Premiere Pro CS6 Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• What version of Premiere Pro does this course cover?

1. What's New? (Beginners Skip This Section)

• Using this "What's New" chapter
• What's new (v. 14.0)
• What's new (v. 14.4 and 14.6)

2. Getting to Know Adobe Premiere Pro

• Launching Adobe Premiere Pro
• Touring the Project panel
• Touring the Source Monitor
• Touring the Timeline
• Touring the interface and workspaces

3. Setting up and Organizing your Media

• Asset organization: Getting set up
• Importing media via the Media Browser
• Organizing your assets
• Moving, copying, and deleting assets
• Performing searches

4. Basic Editing

• Basic editing: Laying the foundation
• Playing and marking shots
• Subclipping shots
• Setting up a sequence
• Performing insert edits to build the sequence
• Moving clips and swapping shots
• Removing material for concision
• Adding video b-roll

5. Refining the Edit: Using Trim Tools

• Trimming: Fine-tuning the product
• Trimming shot length using ripple trims
• Adjusting transitions using roll trims
• Changing content and position: Slip and slide
• Performing top and tail edits

6. Additional Editing and Organizational Techniques

• Using markers for organization
• Understanding track and clip behavior
• Repairing sync
• Undoing and Redoing actions
• Customizing the keyboard
• Modifying buttons on the user interface
• Taking advantage of Scene Edit Detection

7. Basic Audio Editing

• Audio editing: Building the soundtrack
• Exploring audio channel configuration
• Editing in your music
• Making audio gain adjustments
• Adjusting audio volume
• Keyframing audio volume
• Working with double-system sound

8. Working with Stills and Graphics

• Still images: Finding depth and meaning within photos
• Working with stills
• Animating stills

9. Working with Effects

• Video effects: Correcting and changing your footage
• Using basic motion effects
• Working with transition effects
• Applying and modifying video effects
• Saving and sharing effects
• Working with adjustment layers and nests
• Adding effects to master clips
• Keyframing effects over time
• Masking and tracking effects
• Understanding rendering options

10. Manipulating Clip Speed

• Creating freeze frames and stills
• Performing fit-to-fill editing
• Changing clip speed with the Rate Stretch tool
• Using the Speed Duration tool
• Making variable speed changes with time remapping

11. Basic Color Correction

• Color correction: Fixing and enhancing color
• Color correction: Analyzing shots
• Reading video scopes
• Using basic color correction tools
• Making color corrections using Curves
• Comparing and matching color corrections

12. Working with Titles

• Titling: Using text to inform and elevate the project
• Creating basic titles with the Graphics Titler
• Animating and finishing titles
• Working in the Essential Graphics window

13. Finishing and Exporting

• Finishing your project: Export and delivery
• Changing aspect ratio with Auto Reframe
• Exporting your project
• Batch exporting with Adobe Media Encoder
• Using Quick Export

Conclusion

• Looking at the finished project in full
• Next steps