This training course reviews the basic concepts and definitions as well as the audiovisual production workflow, then teaches you how to use the interface, create a project and sequences, import and manage media, organize sources in bins, edit a video, apply effects, add titles and subtitles, create and animate masks, integrate a voice-over, sound effects, and music, color grade footage with the Lumetri panel, and export projects using current standards.
Objectives
By the end of the training course, the participant will be able to design, edit, enhance, color grade, and export an audiovisual project.
Is it for you ?
This e-learning course is intended for anyone who is a beginner with Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as those who already have basic knowledge and wish to further their skills. It relies on concrete examples of progressive difficulty and will allow you to master the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Prerequisite
No prerequisites; however, some knowledge of photo editing will make understanding certain features easier.
Your benefits
Content
Introduction
- Video standards: formats, codecs, sizes, frame rates, bitrates
- The video production workflow
- Definition of key terms
Acquisition and starting a video project
- Creating a new project
- The concept of proxies
- Workspaces and panels
- Organizing folders and importing media
- Managing missing project files (broken links)
- Different project bin views (List, Icon)
- Organizing bin content
- Creating a search bin
- Indexing elements
- Source monitor and program monitor
- The editing area, timeline, and tracks
- Creating a sequence via drag-and-drop
- Creating a sequence based on a preset
- Creating a sequence preset
- Managing sequence and clip setting mismatches
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
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Editing and managing clips in the timeline
- Beginning the logging process in the source monitor: adding markers, In and Out points
- Optimizing logging with J, K, and L keyboard shortcuts
- Precisely placing the playhead using timecode
- Inserting an audio and/or video clip into the sequence
- Adjusting zoom and the height of audio and video tracks in the timeline
- Using the program monitor assistant to insert or overwrite clips
- Performing a rough cut of clips
- Navigating from clip to clip in the timeline
- Looping the entire sequence or a specific range
- Inserting a clip between two existing clips
- Replacing an existing clip with another, accounting or not for the original duration
- Moving clips in the sequence
- Performing cuts
- Performing a trim: reducing the length of a clip or redistributing two adjacent clips
- Moving the cut between two clips
- Slipping the start or end of a clip with the Selection tool
- Modifying the duration and/or speed of a clip
- Exercise 1: Importing clips into a bin and performing a rough cut of a sequence
Transitions and effects
- Adding a transition between two clips
- Effect Controls panel
- Creating an image mosaic
- Applying a crop effect
- Concepts of speed and duration
- Modifying clip speed by cutting the source clip
- Accelerating or slowing down speed between keyframes
- Exercise 2: Opening an edited sequence, speeding it up, and applying a zoom
Titles and subtitles
- Managing green screen: applying a crop and an Ultra Key effect
- Copying and pasting clip attributes to other clips and applying a zoom to a character
- Inserting a background
- Inserting a title with the Type tool
- Formatting text
- Animating text: modifying opacity, size, and position
- Inserting an animated title from the Essential Graphics panel
- Adding text related to voice
- Adding subtitles via auto-transcription
- Exporting video with subtitles in an SCC file for YouTube
- Exporting video with burned-in subtitles
- Adding an .SCC file to an already published YouTube video
- Exercise 3: Adding an intro title, text overlays, and exporting the video
Masks
- Inserting an opacity mask
- Animating an opacity mask with the tracking tool and Lumetri Color tool
- Manually animating an opacity mask
- Blurring a face using an opacity mask
- Juxtaposing two clips using an opacity mask
- Using the Track Matte Key effect to reveal images through text
- Exercise 4: Animating an opacity mask with the tracking tool and Lumetri Color tool
Working with audio
- Optimizing volume and adjusting levels
- Improving voice audio
- Applying a fade-in and fade-out to an audio track
- Managing sound and image synchronization/desynchronization
- Recording and editing a voiceover
- Mixing a voiceover and music
- Pacing a musical edit with markers
- Exercise 5: Adding music
Color grading
- The Color workspace, Lumetri Color panel, and Lumetri Scopes
- Applying basic corrections
- Applying creative adjustments
- Using RGB curves
- Copying/pasting color settings from one clip to another
- Comparing color settings of two clips with the comparison view
- Correcting HSL Secondary and vignetting
- Exercise 6: Color grading clips with correct white balance and luminance
Finalizing an edit and exporting
- Exporting an entire clip
- Exporting a clip fragment with nested sequences
- Exporting a clip with various settings using Adobe Media Encoder
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