Premiere Pro CS5 and CS5.5 Digital Classroom Book with video training
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and CS5.5 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace. This Premiere Pro CS5 and CS5.5 book with DVD includes 11 self-paced lessons helping you learn essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Full color lessons with easy to follow step-by-step instructions
- Video tutorials highlight key topics in each lesson
- Covers all essential Premiere Pro skills
- Gets you up-and-running quickly with included Premiere Pro lesson files on DVD
- Written by expert instructors who regularly teach Premiere Pro training courses – it's like having your own personal tutor
- Used by hundreds of schools and more than 100,000 readers
Premiere Pro CS5 and CS5.5 Digital Classroom Book with video training Contents
Starting Up
- About Digital Classroom
- Prerequisites
- System requirements
- Starting Adobe Premiere Pro
- Resetting the Adobe Premiere Pro preferences
- Loading lesson files
- Opening Premiere Pro files in version CS5.5
- Locating missing media
- Working with the video tutorials
- Setting up for viewing the video tutorials
- Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player
- Additional resources
- Book series
- Training & Professional Development for Educators
- Resources for educators
Lesson 1: Understanding Digital Video
- Starting up
- Understanding Digital Non-linear Editing
- Understanding video settings
- Editing vs. Delivery formats
- High definition vs. standard definition
- Progressive vs. Interlaced
- Premiere Pro Presets
- Overview of the post production workflow
- Media Acquisition
- Editorial Development
- Graphics Development
- Audio Development
- Finishing
- Mastering
- Output and Delivery
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 2: Understanding the Workspace
- Starting up
- Understanding the Premiere Pro interface
- Understanding the default Editing workspace
- Understanding the Tools
- Customizing the interface
- Opening, closing & moving panels
- Creating custom workspaces
- Setting application preferences
- Using the Project panel
- Understanding media management
- Creating and organizing bins
- Modifying the Project panel display
- Locating missing media
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 3: Making the Cut
- Starting up
- The cuts-only editing methodology
- A-roll vs. B-roll
- Cut-ins and Cut-aways
- Cutting on Action
- Trimming clips in the Source Monitor
- Using multiple video tracks
- Adding and Deleting tracks
- Renaming Tracks
- Adding Clips to the Timeline
- Trimming clips on the Timeline
- Using the Razor tool
- Making an Insert Edit
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 4: Using Video Transitions
- Starting up
- Understanding Video Transitions
- Adding transitions to video clips
- Changing the time code display
- Preparing a clip to receive transitions
- Adding a transition between clips
- Editing transition settings
- Creating an image slideshow
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 5: Working with Graphics
- Starting up
- Creating titles in Premiere Pro
- Using the Titler
- Creating a lower third
- Adding text to the Titler
- Formatting Text Boxes
- Formatting Text
- Creating shapes
- Adding images to a title
- Saving a title style
- Creating a title overlay track
- Saving a title for later reuse
- Creating an ending credit roll
- Controlling the speed of a title roll
- Editing titles
- Working with Photoshop files
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Animating the position of clips
- Animating the opacity of Clips
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 6: Using Video Effects
- Starting up
- What are video effects?
- Applying Video Effects
- Creating a Black & White effect
- Animating the opacity of clips
- Adjusting the tonality of clips
- Working with track mattes
- Preparing the clip for a Track Matte
- Applying and editing the Track Matte Key effect
- Using the Ultra Keyer
- Creating a garbage matte
- Applying the Ultra Key
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 7: Working with Audio
- Starting up
- Understanding digital audio
- Mono, stereo and 5.1 surround sound
- Stripping audio from a video file
- Audio channel mapping
- Adding audio tracks to the Timeline
- Making a Three-Point Edit
- Setting volume keyframes
- Improving audio in Premiere Pro
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 8: Advanced Editing Techniques
- Starting up
- Creating subclips
- Using Automate to sequence
- Making a Three-Point edit
- Setting an In Point on the Timeline
- Setting In and Out Points on a clip
- Ripple and Roll Edits
- Slip and Slide Edits
- Adjusting the clip speed
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 9: Outputting Your Video
- Starting up
- Output for the Web and Desktop
- Flash Video & the Flash player
- Windows Media & the Silverlight player
- QuickTime video & the QuickTime player
- HTML 5 Video
- Understanding Formats and Codecs
- Understanding Temporal and spatial compression
- Understanding Bit rate
- Understanding Frame Rate and Resolution
- Understanding Aspect Ratio and Pixel Aspect Ratio
- Progressive display vs. Interlacing 224
Exporting an H.264 file for mobile devices - Creating a custom export preset 229
Exporting with the Adobe Media Encoder - Self study
- Review
Lesson 10: Capturing and Transferring Footage
- Starting up
- Creating a new project
- Creating a new Sequence
- Creating a capture bin
- Capturing from a tape-based camera
- Transferring from a non-tape based camera
- Backing up a project with Project
- Manager
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 11: Using Adobe Encore
- Starting up
- Understanding the DVD/Blu-ray/Flash authoring process
- Understanding DVD formatting
- Understanding Blu-ray formatting
- About the Project
- Exporting an MPEG-2 DVD file
- Creating a new Encore project
- Using Adobe Dynamic Link in Encore
- Creating a Timeline
- Renaming chapter markers
- Organizing the Project panel
- Creating Menus
- Linking buttons to chapter markers
- Linking menus with buttons
- Setting a first play item
- Previewing a DVD
- Setting End and Override actions
- Outputting the project
- Self study
- Review
Appendices
- Appendix A: The Premiere Pro Panels
- Appendix B: Adobe Premiere Pro Keyboard Shortcuts
- Appendix C: Premiere Pro Input and Output formats
- Appendix D: Recording Audio in Premiere Pro
- Appendix E: Cleaning up Audio in Adobe Soundbooth
- Appendix F: Premiere Pro CS5.5 New Features