Premiere Pro Class - Introduction

Understanding digital video: foundations for Premiere Pro editing

• Understanding video settings
• Input & output formats
• Dimensions, framerate and pixel aspect ratio
• Online and social media video standards
• Understanding timecode

Learning the Premiere Pro interface 

• Understanding the default workspaces
• Switching and resetting Premiere Pro workspaces
• Working with Premiere Pro panels 
• Understanding the application tools
• Setting application preferences
• Appearance & memory
• Using the project panel
• Understanding media management & creating and organizing bins
• Using the media browser panel
• Previewing clips: hover scrub vs source monitor
• Transcoding video
• Locating missing media  in Premiere Pro: where it is located and what it is named

Learning to edit clips in the Premiere Pro timeline   

• The cuts-only editing methodology: continuity editing
• A Roll vs. B Roll
• Cut-ins and cut-aways; cutting on action
• Working with multiple video tracks
• Adding and deleting tracks
• Renaming tracks
• Trimming clips in the Premiere Pro source monitor
• Adding clips to the timeline
• Making insert and overwrite edits
• Using the timeline editing tools
• Markers: timeline vs clip

Using video & audio transitions in Premiere Pro

• Understandi​ng transitions
• Adding transitions to video clips
• Preparing a clip to receive transitions
• Editing transition settings
• Adding an audio transition

Learning to use Premiere Pro graphics

• Understanding the uses of titles in video
• Creating graphic clips in Premiere Pro
• Adding images to a graphic clip
• Using the legacy titler
• Creating an end credit roll
• Controlling the speed of a rolling title
• Working with graphic clips on the timeline
• Creating a graphics template

Working with imported graphics in Premiere Pro

• Working with Photoshop  and Illustrator Files in Premiere Pro
• Importing layered Photoshop files into Premiere Pro projects
• Understanding and animating static clip effects
• Understanding position, scale, rotation and opacity with Premiere Pro
• Using Premiere Pro to add transitions and effects to images

Using Premiere Pro Video Effects

• Understanding video effects in Premiere Pro
• Animating static clip effects
• Adjusting position, scale, rotation, and opacity for video in Premiere Pro
• Applying Premiere pro video effects to clips
• Understanding the Premiere Pro timeline vs project panel

Using greenscreen footage in Premiere Pro

• Creating a garbage matte in Premiere Pro
• Working with the ultra keyer

Learning to stabilize shaky footage with Premiere

• Evaluating shaky footage
• Using the warp stabilizer

Introduction to Premiere Pro audio editing

• Understanding clip audio
• Working with various audio types including standard, mono, and 5.1 audio
• Using the essential audio panel
• Assigning audio clip types in Premiere
• Animating clip volume

Outputting video from Premiere Pro

• Exporting video from Premiere Pro
• Understanding Adobe Media Encoder export from Premiere Pro
• Exporting video directly from Premiere Pro
• Exporting video from Premiere Pro for social media (facebook, twitter, etc.) & Mobile Devices
• Exporting video from Premiere Pro for desktop and broadband distribution
• Understanding video file settings including video dimensions, formats and codecs, bit-rate, frame rate, aspect ratio when exporting from Premiere Pro.