Adobe Premiere Pro CC Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - Manchester

Premiere Pro Masterclass 4 Days Overview

This 4-day Masterclass course will help you learn about the tools and features available for power users of Adobe Premiere Pro CC. We will guide you in learning the work area and importing and editing simple digital videos. Once you grasp the basics of the program, we will show you how to take your understanding to the next level. We will cover advanced topics such as adjusting frame rates, working with alpha channels, adding time lapses, and much more.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Premiere Pro environment
• Organise video projects
• Assemble and fine-tune clip sequences
• Apply transitions and video effects
• Add titles and credits
• Make and refine rough cuts
• Import and adjust audio clips
• Export video
• Handle different frame rates through overcranking and undercranking
• Create time lapses
• Work with alpha channels
• Synchronise clips from multiple cameras
• Apply colour correction
• Fix audio issues and add audio effects

This course can be taken in a single 4-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 2-day block (Advanced) taken at a later date.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is intended for those who need to edit video clips and create digital movies, but who have little or no experience using Premiere Pro or other video-editing programs.

You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

 

Premiere Pro CC Masterclass 4 Days Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Introduction

• Opening Premiere Pro – getting started
• Workspaces - what, why, how?
• Importing assets into Premiere Pro
• Media browser
• Organisation - bins and things
• Metadata - what, why, how?

Getting Started

• Making selections
• Project panel & Source Monitor
• Storyboarding your rough cut
• Creating a timeline
• Thinking ahead - track allocation
• Understanding Track Headers
• Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
• Sub-clips - what, why and how?

Timeline Tools

• Targeting tracks
• Toggle Sync-lock
• Insert & overlay edits
• Three-point edit options
• Four-point edits
• J and L cuts
• Lift and extract
• Timeline panel options
• Timeline tools
• Moving clips in the timeline
• Extend edits
• Replacing clips in the timeline

Transitions

• The 2 types of transitions in Premiere Pro
• Jump-cuts & clip transitions - when to use which?
• Default transitions
• Single ended transitions - what, why, when and how?
• Editing transitions
• Layer based transitions
• Light-leak style transitions with blend modes

Motion (Fixed) Effects

• Pips (Picture in Picture) effects
• Animating objects
• Making pictures fit your timeline
• Additional important preferences
• Perspective corner-pin
• Nesting options in Premiere Pro - why, when, how?

Effects & Masks Basics

• Applying and customising effects
• Limiting effects to specific areas
• Tracking masks

Titles

• Organisation - creating and using a titles Bin
• Creating text based titles
• Creating and editing your own title styles
• Exporting and importing titles
• Creating lower or upper thirds
• Inserting graphics into titles
• Title based on previous title
• Creating and using title templates
• Inserting a graphic into rolling/crawling titles

Audio Introduction

• Creating dual-mono from stereo pairs
• Recording narration directly into Premiere Pro
• Basic keyframe based audio animation
• Audio Clip mixer animation

Export

• Exporting a still image
• Project management options
• Dynamic Link with After Effects
• Exporting directly from Premiere Pro and using ‘Media Encoder’
• Exporting different formats
• XML/AAF - cross-platform export options - why, when and how?

Understanding the Proxy Workflow in Premiere Pro

• As cameras get bigger and bigger sensors the file size of the content gets bigger and bigger and can bog down the editing process such that it may seem like only very fast and expensive machines can edit such content. However, the new proxy workflow in Premiere Pro allows for the creation and use of low-res versions of the bigger files which can then be editing on any machine that can run Premiere Pro and then exported from the bigger high quality files rather than the lower resolution proxies. We will cover this workflow in detail

Keyboard Editing in Premiere Pro

• Learn how to use keyboard shortcuts to quickly and efficiently edit your timelines in Premiere Pro
• Discover how to find and customise all your keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
• Overview of preferences

Multicam Editing

• Multicam editing is great fun and a very powerful way of creating more compelling video. We will look at the whole multicam workflow including how to sync external audio with clips that only have low quality camera audio
• Flattening your multicam edit – why and how?

Colour Correction & Grading

• Colour correction vs. Colour grading - what’s the difference?
• What tools do you actually need for a proper grade?
• Lumetri panel
• Master grading vs. Clip grading
• Primary options
• Secondary option
• Building a grade
• LUTs - what, why, when and how?
• Additional colour tools in Premiere Pro
• Conform exports and imports XML/AAF - why and when?
• HDR tools in Premiere Pro - a discussion

Mastering Audio

• Timeline audio options
• Audition editing options
• Audio clip vs. Audio track mixer & keyframe views
• Applying audio effects to clips and tracks
• Automation modes
• Parametric EQ
• Tube-modelled compressor
• Mastering
• Submixes - what, why and how?
• Recording audio into the Premiere Pro timeline

Effects & Captions

• Overview of plugin options for Premiere Pro
• Open captions - why and how?

Keying and Integration with After Effects

• While there are keying plugins inside of After Effects which we will look into, we will also look at the excellent dynamic link workflow with After Effects and how that can be used to apply much more advanced keying effects than the native Premiere Pro keyers.
• Motion tracking via After Effects

VR Overview

• We will look at the VR capabilities within PP and how to find and use the tools available

Export Options and Project Management in Premiere Pro

• Project management options
• Export through Premiere Pro
• Effects options for export
• Export through Media Encoder
• Creating and using a watch-folder in Media Encoder
• Customising presets in Media Encoder
• Creating preset group folders in Media Encoder

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe Premiere Pro CC course:

Adobe Certified Premiere Pro Instructor

We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and our trainers are Adobe Certified Instructors with years of experience teaching Premiere Pro. Get the Video skills you need with our Premiere Pro professionals.

Quality training manual

Included with our Premiere Pro courses is the Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book provided for free to use as a post course reference resource. This is a full 300+ page manual to supplement the content covered during the course.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Adobe Authorised Certificate

After your Adobe class with XChange Training you will receive our official Adobe Authorised Training Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the Adobe Certified Premiere Pro course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:

Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2AP

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Piccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

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