Premiere Pro CC

This course is for anyone with a healthy interest in Adobe applications: social media junkies, illustrators, designers. It all comes down to this: if you want to understand Premiere well enough to create your own video productions, even simple object and text animations, and save them in formats that are easy to use for screen or online use, then this course is the key!

A Tour of Adobe Premiere Pro CC

• Performing nonlinear editing in Premiere Pro
• Expanding the workflow
• Touring the Premiere Pro interface
• Using and setting keyboard shortcuts

Setting up a project

• Creating a project
• What do rendering and real time mean
• The Mercury Playback Engine
• About seconds and frames
• Typical drive setup and network-based storage
• Setting up a sequence
• Formats and codecs
• Creating a sequence preset
• Maximum Bit Depth and Maximum Render Quality settings
• VR video

Importing Media

• Importing assets
• Working with ingest options and proxy media
• Working with the Media Browser panel
• Importing from Adobe Prelude
• Making the most of the Media Browser
• Importing still image files
• Introducing Dynamic Link
• Image tips for Adobe Photoshop files
• Importing VR video
• Using Adobe Stock
• Customizing the media cache
• Recording a voice-over

Organizing Media

• Using the Project panel
• Working with bins
• Finding your media files
• Creating Search bins
• Changing the available label colors
• How Metadata display settings are stored
• Monitoring footage
• Touchscreen editing
• Modifying clips
• What is an audio channel
• A few tips on audio clip channel interpretation

Mastering the essentials of Video Editing

• Using the Source Monitor
• Viewing video on a second monitor
• Using a numerical keypad
• Editing from the Project panel
• Navigating the Timeline panel
• Conforming
• Using essential editing commands
• What happens if you use four points
• Setting the duration for still images

Working with Clips and Markers

• Using Program Monitor controls
• Comparing the Program Monitor and the Source Monitor
• Typing timecode
• Setting the playback resolution
• Why are there so many ways to edit clips into a sequence?
• Playing back VR video
• What’s the difference between 360 video and virtual reality?
• Using markers
• Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
• Adding markers with Adobe Prelude
• Finding gaps in the sequence
• Selecting clips
• Moving clips
• Default clip-nudging shortcuts
• Extracting and deleting segments
• Different shortcuts to add In and Out marks

Adding Transitions

• What are transitions
• VR video transitions
• Using edit points and handles
• Adding video transitions
• Sequence display changes
• Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
• Adding audio transitions

Mastering Advanced Editing Techniques

• Performing four-point editing
• Setting editing options for four-point edits
• Changing playback speed
• Replacing clips and footage
• Recognizing the downstream effects of changing time
• Nesting sequences
• Performing regular trimming
• Performing advanced trimming
• Making ripple edits with keyboard shortcuts
• Trimming in the Program Monitor
• Modifier keys

Exporting Frames, Clips and Sequences

• Understanding the export options
• Exporting single frames
• Exporting a master copy
• Working with Adobe Media Encoder CC

Putting Clips in Motion

• Adjusting the Motion effect
• Changing clip position, size, and rotation
• Working with keyframe interpolation
• Temporal vs. spatial interpolation
• Adding a drop shadow and bevel

Editing and Mixing Audio

• Setting up the interface to work with audio.
• What is an audio channel
• About audio level.
• Examining audio characteristics.
• What are audio characteristics
• Recording a voice-over track
• Adjusting audio volume
• Sending audio to Adobe Audition CC
• Auto-duck music
• Creating a split edit
• Adjusting audio levels for a clip
• Changing clip volume with keyboard shortcuts
• The difference between Pan and Balance

Sweetening Sound

• Sweetening sound with the Essential Sound panel
• Adjusting dialogue
• About the Loudness scale
• Audio Plug-in Manager

Adding Video Effects

• Working with effects.
• Other ways to apply effects
• Sending a clip to Adobe After Effects
• Working with master clip effects
• Masking and tracking visual effects
• Using keyframing effects
• Understanding interpolation methods
• Using effect presets
• Using frequently used effects
• Using multiple GPUs
• Rendering and replacing

Improving Clips with Color Correction and Grading

• Understanding display color management .
• Following a color-oriented workflow.
• Color correction and color grading.
• Why YC?
• About primary and secondary colors.
• Additive and subtractive color.
• Using Comparison View
• Matching color
• Exploring the color-oriented effects
• Fixing exposure problems
• Fixing color balance
• When is color correction right?

Exporting Frames, Clips and Sequences

• Understanding the export options
• Exporting single frames
• Exporting a master copy
• Working with Adobe Media Encoder CC

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