Contents

Introduction

1. The Adobe Workflow

Meet Adobe Premiere Pro

Creative Suite Production Premium

Editing Workflow

Next Steps

2. Configuring Your Nonlinear Editor

Notable Preferences

Keyboard Shortcuts

Mercury Playback Engine Performance

Monitoring and Capture Solutions

Next Steps

3. Setting Up a Project

The New Project Panel

Creating a Sequence

Modifying an Existing Project’s Settings

Importing Existing Projects

Next Steps

4. Importing Media

Importing Files into Adobe Premiere Pro

Tape-based Workflows

Tapeless Workflows

Supported File Types

Modifying Clips

An Introduction to Dynamic Link

Next Steps

5. Organizing Media

Understanding the Project Panel

Searching for Clips

Working with Bins

Customizing Bin and Clip Views

Creating Subclips

Get Organized with Metadata

Organizing Clips with Content Analysis

Next Steps

6. Essential Editing Skills

Using the Source Monitor

Navigating the Timeline

Essential Editing Commands

Next Steps

7. Additional Editing Skills

Four-point Editing

Retiming Clips

Replacing Clips

Time-saving Editing Techniques

Next Steps

8. Timeline Operations

Selecting Clips

Moving Clips

Extracting and Deleting Segments

Adding Transitions

Next Steps

9. The Power Is in the Trim

Basic Trimming

Rippling Edits

Rolling Edits

Slipping Edits

Sliding Edits

Using the Trim Monitor

Making Split Edits

Maintaining Sync

Next Steps

10. Color Correction and Grading

Using Video Scopes

Getting to Know Adobe Premiere Pro’s Color and Exposure Effects

Primary Color Corrections

Secondary Color Corrections

Using After Effects and Photoshop to Correct

Next Steps

11. Audio Mixing and Repair

Setting Up the Interface to Work with Audio

Adjusting Audio Levels on a Sequence

Using the Audio Mixer

Using Audio Effects

Working with Adobe Audition

Next Steps

12. Essential Effects

The Role of Effects

Understanding Keyframes

Selected Effects

Next Steps

13. Creating Titles

Video Typography Essentials

Using Adobe Premiere Pro’s Titler

Advanced Titling with Photoshop

Animated Titles with Adobe After Effects

Next Steps

14. Quality Control and Archiving

Eliminating Mistakes

Broadcast Legalization

Practical Media Management

Next Steps

15. Publish Your Video

Exporting a Master Copy

Outputting to Tape

Meet Adobe Media Encoder

Creating Flash Content

Creating H.264 Content for Devices and Web Delivery

Publishing to DVD and Blu-ray

Exporting Additional File Types

Next Steps

Index

Appendix A. Multicamera Editing

Appendix B. DSLR Workflow Guide

Appendix C. Capturing from Tape-based Formats

Appendix D. Working with Final Cut Pro

Appendix E. Working with Avid Media Composer

Keyboard Shortcuts

Audio

Capturing

Marks and Markers

Project and Media Management

Multi-camera Editing

Trimming and Timeline

Titling

Tools