Editing Digital Video with PREMIERE 6

CLASS 5

Class Highlights

1. Download Class Files: Class 5 folder

2. Review Final Project Specifications

3. Video View: Top Ten Projects

4. Working with Audio on Premiere

Hands-On Exercises

Exercise1: Open new project and adjust preferences and settings

Exercise 2: Converting CD audio

Exercise 3: Using audio edit tools: Volume

Exercise 4: Using audio edit tools: Pan/Balance

Exercise 5: Introduction to the audio mixer

Exercise 6: Simple audio cross-fade

Exercise 7: Recording a vocal track/adding effects to an audio clip

Exercise 8: Synching images to sound: Using markers

Exercise 9: Synching sound to video: Using markers

Homework (due 12/14)

1. Reading Assignment: In your textbook, VQG: Premiere 6, review highlights of Chapter 10, with reference to the Premiere software. Try to identify in your text the tools and skills we explored in class 5.

2. Project Assignment: Work on your final project.

3. Final Project (due 12/16)

For your final project, you will create a Premiere movie on a subject of your own choosing. You can pick any topic you like, but the movie should have a coherent structure and storyline or theme.

Your final project can be an expanded version of your "Top Ten" project, if you like. It could also take the form of a TV ad, an ad for a Website, a movie trailer, an opening sequence for a movie or TV program, a spoof of any of these, a public service message, a portfolio of your creative work, a personal self-expression, a representation of a dream, or some other short sequence.

Your final project should:

• be 320 x 240 pixels in size
• be no less than 30 seconds and no more than 90 seconds long.
• include at least one transition effect.
• include at least one superimposed video track with a transparency effect.
• include at least one motion effect applied to a still image or video clip.
• include a soundtrack.
• include a title at the beginning and credits at the end, with your name and the date.

When your final project is completed, you should export it as a QuickTime movie, using the following menu path: File > Export Timeline > Save for Web > Quicktime CD-Rom > CD-Rom, Sorenson. Name your file "mylastname.mov" (substituting your own last name). Upload your movie to your Web account, AND bring a backup copy of your movie to class on December 16.

I strongly recommend that you save the Premiere project file and resources for your final project as well as the exported movie. You may want to work on your project again in the future!