Video Basics
Learn Premiere Pro and After Effects with your very first film and animation projects. Get to know Adobe’s industry-standard software and see how to use it together to create beautiful videos. Through video-recorded classes and practical assignments, you learn the software at your own pace. This On-Demand course is for anyone who wants to learn Video basics and is a good first step to other motion design studies.
- Software Basics
- 2
- Creative Projects
- 2
- Video Classes
- 10
Course Content
The course covers the core functionalities of Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. After learning the basics of film and camera settings, you’ll dig right into the software and build both technical skills and confidence, step by step.
You’ll develop good workflow habits by choosing the right tool for the job and discover how the different applications work together harmoniously. The course challenges you with a series of video tutorials and practical exercises as you create your first film project. You will not receive feedback on your work but you’ll get plenty of guidance to improve on your own.
This self-paced course builds your skills in:
– Premiere Pro
– After Effects
After completing the course, you have a good foundation that allows you to practice further on your own. You might also discover a new passion through this course and decide to push yourself and apply to other motion graphics and film courses at a higher level. In this case, your newly-built software skills will come in handy. You can view your course progression options within this subject below.
Adobe Premiere Pro
- Overview of Premiere Pro and core strengths
- Interface and workspaces, getting your setup right
- Project panel and source monitor
- Managing the timeline
- Importing, transcoding and organizing media
- Working with clip and setting up a sequence
- Trimming and transitions for basic narrative
- Working with media (templates, resolution, file formats)
- The power of audio (sound effects, music, and voice)
- Working with graphics (stills and effects)
- Working with motion and video effects through keyframing
- Colour correction and effects
- Importing and exporting with Premiere Pro
- Working with titles
- Exporting with Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe After Effects
- Premiere Pro overview and strengths
- Understanding interface and workspaces
- Understanding compositions
- Working with layers and layer effects
- Importing and exporting with Premiere Pro
- Working with timeline animation
- Working with basic 3D techniques
- Designing and animating text
- Animating graphics
- Tracking and compositing video
- Motion graphics templates
This course is perfect for those who are brand new to the world of video editing and motion graphics.
Are your ideas and ambition bigger than your current software skills? This course is designed to help you bring those skills up to a level where you can create a video from the ideas that you have in your head, or in your sketchbook.
To complete the course – and all course assignments – you need to have access to Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Premiere Pro) 2020 or above. You can use Adobe's free 7-day demo to start with.
- 10 video-recorded classes and assignments
- Language: English
- 30 hours (estimated) to complete the course and all assignments
- Self-paced; study and practice at your own speed
- Checklists to verify your progress throughout the course
- Course certificate upon completion
- On-Demand, start whenever you want
- Software license not included
- Feedback on assignments not included
- Credit card payment and instant enrollment
- Price incl. vat: 5000 SEK
- Price excl. vat: 4000 SEK
This course offers you basic software knowledge and it qualifies you for a series of design courses at a higher level at Berghs School of Communication. Below is a list of possible courses to progress with, and some fee reductions to help you do so.
FULL-TIME international courses taught in English
- Berghs Bachelor (all of the design paths within the course) / Full time
- Advanced Advertising – portfolio course (all specializations) / Full time
- Advanced Design – portfolio course (all specializations) / Full Time
Apply after completing Video Basics, improve your chances to enroll, and get your tuition fee reduced by 1000 SEK.*
FULL-TIME studies (YH) taught in Swedish
Apply after completing Design Basics and improve your chances to pass the selection. No fee reduction applies.
*Terms and conditions
The discount can be claimed only after you have completed your automated software course and it applies only to the course you are progressing onto. Check out the terms and conditions here.
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