Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Tutorial - MasterClass Training

Explore the entire video production workflow in Premiere Pro CS6, from non-linear editing and capturing assets to timeline editing, effects, and exporting your finished project.

Master non-linear editing with Premiere Pro by learning to reorder clips in the timeline, while edits remain digital, non-destructive, and reference-based to original files via the project.

Master shooting footage by using a variety of shots—from wide to tight and establishing to tracking and cutaways—while planning, lighting, and securing solid sound bites and a memorable closing shot.

Learn how to import video from a camcorder into Premiere Pro, including copying from flash media to a hard drive, using the AVCHD folder structure, and capturing videotape.

Discover how to edit video in Premiere Pro by organizing clips on a timeline, trimming with ripple and rolling edits, layering media, applying color correction and transitions, and adding titles.

Export your Premiere Pro CS6 project by selecting the timeline and choosing export media, then pick a format, presets, and options like work area or entire sequence, or still frames.

Optimize your Premiere Pro CS6 setup by aligning hardware with 64-bit system requirements, multi-core CPUs, ample RAM, fast storage, and a certified GPU for smooth playback and effects.

Start a new Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 project by setting location and name in the new project dialog. Drag clips to the new item icon to create a sequence.

Adjust Premiere Pro preferences to control default durations, timeline scrolling, media management, and trim behavior, including auto ripple, audio handling, autosave, and memory settings.

Explore the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 workspace in depth, navigating panels and frames from source and program monitors to effects, audio, markers, and sequences, with tips on customizing layouts.

Learn to customize the Premiere Pro CS6 workspace with engineer-prescribed layouts for color correction, effects, and audio, save and reset personalized workspaces.

Discover how to customize the Premiere Pro CS6 monitors—the program, source, and reference monitors—to gain more real estate for clearer video viewing. Learn to edit transport controls with the button editor, use keyboard shortcuts, and toggle show transport controls and time ruler numbers for a tailored workflow.

Move video from camcorders to your computer or hard drive by transferring from flash memory cards and AVCHD or DVC pro HD folders, then import into Premiere Pro.

Capture video from tape into Premiere Pro via FireWire and DV. Log clips with in/out points, use batch capture or scene detection, and organize avi links in the project panel.

Copy the video files from the DVD to a hard drive, then import them into Premiere Pro CS6. Use the media browser or folder import, not the DVD directly.

Learn how to import assets into Premiere Pro CS6 by creating links to video, audio, images, and graphics, not moving the originals.

Use the media browser to view and import assets in Premiere Pro, previewing with hover scrub and thumbnail view, then set in and out points in the source monitor.

Organize assets in the Premiere Pro CS6 project panel with bins, switch between list and thumbnail views, preview clips, set poster frames, and rename items.

learn why we edit with only one set of video and audio tracks (video 1, audio 1) in Premiere Pro CS6, and how rearranging clips reshapes the timeline.

Create a new sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 from scratch, choose presets that match your assets’ frame rate and resolution, and use automated or manual methods.

Learn to tell a story by arranging clips in a sequence, inserting and overwriting edits, and using snapping and keyboard shortcuts to control timing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

Use keyboard modifiers (ctrl on Windows, command on Mac) to perform overlay, insert, or overwrite edits when rearranging clips in a Premiere Pro CS6 sequence; apply ripple delete to fill gaps.

Pre-trim clips in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 using the source monitor or project panel, setting in and out points before assembling a sequence.

Master trimming in the timeline for a bike riding sequence using the trim tool, ripple edit, and rolling edit to create seamless edits and fill gaps with ripple delete.

Learn to edit with ripple and rolling edit tools in Premiere Pro CS6, using trim, ripple delete, and keyboard modifiers to adjust edit points and fill gaps in a timeline.

Master slip, slide, and razor edits in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to trim, cut, and rearrange clips, then use ripple delete for gaps.

Master the trim mode and trim monitor in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Perform ripple and rolling edits, adjust in and out points, watch timecode in the program monitor.

Learn to use cutaways in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to cover jump cuts and awkward zooms. Apply these techniques to interview and piano sequences.

Master wide and tight edits in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 by pairing wide and tight shots with matched action to create sequences.

Learn to create matched-action edits using markers in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, aligning wide and tight shots to preserve continuity, strengthen the storyline, and add precise cutaways.

Create freeze frames from your sequence and export them using the export frame icon or export settings. Use still frames in titles or elsewhere, then apply motion, scale, and dissolves.

Master changing clip speed in premiere pro cs6 to slow motion, fast motion, reverse, and freeze frame using rate stretch, speed duration, time remapping, ripple edits while maintaining audio pitch.

Learn to apply and customize transitions such as cross dissolve, wipe, iris, push, and page flip to mark place or time changes, match action, and set mood with restraint.

Explore how Premiere Pro CS6 transitions share a core set of properties—duration, alignment, direction, borders, and anti aliasing—to customize how transitions behave. Apply these properties via the effect controls panel and timeline, adjust the start and end points, and experiment with custom features to tailor each transition.

Apply, replace, and customize video transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 using the effects panel; explore default settings, one- and two-sided transitions, and examples like cross dissolve, iris, wipe.

Learn to apply and customize transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, adjusting duration and alignment, refining borders, color, and anti-aliasing, and using head/tail frames for smooth scene changes.

Explore specialized transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, including iris and zoom with start and end options, custom buttons, and gradient wipes for dynamic reveals.

Apply audio transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to create smooth crossfades between clips. Use constant power, constant gain, and exponential fade to match video transitions and avoid abrupt changes.

Discover how Premiere Pro's clip-based video effects, including motion, opacity, and time remapping, enhance footage, with GPU-accelerated standard effects, adjustable properties, and keyframing to animate changes.

Explore a wide range of video effects in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, including motion, opacity, blending modes, color correction, and keying with ultra key on an adjustment layer.

Master how to manage video effects in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, control their order, and create reusable presets. Learn applying, turning off, resetting, and saving complex effect chains.

Explore adjusting effect properties in Premiere Pro CS6, using motion, opacity, crop, and track matte controls; keyframes, scrubbing, and blending modes to shape visuals.

Animate effects in Premiere Pro CS6 by using keyframes to control properties like blur, color, and lens flare, and adjust timing via the Effect Controls panel.

Master keyframe management in Premiere Pro CS6 by copying, pasting, and moving gaussian blur and arithmetic keyframes across a new sequence, while using current time indicator and snapping for edits.

Master temporal interpolation by using ease in and ease out on keyframes to transform linear motion into gradual acceleration, deceleration, and smoother spatial changes.

Learn blur and sharpening in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, with Gaussian blur as the go-to, plus camera blur, fast blur, directional blur, channel blur, and unsharp mask.

Explore Adobe Premiere Pro CS6's distort effects, from magnify and lens distortion to quarter pins and wave, with keyframing, transform, and work stabilizer techniques.

Explore the stylize effects in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, applying alpha glow, brush strokes, emboss, find edges, mosaic, posterize, and texture for creative color and edge detail.

Master generate effects in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, applying four color gradient, grid, checkerboard, circle, paint bucket, and ramp with adjustment layers for precise blending, opacity control, and color work.

Explore lighting, omni light, and lens flare to set mood and focus, and learn to color lens flare with a solid color clip and screen blend mode, hue keyframing.

learn to smooth shaky footage with the warp stabilizer in premiere pro cs6, using presets like smooth motion or subspace warp and managing crop and edge framing.