Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0

Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0

by Adobe Creative Team
Released February 2006
Publisher(s): Adobe Press
ISBN: 0321385519

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Book description

The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Pro!

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe Premiere 2.0 Classroom in a Book contains fourteen lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Premiere Pro, and countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with its new features, including new multicam editing tools, auto-creation of menu-based DVDs from the timeline, and Native HD, SD and HDV support, and more. You'll learn how to work with audio, create transitions and titles, manipulate subclips and virtual clips, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Table of contents

  1. Contents (1/2)
  2. Contents (2/2)
  3. Getting Started
    1. About Classroom in a Book
    2. Prerequisites
    3. Installing Adobe Premiere Pro
    4. Optimizing performance
    5. Copying the Lesson Files
    6. How to use these lessons
    7. Additional resources
    8. Adobe Certification
  4. 1 Touring Premiere Pro 2.0
    1. Getting started
    2. Video editing: Then and now
    3. Premiere Pro 2.0—A nonlinear editor
    4. Presenting the standard digital video workflow
    5. Enhancing the workflow with high-level features
    6. Incorporating the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio into the workflow
    7. Touring the Premiere Pro workspace (1/2)
    8. Touring the Premiere Pro workspace (2/2)
    9. Customizing the workspace
    10. Review questions and answers
  5. 2 Taking a Quick Run-through of Premiere Pro 2.0
    1. Getting started
    2. Placing clips on a sequence
    3. Arranging and trimming clips
    4. Adding a transition
    5. Applying a video effect
    6. Editing a Photoshop layered graphic
    7. Compositing graphics using a nested sequence (1/2)
    8. Compositing graphics using a nested sequence (2/2)
    9. Review questions and answers
  6. 3 Shooting and Capturing Great Video Assets
    1. Getting started
    2. Twenty tips for shooting great video (1/3)
    3. Twenty tips for shooting great video (2/3)
    4. Twenty tips for shooting great video (3/3)
    5. Capturing video
    6. Capturing an entire tape
    7. Using batch capture and scene detection
    8. Tackling manual analog movie capture
    9. Review questions and answers
  7. 4 Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences and Managing Assets
    1. Getting started
    2. Selecting project settings
    3. Adjusting user preferences
    4. Importing assets
    5. Image and graphics issues (1/2)
    6. Image and graphics issues (2/2)
    7. Managing media in the Project panel
    8. Working with assets in Adobe Bridge (1/3)
    9. Working with assets in Adobe Bridge (2/3)
    10. Working with assets in Adobe Bridge (3/3)
    11. Review questions and answers
  8. 5 Creating Cuts-only Videos
    1. Getting started
    2. Using a storyboard to build a rough cut (1/2)
    3. Using a storyboard to build a rough cut (2/2)
    4. Editing clips on the Timeline (1/2)
    5. Editing clips on the Timeline (2/2)
    6. Moving clips to, from and within the Timeline (1/2)
    7. Moving clips to, from and within the Timeline (2/2)
    8. Working with Source Monitor editing tools
    9. Adjusting clips in the Trim panel
    10. Using other editing tools
    11. Review questions and answers
  9. 6 Adding Video Transitions
    1. Getting started
    2. Using transitions with restraint
    3. Trying some transitions (1/2)
    4. Trying some transitions (2/2)
    5. Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel (1/2)
    6. Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel (2/2)
    7. Using the A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
    8. Review questions and answers
  10. 7 Creating Dynamic Titles
    1. Getting started
    2. Strengthen your project with supers
    3. Changing text parameters
    4. Building text from scratch
    5. Putting text on a path
    6. Creating shapes
    7. Making text roll and crawl
    8. Deconstructing effects: Sheens, Strokes, Shadows and Fill (1/2)
    9. Deconstructing effects: Sheens, Strokes, Shadows and Fill (2/2)
    10. Review questions and answers
  11. 8 Applying Specialized Editing Tools
    1. Getting started
    2. Using five timesaving editing tools (1/2)
    3. Using five timesaving editing tools (2/2)
    4. Adding a TV news-style cutaway (1/2)
    5. Adding a TV news-style cutaway (2/2)
    6. Using graphics with two transitions
    7. Switching a four-camera production (1/2)
    8. Switching a four-camera production (2/2)
    9. Review questions and answers
  12. 9 Adding Video Effects
    1. Getting started
