Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music

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Free Online Course: Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music is taught by Abba Shapiro.

Overview
  • Learn how to cut a music-based slideshow or video montage with Premiere Pro CC.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Essential Skills for Cutting to Music
    • Optimizing audio files for import
    • Viewing and reading a waveform
    • Prepping your music bed
    • How to change the duration of music with editing
    • Placing markers on the beat
    • Cutting to the beat vs. cutting with the beat
    • Locking and sync-locking audio
    2. Creating Music-Based Slideshows
    • Preparing your images for import
    • Importing and organizing images for the edit
    • Editing to markers
    • Editing with the Automate to Sequence command
    • Adjusting the size of images
    • Adding movement to images, with keyframes
    3. Refining Your Cut
    • Replacing images in the Timeline
    • Changing clip order
    • Refining edit timing
    • Adding transitions
    4. Editing a Musical Montage
    • Determining the tempo of the music and the strategy for the edit
    • Quick-cut editing
    • Timing action: Slip edits
    • Targeting action: Match frame
    • Quick trimming techniques
    • Adding and trimming sound bites
    • Using effects to add sizzle
    5. Mixing Music and Primary Audio
    • Planning your mix
    • Mixing levels with track automation
    • Using keyframes and the Pen tool to mix
    6. Enhancing Music
    • Using an EQ effect to enhance music
    • Retiming music with Premiere Pro
    • Retiming music with Audition
    • Using other effects in Audition
    • Changing the pitch and key of music with Audition
    Conclusion
    • Next steps