Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: Learn by Video

Edit, Composite, Add Effects, and More

This complete training program published in partnership with Peachpit Press offers an extraordinary value, combining over 15 hours of video instruction with a 120-page full-color guide to teach you core editing concepts as well as state of the art workflows for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and other Adobe video applications, including Media Encoder, OnLocation, and Encore. Expert trainers Maxim Jago and Jan Ozer demystify the interface and show you how to edit and composite footage, correct color and brightness, adjust audio, chroma key footage, create and manage metadata, and work with tapeless media. Interactive quizzes throughout the course reinforce what you’ve learned.

Trainer: Maxim Jago, Jan Ozer

ISBN Code: ISBN 978-0-321-73484-6

Publication date: Oct 21, 2010

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Welcome: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: Learn by Video

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is a remarkable non-linear editing system, offering advanced professional post-production tools and direct sharing of assets and creative work with other applications like After Effects and Photoshop. Premiere Pro is also one of the most user-friendly and intuitive systems available today. This series of videos will take you from the very basics of Adobe Premiere Pro all the way through to advanced compositing techniques and beyond. CS5 represents one of the most significant releases of this application from Adobe, with full 64 bit OS support, a new advanced playback engine, and new visual effects.

Introduction
- Premiere Pro CS5 is an advanced editing system, but there are very simple and easy-to-learn principles behind its design. These videos will give you a comprehensive overview of the Premiere Pro CS5 interface and where it fits into the complete CS5 Creative Suite group of applications.
  
  How Premiere Works
  - This video is your introduction to Premiere Pro: What it does, why you want it, and how it does what it does so well. In this video you will get an overview of standard editing techniques and learn about the nonlinear workflow from start to finish.
    
    Welcome to Premiere Pro
    
    15:34
  - How does Premiere Pro fit into Creative Suite Production Premium? This key fundamentals tutorial explains how to share projects and media with applications like Photoshop, After Effects, and Soundbooth.
    
    Premiere Pro and the Creative Suite
    
    12:40
- One of the best ways to Learn Premiere Pro CS5 is to see it in action, with the focus on particular tasks you might want to complete. These videos will take you all the way through some valuable workflows and give you a preview of the wonder of Premiere Pro that is yet to come.
  
  Premiere Pro Jumpstart
  - Let's kick-start our editing practice with a new project. In this video you will learn how to create a new sequence the easy, automatic way, then throw together some clips to build an assembly edit – 1-2-3, you're an editor.
    
    Get Editing
    
    09:36
  - The real power of working with Adobe applications like Premiere Pro is in the way they work together. This tutorial shows you how easy it is to share video clips and sequences between Premiere Pro and After Effects.
    
    Sharing Assets with After Effects
    
    09:10
  - Titles and graphics can make a big difference in the quality and professionalism of programs. This tutorial shows you how to create new titles in Premiere Pro and place them in front of existing video clips to create a layered effect.
    
    Creating and Editing Titles
    
    18:35
  - The sequence is your edit – the creative work you are producing. One of the most powerful uses of editing with Premiere Pro is in combining sequences as layers to produce a complete composition. This is so much easier to do than it sounds it has to be seen to be believed.
    
    Nesting Sequences
    
    04:05
  - As hard as you try, sometimes you're going to mess up the shoot, and it's nice to know that Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 has a great toolset for fixing exposure and color-related problems. This video looks a Premiere Pro's exposure and color-correction features.
    
    Exposure and Color Correction
    
    09:52
  - High-quality audio is a critical part of every video project, which makes the ability to access Adobe Soundbooth for audio editing a critical Premiere Pro feature. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to send your audio from Premiere Pro to Soundbooth, and how to create split edits like the L-cut and J-Cut.
    
    Adjusting Gain
    
    07:00
  - This tutorial describes how to import PSD (Photoshop) files into Premiere Pro with layers intact, and then animate the layers.
    
    Importing and Animating Photoshop Files
    
    03:52
  - This tutorial details how to quickly create slideshows in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and how to composite a greenscreen video over those slides with Adobe Premiere Pro's new Ultra Key.
    
    Creating Slideshows and Using Greenscreen
    
    04:11
If you watch just one chapter before diving into Premiere Pro CS5, make it this one. These videos give you the core skills you need to get cutting.

Getting Set Up
- Understanding all of the settings and options when creating new projects and sequences can seem a little difficult – but it certainly does not need to be. Premiere Pro CS5 has default settings that suit most project types AND you can now create a sequence based on your media automatically, without knowing a single thing about video technology. This section guides you through the process of creating a new project.
  
  Creating a New Project
  - Premiere Pro makes it quick and easy to create new projects, with adjustable presets and templates that will work for most projects. There are a few settings to choose before you begin, which are simple when you know them. And very shortly you will...
    
    Creating New Projects
    
    06:40
  - Premiere Pro is super-flexible when it comes to formats and resolutions. You can have multiple sequences in the same Premiere Pro project and each one can have its own settings. This makes it easy to repurpose media by creating sequences at different resolutions. Sounds complicated? Nah – just watch.
    
    Creating New Sequences and Sequence Presets
    
    18:22
  - Premiere Pro has default preferences that suit most edits but you might want or need to make a few adjustments. The good news is that they are almost all in one place. In this video, we'll look at the key ones that will make a difference to your editing experience.
    
