joe dockery - Learn Adobe Premiere Pro CC for Video Communication

I wish to personally thank the following people for their contributions to creating this book:

My loving and understanding wife, Laura, who puts up with all the crazy projects I get myself into. Thank you for your patience and support. My family and students (Truman, Mason, Colten, and Liam) for helping me create all the assets for the book. My good friend, and founder of Brain Buffet, Rob Schwartz, who has been the driving force behind this book series. Thank you for your guidance and encouragement throughout the authoring process. My editor, Steve Nathans-Kelly, thanks for patiently catching all my errors. Your input made the book stronger. Lisa Deakes and the entire Adobe Education Leader crew for all your support. The Snoqualmie Valley School District and all my amazing students over the years. You have shaped the teacher and author that I am today.

Joe Dockery

Id like to thank Laura Norman at Peachpit for her support and encouragement, and Steve Nathans-Kelly for the editorial guidance that made this project go smoothly.

Conrad Chavez

Joe Dockery (video author) has taught for 25 years in the Snoqualmie Valley School District and currently leads the Digital Media Academy at Mount Si High School. He engages his students in real-world design projects from their school and community to ensure they receive authentic learning experiences. As an Adobe Education Leader, Joe Dockery consults and trains nationwide on the use and integration of Adobe software. His awards include the Washington State Golden Apple Award, Radio Shack National Technology Teacher of the Year Award, Educator of the Year Award from the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)s Best of the Best and Making IT Happen awards, Adobe Education Leader Impact Award, and Give Good Awards: Educational Excellence 2015. Joe is an Adobe Certified Associate in Premiere Pro CC.

Conrad Chavez(book author) is an author and photographer with over two decades of experience with Adobe digital media workflows. During his time at Adobe Systems Inc., Conrad helped write the user guide for Adobe Premiere (the precursor to Adobe Premiere Pro). He is the author of several titles in the Real World Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Classroom in a Book series, and he writes articles for websites such as CreativePro.com and peachpit.com. Visit his website at conrad chavez.com.

Rob Schwartz , author of Learn Adobe Photoshop CC for Visual Design and contributor to the Learn series, is an award-winning teacher (currently at Sheridan Technical College in Hollywood, FL) with more than 15 years experience in technical education. Rob holds several Adobe Certified Associate certifications and is also an Adobe Certified Instructor. As an Adobe Education Leader Rob won the prestigious Impact Award from Adobe, and in 2010 Rob was the first Worldwide winner of the Certiport Adobe Certified Associate Championship. Find out more about Rob at his online curriculum website at brainbuffet.com.

Welcome to Learn Adobe Premiere Pro CC for Video Communication! We use a combination of text and video to help you learn the basics of video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC along with other skills that you will need to get your first job as a video editor. Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a powerful program for capturing footage from a variety of devices and assembling it into professional-quality video with sophisticated transitions, special effects, and text. You can also use Premiere Pro to export your video to many popular formats that your viewers can watch on a wide range of screens, including desktop computers and mobile devices like phones and tablets.

Learn Adobe Premiere Pro CC for Video Communication was created by a team of expert instructors, writers, and editors with years of experience in helping beginning learners get their start with the cool creative tools from Adobe Systems. Our aim is not only to teach you the basics of the art of video editing with Premiere Pro but to give you an introduction to the associated skills (like design principles and project management) that youll need for your first job.

Weve built the training around the objectives for the Video Communication Using Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2018) Adobe Certified Associate Exam. If you master the topics covered in this book and video, youll be in good shape to take the exam. But even if certification isnt your goal, youll still find this training will give you an excellent foundation for your future work in video. To that end, weve structured the material in the order that makes most sense for beginning learners (as determined by experienced classroom teachers), rather than following the more arbitrary grouping of topics in the ACA Objectives.

To aid you in your quest, weve created a unique learning system that uses video and text in partnership. Youll experience this partnership in action in the Web Edition, which lives on your Account page at peachpit.com. The Web Edition contains 8 hours of videothe heart of the trainingembedded in an online eBook that supports the video training and provides background material. The eBook material is also available separately for offline reading as a printed book or an eBook in a variety of formats. The Web Edition also includes hundreds of interactive review questions you can use to evaluate your progress. Purchase of the book in any format entitles you to free access to the Web Edition (instructions for accessing it follow later in this section).

Most chapters provide step-by-step instructions for creating a specific project or learning a specific technique. Other chapters acquaint you with other skills and concepts that youll come to depend on as you use the software in your everyday work. Many chapters include several optional tasks that let you further explore the features youve already learned.

Each chapter opens with two lists of objectives. One list lays out the learning objectives: the specific tasks youll learn in the chapter. The second list shows the ACA exam objectives that are covered in the chapter. A table at the end of the book guides you to coverage of all of the exam objectives in the book or video.

Most chapters provide step-by-step instructions for creating a specific project or learning a specific technique. Many chapters include several optional tasks that let you further explore the features youve already learned. acquaints you with other skills and concepts that youll come to depend on as you use the software in your everyday work. Here is where youll find coverage of parts of Domain 1 of the ACA Objectives that dont specifically relate to features of Premiere Pro but that are important components of the complete skill set that the ACA exam seeks to evaluate.