Classroom in a book

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• CONTENTS
• GETTING STARTED
  • About Classroom in a Book
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
  • Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 trial
  • Optimizing performance
  • Copying the lesson files
  • How to use these lessons
  • Additional resources
  • Adobe certification
  • Checking for updates
• 1 TOURING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS5
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • New features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
  • Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
  • Presenting the standard digital video workflow
  • Enhancing the workflow with high-level features
  • Incorporating other CS5 components into the editing workflow
  • Adobe CS5 Production Premium workflow
  • Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace
  • The workspace layout
  • Customizing the workspace
• 2 SELECTING SETTINGS, ADJUSTING PREFERENCES, AND MANAGING ASSETS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Selecting project settings by sequence
  • Three types of settings
  • Specifying project settings
  • Sequence settings
  • Adjusting user preferences
  • Importing assets
  • Taking a closer look at images
  • Image tips
  • Managing media in bins
  • Exploring additional bin features
  • Having multiple bins open at once
  • Finding assets
  • Finding assets with the Media Browser
• 3 IMPORTING AND MANAGING TAPELESS MEDIA
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Using a tapeless workflow
  • Panasonic P2
  • Sony XDCAM
  • AVCHD
  • Digital still cameras that shoot high-definition video
  • Using the Media Browser
  • Importing XDCAM media
  • Importing P2 media
  • P2 folder structure
  • Importing AVCHD media
  • Mixing media formats
• 4 SHOOTING AND CAPTURING GREAT VIDEO ASSETS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Tips for shooting great video
  • Get a closing shot
  • Get an establishing shot
  • Shoot plenty of video
  • Adhere to the rule of thirds
  • Keep your shots steady
  • Follow the action
  • Use trucking shots
  • Find unusual angles
  • Lean forward or backward
  • Get wide and tight shots
  • Shoot matched action
  • Get sequences
  • Avoid fast pans and snap zooms
  • Shoot cutaways
  • Use lights
  • Grab good sound bites
  • Get plenty of natural sound
  • Plan your shoot
  • Capturing video
  • Three DV/HDV-capturing scenarios
  • Capturing an entire tape
  • Using batch capture and scene detection
  • Use a clip-naming convention
  • Use scene detection
  • Tackling manual analog movie capture
  • Capturing HDV and HD video
• 5 CREATING CUTS-ONLY VIDEOS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Using a storyboard to build a rough cut
  • Arranging your storyboard
  • Automating your storyboard to a sequence
  • Editing clips on the Timeline
  • Trimming a clip
  • Using the Ripple Edit tool
  • Moving clips to, from, and within the Timeline
  • Using the current-time indicator to establish the edit point
  • Adding clips to the Timeline with the Source Monitor
  • Working with Source Monitor editing tools
  • More practice
  • Adjusting clips in the Trim panel
  • Using other editing tools
• 6 ADDING VIDEO TRANSITIONS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Using transitions with restraint
  • Adding whimsy
  • Adding visual interest
  • Trying some transitions
  • Sequence display changes
  • Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel
  • Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
  • Working with the Effect Controls panel’s A/B feature
  • Dealing with inadequate (or no) head or tail handles
  • Applying transitions to multiple clips at once
  • Adding audio transitions
• 7 CREATING DYNAMIC TITLES
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • 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
• 8 APPLYING SPECIALIZED EDITING TOOLS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Exploring timesaving editing tools
  • Making rolling, slide, and slip edits
  • Using the Program Monitor’s Lift and Extract buttons
  • Replacing a clip and replacing footage
  • Using the Replace Clip feature
  • Using the Replace Footage feature
  • Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
  • Using Sync Lock
  • Using Track Lock
  • Finding gaps in the timeline
  • Editing with In and Out points around a clip
  • Creating subclips from the Source Monitor
  • Multicamera editing
  • Creating the initial multicamera sequence
  • Switching multiple cameras
  • Finalizing multicamera editing
  • Changing an edit in the Timeline
  • Multicam tips
• 9 ADDING VIDEO EFFECTS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Sampling some basic video effects
