Premiere Pro Training

Course Overview

Touring Adobe Premiere Pro

Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
Expanding the workflow
Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace

Setting Up a Project

Setting up a project
Setting up a sequence

Importing Media

Importing assets
Working with the Media Browser
Importing images
Customizing the media cache
Recording a scratch narration track

Organizing Media

The Project panel
Working with bins
Monitoring footage
Modifying clips

Essentials of Video Editing

Using the Source Monitor
Navigating the Timeline
Essential editing commands

Working with Clips and Markers

Using Program Monitor controls
Playback resolution
Using markers
Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
Finding gaps in the Timeline
Selecting clips
Moving clips
Extracting and deleting segments

Adding Transitions

What are transitions?
Using edit points and handles
Adding video transitions
Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
Adding audio transitions

Advanced Editing Techniques

Performing four-point editing
Changing playback speed
Replacing clips and footage
Nesting sequences
Performing regular trimming
Performing advanced trimming
Trimming in the Program Monitor panel

Putting Clips in Motion

Adjusting the Motion effect
Changing clip position, size, and rotation
Working with keyframe interpolation
Using other motion-related effects

Multicamera Editing

Following the multicamera process
Creating a multicamera sequence
Switching multiple cameras
Finalizing multicamera editing

Editing and Mixing Audio

Setting up the interface to work with audio
Examining audio characteristics
Creating a voice-over “scratch track”
Adjusting audio volume
Creating a split edit
Adjusting audio levels in a sequence

Sweetening Sound

Sweetening sound with audio effects
Adjusting EQ
Cleaning up noisy audio

Adding Video Effects

Working with effects
Master clip effects
Masking and tracking visual effects
Keyframing effects
Effects presets
Frequently used effects

Color Correction and Grading

Following a color-oriented workflow
An overview of color-oriented effects
Fixing exposure problems
Fixing color balance
Using special color effects
Creating a look

Exploring Compositing Techniques

What is an alpha channel?
Making compositing part of your projects
Working with the Opacity effect
Working with alpha-channel transparencies
Color keying a greenscreen shot
Masking clips

Creating Titles

An overview of the Titler window
Mastering video typography essentials
Creating titles
Stylizing text
Working with shapes and logos
Making text roll and crawl

Managing Your Projects

Using the File menu
Using the Project Manager
Performing the final project management steps
Importing projects or sequences
Managing collaboration
Using the Libraries panel
Managing your hard drives

Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences

Overview of export options
Exporting single frames
Exporting a master copy
Working with Adobe Media Encoder
Exchanging with other editing applications
Recording to tape

Getting to Know After Effect's Workflow

Creating a project and importing footage
Creating a composition and arranging layers
Adding effects and modifying layer properties
Animating the composition
Previewing your work
Optimizing performance in After Effects
Rendering and exporting your composition
Customizing workspaces
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
Finding resources for using After Effects

Creating a Basic Animation Using After Effects and Presets

Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
Creating a new composition
Working with imported Illustrator layers
Applying effects to a layer
Applying an animation preset
Previewing the effects
Adding transparency
Rendering the composition

Animating Text

About text layers
Creating and formatting point text
Using a text animation preset
Animating with scale keyframes
Animating using parenting
Animating imported Photoshop text
Animating text using a path animation preset
Animating type tracking
Animating text opacity
Using a text animator group
Cleaning up the path animation
Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
Adding motion blur

Working with Shape Layers

Adding a shape layer
Creating custom shapes
Creating stars
Positioning layers with snapping
Incorporating video and audio layers
Applying a Cartoon effect
Adding a title bar
Using Brainstorm to experiment

Animating a Multimedia Presentation

Animating the scenery using parenting
Adjusting an anchor point
Masking video using vector shapes
Keyframing a motion path
Animating additional elements
Applying an effect
Creating an animated slide show
Adding an audio track
Zooming in for a final close-up

Animating Layers

Simulating lighting changes
Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
Animating movement in the scenery
Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
Animating the shadows
Adding a lens flare effect
Animating the clock
Retiming the composition

Working with Masks

About masks
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
Editing a mask
Feathering the edges of a mask
Replacing the content of the mask
Adding a reflection
Creating a vignette
Adjusting the color

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

About the Puppet tools
Adding Deform pins
Defining areas of overlap
Stiffening an area
Animating pin positions
Recording animation

Using the Roto Brush Tool

About rotoscoping
Creating a segmentation boundary
Fine-tuning the matte
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
Changing the background
Adding animated text
Outputting your project

Performing Color Correction

Adjusting color balance
Replacing the background
Removing unwanted elements
Correcting a range of colors
Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect

Using 3D Features

Creating 3D Text
Using 3D Views
Importing a background
Adding 3D Lights
Adding a camera
Repositioning layers
Adding a text layer

Working with Cinema 4D Lite

Working with 3D Camera Tracking
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
Tracking the footage
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
Creating realistic shadows
Adding ambient light
Creating additional text elements
Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
Animating the text
Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
Rendering the composition

Advanced Editing Techniques

Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
Using single-point motion tracking
Using multipoint tracking
Creating a particle simulation
Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

Rendering and Outputting

Creating templates for the Render Queue
Exporting using the Render Queue
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder

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Software/Setup For this Class

Adobe Premiere Pro