    Overview of Premiere Pro Preferences
    
    22:38
- Adobe has made great strides in standardizing the interfaces of all the creative applications. If you are familiar with any of the other applications like Photoshop, Soundbooth, or Dreamweaver, you will already know some of the design elements in the Premiere Pro CS5 interface – which is a pretty good start! In any case, this section will familiarize you with Premiere Pro's interface.
  
  The Interface and Workspace
  - The first step in understanding Premiere Pro is building familiarity. In this tutorial, you will meet the various panels, tools, and menus you will use to build a future masterpiece.
    
    Overview of the Premiere Pro Interface
    
    16:16
  - Standard settings are fine but editors often change the look and feel of Premiere Pro while they work. In this video we'll look at why and how.
    
    Customizing the Interface
    
    08:48
  - Premiere Pro has several standard screen layouts called workspaces. You can also create your own. This is more than personalizing – it is making Premiere Pro your own, as you'll see in this video.
    
    Working with Workspaces
    
    03:57
  - The tiny but important panel menus contain options specific to the panel they reside on. This tutorial will show you how to find and use these often-overlooked menus.
    
    Panel Menus
    
    03:40
  - The 3-point edit is the most fundamental building block of editing. It is so standard, many experienced editors don't even realize they are doing it! Learn this one technique and you are an editor.
    
    3-Point Edits
    
    07:57
  - Keyboard shortcuts can make the difference between "fast" and "like lightning." This video introduces you to the core shortcuts you will (or should) use every day.
    
    Essential Shortcuts
    
    05:58
- There are numerous tape formats but the recording process is always the same. This section looks at bringing your content from tape onto a computer.
  
  Recording Clips
  - Which tape formats you can capture from will depend on the hardware you have with your system. Whatever the format, you will be creating new files on your hard drive as you capture. This video shows you the simple controls for capturing in Premiere Pro, and new in CS5, automated options for capturing whole tapes.
    
    Capturing Clips from Tape
    
    13:44
  - In this video you'll learn about capture options and the concept of offline clips. This simple idea explains much of the way all nonlinear editing systems work – including Premiere Pro.
    
    Capture Options and Clip Logging
    
    14:09
- The Media Browser is a brand-new tool included with Premiere Pro CS5. It allows you to interact with exotic media file formats as if they were...not exotic. We'll look at the Media Browser in this section.
  
  The Media Browser
  - There are many, many file-based camera systems and they produce many file types. This video shows some standard examples and the wonderful new ways Premiere Pro CS5 allows you to work with them.
    
    About File-Based Cameras and the Media Browser
    
    08:32
  - In this video you'll see how quickly the Media Browser lets you import media from multiple file types. You can now even work with media you haven't imported. Impossible, you say? CS5, we say.
    
    Importing Clips with and without the Media Browser
    
    06:28
- The Project panel is the heart and soul of your project. These videos show you how to share the love with the rest of your project.
  
  The Project Panel
  - This video looks at bins, which are storage containers for your clips. Learn about creating order, not chaos, and staying in control of everything without trying thanks to Premiere Pro's wonderful search tools.
    
    Creating and Organizing Bins
    
    08:39
  - Sometimes text just doesn't cut it. Sometimes a thumbnail fails. You will often want to view clips in your Project panel in different ways. In this video you'll learn about these easy options to make your media more accessible and meaningful.
    
    Project Panel Display Options
    
    09:14
  - Storyboards can be drawn but they can also be constructed from the building blocks of clip thumbnails. In this video you'll see how and learn why.
    
    Creating a Storyboard
    
    04:04
  - As soon as your clips are organized in the Project panel, you can add them to a sequence, but not so many people know about Premiere Pro's ability to automate the process, adding clips to a sequence at specific points in time and even including the odd special effect. After watching this video, you'll be one of them.
    
    Automating to Sequence
    
    04:59
  - To help stay organized, you may want to create copies of clips or sequences. This simple option can make a big difference to how you plan your edit. See how in this video.
    
    Creating Clip Copies and Subclips
    
    07:06
  - The relationship between clips and the media files they are linked to is key to understanding everything Premiere Pro does. When you have mastered this concept, as you will have after this lesson, much of the way Premiere Pro performs will make more sense.
    
    Offline and Online Clips
    
    08:43
  - The special link between clips and media files can be changed and updated. You can also change the way Premiere Pro interprets media files, as you'll see in this video.
    
    Interpreting and Replacing Footage
    
    08:36
  - Fear no power cut. With the combined power of saving and autosaving, your creative work is continually protected. This tutorial looks at the various features and options related to saving.
    
    Saving and Autosaving
    
    05:16
The main work of using Premiere Pro CS5 is in cutting – in fact, it has been said that 90% of editing is looking at clips and making creative choices about them. These videos show you the core building blocks of editing. Learn these concepts and you are an editor!

Editing Clips
- The two monitor panels are windows into your media files and your edit. They are your friends, packed with shortcut joy and usability bordering on silky smooth. You need to know who they are and what they are about, and after watching this video you will.
  
  Monitor Panels
  
  21:31
- You can set the default tracks in your project settings and tell Premiere Pro how many to provide in new sequences – but who knows, maybe you will change your mind. Here's how to tell Premiere Pro what you want.
  
