Premiere CS5 Intermediate

Cost:

$595.00 (Online Class - Lodestone Live)
$795.00 (Lodestone Training Center) Classes Always Run!

Time: 10 am - 4:30 pm EST
Length: 2 day class
Type: Instructor-led

Course Description:

This 2-day intermediate course covers additional techniques in Adobe Premiere CS5.

Learning Objectives:

In this class, you will learn how to:

  • Work with Adobe Media Encoder
  • Perform time remapping
  • Mix audio
  • Explore composting techniques and keying
  • Use nested sequences
  • ... and more.

Target Audience:

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Changing time

  • Getting Started
  • Using slow-motion and reverse-motion techniques
  • Enabling variable time changes with time remapping
  • Applying time remapping with speed transitions
  • Using time remapping with reverse motion
  • Recognizing the downstream effects of changing time
  • Changing the speed of multiple clips simultaneously
  • Changing the length of multiple stills simultaneously
  • Review questions
  • Review answers

Unit 2: Acquiring and editing audio

  • Getting Started
  • Setting up a basic voice-recording area
  • Voicing professional narrations
  • Creating a high-quality aural experience
  • Examining audio characteristics
  • Adjusting audio volume
  • Adjusting audio gain
  • Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
  • Review questions
  • Review answers

Unit 3: Sweetening your sound and mixing audio

  • Getting Started
  • Sweetening sound with audio effects
  • Trying stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects
  • Working with the Audio Mixer
  • Outputting tracks to submixes
  • Recording voice-overs
  • Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
  • Fixing, sweetening, and creating soundtracks in Adobe Soundbooth
  • Review questions
  • Review answers

Unit 4: Analyzing content

  • Getting Started
  • Transcribing speech to text
  • Enhancing the accuracy of speech analysis
  • Searching transcription for keywords
  • Setting In and Out points using speech analysis text
  • Modifying the metadata
  • Detecting faces in a sequence
  • Review questions
  • Review answers

Unit 5. Exploring Compositing Techniques

  • Making compositing part of your projects
  • Working with the Opacity effect
  • Combine layers based on a blend mode
  • Working with alpha-channel transparencies
  • Color keying a green-screen shot with Ultra Key
  • Using matte keys

Unit 6. Working with Color, Nested Sequences, and Shortcuts

  • An overview of color-oriented effects
  • Adjusting and enhancing color
  • Using nested sequences
  • Nesting clips
  • Getting to know the recommended keyboard shortcuts

Unit 7. Managing Your Projects

  • Project menu overview
  • Using the Project Manager
  • Importing projects or sequences

Unit 8. Exploring Adobe Onlocation CS5

  • Setting up Adobe OnLocation
  • Calibrating your camera with Camera Setup Assistant
  • Recording live video
  • Recording video to a shot list
  • Analyzing video with Adobe OnLocation
  • Importing clips not captured with Adobe OnLocation
  • Importing OnLocation clips with the Adobe Premiere Pro Media Browser

Unit 9. Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your Video Projects

  • Exploring Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium
  • Importing Adobe Photoshop files as sequences
  • Using Dynamic Link with After Effects
  • Replacing a clip with an After Effects composition

Unit 10. Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences

  • Overview of export options
  • Recording to tape
  • Exporting single frames
  • Using the Export Settings dialog
  • Working with Adobe Media Encoder
  • Format overview
  • Using the formats
  • Exporting to mobile devices
  • Exporting to Final Cut Pro
  • Working with edit decision lists

Unit 11. Authoring DVDs with Adobe Encore CS5

  • Overview of DVD authoring in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adding Adobe Encore chapter markers to the Timeline
  • Creating an autoplay DVD
  • Creating a menu DVD
  • Creating a Blu-ray Disc
  • Exporting DVD projects to Flash
There are currently no public classes scheduled dates for this class. To schedule a private class, please call us toll free at 866-665-9441.

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.