Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro

by Ben Goldsmith
Released March 2021
Publisher(s): Rocky Nook
ISBN: 9781681986883

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Book description

Adobe Premiere Pro: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to creating, editing, and enhancing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro. Whether you’re organizing hours of interviews, rapidly splicing news clips before a deadline, or creating your magnum opus, Premiere Pro is the tool for you—and this book will teach you what you need to know.

First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from video editor and motion graphic designer Ben Goldsmith, you will learn the procedures needed to use Premiere Pro effectively and professionally. Dozens of exercises are included that can be applied to any videos you have in mind. Through step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Premiere Pro’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, so you can work alongside the text.

Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the “how” and “why” of Premiere Pro. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Premiere Pro’s key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.

Learn step by step how to:

    • Set up and organize a project
    • Create a timeline and edit your video and audio
    • Sweeten and master audio
    • Use Premiere’s powerful multicamera features
    • Control graphics and titles
    • Unlock Lumetri’s professional color grading tools
    • And much more!

Table of contents

  1. About the Author
    1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
    1. Software and Files
      1. A Note Regarding Keyboard Shortcuts
  3. The Course
    1. 1 Make a Rough Cut
      1. Project Organization
        1. Copy the Files from CameraCard to ProjectStructure
        2. So Why Do All This?
      2. Getting Started in the Project Panel
        1. Creating a New Project
        2. Switching Workspaces
        3. The Project Panel
        4. Importing Footage
        5. Organizing the Project Panel
        6. Viewing Metadata
      3. The Source Monitor
        1. Previewing Footage
        2. Some Notable Features
        3. In and Out points
      4. Creating a Sequence
        1. Creating a Sequence based off the Source Monitor
      5. The Timeline
        1. Navigating the Timeline
        2. Changing Your Clip Size
      6. The Program Monitor
        1. Calibrating Playback
      7. Adding More Clips to the Timeline
        1. Drag and Drop
        2. Preview the Timeline
        3. Toggle Track Output
        4. Disable Clip
      8. Basic Trimming and Rearranging
        1. Trimming a Clip
        2. Moving a Clip
        3. Extending a Clip
        4. Selecting Multiple Clips
        5. Move with Insert
        6. Move with Overwrite
    2. 2 Edit a Scene
      1. Other Ways of Adding Shots to a Timeline
        1. Mentally Plan the Edit
        2. Adding with the Source Monitor
        3. Adding an Insert
      2. The Tools
        1. The Tools Panel
        2. Track Select Forward Tool (A)
        3. Deleting Gaps
        4. Ripple Edit Tool (B)
        5. Rolling Edit Tool (N)
        6. Editing Just Video or Audio
        7. Rate Stretch Tool (R)
        8. Razor Tool (C)
        9. Slip Tool (Y)
        10. Slide Tool (U)
        11. The Trim Tool
      3. Let’s Clean It Up a Little
        1. Pulling In Audio from Another Take
        2. Final Audio Touch-Ups
      4. Music
        1. Add the Music Track to the Timeline
        2. Adjusting Volume
        3. Mute and Solo
        4. Trim the Track
        5. Locking Audio
      5. Exporting
        1. The Export Dialog
        2. Ready to Export?
    3. 3 Create a Long-Form Interview
      1. Logging Footage with Markers
        1. Open the Project
        2. Create a Marker
        3. The Markers Panel
        4. Timeline Markers
        5. Subclips: An (Optional) Alternate Approach
