Adobe Premiere Pro for Beginners
In May 2020 I presented a series of livestreams about Premiere Pro, with everyone's favourite host: Flyn Tracy. Here you'll links to each episode and a description of what we covered, in case you have nearly eight hours up your sleeve and want to relive this white-knuckle thrill ride into the bewildering wonder of … timelines.
Premiere for Beginners 01 – view on YouTube
What we covered:
Panels
- Workspaces
- changing the layout
- Program monitor
- what do the buttons do?
- Source monitor
- Timeline
- Workspace layouts
- Tools!
Importing media
- Drag straight from the Desktop, or double click "Import media to start"
- Organising media into bins
- Hover scrub
- What are PEK files?
Create a new timeline
- Drag a clip into the timeline to change the sequence settings
- OR drag clips on to the new clip icon
Using the source monitor
- Setting in and out points
- Using the keyboard
- Shuttle with
j k l
- Editing with buttons, editing with drag 'n' drop
- Source patching
Editing in the timeline
- Zooming the timeline with
z
and\
- Dragging clips
- Using "command key" to swap clips
- Linked selection
- Trimming clips
- Track targeting
- Adding new tracks
Premiere for Beginners 02 – view on YouTube
What we covered:
Fixing up footage
- Warp stabiliser
Adding titles
- Text tool (
t
) - Library titles
Adding narration
- Choose your audio input
- Choose the track
- And you're away
Effects and masks
- Crop effect and splitscreen
- Guides (
⌘;
), snap to guides - Import guides
- Positioning clips
- Limiting an effect with a mask
- Mask tracking
Premiere for Beginners 03 – view on YouTube
What we covered:
Grab bag
- Search bins
- Navigating with timecode
- Making multiple edits simultaneously
Advanced editing
- Add edit, all tracks (
⌘k, ⌘⇧k
) - Trim editor (
⇧t
) - Mark selection (
/
), mark clip (x
) - Match frame and reverse match frame (
f, ⇧r
) - Slip 'n' slide (
y, u
) - The mighty REPLACE edit
- Matching an edit to a song beat
Premiere for Beginners 04 – view on YouTube
What we covered:
Colour grading
- Lumetri colour
- White balance
- Contrast
- Applying LUTs
- Using an adjustment layer
Transitions
- Browsing effects
- Ensuring your clip has handles
- Changing duration and parameters
Music
- Adding a soundtrack
- Using markers for editing
Rendering
- File formats
- Resolution
- Cropping
Media management
- Transcoding for quicker editing
- Reconnecting missing media
- Project Manager, collecting files