Premiere Pro CS4 Getting Started

Premiere Pro Getting Started is a 2 day classroom based training course which covers the basics of using Adobe Premiere Pro. The course is run at our London centre on the dates above or is available to be taught at your own location.

On completing this course delegates will be able to use the basic and most used tools in Premiere to capture, Import, edit, apply effects, mix audio, and output to a number of formats for Video, the Web and interactive media such as DVD and Flash. The Delegate will also gain knowledge of video standards, Compression and Editing Techniques.

Course Overview

Basics

• Setting up the System

Starting A Project

• Project settings
• Preference settings
• Assett Management
• Sequences, clips
• Offline On-line Clips

Capturing and Importing Footage

• Capturing Footage
• Device Control Settings
• Capturing Audio and Video
• DV, HDV and HD
• Importing Stills, Still Sequences, Photoshop Files, with Adobe Bridge, Projects
• On-Location overview

Managing Clips

• The Project Panel
• Views
• The preview area
• Organising Clips in Bins
• Duplicating and Copying Clips
• Renaming Clips
• Finding Clips (search function)
• Interpreting Footage
• Unlinking and Re-linking Media
• The Project Manager

The Monitor Panels

• Viewing Clips
• Playback Controls
• Audio Clips
• Cuing Clips
• Time Ruler Controls
• Safe Zones
• Display Mode
• Waveform and Vectorscope Options
• The Reference Monitor
• Ganging source and Programe Monitors

Creating a Sequence

• Editing Methods
• In and Out Points
• Subclips
• Source and Target Tracks
• Overlay and insert Edits
• Adding Clips by Draging
• 3 and 4 point Edits
• Lift and Extract
• Storyboard Editing
• Multiple and nested Sequences

Editing in the Timeline

• The Time Ruler
• Adding, Deleting and Renaming Tracks
• Markers
• Selecting
• Splitting Clips
• Speed, Duration and Reverse
• Multicam Editing
• Syncronising Clips
• Replace Clips

Refining the Sequence

• Snapping
• Trimming Methods
• Trimming Clips
• Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide Edits
• The Trim Panel
• Split Edits (L and J Cuts)

Transitions

• The Effects Panel
• Understanding Transitions
• Applying a Transition
• Editing a Transition

Audio

• The Audio Mixer
• Recording with the Audio Mixer
• Fading Panning and Balancing
• Effects
• Corrective Measures
• Routing Tracks

Titles

• Creating a Title
• Text paths
• Roll and Crawl Titles
• Text configuration

Effects

• Effect Types
• Effect Properties
• The Effects Control Panel
• Keyframing
• Motion Effects
• Opacity and Volume
• Lighting Effects
• Timewarp (pixelmotion Blending)
• After Effects and Premiere

Output

• Creating DVDs
• Blu-Ray
• SWF and FLV Files
• Adobe Media Encoder
• DVD Markers
• Using Clip Notes