  Adding and Removing Tracks
  
  07:11
- The Timeline has some of the most important interface elements in Premiere Pro: It is where you build your edit. If your edit were a sculpture, this would be your studio. Discover these controls and be wise in the ways of the Timeline.
  
  Timeline Controls
  
  20:53
- A few simple rules determine how Premiere Pro plays video and audio clips in a sequence. These rules shape the way you will construct all of your sequences. You'll learn them in this video.
  
  Sequence Structure
  
  05:54
- The Source Monitor allows you to select just a part of a complete clip by adding in and out marks. In this video you'll find out why they are called this and how they work.
  
  Setting In and Out Marks in the Source Monitor
  
  04:10
- Timeline markers are more than simply faceless tags to remind you to do something. They can store many kinds of additional information and allow for advanced interaction when you send your movie to Flash or After Effects. You'll find out how in this video.
  
  Timeline Markers
  
  07:40
- There are two ways Premiere Pro can add a clip to a sequence and they are based on principles that apply to all activities on the Timeline. Grasp the simple concepts explained in this lesson and you can begin to use the full power of nonlinear editing.
  
  Insert and Overlay Edits
  
  06:35
- Once your clips are in a sequence, you are likely to want to move them around. Here are the rules – learn, obey, and you can jiggle things around freely.
  
  Selecting and Moving Sequence Clips
  
  09:13
- The very simple technique covered in this video underpins some of the most advanced editing concepts. Get a handle on track patching and you can use multiple tracks with the touch of a key.
  
  Track Patching
  
  06:27
- Sometimes things go out of sync. It happens to everybody, like toast landing butter-side-down. Sync Locks are there to protect your buttered toast and they do so with track-specific control. They are like an anti-gravity belt for your toasted sync, and you'll learn about them here.
  
  Sync Locks
  
  07:08
- You can remove whole clips from the Timeline by selecting them and hitting the Delete key, but what if you want to remove just a part? This is where Lift and Extract edits arrive to save the day. They are simple, neat, and keyboard-shortcut-enabled, as you'll see in this video.
  
  Lift and Extract Edits
  
  04:42
- What if you have set up your effects, positioned your clip in a sequence and then – wait, the shot doesn't work? Replacing clips saves the day. Learn how to do it in this lesson.
  
  Replacing Clips in a Sequence
  
  05:06
- This unobtrusive and helpful panel tells you what you need to know when you need to know it. Take a tour of the Info panel in this video.
  
  The Info Panel
  
  03:16
Truly, the most common transition is the straight cut from one clip to another. However, there are many other, often beautiful, transition effects. These videos show you how to add these special effects, how to adjust the timing of clips, and how to work with effects in general.

Transitions
- Adding an edit allows you to split a clip into two parts. This tiny feature lets you add transitions to just about anything – effects included! Get the scoop on edits in this video.
  
  Adding Edits
  
  07:16
- Very often, you will want to trim the beginnings and ends of clips and this is super easy to do. In fact, apart from adding and moving clips, this is probably the most common thing you will do in Premiere Pro. This tutorial shows you how to trim the most straightforward way, which is right on the Timeline.
  
  Trimming Clips Directly on the Timeline
  
  10:32
- When you want really detailed control over trimming, Premiere Pro's dedicated Trim panel hits the spot, allowing you to make tiny adjustments and loop-play to see the result. This video takes you inside the Trim panel.
  
  Trimming with the Trim Monitor
  
  05:13
- Once you have understood trimming basics, you are ready for the advanced slip, slide, and roll techniques. These are perhaps the most advanced editing controls available and yet they are incredibly easy to use. You'll learn all about them in this module.
  
  Slip Trims, Slide Trims, and Rolling Trims
  
  07:20
- Adding transitions is no harder than dragging and dropping. Learn about transitions in this video and you'll be a hop and a skip from special effects mastery.
  
  Transition Effects
  
  05:25
- Select one and you normally select the other, but there are occasions when you want to tweak just the audio or video part of a clip. In this tutorial you'll learn the shortcuts that make this advanced (but easy) approach to editing possible.
  
  Selecting Video and Audio Separately and Together
  
  06:57
- Keyframing allows settings to change over time. The principle of keyframing is universal – learn it once and you understand it forever – and opacity adjustments are a great way to meet this new friend. In this video you'll see how to create a transition by changing the opacity of your clips.
  
  Keyframing Opacity to Create Transitions
  
  05:36
Nesting sequences and multi-camera editing are some pretty advanced editing techniques, but that does not mean they are difficult or complex. In fact, in just a few short lessons, you can learn all about these miraculous features.

Nested Sequences and Multi-Camera Editing
- This video is your introduction to the nested sequence, which is a sequence within a sequence. Simple enough, though sometimes confusing in practice. Once you learn how to combine sequences in this super-easy and yet brain-baking way, you will be ready to make advanced layered compositions.
  
  Nesting Sequences
  
  03:20
- Once you have nested a sequence inside another sequence, you can change one and it updates inside the other. In this lesson we'll look at what this means for effects work inside Premiere Pro.
  
  Editing with Nested Sequence Clips
  
  09:20
- Did you film an event with multiple cameras? Want to create a live vision-mix, cutting between camera angles using your keyboard? Watch this and be amazed at what you didn't realize you could already do.
  