    2. Sampling some basic video effects (1/2)
    3. Sampling some basic video effects (2/2)
    4. Manipulating keyframes and effect parameters (1/2)
    5. Manipulating keyframes and effect parameters (2/2)
    6. Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity (1/2)
    7. Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity (2/2)
    8. Taking some fantastic effects for a test drive
    9. Review questions and answers
  13. 10 Putting Clips in Motion
    1. Getting started
    2. Applying the Motion effect to clips
    3. Changing clip size and adding rotation
    4. Working with keyframe interpolation
    5. Putting pictures-in-a-picture
    6. Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges
    7. Other motion effects: Transform, Basic 3D, and Camera View
    8. Review questions and answers
  14. 11 Acquiring and Editing Audio
    1. Getting started
    2. Selecting the right mic for the job
    3. Connecting mics to your camcorder or PC
    4. Setting up a basic voice-recording area
    5. Voicing professional narrations
    6. Premiere Pro—A high-quality aural experience
    7. Examining audio characteristics (1/2)
    8. Examining audio characteristics (2/2)
    9. Adjusting audio volume
    10. Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
    11. Review questions and answers
  15. 12 Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
    1. Getting started
    2. Sweetening sound with audio effects
    3. Trying out stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects
    4. Working with the Audio Mixer (1/2)
    5. Working with the Audio Mixer (2/2)
    6. Outputting tracks to submixes
    7. Recording voice-overs
    8. Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
    9. Moving up to professional editing with Adobe Audition 2.0 (1/2)
    10. Moving up to professional editing with Adobe Audition 2.0 (2/2)
    11. Review questions and answers
  16. 13 Compositing Techniques
    1. Getting started
    2. Making compositing part of your projects
    3. Working with the Opacity effect
    4. Two multiple track video effects: Blend and Texturize
    5. Working with alpha channel transparencies
    6. Applying chroma, color and luminance keying effects (1/2)
    7. Applying chroma, color and luminance keying effects (2/2)
    8. Using matte keys (1/2)
    9. Using matte keys (2/2)
    10. Review questions and answers
  17. 14 Enhancing Color, Editing Tips, & Shortcuts
    1. Getting started
    2. An overview of color-oriented effects
    3. Adjusting and enhancing color (1/2)
    4. Adjusting and enhancing color (2/2)
    5. Using nested sequences (1/2)
    6. Using nested sequences (2/2)
    7. Three quick editing techniques (1/2)
    8. Three quick editing techniques (2/2)
    9. Recommended keyboard shortcuts (1/2)
    10. Recommended keyboard shortcuts (2/2)
    11. Review questions and answers
  18. 15 Project Management
    1. Getting started
    2. Project Menu overview
    3. Using the Project Manager
    4. Conducting a Clip Notes review
    5. High definition video and film features
    6. Review questions and answers
  19. 16 Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your DV Project
    1. Getting started
    2. Introducing Photoshop CS2
    3. Demonstrating some Photoshop CS2 basics
    4. Photoshop tips for DV productions
    5. Editing Encore DVD menus in Photoshop
    6. Introducing After Effects 7.0
    7. Trying out text animation with After Effects
    8. Using effects and Motion Tracker
    9. Review questions and answers
  20. 17 Exporting Frames, Clips and Sequences
    1. Getting started
    2. Export options
    3. Recording to videotape
    4. Exporting a single frame
    5. Creating standard movie, image sequence and audio files
    6. Using the Adobe Media Encoder (1/2)
    7. Using the Adobe Media Encoder (2/2)
    8. Working with edit decision lists
    9. Exporting to DVD
    10. Review questions and answers
  21. 18 Authoring DVDs with Premiere Pro and Encore DVD 2.0
    1. Getting started
    2. Overview of DVD authoring in Premiere Pro
    3. Previewing Your DVD project
    4. Adding DVD markers to the Timeline
    5. Creating an auto-play DVD with markers
    6. Using DVD menu templates (1/2)
    7. Using DVD menu templates (2/2)
    8. Authoring with Encore DVD 2.0 (1/2)
    9. Authoring with Encore DVD 2.0 (2/2)
    10. Review questions and answers
  22. Index
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    6. F
    7. G
    8. H
    9. I
    10. J
    11. K
    12. L
    13. M
    14. N
    15. O
    16. P
    17. Q
    18. R
    19. S
    20. T
    21. U
    22. V
    23. W
    24. X
    25. Z

Product information

  • Title: Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0
  • Author(s): Adobe Creative Team
  • Release date: February 2006
  • Publisher(s): Adobe Press
  • ISBN: 0321385519