Learn video and audio production and digital communication from how-to information, subject matter experts, and tutorials. For more on teaching these skills, see the free Adobe Digital Video CS6 curriculum on adobe.com/go/digitalcareers.
Streamlined, Highly Intuitive User Interface in Premiere Pro CS6
See more of your video and less clutter thanks to a highly intuitive, customizable interface. New monitor panels include a customizable button bar; the new Project panel focuses squarely on assets and allows clips to be skimmed, scrubbed, and marked up for editing. A new audio track design, improved meters, and a revamped Mixer panel make working with sound easier than ever.
In this movie, learn about the darker user interface and more vibrant, higher contrast colors in the Timeline of Adobe Premiere Pro. Also, see how the Timeline is more easily controlled by the mouse scroll wheel and the redesigned moving and scaling control.
Explore the cleaner, more efficient interface design of the Source and Program Monitors. Learn about the customizable transport controls and the easy-access playback resolution.
Product Manager Al Mooney shows how to take advantage of the new editing features that make you more efficient which includes more than 50 of the top user-requested improvements in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.
This lesson walks you through the process of creating and editing titles with the Premiere Pro Title tool. We'll look at two examples that use several of the options and settings.
This lesson walks you through the process of creating and editing titles with the Premiere Pro Title tool. We'll look at two examples that use several of the options and settings.
Learn about the new user interface for viewing or changing keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro. Then, discover some of the new shortcuts for common editing commands, such as matching frames, creating and playing loops, moving between editing clips, and exporting frames.
Using shortcuts for a fluid, high-performance workflow
This movie demonstrates how keyboard shortcuts can speed up the editing process for a more powerful editing workflow. Learn about the trimming, ripple trimming, slipping, and sliding commands, as well as tips for customizing keyboard shortcuts.
Understanding the enhanced effects workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
This movie showcases the drag-and-drop video effects, effect acceleration, and video adjustment layer controls in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. It also shows the new Mercury Playback Engine's ability to play back effects with no dropped frames. Finally, it goes on to show how to effectively render out playback when needed.
Sharing Clips and Rough Cuts Directly with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
One of the most elegant features of Prelude is its ability
to integrate directly into Adobe Premiere Pro. This lesson shows you how to instantly share clips, subclips, and Rough Cuts with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Quickly and easily edit multicam footage from as many cameras as you have on the shoot. Sync via timecode, switch between tracks in real time, and adjust color across multiple shots.
This movie shows how the multi-cam editing process has been expanded to include more camera angles and a dynamic multi-cam source monitor. It also shares some computer considerations to keep in mind when editing multi-cam footage.
Sequence nesting is a powerful but simple compositing technique. In a nutshell, you put one sequence inside another – but there is so much more to it than that, as you'll see in this lesson.
Product Manager Al Mooney shows off the new audio enhancemenst that let you freely combine mono, stereo, and multitrack audio with new, more flexible audio tracks in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.
Explore the improved audio controls in Adobe Premiere Pro. Learn about the repositionable VU Meter, the Audio Mixer panel, and the ability to monitor solo, mono, and stereo content.
Using the New Adjustment Layers in Premiere Pro CS6
Product Manager Al Mooney shows how to apply adjustment layers, similar to those in After Effects and Photoshop, to apply effects and have the effects automatically modify all of the underlying tracks.
Product Manager Al Mooney shows how to use the Warp Stabilizer effect in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to not just smooth the motion footage but to remove motion artifacts that would otherwise remain after stabilization.
Adobe Audition is a powerful audio post-production and sound editing application with two modes you can easily switch between: You can work on audio files or produce advanced multitrack sessions. Audition also has round-trip editing integration with Adobe Premiere Pro. This lesson gives an overview of what Audition can do and points out some of the great new features included in Audition CS6.
There are many enhancements to the multitrack editing features in Audition CS6. This lesson shows you a few highlights, including side-chaining, the new Properties panel, and automatic speech alignment.
Audition CS6 includes excellent support for hardware controllers and introduces full envelope automation, with Latch, Touch, and Write modes for the Mixer. This lesson shows you how to do it.
