Video Editing for Beginners: Adobe Premiere Pro Course

Let your video editing journey begin! Learn how to perform essential video editing functions, use audio/video effects, explore colour correction, and more, in the leading software for video editing; Adobe Premiere Pro.

Whether you're a complete beginner or you just need a bit of a refresher, this hands-on training course will get you to a place where you are comfortable editing professionally on your own.

Adobe Premiere Pro is used by professionals across the world for every type of production from business & marketing videos, music videos to documentaries, feature films.

Who is this course for?:
• Complete beginners who want to learn how to use Adobe Premiere Pro and professional video editing.
• An Adobe Premiere Pro novice who wants to expand their skills.
• An aspiring video editor who wants to start their video editing career.
• A video editor who has been utilizing other software and wants to migrate to Adobe Premiere Pro.

Pre-requisites of this course:
We recommend that you have the Adobe Premiere Pro software (CS6 or higher) before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version of it from the Adobe website.

Class information:
• Type: Weekends (Saturdays)
• Morning Class: 10am - 1pm
• Afternoon Class: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
• Duration: 4 weeks

Tuition fee:
Currency Accepted:
USD, NGN

USD: $112.00 | NGN: ₦40,000.00

Course dates:
• Pending: Future course dates will be announced soon

Registration closes:
• Pending: Future course dates will be announced soon

Maximum students
• 15

Training format: Instructor-led
• Pending: Future course dates will be announced soon

Available: 1-on-1 training
• A 1-on-1 version of this course is available.
Tuition Fee: USD: $224.00 | NGN: ₦80,000.00
(End of the Year Sale Expires: January 6, 2019)

Tuition Fee: USD: $140.00 | NGN: ₦50,000.00

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Upon course completion:
Upon completion of this course, students will receive a:

• Video Editing Academy Certificate of Completion
• FREE editing pack valued at $150.00 (91 custom fonts, 20 light leak transitions, 30 film overlays, 50 cinematic sound effects)
• 10% discount on Advanced Video Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro Course
• Exclusive access to the Video Editing Academy Alumni Group

Course topics:

- Week 1:
Exploring
• Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro workspace
• Customizing the workspace
• Adobe Mercury Playback Engine Performance

Settings and adjustments
• Preferences, Sand Managing Assets
• Selecting project settings by sequence
• Three types of settings
• Specifying project settings
• Importing assets
• Managing media in bins
• Exploring additional bin features
• Finding assets with the Media Browser

Creating cuts-only videos
• Editing clips on the Timeline
• Moving clips to, from, and within the Timeline
• Working with Source Monitor editing tools
• Adjusting clips in the Trim panel
• Using other editing tools
• An Introduction to Audio
• Adjusting volume
• Adding keyframes
• Adding an audio transition

- Week 2:
Applying specialised editing tools
• 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 Sync Lock and Track Lock
• Finding gaps in the timeline
• Editing with In and Out points around a clip
• Creating subclips from the Source Monitor
• Unlink multiple selected clips

Adding video transitions
• Using transitions with restraint
• Trying some transitions
• Changing parameters in the Effect Controls panel
• Using A/B mode to finetune a transition
• Working with the Effect Control panel’s A/B feature
• Dealing with inadequate (or no) head or tail handles
• Applying transitions to multiple clips at once
• Adding audio transitions

Putting clips in motion
• Applying the Motion effect to clips
• Changing clip size and adding rotation
• Working with keyframe interpolation
• Creating a picture-in-picture effect
• Enhancing motion with shadows and bevelled edges
• Adding a drop shadow
• Using other motion related effect: Transform

- Week 3:
Adding video effects
• Sampling some basic video effects
• Applying effects to multiple clips
• Adding keyframing effects
• Adding keyframe interpolation and velocity
• Adding lighting effects
• Creating custom presets
• Using nested sequences
• Nesting clips
• New supported effects for accelerated playback
• Dynamic Link Overview

Changing time
• Using slowmotion and reversemotion techniques
• 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

Introduction to colour correction
• Basic Color Correction with the Lumetri Panel
• Fixing the White Balance of a Shot
• Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

- Week 4:
Acquiring and editing video
• Setting up a basic voicerecording area
• Creating a highquality aural experience
• Examining audio characteristics
• Adjusting audio volume
• Adjusting audio in the Effect Controls panel
• Adjusting audio gain
• Adding Jcuts and Lcuts

Exporting frames, clips and sequences
• Overview of export options
• Exporting single frames
• Using the Export Settings dialogue
• Format overview
• Using formats
• Exporting to mobile devices
• Closed caption support

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