      2. Preparing the Edit
        1. Denote Which Clips You Want to Use
        2. Labels
        3. Create a New Sequence from Scratch
      3. Editing the Interview
        1. Scaling Down the Footage
        2. Scaling Up the Footage
        3. Remove a Pause with a Morph Cut Transition
      4. Lower-Third Titles
        1. Using the Type Tool
        2. Add a Transition to the Title
    4. 4 Edit a Presentation
      1. Working with Graphic Layers
        1. Make a Rectangle
        2. Add a Cross Dissolve
        3. Make Another Rectangle
        4. Create a Mask
        5. Create Your Third Shape
        6. Stagger the Transitions
      2. Keyframe Animation
        1. Create Keyframes
        2. Anchor Points
        3. Add a Blur Effect
        4. Duplicate What We’ve Just Done
      3. Nested Sequences
        1. Nest Those Clips
        2. Add a Transition
    5. 5 Multi-Cam, Audio and Color
      1. Configure Audio
        1. Modify Audio Channels
        2. Audio Gain
      2. Syncing Multi-Cam
        1. Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence
        2. Preview Your Multi-Cam Clip
      3. Editing Multi-Cam
        1. Switching Cameras
        2. Multi-Cam View
      4. Advanced Audio Editing
        1. Keyframing Audio
        2. Essential Sound
        3. Copying Effects
      5. Color
        1. Working Within the Multi-Cam Timeline
        2. Lumetri Scopes
        3. Comparison View
        4. Lumetri for Color Correction
        5. Lumetri for Color Grading
        6. What’s Next?
  4. The Compendium
    1. 1 The Interface & Importing
      1. Before You Get Started
        1. Organizing Your Files
        2. Ingesting Footage
        3. To Rename or Not to Rename?
      2. The Interface
        1. Workspaces
        2. Resizing and Rearranging Panels
        3. Creating Custom Workspaces
        4. Panels
      3. The Project Panel
        1. Project Panel Options
        2. Bins
      4. Importing Files
        1. Importing Photoshop and Illustrator Files
        2. Importing RED footage
      5. Clip Options
      6. Metadata
        1. View and Edit Metadata
      7. Offline Media
        1. Relinking Media
      8. Proxies
        1. Creating Proxies
        2. Customizing Proxies
        3. Manually Creating Proxies
        4. Working with Proxies
      9. Productions
        1. Create a Production
        2. Working with Productions
      10. Team Projects
    2. 2 Sequences & Editing
      1. The Source Monitor
        1. Previewing
        2. Source Monitor Interface
        3. Player Options
        4. Source and Program Monitor Buttons
        5. In and Out Points
        6. Subclips
      2. Sequences
        1. Creating a Sequence
        2. Manually Adjusting Sequence Settings
        3. Tracks
        4. VR Video
      3. Bringing Footage into the Timeline
        1. Drag and Drop
        2. Overwrite
        3. Insert
        4. Replace
        5. Overlay
        6. Insert Before and After
        7. Three- and Four-Point Editing
        8. Patching and Targeting Tracks
        9. Automate to Sequence
      4. The Timeline
        1. Navigating the Timeline
        2. Changing Your Clip Size
        3. Timeline Tools
        4. Track Visibility
        5. Clip Enable
        6. Mute and Solo
        7. Toggle Sync Lock
        8. Locking Tracks
        9. Match Frame
        10. Reveal in Project
      5. Sequence Options
        1. Close Other Panels in Group
        2. Panel Group Settings
        3. Work Area Bar
        4. Show Audio Time Units
        5. Audio Waveforms Use Label Color
        6. Rectified Audio Waveforms
        7. Logarithmic Waveform Scaling
        8. Time Ruler Numbers
        9. Start Time
        10. Thumbnails
        11. Create Preset from Sequence
        12. Link Media
        13. Make Offline
        14. Multi-Camera Audio Follows Video
        15. Multi-Camera Selection Top Down
      6. Clip Options
        1. Cut/Copy
        2. Paste Attributes
        3. Remove Attributes
