Introduction 1 About this Book 1 How this book is organized 2 Icons Used in the Book 3 Beyond the book 4 Part 1: Getting Familiar with the Adobe Premiere Pro Universe 5 Chapter 1: Perusing the Premiere Pro Landscape 7 Understanding What Premiere Pro Can Do 8 Dissecting the Workspace 8 Breaking down the interface 9 Ingesting and Editing 9 Understanding the panels 10 Getting around the workspace 10 Having a Panel Discussion 11 Knowing the Project panel 11 Spending some time with the Timeline panel 13 Making the most of the Source and Program Monitors 14 Grasping the Effects and Effect Controls panels 15 Feeling out the other panels 16 Using the libraries 18 Tooling Around the Toolbar 18 Chapter 2: Understanding the Premiere Pro Workspace 21 Identifying Your Needs 22 Working with your computer platform 22 Are you a Mac? 22 Or are you a PC? 24 Naming PC models is a little harder 24 The systems are not that far apart 26 Look before you leap on your PC 26 Understanding Workstation Requirements 27 Determining if your computer is right 28 Breaking down the differences between Mac and PC 29 Respecting the graphics card 29 Needing GPU acceleration 30 Random access memory 30 More Hard Drive Space, Please 30 Solid-state drives 31 Conventional hard drives 31 Not all hard drives are created equal 32 Scratch disks 32 Managing other computer components 33 Keying into keyboard types 33 Eeek, a mouse! 33 USB-C is the new black 34 Looking at Capture Gear 34 Smartphone capture 34 Top-of-the-line video cameras 35 Broadcast video camera 36 Consumer-level camcorders 36 Digital single-lens reflex 37 Point-and-shoot video options 37 Mirrorless camera 38 Going GoPro 39 Card readers and capture devices 39 Audio recorders 40 Going to the videotape 40 Defining Users 41 Neophyte user 42 Intermediate 42 Professional photographer 42 Video enthusiast 43 Social media influencer 43 Chapter 3: Adjusting Premiere Pro to Suit Your Needs 45 Setting Up Your Workspace 45 Subscribing and installing software 46 Feeling welcome 46 Using workspace presets 46 Edit workspace order 49 Adding a clip description 49 Customizing and saving your workspace 49 Moving panels 50 Saving your workspace 50 Hiding workspace presets 51 Using a second monitor 51 Using your iPad as a second monitor 52 Set up your iPad monitor 53 Using a broadcast monitor 53 Breaking down keyboard shortcuts 54 Personalizing keyboard commands 55 Single Key shortcuts 56 Using a skin 56 Setting your scratch disk 56 Render files 57 Pointing in the right direction 57 Tweaking Program Settings 57 Setting preferences 58 Optimizing performance 60 Fine-tuning your setup 60 Customizing the Windows 61 Doing the panel dance 61 Sizing the monitor 61 What''s inside counts 62 Adjusting the timeline 63 Modifying the Project panel 63 Freestyling with Freeform 63 Understanding the Audio Mixers 64 Audio Clip Mixer 66 Part 2: Gathering Content 67 Chapter 4: Sorting Out the Elements of Video Production 69 Defining Digitized Video 69 Binary refinery 70 Digital Video 70 High Definition is the flavor of the day 71 Fawning over 4K 71 Vying with VHS 72 Explaining Digital Video Fundamentals 72 Understanding how video works 72 Dealing with aspect ratio 73 Frame rates 73 Understanding timecode 74 Understanding formats 74 Breaking down the best file types 74 Capturing Great Video 75 Controlling the camera 75 Arranging the scene 77 Understanding shot lingo 79 Lighting the scene 80 Waiting for the sun 80 Communicating through light 81 On-camera video lights 81 The French call it mise-en-scène 83 Chapter 5: Prepping Your Movie Projects 85 Starting Your Project 86 Creating a project 86 Opening an existing project 88 Tweaking the Settings 88 Project settings 88 Title safe margins 89 Getting those preferences right 89 Timeline preferences 91 Auto Save preferences 91 Playback preferences 92 Scratching the scratch drive surface 92 Making a Sequence 94 Setting each sequence 94 Making a custom setting 