Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1

Course details

Increasingly, designers are being asked to get involved in video projects. In this course, Tony Harmer goes over the nuts and bolts of video and audio production with Creative Cloud—specifically for professional designers who are unfamiliar with how to work with those mediums. Most visual designers have some basic skills that translate to working with video and sound. Here, Tony speaks their language, translating potentially foreign terms and concepts into ones that designers may find more familiar. He shows how to leverage preexisting knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator to grasp the fundamentals of working with motion. Throughout the course, he covers how to use After Effects, Premiere, Media Encoder, and Audition. To wrap up, Tony walks through how to put video and audio together in one piece.

Learning objectives
Basic terminology
Importing files from Photoshop and Illustrator into After Effects
Creating a lower third in After Effects
Creating a new project in Adobe Premiere
Working with sound and Audition
Multitrack editing
Remixing time
Navigating the Adobe Audition interface
Adobe Media Encoder
Making a short social movie

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Who this course is for
03 - What you need to know
04 - Exercise files

1. Foundation Concepts

05 - Basic terminology
06 - Understanding time

2. Adobe After Effects Essentials

07 - The After Effects interface
08 - Creating a new project
09 - Understanding comps
10 - Importing files from Photoshop
11 - Importing files from Illustrator
12 - Importing other files

3. Creating a Lower Third in After Effects

13 - Creating a comp
14 - Adding graphics
15 - Motion
16 - Scale
17 - Opacity
18 - Parenting
19 - Precomps
20 - Adding and modifying text
21 - Motion graphics templates
22 - Dynamic Link
23 - Rendering

4. Adobe Premiere

24 - The Premiere interface
25 - Creating a new project
26 - Importing files
27 - Clips and sequences
28 - Source and Program Monitors
29 - Understanding tracks
30 - Color grading
31 - Transitions
32 - Dynamic linking to After Effects
33 - Working with sound and Audition
34 - Adding titles
35 - Exporting media

5. Adobe Audition

36 - The Audition interface
37 - Waveforms and spectral
38 - Making basic edits
39 - Reducing noise
40 - Eliminating unwanted sounds
41 - Adding punchiness
42 - Multitrack editing
43 - Remixing time
44 - Exporting the multitrack mixdown

6. Adobe Media Encoder

45 - The Adobe Media Encoder workspace
46 - Exporting overview
47 - Formats 101
48 - The queue

7. Making a Short Social Movie

49 - Opening the project
50 - Creating the basic sequences
51 - Adding opening titles
52 - Adding lower thirds in Premiere
53 - Adding calls to action
54 - Rendering the finished project
55 - Publishing to YouTube, Vimeo, and more

Conclusion

56 - Connecting with the author
57 - Where to go from here