Applied College – Qassim University

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬

Ministry of education ‫وزارة التعليم‬
Qassim University ‫جامعة القصيم‬
Applied College ‫الكلية التطبيقية‬

Course Title: Audio and Video Processing

Course Code: AHBD 204

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Course Identification

Credit hours 3 (2+1)

Contact hours 4
Program Graphics Multimedia
Course Level 3
The main objective of this course is to provide students the skills of audio
Course Description and video editing, so that they can use it in web and multimedia
applications.
Tools for practical Adobe Premiere Pro CC

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Assessment Tasks for Students

Percentage of Total
# Assessment task* Week Due
Assessment Score
Assignments, Quizzes, Attendance and At the end of each
1 10
participation. unit.
2 First Midterm Exam. 5th Week. 20
3 Second Midterm Exam. 10th Week 20
4 Homework (written) 5th and 10th Week 10
5 Project 9 th Week 10
6 Final Exam. 13 th week 30
Total 100

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Course Content

Contact weeks
No List of Topics
Hours
1 An Introduction to Adobe Premiere 8 1
2 Basic video editing 6 2
3 Advanced video editing techniques 6 2
4 Add Text and Tiltles in Adobe Premiere Pro 6 2
5 Audio editing 6 2
6 Improve audio quality 8 2
7 Audio effects and transitions 6 2
8 Add video effects and transitions 8 2
9 Export frames and video 6 1
Total 60h

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References

[Link]
Textbooks
[Link] /creative cloud. Adobe, Digital
Video Using Adobe Premiere Pro Exam Guide
Available e-books, notes, lecture slides, video links are uploaded
Electronic Materials on BlackBoard (LMS)

Other Learning Materials N/A

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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
Ministry of education ‫وزارة التعليم‬
Qassim University ‫جامعة القصيم‬
Applied College ‫الكلية التطبيقية‬

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Adobe

Premiere Pro

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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional video editing software used by professionals in the film
industries.

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Premiere is an intuitive video editing application. However, without the proper training it
can be easy to run into problems. You can save yourself hours or more if you also learn
specific workflows and methods of using the software rather than only relying on the
techniques you’ve discovered with your own self-learning. If you are considering a career
in post-production, it’s helpful to understand that professionals who work together as a
team using Premiere will carry out workflows that everyone needs to follow in order to be
efficient and keep everything working without issues.

This course is designed to take you through the fundamentals of preparing a project with
the correct file management, setting up a new project, some basic editing techniques,
some features of the software and finally a look into an example of the settings you could
use when exporting your project.

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1. File Management :

• It’s important to manage your files and folders correctly, but this is a part of
the process that is often completed poorly if not left out of the process
entirely.

• Understandably you might be eager to open Premiere in order to start

editing the rushes, but before you launch the software it’s important to
create an organisational system on your computer in order for your project
to run smoothly.

• A Premiere project is not just made up of one file, it’s made up of many, and
the software doesn’t organise your folders and files for you. A lot of issues
with Premiere projects stem from poor file management.
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1. File Management :

• Create a folder and give it a name.

• Create some folders within that folder and name those too. You might want
a folder for rushes, exports, audio, project files, even miscellaneous for the
items that don’t quite fit anywhere else.

• Once you have a place for everything, your project will be much more
organised and the likelihood of you experiencing problems in this area will
be lessened. Remember that proper organisation is a necessity for
professional projects, especially when working with others.

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2. Saving :

Next, we will need to save your rushes. It’s not a good idea to open Premiere and import
the files straight from the SD Card or other storage device used from the camera itself. If
you do this, you’ll be reliant on the original storage device always having to be present. As
soon as you remove it, all of your media will go offline. It’s very important to note that
Premiere does not create a backup of your media when you import it into your project. So,
because of this, it’s best to save it somewhere else before you import. A good place would
be on one of the folders you’ve created on your computer. A good name for the folder
might be something like rushes or footage. Each new card could have its own folder inside
of your rushes folder.

