Duration 3 days

Objectives
This course introduces you the Adobe Premiere interface and desktop editing metaphor used to create video sequences. All the key concepts of non-liner editing techniques, as currently used in TV and Film production, will be covered.

The course begins with an overview of the Premiere interface and workflow and progresses through a series of basic editing techniques that enable you to get to grips with all of the main functions of the Premiere interface. These lessons will include key editing cuts, special effects, titling and audio dubbing.

Having mastered these techniques, you will bring them all together in a final DVD project. This can either be of your own choosing and with your own footage, audio and other assets, or one which we will provide for you. Either way, by the end of the course you will have created your own DVD production ready for professional use.

Requirements
Good working knowledge of the current Mac or PC operating system, including file management and awareness of the different types of media such as hard drives, DVDs and magnetic tape.


Course Outline

Introduction
• Introduction to Video Editing
• The Premiere workspace
• Digital Video vs. Analogue
• Audio in Premiere
• Effects in Premiere
• Colour Correction in Premiere
• Editing models in Premiere

About Digital Video Editing
• Where does premiere fit into the video production cycle?
• Timebases, frame rates and timecodes
• Interlaced vs non-interlaced video
• Capturing from Digital and Analogue video

Getting to Know the Premiere Work Area
• Working with Projects
• Menu options and settings
• The Timeline
• Working with the monitor windows
• Using the Premiere palettes

Basic Editing in Adobe Premiere
• Setting up the project
• Project Bins and Media Assets
• Making a Rough Cut
• Using Video and Audio
• Using the Timeline

Adding Transitions and FX
• Introduction to FX and transitions
• Animating in real time
• Previewing at intended frame rate
• Changing and multiplying transitions
• Adding motion

Audio in Premiere
• Performning an L-cut
• Overlaying video without audio
• Mixing Sound
• Correcting sound

Advanced Editing Techniques
• Lift Edit
• Extract Edit
• Fine Tuning Using Markers

Creating Titles
• Introduction to the title window
• Safe zones - what are they?
• Creating simple titles with text
• Animating Titles
• Using Graphics and Text together

Compositing Techniques
• Using Transparency and Alpha Channels
• Fading Clips

Outputting the Completed Project
• Exporting to Video Tape
• Exporting for the Web
• Streaming Web Technologies
• Exporting and Authoring DVD