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. Copyright
  2. From the Author
    1. Lesson Assets, Introductory Videos and Expert Sidebars
  3. What’s on the DVD *
    1. Lesson files . . . and so much more
  4. Getting Started
    1. About Classroom in a Book
    2. Prerequisites
    3. Installing Adobe Premiere Pro
    4. Optimizing performance
    5. Copying the lesson files
      1. About the lesson introductory videos
    6. How to use these lessons
    7. Additional resources
    8. Adobe Certification
  5. 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 Premium into the workflow
      1. The hub of the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium
      2. Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium workflow
    7. Touring the Premiere Pro workspace: Lesson 1-1
      1. The workspace layout
    8. Customizing the workspace: Lesson 1-2
    9. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  6. 2. Taking a Quick Run-through of Premiere Pro 2.0
    1. Getting started
    2. Placing clips on a sequence: Lesson 2-1
    3. Arranging and trimming clips: Lesson 2-2
      1. Starting fresh
      2. Staying the course
    4. Adding a transition: Lesson 2-3
    5. Applying a video effect: Lesson 2-4
    6. Editing a Photoshop layered graphic: Lesson 2-5
      1. Applying one more video effect preset
    7. Compositing graphics using a nested sequence: Lesson 2-6
    8. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  7. 3. Shooting and Capturing Great Video Assets
    1. Getting started
    2. Twenty tips for shooting great video
      1. Get a closing shot
      2. Get an establishing shot
      3. Shoot plenty of video
      4. Adhere to the rule of thirds
      5. Keep your shots steady
      6. Follow action
      7. Use trucking shots
      8. Find unusual angles
      9. Lean forward or backward
      10. Get wide and tight shots
      11. Shoot matched action
      12. Get sequences
      13. Avoid fast pans and snap zooms
      14. Shoot cutaways
      15. Don’t break the plane
      16. Use lights
      17. Grab good “bites”
      18. Get plenty of natural sound
      19. Stripe your tapes
      20. Plan your shoot
    3. Capturing video
      1. Three DV capturing scenarios
    4. Capturing an entire tape: Lesson 3-1
    5. Using batch capture and scene detection: Lesson 3-2
      1. Use a clip naming convention
      2. Using scene detection
    6. Tackling manual analog movie capture
    7. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  8. 4. Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences and Managing Assets
    1. Getting started
    2. Selecting project settings: Lesson 4-1
      1. Two types of settings menus
      2. Custom settings—project settings—overview
      3. Checking out the new project presets
    3. Adjusting user preferences: Lesson 4-2
      1. Preferences submenus
    4. Importing assets: Lesson 4-3
    5. Image and graphics issues: Lesson 4-4
      1. Image tips
    6. Managing media in the Project panel: Lesson 4-5
    7. Working with assets in Adobe Bridge: Lesson 4-6
      1. Managing files and folders in Bridge
      2. Using labels, ratings, and keywords to organize files
      3. Adding and editing metadata
    8. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  9. 5. Creating Cuts-only Videos
    1. Getting started
    2. Using a storyboard to build a rough cut: Lesson 5-1
      1. Arranging your storyboard
      2. Automating your storyboard to a sequence
    3. Editing clips on the Timeline: Lesson 5-2
      1. Trimming a clip
      2. Closing the gaps—Ripple Delete
      3. Using the Ripple Edit tool
      4. Complete the video: Extra credit exercise
    4. Moving clips to, from and within the Timeline: Lesson 5-3
      1. Adding and moving clips on the Timeline
      2. Overlay edit example
      3. Insert edit example
      4. Lift and Move edit example
      5. Extract and Move edit example
      6. Extract and Overlay edit example
      7. Extract and Insert edit example
    5. Working with Source Monitor editing tools: Lesson 5-4
    6. Adjusting clips in the Trim panel: Lesson 5-5
    7. Using other editing tools
    8. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  10. 6. Adding Video Transitions
    1. Getting started
    2. Using transitions with restraint
      1. Adding whimsy
      2. Adding visual interest
    3. Trying some transitions: Lesson 6-1
      1. Additional transitions to try out