        4. Clear
        5. Ripple Delete
        6. Edit Original
        7. Edit Clip in Adobe Audition
        8. License
        9. Replace With After Effects Composition
        10. Replace With Clip
        11. Render and Replace
        12. Restore Unrendered
        13. Enable
        14. Unlink/Link
        15. Group
        16. Synchronize and Merge Clips
        17. Nest
        18. Make Subsequence
        19. Multi-Camera
        20. Label
        21. Speed/Duration
        22. Scene Edit Detection
        23. Audio Gain
        24. Audio Channels
        25. Frame Hold
        26. Field Options
        27. Time Interpolation
        28. Scale to Frame Size
        29. Set to Frame Size
        30. Adjustment Layer
        31. Link Media
        32. Make Offline
        33. Rename
        34. Make Subclip
        35. Properties
        36. Show Clip Keyframes
      7. The Program Monitor
        1. The Button Editor
        2. Program Monitor Settings
      8. The Tools Panel
        1. Selection Tool (V)
        2. Track Select Forward Tool (A)
        3. Ripple Edit Tool (B)
        4. Rolling Edit Tool (N)
        5. Rate Stretch Tool (R)
        6. Blade Tool (B)
        7. Slip Tool (Y)
        8. Slide Tool (U)
        9. Pen Tool (P)
        10. Rectangle and Ellipse Tools
        11. Hand Tool (H)
        12. Zoom Tool (Z)
        13. Type Tool (T)
      9. Other Editing Techniques
        1. Removing Clips
        2. Cut, Copy, and Paste Clips
        3. Rearrange Clips
        4. Editing with the Keyboard
      10. The Trim Tool
    3. 3 Configuring & Syncing AV
      1. Audio Channels
        1. Modify Audio Channels Before You Edit
        2. Modifying Audio Tracks Already in a Sequence
        3. Defaulting a Stereo Track to Two Mono Tracks
      2. Syncing External Audio Sources
        1. In/Out Points
        2. Timecode
        3. Clip Marker
        4. Audio
        5. Merge Clips
        6. Batching Sync
      3. Multi-Cam
        1. Syncing Multiple Cameras
        2. Editing Multi-Cam Clips
        3. Editing Multi-Cam Timelines
        4. Multi-Cam Options
    4. 4 Graphics & Animation
      1. Effect Controls Panel
        1. The Interface
        2. Motion
        3. Opacity
        4. Masks
        5. Blend Modes
        6. Audio
      2. Scaling 4K (and Bigger) Footage
        1. Set and Scale to Frame Size
      3. Color Mattes
        1. Creating Color Mattes
        2. The Color Picker
        3. Other Mattes
      4. Creating Shapes
        1. The Rectangle and Ellipse Tools
      5. Creating Text and Titles
        1. The Type Tool
      6. Editing Graphic Layers
        1. Vector Motion
        2. Editing Shapes
        3. Editing Text
        4. Graphics Menu
      7. Essential Graphics Panel
        1. Adding Essential Graphics
      8. Keyframe Animation
        1. Keyframes: The Concept
        2. Creating Keyframes
        3. Ease In and Out
        4. Advanced Keyframe Interpolation
        5. Intro and Outro Duration
        6. Editing Keyframes in the Timeline
      9. Captions
        1. Open Captions, Closed Captions, or Subtitles?
        2. Creating Captions
        3. Editing Captions
        4. Import Settings
        5. Exporting Captions
        6. Previewing Captions
    5. 5 Effects, Color & Transitions
      1. Effects Panel
      2. Applying Video Effects
      3. All the Video Effects
        1. Adjust
        2. Blur and Sharpen
        3. Channel
        4. Color Correction
        5. Distort
        6. Generate
        7. Image Control
        8. Immersive Video
        9. Keying
        10. Noise & Grain
        11. Obsolete
        12. Perspective
        13. Stylize
        14. Time
        15. Transform
        16. Transition
        17. Utility
        18. Video
      4. Lumetri and Color
        1. How Much Data Is in Your Pixels?
        2. LOG Footage
        3. RAW Footage
        4. HDR (High Dynamic Range) Footage
        5. The Lumetri Scopes Panel
