Premiere Pro CS4 Level 2 Course

Length
2 Days (16 actual hours of training)

Class Fees
1 Student       $795
2 Students    $1290
3 Students    $1635
4+ Students     Call

 

Note: Maximum class size at our Atlanta classroom is four students. Five 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 6 PM each day, with an hour for lunch.

Description
Our Premiere Pro CS4 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
• Sync video and sound with clip and track markers
• Organize video with nested sequences
• Prepare a project for broadcast
• Create still image montages
• 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
• 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: Advanced Animation Techniques
• Manipulating temporal interpolation
• Manipulating spatial interpolation

Lesson 2: Advanced Editing Techniques
• Creating and editing Subclips
• J and L cuts
• Lift and Extract commands
• 3 and 4 point edits
• Creating subclips

Lesson 3: 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 4: 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
• Saving your titles as custom templates
• Creating a credit role

Lesson 5: Clip Markers
• Adding and deleting clip markers
• Syncing sound and effects to frames of video

Lesson 6: 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 7: Nested Sequences
• Uses for Nested Sequences
• Creating new Sequences
• Adding Fade-ins, Fade-outs, and Effects to a Nested Sequence

Lesson 8: Blue/Green Screen Keying Effects
• How to set up a video shoot for blue/green screen effects
• Blue/Green Screen Key vs. Chroma Key vs. Color Key
• Garbage Mattes

Lesson 9:  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 10: 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 11: 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 12: 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 13: 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 14: Preparing a Project for Broadcast
• Conforming to legal broadcast standards
• New reference monitor
• Vectorscope and Waveform monitors
• Video Limiter filter

Lesson 15: Project Management
• The Project Manager
• Importing and Exporting a Batch List
• Importing/Exporting Edit Decision Lists (EDL)
• Importing/Exporting Advanced Authoring Formats (AAF)