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Premiere CS3 Introduction

Overview

Delegates, on completing this Introduction course will be able to use the basic and most used tools in Premiere to capture, Import, edit, apply effects, mix audio, and output to a number of formats for Video, the Web and interactive media such as DVD and Flash. The Delegate will also gain knowledge of video standards, Compression and Editing Techniques.

Prerequisites

Good Mac or PC skills

Objectives

Delegates, on completing this Introduction course will be able to use the basic and most used tools in Premiere to: capture, Import, edit, apply effects, mix audio, and output to a number of formats for Video, the Web and interactive media such as DVD and Flash. The Delegate will also gain knowledge of: video standards, ompression Editing Techniques.

Course Content

Basics

Setting up the System

Starting A Project

Project settings
Preference settings
Asset Management
Sequences, clips
Offline On-line Clips

Capturing and Importing Footage

Capturing Footage
Device Control Settings
Capturing Audio and Video
DV, HDV and HD
Importing Stills, Still Sequences, Photoshop Files, with Adobe Bridge, Projects
On-Location overview

Managing Clips

The Project Panel
Views
The preview area
Organising Clips in Bins
Duplicating and Copying Clips
Renaming Clips
Finding Clips (search function)
Interpreting Footage
Unlinking and Re-linking Media
The Project Manager

The Monitor Panels

Viewing Clips
Playback Controls
Audio Clips
Cuing Clips
Time Ruler Controls
Safe Zones
Display Mode
Waveform and Vectorscope Options
The Reference Monitor
Ganging source and Program Monitors

Creating a Sequence

Editing Methods
In and Out Points
Subclips
Source and Target Tracks
Overlay and insert Edits
Adding Clips by Dragging
3 and 4 point Edits
Lift and Extract
Storyboard Editing
Multiple and nested Sequences

Editing in the Timeline

The Time Ruler
Adding, Deleting and Renaming Tracks
Markers
Selecting
Splitting Clips
Speed, Duration and Reverse
Multicam Editing
Syncronising Clips
Replace Clips

Refining the Sequence

Snapping
Trimming Methods
Trimming Clips
Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide Edits
The Trim Panel
Split Edits (L and J Cuts)

Transitions

The Effects Panel
Understanding Transitions
Applying a Transition
Editing a Transition

Audio

The Audio Mixer
Recording with the Audio Mixer
Fading Panning and Balancing
Effects
Corrective Measures
Routing Tracks

Titles

Creating a Title
Text paths
Roll and Crawl Titles
Text configuration

Effects

Effect Types
Effect Properties
The Effects Control Panel
Keyframing
Motion Effects
Opacity and Volume
Lighting Effects
Timewarp (pixel motion Blending)
After Effects and Premiere

Output

Creating DVDs
Blu-Ray
SWF and FLV Files
Adobe Media Encoder
DVD Markers
Using Clip Notes

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Course Booking Conditions

Duration

2 Days

Schedule

20/21 November 2008
22/23 January 2009
2/3 March 2009

Prices

£545

All the bookings come with lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support.

Costs

Studio Vouchers: £420 or less
Season Tickets: £348

Dates

This course runs monthly or twice monthly at Harlequin Training. We can also run it privately at your site.

Testimonial

The second day focused on capturing video and exporting to different formats - areas where we have struggled. It was all explained and i can highly recommend the course.

Phil Sawyer

PRP Architects