Course Outline
Lesson 1: Touring Premiere Pro
- Lesson overview
- Introduction
- Video editing: Then and now
- Premiere Pro: A nonlinear editor
- Enhancing the workflow with high-level features
- Incorporating the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio into the workflow
- Touring the Premiere Pro workspace
- Customizing the workspace
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 2: Taking a Quick Run-through of Premiere Pro
- Lesson overview
- Introduction
- Placing clips on a sequence
- Arranging and trimming clips
- Adding a transition
- Applying a video effect
- Editing a Photoshop layered graphic
- Compositing graphics using a nested sequence
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 3: Shooting and Capturing Great Video Assets
- Lesson overview
- Introduction
- Twenty tips for shooting great video
- Capturing video
- Capturing an entire tape
- Using batch capture and scene detection
- Tackling manual analog movie capture
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 4: Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences and Managing Assets
- Lesson overview
- Introduction
- Selecting project settings
- Adjusting user preferences
- Importing assets
- Image and graphics issues
- Managing media in the Project panel
- Working with assets in Adobe Bridge
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 5: Creating Cuts-only Videos
- Lesson overview
- Using a storyboard to build a rough cut
- Editing clips on the Timeline
- Moving clips to, from and within the Timeline
- Working with Source Monitor editing tools
- Adjusting clips in the Trim panel
- Using other editing tools
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 6: Adding Video Transitions
- Lesson overview
- Using transitions with restraint
- Trying some transitions
- Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel
- Using the A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 7: Creating Dynamic Titles
- Lesson overview
- Strengthen your project with supers
- Changing text parameters
- Building text from scratch
- Putting text on a path
- Creating shapes
- Making text roll and crawl
- Deconstructing effects: Sheens, Strokes, Shadows and Fill
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 8: Applying Specialized Editing Tools
- Lesson overview
- Using five timesaving editing tools
- Adding a TV news-style cutaway
- Using graphics with two transitions
- Switching a four-camera production
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 9: Adding Video Effects
- Lesson overview
- Sampling some basic video effects
- Manipulating keyframes and effect parameters
- Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 10: Putting Clips in Motion
- Lesson overview
- Applying the Motion effect to clips
- Changing clip size and adding rotation
- Working with keyframe interpolation
- Putting pictures-in-a-picture
- Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges
- Other motion effects: Transform, Basic D, and Camera View
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 11: Acquiring and Editing Audio
- Lesson overview
- Selecting the right mic for the job
- Connecting mics to your camcorder or PC
- Setting up a basic voice-recording area
- Voicing professional narrations
- Premiere Pro:A high-quality aural experience
- Examining audio characteristics
- Adjusting audio volume
- Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 12: Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
- Lesson overview
- Sweetening sound with audio effects
- Trying out stereo and surround sound effects
- Working with the Audio Mixer
- Outputting tracks to submixes
- Recording voice-overs
- Creating a surround sound mix
- Moving up to professional editing with Adobe Audition
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 13: Compositing Techniques
- Lesson overview
- Making compositing part of your projects
- Working with the Opacity effect
- Two multiple track video effects: Blend and Texturize
- Working with alpha channel transparencies
- Applying chroma, color and luminance keying effects
- Using matte keys
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 14: Enhancing Color, Editing Tips, & Shortcuts
- Lesson overview
- An overview of color-oriented effects
- Adjusting and enhancing color
- Using nested sequences
- Three quick editing techniques
- Recommended keyboard shortcuts
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 15: Project Management
- Lesson overview
- Project Menu overview
- Using the Project Manager
- Conducting a Clip Notes review
- High definition video and film features
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 16: Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your DV Project
- Lesson overview
- Introducing Photoshop CS
- Demonstrating some Photoshop CS basics
- Photoshop tips for DV productions
- Editing Encore DVD menus in Photoshop
- Introducing After Effects
- Trying out text animation with After Effects
- Using effects and Motion Tracker
- Review questions and answers
Lesson 17: Exporting Frames, Clips and Sequences
- Lesson overview
- Export options
- Recording to videotape
- Exporting a single frame
- Creating standard movie, image sequence and audio files
- Using the Adobe Media Encoder
- Working with edit decision lists
- Exporting to DVD
- Review questions and answers
