Understandability
Jacob Rosenberg is extremely well known for his expertise
in editing, hosting talks at numerous trade shows each
year on how to get the most out of your editing system.
As a professional editor, he's worked on hosts of music
videos and TV projects and really knows what's important
to bring to the table. Luckily, he's also very easy to
understand and enunciates clearly, which is very good,
considering how much stuff he covers in a fairly short
period of time.
I
was especially shocked at how accessible Mr. Rosenberg
kept the information for virtually any level user throughout
the training, considering this is a Professional Series
course. If you have ever used Photoshop and ever
used any form of editing suite for longer than five minutes,
you can start this training with no problem.
Now,
if you have no experience whatsoever with editing or Photoshop
and are wanting to get into editing through this training,
be aware that you'll have to wade through a few terms
you may be unfamiliar with. For example, early in the
training, Mr. Rosenberg explains that a certain procedure
will 'rasterize' images at a certain size. While Photoshop
users will know that this means to make a permanent, uneditable
copy of a picture or layer, if you're completely new to
this stuff you might be a bit confused. However, if you
are one of these new folks, just listen a bit longer and
you'll be able to figure out new terms by the way in which
he uses and re-uses them.
Depth
of Information
From the basic explanation of how Premiere Pro 2 works
for Premiere Pro neophytes to quick hands on training
of all the new features for old hands, Mr. Rosenberg has
managed to seriously cover a lot of data. In all 3 Learning
CDs, you get a total of 39 lessons and 17 hours of training
that really sift through all the elements of this great
software. There are even elements and techniques that
he covers that aren't even mentioned in the big, thick
Adobe Premiere Pro 2 manual.
His
ability to weave in the new features into the general
training was very refreshing and really helped infuse
even more information into the training. I especially
liked how he explained the benefit to PP2's new "Source
Channel Mapping" ability, which allows editors to
view and edit stereo and 5.1 tracks as separate mono tracks
without actually disrupting their playback placement.
I've had many situations where this feature would have
been a real help!
