Premiere Pro 2021 Essential Skills Tutorial in PDF

Learning Aims and Goals

If you follow the steps in this PDF ebook, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Premiere Pro interface
• Create a project
• Import and organize media
• Compose a sequence
• Edit video and audio clips
• Add text and shapes to a sequence
• Add transitions and effects to a sequence
• Export a sequence for uploading to the web

Learning the Premiere Pro 2021 Essential Skills

Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a powerful timeline-based video editing application. Using Premiere Pro, you can edit video and audio clips into sequences, apply effects and transitions, export your sequences for sharing, and more. This booklet demonstrates the basic skills needed to create, edit, and export a sequence in Premiere Pro. 

To access files as if they are stored locally on your computer. Select the project file you want to work on in Premiere Pro, select the Project Files folder, and click OK to create a project. Select the default workspaces for Assembly, Editing, Color, Effects, Audio, Graphics, Captions, and Libraries.

The Workspace Control Bar is located at the top of the Premiere Pro application window. The Project panel allows you to import clips and assets into your video project. 

This panel is used for easier clip sorting, organizing, and placing clips into a sequence. You can also create a bin and import your clips or assets. Bin organization helps keep files organized by type, placement, or other groupings. The Source Monitor allows you to preview and mark clips before inserting them into a sequence. Using the playback tools, you can navigate through and review a clip. 

By default, Premiere Pro uses the SMPTE code: hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. Sequences are built and refined in the Timeline panel. The Timeline panel can be accessed through most workspaces. To simplify this panel, we will divide it into the Timecode Group, the Track Group, and the Sequence Group. Each contains tools and options for creating a sequence. 

Video and audio clips can only be edited once they are placed in a sequence within the Timeline panel. A sequence is a group of clips added to your Timeline panel for editing. The Toolbar contains the tools you will use to add and manipulate content within the Timeline. Media can easily be copied and pasted onto a different track using track targeting. Deleting media removes the media from the Timeline but leaves a gap in the Timeline that is the size of the media previously occupied. 

There are two ways to remove media from a sequence: a ripple delete or a file-by-file delete. The Editing workspace is optimized for editing, trimming, and clipping your clips and sequences. To make a regular edit, do the following: Right-click the media or gap you wish to apply the ripple delete. The media is deleted and replaced with a gap, and the sequence length is shortened. 

A Ripple Edit is a trim tool used to trim a clip and "ripple" the remaining clips in the Timeline. The Razor Tool is used to create a new edit point within a clip, splitting it into two. To insert a clip into your sequence:

1. Complete the following steps.
2. In the Source Monitor, click the Insert button.
3. In the Timeline, move the play head where you wish to overwrite the clip. 

By default, track targeting is enabled for tracks V1 and A1. You can also manually link and unlink an audio clip to a video clip. Please select a video or audio track and right-click it to unlink. Use the Effect Controls panel to adjust an audio track's volume. Add text and shapes to your sequences using the Graphics workspace. 

A single click creates a text point, whereas clicking and dragging create a box. In the Effect Controls panel, you can apply animations to text and shapes, such as rotation, scale, positioning, and opacity. Text and shapes are animated using keyframes, which mark a specific parameter at a time. The following demonstrates how scaling animation applies to text, but the same steps apply to other shapes and titles. Keyframes are created by clicking the Add/Remove keyframe icon to create a new keyframe. 

To delete a keyframe, click its location on the Effect Controls Timeline. Several transitions and effects are packaged with Premiere Pro. From the Effects workspace, locate the Effects panel. Click the drop-down arrow next to Video or Audio Effects to access available options. Select the effect you want to apply and drag it onto the clip. 

If needed, make additional adjustments to the transition in the Effect Controls panel. The Timeline panel is activated when outlined in blue, as seen below. You select the settings Premiere Pro will use from this window to render your sequence. Select H.264, the recommended format for uploading video to the web, and Export Video and Export Audio. Choose your destination if you have one in mind.