Premiere Pro CC 2019 Essential Training: The Basics

Course details

Get up and running with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019. This course helps beginners unlock the potential of this powerful video-editing program. Instructor and filmmaker Ashley Kennedy steps through all the fundamentals: editing video and audio, correcting color, adding 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. She begins with a tour of the Premiere Pro interface, and then goes through the entire post-production workflow—including media import, editing and trimming, audio adjustment, applying effects, and output. By the end of the course, you should be able to hit the ground running and create your own professional video projects with Premiere Pro.

Learning objectives
What's new in the latest version of Premiere Pro
Importing media
Organizing assets into bins
Editing and trimming video
Using markers for organization
Editing audio and multi-camera footage
Working with stills
Adding effects
Manipulating clip speed
Correcting color
Adding titles
Sharing and exporting your project

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - What version of Premiere Pro CC does this course cover
04 - Post-production workflow overview

1. What's New (Beginners Can Skip This Section)

05 - Using this chapter
06 - What's new v. 13.0, 2019.0 (October 2018)
07 - What's new v. 13.1, 2019.1 (April 2019)

2. Getting to Know Adobe Premiere Pro

08 - Launching Adobe Premiere Pro
09 - A high-level look at the interface
10 - Touring the Project panel and Source Monitor
11 - List view presets and FreeForm view (v. 13.1)
12 - Touring the Timeline and more
13 - An important announcement of UI differences for the rest of this course
14 - The View menu, Guides, and Rulers (v. 13.1)

3. Setting Up and Organizing Your Media

15 - Importing media using the Media Browser
16 - Importing card-based media
17 - Organizing assets into bins
18 - Moving, copying, and deleting assets
19 - Performing searches

4. Basic Editing

20 - Playing and marking shots
21 - Subclipping shots
22 - Setting up a sequence
23 - Performing insert edits
24 - Moving clips and swapping shots
25 - Removing material for concision
26 - Adding b-roll video

5. Refining the Edit - Using Trim Tools

27 - Trimming shot length using ripple trims
28 - Adjusting transitions using roll trims
29 - Changing content and position - Slipping and sliding edits

6. Additional Editing and Organizational Techniques

30 - Performing replace edits
31 - Using markers for organization
32 - Understanding track and clip behavior
33 - Undoing and redoing actions
34 - Customizing the keyboard
35 - Modifying buttons on the user interface

7. Basic Audio Editing

36 - Exploring audio channel configuration
37 - Editing in your music
38 - Making audio gain adjustments
39 - Adjusting and keyframing audio volume
40 - Automatic audio adjustments and ducking
41 - Fixing out-of-sync audio
42 - Working with double-system sound

8. Multicamera Editing

43 - Setting up multi-cam clips
44 - Multi-camera editing and refining

9. Working with Stills and Graphics

45 - Working with stills
46 - Animating stills

10. Working with Effects

47 - Using basic motion effects
48 - Working with transition effects
49 - Applying and modifying video effects
50 - Saving and sharing effects
51 - Working with adjustment layers and nests
52 - Keyframing effects over time
53 - Adding effects to master clips
54 - Rendering options

11. Manipulating Clip Speed

55 - Creating freeze frames and stills
56 - Performing Fit to Fill editing
57 - More ways to change clip speed

12. Basic Color Correction

58 - Color correction - Looking with your eyes
59 - Reading video scopes
60 - Using basic color correction tools
61 - Making color corrections using Curves
62 - Comparing and matching color corrections
63 - Exploring additional Lumetri UI changes in Premiere Pro CC 2019

13. Working with Titles

64 - Using the Graphics Titler
65 - Doing more with the Graphics Titler
66 - Masking in the Essential Graphics window (v. 13.1)
67 - More changes in the Essential Graphics window (v. 13.1)

14. Sharing and Exporting

68 - Exporting your project
69 - Batch exporting with Adobe Media Encoder

Conclusion

70 - Looking at the finished project in full
71 - Next steps