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Adobe Premiere 101: An Overview of Premiere CS3
Three Day Premiere Training Course

This Level 1 course provides powerful real-time video and audio editing tools that give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production. This course helps you work with basic through advanced concepts and features of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. We also offer one-on-one or onsite Premiere CS3 training.

Adobe Premiere Training is for designers and corporate communications professionals who need an essential understanding of digital video and editing.

No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management, and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

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Overview of Premiere

  1. What is Premiere?
  2. Kind of media that is typically created with Premiere
  3. What kind of media can be captured with Premiere
  4. What kind of media can be imported into Premiere
  5. Distinction between Premiere and Apple Final Cut Pro
  6. Advantages of Adobe product integration:
  7. Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator
  8. What is QuickTime?
  9. Understanding video production
  10. A typical digital video work environment setup
  11. A typical Premiere workflow sequence

Project Management

  1. Understanding digital video
  2. Determine what type of media output is required for your
    Premiere project
  3. Determine the playback format for final output
  4. What restrictions are there for the project’s physical window
    frame size?
  5. What restrictions are there for the project’s time base?
  6. What restrictions are there for the project’s frame rate?
  7. What restrictions are there for graphical screen-based assets?
  8. What restrictions are there for video assets?
  9. What restrictions are there for audio assets?
  10. Docking palettes

Setting Up a Premiere Project

  1. Assigning RAM to the program (if not using Mac OSX)
  2. Booting up Premiere for A-B cuts editing
  3. Setting Premiere Preferences
  4. Creating a Premiere “Project”
  5. Understanding and navigating the Premiere workspace

Capturing Digital Video into a Premiere Environment

  1. What is Firewire IEEE 1394?
  2. Can I capture analog video into the Premiere environment?
  3. Setting capture preferences

Importing and Manipulating Video Clips

  1. Importing QuickTime movies
  2. Video compression issues
  3. Time-base issues
  4. Frame rate issues
  5. Laying video clips into the Timeline
  6. Changing video clip properties
  7. Animating video clips
 Importing and Manipulating Sound
  1. Sound basics: Music, narrative, sound effects
  2. Importing audio assets into Premiere
  3. Audio compression issues
  4. Manipulating sound cues in the Timeline
  5. Synching sound to visual events
  6. Controlling sound volume and sound fades
  7. Using sound filters

Importing and Manipulating Graphics

  1. Importing raster Photoshop layered files
  2. Importing vector images created in Illustrator
  3. Working with graphical footage
  4. Editing graphical footage tracks
  5. Editing files with an external editor from within Premiere
  6. Superimposing graphics over other visual assets

Working with Transitions and Effects

  1. Understanding the utility of transitions
  2. Applying transitions in Premiere’s transitions track
  3. Performing color correction

Creating Titles

  1. Using Premiere’s title generation features

Importing and Manipulating After Effects Projects

  1. Understanding Adobe After Effects
  2. Importing After Effects compositions into Premiere
  3. Editing After Effects compositions using After Effects as an
    external editor from within Premiere
  4. Editing Premiere projects using Premiere as an external editor
    from within After Effects


Final Project File Rendering

  1. Testing for final export
  2. Creating digital video output or output to video tape
  3. Choosing rendering options
  4. Exporting an EDL

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