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Premiere Pro Bootcamp

Premiere Pro Bootcamp
Premiere Pro Bootcamp: Course Summary
This comprehensive Premiere Pro training teaches foundational skills through advanced topics over four consecutive days. The Premiere Pro bootcamp covers the same materials as the introductory and advanced Premiere Pro courses, although it is delivered as a one-week intensive. Participants learn to create and edit digital video for film, video, and online use. The bootcamp starts with entry-level topics then migrates to more advanced skills as the week progresses. If you would prefer to take the introductory and advanced courses separately, you can find dates for them in the Premiere Pro classes section of our site.
All Premiere Pro classes are led by experienced professionals with extensive backgrounds with video editing, capture, post production, and a solid understanding of media production. Our instructors the authors of the Premiere Pro Digital Classroom book, published by AGI and Wiley.
Premiere Pro Bootcamp: Dates and Times
This comprehensive Premiere Pro training occurs over four consecutive days, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, with a one hour break for lunch mid-day. See the course schedule for specific dates.
This course is available individually or as part of these certificate programs:
Premiere Pro Bootcamp - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
Premiere Pro Bootcamp: Course Topics
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
- Understanding 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.
Advanced Editing in Premiere Pro
- Using the Trim View
- Slip, Slide and Rolling Edit Tools
- Match frames
- Nested timelines (Sequences)
Masking Techniques in Premiere Pro
- Using keys
- Using matte keys
- Garbage mattes
- Color mattes
- Track mattes
- Advanced transitions
- Advanced Audio editing in Premiere
Integrating Photoshop with Premiere Pro
- Animating
- Importing layers as a sequence
- Alpha channels
- Updating Photoshop files
Integrating After Effects with Premiere Pro
- Working with Premiere projects in After Effects
- Non-destructive integration
Integrating Audition with Premiere Pro
Overview of editing audio from a Premiere Pro Project file using Audition
Color Correction in Premiere Pro
- Creating a new reference monitor window
- Gang to reference monitor feature
- Working with color scopes
- 3 Point Color Correction
- Color Match
DVD export in Premiere Pro
- Using sequence markers
- Adding chapter information
- Encoding using Adobe Media Encoder
Update on new Features in Premiere Pro
- Interface improvements
- Changes to the workspace
Premiere Pro Bootcamp: Course Prerequisites
We recommend that you have the Premiere Pro application before starting the class. You can purchase subscriptions to Creative Cloud or obtain a trial version from the Adobe website. If attending class in our classrooms, a computer and the application are provided for use during the class. If attending a Premiere class online, check system requirements to ensure you can run Premiere Pro on your computer. It is important to have Premiere Pro installed before the start of class.
It is recommended that before taking the Premiere Pro class, you have experience with basic content creation and an understanding of the production process.
Premiere Pro Bootcamp: Course Materials
Course participants receive a copy of the Premiere Pro Digital Classroom book in digital format, written by our instructors. Our team of instructors has created many official training guides and books for Adobe Systems, and you have an opportunity to learn from the authors, contributors, and editors to this well-respected Premiere Pro training book.
You can view examples of some of the Premiere Pro tutorials created by our training staff to gain a better understanding of the quality of our training materials.