Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium Classroom in a Book

CONTENTS......Page 5
About Classroom in a Book......Page 10
Installing Adobe CS6 Production Premium......Page 11
Hardware requirements......Page 12
Optimizing performance......Page 13
Copying the lesson files......Page 14
How to use these lessons......Page 15
Additional resources......Page 16
Adobe certification......Page 17
Checking for updates......Page 18
1 WORKING IN ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 6 PRODUCTION PREMIUM......Page 19
The “planning to playback” video-production workflow......Page 21
Learning the role of each component in the suite......Page 23
Working with media files in video production......Page 26
Real-time playback and editing......Page 33
2 ORGANIZING THE MEDIA FILES FOR YOUR PROJECT......Page 37
About Adobe Bridge......Page 39
Working with metadata......Page 42
About Adobe Story......Page 44
About Adobe Prelude......Page 52
3 CREATING A BASIC EDIT......Page 65
About Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 67
Creating a new project in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 69
Importing footage and other media using the Media Browser......Page 75
Understanding the Project panel......Page 77
Interpreting Footage......Page 80
Creating bins......Page 81
Viewing your footage......Page 84
About subclips......Page 88
Creating the first sequence......Page 92
Working in the Timeline......Page 93
Working with audio......Page 102
Refining your story......Page 105
Using Markers......Page 110
Using Snap......Page 113
Finishing Your Rough Edit......Page 117
4 ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES......Page 131
Versioning your edit......Page 133
Adding transitions......Page 134
Creating effects in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 138
Keying and compositing green screen footage......Page 146
Adding titles with the Adobe Premiere Pro Title tool......Page 155
Stabilizing footage with the Warp Stabilizer......Page 159
Rendering your timeline......Page 161
5 CREATING BASIC MOTION GRAPHICS AND VISUAL EFFECTS......Page 165
Preserving your rough edit in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 167
About Adobe After Effects......Page 168
Understanding the After Effects user interface......Page 172
Using Dynamic Link: from Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects......Page 175
Using RAM Preview......Page 179
Working with text and animation presets in After Effects......Page 181
Using Dynamic Link: from After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 186
Creating a motion graphic with Adobe After Effects......Page 187
Creating a new composition......Page 192
Working with layers......Page 196
6 ADVANCED STILL AND MOTION GRAPHICS TECHNIQUES......Page 213
About Adobe Illustrator......Page 215
Creating 3D extrusions in After Effects CS6......Page 226
About Adobe Photoshop Extended......Page 230
Using Transfer Modes in After Effects......Page 235
Understanding and applying Motion Blur......Page 237
Adding and animating effects with After Effects......Page 240
Creating static and animated masks in After Effects......Page 245
Finishing the outro motion graphic......Page 249
Integrating your After Effects composition into your Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline......Page 257
7 WORKING WITH AUDIO......Page 261
Making your final edit sequence in Premiere Pro......Page 263
Monitoring audio......Page 264
Understanding the Audio Tools in Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition......Page 265
Audio clip editing in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 273
Audio clip editing in Adobe Audition......Page 278
Multitrack mixing and finishing in Adobe Audition......Page 287
Audio track editing in Adobe Audition......Page 293
Creating the final audio mix......Page 295
8 FINISHING, RENDERING, AND OUTPUTTING......Page 299
Preserving your final audio edit in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 301
The basics of color correction......Page 302
Using color-correction techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 303
About SpeedGrade......Page 310
Understanding compression and other factors for exporting files......Page 315
Exporting the final output with Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 317
About Adobe Media Encoder......Page 320
Rendering your compositions in After Effects......Page 328
9 AUTHORING FOR DVD, BLU-RAY, AND THE WEB......Page 333
Preparing your final output sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro......Page 335
About Adobe Encore......Page 336
Using Dynamic Link to send your edit to Encore......Page 337
Overview of DVD navigation......Page 341
Programming navigation in DVD menus......Page 349
Adding motion to DVD menus......Page 351
Testing your project......Page 353
Outputting your DVD or Blu-ray Disc......Page 354
Outputting your project as Flash for the web......Page 357
Introducing Flash Professional......Page 358
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K......Page 371
M......Page 372
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R......Page 376
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T......Page 378
U......Page 379
Z......Page 380
LESSON FILES AND MEDIA PAGE......Page 0