Premiere Level 1 beginner class in Los Angeles
Course Description:

This 2-day course covers the basics of learning Adobe Premiere, 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.

After taking this class you will be able to:

• Work with audio
• Create transitions and titles
• Manipulate subclips and virtual clips
• ... and more.

Students who need to know the basics of Adobe Premiere, and countless tips and techniques to help them become more productive with new features.

Premiere Level 1 beginner class in Los Angeles

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Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Touring Adobe Premiere Pro

• New features in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Presenting the standard digital video workflow
• Enhancing the workflow with high-level features
• Incorporating other components into the editing workflow
• Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace
• Customizing the workspace

Lesson 2: Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences, and Managing Assets

• Getting Started
• Selecting project settings by sequence
• Three types of settings
• Specifying project settings
• Importing assets
• Taking a closer look at images
• Managing media in bins
• Exploring additional bin features
• Finding assets with the Media Browser

Lesson 3: Importing and Managing Tapeless Media

• Getting Started
• Using a tapeless workflow
• Using the Media Browser
• Importing XDCAM media
• Importing P2 media
• Importing AVCHD media
• Mixing media formats

Lesson 4: Shooting and Capturing Great Video Assets

• Getting Started
• Tips for shooting great video
• Capturing video
• Capturing an entire tape
• Using batch capture and scene detection
• Tackling manual analog movie capture
• Capturing HDV and HD video

Lesson 5: Creating Cuts-Only Videos

• Getting Started
• 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

Lesson 6: Adding Video Transitions

• Getting Started
• Using transitions with restraint
• Trying some transitions
• Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel
• Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
• Applying transitions to multiple clips at once
• Adding audio transitions

Lesson 7: Creating Dynamic Titles

• Getting Started
• Strengthening your project with titles
• Changing text parameters
• Building text from scratch
• Putting text on a path
• Creating shapes
• Making text roll and crawl
• Adding text effects: sheens, strokes, shadows, and fills

Lesson 8: Applying specialized editing tools

• Getting Started
• Exploring timesaving editing tools
• Replacing a clip and replacing footage
• Using Sync Lock and Lock Track
• Finding gaps in the timeline
• Editing with In and Out points around a clip
• Creating subclips from the Source Monitor
• Multicamera editing

Lesson 9: Adding Video Effects

• Getting started
• Sampling some basic video effects
• Applying effects to multiple clips
• Adding keyframing effects
• Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity
• Adding lighting effects
• Creating custom presets

Lesson 10: Putting clips in motion

• Getting Started
• Applying the Motion effect to clips
• Changing clip size and adding rotation
• Working with keyframe interpolation
• Creating a picture-in-picture effect
• Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges
• Using other motion-related effects: Transform, Basic 3D and Camera View

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.

Premiere level 2 advanced class in Los Angeles
Course Description:

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

After taking this class you will be able to:

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

Premiere users who are familiar with the basics and want advanced their skill level.

Premiere level 2 advanced class in Los Angeles

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Course Outline:

Lesson 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 7. Managing Your Projects

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

Lesson 8. Exploring Adobe Onlocation

• 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 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

Lesson 11. Authoring DVDs with Adobe Encore

• 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

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.