Finish a project: stabilization, reframing, cross dissolves, titles/credits, black video
Mix audio with Essential Sound panel; apply audio effects and transitions
Color grade with Lumetri Color: scopes, controls, and grading workflow; plus masks & tracking
About the free online course
Turn raw footage into polished videos with confidence by learning a complete, real-world editing workflow in Adobe Premiere. This free online course is built for creators, students, and professionals who want practical skills they can apply immediately, whether you are editing social content, client work, interviews, or short films.
You will get comfortable inside the Premiere interface from day one, including how projects relate to your media, how to organize assets intelligently, and how to set up preferences that prevent common slowdowns. From there, the course guides you into faster performance strategies like GPU acceleration, smart autosave habits, and modern proxy and transcoding approaches that make high-resolution editing smoother on a wider range of computers.
As you progress, you will develop strong timeline skills: creating sequences that match your footage, navigating with speed, and building efficient habits with keyboard shortcuts. You will learn how to trim with intent, control pacing, and use professional editing tools to reshape moments without breaking your structure. The course also addresses real production problems such as syncing audio and video, reconnecting offline media, and quickly detecting cuts in an existing clip to jumpstart revisions.
To help your edits feel finished, you will practice essential finishing workflows such as adding titles and credits, working with transitions, applying video and audio effects, creating slow motion correctly, and using masks and tracking for targeted adjustments. You will also learn to improve sound with the Essential Sound panel and elevate the look of your footage through Lumetri Color grading, including how to read scopes so your corrections are consistent and intentional.
By the end, you will have a clearer, repeatable editing process that makes you faster, more organized, and more capable of delivering professional results. If you are looking for a free course to strengthen your video editing skills and produce work you are proud to share, this training is a solid step forward.
Course content
Video class: Premiere Pro Proxy Workflow Proprietary and Old-School24m
Exercise: _What are the benefits of using the old-style proxy workflow in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E1 - The Splash Screen - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202012m
Exercise: What is the benefit of enabling GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E2 - Preferences and Project Settings - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202013m
Exercise: Where do you find the preferences menu in Premiere Pro on a Mac?
Video class: E3 - Project Files - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202006m
Exercise: _What is the relationship between a project file and media files in Adobe Premiere Pro?
Video class: E4 - Premiere Rush - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202012m
Exercise: What feature does Premiere Rush offer for editing projects?
Video class: E5 - Keyboard Shortcuts or Hotkeys - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202011m
Exercise: How can you access keyboard shortcut settings on a PC in the referenced software?
Video class: E6 - Windows Layouts - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202006m
Exercise: _What are window layouts in Adobe Premiere Pro?
Video class: E7 - Undo, Redo, and History - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202004m
Exercise: What happens to the history list in Premiere when you close and reopen the software?
Video class: E8 - Autosave - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202011m
Exercise: What is the purpose of the autosave feature in video editing software?
Video class: E9 - Importing Media - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202014m
Exercise: _What are the three different ways to open the import window in Premiere Pro 2020?
Video class: E10 - Ingest, Copy, Transcode, Proxies - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202010m
Video class: E11 - Speeding up Editing by Transcoding - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202014m
Exercise: What is the benefit of using intraframe compression over interframe compression when editing high-resolution videos?
Video class: E12 - Proxy Workflow, Proprietary Method - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202025m
Exercise: _What is proxy editing in Adobe Premiere?
Video class: E13 - Old-School Proxy Workflow - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202014m
Exercise: What is the primary reason for using the old school proxy method?
Video class: E14 - Scale or Set to Frame Size - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202008m
Exercise: What is the purpose of the 'Scale to Frame Size' option in a video editing software?
Video class: E15 - Project Window Pt. 1: Window Selection and Full Screen - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202003m
Exercise: _What are the four main work areas in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E16 - Project Window Pt. 2: Folders, Bins,03m
Exercise: What is the historical origin of the term 'bin' in film editing?
Video class: E17 - Project Window Pt. 3: List, Icon, Freeform View - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202008m
Exercise: What are the different view modes discussed in the video transcript for organizing media files?
