Class Description
This Introduction to Premiere Pro training class will teach you everything you need to know to get started with Premiere Pro, including: a thorough overview of the interface, importing media, organizing media, basic editing, intermediate editing, transitions, audio mixing, video effects, color correction, titles and exporting your film. We will also cover multicamera editing, motion graphics, and several other intermediate editing techniques. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to organize, create and deliver professional videos for broadcast, web and beyond.
Who should take class?
- Users who are new to Premiere Pro
- Video editors, photographers, designers and other content creators who wish to create their own professional videos
What’s Included?
- Instruction from an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), who is also an experienced filmmaker and editor
- Detailed notes
- Lesson files and hands-on exercises
- Follow up sessions with the instructor by phone and email
Detailed Curriculum
Note: The following is the standard curriculum for the class, and is always customized to meet the needs of the students who attend.
1. Getting Started
- What is Premiere Pro?
- Editing workflow and terminology
- Organizing files and media
2. Creating a Project
- Project settings
- Sequence settings
- Frame rate, frame size, aspect ratio
- Video formats, containers and codecs
- Mercury Playback Engine
- Tour of interface
3. Importing Media
- Importing files from hard drive
- Working with Media Browser
- Importing images and graphics
- Importing Photoshop files
- Importing Illustrator files
4. Organizing Media
- Project panel
- Bins and folders
- Searching for clips
- Thumbnails and poster frames
- Renaming clips
- Hover scrub
- Examining clip metadata
5. Essentials of Video Editing
- Previewing clips
- Setting In and Out points
- Working with Timeline
- Insert edit
- Overwrite edit
6. Refining the Edit
- Trimming clips
- Deleting clips
- Removing gaps
- Changing order of clips
- Playback settings
7. Transitions
- Types of transitions
- Adding transitions
- Modifying transitions
- Edit points and handles
- Fine tuning using A/B mode
- Audio transitions
8. Motion Graphics & Animations
- Adjusting clip position, size and rotation
- Adjusting motion effect
- Adding keyframes
- Animating stills and graphics
- Other motion effects
- Animating multiple properties at once
- Nesting
9. Editing and Mixing Audio
- Adjusting workspace for audio
- Audio basics
- Volume
- Audio gain
- Normalizing audio
- Split edit
- Adjusting levels for a sequence
- Working with audio mixer
- Fading audio
- Transitions and keyframes
10. Video Effects
- Working with effects
- Keyframing effects
- Image stabilization with Warp Stabilizer
- Other common effects
11. Advanced Editing Techniques
- 3-point editing
- 4-point editing
- Ripple edit
- Roll edit
- Slip edit
- Slide edit
- Retiming clips (changing speed)
- Freeze frames
- Replacing clips
- Nesting sequences
- Creating subclips
12. Color Correcting and Grading
- Lumetri color panel
- Adjusting exposure
- Adjusting white balance
- Contrast and Saturation
- Saturation and Vibrance
- Color workflow
- Color balance
- Image effects
13. Adding Titles and Graphics
- Using the Type tool
- Video typography essentials
- Creating titles
- Stylizing text
- Adjusting fill, stroke, drop shadow
- Working with shapes and logos
- Making text roll or crawl
14. Multicamera Editing
- The multicamera workflow
- Synchronizing footage from multiple cameras
- Creating a multicamera source sequence
- Editing a multicamera sequence
- Changing camera angles
- Refining multicamera edit
- Finalizing a multicamera edit
15. Managing Your Projects
- Collaborating with a team
- Render files
- Using Project Manager
- Managing hard drives
- Importing projects and sequences
- Moving media
16. Exporting
- Export options
- Overview of codecs
- Export single frames
- Export a master copy
- Using Adobe Media Encoder
- Exporting for web