Premiere Pro and After Effects: Enhancing Production Value

Learn how to get great video from mediocre footage, using compositing, color balancing, and artificial lighting (and relighting) techniques in Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Software versions and exercise files

1. Blending Modes Overview

• Applying modes
• Modes explained

2. Compositing Footage on a Black Background

• Live action composites
• Synthetic composites

3. Removing and Adding Tints

• Correcting white balance issues
• Unifying a montage of clips
• Tinting with gradients
• Affecting selected regions

4. Creating a Filmic Glow

• Filmic glow 101
• Boosting highlights
• Stacking treatments

5. Adding Artificial Lighting to a Scene

• Choosing lighting candidates
• Artificial light 101
• More practice
• Synthesizing lighting
• Shooting your own lighting footage

6. Relighting Footage in After Effects

• Using 3D lights in After Effects
• Material options
• A practical example

7. Stabilizing Handheld Footage

• Rolling Shutter Repair
• Warp Stabilizer in Premiere Pro
• Warp Stabilizer VFX in After Effects CC

Conclusion

• Goodbye