Adobe Premiere Pro Masterclass with ACP Exam

Working in the Video Industry

• Identifying the purpose, audience and audience needs for preparing video editing projects and determining whether content is relevant to those needs
• Understanding key terms such as client goals, target audience, demographics, accessibility, captioning etc.
• Identifying requirements based on how the video will be delivered, distributed, and/or consumed
• Understanding key terms such email file size limits, compression, codec and architecture, input and output file formats, aspect ratio
• Understanding key concepts such as selecting the correct Codec and architecture based on capture and delivery requirement
• Understanding the principles of making a compelling video commercial
• Understanding Web accessibility, captions/subtitles and choosing the right video format
• Communicating effectively with colleagues and clients about project plans
• Understanding key terms in pre-production such as shot list, script writing, storyboarding and location scouting
• Understanding key terms in production such as setup, filming and handoff
• Understanding key terms in post-production such as importing, editing, colour correction, audio mixing and distribution
• An overview of video production including shooting scripts and planning the production
• Determining the type of intellectual property rights, permissions and licensing required to use specific content
• Identifying legal and ethical considerations for using third-party content
• Understanding key terms such as Creative Commons, public domain, copyright, intellectual property, derivative work, commercial use, attribution, work for hire, fair use, fair dealing, property release, rights, permissions, licensing and intellectual property
• Identifying when and how to obtain permission to use images, audio or video
• Identifying permission to use images of people and locations, including model release, location release, permission to use a person’s face or restricted location
• Understanding key terminology related to digital audio and video
• Understanding key video terms such as frame rate, aspect ratio, safe zone, image and video resolution, file formats, video codecs, pixels, rendering, aperture, shutter speed and ISO
• Understanding further terms such as clipping, levels, natural/ambient sound, room tone, Foley sound, audio sampling rates and file types
• Understanding how colour is represented in digital video
• Understanding further terms such as white balance, bit depth, working colour space (RGB, CMYK, YUV, HLS) and knowing how to choose the right colour space
• Working with native file formats for video and audio
• Demonstrating knowledge of basic editorial principles and best practices employed in the video industry
• Communicating visually using standard film/video timing techniques
• Understanding key concepts such as following the action, leading in and out of shots to give editors time to cut, matching shots, zooms and pans, wide vs. tight shots, establishing shots vs. closing shots and shooting B-roll footage
• Identifying general editorial principles and guidelines for video
• Understanding key concepts such as sequencing shots, cuts (L and J cuts, cross cutting, match cuts, cutting on the action, cutaway, montage, jump cut), transitions, compositing, audio levels, mixing, background music, narration, sound effects, still images used in video (file formats and image specifications) and titles
• Defining common photographic and cinematic composition terms and principles
• Understanding key terms such as aspect ratio, rule of thirds, foreground, background, colour, tone, contrast, cropping, depth of field, field of view, types of shots include: close-up (CU), extreme close-up (ECU), medium close-up (MCU), medium shot (MS), wide shot (WS), long shot (LS), extreme long shot (ELS), background (BG or bg), foreground (FG or fg), over-the-shoulder (OTS), point of view (POV), cutaway etc.
• Identifying appropriate workflows
• Understanding key concepts such as ensuring continuity and quality as the project moves from preproduction through postproduction, maintaining technical quality for deliverables, communication, documentation and tech sheets

Project Setup and Interface

• Creating projects and sequences
• Choosing appropriate project settings for video
• Understanding key concepts such as project location on drive(s), sequence settings, scratch disk, playback engine, display format, audio samples and ingest settings
• Creating a sequence that matches the delivery requirements
• Understanding key concepts such as editing mode, time-base, pixel aspect ratio, fields, timecode, working colour space, resolution, sample rate, video previews, tracks and sequence presets
• Tutorials: learning editing skills, creating projects, how to select and change your video aspect ratio
• Navigating, organising and customising the application workspace
• Identifying, navigating and manipulating elements of the Premiere Pro interface
• Understanding key concepts such as menus, panels, toolbars, search within panels, timeline, Project panel, Program and Source Monitors, Button Editor and zoom level
• Organising and customising the workspace including using/switching default workspaces, showing, hiding, nesting and docking panels, using the Workspaces panel, shortcuts and menus, customising, saving and resetting workspaces
• Configuring application preferences
• Understanding key settings such as Auto-save, General (bin settings, default scale to frame size and transition duration), Audio Hardware, Media Cache, Timeline, Memory and Playback
• Clearing cache and resetting preferences in Premiere Pro
• Using non-visible design tools in the interface to aid in video workflow
• Control and work with the timeline and media
• Understanding key concepts such as playhead, panning, zooming, playing, pausing, keyboard shortcuts (j-k-l keys, spacebar, backslash etc.)
• Understanding key concepts such as setting timeline and clip markers, marking in and out points
• Understanding key concepts such as title safe areas, action safe areas, rulers and guides
• Using keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
• Tutorials: editing using Markers, using rulers and guides
• Importing assets and media from various sources into a project including importing layers from .psd (Photoshop) files, dynamic linking, dragging and dropping, creating a proxy on import, interpret footage, using the Media Browser, adding assets from Essential Graphics and Essential Sound panels
• Managing assets in a Premiere Pro project
• Understanding key concepts such as relinking files, updating file locations for missing/moved/updated media, organising assets in bins, thumbnails vs. list view, metadata, renaming a sequence, removing unused assets, collect or consolidate files with the Project Manager
• Tutorials: finding assets, transferring and importing files and importing digital audio

