Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1

Learn how to use Creative Cloud for video and audio production. Discover how to leverage existing visual design skills to grasp the fundamentals of working with motion and sound.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Who this course is for
• What you need to know
• Exercise files

1. Foundation Concepts

• Basic terminology
• Understanding time

2. Adobe After Effects Essentials

• The After Effects interface
• Creating a new project
• Understanding comps
• Importing files from Photoshop
• Importing files from Illustrator
• Importing other files

3. Creating a Lower Third in After Effects

• Creating a comp
• Adding graphics
• Motion
• Scale
• Opacity
• Parenting
• Precomps
• Adding and modifying text
• Motion graphics templates
• Dynamic Link
• Rendering

4. Adobe Premiere

• The Premiere interface
• Creating a new project
• Importing files
• Clips and sequences
• Source and Program Monitors
• Understanding tracks
• Color grading
• Transitions
• Dynamic linking to After Effects
• Working with sound and Audition
• Adding titles
• Exporting media

5. Adobe Audition

• The Audition interface
• Waveforms and spectral
• Making basic edits
• Reducing noise
• Eliminating unwanted sounds
• Adding punchiness
• Multitrack editing
• Remixing time
• Exporting the multitrack mixdown

6. Adobe Media Encoder

• The Adobe Media Encoder workspace
• Exporting overview
• Formats 101
• The queue

7. Making a Short Social Movie

• Opening the project
• Creating the basic sequences
• Adding opening titles
• Adding lower thirds in Premiere
• Adding calls to action
• Rendering the finished project
• Publishing to YouTube, Vimeo, and more

Conclusion

• Connecting with the author
• Where to go from here