Adobe Premiere CS3 Training

Adobe Premiere Training is for designers and corporate communications professionals who need an essential understanding of digital video and editing.

This is a level 1 course. No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

Adobe Premiere CS3 Training Course Outline

LESSON 1: An Overview of Real-World Usage of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

* What is Premiere?
* What kind of media is typically created with Premiere?
* What kind of media can be captured with Premiere?
* What kind of media can be imported intoPremiere?
* How is Premiere different from Apple Final Cut Pro?
* The advantages of Adobe product integration: Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator
* What is QuickTime?
* Understanding video production
* A typical digital video work environment setup
* A typical Premiere workflow sequence

LESSON 2: Project Management

* Understanding digital video
* Determine what type of media output is required for your Premiere project
* Determine the playback format for final output
* What restrictions are there for the project s physical window frame size?
* What restrictions are there for the project s time base?
* What restrictions are there for the project s frame rate?
* What restrictions are there for graphical screen-based assets?
* What restrictions are there for video assets?
* What restrictions are there for audio assets?

LESSON 3: Setting Up a Premiere Project

* Assigning RAM to the program (if not using Mac OSX)
* Booting up Premiere for A-B cuts editing
* Setting Premiere Preferences
* Creating a Premiere Project
* Understanding and navigating the Premiere workspace

LESSON 4: Capturing Digital Video into the Premiere Environment

* What is Firewire IEEE 1394?
* Can I capture analog video into the Premiere environment?
* Setting capture preferences

LESSON 5: Importing and Manipulating VIDEO CLIPS

* Importing QuickTime movies
* Video compression issues
* Time-base issues
* Frame rate issues
* Laying video clips into the Timeline
* Changing video clip properties
* Animating video clips

LESSON 6: Importing and Manipulating Sound

* Sound basics: Music, narrative, sound effects
* Importing audio assets into Premiere
* Audio compression issues
* Manipulating sound cues in the Timeline
* Synching sound to visual events
* Controlling sound volume and sound fades
* Using sound filters

LESSON 7: Importing and Manipulating Graphics

* Importing raster Photoshop layered files
* Importing vector images created in Illustrator
* Working with graphical footage
* Editing graphical footage tracks
* Editing files with an external editor from within Premiere
* Superimposing graphics over other visual assets

LESSON 8 : Working with Transitions and Effects

* Understanding the utility of transitions
* Applying transitions in Premiere s transitions track
* Performing color correction

LESSON 9: Creating Titles

* Using Premiere s title generation features

LESSON 10: Importing and Manipulating AFTER EFFECTS PROJECTS

* Understanding Adobe After Effects Importing After Effects compositions into Premiere
* Editing After Effects compositions using After Effects as an external editor from within Premiere
* Editing Premiere projects using Premiere as an external editor from within After Effects

LESSON 11: Final Project File Rendering

* Testing for final export
* Creating digital video output or output to video tape
* Choosing rendering options
* Exporting an EDL

We offer Premiere CS3 Training classes in Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and many other cities throughout the country via our partner network. We also offer one-on-one or onsite Premiere training nationwide.