Getting Started with Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Pro

Course details

Do you find yourself needing to edit video but don't know where 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 alone. 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 basics you need, from organizing your media to finalizing your project, with detailed instructions covering every step in between. You can get results right away and get up and running for your first project in Premiere Pro.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - What you'll learn in this course
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - Meet your 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
10 - Browsing and renaming clips
11 - Transferring a project from Rush to Premiere Pro

3. Setting Up Your Project in Premiere Pro

12 - Creating a new Premiere Pro project
13 - Importing assets into Premiere Pro
14 - Organizing footage with bins in Premiere Pro
15 - Syncing clips
16 - Creating a sequence in Premiere Pro
17 - Setting your Premiere Pro project for autobackup
18 - Creating a project template in Premiere Pro

4. Sequencing Clips to Tell a Story

19 - Searching and finding clips in Premiere Pro
20 - Marking in and out points in Premiere Pro
21 - The role of subclips in Premiere Pro
22 - Adding clips to a Premiere Pro sequence

5. Refining Clips in a Sequence

23 - Making top and tail edits in Premiere Pro
24 - Trimming and extending clips in Premiere Pro
25 - Adding a transition to a clip in Premiere Pro

6. Organizing Your Sequence

26 - The role of tracks in a Premiere Pro sequence
27 - Setting up multiple audio tracks for audio mixing in Premiere Pro
28 - Adding elements to a higher video track in Premiere Pro
29 - Changing the order of shots in a Premiere Pro sequence
30 - Locking the story

7. An Introduction to Color and Image Correction

31 - Every shot needs color correction and reusing adjustments on multiple clips
32 - Fixing exposure in a video clip in Premiere Pro
33 - Refining color in a video clip in Premiere Pro
34 - Improving a shot's aesthetics in Premiere Pro
35 - Sending a shot to After Effects with Dynamic Link

8. An Introduction to Audio

36 - Revisiting track organization
37 - An introduction to the Essential Sound panel in Premiere Pro
38 - Normalizing volume for several clips in Premiere Pro
39 - Mixing music and sound effects with the Essential Sound panel
40 - An introduction to manually adjusting audio

9. An Introduction to Graphics

41 - An introduction to the Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro
42 - Working with graphic templates in Premiere Pro
43 - Importing graphics from Photoshop in Premiere Pro
44 - Adding open captions to your video in Premiere Pro

10. Finalizing Your Project

45 - Backing up your Premiere Pro project files
46 - Backing up your media in Premiere Pro
47 - Trimming a Premiere Pro project for archive
48 - Exporting a video file from Premiere Pro
49 - Take more control with Adobe Media Encoder

Conclusion

50 - Next steps