        6. Using Lumetri
      5. Copy, Paste, and Remove Attributes
        1. Cut/Copy
        2. Paste Attributes
        3. Remove Attributes
      6. Adjustment Layers
        1. Create an Adjustment Layer
        2. Using Adjustment Layers
      7. Master Properties
        1. Adding Effects to the Master Properties
        2. Camera Master Properties
      8. Effect Masks
      9. Rendering
        1. Rendering Your Frames to the Disk
      10. Video Transitions
        1. Applying Video Transitions
        2. Editing Video Transitions
      11. All the Video Transitions
        1. 3D Motion
        2. Dissolve
        3. Immersive Video
        4. Iris
        5. Page Peel
        6. Slide
        7. Wipe
        8. Zoom
      12. Audio Transitions
        1. The Three Audio Transitions
    6. 6 Audio Effects & Mastering
      1. What Is Audio?
        1. Audio Clipping
        2. How Is Audio Processed?
      2. Adjusting Audio Levels
      3. The Audio Clip Mixer
        1. Keyframing in the Audio Clip Mixer
      4. Gain and Normalization
        1. The Audio Gain Dialog
      5. All Audio Effects
        1. Amplitude and Compression
        2. Delay and Echo
        3. Filter and EQ
        4. Modulation
        5. Noise Reduction/Restoration
        6. Reverb
        7. Special
        8. Stereo Imagery
        9. Time and Pitch
      6. The Audio Track Mixer
        1. The Audio Track Mixer Interface
        2. Track Effects
        3. Track Sends
        4. Keyframing in the Track Mixer
        5. Recording
        6. Track Mixer Options
      7. Essential Sound Panel
        1. Dialog
        2. Music
        3. SFX
        4. Ambience
        5. Browse
      8. Mixing 5.1 Sound
        1. Creating a 5.1 Sequence
        2. Stereo Preview
        3. Panning in the Track Mixer
    7. 7 Exporting & Other Apps
      1. Formats and Codecs
        1. What’s the Difference?
        2. Lossy versus Non-Lossy Codecs
      2. Exporting
        1. Exporting from Premiere
        2. Exporting Using Adobe Media Encoder
        3. Alpha and Transparency
        4. Exporting with a Higher Bit Depth
        5. Quick Export
      3. Project Manager
        1. The Project Manager Dialog Box
        2. While We’re at It...
      4. Sending Clips to After Effects
        1. The Old-Fashioned Way
        2. Replace with After Effects Composition
      5. Editing Clips in Adobe Audition
        1. Exporting an OMF for a DAW
        2. Sending Clips to Audition
        3. Sending Sequences to Audition
        4. Some Audition Basics
      6. Editing Stills in Photoshop
    8. 8 Speed, Time & Preferences
      1. Working with Multiple Frame Rates
        1. 24fps Footage in a 30fps Timeline
        2. 30fps Footage in a 24fps Timeline
      2. Interpret Footage
        1. The Interpret Footage Window
        2. Interpreting 24fps to 30fps
        3. Interpreting 30fps to 24fps
        4. Interpreting Slow Motion
      3. Variable Frame Rate Footage
        1. Check to See If Your Footage Is VFR
        2. Working with VFR Footage
        3. Not Working with VFR Footage
      4. Speed/Duration Effects
        1. The Clip Speed/Duration Interface
        2. Time Interpolation
      5. Speed Ramping
        1. Keyframing a Speed Ramp
        2. In Conjunction with Other Keyframes
      6. Preferences
        1. General
        2. Appearance
        3. Audio
        4. Audio Hardware
        5. Auto Save
        6. Capture
        7. Collaboration
        8. Control Surface
        9. Device Control
        10. Graphics
        11. Labels
        12. Media
        13. Media Cache
        14. Memory
        15. Playback
        16. Sync Settings
        17. Timeline
        18. Trim
    9. Keyboard Shortcuts
    10. What’s New in 2021?
      1. Captions
      2. Equitable Language

Product information

  • Title: Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Author(s): Ben Goldsmith
  • Release date: March 2021
  • Publisher(s): Rocky Nook
  • ISBN: 9781681986883