Premiere Pro 2026
Fundamentals Training Course
In this hands-on class you will learn to create compelling video. The course covers capturing, editing, special effects, graphics, titles and final production.
What's Included
- Certificate of Course Completion
- Training Manual
- FREE Class Repeat (valid for 6 months)
3 Days
$1050.00
Live face-to-face instructor
No minimum class size - all classes guaranteed to run!
No prior experience of Premiere Pro is needed. Training available on Mac and PC.
View our full range of Adobe Premiere Pro training courses, or see below for the detailed outline for Premiere Pro Fundamentals.
Detailed Course Outline
Learn how Premiere Pro works with video, audio, and modern media formats and begin editing immediately.
- Lecture: About Premiere Pro workflows
- Lecture: Artificial Intelligence features in Premiere Pro
- Managing, importing, and organizing media
- Creating and managing new projects efficiently
- Interface navigation and workspace fundamentals
- Core editing concepts and essential shortcuts
Customize Premiere Pro to dramatically speed up editing.
- Task-based workspace strategies
- Customizing and rebuilding workspaces for speed
- Clip trimming, ripple edits, roll edits, and slip techniques
- Precision nudging, swapping, and timeline manipulation
Master trimming techniques that separate fast editors from slow ones.
- High-speed editing workflows
- Tools versus backend trimming features
- Speed-based analysis and clip tagging
- Keeping tracks synchronized while editing
- Efficient trimming shortcuts and strategies
Understand professional editing pipelines from ingest to delivery.
- Working with different cameras and codecs
- Building and managing custom sequences
- Editing projects from start to finish
- Exporting content for social media, web, and broadcast
Optimize Premiere Pro for your system and workflow.
- How Premiere Pro uses your GPU and CPU
- Color labels, markers, and sync-based organization
- Improving performance through preferences
- Previewing output to external monitors and devices
Go beyond basic cutting by adding text and simple effects.
- Managing difficult media and mixed formats
- Creating, managing, and using proxy media
- Working with markers and structured edits
- Understanding how text and graphics function in Premiere
Gain control over complex timelines and professional workflows.
- Alternate timeline editing approaches
- Track targeting and sync lock strategies
- Speed changes and retiming workflows
- Trim Mode and JKL-based editing
- Local storage versus cloud-based projects
Use the right tools for faster, cleaner edits.
- Efficient tool usage overview
- Alternatives to common tools
- Techniques that save time in real projects
- Editing strategies that improve accuracy and speed
Use metadata to organize, search, and automate workflows.
- Working with bins, views, and smart organization
- Sorting clips using metadata and visual indicators
- Editing and creating custom metadata fields
- Embedded versus sidecar metadata
- Managing duplicate clips and clip IDs
Apply and customize effects and transitions correctly.
- Why trimming matters for effects and transitions
- Transition categories and best use cases
- Applying and modifying transitions
- Using core video effects effectively
Understand formats, compression, and delivery requirements.
- How video and audio formats work
- Understanding compression and color pipelines
- Choosing the right formats for delivery
- Exporting through Media Encoder
- Building custom export presets and ingest settings
Create and manage professional motion graphics.
- Essential Graphics panel versus Effects Controls
- Graphic design principles inside Premiere Pro
- Creating common broadcast and social graphics
- Applying effects to text layers safely
- Advanced styling techniques for text
Explore deeper effect workflows and processing rules.
- Understanding effect badges and indicators
- Intrinsic, non-intrinsic, and third-party effects
- 32-bit, accelerated, and color-space-aware effects
- Common professional effects and best practices
Learn how motion is created in Premiere Pro.
- Basic animation concepts for video and audio
- Popular text and graphic animations
- Creating custom transitions
- Working with Motion Graphics Templates
Leverage AI tools to speed up editing and finishing
- Understanding what AI can and cannot do in Premiere Pro
- Text-Based Editing and transcription workfl ows
- Auto Reframe and format adaptation
- Scene Edit Detection
- AI-assisted story and rough cut workfl ows
- Integrating third-party AI tools into Premiere
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered in a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.
