Adobe Premiere Training Course

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Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful program for editing digital video. Premiere helps you create dynamic video or film. This course helps you understand and work with basic through advanced concepts and features of Adobe Premiere. You will run through a typical series of steps for creating, editing and fine-tuning a series of video pieces. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.

This class is 2 days long. Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (770) 414-5661. Please contact our Client Care Department at (877) 819-2665 for additional savings on our bootcamp classes.

We have training centers in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also offer classes at a network of rental facilities. We offer private onsite training and instructor-led, live online training. If coming to a rental facility, please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

This class is appropriate for novice to intermediate level users of Premiere. It is expected that users have a basic understanding of why and how they expect to use Premiere in their environment. We also recommend that you have the Adobe Premiere software before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version of it for the Adobe website.

Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

• Sweetening sound with audio effects
• Trying stereo and 5.1
• Looking at one more VST plug-in
• Editing keyframes by using the clip effect menu
• Working with the Audio Mixer
• Automating changes in audio tracks
• Outputting tracks to submixes
• Recording voice-overs
• Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
• Fixing, sweetening, and creating soundtracks
• In Adobe Soundbooth
• Cleaning up noisy audio
• Adding audio effects in Adobe Soundbooth

• Strengthening your project with titles
• Changing text parameters
• Building text from scratch
• Putting text on a path
• Creating shapes
• Aligning shapes
• Making text roll and crawl
• Adding text effects: sheens, strokes, shadows, and fills
• Experiment with effects

• Making compositing part of your project
• Shooting videos with compositing in mind
• Working with the Opacity effect
• Combine layers based on a blend mode
• Working with alpha-channel transparencies
• Using video effects that work with graphic-file alpha channels
• Color Keying a green-screen shot with Ultra Key
• Using the Ultra Key effect
• Using Matte Keys
• Using mattes that use graphics or other clips
• Using Track Matte Key
• Making a traveling matte

• Transcribing speech to text
• Enhancing the accuracy of speech analysis
• Searching transcription for keywords
• Setting In and Out points using speech analysis text
• Modifying the metadata
• Detecting faces in a sequence

• An overview of color-oriented effects
• Coloring effects
• Color removal or replacement
• Color Correction
• Technical color effects
• Adjusting and enhancing color
• The Leave Color effect
• The Change to Color effect
• The Color Balance (RGB) effect
• The Auto Color effect
• The Leave Color effect
• The Change to Color effect
• The Color Balance (RGB) effect
• The Fast Color Corrector effect
• Using nested sequences
• Multiple uses for nested sequences
• Nesting a video in a newspaper
• Nesting Clips

• Using Tapeless workflow
• Panasonic
• Sony XDCAM
• AVCHD
• Digital still cameras that shoot high-definition video
• Using the Media Browser
• Importing P2 media
• P2 Folder structure
• Importing AVCHD media
• Mixing Media formats

• Overview of export options
• Checking out export options
• Recording to tape
• Recording to an analog recorder without device control
• Exporting single frames
• Exporting a single frame via the Export Frame function
• Using the Export Settings dialog
• Working with Adobe Media Encoder
• Format overview
• Using the formats
• Exporting to mobile devices
• Exporting to Final Cut Pro
• Working with edit decision lists

• Project menu overview
• Making a clip offline
• Using the Project Manager
• Working with a trimmed project
• Collecting files and copying them to a new location
• Final project management steps
• Importing projects or sequences