Getting Started with Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Pro

Introduction

• What you'll learn in this course
• Using the exercise files
• Meet your instructor

1. How to Approach Video Editing

• The goal of video editing
• Working nondestructively
• Configuring your computer for best results

2. Organizing Your Media

• Choosing a hard drive for editing
• Transferring your media to a drive
• Organizing a project with the Common Media folder
• Browsing and renaming clips
• Transferring a project from Rush to Premiere Pro

3. Setting Up Your Project in Premiere Pro

• Creating a new Premiere Pro project
• Importing assets into Premiere Pro
• Organizing footage with bins in Premiere Pro
• Syncing clips
• Creating a sequence in Premiere Pro
• Setting your Premiere Pro project for autobackup
• Creating a project template in Premiere Pro

4. Sequencing Clips to Tell a Story

• Searching and finding clips in Premiere Pro
• Marking in and out points in Premiere Pro
• The role of subclips in Premiere Pro
• Adding clips to a Premiere Pro sequence

5. Refining Clips in a Sequence

• Making top and tail edits in Premiere Pro
• Trimming and extending clips in Premiere Pro
• Adding a transition to a clip in Premiere Pro

6. Organizing Your Sequence

• The role of tracks in a Premiere Pro sequence
• Setting up multiple audio tracks for audio mixing in Premiere Pro
• Adding elements to a higher video track in Premiere Pro
• Changing the order of shots in a Premiere Pro sequence
• Locking the story

7. An Introduction to Color and Image Correction

• Every shot needs color correction and reusing adjustments on multiple clips
• Fixing exposure in a video clip in Premiere Pro
• Refining color in a video clip in Premiere Pro
• Improving a shot's aesthetics in Premiere Pro
• Sending a shot to After Effects with Dynamic Link

8. An Introduction to Audio

• Revisiting track organization
• An introduction to the Essential Sound panel in Premiere Pro
• Normalizing volume for several clips in Premiere Pro
• Mixing music and sound effects with the Essential Sound panel
• An introduction to manually adjusting audio

9. An Introduction to Graphics

• An introduction to the Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro
• Working with graphic templates in Premiere Pro
• Importing graphics from Photoshop in Premiere Pro
• Adding open captions to your video in Premiere Pro

10. Finalizing Your Project

• Backing up your Premiere Pro project files
• Backing up your media in Premiere Pro
• Trimming a Premiere Pro project for archive
• Exporting a video file from Premiere Pro
• Take more control with Adobe Media Encoder

Conclusion

• Next steps