  All About Multi-Camera Editing
  
  03:03
- You can always synchronize multicam camera angles manually but if you have a sync point, it's quicker and easier. This video looks at the different ways of synchronizing footage from multiple cameras.
  
  Synchronizing Multiple Clips
  
  05:48
- Once your multi-camera edit is set up you can start playing back and switching angles with the keyboard. This is the 'live' part of the 'live' multi-camera edit, and it's very easy to do, as you'll see in this video.
  
  Switching Camera Angles on the Fly
  
  02:39
- When you have completed a multi-camera edit, you may want to adjust the timing of your cuts. This is just like trimming but with multiple viewpoints. You'll get the lowdown in this lesson.
  
  Finalizing Multicam Edits
  
  05:49
Premiere Pro's effects let you correct problems like poor exposure or white balance, or embellish your clips with 3D and other creative effects. In this chapter, you'll get acquainted with Premiere Pro's effects and learn when and how to use them.

Effects
- You can't run before you can walk, so in this introductory section, you'll be introduced to Premiere Pro's effects. You'll learn where they are, how to apply them, and how to share common effects over multiple clips.
  
  Introduction
  - Video effects let you change your original footage in a number of ways, from correcting color and brightness to adding linear or rotational motion, or adding any number of special effects like a lens flare or chromakey effect. This tutorial introduces you to Premiere Pro's effects.
    
    Introduction to Effects
    
    05:29
  - In this video, you'll learn the basics of applying, configuring, and previewing effects in Premiere Pro.
    
    Applying Effects
    
    02:58
  - Many times when you create an effect, you want to apply it to multiple clips at once. Fortunately, Premiere Pro makes that easy, as you'll see in this tutorial.
    
    Working with Multiple Clips and Presets
    
    02:31
  - One of the most important additions to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is the Mercury Playback Engine. And one of the most important components of the Mercury Engine is GPU acceleration, which we'll cover in this video.
    
    The New Mercury Engine
    
    04:18
  - Static effects are great, but animating your effects – or changing the values over time – is the mark of a real editing pro. In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 you can animate your effects with keyframes, as you'll learn in this tutorial.
    
    Keyframing Effects
    
    04:42
- Every clip you add to your Timeline panel has fixed effects applied to it. In this section, you'll learn how to work with fixed effects like motion, size, and rotation, and how to animate your effects with keyframes.
  
  Working with Fixed Effects
  - Fixed effects are automatically applied to each clip you add to a project, basically because they're the effects that you use the most when producing videos with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the fixed effects to add a logo to a movie.
    
    Overview of Fixed Effects
    
    04:42
  - The picture-in-picture effect is a simple yet powerful effect that works well in many productions, from interviews to sporting events to concerts. In this video, you'll learn how to create picture-in-picture effects from scratch and by using presets, and to how to add beveled edges and drop shadows to make your effects more distinguishable from the the background.
    
    Creating Picture-in-Picture Effects
    
    04:44
  - Video is all about motion, even when you're working with still images like logos. That's why Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 makes it easy to add motion to all content, as you'll learn in this tutorial.
    
    Adding Motion to Clips
    
    03:24
  - Adding motion to a clip is one thing – adding motion that looks realistic is quite another. In this lesson, you'll learn how to fine-tune your keyframe settings using value and velocity graphs to make your motion effects as compelling and realistic as possible.
    
    Smoothing Motion with Keyframe Interpolation
    
    03:47
  - Most of Premiere Pro's effects are two-dimensional, though there are several effects that let you add a third dimension, including the Basic 3D effect that we'll look at in this video.
    
    Adding 3D Effects to Your Clips
    
    04:43
- You can skip this section if all of your video shoots are perfect in every way. If you're human, you probably could benefit from learning a bit about how to adjust the exposure in your shots and how to optimize color. And if you've been dying to learn what a waveform monitor is, you've definitely come to the right place.
  
  Color and Brightness Correction
  - If you browse through Adobe Premiere Pro CS5's effects folder in the Effects panel, you'll see color-related effects in several subfolders. You can use these for two main purposes – first, to correct either the exposure or color of your source footage, and second to create a certain artistic look or feel. We'll look at both of these in this lesson.
    
    Introduction to Color and Brightness-Related Effects
    
    02:24
  - Special effects are sexy, but much of the time, Premiere Pro's brightness and color correction tools will be the most valuable. The key to understanding how to properly adjust the brightness of your clips is the waveform monitor, so we'll start there in this video and then adjust the exposure of several clips.
    
    Introduction to the Waveform Monitor
    
    07:22
  - No matter how hard you try, sometimes your white balance will be less than perfect. Fortunately, Premiere Pro's Fast Color Corrector lives up to its name, and makes adjusting white balance fast and easy, as you'll see in this video.
    
    Color Correction with the Fast Color Corrector
    
    03:37
  - This lesson will introduce you to an effect that can be a real project-saver. It's called the Shadow/Highlight effect, and it works particularly well on clips where the faces are too dark because of backlighting.
    
    The Shadow/Highlight Effect
    
    05:03
  - The Three-Way Color Corrector enables extraordinary precision in your color adjustments, but definitely looks intimidating at first. In this tutorial you'll learn when and how to use the effect to improve your productions.
    
    Introduction to the Three-Way Color Corrector Effects
    
    06:01
  - In addition to the workhorse Brightness and Contrast and Fast Color Corrector effects, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 also has a couple of just plain cool effects that you need to know about; specifically, the Leave Color and Change to Color effects. You'll learn about both in this tutorial.
    
