Premiere CS5: Introduction

Video & Animation Courses

The growth of digital video over the last few years has been phenomenal. This Adobe authorised course is designed to enable you to get your message across with maximum impact using the powerful, flexible video editing capabilities of Adobe Premiere. The course provides a comprehensive grounding in Adobe Premiere and gives you the skills to bring your ideas to life - whether you are editing digital video for broadcast, the web or HD. Our trainers are experienced digital video editors who have produced commercial video sequences for broadcast, multimedia and the web. The course covers hints and tips on timing, project management issues and the video effects and compression methods that can make all the difference to your final video production.

Course Description

DAY ONE

Introduction to Premiere
• Premiere’s user interface
• Importing from newly supported video formats
• The Mercury playback engine
• Displaying video clips
• Viewing and defining video and audio properties
• Using presets to simplify the setting options
• Using video windows
• Using the Timeline display
• Displaying time references
• Using video insert and overlay
• Controlling audio mixing levels
• Editing in Timeline or program windows

Project management
• Browsing for multiple source files
• Using metadata
• The Sequence Settings dialog box
• Importing multiple video clips
• Using bins
• Importing different graphics and audio file formats
• The Automate to Timeline command

Editing in Premiere
• Using the time ruler
• Using Track Select
• Ripple and Roll trim tools
• Previewing and rendering using the Build command
• Solving SYNC Problems
• Locking layers

Special effects
• Using standard effects
• Using transitions
• Using Premiere’s built in effects/transitions libraries
• Hints and tips on using effects

The image processing filters
• Using colour correction
• Using blur
• Using image altering controls
• Working with text

DAY TWO

Record and play
• Capturing video and audio
• Capturing from hard disk and card-based cameras
• Variable video playback speeds
• Batch digitising multiple video clips

Motion control
• Resizing and moving video layers
• Layering digital images
• Using audio processing filters
• Support for additional effects
• Using plug-in image filters
• Using time remapping

Advanced trim options
• Slip and slide
• The Trim window
• Sync locks
• Lift and Extract edits

Professional features
• Precision audio editing
• Viewing and editing metadata
• Using Adobe OnLocation
• The Speech Analysis tool
• Compression tips and tricks
• Optimising video playback
• Transcription and Speech Search
• The Find Faces command

Exporting your project
• Finding and removing gaps in the timeline
• Using Adobe Media Encoder
• DV, HDV and High Definition video formats
• Importing from and exporting to Avid and Final Cut

Export options
• Exporting for broadcast
• Exporting for High Definition
• Exporting for the web
• Exporting for mobile devices
• Using Device Central
• Embedding video into a PDF file for distribution
• Tips and good practice

Practical exercises

Questions and answers