Adobe Premiere Pro CC – Advanced («AP6ADV»)

• Using Adobe Premiere Pro optimally 
• Customizing Adobe Premiere Pro to meet your needs
• Understanding typical workflows: from sound mixing to motion graphics workflow
• Understanding the interfaces between Adobe Premiere Pro and additional tools such as Media Encoder, Audition, and After Effects
• Trying out post-production steps under guidance
• Asking specific questions in order to implement familiar procedures in Adobe Premiere Pro

This advanced course builds on the «Adobe Premiere Pro CC – Basic» course.

We will put the finishing touches on your video clip with the following course content:

1 System and workflow optimization

• Setting up media and metadata management for maximum system performance 
• Optimal recording formats for use in Premiere Pro
• Customizing keyboard shortcuts with the visual shortcut editor 
• Customizing panels and program settings
• Setting up projects and sequences
• Open and edit multiple projects in parallel
• Collaborating in a team (even remotely)
• Using the Project Manager for archiving
• Newly added functions for effective work

2 Import and transcoding

• Use the Adobe Media Encoder for importing
• Importing and transcoding video footage
• Using layer file import from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Proxy workflow to optimize system resources
• Interpreting footage and adjusting source audio channels 
• Unlink and relink media files

3 Trimming and advanced editing functions

• Using source assignment and destination guidance in editing
• Options in the Sequences panel
• Advanced trim tools and key editing keyboard shortcuts
• Advanced editing functions
• Using markers
• Nested sequences
• Multicamera editing
• Scene detection for editing pre-cut clips

4 Audio editing

• Editing audio clips and repairing with the Essential Sound panel
• Using audio clip and audio track mixers
• Audio routing and mixing
• Advanced effects and effect presets
• Creating automatic audio mixes
• Advanced effects capabilities in Audition (remix, noise masking, etc.)
• Using the remix function in music editing

5 Image editing

• Master clip effects and adjustment layers
• Overview of effect options (morph cut, stabilization, keying, etc.)
• Copying, pasting and removing attributes
• Creating your own effect presets
• Technical and creative grading with Lumetri Panel and Lumetri Scopes
• Use and tracking of masks
• Motion effects and speed ramp effects
• Animation effects
• Essential Graphics panel and motion graphics templates
• Creation of motion graphics templates including responsive design
• Roundtrip with After Effects (creation of motion graphics templates in After Effects)
• Creation of subtitles incl. use of automatic transcription
• Use of Adobe Stock and Adobe Fonts

6 Export

• Auto-Reframe for automatic AI-based conversion of the video into different formats (portrait, square)
• Export formats and codecs
• Media export settings for different formats
• Best practices for web export
• Using media encoders for batch processing
• Customizing, saving and using the export presets

• Informative, exemplary and practice-oriented teaching sequence
• An additional learning effort of two to four hours per week is to be expected

This advanced course is aimed at video editors, producers, video journalists, media designers and cameramen who already have a profound knowledge of editing and Premiere Pro and wish to deepen their knowledge and act successfully as professionals in the field.

• You have good computer user skills (PC or Mac)
• You have attended the following course or have equivalent knowledge:

Info about the room equipment
Our courses take place on Windows or Apple devices. On request, we will be happy to provide you with an Apple computer in Zurich, Bern and Basel. Please let us know in advance by sending an e-mail to info@digicomp.ch. You can also bring your own laptop.

For virtual participation, we recommend the use of an additional monitor (not just a laptop) so that you can fully follow and participate in the lesson.

Adobe CC Software
The Adobe Creative Cloud Software will be fully available in the classrooms during the course. However, it is not possible to use the software via Digicomp licenses from home during the course.