Premiere Basics: Class Outline

Overview of Premiere & Video Production Process

• What Premiere is and how it fits into the video production process
• Knowing the system requirements for using the program

Setting Up Premiere

• Understanding how to define Settings/Preferences in Premiere based on your project requirements
• Understanding the issues and different requirements for digital video capture and output
• Understanding different types of compression

Getting Familiar with the Premiere Work Area

• Working with Projects, Windows & Views
• How to create, sort and organize media in the Project Window
• Understanding the difference between Bins & Libraries, & Customizing Views
• Working with the Timeline Window
• Working with the Monitor window
• Working with palettes

Basic Digital Video Editing Techniques

• Editing in the Timeline
• Editing with the Monitor Window
• Understanding and applying different video editing techniques

Adding Transitions

• How to create transitions effects in Premiere
• Working with the Transitions
• Viewing & modifying transitions in the Timeline

Day 2

Review of Day One Lessons and Concepts

Working with Audio

• Importing Audio
• Working with Audio Tracks
• Making an L-Cut edit
• Linking and unlinking audio and video clips
• Synchronizing Audio and Video tracks
• Fading Audio in and out and adjusting audio levels

Creating Titles & Graphics

• Getting familiar with the Title window
• Creating and manipulating text titles
• Working with drawing tools to create graphic images in the Title window
• Creating, previewing and adjusting Rolling Titles/Credit Rolls
• Using titles in a Premiere project

Superimposing & Compositing Images

• Understanding superimposing and compositing
• Applying transparency key types and settings
• Working with transparency options for compositing

Bonus Lesson: Adding Motion

• Applying a Motion Path to a Still Image
• Applying Motion Settings and Transparency
• Creating a Traveling Matte