The award-winning Digital Media Training Series™ presents
the Inside Adobe® Video Bundle Standard Edition training
bundle.
It includes 4 DVDs - Inside Adobe® After
Effects® 7, Inside Adobe® Photoshop® CS2,
Inside Adobe® Premiere Pro® 2.0 and Inside Macromedia Flash® 8 .
With
approximately 20 hours of comprehensive training suitable
for those already familiar with prior versions of these
applications, as well as those new to Adobe’s creative
products, this training bundle will have you working
quickly and confidently without costly classes, phone
calls to help lines, or time-consuming trial and error
learning. Each
aspect of the training is taught by an instructor expert
in the specific craft, and expert in the pertinent Adobe
application. The training includes comprehensive lessons
on all of the new features of these applications, as
well complete media files so that you can work alongside
our instructors.
This training provides a comprehensive hands-on view
of Adobe Photoshop CS2, with an emphasis on new
features; the preparation of web-ready graphics;
and the animation and video-ready functionality
of Photoshop. Travel imagery provided by Adobe
Certified Photoshop Instructor Steve Weinrebe will
be used to guide you through a tour of the Photoshop
CS2 interface, and its powerful new features like
Bridge, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, Lens Correction,
Warp, and Video Actions. As you optimize the color
photographs provided on this disc and create a
stunning interactive web site, you will review
Photoshop fundamentals like tools, palettes, and
filters. You will learn the intuitive, richly featured
animation tools of Photoshop, import vector graphics,
and create and preview animation for the web. Finally,
you will input and output video, and explore the
many automated and embedded features of Photoshop
that allow you to prepare still images for video.
Steve Weinrebe
Adobe® Certified Photoshop Instructor
Steve Weinrebe is an Adobe Certified Photoshop
Instructor and has been teaching Photoshop since 1991. Steve
has over 30 years experience in commercial photography, photo-illustration
and digital imaging, and has won numerous awards, including
honors for some of the work contained on this disc. As
President of Steve Weinrebe Productions, he routinely creates
magic with Photoshop and can effectively demonstrate myriad
techniques that will greatly enhance any Photoshop project.
Steve holds a B.A. from Beloit College, an MBA with Honors
from Temple University.
The release of After Effects 7 offers new power and flexibility to designers in the creation of motion-graphics on both Mac and PC. From the ability to work in 32-bit color space to the powerful new Graph Editor, After Effects 7 offers a range of features to take you to the next level of motion-graphics design and animation. In this training, instructors Seth Gordon and Luis Lopez walk you through all of the new features in After Effects 7, including all you’ll need to know to create your own original broadcast and HD motion-graphic design, Flash Video Export, RAW file management, integrated workflow with Adobe Premiere, improved interface feature description and all of the other additions in this powerful upgrade to the After Effects application.
Interface Overview
Effects Palette / Using Adobe Bridge
3d Cameras and 4-way Camera Animation
The New Graph Editor
Camera RAW and 32-bit color space
Blend Modes
Animation with the Text Engine
Animating Lights
Rendering discreet design Elements
Repurposing Animations/ Pre-composition
Working with Layered Photoshop and Illustrator Files
Round-tripping projects into Adobe Premiere (PC only)
Seth Gordon and Luis Lopez are creative directors
of LargeLab, a design firm and production
company in Los Angeles, California founded
in 2000. Gordon and Lopez have more than
two decades of combined production and design
experience working for such clients as Focus
Features, Universal Pictures, Nike, FOX,
Ford, MTV, The Dixie Chicks, The Firm, and
Sony. While LargeLab's work takes many forms,
it almost always involves an in-depth application
of Adobe After Effects, a program to which
they each have promised their first born
child.
In this training, Terry Nauheim, visual artist and media
professor, focuses on the new features of Adobe® Premiere® Pro
2.0. You’ll learn to: capture and edit
HD footage; take advantage of Premiere Pro’s new
Multi-Camera monitor to edit 4 camera angles; edit picture
and sound for a short film; export using the Adobe Media
Encoder; and create a DVD interface. Other featured
topics include: workspace customization; the Adobe Bridge;
and dynamic linking with After Effects. Suitable
for all skill levels, Terry's practical approach will have
you working confidently own your own in just a few short
hours.
