Tuesday, November 17th
We’ve all been there; working late into the night wishing and hoping for a better, faster way to complete tasks in the edit suite. This session will demonstrate and discuss ways to automate your workflow in Premiere. We will explore tips to organize your projects quickly by setting up Sequence Templates and saving effective Timeline and Workspace Layouts. We will also look at ways of creating hundreds of lower thirds in Photoshop to bring into Premiere as well as how to save Effect Presets and Title Templates.
Speaker: Nick Harauz
In this session you’ll learn the essentials of stabilizing footage in both Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Learn when to stay in the NLE and when to make the jump. You’ll also learn how to determine where the real world camera was in your shots and match its movement for text effects and effects tracking.
Topics include:
• Analyzing footage
• Applying the Warp Stabilizer
• pplying the Warp Stabilizer VFX
• Choosing a stabilization method
• Using the 3D camera tracker to stabilize footage
• Choosing and moving a target
• Adding 3D text to a scene
• Tracking an object
Speaker: Rich Harrington
The role of the editor has been steadily changing through the years, the editor nowadays needs to know how to fix, sweeten, and master audio to finish and deliver their work.
Audition is one of the most powerful audio editing and sweetening applications in the market, and you have it – It is included in your CC subscription!
In this session, Luisa will take you through what you really need to know to successfully incorporate Audition into your workflow – a not-to-miss if you need to use Audition.
Speaker: Luisa Winters
4K is the new black. Everyone wants to do it, but not everyone can pull it off.
This session will help attendees wrap their head around what it takes to have a successful 4K workflow in Premiere Pro.
The session will explore Pre-production best practices, On-set capture and backup strategies, and explore hardware requirements and editing workflows in Premiere Pro.
• Why you should shoot 4K even if you are only delivering a High Def project.
• How to choose the best codecs for capture and post, and what are the trade-offs.
• What is the best hardware to have on-set of off-loading and managing footage?
• Configuring your edit system, what is your must have hardware…and which hardware gives your the best bang for your buck.
Speaker: Abba Shapiro
It’s easier than ever to shoot high frame rate video and Premiere Pro handles the extra media beautifully. The question is—how should you handle Premiere Pro, when you need to factor in camera frequency, media frame rate, sequence frame rate and output frame rate?
In this session, Maxim Jago walks you through the pitfalls, highlights and lowlights of working with high frame rate video from a range of sources. You’ll learn:
• How to control interpretation of your footage for smooth slow motion
• Important camera settings
• How to control playback speed on the timeline
• Time warping best practice
• Tips on media management, from camera to distribution
Speaker: Maxim Jago
Details coming soon.
Learn how to optimize your video for social media. Add essential graphics to brand your content and drive future connections. Learn to format the video for specific screens like squares for Instagram and loops for Facebook. You’ll also learn how to connect your social media accounts inside Adobe Media Encoder to speed up the upload process.
Speaker: Rod Harlan
This Case Study is built around the development of original 4k programming for the new Contemporary Living Network. The network will be delivered to the audience via digital distribution to any device so a full end-to-end 4k / UHD pipeline was needed. The programs are predominantly shot documentary / reality style involving not only multiple cameras, but also multiple types of cameras. With the wealth of data expected from each episode, a plan had to be devised to not only organize each episode, but to ensure that all the media for all programming across the network would have unique file names matched back to each series. Why? With multiple editors all working from the same storage and a lot of the same media, we wanted to make sure that when a project is brought back in the future, each clip is associated with the unique, easy to identify file so there are no ‘surprises’ later on. The last thing you want are 100 episodes all containing multiple 00000.xyz file.
This real world example will walk through how “Ice Cream Nation” and “Fork U” were organized starting before the first frame of video was event shot to the time the footage arrived into the shop till it was archived. No transcoding is being used in the production of CLN; all materials are being edited natively. The projects in this Case Study feature Panasonic GH4, GoPro and Blackmagic 4k Cinema Camera footage.
Speaker: Walter Biscardi, Jr.
A deep look into using compositing and masking techniques using the native effects in Adobe Premiere Pro—with no third-party plugins. From green and blue-screen keying to effectively using blending modes to achieve the results that you need.
