Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to creating, editing, and enhancing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro. Whether you’re organising hours of interviews, rapidly splicing news clips before a deadline, or creating your magnum opus, Premiere Pro is the tool for you-and this book will teach you what you need to know.

First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived fromvideo editor and Adobe Certified Instructor Ben Goldsmith, you will learn the procedures needed to use Premiere Pro effectively and professionally. Dozens of exercises are included that can be applied to any videos you have in mind. Through step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Premiere Pro’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, so you can work alongside the text.

Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the “how” and “why” of Premiere Pro. With each topic easyto access, you can find and explore all of Premiere Pro’s key features and concepts in depth. With cross-referencesbetween the Course andCompendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.

Learn step by step how to:

Set up and organize a project
Create a timeline and edit your video and audio
Sweeten and master audio
Use Premiere’s powerful multi-camera features
Control graphics and titles
Unlock Lumetri’s professional color-grading tools
And much more!

Author Biography

Ben Goldsmith tells stories and shares ideas through editing videos and designing motion graphics. After receivinghis BA at Hampshire College in digital media production, Ben developed and created immersive media experiences for historic and scientific museums nationwide, including the FDR Museum and the Boston Museum of Science. He then schlepped over to Seattle, where he lives today with his wife. Ben now produces videos for Sparkworks Media-where he creates content for Amazon, Alaska Airlines, and other local businesses-and teaches video editing at Luminous Works and the School of Visual Concepts. When he’s not churning out the good stuff, you might find him bouldering, brewing ales, or teaching himself a new musical instrument.