Adobe Premiere Pro Advanced

In this two-day course, you’ll get a thorough overview of the interface, tools, features, and production flow for using Premiere Pro. The course is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice for getting to know this revolutionary nonlinear video-editing application. You will perform basic editing functions while familiarizing yourself with the user interface, and you will learn to use Premiere Pro’s powerful real-time video and audio editing tools to give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production.

Who Should Attend

Professionals interested in creating videos using Adobe Premiere Pro

Prerequisites:

 

Course Outline:

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lesson 1: A Review of Video Essentials

  • RGB color model
  • Frame size
  • Pixel Aspect Ratio
  • Alpha Channels
  • Frame Rate
  • Time Code
  • Interpreting Footage
  • Introduction to codecs and maintaining quality in your work

 

Lesson 2: Putting Clips in Motion – Keyframing

  • Applying the Motion effect to clips
  • Changing clip size and adding rotation
  • Working with keyframe interpolation
  • Creating a picture-in-picture effect
  • Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges
  • Using other motion-related effects: Transform, Basic 3D and Camera View

 

Lesson 3: Changing Time

  • Using slow-motion and reverse-motion techniques
  • Enabling variable time changes with time remapping
  • Applying time remapping with speed transitions
  • Using time remapping with reverse motion
  • Recognizing the downstream effects of changing time
  • Changing the speed of multiple clips simultaneously
  • Changing the length of multiple stills simultaneously

 

Lesson 4: Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio

  • Sweetening sound with audio effects
  • Trying stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects
  • Working with the Audio Mixer
  • Outputting tracks to submixes
  • Recording voice-overs
  • Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
  • Fixing, sweetening, and creating soundtracks in Adobe Soundbooth

 

Lesson 5: Analyzing Content

  • Transcribing speech to text
  • Enhancing the accuracy of speech analysis
  • Searching transcription for keywords
  • Setting In and Out points using speech analysis text
  • Modifying the metadata
  • Detecting faces in a sequence

 

Lesson 6: Keying and Compositing Techniques

  • Making compositing part of your projects
  • Working with the Opacity effect
  • Combine layers based on a blend mode
  • Working with alpha-channel transparencies
  • Color keying a green-screen shot with Ultra Key
  • Using matte keys

 

Lesson 7: Managing Your Projects

  • Project menu overview
  • Using the Project Manager
  • Importing projects or sequences

 

Lesson 8: Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your Video Projects

  • Exploring Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium
  • Importing Adobe Photoshop files as sequences
  • Using Dynamic Link with After Effects
  • Replacing a clip with an After Effects composition

 

Lesson 9: Overview of Adobe Encore CS6

  • Adding Adobe Encore chapter markers to the Premiere Pro Timeline
  • Using Dynamic Link to export to Encore
  • Exploring the Encore workspace
  • Exploring the Properties Panel
  • Understanding First Play – How to create the “FBI warning” slide
  • Creating a Menu
  • Linking Buttons
  • Previewing your DVD

 

Lesson 10: Modifying the Menu

  • Editing an existing menu using Adobe Photoshop
  • Creating a motion Menu
  • Copying and routing buttons
  • Creating a motion background
  • Adding audio to your menu

 

Lesson 11: Playlists and Chapter Playlists

  • Understanding Playlists
  • Creating Playlists
  • Accessing Playlists with menus
  • Understanding Chapter Playlists
  • Creating Chapter Playlists
  • Accessing Chapter Playlists

 

Lesson 12: Alternate Audio and Subtitles

  • Understanding alternate audio
  • Creating an Alternate Audio track
  • Accessing Alternate Audio
  • Understanding subtitles
  • Creating Subtitles
  • Accessing Subtitles

 

Lesson 13: Creating the DVD

  • Encoding settings and how to modify them
  • Burning the DVD
  • Best practices for a more compatible DVD
  • Other types of export – Flash and BluRay