In this session Luisa will cover: Ultra Key, Track Matte Key, Changing the character of footage with blend modes and Masking effects to certain portions of your footage.
The built-in video transitions in Premiere Pro are good but very basic, some of them show their age and not always helpful at telling the story. In this session you will learn various techniques to create unique transitions based on Photoshop and After Effects. I’ll also share my favorite FREE 3rd party tools as well as more complex purchased plugins.
Take away:
Improve your movie with cool transitions. Save money using built-in and free tools. Learn about advanced options.
Speaker: Eran Stern
Does this sound like your mess? Card Media. Client JPEGs. Stock music. Adobe After Effects files and everything else in between. Taking the right steps at the start can make the process of starting and finishing projects an easy cleanup – preventing you from just “backing up the whole drive.” This session will dive into getting you setup right from the start and tips on how to stay organized throughout the entire Adobe workflow.
Perfect for the Editor who wants to tame their data!
Speaker: Jeff Greenberg
When things go south, what are the best practices to get up and running again. Simple solutions and preference gotcha’s that can reduce your stress when your system goes south.
The last thing you want to happen when you are crunching to make a deadline is your edit system to slow to a crawl or crash. This session will examine the best practices to avoid system slowdowns, unexpected quits, and recovering your work. You will learn:
• Best Preference settings, disk targeting options and benefits, and media cache management.
• Workflow strategies to avoid loosing your
• How to non-destructively troubleshoot problems, globally reset preferences, and locate and manage specific preferences.
• How to recover crashed projects, corrupted projects, media that won’t reconnect.
• The proper way to uninstall and reinstall troublesome Adobe applications.
Speed Effects can dramatically enhance the power of your video. Attend this session to learn how to apply popular speed effects in Premiere through retiming by looking at a real world case study. We will also look at how to work with clips that were recorded at a higher frame rate.
Learn how these seemingly obscure settings in your sequences and exports affect render times and video quality – even when you’d think they didn’t.
• Understand Max Bit Depth, Max Render Quality, Linear Color, Use Previews, Software mode vs. GPU mode and more.
• What these settings do and when they do it – and when they do absolutely nothing.
• You can be rendering some clips in software mode even when you’ve chosen GPU rendering (!)
• Learn how to tell what kind of rendering is used for any given frame.
• Why perfectly good color grading and graphics can look catastrophic on export when just one of these settings is wrong.
Speaker: Jarle Leirpoll
Build your best demo reel ever! Join industry veteran Rod Harlan as he shares a compiled and comprehensive list of best practices that successful demo reels follow. This class will give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to create a dynamic and engaging demo reel that showcases your best work.
Let’s face it, not everyone has a super powerful editing system that can handle 4K, 5K and beyond. In fact, never mind the resolution, how about working with RAW media on relatively slow drives? In this session, Maxim Jago walks you through simple, dependable workflows to follow when working with offline and online media. You’ll learn:
• Media management best practice
• How to avoid aspect ratio gotchas
• Transcoding your project
• Transcoding individual items
• Communication with your team
Premiere is very customizable with a made to order feel. If you know where to look you can find many gems to speed up your workflows. If you take the right steps, add the correct metadata, and create templates this will make your media faster to work with. We will cover editing visually, building montages, organizing with search bins, modifying batches of media with templates, speed ramping, color grading with LUTs, working in a “job based” workspace.
Focusing on the creative is the goal in post, not be concerned with how to edit but to improve your speed. Enjoying the creative part will allow you to be in sync with the visual story not being tied up with the technical hurdles.
Speaker: Anthony Bari, Jr.
Possibly the most powerful feature in the current version of Premiere Pro, and the feature most of us have been requisition for some time, this workshop will introduce editors to this incredible color tool. With apologies to my very good Colorist friends, this workshop is geared towards editors who have relied on third party tools because you just don’t have the time or the desire to dive into “proper color grading techniques.” So often we editors are against deadline after deadline and it’s just so easy to “throw a look on there” and call it done. Not only is Lumetri a great new way to color grade within Premiere Pro, it’s wickedly fast as well. This workshop will lay out the basics of the tool itself and give you some great insight on how to use Lumetri effectively in your workflow to create stunning color grades and looks.
