Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book 2024 Release

Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book 2024 Release

by Maxim Jago
Released April 2024
Publisher(s): Adobe Press
ISBN: 9780138318529

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Book description

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book 2024 release contains 17 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:

  • Edit video in Adobe Premiere Pro

  • Use automation and AI-based features to speed up the completion of professional creative projects

  • Organize media, combine elements as a continuous sequence, edit video using text-based editing tools, add music and background audio, apply transition effects, create titles, add video and audio effects, and add filmic looks

  • Take your projects further by sweetening and mixing sound, retiming music, compositing footage, automatically reframing visuals, adjusting color, using advanced editing techniques, managing projects, exporting, and much more

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program doesan official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:

  • Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book

  • Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step

What you need to use this book: Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 Release software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Where are the Lesson Files?
  5. Important!
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Contents
  8. Getting Started
    1. About Classroom in a Book
    2. Prerequisites
    3. Installing Premiere Pro
    4. Optimizing performance
    5. Online content
    6. Using the lesson files
    7. Relinking the lesson files
    8. How to use these lessons
    9. Additional resources
  9. 1. Touring Adobe Premiere Pro
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Performing nonlinear editing in Premiere Pro
    3. Expanding the workflow
    4. Touring the Premiere Pro interface
    5. Hands-On: Editing your first video
    6. Exploring workspaces
    7. Introducing preferences
    8. Using and setting keyboard shortcuts
    9. Review questions
    10. Review answers
  10. 2. Setting Up a Project
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Creating a project
    3. Setting up a sequence
    4. Exploring the Project Settings dialog box
    5. Review questions
    6. Review answers
  11. 3. Importing Media
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Importing media files
    3. Working with ingest options and proxy media
    4. Working with Import mode and the Media Browser
    5. Importing still image files
    6. Recording a voice-over
    7. Customizing the media cache
    8. Review questions
    9. Review answers
  12. 4. Organizing Media
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Using the Project panel
    3. Working with bins
    4. Reviewing footage
    5. Modifying clips
    6. Review questions
    7. Review answers
  13. 5. Editing Video—The Essentials
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Using the Source Monitor
    3. Editing in the Timeline panel
    4. Using essential editing commands
    5. Performing storyboard-style editing
    6. Review questions
    7. Review answers
  14. 6. Working with Clips and Markers
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Using the Program Monitor controls
    3. Setting the playback resolution
    4. Playing back VR video
    5. Using markers
    6. Using Sync Locks and Track Locks
    7. Working with gaps in the sequence
    8. Selecting clips
    9. Moving clips
    10. Extracting and deleting segments
    11. Review questions
    12. Review answers
  15. 7. Adding Transitions
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. What are transition effects?
    3. Understanding the importance of clip handles
    4. Adding video transition effects
    5. Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
    6. Adding audio transition effects
    7. Review questions
    8. Review answers
  16. 8. Editing Video—Advanced Techniques
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Performing a four-point edit
    3. Changing clip playback speed
    4. Replacing clips and media
    5. Using Text-Based Editing
    6. Performing regular trimming
    7. Performing advanced trimming
    8. Trimming in the Program Monitor
    9. Review questions
    10. Review answers
  17. 9. Putting Clips in Motion
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Adjusting the Motion effect
    3. Changing clip position, size, and rotation
    4. Working with keyframe interpolation
    5. Applying the Auto Reframe effect
    6. Combining a drop shadow with motion effects
    7. Review questions
    8. Review answers
  18. 10. Editing and Mixing Audio
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Setting up the interface to work with audio
    3. Examining audio characteristics
    4. Adding Adobe Stock Audio
    5. Adjusting audio volume
    6. Auto-ducking the music level
    7. Retiming music with Remix
    8. Creating a split edit
    9. Adjusting audio levels for a clip
    10. Review questions
    11. Review answers
  19. 11. Improving Audio
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Improving audio with the Essential Sound panel
    3. Adjusting dialogue audio
    4. Review questions
    5. Review answers
  20. 12. Adding Video Effects
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Working with video effects
    3. Applying source clip effects
    4. Masking and tracking video effects
    5. Keyframing effects
    6. Using effect presets
    7. Exploring frequently used effects
    8. Using the Render And Replace command
    9. Review questions
    10. Review answers
  21. 13. Applying Color Correction and Grading
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Understanding display color management
    3. Following the color adjustment workflow
    4. Using Comparison view
    5. Matching colors
    6. Exploring the color-adjustment effects
    7. Fixing exposure problems
    8. Correcting color offset
    9. Using special color effects
    10. Creating a distinctive look
    11. Review questions
    12. Review answers
  22. 14. Exploring Compositing Techniques
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. What is an alpha channel?
    3. Making compositing part of your project
    4. Working with the Opacity effect
    5. Adjusting alpha channel transparencies
    6. Color keying a greenscreen shot
    7. Partially masking clips
    8. Review questions
    9. Review answers
  23. 15. Creating New Graphics
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Exploring the Essential Graphics panel
    3. Learning video typography essentials
    4. Creating new titles
    5. Styling text
    6. Working with shapes and logos
    7. Making a title roll
    8. Working with Motion Graphics templates
    9. Adding captions
    10. Review questions
    11. Review answers
  24. 16. Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Making quick exports
    3. Understanding the full media export options
    4. Exporting single frames
    5. Exporting a full quality media file
    6. Working with Adobe Media Encoder
    7. Uploading to social media
    8. Exchanging projects with other editing applications
    9. Final practice
    10. Review questions
    11. Review answers
  25. Index
  26. Glossary
  27. 17. Managing Your Projects
    1. Starting the lesson
    2. Using the File menu
    3. Using the Project Manager
    4. Performing final project management steps
    5. Using the Link Media dialog box and the Locate command
    6. Importing projects
    7. Importing from projects with the Media Browser
    8. Managing collaboration
    9. Using the Libraries panel
    10. Managing your storage
    11. Review questions
    12. Review answers

Product information

  • Title: Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book 2024 Release
  • Author(s): Maxim Jago
  • Release date: April 2024
  • Publisher(s): Adobe Press
  • ISBN: 9780138318529