    Leave Color and Change to Color effects
    
    04:23
- Premiere Pro has multiple tools for speeding up and slowing down your footage. In this section, you'll meet them all, learn how and when to use the Rate Stretch tool, and get an introduction to variable-speed time changes.
  
  Adding Time Effects
  - Slow and fast motion effects are very frequently used in Premiere Pro productions, and in this tutorial, you'll learn how to change speed and reverse motion using the Clip Speed/Duration control. You'll also see how these changes can affect the rest of your project.
    
    Slow, Reverse, and Fast Motion
    
    06:30
  - Sometimes you want to change the speed of one clip to match the duration of another, or the length of an audio file, or even fill a gap in your Timeline. The Rate Stretch tool is ideal for these purposes, as you'll learn in this tutorial.
    
    Speed Adjustment with the Rate Stretch Tool
    
    01:47
  - Sometimes when you're using slow or fast motion, you'll want to fade the speed change in over a second or two, rather than instantly changing speeds. When that's your objective, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5's time remapping feature is ideal, and you'll learn to use it – for both forward and reverse video – in this video.
    
    Adding Variable-Speed Time Changes
    
    05:20
  - In addition to changing the speed of video clips, you can use the Clip Speed/Duration control to change the duration of still images on your Timeline, a feature that can come in very handy, as you'll see in this tutorial.
    
    Changing the Duration of Multiple Still Images
    
    02:21
- Most productions involve multiple layers of video, which requires keying, compositing, or both. In this section, you'll learn artistic techniques like layering and working with alpha channels, and meet Adobe Ultra Key, a supremely capable color-keying effect.
  
  Keying and Compositing
  - Compositing is the art of combining multiple source videos into a single video. The most frequently used effect for combining videos is opacity, and you'll learn what that is and how to use it in this lesson. You'll also see how to layer multiple clips and how to create a semi-transparent logo.
    
    Introduction to Compositing
    
    04:39
  - In addition to working with the opacity value in its default setting, you can also work with different blend modes to create a unique effect. You'll learn how in this tutorial.
    
    Combining Video Layers via Blending
    
    02:08
  - Using graphics with alpha channels opens up lots of creative opportunities in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. This tutorial explores some of the possibilities.
    
    Working with Alpha Channel Transparencies
    
    03:40
  - The Ultra key is one of the most important enhancements to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. If you produce a lot of greenscreen videos, you're in for a treat, because it's a totally awesome effect. This video shows you how to use it.
    
    Color Keying with Adobe Ultra
    
    03:44
  - Even with the new Ultra key, you'll sometimes have problems with the edges of greenscreen clips, typically because of shadows in the background or similar issues. Garbage mattes provide a quick and easy solution to these problems, as you'll see in this video.
    
    Using Garbage Mattes
    
    02:51
Titles are one of the most powerful and commonly used elements of video productions, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 has powerful and intuitive title tools. This chapter shows you how to use them.

Creating Titles
- This video will introduce you to the workflow used to create, deploy, and save titles.
  
  Title Designer Overview
  
  05:14
- Text is the most common element of most titles, and this tutorial introduces you to the text editing functions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5's Title Designer.
  
  Working with Title Text
  
  08:50
- In addition to vertical and horizontal text, the Premiere Pro also lets you type text along a definable path. This video illustrates the procedure.
  
  Putting Text on a Path
  
  01:38
- In addition to text, the Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Title Designer makes it simple to add shapes and logos to your projects, as you'll learn in this video.
  
  Adding Graphics and Shapes
  
  06:14
- If your title contains multiple shapes or other objects, you may want to distribute the objects evenly, align them together along one edge or another, or both. You'll learn how in this tutorial.
  
  Adjusting and Aligning Graphics and Shapes
  
  01:25
- If you're short on creative inspiration, or just short of time, you may want to check out Premiere Pro's title templates. This video shows you how to deploy and customize a title template in seconds flat.
  
  Working with Title Templates
  
  04:06
- You've finished your project, and now it's time to roll the credits. You're probably exhausted, but fear not, because this video will show you how fast and easy it is to create your fancy titles in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
  
  Creating Moving Titles
  
  05:21
- If you want to get super-creative with your titles, Photoshop is the place to do it, and as you would expect, it's easy to deploy Photoshop titles in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 projects. You'll learn how in this tutorial.
  
  Creating Titles in Photoshop
  
  05:34
Some of the most advanced and, quite simply, "wow" features available in Premiere Pro CS5 actually come from integration with other applications in the Creative Suite. These videos will teach you how quickly and easily you can benefit from working with Photoshop and After Effects, among other applications.

Integrating Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects
- Meet and greet the key applications in Creative Suite Production Premium. In this video you'll learn which applications you will use for specific tasks.
  
  Exploring the Creative Suite Production Premium
  
  08:44
- This lesson introduces the imaging powerhouse that is Photoshop. This industry-standard application has perfect compatibility with both Premiere Pro and After Effects and is simple to get to grips with once you know what you are looking at.
  
  Photoshop CS5 Basics
  
  13:09
- Premiere Pro has a special relationship with Photoshop files. They can be imported and animated as a whole or with individual layers. They can also be shared between Photoshop and Premiere and... well, take a look and see.
  