      2. Sequence display changes
    4. Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel: Lesson 6-2
      1. Extra credit: Apply the remaining transitions
    5. Using the A/B mode to fine-tune a transition: Lesson 6-3
      1. Working with the Effect Controls panel’s A/B feature
      2. Dealing with inadequate (or no) head or tail handles
      3. When only one clip has no head or tail handles
    6. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  11. 7. Creating Dynamic Titles
    1. Getting started
    2. Strengthen your project with supers
    3. Changing text parameters: Lesson 7-1
      1. Extra credit: Other properties options
    4. Building text from scratch: Lesson 7-2
    5. Putting text on a path: Lesson 7-3
    6. Creating shapes: Lesson 7-4
    7. Making text roll and crawl: Lesson 7-5
    8. Deconstructing effects: Sheens, Strokes, Shadows and Fill: Lesson 7-6
      1. Experiment with effects
    9. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  12. 8. Applying Specialized Editing Tools
    1. Getting started
    2. Using five timesaving editing tools: Lesson 8-1
      1. Making Rolling, Slide, and Slip edits
      2. Using the Program Monitor’s Lift and Extract functions
    3. Adding a TV news-style cutaway: Lesson 8-2
    4. Changing clip speed and direction: Lesson 8-3
    5. Using graphics with two transitions: Lesson 8-4
    6. Switching a four-camera production: Lesson 8-5
      1. Creating the initial multi-camera sequence
      2. Switching Multiple Cameras
      3. Finalizing multi-camera editing
    7. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  13. 9. Adding Video Effects
    1. Getting started
    2. Sampling some basic video effects: Lesson 9-1
    3. Manipulating keyframes and effect parameters: Lesson 9-2
      1. Extra credit: Following action and combining multiple effects
    4. Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity: Lesson 9-3
      1. One additional Velocity/Interpolation issue
    5. Taking some fantastic effects for a test drive: Lesson 9-4
      1. Third party plug-in providers
    6. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  14. 10. Putting Clips in Motion
    1. Getting started
    2. Applying the Motion effect to clips: Lesson 10-1
      1. Examining motion characteristics
    3. Changing clip size and adding rotation: Lesson 10-2
      1. Adding rotation and changing the anchor point
    4. Working with keyframe interpolation: Lesson 10-3
    5. Putting pictures-in-a-picture: Lesson 10-4
    6. Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges: Lesson 10-5
      1. Adding a drop shadow
    7. Other motion effects: Transform, Basic 3D, and Camera View: Lesson 10-6
      1. Get a glint with Basic 3D
      2. Camera View—extra features
    8. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  15. 11. Acquiring and Editing Audio
    1. Getting started
    2. Selecting the right mic for the job
      1. Handheld mic
      2. Shotgun mic
      3. Lavaliere mic
      4. Surface mount—boundary—mic
      5. Wireless systems and mics
    3. Connecting mics to your camcorder or PC
      1. Making the PC connection
    4. Setting up a basic voice-recording area
    5. Voicing professional narrations
    6. Premiere Pro—A high-quality aural experience
    7. Examining audio characteristics: Lesson 11-1
    8. Adjusting audio volume: Lesson 11-2
      1. Adjusting audio in the Effect Controls panel
    9. Adding J-cuts and L-cuts: Lesson 11-3
      1. Adding an L-cut
    10. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  16. 12. Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
    1. Getting started
    2. Sweetening sound with audio effects: Lesson 12-1
    3. Trying out stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects: Lesson 12-2
      1. A Look at one more VST plug-in
      2. Editing keyframes using the clip effect menu
    4. Working with the Audio Mixer: Lesson 12-3
      1. Automating changes in audio tracks
    5. Outputting tracks to submixes: Lesson 12-4
    6. Recording voice-overs: Lesson 12-5
    7. Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
    8. Moving up to professional editing with Adobe Audition 2.0
      1. Audition’s powerful and helpful effects
      2. Frequency-Space Editing
      3. Mixer and Multitrack views
      4. Loopology
    9. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  17. 13. Compositing Techniques
    1. Getting started
    2. Making compositing part of your projects
