Week 3 - Stills, Graphics and Captions
This week we will conclude our Premiere training by covering a wide range of important skills:
May be maps, graphics, images. (Remember video first - 1920 x 1080 - drop video in and delete)
- Video motion effects - pan, zoom effect
- Use portrait image - scale, blur background
- Use map - scale, add mask add icons (from library)
- Focus on text - bring in still, blur, crop, scale, add shadow
Creating bulleted lists
- Write list items to have approximately similar line lengths.
- Use numbered lists only when the sequence or count of items are important.
- Use parallel sentence construction for list items.
- Avoid repeating the same word(s) at the beginning of each list item.
- Introduce a list with a clear, descriptive sentence or phrase.
- Keep formatting consistent.
- Don’t overuse bulleted lists, as they can lose their effectiveness.
Effects
- Can be applied to video like we applied to stills above
- Slow clip speed (Rt. Click Speed/Duration)
Adding/Editing titles - use new caption and graphic workspace
- Graphic > New Layer (make sure sequence is selected)
- Change order in graphic panel or effect controls
- Select Layer, CMD T to add text
- Add effects on individual layers or on vector motion
- To use again - upgrade to a source graphic and duplicate so changeable
Captions
- Captions and graphics workspace
- Edit and create using text panel
- Separate track lets you edit and treat captions like video clips
- Open vs Closed
- Always burn in captions for social media
- For YouTube/Vimeo use CC either upload transcript or edit the CC on board
- Always add when fully finalized
- Switch to captions workspace
- Transcribe sequence - chose audio source and to out point, create captions, edit and style as needed
- 3 dots/export
Week 2 - Audio and Color
This week we will learn how to polish our content with audio and color correction:
- Working with the correct audio levels
- Modifying audio channels
- Keyframing/autoducking
- Using the audio enhance interface
- Fixing common audio issues
- Identifying color issues
- Using color panels
- Basic color corrections
- Using color creatively
Week 1 - video basics
This week is all about the basics of video editing. We will work on the following skills:
- File management
- Creating a new project
- Importing files and creating bins
- Navigating the Premiere workspace
- Scrubbing clips in the project bin
- Setting in and outs in the source pane
- Establishing sequence settings
- Trimming in the timeline
- Inserting and Overwriting clips
- Navigating the timeline and understanding tracks