Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial

G ETTI NG S T A RT ED
Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a video layout software that can be used to create videos as well as
manipulate video and audio files. Whether you plan to put a video together or alter video and audio
with the use of effects, Premiere Pro offers all the tools needed to produce professional videos for
even a beginner. This tutorial will take you through some of the basic uses of Premiere Pro CC.

TABLE O F C O N T ENTS
In this tutorial, you will learn the following:

1. Getting Started Pg. 3

2. Setting Up a New Project Pg. 3
3. Work Space Pg. 4
4. Toolbar Pg. 6
5. Toolbar Description Pg. 6
6. Importing Files into Premiere Pg. 7
7. Sequence Pg.7
8. Titles Pg. 8
9.Video Motion Pg. 9
10.Video Opacity Pg. 10
11. Transitions Panel Pg. 11
12. Effects Panel Pg. 11
13. Color Correction Pg. 12
14. Adjusting Video Speed Pg. 13
15. Saving Your Project Pg. 14
16. Exporting Your Video Pg. 14
17. Conclusion Pg. 15

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 1 . G ETT I NG S TA RT ED
Begin by opening Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
On a PC, click Start > All Programs > Adobe > Adobe Premiere Pro CC, or click on
the Premiere Pro short cut on the desktop. (Figure 1)

On a Mac, click Applications > Adobe Premiere Pro CC, or click the Premiere Pro
icon in the Dock. (Figure 2)

Figure 2

Figure 1

2. S E TTI NG U P A NEW P RO J EC T
Setting up your project correctly from the start will make your job much easier as you work
through your project. When starting your project, you are going to set up your general video settings and
your scratch disks. This will tell premiere where exactly you want everything to be saved and the videos
general settings.

Figure 3

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 2. S ETTI NG UP A NEW P RO J EC T C O NT .
1. When starting Premiere Pro CC, you will be prompted to start a new project. To create a new project
within Premiere Pro CC, click File > New > Project. This will open the Project Settings dialog box.
Here you will be able to set the duration and size of your composition. Options include, but are not
limited to:
Name: This is the name your project will be saved as.

Location: By clicking browse, you can navigate to the place in which you choose to have your
project file save to.

General: This is where you set up the formats of each part of your project.You set the video
display, audio display, and capture display settings.
NOTE: when you drag your video clips into your project sequence later, premiere sets all of
these settings for you.

Scratch Disks: This is where you set the destination for premiere to save the captured video,
captured audio, video previews, audio previews, and project auto save files.
NOTE: Make a folder for your project and create a folder within that titled “cache”. Save all
your scratch disks to the “cache” folder that you created.

2. When you have entered all of your composition settings, click OK.

NOTE: If you enter incorrect information in the Project Settings dialog box, or if you need to
adjust any of this information while you are working, you can make changes any time by clicking File >
Project Settings > General.
3 . WORK S P A C E
The Work Space is the entire area of premiere. It is broken into different panels which all serve a
different purpose for creating a video. When starting premiere, all the panels will be blank until you
bring video and audio files into the program. See Figure 4 for an example of a new Work Space.

Figure 4

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 3 . WO R K S P A C E C O NT .
The workspace is filled up with many different panels. Each one has its own purpose that helps
create a video. Figure 5 shows you the different panels of the premiere workspace:

Exploring the Work Space:

A. Project Video Display

B. Selected Clip Display
C. Project Panel
D. Project Timeline
E. Toolbar

E Figure 5

Project Video Display: This area is where you see your project timeline displayed. The point your
marker is placed on the timeline is what will show up in this window. If you play your project, this
is the window where you will see it played in real time.

Selected Clip Display: This is the area where a selected clip will be displayed.You can select a clip
from your project timeline or your project panel and it will show up in this window. Along with the clip
view, you can select the effect controls tab in this panel to display video and audio effects you can
control such as video sizing, video blending modes, and volume controls.

Project Panel: The project panel is where you import all your files.You can import video files, audio
files, and pictures.You can group your files together using a folder system called bins. Your sequences
also show up as files in this panel.

Project Timeline: This is where the timeline of your project is displayed.Your project timeline is
referred to as a sequence.You can have multiple sequences in a project and they can be selected from
the project panel. Within the project timeline, you can layout your project files.You can get files into
your project timeline by dragging and dropping files from the project panel to the project timeline.

Toolbar: This is where all the different tools you can use are located. They all have various useful
purposes that are covered in the next section.

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 4. TOOLBAR
When working in Premiere Pro, you will utilize the toolbar often. (Figure 6) Each
different tool within the tool bar has a distinct different purpose. Utilizing all of
the toolbar’s capabilities will help save on time and efficiency when creating your
video.

Figure 6

5 . TO O LB O X DES C RI P T I O N
Selection Tool (V)
This is the most used tool. It can select a clip by clicking on a clip in the timeline.You can also resize the
clip length by hovering over either end of the clip and then click and drag left or right.

Track Select Forward Tool (A)

This allows you to click on a clip and it selects everything from that point forward in your timeline.

Ripple Edit Tool (B)

Click and drag the edge of a clip to change length and it moves the rest of the files in your timeline.

Type Tool (T)

Allows you to add text wherever you click on the composition.

Razor tool (C)

Use to cut a clip by hovering over a clip and clicking. It cuts the clip into two different pieces.

Slip tool (Y)

Select a clip and simultaniously change the in and out points of the clip without changing its length.

Pen Tool (P)

Use this to set or select keyframes. Also used to adjust connector lines in a timeline.

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 5 . TO O L DE S C RI P T I O N C O NT .

Hand Tool (H)

This is used to move the viewing area of your timeline by clicking and dragging right or left.

6. IMPO RTI NG FI LES I NTO P REM I ERE

1. To import files into Premiere Pro, click File > Import or double click the project panel. This
will open the Import File dialog box. Here you will be able to navigate to and select the file(s) that you
would like to bring into your project.

Common File Types:

AVI - Video file type
MP4 - Video file type
MOV - Quicktime video format
JPG- Image/Photo file
MP3- Music/audio track

2. After you have chosen the file(s) that you would like to import, click Import.

7 . S E Q U ENC E
1. When working in Premiere Pro, your project time line is refered to as a Sequence. To start a new
sequence, click File > New > Sequence. Figure 7 shows the new sequence dialog box that lets you
pick your sequence settings and name your sequence.

Figure 7