  Importing Photoshop Files into Premiere Pro as Sequences
  
  10:44
- Premier Pro is primarily for editing and After Effects, as the name suggests, is for effects work. But both applications can do so, so much more. They can also share sequences and compositions. In this video you'll learn how quick and easy it is to share sequences between the two.
  
  Using Dynamic Linking with Premiere Pro and After Effects
  
  15:11
- Sometimes you won't want to share whole sequences between Premiere Pro and After Effects – perhaps just one clip needs a little tuning. This short tutorial shows you how easy it is to share a single clip (or a few clips).
  
  Replacing a Clip with an After Effects Composition
  
  06:02
In most productions, the audio component is at least as important as the video component, which is why Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 has an extensive audio-related toolset. In this chapter, you'll learn how to work with audio in Premiere Pro and suite-mate Soundbooth Pro.

Audio
- This section looks at working with audio in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Topics include how to diagnose problems in a waveform file, how to adjust audio gain and volume (and when to use each), and how to work with Premiere Pro's Audio Mixer.
  
  Working with Audio in Premiere Pro
  - This tutorial provides a brief overview of how to import and preview audio and how to incorporate audio files into your Premiere Pro projects.
    
    Overview of Audio in Premiere Pro
    
    05:29
  - You can tell a lot about an audio file just by looking at its waveform, and this information will help you figure out how to edit your audio. Consider this tutorial a guide to diagnosing the health of the audio files that you include in your Premiere Pro projects.
    
    Working with Waveforms
    
    04:46
  - Of all audio characteristics, volume is usually the most important. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to control audio volume with keyframes, both in the Timeline and in the Effect Controls panel.
    
    Adjusting Audio Volume
    
    06:40
  - In addition to adjusting the volume of your audio clips, you can also adjust gain. In many ways, adjusting gain is the preferred approach, as you'll learn in this video.
    
    Adjusting Audio Gain
    
    09:16
  - J-Cuts and L-Cuts are popular editing techniques that present the clip's audio and video components to the viewer at different times. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to produce both types of edits.
    
    J-Cuts and L-Cuts
    
    07:20
  - The big lesson to learn about audio effects in Premiere Pro is that it's almost always better to use Soundbooth for any major effects work. In this video you'll learn why and get a demonstration of the optimal Premiere Pro to Soundbooth workflow.
    
    Adding Effects to Audio Clips
    
    05:11
  - The Audio Mixer gives you volume and other controls for all audio tracks in one place, providing a very convenient tool for mixing your audio tracks into a finished master. This tutorial provides an overview of basic Audio Mixer operation.
    
    Working with the Audio Mixer
    
    05:54
  - When you're combining multiple sources of audio into your project, mixing in real time can be a very efficient way to go. This video shows you how to mix in real time with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5's Audio Mixer.
    
    Automating Changes in Audio Tracks
    
    04:03
  - Submixes provide a convenient way to apply an effect to multiple tracks in an audio mix. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a submix, assign tracks to the submix, and add and control effects within the submix.
    
    Creating Submixes
    
    02:03
  - This lesson details how to record narration in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Adobe Soundbooth.
    
    Recording Voiceovers
    
    05:58
- Premiere Pro has very capable audio tools, but in many cases, Soundbooth's are better. Noise and pop/click are two common problems that Soundbooth has very capable answers for.
  
  Working with Audio in Soundbooth
  - Getting your audio files from Premiere Pro to Soundbooth for editing is a snap, as you'll see in this video.
    
    Getting to Soundbooth
    
    04:13
  - In this tutorial, you'll get a quick tour of the Adobe Soundbooth CS5 interface.
    
    Working in Soundbooth
    
    04:21
  - Once you've got your audio in Soundbooth, you have multiple options for adjusting the volume, including normalization, equalization, and matching the volume of multiple files. You'll learn how in this video.
    
    Volume Control in Soundbooth
    
    05:19
  - Knowing how to reduce background noise or hum in your audio is key to improving the quality of many productions. In this tutorial, you'll learn several approaches to noise reduction.
    
    Noise Reduction in Soundbooth
    
    05:33
  - Removing random pops and clicks from your audio files is another area where Soundbooth excels. You'll learn multiple approaches to this problem in this video.
    
    Removing Pops and Clicks in Soundbooth
    
    05:21
  - Adobe Soundbooth CS5 has a strong complement of effects, and a great workflow for previewing, customizing, and saving multiple effects as a group. This tutorial provides an overview of these capabilities.
    
    Adding Effects in Soundbooth
    
    04:06
Using metadata correctly can really improve the efficiency of your workflow, and Premiere Pro and the entire CS5 suite have some extraordinary metadata-related features. These include comprehensive metadata fields that can track the details of your content and the ability to convert speech to text, or even detect faces in your video footage. This chapter covers all of these in one convenient place, just for you.

Metadata and Content Analysis
- Metadata is data about data. Though it might seem a little odd and unnecessary, this tutorial will show you why you need metadata in your life (and your workflow). Adding metadata to clips is as easy as typing and thinking, but not in that order. This tutorial shows some of the ways you can use metadata as part of your organizational workflow and wow the editing neighbors.
  
  Adding Metadata to Clips
  
  09:33
- Speech transcription can be a huge timesaver, allowing you to search to find a specific word in your source materials, and providing metadata that can help you monetize your video assets. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to convert speech to text, both with and without a script.
  
