Premiere Pro 2025 Essential Training

Course details

Video is a personal, powerful, and dynamic art form. For transforming raw footage into impactful stories, filmmakers and editors look to Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry-leading application. This course helps beginners unlock the potential of the latest edition. Instructor and filmmaker Ashley Kennedy teaches all the essentials while building a short promo video from start to finish. Ashley shows you how to import and organize your media so you can start your project off right. She covers how to edit video and audio, correct color, add titles and effects, and more. Her project-based approach lends context to each of the tools, allowing you to experience both the technical and creative sides of the editing process. If you’re looking to become competent and comfortable with the foundations of video editing, join Ashley in this course.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Powerful storytelling with Premiere Pro
02 - Using the exercise files and linking your media (Important )
03 - What version of Premiere Pro does this course cover

1. Getting to Know Adobe Premiere Pro

04 - Starting a new project
05 - Opening an existing project
06 - Touring the Project panel
07 - Touring the Source Monitor
08 - Touring the Timeline and Program Monitor
09 - Touring the interface and workspaces
10 - Using project templates

2. Setting Up and Organizing Your Media

11 - Using the Import window and the Media Browser
12 - Understanding asset types
13 - Organizing assets using bins
14 - Moving, copying, and deleting assets
15 - Performing searches

3. Basic Editing

16 - Playing and marking shots
17 - Text-based editing with source footage
18 - Subclipping shots
19 - Setting up a sequence
20 - Performing insert edits to build the sequence
21 - Removing material for concision
22 - Moving clips and swapping shots
23 - Adding video b-roll

4. Refining the Edit - Using Trim Tools

24 - Trimming shot length using ripple trims
25 - Adjusting transitions using roll trims
26 - Changing content and position - Slip and slide
27 - Performing top and tail edits

5. Additional Editing and Organizational Techniques

28 - Using markers for organization
29 - Understanding track and clip behavior
30 - Working with Scene Edit Detection
31 - Undoing and redoing actions using the History panel
32 - Customizing the keyboard
33 - Modifying buttons on the user interface

6. Basic Audio Editing

34 - Exploring audio channel configuration
35 - Editing in your music and sound effects
36 - Making audio gain adjustments
37 - Adjusting audio volume
38 - Keyframing audio volume
39 - Working with double-system sound

7. Working with Stills and Graphics

40 - Working with stills
41 - Animating stills

8. Working with Effects

42 - Using basic motion effects
43 - Working with transition effects
44 - Applying and modifying video effects
45 - Saving and sharing effects
46 - Working with adjustment layers and nests
47 - Adding effects to master clips
48 - Keyframing effects over time
49 - Masking and tracking effects

9. Manipulating Clip Speed

50 - Creating freeze frames and stills
51 - Performing Fit-to-Fill editing
52 - Changing clip speed with the Rate Stretch tool
53 - Using the Speed Duration tool

10. Basic Color Correction

54 - Color correction - analyzing shots
55 - Reading video scopes
56 - Using basic color correction tools
57 - Making color corrections using Curves
58 - Performing shot-to-shot corrections

11. Working with Titles

59 - Creating automatic transcripts and captions
60 - Creating basic titles
61 - Modifying and animating titles and templates

12. Finishing and Exporting

62 - Exporting your project
63 - Batch exporting with Adobe Media Encoder

Conclusion

64 - Looking at the finished project in full