​Premiere Pro Class - Introduction: Course Topics

Understanding digital video: foundations for Premiere Pro editing

 

• Understanding video settings

• Input & output formats

• Dimensions, framerate and pixel aspect ratio

• Online and social media video standards

• Understanding timecode

Learning the Premiere Pro interface 

 

• Understanding the default workspaces

• Switching and resetting Premiere Pro workspaces

• Working with Premiere Pro panels 

• Understanding the application tools

• Setting application preferences

• Appearance & memory

• Using the project panel

• Understanding media management & creating and organizing bins

• Using the media browser panel

• Previewing clips: hover scrub vs source monitor

• Transcoding video

• Locating missing media in Premiere Pro: where it is located and what it is named

Learning to edit clips in the Premiere Pro timeline   

 

• The cuts-only editing methodology: continuity editing

• A Roll vs. B Roll

• Cut-ins and cut-aways; cutting on action

• Working with multiple video tracks

• Adding and deleting tracks

• Renaming tracks

• Trimming clips in the Premiere Pro source monitor

• Adding clips to the timeline

• Making insert and overwrite edits

• Using the timeline editing tools

• Markers: timeline vs clip

Using video & audio transitions in Premiere Pro

 

• Understandi​ng transitions

• Adding transitions to video clips

• Preparing a clip to receive transitions

• Editing transition settings

• Adding an audio transition

Learning to use Premiere Pro graphics

 

• Understanding the uses of titles in video

• Creating graphic clips in Premiere Pro

• Adding images to a graphic clip

• Using the legacy titler

• Creating an end credit roll

• Controlling the speed of a rolling title

• Working with graphic clips on the timeline

• Creating a graphics template

Working with imported graphics in Premiere Pro

 

• Working with Photoshop  and Illustrator Files in Premiere Pro

• Importing layered Photoshop files into Premiere Pro projects

• Understanding and animating static clip effects

• Understanding position, scale, rotation and opacity with Premiere Pro

• Using Premiere Pro to add transitions and effects to images

Using Premiere Pro Video Effects

 

• Understanding video effects in Premiere Pro

• Animating static clip effects

• Adjusting position, scale, rotation, and opacity for video in Premiere Pro

• Applying Premiere pro video effects to clips

• Understanding the Premiere Pro timeline vs project panel

Using greenscreen footage in Premiere Pro

 

• Creating a garbage matte in Premiere Pro

• Working with the ultra keyer

Learning to stabilize shaky footage with Premiere

 

• Evaluating shaky footage

• Using the warp stabilizer

Introduction to Premiere Pro audio editing

 

• Understanding clip audio

• Working with various audio types including standard, mono, and 5.1 audio

• Using the essential audio panel

• Assigning audio clip types in Premiere

• Animating clip volume

Outputting video from Premiere Pro

 

• Exporting video from Premiere Pro

• Understanding Adobe Media Encoder export from Premiere Pro

• Exporting video directly from Premiere Pro

• Exporting video from Premiere Pro for social media (facebook, twitter, etc.) & Mobile Devices

• Exporting video from Premiere Pro for desktop and broadband distribution

• Understanding video file settings including video dimensions, formats and codecs, bit-rate, frame rate, aspect ratio when exporting from Premiere Pro.