Premiere Pro Tutorial: Ultimate Guide on Film Editing for Complete Beginners
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Premiere Pro Tutorial:
Ultimate Guide on Film Editing for Complete Beginners
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Are you a complete beginner in film editing and want to get into it? Have you just opened Premiere Pro and have no idea what to do? Watch Rory’s walkthrough of Premiere Pro on how to create a project from scratch 👉
Rory Nichols
Premiere Pro Tutorial: Ultimate Guide on Film Editing for Complete Beginners
Are you a complete beginner in film editing and want to get into it? Have you just opened Premiere Pro and have no idea what to do? Watch Rory’s walkthrough of Premiere Pro on how to create a project from scratch 👉
Trailer
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Intro
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Premiere Pro Basics
45
Create new project
111
Organizing your files
218
Editing tab
435
Create new sequence
467
Color coding footage
528
Working with footage
549
Keyboard shortcuts
688
Timeline overview
848
Immediate tools
969
Color correction
1358
Effect controls panel
1645
Media browse & effect panel
1745
Graphics tool
1860
Locating your footage
2044
Export
2177
Big scale project
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Ending
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Meet Rory
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What you’ll learn
Make sure you stay organized from the beginning – it is too easy to create chaos with a bigger project.
You do take criticism for a living but remember the criticism is not directed at you personally.
You will be working in a dark room many times, just remember why you get into editing in the first place – to have fun.
Make sure you master one of the programs first – it is better to be a master of one than to know all a little.
Masterclass chapters
In this masterclass, Rory Nichols teaches us all about the basics of how to create a project from scratch in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Premiere Pro basics
In this chapter, Rory will tell the basics of starting out with Adobe Premiere Pro, what hardware to use, and what screen to choose for editing.
Create new project
Then Rory will walk you through how to create a new project in PP step by step.
Organizing files
Moving on, he will show you how to organize your files. It is important to allocate raw footage to sequence bins for better visibility and navigation.
Editing tab
The editing tab can look a little bit confusing for Premiere Pro beginners, but as it is the main working area for your PP projects it's important to understand how it works.
Project sequence
Continuing, Rory will show you how to work with sequences and create new ones.
Color coding
Color coding your footage is a nice way of keeping your project organized, so you always know which footages have the same topic.
How to work with footage
In this chapter, Rory will show you how to work with footage on your editing tab in a nice flow.
Keyboard shortcuts
Knowing Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts will instantly speed up your process of editing. Who doesn't want that, right? Rory will show you the basics PP shortcuts and recommend you some custom keyboard shortcuts to set.
Timeline
Your instructor will show you how to use keyboard shortcuts when working with the timeline.
Tools
The immediate tools for Premiere Pro can be on the left of the timeline panel and they are important to know how to use to make your editing efficient.
Color correction
Color correcting is important in video editing because it fixes the imbalances in the colors so it appears how the eye should see it. Premiere Pro has a user-friendly color grading suite and Rory is walking you through it step by step.
Effects
The effect panel is an important part of editing a video, when you want to show the passing of time, want to add a nice transition at the end of your project, or have other creative ideas.
Graphics panel
If you want to add titles or texts, this is the panel you are looking for. You can use both existing or custom set graphics, and Rory will show you how to do it in this chapter.
Locating media
When you move your already used footage to a new folder, the PP timeline will sense that your footage went offline - sort of lost its link to the footage. If that happens to you, do not worry; Rory will show you how to locate them again in Premiere Pro.
Exporting
When finishing your project the last step is to export it from Premiere Pro. It can be confusing to navigate between all the options when exporting, so let Rory help you with that.
Big scale project
Editing a short video can be very different from working with big-scale projects. Rory will bring you an example of one of his big projects which he edited in Premiere Pro.
Rory Nichols
Director and editor
London, United Kingdom
"It is all about challenging yourself. You will be able to figure this out, you just need to throw yourself in a position where you are not 100% comfortable."
Rory Nichols is a freelance director and editor based in London.
He has a background in broadcast and advertising. He has worked on some of the UK’s top programs and with some household brands. He also has an exceptional understanding of storytelling.
Based in London, in the United Kingdom, AFGP works with businesses helping them devise, and produce their online video content to drive leads and sales to their business.
Rory Nichols started as a runner and now works as a freelance director and editor and is one half of the London-based production company A Few Good Productions.
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