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CreativeLive

Adobe Premiere Pro Fundamentals

via CreativeLive

Overview

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

  • Set up a new project and navigate the Premiere Pro interface.
  • Import and organize clips, audio and other assets.
  • Master all the basic skills required to edit a video including starting a sequence, working with the Timeline, adding clips, making selects, syncing video and audio and closing gaps.
  • Add video and audio transitions to your edit.
  • Create titles for your video and master visual effects.
  • Master the Essential Sound Panel to work with audio like an expert.
  • Perform color correction and grading with a range of Premiere Pro tools.
  • Add motion to your videos and work with time remapping, speed ramps and slow-mo.
  • Export your video in the appropriate format for your project requirements.
  • Edit green screen footage and perform chroma keying like a pro in Premiere.

ABOUT PHILIP'S CLASS:

Adobe Premiere Pro is an industry-leading video editing tool with a myriad of capabilities for creative professionals. If you already work with video or want to start editing your own projects, mastering the basics of Premiere is your key to success.

Designed to take you from an absolute beginner with no experience to an advanced user feeling comfortable and confident to work on any project, this is the ultimate fundamentals class. You’ll learn everything from editing on the Timeline and working with audio, transitions and titles to color grading, creating motion, chroma keying and visual effects.

The additional downloads include practice files like video clips, photos and other assets that you will use throughout the class to create your own short video. Enroll now to start editing like a pro!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  • How to stabilize shaky video with just a few clicks
  • How to sync your footage on the Timeline, add b roll footage to your edit, adjust clip size and position and use the auto reframe function.
  • How to edit down an interview and narrative sequence
  • How to create a custom blur transition and tackle common transition challenges
  • How to animate your title cards, save titles as preset graphics and underline and rename shape layers
  • How to work with audio including adjusting levels, audio channels, equalization, effects, fixing bad audio and removing noise, echo and reverb
  • How to use the Lumetri Color Panel features to fix white balance, match exposure, HDL secondary, apply vignettes, add color effects and perform selective grading
  • How to add motion to title graphics and the Ken Burns effect to photographs
  • How to export high quality, small file size videos and full resolution videos
  • Advanced skills like how to use Lumetri Color presets, make footage more cinematic, capture stills from video and remove grain from clips

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

  • People who have no to little experience with Adobe Premiere Pro
  • People who need a refresher class on Premiere Pro’s features
  • Videographers who want to start editing their videos in Premiere Pro
  • Editors who want to fortify and enhance their existing skill set
  • Creatives who want to add Premiere Pro to their offering
  • Anyone wanting to learn how to use Adobe Premiere Pro CC
  • All levels of experience

SOFTWARE USED:

Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2017 and later)

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Professional video and class creator, photographer and teacher to 1mil+ students. Phil has 10+ years of professional experience in the world of video & photography. He has created 1000+ videos and award-winning documentaries and works from his home studio near LA.

Syllabus

  • Class Introduction
  • Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation
  • Importing and Organizing
  • Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos
  • CC 2020 Updates
  • Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline
  • Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects
  • Exercise Syncing Video and Audio
  • Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio
  • Editing Tools
  • Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video
  • Adjusting Clip Size and Position
  • REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position
  • Bonus - Editing Down an Interview
  • Editing a Narrative Scene
  • Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018
  • Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018
  • CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe
  • Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video
  • Class Check In
  • Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE
  • Exercise Review Video Transitions
  • Adding Audio Transitions
  • Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition
  • Trouble with Transitions
  • Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions
  • Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics
  • Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards
  • Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics
  • Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates
  • CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers
  • Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)
  • Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro
  • Adjusting Audio Channels
  • Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel
  • Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters
  • Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)
  • Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects
  • Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio
  • Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise
  • Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter
  • Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity
  • Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders
  • Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro
  • Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer
  • Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio
  • Color Correction with Lumetri Basics
  • Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE
  • Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE
  • Creative Tab - Lumetri Color
  • Curves Tab - Lumetri Color
  • Color Wheels - Lumetri Color
  • HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color
  • Vignette - Lumetri Color
  • Exercise - Matching Exposure
  • Exercise Review - Matching Exposure
  • Color Correction with Adjustment Layers
  • Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects
  • Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading
  • Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking
  • Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading
  • Adding Motion to Title Graphics
  • Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos
  • Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic
  • Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic
  • OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots
  • Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre
  • Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video
  • OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review
  • Export a Full Resolution Video
  • Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video
  • Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project
  • Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video
  • Adding and Adjusting Effects to Your Video Clips
  • Adjusting Effects with Keyframes
  • Using Lumetri Color Presets
  • Stabilize Shaky Footage with Warp Stabilizer
  • Exercise - Stabilize Shaky Video
  • Exercise Review - Stabilize Shaky Video
  • Make Footage More Cinematic with Overlays
  • Capture Still Images from Video
  • EXERCISE - Remove Noise and Grain from Video Clip
  • Quiz: Chapter 9: Visual Effects and Advanced Premiere Pro Tips
  • Adjusting Clip Speed
  • Time Remapping and Speed Ramps
  • CC 2020 Update - Time Remapping up to 20,000%
  • Slow Motion Video By Interpreting Frame Rates
  • Exercise - Speed Ramps
  • Exercise Review - Speed Ramps
  • Quiz: Chapter 10: Video Speed in Premiere Pro
  • Green Screen Tutorial (ChromaKeying) in Premiere Pro
  • Adding a Background to Green Screen Video
  • Quiz: Chapter 11: Green Screen Editing - Chromakeying in Premiere Pro
  • Conclusion
  • Final Quiz

Taught by

Philip Ebiner

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