A beginner-to-intermediate course over five evening sessions to get you proficient enough on Premiere Pro, the inductry standard, to start using the software for all of your video projects.
Intro to Adobe Premiere kicks off on Wednesday, February 24th, at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (219 West 40th Street). Come learn to master the art of editing compelling videos.
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Adobe Premiere is the industry standard for video editing. It is a high-performance and complex software that demands expertise and artistry. This five-week, hands-on module is for anyone interested in learning professional video editing for storytelling. You will learn the principles of non-linear editing, how to use the interface and features of Adobe Premiere and how to plot and edit a sequence.
Participants will be given footage to work with, but if you have existing video you want to work on, please bring it on an external hard drive that can plug into a Mac. You do not need to bring a laptop with the software on it, as we will be working in a fully outfitted lab. Please bring an external hard drive to save your projects to.
Session 1: Intro to non-linear editing
Principles of non-linear editing. Overview of tools. Intro to Premiere interface. Setting up a project and importing assets. Organizing footage before editing. Establishing an editing workflow. B-Roll vs Interview Footage and how to integrate them both.
Session 2: Editing a sequence
Editing tools/commands. Understanding the timeline. Selecting shots. Marking and selecting the best takes. Insert, overwrite and replace edits. Basic audio overview. Relinking media. Working with multiple video/audio tracks.
Session 3: Advanced editing techniques
Working with audio. Keyframing audio transitions. Video and audio transitions, effects, and filters. Trimming, splitting, moving and deleting clips. J and L cuts for audio.
Session 4: Editing a sequence
Storyboarding. Assembling. Keyboard shortcuts. Creating a look. Creating titles and lower thirds. Changing clip speed. Refining your edit.
Session 5: Managing your project and viewing party
Saving and exporting your files. Back up strategy for projects. Workshop session to work on video projects. Color correction and sound mixing. We conclude with a viewing party of the students’ work.
Kayle is a visual journalist and teacher based in New York. Currently she is a freelance video producer for the New York Times and an adjunct professor at Baruch College where she teaches advanced multimedia reporting.
She is also a video coach at the CUNY J School where she visits classes and meets one-on-one with students to help with shooting, editing and producing video stories for the web. Kayle has led a number of visual storytelling workshops in the United States, India and Bhutan. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Cambodia Daily and Fortune Magazine.
See her work at kaylehope.com
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