Course Title:

Premiere Introduction

Duration:

2 days

Prerequisites:

No previous Premiere experience is required

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This two day course provides an excellent introduction to digital video - predicted to be one of the fastest growing areas over the next few years

Adobe Premiere is the industry standard digital video editing tool. Premiere’s powerful editing features allow you easily to combine composite video, DV, audio, animation, still images and graphics in a single presentation

This two day intensive course will give you a comprehensive grounding in Adobe Premiere and provide the skills to bring your ideas to life. The course covers hints and tips on timing, video effects and compression methods that can make all the difference to your final video production

Our trainers are experienced digital video editors who have produced commercial video sequences for broadcast, multimedia and the web

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INTRODUCTION TO PREMIERE

Premiere’s user interface
Importing a video clip
Displaying video clips
Viewing and defining video and audio properties
Displaying video clips
Using presets to simplify the setting options
Using video windows
Using jog and shuttle
Using the Timeline display
Displaying time references
Using the Info window
Using video insert and overlay
Controlling audio mixing levels
Editing in Timeline or program windows

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Accessing multiple source material
Using thumbnails and clip descriptions
Using the Project Settings dialog box
Importing multiple video clips
Importing different graphics and audio file formats
Importing from CD
Using the Automate to Timeline command

EDITING

Using the time ruler
Using the Track Select, Rolling edit and the sliding edit tools
Previewing and rendering using the Ripple tool

RIPPLE DELETE

Solving SYNC Problems
Locking layers

SPECIAL EFFECTS

Using standard effects
Using transitions
Using Premiere’s built in effects/transitions library
Hints and tips on using effects

THE IMAGE PROCESSING FILTERS

Using colour replace
Using blur
Using emboss
Using image pan
Creating video noise

Questions and answers

RECORD AND PLAY

Capturing video and audio
Playing video footage from the hard disk
Variable video playback speeds
Moving instantly to any frame
Batch digitising multiple video clips
Automatic timecodes
Manual timecodes

MOTION CONTROL

Animating video clips along a path
Layering digital images
Using audio processing filters
Support for additional effects
Using plug-in image filters

VIDEO ASSEMBLY AND OUTPUT

Select and drag assembly of segments
Outputting at different sizes
Outputting at different frame rates
Quicktime compression modules
Using Save for Web output
Using Advanced Windows Media export
Advanced RealMedia export
Using web markers

COMPOSITING/SUPERIMPOSING

Working with layers
Chromakey techniques
Generating mattes in Premiere
Using multilevel transparencies
Keying separate levels

PROFESSIONAL FEATURES

Working with virtual clips
Precision audio editing
Exporting from Adobe Premiere
Compression methods
Optimising video playback

EXPORTING YOUR PROJECT

Exporting options
Exporting for multimedia
Exporting for the web
Codecs
Tips and good practice

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Questions and answers

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