Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot
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- Discover new workflows and the exciting new features of Premiere Pro CS6
- Take your video editing skills to exciting new levels with clear, concise instructions (and supplied footage)
- Explore powerful time-saving features that other users don’t even know about!
- Work on actual real-world video editing projects such as short films, interviews, multi-cam, special effects, and the creation of video montages
- Gain video editing skills that will stay with you for years
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 284 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : February 2013
ISBN : 1849694788
ISBN 13 : 9781849694780
Author(s) : Paul Ekert
Topics and Technologies : All Books
Table of Contents
PrefaceProject One: Creating a Movie Montage – the Easy Way
Project Two: Cutting a Short Film without Getting Stung
Project Three: Protect the Innocent – Interview Edit Techniques
Project Four: See the Bigger Picture – Edit Multiple Cameras
Project Five: Visual Effects – Muzzle Flashes, Laser Beams, and Clones
Project Six: Visual FX Using Real Media
Project Seven: The Ultimate Do-over – Correcting Visual and Audio Problems
Project Eight: Reach the World – Export to DVD, the Internet, and Beyond
Index
- Project One: Creating a Movie Montage – the Easy Way
- Mission Briefing
- Why Is It Awesome?
- Streamlining Premiere Pro
- Music markers matter
- Subclips tame video clips
- Final preparation
- Creating a running order
- Fine-tuning the edit
- Correct aspect ratios
- Finishing touches
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Two: Cutting a Short Film without Getting Stung
- Mission Briefing
- Creating a story
- Three-point edits
- Combining three- and four-point edits
- Refining with the Trim tool
- Correcting various problems
- Making pictures sing
- Adding a movie look
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Three: Protect the Innocent – Interview Edit Techniques
- Mission Briefing
- Getting the story right!
- Extracting audio fat
- Creating a J-cut (away)
- An L-cut and a UFO!
- Reconstructing reconstructions
- Bringing night to day
- Adding viewpoints
- Protecting the innocent
- Adding lower thirds
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Four: See the Bigger Picture – Edit Multiple Cameras
- Mission Briefing
- Organizing your media
- Creating a multi-camera sync point
- Activating multi-camera
- Creating a multi-camera Timeline
- Editing and tuning multi-camera clips
- Creating insert clips (PiP)
- Finishing off
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Five: Visual Effects – Muzzle Flashes, Laser Beams, and Clones
- Mission Briefing
- Organizing your project media
- Key in the alien robot
- Creating an army of clones
- Creating a laser beam of doom
- Creating a lightning spectacular (freeze frame and lightning ball)
- Creating a muzzle flash
- Adding sound effects
- Adding various effects to polish the scene
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Six: Visual FX Using Real Media
- Mission Briefing
- Organizing your media
- Adding a new 3D object to your scene
- Adding an explosive clip
- Manually tracking the explosion
- Adding heat glow and smoke
- Adding muzzle flashes and laser beams
- Creating an explosion tremor and flying figure effect
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Seven: The Ultimate Do-over – Correcting Visual and Audio Problems
- Mission Briefing
- Correcting white balance issues
- Correcting color issues
- Creating an isolated color effect
- Using Rolling Shutter Repair for DSLRs
- Using Warp Stabilizer as a virtual tripod
- Improving audio quality of a sound track
- Removing coughs and other disturbances
- Trashing audio – altering the sound of a voice
- Globally adding audio filters to your Timeline clips
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Eight: Reach the World – Export to DVD, the Internet, and Beyond
- Mission Briefing
- Exporting audio for refined post work
- Creating an animated GIF
- Assembling multiple Timelines for final output
- Adding markers and creating an Encore CS6 compatible export
- Exporting options for uploading to the Internet
- Creating archive copies of your work
- Mission Accomplished
Paul Ekert
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Errata
- 1 submitted: last submission 08 Mar 2013The following are the links where you can download the videos mentioned in the book from:
http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/4780OT_Chap_6_Visual_FX_Using_Real_Media.zip
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
- Use actual real-world examples to learn advanced editing workflows
- Find out how you can manipulate sounds and images
- Work with real-life effects; explosions, smoke, and exported 3D models
- Master automatic features that save you time and help create a better edit
- Delve into the world of frame accurate editing using keyboard shortcuts
- Learn how the different trim modes, Ripple and Rolling, actually work
- Speed up your Timeline workflow with the Insert and Extract functions
- Tame long clips using the sub-clip function
- Create frame accurate edits using the 3 and 4-Point edit technique
- Use CS6 filters to create special effects (muzzle flashes and SF effects) and even motion backgrounds
- Construct multi-layered effect compositions using the Nested Sequence function
Adobe Premiere Pro has become synonymous with video editing, in the same way Photoshop has become a byword for image manipulation. To unlock the true potential of this powerful software you don’t need you to take expensive training courses or spend hours trying to get your footage “just right”. Work through this practical guide and truly master Premiere Pro CS6 using real footage with engaging examples.
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Starting off with an entry-level project to get both new and existing users up to speed, "Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot" dives right into a series of engaging real-world projects that help you understand how you can harness Premiere Pro’s full potential. With an explicit focus on practical real-world projects from concept to publication, this is the definitive guide for people who want to make the most out of this powerful software.
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Designed to be practical and engaging, Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is a project-based book to help you truly augment your skills and become a film editing hotshot.
If you're just starting out or even migrating from existing video editing software, then this book is for you. With rapid progression through practical examples constructed to be both engaging and useful, Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is ideal for learning the sometimes complex workflows of this powerful application.

