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

Introduction

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

Getting to Know Adobe Premiere Pro

Starting a new project
Opening an existing project
Touring the Project panel
Touring the Source Monitor
Touring the Timeline and Program Monitor
Touring the interface and workspaces
Using project templates

Setting Up and Organizing Your Media

Using the Import window and the Media Browser
Understanding asset types
Organizing assets using bins
Moving, copying, and deleting assets
Performing searches

Basic Editing

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

Refining the Edit - Using Trim Tools

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

Additional Editing and Organizational Techniques

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

Basic Audio Editing

Exploring audio channel configuration
Editing in your music and sound effects
Making audio gain adjustments
Adjusting audio volume
Keyframing audio volume
Working with double-system sound

Working with Stills and Graphics

Working with stills
Animating stills

Working with Effects

Using basic motion effects
Working with transition effects
Applying and modifying video effects
Saving and sharing effects
Working with adjustment layers and nests
Adding effects to master clips
Keyframing effects over time
Masking and tracking effects

Manipulating Clip Speed

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

Basic Color Correction

Color correction - analyzing shots
Reading video scopes
Using basic color correction tools
Making color corrections using Curves
Performing shot-to-shot corrections

Working with Titles

Creating automatic transcripts and captions
Creating basic titles
Modifying and animating titles and templates

Finishing and Exporting

Exporting your project
Batch exporting with Adobe Media Encoder

Conclusion

Looking at the finished project in full