Premiere Pro Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Video Editing — PickAClass
⏱ 2h 36m 📚 26 lessons 🎧 Audio version

Premiere Pro Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Video Editing

Learn the essentials of video editing in Premiere Pro to transform raw footage into polished, engaging stories for social media, web, and personal projects.

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About this course

Stepping into the world of video editing can feel overwhelming when faced with complex timelines and endless tools. This text-based course breaks down Premiere Pro into clear, digestible concepts so you can start editing your own footage with confidence. You will progress from understanding the basic interface to executing clean cuts, adjusting audio, applying color corrections, and exporting high-quality videos. By studying practical written explanations and walking through step-by-step editing scenarios, you will build a solid foundation in modern video post-production. What you'll learn: - Understand the Premiere Pro workspace, panels, and project organization essentials. - Apply fundamental editing techniques to cut, trim, and arrange clips on the timeline. - Enhance your videos with basic transitions, titles, and text layers. - Adjust and clean up audio tracks for clear narration and balanced background music. - Perform basic color correction using Lumetri Color tools to improve footage quality. - Configure export settings optimized for modern social media platforms and web playback. The course begins with essential video terminology and interface navigation before guiding you through importing media, assembly editing, fine-tuning, and final delivery workflows. It is designed entirely for absolute beginners with no prior video editing experience. Start reading today and take control of your video projects.

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Practice questions 26 / 28
Assignments submitted 4 (avg 4.5 / 5)
Capstone project Reviewed — 4.6 / 5
Total practice 6.2 hrs
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Time to completion 11 days (median: 22)
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