Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium Training Packages
The Adobe Creative Suite of software brings together many of today's most popular video post-production applications into a tightly-linked, highly efficient, and wildly popular post production workflow. Just as Adobe Creative Suite CS6 is made up of applications which work together in the video post-production process, our training packages emphasize using the right software tool effectively at each point in the post-production process.
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Adobe Creative Suite CS6 Class Details
Our CS6 class focuses mainly on Adobe Premiere-the base of your editorial workflow-but it incorporates key workflows from all of the relevant Creative Cloud software. Under Adobe's licensing model, you already own Photoshop, Audition, and After Effects&emdash;and we'll teach you how to best integrate them into your overall workflow with Premiere. It's important to learn these applications the same way you'll use them in the real world: all together as a comprehensive workflow.
- The first two days focus on Adobe Premiere, Audition, and Prelude
- The first two days focus on Adobe Premiere, Audition, and Prelude
- On the third day, we discuss Media Encoder, Encore, and get a basic introduction to After Effects.
- The last two days, we focus on After Effects and Speedgrade.
Along the way, we'll use techniques in Photoshop to support common tasks in both Premiere and After Effects.
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Here's what is included:
- Hands-on exercise driven training for learning Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and After Effects
- Ongoing Support (does not expire)
- Courseware and practice media
- Access to video tutorials
- Framed Certificate of completion
- Free retakes
- Small class size limited to 6 students
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Macintosh or PC computers, preferably running Mac OSX or Windows 7.
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What you will learn in this Course:
• Master the critical editing techniques within Adobe Premiere
• Learn how Photoshop, and Audition integrate with Premiere
• Learn the fundamentals of After Effects
*If you do not see our course schedule below, it's probably being blocked by a firewall. Please call 866-566-1881 for course schedule.
Day 1: Premiere
- Interface Overview: Learn the interface from the broad overview level down to those obscure but useful controls that are hiding in plain sight.
- Organizing: Getting your project set up correctly to be most efficient as the project evolves. Adobe Bridge will be a useful tool in this process.
- Importing video into Premiere: Bring video into Premiere from anywhere: a camera, a tape, media cards, or archive sources.
- OnLocation: Adobe's realtime ingest tool that makes you more efficient while recording.
- Editing: Learning how to build and refine a project using Premiere's editing tools
Day 2: Premiere, Audition, Photoshop
- Audio Editing: Refine and mix audio files within Premiere
- Advanced Audio Editing: Use Auditon (or Sound Booth) to go even deeper into Audio editing
- Introduction to Photoshop: refining photos, creating graphics, & creating titles will become part of your Premiere workflow.
- Using Effects: Make adjustments to your video and audio to enhance the appearance. Some of the effects you'll learn to use are easy to spot on-screen, like blurs, glows, and lens flares. Others are more subtle, like removing video noise and changing the background of a green screen shot.
- Animation: Controlling an attribute over time. For example, you might make a video clip move around the screen then shrink into the corner, or drop the level of the music as a narrator begins to speak.
- Color Correction: Fix shots, lighting problems, and even change a clip's color characteristics to create a specific mood.
- Multicam editing: Syncing multiple camera angles together to be able to edit in a manner that recreates the feel of switching live
- Output: Prepare your video for the world to see using the capabilities of Premiere and Media Encoder.
Day 3: After Effects, Basic Animation, and Compositing
- Introduction to After Effects: Take your animation to the next level. Learn AE's compositing capabilities. Create professional titles.
- Getting started in After FX with some basic Animation: Start out this class by building an opening title for a mythical detective show. This exercise is designed to demonstrate some of the major features of After Effects.
- Creating your own AE composition: Next, you will learn how to set up your own compositions. This includes learning key shortcuts for navigating within the Comp and Timeline windows with After Effects. You'll also learn how to manage your work area and discover ways to preview your working animations.
- Learning the basics of keyframing in After FX: Master several straightforward approaches to keyframing, learn how to manipulate them to represent certain After Effects properties over time. Key concepts include how to use motion paths and velocity with special keyframe assistants ( easy ease, motion sketch, and time reverse keyframes)
- Understanding Transformations: Take your animated AE elements and integrate important properties such as scale, rotating and opacity changes. Learn how to change the anchor point around which transformations occur
Day 4: After FX Layers, blending, color correction, and rotoscoping (AEX and SpeedGrade)
- Working with video layers: Learn the fundementals of working with After Effects layers. These skills including mastering the trimming techniques which include features such as splitting layers and slip edits.
- Manipulating time: Explore various methods using time stretching, reversing, frame blending and motion blur techniques.
- Using After FX Modes, Masks and Mattes: Explore how AE transfer modes work, including details on drawing, editing, and combining masks. Learn tricks on how to properly rotoscope an object, plus explore how smart mask interpolation works.
- Using Track Mattes: Discover the use of using track mattes within After FX, which borrow the luminance or alpha channel of a layer to define the opacity of another layer.
- Using Stencils and the 'T': Use Stencils and Silhouettes, which affect the transparency of layers with an After FX composite. We will also show you the difference between the preserve transparency, and alpha add transfer modes.
- Professional-strength color grading: With Adobe's new SpeedGrade CS6 software, you have deep control over the color characteristics of your video. Improve your video's overall look, relight your shots, and retouch your scenes in our introduction to SpeedGrade's toolset.
Day 5: After Effects 3D Compositing, Cameras, Nesting, and Precomposing
- Cameras, Light and Actions within After Effects: An introduction to how three dimensional space works within After FX. This includes working with different views within the After Effects composition menu
- Working with Cameras in After FX: Learn how to create, edit and animate cameras within 3D space using After Effects. You will learn how to work with the default camera, and we will demystify the numerous camera control parameters within AE.
- Lighting in 3D using After Effects: We will show you how to create, edit and manage the different lights within After FX. Discover the importance of material options and how they react with different types of lights.
- Parenting Skills within AE: Learn the importance of using parenting to group individual After Effects layers. This allows you to apply an effect or motion parameter to a group of layers, while maintaining the effects within the individual layers themselves.
- Nesting and Precomposing Compositions: Discover why it is critical to build advanced effects using multiple compositions. This will allow you to manage incredibly complicated effects structures with the ability to make changes
- Collapsing Transformations with After FX: Learn an incredibly useful approach to maximizing image quality in a chain of composites, and why that process differs when compositions are made of 3D layers
- Importing and Outputting from After Effects: Preserve maximum quality and flexibility as you bring various media types into and out of After FX.
- Wrap Up: Take time to review important concepts that were covered in previous modules. The Instructor will review critical concepts and give everyone in the class time to finish any uncompleted exercises.
