites
This class is appropriate for novice to intermediate level users of Premiere. It is expected that users have a basic understanding of why and how they expect to use Premiere in their environment. We also recommend that you have the Adobe Premiere software before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version of it for the Adobe website.
What You Will Learn in This Premiere Training Course:
- The Premiere Interface
- The Project Window
- Creating Dynamic Titles
- The Clip Window
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Capturing and Editing with DV
- Transparency
- Transitions
- Editing in the Timeline
- Adding Video Effects
- Stop Motion
- Creating Cuts-only Videos
- Adding Motion Effects
- Storyboarding with Stills
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Adding Video Transitions
Lesson 1 - Touring Adobe Premiere Pro
- Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
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Expanding the workflow
Lesson 2 - Setting Up a Project
- Setting up a project
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Setting up a sequence
Lesson 3 - Importing Media
- Importing assets
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Working with the Media Browser
- The media cache
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Capturing from videotape
Lesson 4 - Organizing Media
- The Project panel
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Working with bins
- Organizing media with content analysis
- Monitoring footage
- Modifying clips
Lesson 5 - Essentials of Video Editing
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Getting started
- Using the Source Monitor
- Navigating the Timeline
- Essential editing commands
Lesson 6 - Working with Clips and Markers
- Program Monitor controls
- Controlling resolution
- Using markers
- Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
- Finding gaps in the Timeline
- Moving clips
- Extracting and deleting segments
Lesson 7 - Adding Transitions
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What are transitions?
- Edit points and handles
- Adding video transitions
- Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
- Adding audio transitions
Lesson 8 - Advanced Editing Techniques
- Four-point editing
- Retiming clips
- Replacing clips and footage
- Nesting sequences
- Regular trimming
- Advanced trimming
- Trimming in the Program Monitor panel
Lesson 9 - Putting Clips in Motion
- Adjusting the Motion effect
- Changing clip position, size, and rotation
- Working with keyframe interpolation
- Using other motion-related effects
Lesson 10 - Multicamera Editing
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The multicamera process
- Creating a multicamera sequence
- Switching multiple cameras
- Finalizing multicamera editing
- Additional multicamera editing tips
Lesson 11 - Editing and Mixing Audio
- Setting up the interface to work with audio
- Examining audio characteristics
- Adjusting audio volume
- Adjusting audio gain
- Normalizing audio
- Creating a split edit
- Adjusting audio levels in a sequence
- Working with the Audio Mixer
- Sweetening sound with audio effects
- Adjusting EQ
- Applying effects in the Audio Mixer
- Cleaning up noisy audio
Lesson 13 - Adding Video Effects
- Working with effects
- Keyframing effects
- Effects presets
- Frequently used effects
Lesson 14 - Color Correction and Grading
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Color-oriented workflow
- An overview of color-oriented effects
- Fixing exposure problems
- Fixing color balance
- Special color effects
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Creating a look
Lesson 15 - Exploring Compositing Techniques
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What is an alpha channel?
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Using compositing in your projects
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Working with the Opacity effect
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Working with alpha-channel transparencies
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Color keying a greenscreen shot
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Using mattes
Lesson 16 - Creating Titles
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An overview of the Titler window
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Video typography essentials
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Creating titles
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Stylizing text
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Working with shapes and logos
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Making text roll and crawl
Lesson 17 - Managing Your Projects
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The Project menu
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Using the Project Manager
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Final project management steps
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Importing projects or sequences
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Managing collaboration
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Managing your hard drives
Lesson 18 - Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences
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Overview of export options
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Exporting single frames
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Exporting a master copy
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Working with Adobe Media Encoder
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Exchanging with other editing applications
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Recording to tape