Adobe Premiere Pro Course for Beginners: Video Editing 2026

You’ll get a VIP tour round the screen windows and basic tools. We’ll look at the best workspace options for editing on your own screen(s) size. We’ll show you what each panel does, how to open a new sequence on the “timeline”, and how to move around the video you’re working on fast and effectively.

You’ll be able to download all the media assets for the “Bentley Cars” video onto your system, the main footage, cutaways (or B-Roll), stock shots, graphics, music and voiceover files and we’ll show how to import everything onto your system in an organised way.

You don’t need a separate audio editing program when you’re doing simple selecting from voiceover rushes; here’s how to do it and to insert easily to the timeline.

We’re continuing to interpret the editing script given by your imaginary Producer. Here’s how to find the correct part of the interview when the pesky Producer hasn’t given you timecodes.

In this video, we’ll sort out the strange audio issue we’ve found on the provided video as well as selecting the next interview clip to place on the timeline.

We lay the rest of the assets down and discover three ways of putting the assets close to each other, eliminating timeline gaps.

Here, we discuss the correct job order when editing and how to close gaps on video and audio when fine-tuning the timeline.

How relevant illustrative shots or “cutaways” pasting over voiceover and interview clips make it more watchable as well as giving the opportunity to hide visual problems such as jump cuts. We’ll add aerial shots of the car plant, workshop scenes and other relevant pictures to the “sync” material already on the timeline.

Here, I’ll share my own choice of cutaways on the timeline, but your choice may be just as good or better for telling the story effectively. I’ll give you some tips for quick editing of short cutaways on the timeline itself rather than using “I” and “O” all the time.

So if you’re happy with everything so far, what about adding video transitions? When it is best to leave straight cuts as they are and when does it look cool to add cross dissolves or other transitions? We’ve a very quick way of adding cross dissolves to all your shots if you need it, and identify a cool library of 3rd party transitions. Also how do you set the default video transition period? We’ll also add the “Lower Third” graphic here and show you how to add basic titles direct to the screen in the Edit pane.

We choose some appropriate music from a stock music library and show how to add it to the timeline, getting the levels right and how to fade it in and out at the right moments.

Here’s how to select the correct parameters and settings of your final video with the myriad of options available to you. Is the video needed for TV broadcast, YouTube or any of the social media outlets that need lower quality video formats? We’ll show you the options and how to apply them easily. Congratulations! You’ve edited your very first project using Adobe Premiere Pro! Do you need to use still images from your video footage to use as thumbnails for YouTube, or for promotional use in the media? Here’s how to export quality still with one click! Also, the video you’ve edited has been a big success but how can you create a shorter version for another use, such as Twitter? We also show how to use the “Double Razor” tool to hack any video with multiple layers down fast!

A whistle stop tour round what we’ve learnt plus 10 quick questions and the answers to test your knowledge so far!

What can you do when you have some cool background graphics that are not loopable? Here’s how to avoid any horrendous jump cuts. We’ll also look at how to copy and paste to specific tracks on your timeline.

This is a project which is a bit more advanced as we have to fix - in edit - various problems with the footage! Let’s first import the new material and get started. It includes a reporter’s “PTC” or Piece To Camera at the start.

PLAYBACK TIME We discuss how to cope with cutting videos from sub-standard footage, working in TV newsrooms under pressure and we show you our own edit to compare with yours.

KEYFRAME INTRODUCTION & WARP STABILIZER. Here’s how we used the power of the features of Premiere to improve much of the poor video and audio quality of the footage that we had. You’ll learn how to flip and speed up shots, use the Warp Stabilizer to correct wobbly shots as well as other editing tips.

AUDIO QUALITY. So, what can you do in Premiere Pro to improve the audio quality without using a specialist audio program such as Adobe Audition? There’s plenty! We also explain why you saw that error message in my playback.

Although we do have a complete and comprehensive course on nothing else but Chromakey or “Green screen” filming and editing called The Green Screen Challenge, here’s a quick primer in how to do this work yourself in Premiere Pro.

What if you have shots that start on one media card and continue on another in your camera? Media Browser to the rescue! Here’s all you need to know about the Media Browser that Premiere Pro has as well as understanding importing Photoshop and Illustrator files and when and how to link and unlink the video and audio parts of files.

Showing how to take the hassle out of editing footage from 2, 3 or more cameras that were all rolling at the same time but have their own timecodes! Plus we show you have to use “Multicamera” where the software offers you a virtual vison mixing desk!

What’s the point of being able to record voiceovers directly in Premiere Pro? Plenty of points - and we’ll show you in this video!

Using easy short cut keys and also speeding up interview clips and voiceover can help the speed of your work. We’ve already used many of the default keyboard shortcuts, but here’s how to set up your own for your own needs.

Computer going slow? Here’s how to carry on working changing the viewing and editing resolution without affecting the final output as well as ensuring you don’t lose a lot of editing work if your computer crashes or if you accidentally delete things.

Although we touched on key frames in the hovercraft video, here’s a fuller explanation as you’ll use these often for creativity. As an example, we start with a still company logo and animate its elements and add music for corporate and training videos.

Why would you ever want to unlink video from audio? Here’s an explanation and also how to unlink and link together again easily, without losing synchronisation.

In these days of privacy and data protection, how can you easily blur a face or car number plate? It’s quite easy if it’s still, but what if it’s moving? What if you need to subtly move a lighting effect as a shot progresses? Premiere Pro makes it easy and we’ll show you.

So what if you have, for example a graphic or shot used throughout your video and your producer tells you to replace all of them with a new, updated element? Or change an effect on the same shot seen throughout the video? No problem, we’ll show you what to do. We’ll also look at how to use this feature to customise ready-made templates for your own projects.

We visit the mysterious “top tabs” and give you are alternative ways to deal with the audio mix of your video and other ways to correct audio issues. Plus an easy way to mix voiceover with music using the “automatic duck” system!

It’s easy to forget to “White Balance” or under expose or over expose when filming, but here’s how to “fix it in post” with Adobe Premiere Pro CC’s powerful colour correction facilities. Adobe could easily have sold this as an “extra” product, but it’s included inside Premiere Pro – wonderful Hollywood quality video grading tools!

This can be a lifesaver for some projects where you need to boost or mute one particular colour in various shots or even change it completely!

Even more artistic potential is available with nameable multiple adjustment layers that can change the look of the whole video easily and quickly, applying effects to everything beneath it.

Let’s look under the hood and to find a myriad of selections to make your life far easier for your particular types of video editing project! We’ll explain how to reset your software to factory settings and go through very line of the extensive Preferences Tabs.

What if you have finished your video, with assets from folders all around your computer and you need to give the whole lot to your client or another editor? Here’s the easy way to do it!

So you’ve finished your video, and you now realise that not only do social media need different technical parameters, but they often need a different frame size, even portrait frame size! We’ll show you have Premiere Pro’s “Auto-Reframe” makes re-versioning for different social media platforms a breeze.

Here, we’ll show you how to make screen titles and name captions using the three main methods, using the Legacy titler, the simple Direct-On-Screen method and by using the awesome capabilities of the latest “Essential Graphics” panel, which even has animated graphics templates built in.

It’s so important to create subtitled videos especially for social media productions, where people preview them mute. We’ll show you how to create them yourself manually or a very easy and quick way to semi-automate the process. You’ll also learn the different international subtitling systems as well.

It’s time to give a big hand to the cast and crew! Here’s how to give a professional touch to the end of your video with scrolling credits! The way we create these types of graphics are far more intuitive than before, and we’ll show you step-by-step what to do along with the various options.