Premiere Pro for Features and Commercials
Premiere Pro for Features and Commercials
Taught by Matt Latham, the Premiere Pro for Features and Commercials class is for those who are interested in making the most of Premiere for use on feature films, short films, and commercials. This class will show you how to customize the editorial experience, quickly sync and organize projects, edit collaboratively, avoid crashes and keep the program snappy, create polished effects and instantly integrate the power of the rest of the Adobe suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, etc.) via Dynamic Linking, and finally, to ensure a smooth turnover experience to separate sound and color departments.
WORKSPACE AND SHORTCUT SETTINGS
User settings, exporting/importing settings, keyboard shortcuts
How to customize workspaces (including the popular “pancake timeline” method)
Monitor output
Overlay information, and how to display metadata
IMPORTING MEDIA
Importing media vs ingesting media
Traditional offline/online vs Adobe's “one-click” Proxy Workflow
Using ALEs for quick ingest of all available metadata
Customizing metadata
Master Clip Settings and Effects (LUTs and more)
BATCH SYNCING AND WORKING WITH CLIPS
Batch syncing camera to external audio with Multicam Source Sequence
Merge Clips: what they are for and why you absolutely should not use them
Creating multi-cam clips
Multiple ways for organizing and working with clips
EDITING TOOLS
Interpreting Footage, Working With Different Frame Rates and Codecs
Adjusting Playback Quality, Sequence Settings, and how that affects playback
Dynamic Linking with Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Audition
Customizing Effects, Creating and Importing/Exporting Presets
Collaborative editing with shared media
Opacity Masking (equivalent to Avid's Animatte), Blend Modes, Speed Ramps, and other commonly used effects
Tips for timeline organization to keep things clean and ensure easy turnovers
EXPORTS AND TURNOVER
Exporting Media and Working with Adobe Media Encoder
Prepping for Turnover to other programs (e.g. Pro Tools and Resolve)
Relinking to original media if necessary
Exporting OMF, AAF, XML, EDL
Creating reference videos with displayed metadata
NOTES:
You must have a computer for this class with Adobe Premiere Pro 2017.1 or later installed. As long as it hasn’t expired, a trial version of Premiere is fine. Let us know if you have any questions about system compatibility.
THE INSTRUCTOR
Matt Latham has been working in Adobe Premiere for over a decade, working as an editor and as an assistant on features, shorts, event videos, and commercials. Matt has won two Lone Star Emmys for his commercial work, and has edited independent feature films that have played at prominent film festivals such as Tribeca Film Festival and FrightFest. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Blue Collar Post Collective, a non-profit organization supporting emerging talent in post production.