  Converting Speech to Text
  
  02:28
- Now that you've transcribed your speech to text, you're probably wondering: What the heck can I do with it? Well, quite a bit, as you'll learn in this video.
  
  Working with Transcribed Text
  
  03:24
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can now analyze videos and digital photos to determine if they contain faces. If you've shot a mix of clips that includes faces, as well as establishing shots and B-roll, this can help you quickly identify the relevant clips when it's time to edit. This video shows you how.
  
  Face detection in the Project Panel
  
  02:19
You've created your project, now it's time to share it with the world. In this chapter, you'll learn how to optimize your settings, use the Adobe Media Encoder, choose a format, and more.

Outputting Video
- After you've finished editing, it's time to output your project. In this video, we'll explore Adobe Premiere Pro CS5's myriad output options.
  
  Overview of Output Options
  
  02:53
- If you captured your original video from DV or HDV tape, you may want to write the finished project back to tape for safekeeping. This tutorial shows you how.
  
  Recording to Videotape
  
  03:42
- Whenever you choose File > Output > Media, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 opens the Output Settings dialog box, which is how you create all standalone still image, audio, and video files. This tutorial provides an overview of this critical dialog using output settings for Flash deployment.
  
  Working with the Output Settings Dialog Box
  
  07:10
- The Adobe Media Encoder is where you create and control multiple encoding jobs. This tutorial will provide an overview of its operation.
  
  Working with Adobe Media Encoder
  
  05:24
- Premiere Pro enables you to choose from many, many different formats when exporting your media. This video gives you a quick overview of the various formats and what they're used for.
  
  Format Overview
  
  06:47
- Premiere Pro CS5's Project Manager is a great way to move or archive projects. In this tutorial, you'll learn how accomplish both tasks.
  
  Optimizing Projects with the Project Manager
  
  04:46
Adobe Encore is a powerful, easy to use, and super-fast system for creating DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, and (believe it or not) Flash video web pages – all using the same skills and media assets. You can build a DVD based on a Premiere Pro sequence before you have even finished editing it and encode the video for multiple formats without knowing anything about compression. Want to know more? Watch on!

Working with Adobe Encore CS5
- These introductory tutorials will give you all the skills you need to send a sequence from Premiere Pro CS5 to Encore CS5 and then build a complete DVD, ready to view.
  
  Outputting Videos with Encore
  - You'll learn enough in this one tutorial to author DVDs using Adobe Encore. We'll take a look at Encore's interface and explore the various settings and options.
    
    Overview of the Encore Interface
    
    15:18
  - What if you want to carry on working on your Premiere Pro sequence but also start authoring a DVD? We've got a feature for that.
    
    Sharing Sequences Between Premiere Pro and Encore
    
    04:56
  - Encore offers lots of options for importing assets and supports a large number of formats. This lesson shows you how to bring video, audio, and other assets into Encore, how to link to them once you have them, and even how to create a slideshow.
    
    Importing Assets
    
    04:34
  - Understanding the way Encore creates relationships between items is the number one step to taking command of DVD authoring. This video looks at the links connecting everything in Encore and introduces the Flowchart view, which provides a visual representation of these links.
    
    Linking Everything Together
    
    12:00
  - If you have multiple images you would like to incorporate into a slideshow with accompanying music, Encore makes the process simple and automatic. This video shows you how to bring images and audio into a slideshow and control how the slideshow plays back.
    
    Making Slideshows
    
    05:40
- Encore DVD Menus can be as simple or as complex as you like. This video shows you how to apply background video and audio and link multiple menus together. There are templates and presets, and you even can use Photoshop as a super-advanced menu editor.
  
  Editing Menus
  - Menus are the links between your timelines and slideshows. At a minumum, you will probably want to create a menu that appears when the DVD is first played. If you know word processing, you know menu design...OK, plus a little bit of object-oriented design you can pick up here in moments.
    
    Menu Editing
    
    09:59
  - The secret sauce in Encore is the file system for menus. As you'll see in this video, they are actually Photoshop files. Thanks to dynamic linking, you can jump into Photoshop to make changes and see them update inside Encore right away.
    
    Using Photoshop to Edit Menus
    
    08:15
- These videos will get you up to speed on Encore's elegant Flowchart view, which makes it super-easy to produce advanced interactive DVDs, as well as button sequencing and playlists.
  
  The Flowchart, Buttons, and Playlists
  - Working on complex Encore DVD projects can get...complex, if you have multiple timelines and menus to link them together. The Flowchart view, which is covered in this lesson, lets you see everything as one beautiful network of connections.
    
    The Flowchart View
    
    02:54
  - When viewers navigate menus, you can control which button links to which. This is helpful if you have a complex menu with oddly shaped buttons. This video is your guide to setting up your buttons in Encore.
    
    Changing Button Sequences
    
    03:25
  - Playlists allow you create custom sequences of Timelines or other items. This is great for music video DVDs, where you can allow the viewer to see different kinds of video based on a menu selection. You'll learn all about playlists in this video.
    
    Creating Playlists
    
    03:58
  - Just as playlists allow you to set the order in which Timelines will play, chapter playlists allow you to specify the order in which individual chapters will play. This is great if you would like to use a single Timeline for start-to-end playback or selected sections. This video explains the difference between chapter playlists and regular playlists.
    
