Course Title: Comprehensive Adobe Premiere Pro: From Import to Export

Course Description: This intensive course provides a thorough grounding in Adobe Premiere Pro, designed to equip students with the skills to confidently navigate the software and edit video projects to a professional standard. Each week will focus on specific toolsets and workflows, with an emphasis on practical application and efficient editing techniques.

Overall Structure: Each 3-hour session would be heavily practical, likely involving:

• Instructor-led demonstrations of features.

• Guided exercises with provided media.

• Short, focused assignments applying the week's tools.

• Time for Q&A and troubleshooting.

Week 1: Getting Started – Interface & Project Setup

• Topics: Premiere Pro interface overview (Workspaces, Panels: Project, Source, Program, Timeline). Creating new projects, understanding project settings (scratch disks, ingest settings). Importing and organizing media (bins, labels, metadata). Understanding video formats and codecs at a basic level.

• Practical: Setting up a project, importing various media types, customizing a workspace, organizing footage into bins.

Week 2: Basic Editing – Assembling a Sequence

• Topics: Creating sequences, understanding sequence settings. Source Monitor vs. Program Monitor. Basic timeline navigation and tools (Selection, Razor). Making In and Out points, Overwrite vs. Insert edits. Creating a rough cut.

• Practical: Assembling a simple sequence from provided clips, practicing different edit types, basic timeline management.

Week 3: Refining the Edit – Trimming & Transitions

• Topics: Advanced trimming tools (Ripple Edit, Rolling Edit, Slip Tool, Slide Tool). Using the Trim Monitor. Applying and customizing default video and audio transitions (dissolves, wipes). Understanding handles for transitions.

• Practical: Refining an existing rough cut using various trim tools. Experimenting with different transitions and their settings.

Week 4: Working with Audio – Fundamentals

• Topics: Understanding audio tracks (mono, stereo, 5.1). The Essential Sound panel (Dialogue, Music, SFX, Ambience). Basic audio adjustments: volume, keyframing levels, panning. Applying basic audio effects (EQ, DeNoise, DeReverb). Syncing audio and video.

• Practical: Editing and mixing dialogue, music, and sound effects for a short scene. Practicing audio keyframing. Syncing separately recorded audio.

Week 5: Titles and Basic Graphics – The Essential Graphics Panel

• Topics: Introduction to the Essential Graphics panel. Creating and customizing text (fonts, size, color, style). Using shapes and lines. Working with templates (Motion Graphics Templates - MOGRTs). Basic animation of graphics within the Essential Graphics panel.

• Practical: Creating opening titles, lower thirds, and end credits for a sequence. Importing and customizing MOGRTs.

Week 6: Video Effects and Motion – Effect Controls Panel

• Topics: Understanding the Effect Controls panel. Applying and adjusting common built-in video effects (Transform: Motion, Scale, Rotation, Opacity; Blurs, Stylize effects). Introduction to keyframing effects over time. Using adjustment layers for effects.

• Practical: Animating clip properties (scale, position). Applying and keyframing video effects to achieve specific looks or correct footage.

Week 7: Color Correction and Grading – Lumetri Color Panel

• Topics: Introduction to the Lumetri Color panel. Understanding Basic Correction (white balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows). Creative looks (LUTs, Looks). Curves (RGB & Hue/Saturation). Color Wheels & Match. Vignettes. Using Lumetri Scopes (Waveform, Vectorscope, Histogram).

• Practical: Performing primary color correction on underexposed/overexposed clips. Applying creative LUTs. Matching color between shots.

Week 8: Speed Manipulation and Advanced Techniques

• Topics: Time remapping (variable speed changes). Rate Stretch tool, Speed/Duration dialog. Frame Hold options. Reverse speed. Introduction to Nested Sequences and their uses. Introduction to Multi-camera editing setup and switching.

• Practical: Creating slow-motion and fast-motion effects. Editing a short sequence using the multi-camera editing workflow.

Week 9: Compositing and Masking

• Topics: Understanding opacity and blend modes. Creating masks with the Opacity tool (ellipse, rectangle, free draw bezier). Mask tracking. Basic green screen keying with Ultra Key.

• Practical: Creating a simple picture-in-picture effect. Masking out an object. Keying out a green screen background and replacing it.

Week 10: Workflow Efficiency and Organization

• Topics: Advanced media management (Project Manager). Creating and using proxies for smoother editing with high-resolution footage. Keyboard shortcut customization. Markers (sequence, clip, duration). Consolidating projects.

• Practical: Creating a proxy workflow for a set of 4K clips. Customizing keyboard shortcuts for common tasks. Using markers for organization.

Week 11: Integration with Other Adobe Apps & Advanced Audio

• Topics: Basic Dynamic Link with Adobe After Effects for motion graphics or VFX. Sending audio to Adobe Audition for advanced repair and mixing (round-tripping). Exploring more advanced audio effects and track mixing techniques within Premiere Pro.

• Practical: Sending a clip to After Effects to add advanced text animation and bringing it back via Dynamic Link. Sending a dialogue track to Audition for noise reduction.

Week 12: Exporting, Delivery & Review

• Topics: Exporting using Adobe Media Encoder. Understanding export settings (formats, codecs, presets, bitrate). Exporting for different platforms (web, broadcast, social media). Batch exporting. Archiving projects. Final Q&A. Troubleshooting common export issues.

• Practical: Exporting a final project in multiple formats. Creating custom export presets. Reviewing key concepts from the course.

Assignments:

• Weekly practical exercises directly related to the tools taught.

• Mid-term project: Editing a short scene (e.g., 1-2 minutes) incorporating various editing techniques, basic audio work, titles, and color correction.

• Final project: A more complex edit (e.g., 3-5 minute short film, commercial, or documentary piece) that demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of Premiere Pro's features covered throughout the course, including effects, color grading, sound design, and proper export.