Premiere Pro CS6 for Avid and Final Cut Pro Editors

A quick, easy-to-use guide for editors who want to transition from Avid Media Composer or Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro, or even to move back and forth between applications.

In this workshop filmmaker and author Maxim Jago presents a quick guide for editors who want to make the transition from Avid Media Composer or Apple Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro, or even to move back and forth between applications. Premiere Pro CS6 supports roundtrip editing and offers great new features like dynamic trimming, the Warp Stabilizer, and Rolling Shutter Repair. Maxim covers these features and shows how to harness the power of the entire Adobe Creative Suite to help you with everything from writing scripts and creating titles to capturing live video and tracking metadata.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Getting Started with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

• Introducing Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
• Getting to know Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

2. Creating and Managing Projects

• Creating a new project
• Working with tape
• Importing media files
• Staying organized
• Important preferences

3. Working with Sequences

• Creating sequences
• Timeline track controls
• Core editing techniques
• Trimming tools
• Nesting sequences

4. Applying Effects, Color Correction, and Opacity

• Introduction to Premiere Pro CS6 special effects
• Overview of fixed effects
• Keyframing effects
• Color correction
• Chroma key
• Working with transitions
• Working with effect presets

5. Titles and Metadata

• Title Designer overview
• Clip and file metadata

6. Integrating Premiere Pro with Other Applications

• Dynamic Link and round-tripping with Adobe Creative Suite components
• Round-tripping with Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro

7. Working with Audio

• Modifying clip interpretation
• The Audio Mixer

8. Outputting Video

• Exporting to a file