Learning Premiere Pro CS6

Build your skills and start cutting with Adobe's nonlinear editor.

Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful but user-friendly nonlinear editor, and in this course Maxim Jago shows you just how easy it can be to get started cutting with Premiere Pro CS6. Get a tour of the interface, gain an understanding of the workflow, and be introduced to core editing techniques. Maxim also shows how to edit and mix audio and add transitions, effects, titles, and keyframes, and how to output your project to tape or file so you can share it with the world.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Getting Started with Premiere Pro CS6

• A look at the interface
• Useful preferences
• Transitioning to Premiere Pro CS6
• Editing quickly with Premiere Pro CS6

2. Premiere Pro Projects

• Creating a new project
• Creating a sequence

3. Importing Media

• Importing media files
• Capturing from tapes
• Overview of the Project panel

4. Editing Essentials

• The monitor controls
• Introducing the Timeline panel
• Adding clips to a sequence
• Targeting tracks
• Three- and four-point edits

5. Making Changes

• Track controls
• Moving clips in a sequence
• The Lift and Extract buttons
• Deleting and ripple deleting

6. Working with Transitions

• Adding a transition effect between two clips
• Using the Work Area
• Trimming in the Source Monitor
• Trimming on the Timeline

7. Editing and Mixing Audio

• Audio track types
• Normalizing audio and adjusting clip volume on the Timeline
• Overview of the Audio Mixer

8. Adding Video Special Effects

• Fixed effects for video and audio clips
• Adding and removing special effects
• Keyframing opacity on the Timeline
• Nesting sequences
• Image stabilization

9. Creating Dynamic Titles

• An overview of the Title tool
• Creating and editing titles

10. Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences

• Outputting to tape
• Outputting to files