Premiere Pro 1.5

More than a button-pushing manual, this editing workshop delivers practical insight into the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge of the principles and techniques of editing that enable you to shape your raw footage into a coherent, compelling, original story. Thirteen lessons cover each and every essential, including:

• Nuances of system set-up to ensure smooth operation
• Customizing Premiere Pro and inter-application workflow
• Starting a project in Premier Pro
• Capturing and Importing
• Building a rough cut with multipoint editing
• Trimming to polish your sequences
• Adding effects and transitions with nesting and keyframing
• Compositing to enhance your projects
• Color Correction to restore or achieve shot-to-shot consistency
• Using Motion to animate
• Working with audio, including audio effects and mixing
• Styling your titles; using graphics, rolls and crawls
• Outputting to your choice of media

Put your new-found skills to the test with an extended tutorial supplied on the companion DVD. Analyze how a professional team edited and produced a public service announcement spot — then recreate the edit with your voice. Complete project source files are provided for this tutorial in addition to media provided for use throughout the lessons.

USER LEVEL: Novice to Intermediate