Getting Started with Adobe Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Professional

Course details

Do you ever find yourself needing to edit a video but not knowing where or how to begin? If you use Adobe Creative Cloud, you have access to a great application—Adobe Premiere Pro—but it can be a little daunting to learn how to use it on your own. This course can help you get started. It doesn’t rely on any background experience with video production or editing. It just walks you through all the basic skills you need to know, from organizing your media to finalizing your project, with detailed instructions covering every step in between. You can get amazing results right away, too, and get up and running with your first project in Premiere Pro.

Learning objectives
Explore the process and benefits of nonlinear editing.
Work safely with media files.
Optimize your computer setup for efficient video editing workflows.
Organize media assets effectively.
Apply techniques for importing and managing footage in Premiere Pro.
Create a polished final video product with color correction, sound enhancements, and captions.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn Premiere Pro editing essentials
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - Meet the instructor

1. How to Approach Video Editing

04 - The goal of video editing
05 - Working nondestructively
06 - Configuring your computer for best results

2. Organizing Your Media

07 - Choosing a hard drive for editing
08 - Transferring your media to a drive
09 - Organizing a project with the common media folder

3. Setting Up Your Project in Premiere Pro

10 - Creating a new Premiere Pro project
11 - Importing assets to Premiere Pro
12 - Organizing footage with bins in Premiere Pro
13 - Syncing clips
14 - Transcribing clips on import for easier searchability
15 - Making a multi-cam sequence
16 - Creating a sequence in Premiere Pro
17 - Setting your Premiere Pro project for auto backup
18 - Labeling tracks and assigning audio roles
19 - Creating a project template in Premiere Pro

4. Sequencing Clips to Tell a Story

20 - Searching and finding clips in Premiere Pro
21 - Marking in and out points in Premiere Pro
22 - The role of subclips in Premiere Pro
23 - Text based editing in the source panel in Premiere Pro
24 - Adding clips to a Premiere Pro sequence

5. Refining Clips in a Sequence

25 - Making tops and tails edits in Premiere Pro
26 - Trimming and extending clips in Premiere Pro
27 - Adding a transition to a clip in Premiere Pro
28 - Text based editing in the sequence in Premiere Pro
29 - Slipping and sliding clips in the timeline

6. Organizing Your Sequence

30 - The Role of tracks in a Premiere Pro sequence
31 - Setting up multiple audio tracks for audio mixing in Premiere Pro
32 - Adding elements to a higher video track in Premiere Pro
33 - Changing the order of shots in a Premiere Pro sequence
34 - Locking the story

7. Introducing Color and Image Correction

35 - Every shot needs color correction and reusing adjustments
36 - Fixing exposure in a video clip in Premiere Pro
37 - Refining color in a video clip in Premiere Pro
38 - Advanced color correction with secondary color
39 - Color correcting video with Photoshop and LUTs

8. Introducing Audio

40 - Revisiting track organization
41 - An introduction to the Essential Sound Panel in Premiere Pro
42 - Enhancing speech with the Essential Sound Panel
43 - Normalizing volume for several clips in Premiere Pro
44 - Mixing music and sound effects
45 - An introduction to manually adjusting audio

9. Introducing Graphics

46 - An introduction to the Essential Graphics panel
47 - Working with graphic templates in Premiere Pro
48 - Importing graphics from Photoshop in Premiere Pro

10. Introducing Graphics

49 - Transcribing the sequence
50 - Adding open captions in Premiere Pro
51 - Adding closed captions in Premiere Pro
52 - Exporting with captions from Premiere Pro

11. Finalizing Your Project

53 - Backing up your Premiere Pro project files
54 - Backing up your media in Premiere Pro
55 - Trimming a Premiere Pro project for archive
56 - Exporting a video file from Premiere Pro
57 - Take more control with Adobe Media Encoder

Conclusion

58 - Next steps