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2. Saving :

Make sure to copy the whole folder from the storage device over to your computer without
moving or renaming anything. This folder is sometimes called PRIVATE, but this depends
on the camera you have used. It should be brought over in full to the folder on your
computer.

It’s not recommended to search the storage device to locate the video files and move
them out of the folder or rename them. The folder structure that the camera has created
for your rushes can be important for a project to work properly and if not kept in its original
structure, this can cause problems for Premiere in the edit later on.

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3. Creating a New Project :

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3. Creating a New Project :

• Open Premiere Pro and you’ll be greeted with the home screen.

• Select New Project. When the New Project window opens, give your project a name, a
location (for example, the folder you created for your project file).

• Then click the tab titled Scratch Disks to make sure everything is going to be saved to
Same as Project.

• Finally, click OK. Your new project will open.

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4. The User Interface :

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When you create a new project or open an existing one, you’ll be introduced to the usual user
interface of Adobe Premiere Pro.

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4. The User Interface :

The Project window is where all of your files and folders are located. In video editing
terminology, folders are called bins. This window is where you can organise your rushes
and open individual clips.

The Source window will display a visual representation of whatever is selected in the
project window. You’ll be able to view your rushes in this window and select the whole or
part of a clip to use in the timeline.

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4. The User Interface :

In the Timeline window is where you will edit your film using video and audio tracks.

The Program window contains the visuals of your edited sequence. Here you can watch
what you have edited so far.

You have the ability to change your workspace by dragging and dropping the windows into
a different order. If you want to reset your workspace, you can do so by selecting:

window > workspaces > reset to saved layout.

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5. Tools :
• To the left of the timeline window, you’ll see some icons in a small
thin window. These are the tools. Using these different tools
allows you to go into different modes of working in Premiere.

• Some of the tools that are described in this section are contained
within one button and will require clicking and holding on the
button so that they appear as options. Also note the letter next to
some of the titles indicating the keyboard shortcut for that tool.

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5. Tools :
Selection Tool (V): You can select clips, move clips around on the timeline,
trim clips, select menu items and buttons, as well as select many other
items within the user interface.
Track Select Forward Tool (A): With this selected, when you click on the
timeline, every clip on all tracks from the cursor and to the right will be
selected. When you hold shift, every clip from one track from the cursor and
to the right will be selected.
Ripple Edit Tool (B) Drag the edge of a clip to ripple-trim the
selection. You will see how the clip that will be trimmed is the one you have
selected, other clips will not be affected, but will also not leave a gap.

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5. Tools :
Rolling Edit Tool (N): Drag the edge of a clip to trim incoming and outgoing
clips simultaneously. Using this tool will leave a gap if you only trim one clip
at a time.
Rate Stretch Tool (R): Drag the edge of a clip to rate stretch the selection,
this will change its speed to match the new duration.
Razor Tool (C): Click to split a clip into two. Using Alt will override a link in
the clips and using Shift will create a split over all tracks.
Slip Tool (Y): Drag on a clip to slip the selection, this will modify the media
in and out points without changing its position in time.
Slide Tool (U): Drag on a clip to slide the selection, this will modify its
position in time by trimming the adjacent clips.

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5. Tools :
Pen Tool (P): Used to create, select and move keyframes, for example
when making adjustments in the audio.
Rectangle Tool: This tool can be used to create a rectangle shape in the
program window.
Ellipse Tool: This tool can be used to create an ellipse shape in the
program window.
Hand Tool (H): This tool can be used to scroll horizontally in time by
dragging.
Zoom Tool (Z): Click to zoom in one level in time and use Alt to zoom out
one level in time.
Type Tool (T): Click in the program window and type to create text.
Vertical Type Tool: Click in the program window and type to create vertical
text.

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6. Importing :

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6. Importing :

At this point, you should have transferred your rushes/footage to a folder, or you might
want to bring something else into your project such as a title sequence, a photo, or a piece
of music.

There are many ways to import items into Premiere. However, there is a specific method
you can use that can stop certain issues from occurring.

To import using this method, go to Media Browser, which is located on the second tab in
the project window. Locate your files, select them, right click and select import.