Organising Video Projects

• Managing tracks and sequences
• Using the Timeline panel to manage tracks
• Understanding key concepts such as clips vs tracks, adding/deleting tracks, locking/unlocking tracks, renaming tracks, targeting a track, expanding a track in the timeline, patching etc.
• Managing sequences in a complex project
• Understanding key concepts such as nesting sequences, linking/unlinking audio and video clips, syncing audio with video clips, renaming sequences, sync lock and creating a multi-cam source sequence
• Recognising the different types of layers in the Layers panel
• Understanding key concepts such as background, pixel, adjustment, type, fill, shape, vector, Smart Object (embedded and linked), active/inactive (hidden), artboard layers etc.
• Tutorials: working with Panels, editing audio in the timeline and working with markers
• Enabling and disabling track output
• Hiding, showing, muting and solo tracks
• Tutorials: overview of audio in Premiere Pro, adjusting volume levels and audio balancing and panning

Creating and Modifying Visual Elements

• Using core tools and features to edit audio and video
• Assembling a video sequence using a variety of tools and panels
• Using key Panels: Timeline, Source Monitor, Program Monitor
• Understanding key concepts such as setting In and Out points to determine an edit, splitting, inserting, overwriting, lifting and extracting clips
• Tutorials: best practices, editing efficiently, cutting and trimming videos and editing, repairing, and improving audio using Essential Sound panel
• Adding and animating titles and modifying title properties
• Adding superimposed text and shapes in a sequence
• Understanding key concepts such using Type tools to create point text and paragraph text, creating shapes with the Pen, Rectangle and Ellipse tools and using the Essentials Graphics panel to browse and select templates
• Using appropriate controls to modify text and graphic appearance
• Using Key Text controls for font, size, alignment, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale etc.
• Using Key Appearance Controls for fill, shadow, stroke, background
• Trimming footage for use in sequences
• Trimming, refining and resizing clips using a variety of tools
• Using key techniques such as adjusting scale, aspect ratio and frame size, letterboxing, adjusting for mixed aspect ratios and using vertically shot video from phones
• Using key tools such as the Rolling Edit tool, the Ripple Edit tool and the Rate Stretch tool
• Tutorials: Creating and changing sequences, trimming clips, working with aspect ratios and transforming digital media within a project and modifying clip settings
• Understanding key concepts such as labelling, renaming, setting poster frame, changing clip speed, creating a freeze frame, adjusting the audio of a video clip, audio gain and channel remapping, changing duration and speed of clips and working with clips, channels and tracks
• Using effects to modify video in a sequence
• Using basic auto-correction methods and tools
• Understanding the basic correction, creative and vignette controls of the Lumetri colour panel
• Understanding key techniques such as applying effects presets on multiple clips effects, working with transitions, creating and adjusting the length of the adjustment layer and nesting
• Working with composite video clips using tracks
• Understanding key concepts including keying (luma/chroma), opacity, masking, mattes, alpha channel and picture-in-picture
• Tutorials: Colour workflows in Premiere Pro, effect presets and applying effects to audio
• Using keyframes to control video properties over time
• Modifying effect settings
• Understanding key techniques such as adding, navigating, setting and adjusting keyframes, adjusting effect properties, applying and adjusting video motion effects, using keyframes to adjust clip settings over time
• Working with key effects such as motion, opacity and other visual effects
• Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
• Managing audio in a video sequence
• Understanding key audio concepts such as synchronising, linking, replacing, merging clips, mono and stereo tracks
• Adjusting audio on the timeline or through the Effect Controls panel
• Adding audio transitions and effects and learning faster techniques to mix audio

Publishing Digital Media

• Preparing video and audio sequences for publishing to web, screen and other digital devices
• Checking a project for errors and project specifications
• Understanding key concepts such as gaps in timeline, audio levels, broadcast safe colour and exposure, resolution, title safe area etc.
• Workflow and overview for exporting
• Exporting for the Web and mobile devices
• Exporting and archiving

Adobe Certification Preparation and ACP Exam

• Working through exam preparation sheet and sample exam questions
• Taking a practice exam
• Questions and answers
• Taking the Premiere Pro ACP Exam