Adobe Premiere Pro
Video Editing With Adobe Premiere Pro For Beginners
Learn professional video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro. A beginners course to get you started with basic editing techniques, text & graphics, audio enhancing, transitions, video effects and so much more!
By Jordy Vandeput
★ 4.8 (1141 reviews)
24 lessons
3h 45m
Project files included
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What you'll learn
- Organizing and starting a Premiere Pro project
- Perform basic edits, arranging clips and working in multiple layers
- Perform advanced edits using the toolbox, masks and blending techniques
- Applying and adjusting video/audio effects
- Create custom graphics and texts
- Making custom templates and using third party templates
- Create custom animations and understand its mechanics
- Mixing audio from speech, music and sound effects
- Exporting a video with the proper settings
About this course
This course teaches you video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, from creating an empty project to exporting a finished video. You cut clips on a timeline, add effects, titles and animation, mix audio and color the footage, all on a short Iceland travel edit. It is made for beginners who have never edited before.
What you'll learn in this Premiere Pro course
The course follows the order of a real edit. These are the techniques Jordy demonstrates, lesson by lesson.
- Starting a project: keeping all media in one folder, creating a project file, importing footage, organizing it in bins, and arranging, resetting and saving your own workspace.
- Basic editing: creating a sequence with the right resolution and frame rate, setting In and Out points in the Source monitor, trimming, dragging video only or audio only, relinking offline media, and troubleshooting the timeline.
- Effects and layers: scaling clips in the Effects Controls, applying effects from the Effects Library, understanding the red, yellow and green render lines, blending clips with Opacity and Blending Modes, and layering light leaks over a shot.
- Reframing and speed: a split screen with the Crop effect, a vertical social video with Auto Reframe, nested sequences, slow and fast motion with Optical Flow and Frame Blending, reversing a clip, and the Rate Stretch tool.
- The toolbox: Track Selection, the Remix tool for lengthening music, the Razor tool, inserting clips with Ctrl, and locking tracks.
- Transitions: audio crossfades, Cross Dissolve, Dip to White, setting a default transition, Morph Cut, and a custom transition built from keyframes, the Offset effect and Directional Blur.
- Text, graphics and templates: the Type, Rectangle, Ellipse and Pen tools, the Essential Graphics panel, grouping layers, free and installed motion graphics templates, and saving your own graphic as a template.
- Text-based editing and captions: transcribing an interview, cutting pauses and mistakes by deleting words, and creating and styling captions.
- Masking and animation: ellipse and Pen masks, pixelating a face with the Mosaic effect, tracking the mask automatically, keyframes with the stopwatch, and Ease In to smooth a movement.
- Audio: Enhance Speech in the Essential Sound panel, EQ and reverb, Audio Gain versus volume, keyframing music under speech, reading the audio meters, and adding sound effects.
- Color: Lumetri Color basic correction, the Auto button, a LUT for V-Log footage, an adjustment layer, Looks, and a teal and orange grade with the color wheels.
- Exporting: choosing a preset, comparing file sizes, exporting at 1080p, and burning captions in or exporting an SRT file.
How the course is built
There are 24 lessons with a total runtime of about 3 hours 45 minutes. Jordy works through one edit step by step, and between lessons he asks you to try each technique yourself, for example by cutting up an interview. Three lessons are free to preview: The Effects Controls, Creating Animations, and Editing and Sound Design.
You can download the footage and project files Jordy uses, so you can follow along with the same clips. The zip file is about 1.3 GB.
Who this course is for
It is for anyone starting out in Premiere Pro, including people who feel overwhelmed the first time they open it. Jordy explains terms like sequence and frame rate from scratch. It is not a deep course on color or sound: the lessons cover the basics of both, and Jordy says color grading deserves a course of its own.
What you need
You need Adobe Premiere Pro. Jordy uses Premiere's built-in effects, so no extra plugins are required. The footage, music and project files come with the download.
Lessons
24 lessons
3h 45m
3 free previews
Jordy sets out what you will be able to do by the end: work with sound and music, animate graphics and text, correct color and fix audio. He also explains the hands-on format, the practice tasks and the downloadable media.
Organizing the Iceland Travel Video footage into one folder so nothing goes media offline, then creating a first project from the Import, Edit and Export screen and saving it in a Projects folder.
A tour of the Edit workspace: dragging, docking and closing panels, resetting or saving a custom workspace, and importing the Iceland footage into the Project panel by drag and drop, sorted into bins.
Creating sequences with the right resolution and frame rate (25 fps, HD or 4K), then editing the professional way: setting In and Out points in the Source monitor and dragging each selection into the timeline.
Troubleshooting the timeline: snapping, non-destructive cuts, relinking offline media, the keep existing settings pop-up, audio and video targeting, video only drags, and a first drone edit with music underneath.
Fitting a 4K clip into an HD sequence with Scale, then applying Brightness and Contrast and Turbulent Displace from the Effects Library and learning what the red, yellow and green render lines mean.
Stacking clips on several video tracks, changing Opacity and Blending Mode, and using Screen on light leak clips so they glow inside a drone shot, plus a Horizontal Flip on one leak.