Introduction
Introduction to the Training
Section Overview
Setting Up Premiere Pro
Tour of Windows and Workspaces
Importing Media into Premiere
Importing Project Media
Still Files
Viewing and Organizing Assets
Capturing Video
The Capture Window
Log and Capture
Batch Capture
Timeline Editing
Viewing in the Timeline
Editing Basics
Insert and Overlay Editing
Editing with the Source Monitor
Working with Audio in the Source Monitor
Timeline, Master and Subclip Clips
Audio Workspace
Timeline Audio
Audio Automation
Audio Effects
Audio Gain
Multi-Camera Editing
Creating Nested Sequences for Source
Synchronizing the Sequences
Editing in Multi-Camera Mode
Working with Edited Multi-Camera Sequence
Color Correction
Balancing Colors of Camera Angles
Three-Way Color Corrector
Broadcast Safe
Effects, Titles and Transitions
Slip and Slide Tool
Rate Stretch Tool
Effects
Keyframes * View free video sample on "Creating Fixed Effects in the
Timeline"
Fade and Dissolves
Titles
Exporting and Archiving
The Project Manager
Clip Notes
Export Menu
Export To Tape
Adobe Media Encoder
DVD in Premiere Pro
DVD Layout
Altering Menu Presets
Terry Nauheim
Terry Nauheim is a digital
arts instructor and visual artist in New York City.
As an instructor, she teaches digital video editing
and related digital/creative arts topics at Harvestworks,
New York University's Center for Advanced Digital
Applications, New York Institute of Technology,
and Pratt Institute.
Her drawings and installations have been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the
Arts; the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts;
Musée Art Contemporain Lyon; Nomads, a web-based "audiophile",
and Works/San Jose. Future exhibitions include the Sculpture Center in Long Island
City, New York. She is a recent participant of the Bronx Museum of the Arts "Artist
in the Marketplace" program. In 2002, she received the Maryland State Arts
Council Individual "New Genre" Artist award.
Terry received her MFA in mixed media/digital arts in 2001 at University of Maryland
and BFA in painting at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1992 where
she received a William Fett Drawing Award. She has also managed exhibition and
design projects at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; the Walters Art Museum;
and University of Maryland.
This training provides a comprehensive hands-on view of Flash®
8, so that you can be working quickly and confidently as you author
advanced interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.
Working alongside our expert instructor using specially included media
files, you will learn how to create, design and author rich
interactive video content and animation for cutting edge web design,
presentations or mobile content.
You will progress from an Introduction to and the Fundamentals of
Flash, to a close examination of the new features of Flash 8,
including: gradients, bitmaps, filters, actionscripts, multiple
videos, playback, buttons, playlists and autoplay, interfaces,
navigation, encoding and much, much more.
Introduction and Section Overview
Introduction
Section Overview
Flash Fundamentals
Flash Interface
Windows Layout
Tools Palette
Flash Operational Basics
Drawing Objects
Editing Shapes
Working with Symbols
Using the Project Timeline
Animating Symbols
The Symbol Timeline
Useful Features
New Features of Flash 8
Text Anti-Aliasing
Object Drawing and Gradients
Blend Modes and Filters
CacheasBitmap
Complex./Custom Easing
ActionScript Overview
Building a Video Player
Creating a Player from One Video
Importing an .flv
Customizing a Flash Video Playback Component
Using a Video Symbol to Control Video Playback
Creating a button to load video
Creating a Player with Multiple Videos
Loading Multiple Videos
Creating a Custom Function
Editing ActionScript Externally
Creating Movie Clips as Buttons
Labeling Buttons
Making a Scroll List for Multiple Videos
Creating More Functionality in the Video Player
Making Playlist Dynamic
Creating Now Playing Functionality
Update Selected Movie in Playlist
Skip to and Autoplay Next Clip
Creating a Progress Bar
Creating a Volume Slider
Adding Thumbnails
Designing the Interface
Finishing the Navigation Bar Functionality
Designing the Graphicalff Assets
Animating the Player Build
Optimizing, Publishing and Deploying your Project
Publish Settings
Loading Optimization
Flash Deployment Kit
Creating Flash Videos
The .flv File Format
Flash 7 v Flash 8
Linked vs. Embedded
Progressive vs. Streamed
Video Encoding Basics
Encoding the project media
Advanced ActionScript Topics
Advance ActionScript Explanation
Creating a Bitrate Selector
Customizing and Styling the Component
Adding multiple channels - Configuring an Accordion Component
Externalize your data from your FLA – XML
Conclusion
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Blank
R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank, a
Macromedia Alliance Partner based in Venice,
California that specializes in video and
application development for the Flash Platform,
for clients including E! Entertainment Television,
Microsoft, Apple and IKEA. For over 12 years
he has been an interactive designer, developer,
consultant, teacher, and author, specializing
in the planning, development and release
of rich interfaces; R has specialized in
Flash since 1999.
R holds four Macromedia Flash Certifications,
was one of the first 50 Macromedia Certified Flash
Developers in the world, and is a contributing
author for the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Designer
Certification Exam. R also founded and manages LAFlash.org,
a community of over 1,300 Flash industry professionals,
and home to three Macromedia Users Groups for Flash.
R also serves on the Information Technology Faculty
at the University of Southern California (USC)
Viterbi School of Engineering.
Previously, R co-founded and
served as Director of Product & Design at
Wildform, the makers of the first video encoder
for Flash, where he co-created the first video
encoder for Flash. R has an MBA from the UCLA
Anderson School of Management and a BA from Columbia
University.
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