Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2

Course details

As a professional designer, you have the creativity needed to tackle video production—you just need to learn the tools and processes. In this course, instructor Tony Harmer helps you build upon the skills covered in the first installment of Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud. Here, Tony builds on the nuts and bolts of video and audio production, specifically for designers who have to produce in these mediums for their jobs, or are being asked to learn these skills. 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 goes over how to build a title sequence, work with motion graphic templates, clean up audio, and more. Throughout the course, he covers how to work with After Effects, Premiere, and Audition as he steps through the creation of a video intended for social sharing.

Learning objectives
Building the titles
Adding layer styles
Building and exporting a mogrt
Sequencing layers in After Effects
Building the end title
Using the Roto Brush
Cleaning up the audio
Creating a nested sequence
Sending a Premiere sequence to Audition
Masking visual elements in Premiere

Concepts

Introduction

More video and audio techniques for designers
Connecting with the author

Building the Titles

Looking at the storyboards
Opening the title sequence project
Adding a solid layer for effects
Adding a null object
Using the expression pick whip
Using the wiggle expression
Adding layer styles
Using 3D transforms
Masking a solid layer
Animating a mask with a null object
Adding a text layer
Browsing text animation presets
Challenge - Wrapping up the titles
Solution - Wrapping up the titles

Building the Mogrt

Making the banner
Precomposing multiple solids
Using the Roto Brush
Sequence layers in After Effects
Adding text for the mogrt
Exporting the mogrt

Building the End Title

Building a frame sequence from layers
Using the loopOut function

Assembly with Premiere and Audition

Chapter setup
Aligning audio tracks (from two sources)
Cleaning up the intro audio
Linking and unlinking audio clips
Audio production in Premiere
Creating a nested sequence
Scaling clips to frame size
Send a sequence to Audition
Recording the voice-over
Splitting clips
Merging clips and generating tones silence
Exporting a mixdown
Adding tracks for music and sound effects
Matching loudness
Adding the mogrts
Mask tracking in Premiere