Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors

Course details

Many successful video editors are self-taught. They know the fundamentals. Their challenge is subtle gaps in knowledge and experience. This course is intended to give a solid grounding in the principles of Premiere Pro, followed by advanced professional workflows designed to polish your results and make you a more efficient user. Maxim Jago explains how to personalize the interface to make Premiere Pro work better for you, understand and manage the relationships between projects and media, and edit faster using advanced tools. He also shows how to leverage presets and motion graphic templates, so you’re not creating effects and graphics from scratch every time, and bring your audio quality to a new bar. Finally, learn a variety of “super skills” that will make you look like a seasoned pro.

Learning objectives
Personalizing the interface
Creating new keyboard shortcuts
Editing directly from the Project panel
Toggling between Insert and Overwrite mode
Nesting with sequences
Selecting a source audio channel
Dynamic trimming
Replacing edits
Applying master clip effects
Stabilizing shaky footage
Animating titles and graphics
Creating motion graphic templates
Cleaning up audio
Automatic ducking
Using Render and Replace to preview effects
Multicamera editing

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Filling in the gaps
02 - What you should know
03 - What you can expect to learn

1. Premiere Pro Fundamentals

04 - Keys to the Adobe Premiere Pro interface
05 - Personalize the Premiere Pro interface
06 - Embed project workspaces
07 - The appearance preferences
08 - Personalize the Timeline panel
09 - Add buttons to the monitors
10 - Core editing recap
11 - Useful keyboard shortcuts
12 - Create a new keyboard shortcut
13 - Essential editing commands
14 - Reviewing clips
15 - Freeform view
16 - Edit directly from the Project panel
17 - Insert and overwrite modes

2. Media Management

18 - Unlinking and relinking
19 - Replace footage
20 - Nesting - Using sequences as source
21 - Clip stringouts
22 - Source audio channel selection
23 - The proxy workflow

3. Editing Faster

24 - Create a sequence based on a clip
25 - Dynamic trimming
26 - Fast sequence navigation
27 - Four-point edits
28 - Replace edits
29 - J-cuts and L-cuts
30 - The clip and sequence marker workflow

4. Visual Effect Principles

31 - It's all in the Effect Controls panel
32 - Master clip effects
33 - Dive into the Lumetri Color panel
34 - Color matching
35 - Group effect presets
36 - Stabilize or smooth shaky footage
37 - Mask video or visual effects
38 - Fast and slow motion video

5. Titles and Graphics

39 - Create new titles and simple graphics
40 - Master styles
41 - Master graphics
42 - Animate titles and graphics
43 - The Vector Motion effect
44 - Create motion graphic templates
45 - Tips on working with graphic media

6. Mastering Audio

46 - Essential Sound panel magic
47 - Audio cleanup
48 - How to dehum mic audio
49 - DeReverb - The impossible now possible
50 - Manual audio level adjustments
51 - Automatic audio ducking
52 - Why there are two mixers
53 - The Parametric EQ effect

7. Mixed Super Skills

54 - Clean up audio with Adobe Audition
55 - Retime music with Adobe Audition
56 - Usie After Effects as your effects engine
57 - Render and Replace
58 - Template project files
59 - Export with effects
60 - Multicamera editing

Conclusion

61 - Bonus lesson - The Track Matte Key effect
62 - Next steps