Premiere CS4 Fundamentals
Cost:
$795.00 (Online
Class
- Lodestone Live)
$995.00
(Lodestone Training Center)
Time: 10 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Length: 3 day class
Type: Instructor-led
Course Description:
This 3-day course covers the basics of learning Adobe Premiere CS4, and countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with its new features, including new multicam editing tools, auto-creation of menu-based DVDs from the timeline, and Native HD, SD and HDV support, and more.
Learning Objectives:
In this class, you will learn how to:
- Work with audio
- Create transitions and titles
- Manipulate subclips and virtual clips
- ... and more.
Target Audience:
Students who need to know the basics of Adobe Premiere CS4, and countless tips and techniques to help them become more productive with new features.
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Touring Premiere CS4
- Introduction
- Video editing: Then and now
- Premiere Pro ‹A nonlinear editor
- Enhancing the workflow with high-level features
- Incorporating the Adobe Creative Suite Production
- Studio into the workflow
- Touring the Premiere Pro workspace
- Customizing the workspace
Unit 2: Taking a Quick Run-through of Premiere CS4
- Placing clips on a sequence
- Arranging and trimming clips
- Adding a transition
- Applying a video effect
- Editing a Photoshop layered graphic
- Compositing graphics using a nested sequence
Unit 3: Shooting and Capturing Great Video Assets
- Twenty tips for shooting great video
- Capturing video
- Capturing an entire tape
- Using batch capture and scene detection
- Tackling manual analog movie capture
Unit 4: Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences and Managing Assets
- Selecting project settings
- Adjusting user preferences
- Importing assets
- Image and graphics issues
- Managing media in the Project panel
- Working with assets in Adobe Bridge
Unit 5: Creating Cuts-only Videos
- Using a storyboard to build a rough cut
- Editing clips on the Timeline
- Moving clips to, from and within the Timeline
- Working with Source Monitor editing tools
- Adjusting clips in the Trim panel
- Using other editing tools
Unit 6: Adding Video Transitions
- Using transitions with restraint
- Trying some transitions
- Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel
- Using the A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
Unit 7: Creating Dynamic Titles
- Strengthen your project with supers
- Changing text parameters
- Building text from scratch
- Putting text on a path
- Creating shapes
- Making text roll and crawl
- Deconstructing effects: Sheens, Strokes, Shadows and Fill
Unit 8: Applying Specialized Editing Tools
- Using five timesaving editing tools
- Adding a TV news-style cutaway
- Using graphics with two transitions
- Switching a four-camera production
Unit 9: Adding Video Effects
- Sampling some basic video effects
- Manipulating keyframes and effect parameters
- Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity
Unit 10: Putting Clips in Motion
- Applying the Motion effect to clips
- Changing clip size and adding rotation
- Working with keyframe interpolation
- Putting pictures-in-a-picture
- Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges
- Other motion effects: Transform, Basic D, and Camera View
Unit 11: Acquiring and Editing Audio
- Selecting the right mic for the job
- Connecting mics to your camcorder or PC
- Setting up a basic voice-recording area
- Voicing professional narrations
- Premiere Pro‹A high-quality aural experience
- Examining audio characteristics
- Adjusting audio volume
- Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
Unit 12: Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
- Sweetening sound with audio effects
- Trying out stereo and surround sound effects
- Working with the Audio Mixer
- Outputting tracks to submixes
- Recording voice-overs
- Creating a surround sound mix
- Moving up to professional editing with Adobe Audition
Unit 13: Compositing Techniques
- Making compositing part of your projects
- Working with the Opacity effect
- Two multiple track video effects: Blend and Texturize
- Working with alpha channel transparencies
- Applying chroma, color and luminance keying effects
- Using matte keys
Unit 14: Enhancing Color, Editing Tips, & Shortcuts
- An overview of color-oriented effects
- Adjusting and enhancing color
- Using nested sequences
- Three quick editing techniques
- Recommended keyboard shortcuts
Unit 15: Project Management
- Project Menu overview
- Using the Project Manager
- Conducting a Clip Notes review
- High definition video and film features
Unit 16: Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your DV Project
- Introducing Photoshop CS2
- Demonstrating some Photoshop CS2 basics
- Photoshop tips for DV productions
- Editing Encore DVD menus in Photoshop
- Introducing After Effects
- Trying out text animation with After Effects
- Using effects and Motion Tracker
Unit 17: Exporting Frames, Clips and Sequences
- Export options
- Recording to videotape
- Exporting a single frame
- Creating standard movie, image sequence and audio files
- Using the Adobe Media Encoder
- Working with edit decision lists
- Exporting to DVD
Please note, assigned instructor may change. Lodestone confirms instructor schedules two weeks prior to class date.
*Classes are online via Lodestone Live and at a Lodestone training center.
The only time that a class will cancel is either if there is a power failure or other major disruption in service.
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