94 Adjusting the Timeline 96 Increasing the height of the video and audio tracks 97 Fill the screen with a panel 98 Chapter 6: Importing Media into a Project 101 Starting Your Project 102 Ingesting media 102 Adobe Bridge 103 Transferring from a card reader 103 Editing directly from a card 105 Capturing tape from a camcorder 105 Downloading clips 107 Importing media 107 Adding music and audio clips 108 Recording ADR 108 Sound effects 108 Adding a soundtrack 109 Finding the right music 109 Grabbing royalty-free music from the web 110 Prepping still images for the timeline 111 Organizing Media 112 Creating bins 113 Color coding your bins 113 Tagging with metadata 113 Understanding data types 115 Move it on over 115 Entering data 116 Bins versus tags 116 Part 3: Editing Your Masterpiece 117 Chapter 7: Preparing Your Video for Editing 119 Getting the Lowdown on Your Clips 120 Analyzing clip details 120 Keeping bins lean and clean 121 Playing clips smoothly 121 Altering playback resolution 122 Knowing how far can you go 122 Changing playback resolution 123 Working the In and Out Points 123 Setting In and Out points 123 Using markers 125 More than a bookmark 125 Types of markers 125 Making your mark 126 The Markers panel 127 Modifying Clips 128 Scrubbing through the clip 128 Using keys 128 Using the arrow keys 128 Marking the scrubbed clip 128 Adjusting clip duration 129 Changing speeds 129 Rate Stretch tool 130 Here''s how to use it 130 Reversing the action 130 Understanding Clip/Speed Duration 131 Rippling through the Ripple tools 131 Ripple Edit tool 132 The Rolling Edit tool 132 Chapter 8: Editing in the Timeline 133 Managing Your Sequence 134 Populating the timeline 134 Adding clips 134 Backing it up a bit 135 Moving clips 136 Dragging clips into the timeline 136 Adding clips through the Program panel 136 Source Patching and Targeting 137 What you drag isn''t always what you get 138 Fine Tuning Your Clips 139 Trimming clips 139 Handling enough clip frames to trim 140 Naming clips 140 Expanding to see waveforms 141 Freezing frames 141 Choosing Insert Frame Hold Segment 143 Advanced Timeline Tricks 143 More advanced clip movement 143 Using the Track Select tool 143 Overwrite a clip with an adjacent clip 143 Considering the three-point edit 144 Back-timing edits 145 Trying a four-point edit 146 Making the right choice 147 Chapter 9: Transitioning between Clips 149 Choosing Effective Transitions 150 Perusing the transition palette 151 Why do you need transitions? 151 Grasping Transition 101 153 Setting default transitions 155 Apply default transitions 156 Controlling transitions 156 Using clip handles 158 Advanced Transition Techniques 158 Planning for your transitions 159 The one-sided transition 159 Differentiating transitions in the timeline 159 Changing and deleting transitions 159 Copying and pasting transitions 160 Plug in to your transitions 160 Chapter 10: Finishing Your Edited Video 161 Exercising Video Correction 161 Fixing exposure issues 162 Tweaking those tones 162 Adjusting color 163 Cropping to fill the frame 163 What can you do about it? 164 Correcting Color and Tone 165 Grasping Lumetri Color 165 Understanding the Lumetri Color Landscape 166 Adjusting tone 167 Making a quick correction 169 Codec limits 170 Using color for style 170 Matching color in the scene 171 Using Video Scopes 171 Accessing the scopes 172 Different scopes for different folks 173 Defining the "scope" of terms 174 Exploring Some Advanced Techniques 175 Making adjustment layers 175 Making an informed decision 176 Using Comparison view 176 Removing a color cast 177 Adding punch to the clip 178 Quickly correct luminance 178 Color correction with an Adjustment Layer 179 Chapter 11: Constructing the Video Composite 181 Understanding Compositing 182 Layering clips 182 Adjusting opacity to reveal 183 Messing with opacity 183 Using the Opacity and Blend modes 184 Striking the right balance between clips 184 Le.