Course Overview
This course is designed for those
who want to take their editing skills in Adobe Premiere CS3 to the level
of a professional editor. This is a two day ¿power user' course which will
enable you to increase your productivity and expand your range of creative
choices. We also recommend this course for those planning to gain Adobe
Certified Expert status.
The course covers advanced editing
techniques, media management issues, getting the best from Premiere's and
After Effects' filters, optimising your system, working with sound,
visually effective ways of working with text, working with motion and
transparency, optimising video for broadcast, multimedia and the web and
the options available when exporting for DVD.
Course content
DAY
ONE
Overview of features
· Media handling
· Effective
media management
· Batch capture procedures
· How to recapture
material into a project
· Archiving Premiere projects
·
Effective use of scratch disks
Optimising your system
· Working
in realtime: what hardware is needed?
· Adding a PAL or NTSC monitor
·
Setting external video parameters
· Opening multiple projects
·
Checking playback settings
· Working with third party video capture
cards
Advanced editing
· Using Ripple and Roll
· Using
Slip and Slide
· Replacing clips retaining attributes (eg: filters)
·
Using the Trim window
· AB vs single track editing
· Unlinking
video and audio
· Editing hints and tips
· Using multiple,
nestable timelines
· Inserting FLV cue points
Working with
effects
· Using Effects controls
· Channel and Directional blur
·
Masking effects
· Using After Effects filters
· Keyframing
effects
Importing files
· Importing from Photoshop
·
Importing Photoshop layers as a sequence
· Using effective graphics
·
Photoshop integrations
· Working with transparency and Alpha channels
Customising
keyboard shortcuts
More about text
· Using the text tool
·
Looking at optimised fonts
· Using text on a path
· Using
kerning and leading
· Using textures
· Creating rollers and
crawls
· Creating text backing straps
· Hints and tips for
effective text creation
Using sound
· Sample level editing
·
VST filters
· Nesting sound tracks without rendering
· Track
based effects
· 5.1 surround sound
Working with motion and
transparency
· Setting keyframes
· Using alpha channels
·
Using the colour key
· Using a track matte
· Using improved
slo-mo
· Time remapping
Exporting video
· Exporting to
tape
· Exporting for broadcast
· The importance of
de-interlacing
· Integration with After Effects
· Exporting for
the web
· Exporting stills
· Output to mobile devices
·
An effective export guide
Exporting to DVD
· The Export to DVD
feature
· Burning to DVD
· Integrating with Adobe Encore DVD
·
Using the Quicktime and Adobe MPEG formats
· Encoders
· Working
with variable bit rates
· Hints and tips on producing effective material
Questions
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