Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is primarily a nonlinear editing system designed for fast cutting of multiple media types, but it is also an advanced special effects and compositing tool. In this course, master editor Maxim Jago describes the tools and options available to create complex compositions using just Premiere Pro, without involving After Effects or Photoshop. Learn how to adjust opacity, use garbage mattes and track mattes, and create nested sequences, as well as how to work with chroma keys, luma keys, and the Ultra Keyer. Maxim shares all the techniques necessary to layer multiple media elements and produce advanced sequences as compositions.
Topics include:
- Introducing Premiere Pro: the compositing program
- Understanding transparency and alpha channels
- Adjusting opacity
- Working with garbage mattes
- Luma keys and chroma keys
- The Ultra Keyer
- Nesting sequences
- Understanding and using blend modes
- Creating track mattes
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