From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Video Finishing Techniques

What you should know before taking the course - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Video Finishing Techniques

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What you should know before taking the course

Before we jump into this title, I think it's important to quickly talk about what you should know before starting out with this course. First, you should have a pretty good working knowledge of Premiere Pro, how effects are applied, what windows are called, and the essentials of Creative Cloud workflow between applications. Now, depending on when you watch this title and what version of Premiere Pro and other apps you're using, the UI and some features may be different than what you're using. For this title, I'm using the most recent versions of the 2014 release of the Creative Cloud video applications. Also, it helps to have a capable machine. While we're not going to be pushing Premiere Pro to its limits, it does help to have a machine that meets the system requirements as outlined on adobe.com for Premiere Pro. While we'll primarily be in Premiere Pro, it's important that you have other Creative Cloud applications installed. Namely, Adobe SpeedGrade and Adobe After Effects and Media Encoder, as we'll be using those in this title as well. It's not essential that you know those applications very well as I'll be guiding you through the things we'll do in each app. But you'll need to have them installed, which, of course, is pretty easy to do with a Creative Cloud membership. Finishing is a broad subject and in this title, we're focusing only on the visual side of things. Of course, while audio is extremely important to any project, we won't be covering audio in this title. Finally, there are literally countless techniques and things to think about when it comes to finishing. This is not an exhaustive course on every possible finishing technique or situation that you may encounter. But I'll try my best to represent many of the most common situations and useful techniques. And I hope that you take the things that you learn in this course and expand upon them in your own workflows in your own projects.

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