Adobe Premiere Beginner training--in just two days!
What You Will Learn in This Premiere Training Course
We'll get a good handle on the basics in this Adobe Premiere beginner training course.
- The Premiere Interface
- The Project Window
- Creating Dynamic Titles
- The Clip Window
- Capturing and Editing with DV
- Transparency
- Transitions
- Editing in the Timeline
- Adding Video Effects
- Stop Motion
- Creating Cuts-only Videos
- Adding Motion Effects
- Storyboarding with Stills
- Adding Video Transitions
Note: While not a requirement, some students find it helpful to attend this class using two computer monitors. This will allow for one screen to always display the instructor's screen, and the other for you to use as you follow along with the instructor.
Where is this class held?
This is a live, online class led by a field expert; and just like an in-person class, it is fully interactive and engaging. The difference between an online and onsite class? No travel! You can participate from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Many of our students choose to stay home from work on these training days, some never even changing out of their slippers! Where applicable, students are able to speak with and hear from the instructor and other participants throughout the course as they work in real-time to complete activities.
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Lesson 1 – Touring Adobe Premiere Pro
- Getting started
- Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Expanding the workflow
- Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro interface
Lesson 2 – Setting Up a Project
- Getting started
- Setting up a project
- Setting up a sequence
Lesson 3 – Importing Media
- Getting started
- Importing assets
- Working with the Media Browser
- Importing images
- The media cache
- Capturing from videotape
Lesson 4 – Organizing Media
- Getting started
- The Project panel
- Working with bins
- Organizing media with content analysis
- Monitoring footage
- Modifying clips
Lesson 5 – Essentials of Video Editing
- Getting started
- Using the Source Monitor
- Navigating the Timeline
- Essential editing commands
Lesson 6 – Working with Clips and Markers
- Getting started
- Program Monitor controls
- Controlling resolution
- Using markers
- Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
- Finding gaps in the Timeline
- Moving clips
- Extracting and deleting segments
Lesson 7 – Adding Transitions
- Getting started
- What are transitions?
- Edit points and handles
- Adding video transitions
- Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
- Adding audio transitions
Lesson 8 – Advanced Editing Techniques
- Getting started
- Four-point editing
- Retiming clips
- Replacing clips and footage
- Nesting sequences
- Regular trimming
- Advanced trimming
- Trimming in the Program Monitor panel
Lesson 9 – Putting Clips in Motion
- Getting started
- Adjusting the Motion effect
- Changing clip position, size, and rotation
- Working with keyframe interpolation
- Using other motion-related effects
Lesson 10 – Multicamera Editing
- Getting started
- The multicamera process
- Creating a multicamera sequence
- Switching multiple cameras
- Finalizing multicamera editing
- Additional multicamera editing tips
Lesson 11 – Editing and Mixing Audio
- Getting started
- Setting up the interface to work with audio
- Examining audio characteristics
- Adjusting audio volume
- Adjusting audio gain
- Normalizing audio
- Creating a split edit
- Adjusting audio levels in a sequence
- Working with the Audio Mixer
Lesson 12 – Sweetening Sound
- Getting started
- Sweetening sound with audio effects
- Adjusting EQ
- Applying effects in the Audio Mixer
- Cleaning up noisy audio
Lesson 13 – Adding Video Effects
- Getting started
- Working with effects
- Keyframing effects
- Effects presets
- Frequently used effects
Lesson 14 – Color Correction and Grading
- Getting started
- Color-oriented workflow
- An overview of color-oriented effects
- Fixing exposure problems
- Fixing color balance
- Special color effects
- Creating a look
Lesson 15 – Exploring Compositing Techniques
- Getting started
- What is an alpha channel?
- Using compositing in your projects
- Working with the Opacity effect
- Working with alpha-channel transparencies
- Color keying a greenscreen shot
- Using mattes
Lesson 16 – Creating Titles
- Getting started
- An overview of the Titler window
- Video typography essentials
- Creating titles
- Stylizing text
- Working with shapes and logos
- Making text roll and crawl
Lesson 17 – Managing Your Projects
- Getting started
- The Project menu
- Using the Project Manager
- Final project management steps
- Importing projects or sequences
- Managing collaboration
- Managing your hard drives
Lesson 18 – Exporting Frames, Clips, andSequences
- Getting started
- Overview of export options
- Exporting single frames
- Exporting a master copy
- Working with Adobe Media Encoder
- Exchanging with other editing applications
- Recording to tape
About Your Instructors
Kal Hadi is a Certified Adobe Instructor with CompTIA CTT+ credentials. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of computer graphics, imaging and electronic publishing. He was recognized by Adobe as one of the top five trainers worldwide in 2009. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology Electronic Publishing graduate program. He is also the author of many books and papers in the fields of graphics and web publishing.
Sean Casella
Luisa Winter
Luisa Winters is a Certified Instructor for Adobe and Apple (ACI and ACT).
She teaches for private clients, consults for organizations, and works at several different training centers all over the United States and abroad. Luisa is one of the few Adobe Premiere Pro Master instructors. A well-known artist, Luisa often speaks at different conferences on topics ranging from video editing to compositing and web.
An accomplished violinist, Luisa was, at the age of 13, a full-time member of the National Symphony Orchestra in the Dominican Republic. While attending the legendary Peabody Conservatory (in Baltimore, MD), Luisa learned from master musicians: Henryk Szeryng, Berl Senofski, Aarond Rosand, Charles Libove, and Leon Fleisher, among others.
Expressing her art in digital form, Luisa became an editor and motion graphics artist in 1985, and has been performing both arts full-time since that point in time.
Throughout her career, Luisa has won several awards, including:
- Telly Awards
- Videographer Awards
- Aegis Awards
- WEVA Hall of Fame
- Baltimore Videographers Association Excellence Award
Christine Marsh
