Video Editing: Adobe Premiere

Overview
Video Editing: Adobe Premiere is a 24-hour course focused on Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the world’s leading professional video editing applications, used in film production, digital marketing, social media content creation, and broadcasting. You will build a structured foundation in editing, then move into audio, color, and advanced delivery workflows.
Across six four-hour lessons you will organize and edit real footage, design lower thirds and motion graphics templates, clean up audio, apply color correction, and export content optimized for platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. CIS College is Lebanon’s largest private vocational college, founded in 1991, with branches across the country.
What You Will Learn
- Set up a project, manage scratch disks, and work across the Project, Source, Program, and Timeline panels
- Import and organize media using bins, and build sequences matched to your footage
- Edit efficiently using the selection and razor tools, in and out points, and ripple and rolling trims
- Add transitions, titles, lower thirds, and Motion Graphics Templates (MOGRTs)
- Mix and clean audio using the Essential Sound panel, auto-ducking, and noise reduction
- Correct and grade color using Lumetri Color, scopes, creative looks, and LUTs
- Edit using text-based editing and format content for reels and short-form video
- Export in the correct format for social platforms and archive finished projects
Course Curriculum
| Module | What you cover | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations and Interface Mastery | Creating a project and managing scratch disks, the 4-panel workflow, importing and organizing media with bins, creating sequences matched to footage; example: organizing raw footage for a short social media video | 4 |
| Core Editing Techniques | Selection versus razor tool, insert versus overwrite edits, in and out points, trimming tools, rate stretch and nested sequences; example: editing a short interview while maintaining audio sync | 4 |
| Transitions, Titles, and Motion Graphics | Video and audio transitions, effect controls panel, Warp Stabilizer, Essential Graphics and lower thirds, Motion Graphics Templates; example: designing branded lower thirds for YouTube | 4 |
| Audio Editing and Sound Design | Gain versus volume adjustments, Essential Sound panel, recording voiceovers, auto-ducking and remix tool, noise reduction; example: cleaning background noise from an interview | 4 |
| Color Correction and Visual Style | Reading scopes, Lumetri Color corrections, creative looks and LUTs, masking and tracking; example: creating a cinematic color look | 4 |
| Advanced Workflow, AI, and Exporting | Text-based editing, editing reels and short-form content, export formats, exporting for social media, project archiving; example: exporting an optimized Instagram Reel | 4 |