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Course Overview Maximize your productivity with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software, the total post-production solution available for both Mac and Windows. Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe's all-new video, audio, and design tools Learn the basics and more of After Effects and Premiere Pro all just 5 days This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested. Audience A person who wishes to work in the video field or who currently works in the field, or an Adobe application user looking to expand his or her skills, looking to add effects to video projects. Some students may be mainly interested in creating video primarily for the Web, and others for film, but the majority are preparing more for work in broadcast video. Skills Gained Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: - Use After Effects, premiere Pro and Soundbooth
- Get familiar with the After Effects CS3 interface
- Learn to create animations
- Learn to work with layers
- Learn to apply effects
- Learn to work with masks and mattes
- Learn about type
- Learn to use color effectively
- Learn to export files#
- Learn to comfortably navigate the user interface of premiere
- Learn to do rough cuts, trims and 3-point editing
- Learn to add transitions
- Learn to create titles and credits
- Learn to add, edit and sweeten audio
- Learn to export video for a multiple of output demands
Prerequisites Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computer's operating you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from Experience in the following areas would be beneficial. Experience working with Flash and/or other video software. Course OutlineAfter Effects User Interface and Animation - What is a project file and what is in it?
- Tools and Panels: : how to around in the application
- Workspaces: selecting, saving, setting
Basic Animation - Transform properties of layers
- Keyframing: making element move
- Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
Intermediate Animation - In depth keyframe manipulation and interpolation
- Graph Editor
- Motion Sketch/Smoother
- Auto-Orient/Motion Blur
- Roving Keyframes
- Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool
- Panning a large graphic: technique
- Hold Keyframes
Layer Control - Trim-move-stack-split (keyboard shortcuts)
- Quality
- Slip Tool
- Sequence Layers
- Solo Switches
- Looping Footage
- Image Sequences
- Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch
- Blending Modes
- Effects and Solids with Blending Modes
- Effects and Presets Panel: animation presets
- Adjustment layers
Transparency - Masks
- Shape, feather, expansion
- Masking with the Pen Tool: Bezier curves
- Mask Shape Interpolation
- Mask modes
- Mattes and Stencils
- Mask shapes
Type and Titles - Simple Rules of Titling
- Basic Text
- Text Animators/Range Selectors
- Randomizing
- Applying and Saving Text Animation presets
- Per character animators in CS3
Nesting - Precomps
- Editing precomps
- Locking panels
Render Order - How After Effects put it all together
Exporting Files - Render Queue
- Export As
- Same Frame As
- Prerender
The Workspace in Premiere Pro - Workspaces
- Working with the Project window
- Importing clips and image files
- Working with the Monitor window
- Working with the Timeline window
- Navigating to a specific frame in the Timeline and Program View
- Using labels
- Using palettes
Sequencing and Basic Real-Time Editing - The Real-Time editing experience
- Adding clips to the Timeline
- Developing a sequence and using Automate to Sequence
- Using the Automate to Sequence command
- Multiple sequencing
- Viewing the rough cut
- Refining the rough cut
- Pretrimming clips using the Source view
- Fine-tuning in the Timeline
- Exporting the Timeline as a movie
Transitions - About transitions
- The Effects palette
- Inserting a transition
- Previewing the transition
- Pre-trimming a clip and adding a transition
- Adding a transition using the Effects palette
- Changing the attributes of transitions
- Adding multiple transitions at one time
- Transitions used as special effects
Fundamentals of Multipoint Editing - Understanding three-point and four-point editing
- Making a three-point edit
- Linking and unlinking clips
- Handling unsynchronized linked clips
- Closing a gap with the Ripple Delete command
Integrating Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator with Premiere Pro - Using effects from other Adobe programs
- After Effects and Photoshop "inside" Premiere Pro
Titles and Credits - Creating a simple title
- Using the ellipse tool
- Mapping a textured fill
- Rolling titles and crawling titles
- Using titles in a Premiere Pro project
- Adding titles to the Timeline
- Using other programs to create titles
Audio - Getting to know the Audio workspace
- Automating the mixing process
- Creating and adjusting audio effects
- Using markers to synchronize clips
- Finishing the movie with audio effects and music
- Multiple audio effects in a clip
- Working with 5.1 audio files
- Exporting the movie as a 5.1 audio file
Output - To Movie
- CD-ROM
- Export to DVD command
- VCD/SVCD
A Quick Tour of Adobe Soundbooth - Cleaning-up audio
- Visually editing sound
- Recording and enhancing voiceovers
- Producing custom music
- Working with markers
- Getting help and finding additional resources
Understanding the Basics of Digital Audio - Understanding sound
- Digitizing audio
Navigating the Workspace - Exploring the user interface
- Customizing the user interface
Repairing and Adjusting Audio Clips - Noise reduction
- Sound removal
- Basic editing
Editing and Enhancing Voiceover Recordings - Recording from a microphone
Creating Background Music - Creating scores with the AutoComposer
- Creating loops
Exploring Effects - Applying a standard effect
- Customizing an advanced effect
- Working with rack presets
Working with Markers - Working with markers
- Defining marker data for reuse
Importing, Exporting, and Round-trip Editing - Importing files
- Exporting Soundbooth score documents
- Exporting audio and video files
- Round-trip editing
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