Premiere Pro CS4 or CS5 Level 2

Length
3 Days (21 actual hours of training)

Class Fees
1 Student       $945
2 Students    $1590
3 Students    $2085
4+ Students     Call

 

At this time, Art=Visual is offering both CS4 and CS5 courses in Premiere Pro. When reading the Course Outline (scroll downward to see it), if a subject says New to CS5, this is taught in the CS5 version of the course.  If a subject says Enhanced for CS5, this means that the basic function is in both the CS4 and CS5 versions, but that CS5 has added some enhancements.  These enhancements would be covered in the CS5 course only.

Note: Maximum class size at our Atlanta classroom is two students. Three or more students must train on-site at their place of business. For more information, please read about our class sizes.

Note on Fees:  Multiple student discounts are for multiple students from one organization.

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Class Times
Classes can be held at any time per the customer's schedule, but unless arranged otherwise, classes run from 9 AM to 5 PM each day, with an hour for lunch.

Description
Our Premiere Pro CS4/CS5 Level 2 course is designed for those who want to complete their knowledge of Premiere Pro (between this and the Level 1 course, just about every function of Premiere Pro is discussed). Advanced editing techniques, effects, and audio are highly emphasized, as are advanced techniques for streamlining production and preparation for Broadcast.

After completing this course a student will be able to:

• Use advanced editing techniques
• Sync sounds and action with Clip and Track markers
• Utilize advanced design in titles
• Automatically create a slide show of still images
• Organize video with nested sequences
• Prepare a project for broadcast
• Create Blue/Green screen projects
• Use Track Mattes for title effects
• Use the advanced audio mixing features
• Utilize the Audio Effects
• Edit multi-camera shoots
• Get end-user feedback with Clip Notes
• Move smoothly between Premiere and After Effects, Encore, and Soundbooth
• Use speech recognition to find points on a clip based on words
• Manage projects

Class materials
Steve uses his own videos and written materials for the class, but also provides student's with their own copy of Adobe Premiere Pro Studio Techniques by Jacob Rosenberg to use as a reference manual.

Art=Visual classes have plenty of hands-on practices that allow students to create real world art and compositions.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Overlay and Insert Edits
• Overlay edits
• Insert edits
• Rearranging clip order on the timeline

Lesson 2: Automated Slide show set to music
• The Automate to Timeline feature
• Flicker removal and still images
• Creating cross fades between songs

Lesson 3: Advanced Editing Techniques
• Creating and editing Subclips
• J and L cuts
• Lift and Extract commands
• 3 and 4 point edits
• Creating subclips

Lesson 4: Clip Markers
• Adding and deleting clip markers
• Syncing sound and effects to frames of video

Lesson 5: Track Markers
• Still image length and size considerations
• Aspect ratios
• Color mattes
• Using track markers to sync events
• Using track markers as DVD chapter stops
• Using track markers to leave notes

Lesson 6: Advanced Animation Techniques
• Manipulating temporal interpolation
• Manipulating spatial interpolation

Lesson 7: Utilizing Alpha Channels of Graphics from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Basics of creating an alpha channel in Photoshop
• Importing PSDs
• Output view modes
• Reversing and canceling the alpha channel of a graphic

Lesson 8: Advanced Title Maker
• Typing Vertical, Horizontal, and Text on a Path
• Drawing Custom Shapes
• Adding graphics created outside of Premiere to your title
• Aligning and Distributing shapes and titles
• Exporting a title for use in other projects
• Creating a credit role

Lesson 9: Nested Sequences
• Uses for Nested Sequences
• Creating new Sequences
• Adding Fade-ins, Fade-outs, and Effects to a Nested Sequence

Lesson 10: Blue/Green Screen Keying Effects
• How to set up a video shoot for blue/green screen effects
• Color Keys (Enhanced for CS5)
• Garbage Mattes

Lesson 11:  Track Mattes and Luma Masks
• Luminance Keys
• Creating Luma and Chroma Masks with the Title Maker
• Creating Luma and Chroma Masks in Photoshop
• Track Mattes

Lesson 12: Audio Effects
• Applying and removing effects to a clip
• Manipulating effect options in the Effects Palette
• Animating effects
• Applying multiple effects
• Overview of Premiere Pro Audio Effects

Lesson 13: Advanced Audio Mixing
• Audio Equipment Needs: Microphones, Mixers, and Headphones
• Setting up Mono, Stereo, and 5.1 Surround Sound projects
• Audio Options menu
• The Premiere Pro Audio Mixer
• Mixing Automation Modes: Read, Write, Touch, and Latch
• Adding Effects to a Track
• Submixes and Sends
• Mixing 5.1 Surround Sound

Lesson 14: Multi-Camera Editing
• Setting up to shoot a multi-camera project
• Using a Slate
• Syncing Audio to Video
• Multi-cam feature
• Editing your multi-cam edit

Lesson 15: Creating Dynamic Links
• Dynamic Links between Premiere and After Effects
• Dynamic Links between Premiere and Encore
• Dynamic Links between Premiere and Soundbooth
• Editing dynamic links

Lesson 16: Speech Recognition
• Creating Text Metadata
• Editing the speech transcript metadata
• Editing based on speech transcripts 
• Linking spoken words to a text script (New to CS5)
• Using speech transcripts as subtitles in Encore

Lesson 17: Clip Notes
• Purpose of Clip Notes
• Creating Clip Notes
• Adding reviewer/client-side comments to PDF file
• Reading reviewer comments in Premiere
• Adding editor/filmmaker-side comments

Lesson 18: Preparing a Project for Broadcast
• Conforming to legal broadcast standards
• New reference monitor
• Vectorscope and Waveform monitors
• Video Limiter filter

Lesson 19: Project Management
• The Project Manager
• Importing and Exporting a Batch List
• Importing/Exporting Edit Decision Lists (EDL)
• Importing/Exporting Advanced Authoring Formats (AAF)
• Importing/Exporting to Final Cut  (New to CS5)