Premiere CS5: Advanced

Video & Animation Courses

This course is designed for those who want to take their editing skills in Adobe Premiere to the level of a professional editor. We also recommend this course for those planning to gain Adobe Certified Expert status. The course covers advanced editing techniques, media management issues, getting the best from Premiere?s and After Effects? filters, optimising your system, working with sound, visually effective ways of working with text, working with motion and transparency and optimising video for broadcast, HD and the web. Adobe Premiere offers a major increase in power and performance, this two day ?power user? course is designed to enable you to expand your range of creative options as a digital video editor.

Course Description

DAY ONE

Overview of features
• Effective media management
• Batch capture procedures
• How to recapture material into a project
• Using OnLocation and Adobe Story

Optimising your system
• 64-bit performance
• The Mercury playback engine
• Opening multiple projects
• Checking playback settings
• Working with third party video capture cards

Importing files
• Importing from Photoshop
• Importing Photoshop layers as a sequence
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
• Importing newly supported video file formats
• Importing RED R3D files directly

Advanced editing
• Using Ripple and Roll
• Using Slip and Slide
• Replacing clips retaining attributes (eg: filters)
• Using the Trim window
• Unlinking video and audio
• Editing hints and tips
• Using multiple, nestable timelines
• Inserting cue points
• Smooth scrubbing in Premiere

Keyframing effects
• The Ultra Key effect
• Producing a clean key with unevenly lit or problematic backgrounds
• Chromakey HD footage in real time
• Working with transparency and Alpha channels

DAY TWO

Working with text and dialogue
• Using the text tool
• Using kerning and leading
• Using textures
• Creating rollers and crawls
• Creating text backing straps
• Hints and tips for effective text creation
• The Speech Analysis tool
• Matching dialogue from script to screen
• Finding specific words or phrases

Using sound
• Sample level editing
• VST filters
• Nesting sound tracks without rendering
• Track based effects
• 5.1 surround sound

Working with motion and transparency
• Setting keyframes
• Using alpha channels
• Using the colour key
• Using a track matte
• Using improved slo-mo
• Time remapping

Exporting video
• Finding and removing gaps in the Timeline
• Using Direct Export
• Exporting for broadcast
• Exporting for High Definition
• Exporting for the web
• Exporting stills
• Integration with After Effects
• Importing from and exporting to Avid and Final Cut
• Output to mobile devices

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