Premiere Pro Guru: Video Finishing Techniques

Learn video finishing techniques in Premiere Pro CC, including checking for mistakes, correcting color, legalizing footage for broadcast, and creating a digital master.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before taking the course
• Using the exercise files

1. Minimizing Mistakes

• Checking for gaps and flash frames
• Using dupe detection
• Replacing temp or stock shots
• Checking for blanking and correct aspect ratios
• Smoothing speed changes
• Checking transitions
• Lens correction
• Stabilization

2. Color Correction

• Improving render quality with sequence settings
• Using video scopes to analyze brightness and contrast
• Using video scopes to analyze color
• Additional scope options with ScopeBox
• Fixing common contrast problems
• Fixing common color problems
• Raw and log formats
• Adjustment layers for color correction
• Tracking color corrections
• Using Lumetri effect presets
• The Direct Link workflow with SpeedGrade
• Developing a look in SpeedGrade to use in Premiere Pro
• Noise reduction with SpeedGrade and After Effects
• Noise reduction with Neat Video

3. Video Legalization

• What does "broadcast legal" mean?
• Legalization with the Video Limiter effect
• Adjustment layers for legalization
• Legalizing in SpeedGrade

4. Working with Graphics and Images

• Keeping photos "raw" for color correction
• Updating layered Photoshop files
• Interpreting alpha channels
• Avoiding network bug and title violations

5. Handing Off Files for Others

• The advantage of working with specialists
• Consolidating a timeline
• Creating a reference movie with the timecode burned in
• Exporting interchange files (XML, AAF, EDL)
• Using the Project Manager to gather assets

6. Receiving Files from Other Finishing Artists

• Four steps to assembling a project
• Importing XML files
• Importing finished assets

7. Creating a Digital Master

• Checking the clock and building a countdown slate
• Checking sequence settings before export
• Exporting a master file and other deliverables

Conclusion

• Additional resources
• Goodbye