Building a split screen with the Crop effect and Safe Margins, then making a vertical Iceland for Socials sequence with Auto Reframe, using a horizontal edit nested inside it.
Changing a sequence's frame rate, then slowing 60 fps footage of Timon jumping with Speed/Duration, comparing Frame Sampling, Frame Blending and Optical Flow, reversing it, and stretching clips with the Rate Stretch tool.
Bringing the toolbox back and trying the Track Selection tools, the Remix tool that lengthens a song, the Razor tool and Join Through Edits, Ctrl-drag inserts, and locking a track to protect the music.
Audio crossfades with Constant Power and video transitions: Cross Dissolve, Dip to White, setting a default and adding it with Ctrl D, the insufficient media warning, and the analysis behind Morph Cut.
Making a title graphic: Type tool text, Rectangle, Ellipse and Pen shapes inside one graphics layer, styling in Essential Graphics, grouping layers, and using the Transform effect to lower a group's opacity.
Transcribing Timon's interview in the Text panel, cutting pauses and repeated sentences by deleting words, correcting the transcript, then creating captions and restyling them in Essential Graphics.
Working with templates: the free Cinematic Titles from Adobe Stock, editing its controls, installing a motion graphics template and replacing its logo, and exporting your own graphic as a template.
Ellipse and Pen masks on Opacity, with feather and expansion, then a Mosaic effect masked to Timon's face and tracked with position, scale and rotation, producing mask path keyframes.
Animating a text layer's Position with stopwatch keyframes, speeding or slowing the move by shifting keyframes, and smoothing the stop with Ease In temporal interpolation.
Building a custom transition: a clip slides in on Position keyframes, spins with the Offset effect, gets Directional Blur keyframed down to zero as motion blur, and is scaled to 105 percent to hide edges.
Fixing an interview recorded on the camera's internal microphone in the Essential Sound panel: Auto Tag as Dialogue, Enhance Speech, Reduce Noise, clarity, then EQ presets like the trunk and telephone, and reverb.
Cutting the interview by its transcript, covering it with drone and camera shots, placing an instrumental track on the beat, using mute and solo, then adding wind, footstep, waterfall and horse sound effects.
Balancing the mix: Audio Gain versus clip volume and Hard Limiter, reading the audio meters, keyframing the music to rise when Timon stops speaking, adding Outside Reverb to wind, and fading effects with Shift D.
Lumetri Color basic correction: temperature, tint, saturation, exposure and contrast, the Auto button and its intensity slider, copying a correction to matching clips, and a V-Log to Rec.709 LUT with White Balance.
Color grading on an adjustment layer so one look covers the whole edit: Looks and Faded Film in the Creative tab, then a teal and orange grade using the Shadows and Midtones color wheels.
Exporting from the Export tab: choosing a media file, Match Source or an H.264 preset, comparing estimated file sizes, exporting at 1080p, and burning captions into the video or saving a separate SRT file.
A closing checklist for practice: edit Timon's interview, add B-roll, sound design, animated text, color correction and audio fine-tuning, then upload your video, ask for feedback and leave a review.
Your instructor
Jordy Vandeput
Founder of Cinecom · 2.75M+ subscribers on YouTube
Jordy Vandeput is a Belgian filmmaker who has taught practical filmmaking to millions through Cinecom. He breaks professional techniques down into clear, repeatable steps you can use on your very next project.
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★ 4.8 · 1141 reviews
★★★★★Very informative, engaging and entertaining.
★★★★★Awesome course, I learnt everything I needed and so much more, in a instructive and funny way! Trully edutainment and pure gold, thanks a lot and stay creative!
★★★★★The course was absolutely awesome, I'm not a beginner in video editing, but I definitely needed a well-structured complete course of the basics of Premiere and this was exactly the video I needed!
★★★★★You can't be just a talking head, spewing out a bunch of information and instructions, especially online. You have to be engaging so people want to watch, especially with technical things. Jordy is all that and more - entertaining, engaging and still "spews" out great information and instructions. I want to take classes from him I don't even want to learn!
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Questions
No. The course is rated beginner. Jordy starts by creating a project and explains terms such as sequence, bin, frame rate and In and Out points as they come up, so you can follow without prior editing knowledge.
Jordy says he recorded with the Premiere Pro beta installed, so the lessons show the newest features at the time. He also notes that Adobe may change the Import, Edit and Export screen again, so some menus can look slightly different on your version.
Yes. You can download the media and project files Jordy works with, so you can follow along with the same Iceland clips, images, music and sound effects. The zip file is about 1.3 GB. The two music tracks are for personal use only.
A short Iceland travel edit. You cut an interview, add shots, a title graphic, captions, music and sound effects, mix the audio, color correct and grade the clips, and export the video from Premiere Pro as a file you can upload to YouTube.
There are 24 lessons with a total runtime of about 3 hours 45 minutes. Each lesson covers one part of the edit, from starting a project to exporting, and Jordy suggests practice tasks between lessons.
No. Jordy works with the effects built into Premiere Pro. He mentions that he has third-party plugins installed, but says he sticks to the default effects for the course.
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