We’ll go through the basics of the controls and then break down some common issues and fixes that editors face, break down some quick ‘enhancements’ that will impress your clients, and break down some advanced looks that can be created very quickly and easily for those projects where you really have the time and desire to “take the scene up a notch.” Color isolation, change color, and some tips on using multiple levels of the Lumetri tool. Color is just as much a part of storytelling as sound and camera. Adobe has given you a tool and speed to add more polish to your work. This workshop will make you feel comfortable adding Lumetri to your workbench and you might even fall in love with color grading. Maybe.
Explore the new features added to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015. Premiere Pro guru Rich Harrington covers the most exciting updates as well as smaller but still useful changes, and provides tips to help video editors get the most from the program. Topics range from preferences and settings expansions, the new Lumetri color workflow, and audio and video editing improvements, to new effects like Morph Cut and enhancements to media management and mobile editing.
The course will be updated whenever Adobe publishes a new release. Check back often for new videos.
Topics include:
• Preferences and settings improvements
• Lumetri color workflow
• Assigning audio track output
• Working with complex multi-camera sources
• Reverting a trim session
• Disabling master clip effects
• Working with enhanced motion effects
• Media management
• Mobile editing
• Creating LUTs with Adobe Hue
Wednesday, November 18th
Photoshop is an essential production tool and a fantastic complement to Premiere Pro – but it is also incredibly deep and complex. As a video editor you may not need to know inside and out… but you still need to be able to hop inside and out.
This session covers the basics of getting around in Photoshop and using it with Premiere Pro. In this session, you’ll learn how to:
• Repair still images and process camera raw photos for video output
• Take images back and forth between Premiere Pro and Photoshop
• Properly Scale and export Tiff, PIC, PNG, and Jpeg files – and understand the benefits and challenges of each format.
• Work with layered Photoshop files.
• Use the tools in Photoshop repair and enhance video files
Speaker: Abba Shaprio
Learning how to effectively trim in the timeline is an essential part of any editing workflow. Unfortunately, many editors struggle with the most effective ways to trim clips. This session will focus on all of the trimming tools available to you in Premiere, including Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide. We will also take an in depth look at how to use the Trim Edit window and drive all of our trimming operations through the use of handy Keyboard Shortcuts.
Need to change things over time? Not quite getting the rate of change that you need? Then this session is for you! Learn how to master all of the nuances of keyframe interpolation using Spatial and Temporal changes to get the rate of change that you need to accomplish your effects. A must if you keyframe anything!
Most tutorials on multi-camera editing in Premiere use simple performance style material. Multi-camera work is often much more complex than that, with lots of audio tracks, different video formats, stopping cameras, etc. Learn how to deal with problematic sources, bad playback performance and intricate audio track options.
• Dealing with separate Audio recordings, keeping all the audio tracks
• What to do when audio syncing fails
• Consolidating camera angles and adding camera angles manually
• Multi-camera performance, Proxy editing and relinking, shared storage bottlenecks
• Different approaches for Performance style, Reality-style and Green Screen multi-camera projects
Starting with some real world projects, in this session we’ll dive into the why and when for each different style of type animation in After Effects. We’ll demystify, Text Animators,
3D Animators and Camera animation. We’ll even look at essential parenting techniques and expressions to get the job done efficiently.
Speaker: Ian Robinson
Producers, Editors, Assistant Editors, can all work in sync using a single application from set to post.
Great edit sessions come with good collaboration, and understanding.
Prior to the edit or during the edit on the sideline if you are technical or not as technical Prelude makes most tasks easier such as:
• Make selections and knowing what media to work with when you have tons of clips.
• Set the pacing for the edit by add a voice over scratch track
• Use tagging templates to make buttons that translate into markers to get your point across.
Learn how to deconstruct popular Looks and apply them to your projects in Premiere Pro, whether those Looks are not ‘over the top’ or subtle. Plus, how to work with your VFX team when sharing Looks.
