Professional Video Editing

IMPORTING MEDIAL
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Importing assets
• Working with the Media Browser
• Importing images
• The media cache
• Capturing from videotape

ORGANIZING MEDIA
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• The Project panel
• Working with bins
• Organizing media with content analysis
• Monitoring footage
• Modifying clips

ESSENTIALS OF VIDEO EDITING
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Using the Source Monitor
• Navigating the Timeline
• Essential editing commands

WORKING WITH CLIPS AND MARKERS
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Program Monitor controls
• Controlling resolution
• Using markers
• Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
• Finding gaps in the Timeline
• Moving clips
• Extracting and deleting segments

ADDING TRANSITIONS
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• What are transitions?
• Edit points and handles
• Adding video transitions
• Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
• Adding audio transitions.

ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Four-point editing
• Retiming clips
• Replacing clips and footage
• Nesting sequences
• Regular trimming
• Advanced trimming
• Trimming in the Program Monitor panel

PUTTING CLIPS IN MOTION
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Adjusting the Motion effect
• Changing clip position, size, and rotation
• Working with keyframe interpolation
• Using other motion-related effects

MULTICAMERA EDITING
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• The multicamera process
• Creating a multicamera sequence
• Switching multiple cameras
• Finalizing multicamera editing
• Additional multicamera editing tips

EDITING AND MIXING AUDIO
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• Setting up the interface to work with audio
• Examining audio characteristics
• Adjusting audio volume
• Adjusting audio gain
• Normalizing audio
• Creating a split edit
• Adjusting audio levels in a sequence
• Working with the Audio Mixer

SWEETENING SOUND
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Sweetening sound with audio effects
• Adjusting EQ
• Applying effects in the Audio Mixer
• Cleaning up noisy audio

ADDING VIDEO EFFECTS
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• Working with effects
• Keyframing effects
• Effects presets
• Frequently used effects

COLOR CORRECTION AND GRADING
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• Color-oriented workflow
• An overview of color-oriented effects
• Fixing exposure problems
• Fixing color balance
• Creating a look
• Special color effects

EXPLORING COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• What is an alpha channel?
• Using compositing in your projects
• Working with the Opacity effect
• Working with alpha-channel transparencies
• Color keying a greenscreen shot
• Using mattes

CREATING TITLES
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• An overview of the Titler window
• Video typography essentials
• Creating titles
• Stylizing text
• Working with shapes and logos
• Making text roll and crawl

MANAGING YOUR PROJECTS
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• Using the Project Manager
• Final project management steps
• Importing projects or sequences
• Managing collaboration
• Managing your hard drives

EXPORTING FRAMES, CLIPS, AND SEQUENCES
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• Exporting single frames
• Exporting a master copy
• Working with Adobe Media Encoder
• Exchanging with other editing applications
• Recording to tape