Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors

Fill the gaps in your Premiere Pro knowledge. Learn principles and advanced workflows designed to round out the skills of a self-taught video editor.

Introduction

• Filling in the gaps
• What you should know
• What you can expect to learn

1. Premiere Pro Fundamentals

• Keys to the Adobe Premiere Pro interface
• Personalize the Premiere Pro interface
• Embed project workspaces
• The appearance preferences
• Personalize the Timeline panel
• Add buttons to the monitors
• Core editing recap
• Useful keyboard shortcuts
• Create a new keyboard shortcut
• Essential editing commands
• Reviewing clips
• Freeform view
• Edit directly from the Project panel
• Insert and overwrite modes

2. Media Management

• Unlinking and relinking
• Replace footage
• Nesting: Using sequences as source
• Clip stringouts
• Source audio channel selection
• The proxy workflow

3. Editing Faster

• Create a sequence based on a clip
• Dynamic trimming
• Fast sequence navigation
• Four-point edits
• Replace edits
• J-cuts and L-cuts
• The clip and sequence marker workflow

4. Visual Effect Principles

• It's all in the Effect Controls panel
• Master clip effects
• Dive into the Lumetri Color panel
• Color matching
• Group effect presets
• Stabilize or smooth shaky footage
• Mask video or visual effects
• Fast and slow motion video

5. Titles and Graphics

• Create new titles and simple graphics
• Master styles
• Master graphics
• Animate titles and graphics
• The Vector Motion effect
• Create motion graphic templates
• Tips on working with graphic media

6. Mastering Audio

• Essential Sound panel magic
• Audio cleanup
• How to dehum mic audio
• DeReverb: The impossible now possible
• Manual audio level adjustments
• Automatic audio ducking
• Why there are two mixers
• The Parametric EQ effect

7. Mixed Super Skills

• Clean up audio with Adobe Audition
• Retime music with Adobe Audition
• Usie After Effects as your effects engine
• Render and Replace
• Template project files
• Export with effects
• Multicamera editing

Conclusion

• Bonus lesson: The Track Matte Key effect
• Next steps