Video Editing complete course | Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021

It’s now time to download all the material needed for the course. You will need 2.5 GBs of free disk space in your machine to be able to download it and follow the course properly.

Here in the resources you will find two links that will download automatically the Material, which had to be split into two parts due to the files' size.

You will download two .ZIP files named:

- Premiere Pro 2020_Beginners Course_MATERIAL_01.zip

- Premiere Pro 2020_Beginners Course_MATERIAL_02.zip

Once downloaded those files I recommend copying them somewhere in your machine and unzip them.

Inside each file you will find the Folders for the individual SECTIONS, Section Numbers and relative Titles (S.00_xxx). As you can see, the sections start from number S.02 as the first Section doesn’t require any material or exercise.

In the file "Premiere Pro 2020_Beginners Course_MATERIAL_01" you will find the sections from 02 to 11 and in the file "Premiere Pro 2020_Beginners Course_MATERIAL_02" you will find the sections from 12 to 18.

I'd suggest to Create a new Main Folder called "Premiere Pro 2020_Beginners Course_MATERIAL" and drag all the sections in there, to have everything in the same place.

Inside each Sections folder you will find 2 subfolders, one called "S.xx_Lecture" (where you will find the material for that specific section and where you will save the project for that section too) and one called "S.xx_Exercise" (where you will find the material for the same section's exercise and where you will save the project for that exercise).

Everything will make sense as soon as we start with the first lecture.

After completing your exercise on your own, in the Course Content, you’ll see an “Exercise Review” video, where I do the exercise too. This is for you to double check what you have done and can be used as a reminder for anything you might have missed. Also, for each section, before the exercise, still in the Course Content, you will find a quiz to revise what you’ve just learned.

Don’t worry now, after a few sections together you’ll get use to the workflow.

You'll also find a list of the keyboard shortcuts used in the course.

Great, now that you have what’s needed, let’s get to know Adobe Premiere.

FOR WINDOWS USERS:

When you download the Material folders, you'll see some files named "._.DS.Store", ".DS.Store" and also the video files starting with "._". These are all files of reference that Mac computers create. Just ignore them.

You will be able to import the files in Premiere by just ignoring those DS files, when prompted.

In this lecture you will learn the most important thing about Premiere:

- how to launch it.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- how to update Premiere pro

- how to quit Premiere Pro.

In this Lecture you'll learn:

- how to create a new Premiere Pro Project.

Here you'll learn:

- how to save  your Premiere Pro projects.

Here you will learn:

- how to close and re-open and existing Premiere pro project.

Tasks for this exercise:

- Create a new project in Premiere, call it S.02_Exercise and save it in the relative S.02_Exercise / “AP Project” folder. Make sure you check the scratch disks too.

- Set up an autosave with a 2 seconds interval

- Save it with cmd + s and close the project.

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- what a workspace is

- what panels are.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- how to open and close panels

- how to create, customise and save a workspace

Tasks for this exercise:

- Create a new Premiere project and call it "S.03_Exercise”.

- Save this project in “S.03_WORKSPACES & PANELS / S.03_Exercise / Ap Project”.

- Open the screen grab named “S.03_Exercise Workspace” that you can find in “S.03_WORKSPACES & PANELS / S.03_Exercise / Material”.

- Re-create the same layout of the workspace that you will see in the screen grab file and save it as a new workspace, with the name “Your name_1 monitor_Basic Editing”.

- Save the project and close it.

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- how to import media and footage in Premiere Pro in different ways.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- what the Project Panel is and what's for.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- what a clip is and how it looks

- the different types of media and how to identify them through their unique icons.

In this video you'll learn:

- tips on how to organise your project and your folders in Premiere Pro and finder

Tasks for this exercise:

- Create a new Project “S.04_Exercise” and save it in “S.04_Exercise”/ AP Project folder.

- Import the material from S.05_Lecture.

- Play with material and revise the icons

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

In this video we will set up the project for the next lectures together.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- what a sequence is.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- how to create sequences, in many different ways, with the correct settings matching your footage.

In this video you'll understand:

- when it is useful to create and use different sequences in the same project.

In this awesome lecture you'll learn:

- how to create sequences for the social media platforms (such as Instagram, youtube, facebook and Tik Tok) in different aspect ratios: 16:9, 1:1, 9:16

In this episode you will understand:

- what off-line material is and why it goes off-line

- how to re-link off-line material

Tasks for this exercise:

- Create a new Project “S.05_Exercise” and save it in “S.05_Exercise”/ AP Project folder.

