PremierePro Domain 4 - Creating and Modifying Visual Elements

This objective covers core tools and functionality of the application, as well as tools that affect the sequences within the project. This section contains presentations, projects, and quizzes to help you pass the Adobe Acrobat CC Certification Exam.

4.1 Use core tools and features to edit audio and video.

a. Assemble a video sequence using a variety of tools and panels.
  • Key Panels: Timeline, Source Monitor, Program Monitor
  •  Key Concepts: setting In and Out points to determine an edit; splitting, inserting, overwriting, lifting, and extracting clips.

b. Create and edit vector images.

  • Key Tools: Pen, Freeform Pen, Curvature Pen, Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, Convert Point, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, Line, and Custom Shape

4.2 Add and animate titles and modify title properties.

a. Add superimposed text and shapes in a sequence.

  • Key Concepts: Type tools: point text, paragraph text; Create shapes with the Pen, Rectangle, and Ellipse tools; Use the Essentials Graphics panel to browse and select relevant templates 

b. Use appropriate controls to modify text and graphic appearance.

  • Key Text Controls: font, size, alignment, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, etc.
  •  Key Appearance Controls: fill, shadow, stroke, background.

4.3 Trim footage for use in sequences.

a. Resize clips using a variety of tools.

  • Key Terms: adjusting scale, aspect ratio, or frame size; letterboxing; adjusting for mixed aspect ratios; using vertically shot video from phones; etc.

b. Trim and refine clips using various methods.

  • Key Tools: Rolling Edit tool, Ripple Edit tool, Rate Stretch tool.

4.4 Transform digital media within a project.

a. Modify clip settings.

  • Key Concepts: labeling, renaming, setting poster frame, changing clip speed, creating a freeze frame

b. Adjust the audio of a video clip.

  •  Key Concepts: audio gain and channel remapping.

4.5 Use effects to modify video in a sequence.

a. Use basic auto-correction methods and tools.

  • Key Concepts: Know how to use the Basic Correction, Creative and Vignette controls of the Lumetri color panel 

b. Apply effects presets.

  • Key Tools: effects, transitions, presets

 c. Apply effects presets on multiple clips.

  • Key Concepts: keying (luma/chroma), opacity, masking, mattes, alpha channel, picture-in-picture

 d. Apply photographic changes to images using tools and adjustments.

  • Key Tools: Burn tool, Dodge tool, Desaturate options, etc.

4.6 Use keyframes to control video properties over time.

a. Modify effect settings.

  • Key Concepts: adding and adjusting keyframes, adjusting effect properties

b. Apply and adjust video motion effects.

  • Key Concepts: adjusting clip settings over time by using keyframes
  • Key Effects: motion, opacity, other visual effects

4.7 Manage audio in a video sequence.

a. Apply effects presets.

  • Key Tools: effects, transitions

b. Add audio to a sequence.

  • Key Concepts: synchronizing, linking, replacing, merging clips, mono and stereo tracks

c. Adjust audio on the timeline or using the Effect Controls panel.

  • Key Concepts: adding audio transitions and effects; adding, removing, and adjusting keyframes