Premiere Pro Training

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

Before Taking this Class

None.

Software/Setup For this Class

Adobe Premiere Pro