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Adobe Premiere 6.5. Teach yourself in 24 hours

Part I: Getting Started

Hour 1. Camcorder and Shooting Tips

Gearing Up: Choosing a Camcorder

Camcorder Selection Tips

Video Shooting Tips

Hour 2. Premiere Setup

My Different Tack

Setting Up Your Hardware for Video Capture

Going Over Video Capture Card Features

Connecting Your Camcorder and Monitor(s)

Starting Premiere for the First Time: To A/B or Not to A/B?

Selecting Your Project Settings

Making the Easy DV Option Selections

Tackling the Trickier Analog Video Project Settings

Checking Out General Settings

Taking a Quick Tour of Your Workspace

Hour 3. Video Capture and Scene Selection

Capturing Video

Premiere?A Nonlinear Editor

Tour the Video-Editing Workspace

Organizing the Workspace

Preparing for Video Capture

Logging and Transferring Your Clips

Automating Your Video Transfers?Batch Capture

Completing the Batch Capture Process

Tackling Manual Analog Movie Capture

Hour 4. Using the Storyboard and Timeline for Cuts-only Editing

Managing Your Assets

Playing Your Clips

Organizing Your Clips

Creating Your First Project Using the Storyboard

Taking a Timeline Tour

Manipulating Clips in the Timeline

Adding a Professional Touch to Your Project

Hour 5. Adding Transitions: From Dissolves to Zooms

Editing: From Engineers to Artists

Using Transitions with Restraint

Adding Some Straightforward Transitions to a Project

Resolving Transition Technical Issues

Adding Transitions to Your Own Project

Part II: Enhancing Your Video

Hour 6. Story Creation, Writing, and Video Production Tips

Getting the Story Right

Story-Creation Tips

Writing in the 'Active Voice'

Storytelling with Video

Unblocking Creativity

Stepping Up to Film

The Business of Video Production

Doing the Video Production Thing

Hour 7. Adding Audio

Selecting the Right Mic for the Job

Connecting Mics to Your Camcorder

Building a Simple and Inexpensive Voice-Recording Area

Voicing Solid Narrations

Editing Audio Using Premiere

News-Style Editing: Using Cutaways with Sound Bites

News-Style Editing: Using J-Cuts and L-Cuts

Using the Audio Mixer

Hour 8. Tackling Text: Using the Title Designer

Using Supers to Help Tell Your Story

Taking a Tour of Adobe's New Title Designer

Working with Object Style

Configuring Properties

Adding Fill to Text

Creating Shadows

Adding Strokes to Text and Objects

Creating and Saving Your Text

Adding Motion to Your Text?Rolling and Crawling

Using the Title Designer to Make Simple Graphics

Hour 9. Advanced Editing Techniques and Workspace Tools

Playing Clips Backward, Changing Speed, and Freezing Frames

Rolling, Slide, and Slip Edits

Creating Special Transitions

Adding Music from CDs or SmartSound Quicktracks

Setting Timeline Markers and Making an Automated Music Video

Hour 10. Adding Audio Effects

Managing Effects

Adjusting Sound: An Overview of Premiere Audio Effects

Experimenting with Fun Audio Effects

Creating Professional Audio Enhancements with TC|Works

Hour 11. Creating Video Effects

Introducing Premiere's Video Effects

Using Keyframes: Changing Effects Over Time

Applying Motion to Clips and Changing Their Shape

Part III: Higher-end Effects

Hour 12. Using Higher-Level Video Effects

Making Sense of the Plethora of Video Effects

Technical Fix Effects

Color Appearance Effects

Blur/Sharpen Effects

Distortion Effects

QuickTime Effects

Hour 13. Wrapping Up Effects with After Effects

Adobe After Effects: Astounding Visual Effects

Enjoying After Effects' Video Effects

Color Appearance Effects

3D-Style Effects

Applying Techniques Covered So Far

Hour 14. Compositing Part 1: Layering Images and Clips

Making Compositing Part of Your Projects

Your Assignment: Grab Shots for Compositing

Working with the Opacity Rubberband

Moving on to Keying

Hour 15. Compositing Part 2: Alpha Channels and Mattes

Working with Alpha Channel Transparencies

Using Alpha Channel Transparency with 12 Premiere Video Effects

Creating and Working with Mattes

Hour 16. Tips, Tricks, and Techniques: Part 1

Highlighting a Portion of Your Clip

Following Action with Traveling Mattes

Obscuring Someone's Identity

Using Virtual Clips

Using Split Screens for Animated Mirror Effects

Hour 17. Tips, Tricks, and Techniques: Part 2

Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Simplify Your Editing

Applying Productivity Tips to Speed Up Editing and Resolve Minor Annoyances

Three Performance-Enhancing Tips

More Color Codes

What to Do If Premiere Misbehaves

Enjoying Some Fun and Fast Editing Tricks

Part IV: Working with Other Adobe Products and Exporting Your Videos

Hour 18. Using Other Adobe Products for Video Production

Taking a Tour of Photoshop Elements

Moving Up to Photoshop

Using Photoshop in Video Production?Expert Tips

Filling a Narrow Video Production Niche with Adobe Illustrator

Expert Tips for First-time Illustrator Users

Hour 19. Exporting Premiere Frames, Clips, and Projects: Part 1

Print to Video or Export to Tape?What Does It All Mean?

Choosing an Export Format

Wading Through Export Options

Finally, Exporting Your Project

Hour 20. Exporting Premiere Frames, Clips, and Projects: Part 2

Revisiting MPEG

Using the New Adobe MPEG Encoder

Preparing Your Projects for Use on the Web

Using the Advanced Windows Media Plug-In

Using the Advanced RealMedia Export for Web Apps

Part V: DVD Authoring

Hour 21. Designing Your DVD Project and Creating Menus

DVDs Are Driving the Next Technological Wave

Deciding What You Want to Accomplish?Menu Structure

DVD Authoring?Initial Phase

Creating Menus?Image Backgrounds and Buttons

Hour 22. DVD Authoring

Adjusting Image, Text, and Menu Characteristics

Adding Videos and Stills and Changing Their Properties

Linking Media to Your Menu Buttons to Make Your Project Flow

Changing Movie, Image, and Menu Properties

Hour 23. Enhanced DVD Authoring

Higher-End DVD-Authoring Enhancements

Stepping Up to Mid-range DVD-Authoring Products

Top-flight DVD-Authoring Tools

Professional DVD Playback

Hour 24. Burning Your DVD

Testing: Checking All Links and Ensuring Logical Project Flow

Choosing DVD Recorders and Recordable Media

'Burning' Your DVD

Extra Features in DVDit! SE and PE

Dealing with Mass Replicators

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