Adobe Digital Video Collection

Objectives

This course is aimed at all those excited by the possibilities of creating their own movies using digital technologies. Delivered by a senior consultant with several years experience in video techniques, the course features affordable, industry-standard hardware and software. Delegates take away a completed DVD of their work, usually of around 15 minutes duration.


Pre-requisites:

Good general skills in desktop computing. Some previous experience of using digital video camera is helpful but not essential.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Capturing


· The Premiere Pro capture window
· Good practice
· Batch capture
· File organisation
· Offline vs. Online


Basic Editing


· Importing files
· Trimming clips
· In points and out points
· Overlay vs. insert edits
· Ripple deleting


Transitions and effects


· Creating a simple transition
· Creating a crossfade
· What are Keyframes?
· Applying Keyframes
· Keyframing volume, scale and opacity
· Working with Photoshop files in Premiere


Export


· Audition/Premiere integration
· Exporting for hard disk playback
· Exporting to tape
· Exporting to DVD
· Exporting for Encore


Titles


· The After Effects interface
· Keyframes in After Effects
· Importing Photoshop files and Illustrator files into After Effects

Session Four: Storyboarding
Using Adobe Premiere Pro , delegates will storyboard their main movie and look at settings appropriate to different formats, as well as importing files from multiple sources including Photoshop, Illustrator and their title sequence from session three.
Day Two
Session One/Two: The Timeline
Delegates will learn the principle timeline editing tools of Premiere Pro e.g. ripple, roll, timeline editing, rate and stretch, and also create nested timelines and reuseable sequences.






Blending


· The magic of blending modes
· Creating simple titles
· Applying effects in After Effects
· Exporting from After Effects


Sound


· Creating a session in Audition
· The Audition interface
· Working in multitrack view
· Creating background music using loops


Cleaning Sound


· Sharing files between Premiere/Audition
· Cleaning up a file in Audition
· Noise Reduction
· The Edit View
· Click and pop elimination
· Normalising
· Amplifying
· Converting mono to stereo
· Exporting from Audition


Creating a DVD


· The Encore interface
· Editing in Encore
· Importing Assets: Timelines, menus
· Roundtripping to Photoshop
· Creating a first play interface
· Chapters
· Previewing your project
· Creating "live" menus
· Exporting from Encore