- Import the material from S.04_Lecture.

- Set your Custom workspace “Name_1 monitor_Basic editing”

- Create a mini edit travel vlog exactly as we did before. The clips will not be in the exact same order as our previous example though, so you will have to reorder some on the timeline. Your final video should look like the one shown in the "Exercise description" video, which you can also download from the "resources" in this tab.

- Create a sequence by dragging the ”A-roll clips” into the timeline and name it correctly. The duration of this video will be 30”.

- Create other 2 sequences in 2 other ways, (new item icon in Project panel and Cmd + N) and once you have done that, delete them again.

- Duplicate the only sequence left, create a “Progressions folder” inside the “Edits” folder and drag that sequence in there too.

- Duplicate the main sequence twice again, change their aspect ratio in the names and adjust the sequence settings of both new sequences for 1:1 and 9:16. Make sure to adjust the material through the Effect Control panel.

- You can make your footage offline and practice to relink it.

- Make sure your project is well organised with the sequences in the right folders.

- Save the project when you are done and I’ll catch you in the next lesson.

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

In this video you'll understand:

- what the timeline is and how to use it.

In this lecture we'll set up the project together and you'll earn:

- what the tracks on the timeline are and how they work

- how to add and delete tracks to/from the timeline.

In this lecture you'll learn how to:

- change the size and width of the track on the timeline, also through useful keyboard shortcuts.

In this lecture you'll learn how to:

- mute and blind tracks on the timeline

- create markers on the timeline and on individual clips

- use the track targeting

- how to enable/disable a clip on the timeline

- how to lock the tracks

Tasks for this exercise:

- Create a new Project “S.06_Exercise”, save it in “S.06_Exercise/AP Project” and import the material S.06_Exercise/Material.

- Re-create the preview video that you can find in the "Resources" of this Lecture.

- Create a new sequence and name it. Duration 32”

- Following the video preview and what you have learned in the lectures, try to edit the clips in the right order. Keep in mind that the clip with the music this time plays from the beginning to the end of the video and you will have to split the A-roll clips on different tracks this time. I’ll leave you with the challenge to figure out what I mean.

- Link the video and the audio of S.06_Exercise_Music clip

- Finish the edit by adding the B-roll clips, as shown in the video preview, to a new track 4 (choose the way you want)

- Delete any empty track.

- Name the remaining tracks according to their footage

- Increase height of all video and audio tracks together (shift - +)

- Loop the sequence

- Play the sequence to check

- Lock all the tracks

- Save and close

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

In this video we will set up the project needed for the next lectures and also you will learn:

- what the Source and Program Monitors are.

In this lecture you will learn:

- the main differences and similarities between the Source & the Program monitors.

In this episode you'll learn:

- how to drag video and audio clips from the Source Monitor to the Timeline.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- how to add marks IN / OUT to create sections of clips in the Source Panel

- how to use the Source Patching of the timeline

- how to insert & overwrite clips from the Source Panel to the timeline

Tasks for this exercise:

- Check the Preview video in the Resources of this lecture and re-create the same edit

- Check the media

- Start with the music track, which has been cut with right duration for the video

- The first 5 B-roll clips have already been cut so you only need to drag them on the timeline, in V1

- The clips 06/07 need to be trimmed with the IN / OUT marks in the source monitor. Check the preview video for reference.

- Some clips will have also audio, which we do not need, so choose a way to mute the audio or bring only the video part to the timeline.

- Save and close the project.

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

In this lecture we'll set up the project needed for the next lectures and you'll learn:

- how to edit clips with the Razor tool.

In this lecture you'll learn:

- how to use different tools to edit your clips

- the ripple tool & slip tool

You can also find a preview video in the Resources of this lecture to help you finishing to edit the footage of the lecture.

Tasks for this exercise:

- As we have learned how to create a sequence and covered some basic editing, in this exercise I would like you to edit your first video on your own. I am not showing you any preview video for this lecture cause I want you to start being more creative and make up the story yourself.

- Create a new project from scratch, and call it “S.08_Exercise” and save it in “S.08_TRIM CLIPS/S.08_Exercise/AP Project”.

- Import the material from the folder “S.08_TRIM CLIPS/S.08_Exercise/Material”

- You can use the clips as you wish, create your story, your mini documentary. Check my sample in this Exercise description video for reference.

- Create a sequence.

- Edit a video by cutting the clips and music as we have learned through the previous lectures.

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.