Video class: E18 - Project Window Pt. 4: Search Files04m
Video class: E19 - Project Window Pt. 5: Bins and New Item - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202003m
Video class: E20 - Source Window18m
Video class: E21 - TIMELINE Part 1 Menu and Tabs - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202004m
Exercise: _What is the shortcut to open the sequence or timeline window in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E22 - TIMELINE Part 2 Timecode and Track Height - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202002m
Video class: E23 -TIMELINE Part 3 Track Output, Targeting, Sync Lock, Source Patching -Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202004m
Video class: E24 - TIMELINE Part 4 Mute, Solo, Zoom In Out, JKL, and Navigation - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202003m
Exercise: _What is the purpose of the mute and solo buttons in Adobe Premiere?
Video class: E25 - TIMELINE Part 5 Wrench, Settings, Through Edits - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202002m
Video class: E26 - The Program Window - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202010m
Video class: E27 - Creating New Timelines or Sequences - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202009m
Exercise: _What should you keep in mind when creating a new timeline in Adobe Premiere if you're going to be mixing formats and resolutions?
Video class: E28 - The Selection Tool - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202005m
Video class: E29 - All tracks Forward/Backward - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202004m
Video class: E30 - The Ripple Edit - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202003m
Exercise: _What is the shortcut key to select the Ripple Edit Tool in Adobe Premiere?
Video class: E31 - The Roll Edit - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202001m
Video class: E32 - The Rate Stretch - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202001m
Video class: E33 - The Razor Tool - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202004m
Exercise: _What is the shortcut key to select the Razor Tool in Adobe Premiere?
Video class: E34 - The Slip and Slide Tools - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202003m
Video class: E35 - Pen, Rectangle, Ellipse - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202004m
Video class: E36 - The Hand and Zoom Tools - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202003m
Exercise: _What is the shortcut for selecting the hand tool in Adobe Premiere?
Video class: E37 - The Type and Vertical Type Tools - The Tool Bar - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202002m
Video class: E38 - How to Edit Basics with Assembly Editing - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202013m
Video class: E39 - Adding Black Video - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202008m
Video class: E40 - How to Edit using TRIMMING - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202013m
Video class: E41 - How to Edit Using RIPPLE AND ROLL - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202007m
Video class: E42 - How to Edit: Trim Window and Dynamic Trimming - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202011m
Exercise: _What is the shortcut to access the trim window in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E43 - How to Edit - Editing a Scene in a Movie - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202012m
Video class: E44 - How to Sync Audio and Video and Merge - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202018m
Video class: E45 - How to Edit - Editing Dialogue - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202022m
Exercise: _What is a master shot in a scene of dialogue according to Chinfat's explanation?
Video class: E46 - Prepping a Project: Cross Dissolves, Stabilizing, and Reframing - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202015m
Video class: E47 - Prepping a Project: Credits and Titles - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202010m
Video class: E48 - Sound Mixing a Short Film Pt. 1 - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202022m
Exercise: _What is the essential sound panel and where can you find it in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E49 - Sound Mixing a Short Film Pt. 2 - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202025m
Video class: E50 - Color Grading with Lumetri, Pt.1: THE SCOPES - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202018m
Video class: E51 - Color Grading with Lumetri, Pt.2: THE CONTROLS - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202032m
Exercise: _What is the name of the panel that is used for color grading in Adobe Premiere by Chinfat?
Video class: E52 - Color Grading with Lumetri, Pt.3: GRADING A PROJECT - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202026m
Video class: Premiere Pro Lumetri Color Grading entire lesson: The Scopes, The Controls, and Grading a Project1h16m
Video class: E53 - Slow Motion13m
Exercise: _What is the key to achieving slow motion footage in Adobe Premiere?
Video class: E54 - Video Effects - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202010m
Video class: E55 - Audio Effects - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202007m
Video class: E56 - Video Transitions - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202016m
Exercise: _What is the shortcut to add a cross dissolve transition in Premiere Pro?
Video class: E57 - Audio Transitions - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202009m
Video class: E58 - Reconnecting Offline Media - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202010m
Video class: E59 - Scene Edit Detection - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202005m
Exercise: _What is the purpose of the Scene Edit Detection feature in Premiere Pro 14.4 version?
Video class: E60 - Masks and Mask Tracking - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 202009m
Course comments: Adobe Premiere
Natnael fikermariam mossa
nice
Felix Ticong Jr.
This course done a great presentation and teach the student step by step process and explain very well to enhance the skills as a video editor.