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Digital Video Editing - Introduction

This is your chance to take all those hours of holiday footage and turn them into a keepsake that is inspirational and interesting! Through a combination of hands-on tutorials, this course will give you the basic knowledge required to complete your own short, edited video. Whilst we can provide stock footage to work on, you are encouraged to bring in your own whether it is for home or a corporate video.

By the end of the course, using Adobe Premiere Elements software, you will understand how to transfer footage from your camcorder to your hard disk and import it into the editing package. You will be able to shape those clips into a film using the editing package’s timeline, add transitions, effects, titles plus sound and finally export your completed movie for fascinating viewing.

Entry Requirements

Applicants must have basic computer skills

Student Instructions

Please bring a pen and paper, your own digital movie footage to work on (optional), a memory stick/USB flash drive for saving and taking your work home, plus your own headphones.

Topics

• Introduction to course + what we hope to achieve
• How to import video
• Common sources of media files
• File types you can import
• Adding files from DVDs, digital cameras, mobile phones, non-tape camcorders, and other devices
• How to edit clips
• The Preview window
• To zoom into or out of the Timeline
• About trimming clips
• About previewing and trimming in the Preview window
• Trimming a clip in the Preview window
• Zooming in and out in the Preview window
• Trimming a clip in the Monitor panel
• Removing frames from the middle of a clip in the Sceneline
• About editing clips on the Timeline
• About splitting clips
• Splitting a clip
• How to add transitions
• Where to access transitions
• transition appearance in the Sceneline and the Timeline
• To preview a transition prior to applying it
• Controls and options for adjusting transitions
• How to add titles
• About titles, templates, styles, formatting, colours, shadows, rolls and crawls
• How to import audio
• Keeping audio synced with video
• How to export your final film
• Students work on their own movie.

Career Prospects

Not applicable

Delivery Style

Hands-on on TAFE computers

Outcomes

At the end of this course students should be able to bring footage into Adobe Premiere Elements and edit it, add transitions to their timeline, add titles and audio to their movie and complete their own movie, then export it for viewing.