Class Description, Advanced Premiere Pro Training Class
This class covers many intermediate and advanced editing techniques in Premiere Pro, and will also cover the other video tools included in Adobe Creative Cloud. You will learn how to get full control over almost every aspect of your edit and learn techniques to make you more powerful, efficient and precise. With detailed attention to the workflow and integration between the video and audio applications, you will learn to plan and organize projects, ingest and log clips in Prelude, edit in Premiere Pro, create motion graphics and visual effects in After Effects, work with audio in Audition, color correct using Lumetri color, finish and render your projects, output your files to the web, and more.
Who should take class?
- Experienced Premiere Pro editors who wish to take their editing to the next level
- Before enrolling, make sure you are comfortable with the topics from Premiere Pro Introduction
- If you are an experienced editor, but have not used Premiere Pro very much then Premiere Pro for Experienced Editors may be a better match for you
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 Organized
- Optimal file structure and organization for your edit
- Optimizing Premiere Pro for fast performance
- Writing scripts and screenplays using Adobe Story
- Digital storyboards
- Using Adobe Bridge to navigate and preview media
2. Adobe Prelude
- About Prelude
- Ingesting and logging media
- Working with metadata
- Adding comments to clips
- Creating subclips
- Creating a rough cut in Prelude
- Sending your project to Premiere Pro
3. Advanced Editing Techniques
- Review of trim, ripple, roll, and slip tools
- Using Trim mode for fine-tuning edits
- Advanced trimming
- Four-point editing
- Nesting sequences
- Sync Lock and Track Lock
- Using Morph Cut to hide jump cuts
4. Playing with Time
- Using Speed/Duration to slow down or speed up clips
- Making clips go backwards and forwards
- Using Rate Stretch tool for greater precision
- Time Remapping to change speed of clip over time
- Importing time lapse footage
5. Creating Captions
- Captioning workflow in Premiere Pro
- Technical standards for captions
- Creating captions clip
- Adding captions, adjusting timecode
- Adjusting position, size and format
- Turning captions on and off
- Exporting captions as sidecar file
- Embedding captions into video file
6. Compositing
- Alpha channels
- Working with green screen footage
- Color keying using the Ultra Key effect
- Opacity and blend modes
- Using mattes
- Creating masks and mattes
- Track mattes to follow moving objects (such as blurring faces or logos)
- Working with multiple masks
7. Motion Graphics with After Effects
- Sending clip from Premiere Pro to After Effects
- Overview of After Effects interface
- Creating a simple animation
- Working with keyframes
- Working with effects
- Animating text
- Animation presets
- Creating animated lower third
- Sending composition back to Premiere Pro
- Importing a composition
8. Working with Audio
- Setting up interface for audio
- Adjusting Gain
- Adjusting Level/Volume
- Normalizing audio
- Keyframing audio
- Keyframe interpolation (easing)
- Sending a clip to Adobe Audition
- Cleaning up noisy audio
- Adding Compression
- Adjusting EQ
- Cleaning up noisy audio
- Using the Vocal Enhancer
9. Color Correction
- Lumetri color panel
- Lumetri scope essentials: Waveform, Vectorscope, RGB Parade
- Basic color correction techniques
- White balance
- Exposure, contrast
- Shadows and highlights
- White point and black point
- Saturation vs. vibrance
- Adjustment layers in Premiere Pro
- Master clip effects
- About SpeedGrade
- Sending sequence from Premiere Pro to SpeedGrade
- Working with LUTs
- Creating and exporting a custom LUT
10. Exporting
- Understanding compression and codecs
- About Adobe Media Encoder
- Rendering master files
- Saving a preset
- Encoding for web and mobile
- Understanding broadcast standards
Bonus Topics
Time permitting, the following topics can also be covered:
Proxy Workflow in Premiere Pro
- Speeding up performance using proxy media
- Creating proxies on ingest
- Creating proxies from media already imported
- Editing with proxy media
- Switching from proxy footage to high res footage
- Rendering and exporting
Multichannel Audio
- Import options for multichannel audio
- Splitting and panning channels
- Mapping tracks and channels
- Timeline options
- Export options