Premiere Pro CC Course Outline

Lesson 1: Touring Adobe Premiere Pro CC
■ Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
■ Expanding the workflow
■ Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro interface

Lesson 2: Setting up a Project
■ Setting up a project
■ Setting up a sequence

Lesson 3: Importing Media
■ Importing assets
■ Working with the Media Browser
■ Importing images
■ The media cache
■ Capturing the videotape

Lesson 4: Organizing Media
■ The Project panel
■ Working with bins
■ Organizing media with content analysis
■ Monitoring footage
■ Modifying clips

Lesson 5: Essentials of Video Editing
■ Using the Source Monitor
■ Navigating the Timeline
■ Essential editing commands

Lesson 6: Working with Clips and Markers
■ Program Monitor controls
■ Controlling resolution
■ Using markers
■ Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
■ Finding gaps in the Timeline
■ Moving clips
■ Extracting and deleting segments

Lesson 7: Adding Transitions
■ What are transitions?
■ Edit points and handles
■ Adding video transitions
■ Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
■ Adding audio transitions

Lesson 8: Advanced Editing Techniques
■ Four-point editing
■ Retiming clips
Replacing clips and footage
■ Nesting sequences
■ Regular trimming
■ Advanced trimming
■ Trimming in the Program Monitor panel

Lesson 9: Putting Clips in Motion
■ Adjusting the Motion effect
■ Changing clip position, size, and rotation
■ Working with keyframe interpolation
■ Using other motion-related effects

Lesson 10: Multi-camera Editing
■ The multi-camera process
■ Creating a multi-camera sequence
■ Switching multiple cameras
■ Finalizing multi-camera editing
■ Additional multi-camera editing tips

Lesson 11: Editing and Mixing Audio
■ Setting up the interface to work with audio
■ Examining audio characteristics
■ Adjusting audio volume
■ Adjusting audio gain
■ Normalizing audio
■ Creating a split edit
■ Adjusting audio levels in a sequence
■ Working with the Audio Mixer

Lesson 12: Sweetening Sound
■ Sweetening sound with audio effects
■ Adjusting EQ
■ Applying effects in the Audio Mixer
■ Cleaning up noisy audio

Lesson 13: Adding Video Effects
■ Working with effects
■ Keyframing effects
■ Effects presets
■ Frequently used effects

Lesson 14: Color Correction and Grading
■ Color-oriented workflow
■ An overview of color-oriented effects
■ Fixing exposure problems
■ Fixing color balance
■ Specials color effects
■ Creating a look

Lesson 15: Exploring Compositing Techniques
■ What is an alpha channel?
■ Using compositing in your projects
■ Working with the Opacity effect
■ Working with alpha-channel transparencies
■ Color keying a greenscreen shot
■ Using mattes

Lesson 16: Creating Titles
■ An overview of the Titler window
■ Video typography essentials
■ Creating titles
■ Stylizing text
■ Working with shapes and logos
■ Making text roll and crawl

Lesson 17: Managing Your Projects
■ The File menu
■ Using the Project Manager
■ Final project managment steps
■ Importing projects or sequences
■ Managing collaboration
■ Managing your hard drives

Lesson 18: Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences
■ Overview of export options
■ Exporting single frames
■ Exporting a master copy
■ Working with Adobe Media Encoder
■ Exchanging with other editing applications
■ Recording to tape