  • Applying effects to multiple clips
  • Adding keyframing effects
  • Extra credit: combining effects
  • Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity
  • One additional velocity/interpolation issue
  • Adding lighting effects
  • Creating custom presets
• 10 PUTTING CLIPS IN MOTION
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Applying the Motion effect to clips
  • Examining Motion settings
  • Changing clip size and adding rotation
  • Adding rotation and changing the anchor point
  • Working with keyframe interpolation
  • Creating a picture-in-picture effect
  • Enhancing motion with shadows and beveled edges
  • Adding a drop shadow
  • Using other motion-related effects: Transform, Basic 3D and Camera View
  • Transform
  • Basic 3D and Camera View
• 11 CHANGING TIME
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Using slow-motion and reverse-motion techniques
  • Speeding up a clip
  • Changing speed with the Rate Stretch tool
  • Enabling variable time changes with time remapping
  • Applying time remapping with speed transitions
  • Using time remapping with reverse motion
  • Recognizing the downstream effects of changing time
  • Changing the speed of multiple clips simultaneously
  • Changing the length of multiple stills simultaneously
• 12 ACQUIRING AND EDITING AUDIO
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Making the connection
  • Setting up a basic voice-recording area
  • Voicing professional narrations
  • Creating a high-quality aural experience
  • Examining audio characteristics
  • Adjusting audio volume
  • Adjusting audio in the Effect Controls panel
  • Adjusting audio gain
  • Adding J-cuts and L-cuts
  • Adding an L-cut
• 13 SWEETENING YOUR SOUND AND MIXING AUDIO
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Sweetening sound with audio effects
  • Trying stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects
  • 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
• 14 ANALYZING CONTENT
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • 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
• 15 EXPLORING COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Making compositing part of your projects
  • 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
• 16 WORKING WITH COLOR, NESTED SEQUENCES, AND SHORTCUTS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • 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
  • Color correction
  • The Color Balance (RGB) effect
  • The Auto Color effect
  • The Fast Color Corrector effect
  • Using nested sequences
  • Multiple uses for nested sequences
  • Nesting a video in a newspaper
  • Nesting clips
  • Getting to know the recommended keyboard shortcuts
  • Changing a shortcut
  • Most frequently used shortcuts
• 17 MANAGING YOUR PROJECTS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • 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
• 18 EXPLORING ADOBE ONLOCATION CS5
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Setting up Adobe OnLocation
  • Calibrating your camera with Camera Setup Assistant
  • Setting up your frame
  • Setting your focus
  • Setting your iris/exposure
  • Setting your white balance
  • Recording live video
  • Recording video to a shot list
  • Analyzing video with Adobe OnLocation
  • Working with the Waveform Monitor
  • Analyzing color with the Vectorscope
  • Analyzing audio with Adobe OnLocation
  • Importing clips not captured with Adobe OnLocation
  • Importing OnLocation clips with the Adobe Premiere Pro Media Browser
• 19 USING PHOTOSHOP AND AFTER EFFECTS TO ENHANCE YOUR VIDEO PROJECTS
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Exploring Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium
  • Importing Adobe Photoshop files as sequences
  • Re-creating the lower-third animation
  • Using Dynamic Link with After Effects
  • Surveying After Effects features
  • Looking at the Adobe After Effects workspace
  • Animating the lower third
  • Importing a project from Adobe After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro using Adobe Dynamic Link
  • Editing an existing dynamically linked animation
  • Replacing a clip with an After Effects composition
• 20 EXPORTING FRAMES, CLIPS, AND SEQUENCES
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • 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
• 21 AUTHORING DVDS WITH ADOBE ENCORE CS5
  • Topics covered in this lesson
  • Getting started
  • Overview of DVD authoring in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adding Adobe Encore chapter markers to the Timeline
  • Creating an autoplay DVD
  • Creating a menu DVD
  • Previewing the DVD
  • Creating a Blu-ray Disc
  • Exporting DVD projects to Flash
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