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Premiere Pro CS4 Advanced

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Advanced

Overview
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 is a powerful program for editing digital video. Premiere helps you create dynamic video or film. This course helps you understand and work with basic through advanced concepts and features of Adobe Premiere. You will run through a typical series of steps for creating, editing and fine tuning a series of video pieces. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.

Who Should Attend
Graphic professionals who need an advanced understanding of photo editing. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.

Prerequisites
Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn

  • Voicing professional narrations
  • The audio mixer
  • Compositing
  • Alpha channels
  • Matte keys
  • The Project Manager
  • High definition video features
  • Photoshop tips for DV productions
  • The Adobe Media Encoder
  • Text animation
  • DVD menu templates

LESSON PLANS

  • Acquiring and Editing Audio
  • Setting up a recording-area
  • Voicing professional narrations
  • Examining audio characteristics
  • Adjusting audio volume
  • Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
  • Mixing and Audio Effects
  • Sweetening sound with audio effects
  • Trying out stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects
  • Working with the audio mixer
  • Outputting tracks to submixes
  • Recording voice-overs
  • Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
  • Moving up to professional editing with Adobe Audition
  • Compositing Techniques
  • Making compositing part of your projects
  • Working with the Opacity effect
  • Two multiple track video effects: Blend and Texturize
  • Working with alpha channel transparancies
  • Applied chroma, color and luminance keying effects
  • Using matte keys
  • Enhancing Color, Editing Tips, & Shortcuts
  • An overview of color-oriented effects
  • Adjusting and enhancing color
  • Using nested sequences
  • Three quick editing techniques
  • Recommended keyboard shortcuts
  • Project Management
  • Project Menu overview
  • Using the Project Manager
  • Conducting a Clip Notes review
  • High definition video and film features
  • Using Photoshop and After Effects in Your DV Project
  • Introducing Photoshop CS4
  • Demonstrating Photoshop CS4 basics
  • Photoshop tips for DV productions
  • Editing Encore DVD menus in Photoshop
  • Text animation with After Effects
  • Using effects and Motion Tracker
  • Exporting Frames, Clips and 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 DVD
  • Authoring DVDs with Premiere Pro and Encore DVD
  • Overview of DVD authoring in Premiere Pro CS4
  • Previewing Your DVD project
  • Adding DVD markers to the
  • Creating an auto-play DVD with markers
  • Using DVD menu templates
  • Authoring with Encore DVD