Speaker: Patrick Inhofer
It’s incredible to me how many people don’t utilize the power of Transfer Modes in their everyday editing. Often just used to overlay light leaks or film grain, transfer modes can completely change the way you finish your projects and tell your stories. Utilizing nothing more than some production elements, textures and ‘stuff’ you probably have lying around your edit suite, you can enhance transitions and create color grades and looks, add environment and depth to your scenes.
It’s a bit like watercolor painting, sometimes a single application is enough and other times, you build the look layer by layer. Oftentimes you achieve unexpected and wonderful results just by “playing.” Transfer Modes is a powerful tool and we’ll start out with the film grains and light leaks and then work our way to creating looks, textures, environments and overall finishing and storytelling techniques, all through the power of the Transfer Modes. It’s one of the simplest and most powerful tools you have at your fingertips in Premiere Pro. This workshop is for the editor who is looking to step up their game in the edit suite and create unique and custom looks that rise above the clutter yet keeps you focused on the task at hand.
Discover all the ways you can optimize your hardware and software performance using tips from this class including: selecting the right GPU for your system, getting PC video cards to work in Mac towers, upgrading your drives to SSD’s, using PCIe SSDs, maximizing the Mercury Playback engine, enabling the CUDA Render System information display, and so much more. This class is not to be missed!
Adobe Story is a powerful script writing, production scheduling and collaboration application that makes it easy to produce correctly formatted scripts with embedded tags you can use to generate production reports and manage your content. In this session, Maxim introduces Story and presents some valuable time-savers you can use when hitting post-production. You’ll learn:
• The importance of correct script layout from an editor’s perspective
• Using script-based metadata to locate media
• How to use a shooting script in addition to a screenplay for reference material
• Using Story’s online collaboration tools for note sharing and reference during post
Hugely extended integration using simple expressions. Use expressions to control any parameter in After Effects directly from within Premiere Pro and drastically speed up your workflow. Save days, not hours, on complex shows!
• Expressions made easy: Use copy/paste and the automatic PickWhip to create advanced if/then queries without writing code
• Adjust any AE plug-in from within Premiere and control Graphs and Charts
• Turn AE comp layers on and off in Premiere
• Self-adjusting Lower Third backgrounds that adapt to the length and size of the text
• Automatic versioning of AE comps from within Premiere and much, much more
Now that the job is finished – how do you put it away for long-term storage? What happens when you inherit someone else’s project? Or if you only want to keep (or handoff) just the main sequence? Jeff I. Greenberg will help you explore the Project manager and dig deep into picking the right choices – Should you rename the media? Should you store the Previews? Loads of Q&A in this session will help you do the last step of every project – figure out how to best keep it forever.
Perfect for every editor who wants something smarter than just copying the whole hard drive!
When you hear the phrase: “Don’t worry we’ll fix it in post” A red light should go off above your head. Those who say that don’t really solve the problem – apparently the burden will fall upon you. But despite all this, there are still quite a few things that can be solved at a post stage, and this workshop will teach you how to do so with no effort at all. We’ll touch on re-lighting, flicker and banding problems, shaky footage, cosmetic skin issues, video noise, color matching and even common audio problems.
Take away:
Quick fixes for bad or problematic footage that otherwise are not usable.
Documentaries, reality shows, corporate videos and your YouTube Channel… if you’re shooting ‘real life’ footage ‘on the run’ then you’ll probably slam into a handful of color correction challenges – over and over again. Learn how a professional colorists solves those problems—and keep their images compelling.
This session covers the essential steps required to save AE Projects as editable graphic elements for Premiere Pro. Then we move on and explore versioning and revisions, both within Premiere Pro as well as the occasional time you might want to jump back into After Effects.
Premiere Pro has some of the most powerful integrated audio post-production tools available. In fact, the tools are so deep and rich it can be a little confusing for the uninitiated. In this session, Maxim Jago breaks down the most important tools you’ll use to create a mix or clean up audio and walks you through some key choices. You’ll learn:
• Audio footage interpretation
• Managing multi-channel audio
• Comparing the Audio Clip Mixer and Audio Track Mixer
• Clip-based audio effects and key framing
• Track-based audio effects and key framing
• When to hand work to Adobe Audition
Cutting to music isn’t just about cutting on the beat. Learn a variety of methods of cutting to music quickly (without any drag/drop editing!) Methods include using Replace edit, Automate to sequence and nuanced uses of markers. This session, featuring Jeff I. Greenberg will help you cut faster and (more importantly) smarter, when cutting to music.
