Premier Pro CS3

• Discussion of Storyboard
• Discussion of Project 4
• Student Videos from the Past
• Sample Flash/Video movies from the past
• Source files for Premiere exercises:
  • 421sounds
  • 421video;
  • 421images;

Introduction to Premiere

• Overview of Premiere Windows and work areas
• Project settings
• Import File Formats
• Create & Edit a Premiere Project
• Continue building movie

Premiere, Photoshop, and still images

• Preparing still photos in Photoshop and animating them in Premiere
• Video Layers in Photoshop - New in CS3
• PhotoShop Animation
• Exporting filmstrips from Premiere and editing them in Photoshop

Titles

• Title Design Window
• Create a still Title & insert in timeline
• Rolling and Crawling Titles
• SWF FLV version of video with titles & with still image with panning effect -- "video with cuepoints" -- first on the list of 4 videos -- panning of still image in section about the dinosaur

Greenscreening

• Greenscreening using greenscreen video

Video Effects

• Video Effects and what they do to movie clips
• Using Video effects to create special effects on movieclips

Editing Audio

• Use the Audio Mixer in Premiere
• Audio Effects

Exporting & Presenting videos

• File Export Formats
• Exporting video/audio: general considerations
• Moving files between Premiere & Flash
• Directions for inserting cuepoints for Flash in Premiere
• Exporting FLV files from Premiere for Flash
• Exporting for the Web with Adobe Media Encoder
  • Video Exported as SWF file via Adobe Media Encoder
  • Video Exported as Quicktime MOV file via Adobe Media Encoder (note: object code from "A List Apart" no longer works to embed MOV files)Video Exported as Windows Media (WMF) file via Adobe Media Encoder (validates)
  • Video Exported as Real Media file via Adobe Media Encoder -- very difficult to embed RM files -- better to link to them.

Embed Video Files or link to them

• Embed Video files on a Web page
  • Video Exported as Quicktime MOV file via Adobe Media Encoder (validates)Video Exported as Windows Media (WMF) file via Adobe Media Encoder (validates)
  • Video Exported as SWF file via Adobe Media Encoder
  • Video Exported as Real Media file via Adobe Media Encoder -- very difficult to embed RM files -- better to link to them.
  • Video Exported as an AVI file NOT through Adobe Media Encoder, and then imported into Flash as an FLV file. Requires Actionscript 3.0 which does not enable script necessary for <object> tags to work.