    Creating Chapter Playlists
    
    06:07
- This sections looks at the final steps in the DVD authoring process: previewing your work to see what it will look like, and outputting to file or disc.
  
  Previewing and Outputting
  - Before you burn your disk, you can preview your finished DVD in Encore, testing navigation and making sure everything connects together just as you thought it did. This video walks you through this important step.
    
    Previewing
    
    03:48
  - Even previewing your DVD may not iron out all the wrinkles if you are working on a really complex project with many media elements and menus. Encore can assist you by checking every item in your project to see that it links to something, and can even help you fix any problems it finds, as you'll see in this video.
    
    Checking Your Project
    
    01:52
  - In addition to burning DVDs, Encore can also burn Blu-ray disks and even make a Flash video web page based on your DVD, with all menus and chapters intact. This is fantastic for review and approval for clients. This video looks at using the Build panel to set your options and output your project.
    
    DVD, Blu-ray, and Flash Output
    
    06:54
OnLocation is a unique tool for pre-production and location filming. There really is nothing like this tool for adding all that magic metadata you will use later and recording straight to disk on set. The videos in this chapter will show you how to prepare for your shoot, calibrate your monitor, record your footage, and more with OnLocation.

Production Support with Adobe OnLocation CS5
- OnLocation provides great tools for pre-production, allowing you to prepare placeholders with metadata ready to go that is carried into Premiere Pro when you edit. This video introduces you to the OnLocation interface and shows you how to set up placeholders to prepare for your shoot.
  
  Preproduction with OnLocation CS5
  
  07:43
- This video looks at OnLocation's various options for setting up and calibrating your monitor, which in this case is your laptop. You'll see how to use features like zebras and color bars to maximize the quality of your display and your footage.
  
  Control Monitor Setup
  
  14:18
- This tutorial looks at OnLocation's built-in vectorscope, waveform monitor, and histogram, which allow you to check your shot in detail before filming.These instruments will show things your eyes might not see – and once you know how they work, you will be able to use them in every software tool where they appear.
  
  Monitoring Instruments Before Recording
  
  10:10
- Why record to tape when you can record straight to your hard drive? This lesson teaches you how to record in OnLocation and associate your recordings with metadata.
  
  Direct-to-Disc Recording
  
  03:23
- This video looks at OnLocation's Metadata panel, where you can enter lots of information that will be carried through to Premiere Pro.
  
  Adding Metadata to Clips
  
  03:04
- In this tutorial you'll see how to use OnLocation to create a reduced version of a project with just the clips you need for your edit. This is especially helpful if you are collaborating with an editor and you want to save him or her time by picking out the best shots in advance.
  
  Pre-Selecting Clips for Premiere Pro
  
  01:57

Welcome: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: Learn by Video

This complete training program from Adobe Press and video2brain combines over 15 hours of exceptional video instruction with a full-color 120-page guide to teach you core editing concepts and state of the art workflows used by broadcasters and filmmakers around the world.

Expert trainers Maxim Jago and Jan Ozer teach you the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and other Adobe video applications including Media Encoder, OnLocation, and Encore. You’ll learn how to edit and composite footage, correct color and brightness, adjust audio, chroma key footage, create and manage metadata, and work with tapeless media.

Topics covered in this course include:

Customizing the interface and workspace
Creating effects
Using collaborative workflows and sharing assets across applications
Working with nested sequences and multi-camera editing
Adding titles and transitions
Managing your metadata
Optimizing the quality of your output

and more!

The lessons are wrapped in a feature-rich interface that lets you jump to any topic and bookmark individual sections for later review. Full-Screen mode provides a hi-def, immersive experience, and Watch-and-Work mode shrinks the video into a small window so you can play the videos alongside your application.

As with all titles in the Learn by Video series, the project files used in the lessons are included with the course, and interactive review questions help reinforce what you’ve learned. Selected videos are also provided ready to be downloaded for viewing on your iPhone, iPod, or other compatible mobile device.

System Requirements

Broadband internet connection
Up-to-date browser with Flash plug-in
Screen resolution 1024x768 or higher
Sound card with speakers or headphones attached
Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or higher, or Apple Mac G5
512 MB RAM

HTML5 Player-Ready

This course can be played with an HTML5 Player, which means it can be viewed online with your iPad and iPhone 4.

Project Files (Downloadable Feature)

Project files are included with this course so you can practice what you learn and work right along with the videos.

Powerful, Feature-Rich Interface

This course features video2brain’s interactive interface. As you navigate the course, rolling over a chapter or video brings up text describing that item.

Full-Screen mode provides a hi-def, immersive experience. And Watch-and-Work mode puts the video into a resizable window that you can shrink so you can watch the lessons on one side of your screen while you’re following along and applying what you’ve learned on the other.

HD Video

This course comes in crisp 1280 x 720 high definition video.

Bookmarks (Downloadable Feature)

Available in the downloadable version of our courses, this feature makes it easy to create a custom bookmark in any lesson to mark where you left off or to make note of something you want to refer back to later. You can even add a name or short note to remind yourself what the bookmark is for.

Test Yourself (Downloadable Feature)

Available in the downloadable versions of our courses, Test Yourself lets you reinforce what you’ve learned with a series of interactive test questions about the topics covered in the course.

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