Premiere Pro CC Essentials

Explore video settings and how to set up a new project file. Learn about the workspace features in, how to choose and modify various workspaces, and some of the features of the main panels you'll be using. Discover how to import media, manage assets in the Project panel, reconnect missing media, and examine some of the program's preferences.

Explore previewing clips, editing, assembling clips in the timeline, closing gaps, and working with more of the editing tools. Examine sequences, adding new tracks to sequences using cutaways, and how to rename tracks in order to organize them. Learn how to use the Razor tool, as well as how to use the Insert and Overwrite functions.

Learn how to add transitions between clips, adjust transition settings, work with still images, and about the Automate the Sequence function. Understand how to change some of the options in the preferences and about default transitions. Explore previewing in-depth. Discuss creating basic animations that can be used as transitions.

Learn how to use the Titler features to create text, graphics in Premiere, and lower third crawls, as well rolling end credits. Discover how to import layered Photoshop files, take advantage of Photoshop layers, and import and update motion graphics created in After Effects through the dynamic link function.

Learn about the Effects panel, how to apply, modify and animate effects, create track mattes and use them as transitions, create garbage mattes, use key effects to remove green screen backgrounds, and other ways of creating transitions using the Pen tool to create the animation.

Learn about audio file formats, editing audio, using Keyframes, and using an audio transition. Discover how to extract audio from video, conform audio from mono to stereo, add a basic audio transition, use the audio workspace, clean up noisy audio, and improve audio levels when working with multiple audio tracks. Understand how to use markers to coordinate narration with graphics in the timeline.

Explore how and why to use subclips and learn to assemble them using the Automate the Sequence feature. Discuss more advanced editing tools, including the Ripple Tool, the Rolling Edit Tool, and the Slip and Slide Tools. Learn about the Rate Stretch tool and animating the time remapping properly, and how to use the scopes and the Fast Color Corrector feature in to color correct video.

Learn about sharing files between Premiere and Adobe Audition and how to fix shaky video footage using the Warp Stabilizer effect. Discuss exporting in Premiere, along with exporting still images and building exporting presets for future use. Learn about exporting in the Adobe Media Encoder program and some of the new features in Premiere Pro CC.