The Adobe Livestream Series will be held on April 14 – 17, 2020. The sessions will be focused on tips and tricks regarding Premiere Pro and After Effects. The access to the Livestream content is free. Read below about the topics and schedule. 

Adobe Livestream Series

The initial plan was to present the series at NAB. However, the cancellation of this main event forced many companies to improvise in order to shift their presentations and workshops to the net. Many of them, offer this fresh and educating content for free, like this Adobe Livestream Series. As for NAB, the management team announced that the event will be held online (NAB Show Express) in May (read our article in regard). We believe that Adobe will be participating in the NAB Show Express. However, this Livestream Series constitutes a high-quality educational event you shouldn’t miss, as stated by Adobe: “Adobe is presenting a special video Livestream series on Premiere Pro and the Adobe video/audio apps. We’ll be looking at tools, case studies, and workflows (local and remote) that help you get to great faster. Join Adobe evangelist Jason Levine, product team members, and inspiring content creators for engaging demos, discussion, and live Q&A”. So, if Premiere Pro and After Effects are your bread and butter, scroll down below to reveal the full schedule of this event.

Full schedule

DAY 1 – Tuesday, April 14

1. Organized & Efficient, So You Can Get to Great Faster (9:30 am PT): Demos, discussion and live Q&A: Discover new tools for setting up editorial workflows in Premiere Pro while keeping your projects lean, mean, organized and efficient. Link to event.
2. Remote Workflows & Fast Turnaround (10:30 am PT): Bob Lindeman and the team start each morning brainstorming story ideas and turn out polished videos by the end of the day. In the editorial, they divide up the Timeline between editors, right down to the adjustment layers, for maximum efficiency. Learn how Bob Lindeman, senior editor for Just the FAQs (USA Today), uses Premiere Pro with Team Projects and other Adobe tools to craft great video content every day. Link to event.

DAY 2 – Wednesday, April 15

1. Access Everything Easily: Creative Tools in Premiere Pro (9:30 am PT): Graphics workflows in Premiere Pro that expand your creative options and help you keep organized and on-brand. Join Jason Levine and Dacia Saenz, Quality Engineer on the Adobe Motion Graphics team for demos and live Q&A. Link to event. 
2. My Budget Indie Feature Film has 400 VFX Shots (10:30 am PT): Eric Demeusy is an independent filmmaker with a bag full of tips and tricks for bringing visual effects into his storytelling – even on an indie budget. This session will include demos, discussion, and live Q&A. Link to event.

DAY 3 – Thursday, April 16

1. Smarter Tools for Faster Workflows in Premiere Pro (9:30 am PT): Premiere Pro is flexible, connected, and packs a little bit of secret sauce with Adobe Sensei, AI-driven technologies that accelerate time-consuming production tasks. Let tools like Auto Ducking, Color Match, and Auto Reframe do the heavy lifting so you can focus on creative editorial. Join Jason Levine and Francis Crossman, Premiere Pro product manager (and former editor and colorist), for demos and discussion. Link to event. 
2. How Adobe Changed our Workflow (10:30 am PT): With 4 channels releasing 13 or more weekly shows to over 34 million subscribers on YouTube, FBE has a serious need for speed and efficiency in their production pipeline. Senior editor Alyssa Salter joins Jason Levine to breakdown how FBE manages editorial and post-production. Learn from the pros with live Q&A. Link to event.

DAY 4 – Friday, April 17

1. New Public Beta for Adobe Video/Audio Apps (9:30 am PT): The new public Beta program started rolling out to Creative Cloud members earlier this year. On Friday, join this discussion and live Q&A with Jason Levine and David Simons, Adobe Fellow, who has been leading the initiative. Dave is one of the inventors of After Effects and Adobe Character Animator, which won him a technical Emmy. Link to event.
2. Title Sequence for Birds of Prey (10:30 am PT): The colorful, hand-drawn animations of the Birds of Prey main-on-ends title sequence is the work of artists Penny Nederlander & Amanda Gotera (Shine). The creative duo brought illustrations and 3D elements to life in After Effects, finding simple ways to achieve visually complex results. Join Penny, Amanda, and host Jason Levine for a look at their workflow and inspiration for graphics that tell stories, including demos, discussion, and live Q&A. Link to event.

Final thoughts

As we said before, this complex social distancing situation driven by COVID-19, forces us, filmmakers and creators, to stay at home. Initiatives like the Adobe Livestream Series are very welcomed, especially at this time. However, we don’t sure if those sessions are aimed for beginners. According to the topics above, you need some experience with Premiere Pro and/or After Effects in order to be engaged with the discussions. Nevertheless, it’s free so we recommend that even junior content creators will give it a try.