      1. Shooting videos with compositing in mind
      2. Examples of composited clips
    3. Working with the Opacity effect: Lesson 13-1
    4. Two multiple track video effects: Blend and Texturize: Lesson 13-2
    5. Working with alpha channel transparencies: Lesson 13-3
      1. Video effects that work with graphic file alpha channels
      2. Video effects with built-in alpha channels
    6. Applying chroma, color and luminance keying effects: Lesson 13-4
      1. Using a nested sequence to add another chroma key
      2. Using the Blue and Green Screen keys
      3. Using the Luma Key
      4. Extra credit tasks
    7. Using matte keys: Lesson 13-5
      1. Mattes that use graphics or other clips
      2. Using a Track Matte key
      3. Making a traveling matte
    8. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  18. 14. Enhancing Color, Editing Tips, & Shortcuts
    1. Getting started
    2. An overview of color-oriented effects
      1. Coloring effects
      2. Color removing or replacing
      3. Color correction
      4. Technical color effects
    3. Adjusting and enhancing color: Lesson 14-1
      1. Color Match
      2. Color correction
    4. Using nested sequences: Lesson 14-2
      1. Multiple uses for nested sequences
      2. Enhancing three video effects using a nested sequence
      3. Seeing how Echo behaves
      4. Using a Single Nested Sequence Clip for Three Effects
      5. Applying more than one transition at the same place
    5. Three quick editing techniques: Lesson 14-3
      1. Obscuring someone’s identity
      2. Creating a real, animated mirror effect
      3. Mirrored graphic animation
      4. Adding a white flash transition
    6. Recommended keyboard shortcuts
      1. Changing a shortcut
      2. Most frequently used shortcuts
    7. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  19. 15. Project Management
    1. Getting started
    2. Project Menu overview: Lesson 15-1
    3. Using the Project Manager: Lesson 15-2
      1. Trimmed project
      2. Collect files and copy to new location
      3. Final project management steps
    4. Conducting a Clip Notes review: Lesson 15-3
      1. Review your Clip Notes PDF
      2. View the Comments in Premiere Pro
    5. High definition video and film features
      1. HDV editing
      2. HD production with the AJA Xena HS video card
      3. Film projects
    6. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  20. 16. Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your DV Project
    1. Getting started
    2. Introducing Photoshop CS2
    3. Demonstrating some Photoshop CS2 basics: Lesson 16-1
      1. Taking a tour of Photoshop CS
    4. Photoshop tips for DV productions
    5. Editing Encore DVD menus in Photoshop: Lesson 16-2
      1. Encore DVD menu editing overview
    6. Introducing After Effects 7.0
      1. After Effects features
      2. A brief look at the After Effects workspace
    7. Trying out text animation with After Effects: Lesson 16-3
      1. Working in 3D
      2. Animating text on a curved line
      3. Text animation presets
    8. Using effects and Motion Tracker: Lesson 16-4
      1. Try out some exciting effects
      2. Using the Motion Tracker
    9. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  21. 17. Exporting Frames, Clips and Sequences
    1. Getting started
    2. Export options
      1. Checking out export options
    3. Recording to videotape: Lesson 17-1
      1. Analog or non-device control recording
    4. Making single frames: Lesson 17-2
    5. Creating standard movie, image sequence and audio files: Lesson 17-3
      1. Export audio only
    6. Using the Adobe Media Encoder
      1. Export settings
      2. Macromedia Flash video
      3. QuickTime
      4. RealMedia
      5. Windows Media
      6. MPEG encoding
    7. Working with edit decision lists
    8. Exporting to DVD
    9. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers
  22. 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: Lesson 18-1
    4. Adding DVD markers to the Timeline: Lesson 18-2
    5. Creating an auto-play DVD with markers: Lesson 18-3
    6. Using DVD menu templates: Lesson 18-4
      1. Burning your DVD
    7. Authoring with Encore DVD 2.0
      1. Previewing an Encore DVD 2.0 project
      2. Taking Encore DVD 2.0 for a test drive
    8. Review
      1. Review questions
      2. Review answers

Product information

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