Premiere Pro Course Online April 7, 2025 Introduction

Understanding digital video: foundations for Premiere Pro editing

• Understanding video settings
• Input & output formats
• Dimensions, frame rate, and pixel aspect ratio
• Online and social media video standards
• Understanding time code

Learning the Premiere Pro interface 

• Understanding the default workspaces
• Switching and resetting Premiere Pro workspaces
• Working with Premiere Pro panels 
• Understanding the application tools
• Setting application preferences
• Appearance & memory
• Using the project panel
• Understanding media management & creating and organizing bins
• Using the media browser panel
• Previewing clips: hover scrub vs source monitor
• Transcoding video
• Locating missing media  in Premiere Pro: where it is located and what it is named

Learning to edit clips in the Premiere Pro timeline   

• The cuts-only editing methodology: continuity editing
• A Roll vs. B Roll
• Cut-ins and cut-aways; cutting on action
• Working with multiple video tracks
• Adding and deleting tracks
• Renaming tracks
• Trimming clips in the Premiere Pro source monitor
• Adding clips to the timeline
• Making insert and overwrite edits
• Using the timeline editing tools
• Markers: timeline vs clip

Using video & audio transitions in Premiere Pro

• Understanding​ transitions
• Adding transitions to video clips
• Preparing a clip to receive transitions
• Editing transition settings
• Adding an audio transition

Learning to use Premiere Pro graphics

• Understanding the uses of titles in video
• Creating graphic clips in Premiere Pro
• Adding images to a graphic clip
• Using the legacy titler
• Creating an end credit roll
• Controlling the speed of a rolling title
• Working with graphic clips on the timeline
• Creating a graphics template

Working with imported graphics in Premiere Pro

• Working with Photoshop  and Illustrator Files in Premiere Pro
• Importing layered Photoshop files into Premiere Pro projects
• Understanding and animating static clip effects
• Understanding position, scale, rotation, and opacity with Premiere Pro
• Using Premiere Pro to add transitions and effects to images

Using Premiere Pro Video Effects

• Understanding video effects in Premiere Pro
• Animating static clip effects
• Adjusting position, scale, rotation, and opacity for video in Premiere Pro
• Applying Premiere pro video effects to clips
• Understanding the Premiere Pro timeline vs project panel

Using greenscreen footage in Premiere Pro

• Creating a garbage matte in Premiere Pro
• Working with the ultra keyer

Learning to stabilize shaky footage with Premiere

• Evaluating shaky footage
• Using the warp stabilizer

Introduction to Premiere Pro audio editing

• Understanding clip audio
• Working with various audio types, including standard, mono, and 5.1 audio
• Using the essential audio panel
• Assigning audio clip types in Premiere
• Animating clip volume

Outputting video from Premiere Pro

• Exporting video from Premiere Pro
• Understanding Adobe Media Encoder export from Premiere Pro
• Exporting video directly from Premiere Pro
• Exporting video from Premiere Pro for social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) & Mobile Devices
• Exporting video from Premiere Pro for desktop and broadband distribution
• Understanding video file settings, including video dimensions, formats and codecs, bit-rate, frame rate, and aspect ratio

The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your  Premiere Pro questions.