Adobe Video Introduction Masterclass

This 5-day Masterclass course will give you a comprehensive introduction to both Adobe After Effects CC and Adobe Premiere Pro CC. We will help you understand how these industry-leading programs take digital-video editing, visual effects, and motion graphics to a new level.

Using After Effects for the first 2 days, you will use powerful tools to add a slick, professional look to all your movie projects. Switching to Premiere Pro for the final 3 days you will learn the fundamentals of non-linear editing techniques to create and edit video output that combines footage, audio, and still images. Our tips on both programs are sure to enhance the quality and creativity of your visual output.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Premiere Pro and After Effects environments
• Organise video projects
• Assemble and fine-tune clip sequences
• Apply transitions and special effects
• Add titles and credits
• Make and refine rough cuts
• Import and adjust audio clips
• Create intermediate animations
• Understand keyframe manipulation and interpolation
• Work with layers, masks, and mattes
• Use colour effectively
• Export video and project files

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

• Create a Composition
• Import Media
• Create Layers from Footage Items
• Position Layers in Time

• Animate Transform Properties
• Duplicate Properties
• Control Appearance of Vector Graphics
• Create Animated Text
• Apply Effects
• Apply Text Animation Presets
• Set Blending Modes for Layers
• Create Solids

• Replace the Footage Within a Layer
• Set a Layer's In and Out Points
• Slip Edit Layers
• Control a Layer's Playback Rate
• Loop a Footage Item
• Nest Compositions
• Pre-compose Layers

• Assign Track Mattes
• Create Masks

• Create a Render Settings Template
• Create an Output Module Template
• Render a Composition
• Export a Composition

• Incorporating the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio into the workflow
• Customising the workspace
• Placing clips on a sequence
• Arranging and trimming clips
• Editing a Photoshop layered graphic
• Compositing graphics using a nested sequence

• Capturing video
• Capturing an entire tape
• Using batch capture and scene detection
• Tackling manual analogue movie capture

• Selecting project settings
• Adjusting user preferences
• Importing assets
• Image and graphics issues
• Managing media in the Project panel
• Working with assets in Adobe Bridge

• Using a storyboard to build a rough cut
• Editing clips on the Timeline
• Moving clips to, from and within the Timeline
• Source Monitor editing tools
• Adjusting clips in the Trim panel

• Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel
• A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
• Sampling some basic video effects
• Manipulating keyframes and effects
• Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity

• Supers
• Changing text parameters
• Putting text on a path
• Creating shapes
• Making text roll and crawl
• Deconstructing effects

• Applying the Motion effect to clips
• Changing clip size and adding rotation
• Working with keyframe interpolation
• Putting pictures-in-a-picture
• Enhancing motion with shadows and bevelled edges
• Other motion effects: Transform
• Basic D and Camera View

• Voicing professional narrations
• Premiere Pro:A high-quality aural experience
• Adjusting audio volume
• Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
• Sweetening sound with audio effects
• Stereo and surround sound effects
• Working with the Audio Mixer
• Outputting tracks to submixes
• Recording voice-overs
• Creating a surround sound mix

• Making compositing part of your projects
• Working with the Opacity effect
• Two multiple track video effects: Blend and Texturize
• Alpha channel transparencies, Chroma, colour & luminance keying effects
• Using matte keys

• Project Menu overview
• Using the Project Manager
• Conducting a Clip Notes review
• High definition video and film features

• Colour oriented effects
• Adjusting & Enhancing Colour
• Using nested sequences

• Export options
• Recording to videotape
• Exporting a single frame
• Creating standard movie image sequence and audio files
• Using the Adobe Media Encoder
• Working with edit decision lists
• Exporting to DVD