Best for the Editor who wants to master faster ways of building music montages.
Join Rich Harrington, as he shows you how to save time, save disk space, and get more work done using Dynamic Link—the Adobe technology that allows you to use files from other Adobe apps inside your Premiere Pro projects. It enables you to avoid intermediate rendering, and the need to keep multiple copies of files. Dive in and learn how to add After Effects compositions to your sequences.
Topics include:
• What is Adobe Dynamic Link?
• Creating and importing After Effects compositions
• Using Render and Replace
• Working with slow motion
• Useful After Effects tips for editors
The evolution of TV and Film in recent years have brought great honor to the Title Sequence. Credits are no longer just boring text cards but more of a fundamental independent unit in itself. The short movies usually present the narrative of the program using a distinct graphic language. In this session you will learn how to create memorable and beautiful titles using Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. You will also learn about 3rd party plugins that work inside Premiere Pro and can help you design top notch 3D graphics to convey the message of your movie.
Take away:
Design and Animate 3D Titles using Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro to uplift your movie
Thursday, November 19th
Where things are today, current and upcoming high profile customer wins and our leaderships vision for what the future holds for professional video editing at Adobe.
Similar to last year we will talk about the process of prioritizing features for inclusion in upcoming releases, how much attention is given to each and every feature request, what are JDIs, etc. We will also cover the different teams that make up Premiere Pro including managers, UX design, engineers, and quality engineers and what all of us “do”.
Our theories about the development of color workflows in Premiere Pro with a guest demo of HDR from Dolby (very impressive and exciting – our whole Premiere Pro team experienced this over the summer and it was awesome!) as well as what we’re working on, our methodology and ask for feedback/in-put as to what the attendees think about how we’re approaching it.
We will chose a selection of “small” features that we consider JDIs (Just do it) and work to code them along with the smaller groups, with opportunities for feedback and questions around how that feature is made. Registrants may be polled ahead of time to find out which JDIs are of most interest.
We’ll provide a few different buckets of features and breakout into 2 sessions where we’ll present how we’re thinking about those aspects of Premiere Pro, what we’re working on, our methodology and ask for feedback/in-put as to what the attendees think about how we’re approaching it.
Based on feedback from registration questionnaire we’ll pick one to three workflows that the majority deem of interest or especially perplexing and have the engineers who are focusing on those workflow present our methodology, assumptions and direction of feature development for those workflow. We’ll then ask for feedback from the audience as to what they think about how we’re tackling it.
Friday, November 20th
If you want to learn how the Pros color correct, then start by learning how NOT to be a pro. After you know how to Work Like A Colorist, learn a detailed, step-by-step workflow for color correcting professionally in Premiere Pro CC—for editors of corporate, narrative and documentary / reality projects.
Change Your Approach to Get Better Results – Faster. Discover workflows and techniques unique to Premiere and Creative Cloud, and how they can speed up your editing.
• Different workflows for different needs. No workflow is best for all material. Know them all, and choose the best.
• Discover hidden gems and secret commands in Premiere.
• Automate tasks whenever possible – and sometimes the best tool is not the most obvious one.
• When quality is king. Choose the best settings in all parts of Premiere for the best possible image quality output.
• We’ll go really deep in this session. Learn the answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.
Audio has the power to change how you feel about a character, the power to affect your mood, and definitely the power to change a mere adventure into an epic story.
This session will help you start to generate great audio in your program. Because you don‘t always get to work with perfect audio, this chapter also features a section on how to fix common audio problems using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition CC. From setting up your working environment to adjusting levels to adding effects, you’ll work with audio just like the pros do.
Compression. Everyone’s blind spot. Getting export settings right can save you time and improve the quality of your finished work. This dive will cover the key concepts for video compression and then dig deep into Adobe Media Encoder. Master Trainer, Jeff I. Greenberg will answer your questions during the session (and after), diving into topics such as best practices for adjusting encoding, import/export of settings, watch folders and more.
Perfect for every editor – everyone has to compress!