One of the new effects included with Audition CS6 is automatic pitch correction. This lesson shows you how to give singers perfect pitch and also introduces the new Spectral Pitch display.
Audition CS6 can extract audio from music CDs with CDDB data and burn new music CDs from collections of files or from custom markers you add to your files. This lesson will show you how.
This lesson looks at the effects enhancements in Audition CS6, including updates to the Parametric Equalizer, channel mapping, and new effects like the Graphic Phase Shifter and the Doppler Shifter.
Discover the power of this industry-standard video-compositing, motion-graphics-design and animation tool. Learn how it integrates with the Creative Suite, see how it is used in television and film to create special effects, how to composite scenes with blue/green screen keying, and complete creative tasks like drawing, 3D, and titles.
Get familiar with the After Effects CS6 workflow in this brief overview of the tools, project windows, elements, compositions, nested comps, effects, keyframes, the timeline, expressions, exporting and the Render Queue.
Explore one of the the most-changed performance enhancements in After Effects CS6, the fast previews menu. Learn the difference between the latest options including adaptive resolution, draft, fast draft, wifeframe, and the draft 3D button in the timeline. Using a Ray-traced 3D comp as an example Brian shows how the different options behave and offers suggestions for an efficient workflow even if you don't have the best video hardware.
Learn to use the Preview Panel to generate a RAM Preview of your animation that plays in real time. Review the features available in the panel, how to adjust the work area in the timeline, and how to generate a preview to see your results at full speed. Also explore Frame Rate, Skip and Shift+Ram Preview, as well as the From Current Time feature. Finally, learn some handy keyboard shortcuts that can save you time.
Take a close look at timeline elements including switches, navigation, zooming, trimming, setting keyframes, and basic layer properties. Next, review how to set and change keyframe parameters in the timeline, and multiple ways you can accomplish this in After Effects.
Explore the various ways you can set up projects in After Effects including importing individual or multi-layered files from Illustrator and Photoshop. Review some of the options for sorting folders and elements in the project window to keep you organized. Plus take a look at the Flowchart panel and get an understanding of the value of flowcharts as a visual reference to easily see how your project elements relate to each other.
Explore the various ways you can set up projects in After Effects including importing individual or multi-layered files from Illustrator and Photoshop. Review some of the options for sorting folders and elements in the project window to keep you organized. Plus take a look at the Flowchart panel and get an understanding of the value of flowcharts as a visual reference to easily see how your project elements relate to each other.
Review some of the fun new effects available in AE CS6 including the Cycore HD effects and other built in plug-ins. Along the way, you'll discover why updating many of these effects to 32-bit in this version of After Effects is so important.
Discover how the new Bounding Boxes work to help you select and manipulate elements in a scene. Learn about the new Inverted "V" pattern on layers, how to use the selection indicators to identify layers and elements, and how you can edit a 3D element by manipulating its Bounding Box.
Discover how to make your not-so-great footage look better using the new Rolling Shutter Repair effect. Get an overview of the effect controls and how to adjust them to get some nice results from your footage.
Discover how to enable 3D in a composition and work in the Classic 3D mode. Review the difference in the UI and tools once 3D is activated and take a look at the new properties available in the "Materials" category, as well as in layers and effects, as well as 3D-only elements like cameras and lights. And of course, Brian provides some handy tips for setting up your comp window for 3D.
Get an introduction to Ray-traced 3D, how to activate it, the 3D layers it adds, and the many options that are available in those layers. Vector layers for text and shapes have greatly expanded options in this version of AE, and most useful for non vector layers are the new "Material" options which include the ability to create after-effects-native reflections for the first time.
Place and track 3D elements on 2D footage for precise visual effects and motion graphics. The 3D camera tracker automatically analyzes 2D footage in the background and places elements on that footage, with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections.
Learn video production and digital communication from how-to information, subject matter experts, and tutorials. For more on teaching these skills, see the free Adobe Digital Video curriculum on adobe.com/education.