Your files should now appear in the project window.

Alternatively just drag and drop the folder or video you wish to add into that panel, that will
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6. The Bin :

So you went ahead and dragged and dropped the folder into the panel. Once you double
click the folder you will get something like this:

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6. The Bin :

It is known as the bin and is useful in displaying all your videos in the form of thumbnails
so you get a better insight at the videos you wish to add.

Also one of the cool features of the bin is that it lets you preview what’s in the video if you
hover your mouse over it. You can choose to delete videos from the bin too by selecting
them and pressing the delete button. It wouldn’t delete it from your system so you are safe
to do that.

Just double click on the video you wish to add.

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6. The Bin :

When you do, you will notice that the video automatically opens in your Source panel
located on the left side. You can choose to close the bin (it can be opened again by a
mere double click on the folder so chill!) or minimize it.
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7. Mark In and Mark Out :

One of the most basic things to do in a video is to get only a portion of it for your movie.
You would be required to remove the unrequired bits and focus on what you need at a lot
of junctures.

Let’s just say we need only a part of our video and not the entire thing.

There’s a small marker on the media panel that you could use to go left or right on your
video just like they provide you in a media player. Using that marker click on the part from
where you wish to begin the trimming. Once you are there at that exact spot, press the
button ‘I‘ on your keyboard. It will set a marker In point.

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7. Mark In and Mark Out :

Alternatively, you can just right click on that spot and select Mark In.

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7. Mark In and Mark Out :

Now what’s the end point you wish to use the video till? Figured that out? Just go there
and press ‘O’ on your keyboard.

Alternatively, you can right click on the spot and select Mark Out.

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8. Timeline :

Timeline is the place where your actual editing will be taken care of. It will be recording the
stuff you do with your video and audio, will help you assemble other pieces of video and
audio to perform other video editing stuff.

Simply drag and drop the image you see in the Source Timeline panel.

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8. Timeline :

If you just want the Video part there’s a small film strip button right underneath your image
that will read “Drag Video Only”. If you want just the Audio part, there’s a wave form button
right next to it, that will read “Drag Audio Only” if you hover your mouse over it.

As you can see, in this example, I didn’t have an audio in my video, so when I dragged it to
the timeline it just shows Video in purple. In your case, it might have an Audio timeline too.
NOTE: You can play or pause your video in the Program panel by pressing ‘Spacebar’.
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9. Trimming a Clip from Your Timeline :

One of the most important things while learning How to Use Adobe Premiere Pro CC is the
trimming bit. The most basic way to trim a clip is using the drag method.

Here I have added another video clip to my existing one.

When you take your mouse pointer to either end of the clip in the timeline you will notice it
turn “Red” and become square bracket in shape. It would also point where you can push
your clip to trim. I am going to push my second video in further to make the clip a tad
shorter.

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10. Better Way to Trim :

The other way to trim a video is via using Razor Tool. It is a blade symbol attached
alongside timeline. If you can’t find it you can press the ‘C’ button to activate it. That’s the
shortcut.

Press the Razor Tool button or ‘C’. Then make necessary cuts or incisions on your video
clip. I have made four of them as you can see.

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10. Better Way to Trim :

Click on the Selection Tool (that’s always selected by default and helps in moving clips
around) once again. Or you can use the keyboard button ‘V’ to quickly navigate to the last
selected tool.

Then move around the clips by dragging and dropping them where you wish to put them.
You can check how the whole clip would appear by pressing the Spacebar button to play
your clips in the Program Panel.

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11. Organising in the Project Window :

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11. Organising in the Project Window :

It’s good to review your rushes in Premiere then sort the clips and everything else in your
project into some sort of organisational system that makes sense to you.

It might seem time consuming to rename clips and place them into bins, however this
process can save you a lot of time later on in your project. It’s useful to keep to an
organisational system inside the project window in order to save time and prevent
confusion.

You can rename a clip by right clicking on it in the project window and clicking rename.

You can create a bin by right clicking anywhere in the project window and clicking New Bin.

Drag and drop a file into a bin to start organising your project files into bins.
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