Earn Your Adobe Premiere Pro Certification

Official guidelines

• 1.1 Identify the purpose, audience, and audience needs for preparing video editing projects.
  
• a. Determine whether content is relevant to the purpose, audience, and audience needs.
  
• i. Key Terms: client goals, target audience, demographics, accessibility, captioning, etc.
  
• b. Identify requirements based on how the video will be delivered, distributed, and/or consumed.
  
• i. Key Terms: Email file size limits, compression, codec and architecture, input and output file formats, aspect ratio
  
• ii. Key Concepts: Select the correct Codec and architecture based on capture and delivery requirements.
  

Resources & Tutorials

How to make a video commercial people won’t skip

Web Accessibility: Captions/Subtitles

Choosing the right video format

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• 1.2 Communicate with colleagues and clients about project plans.
  
• a. Demonstrate knowledge of techniques for communicating about design plans with peers and clients.
  
• i. Key Terms: Pre-production: shot list, script writing, storyboarding, and location scouting
  
• b. Demonstrate knowledge of basic project management concepts.
  
• i. Key Terms: Production: setup, filming, and handoff; Post-production: importing, editing, color correction, audio mixing, distributing

Resources & Tutorials

Project Management Basics

An overview of video production

Shooting scripts: Plan your film production

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• 1.3 Determine the type of intellectual property rights, permissions, and licensing required to use specific content.
• a. Identify legal and ethical considerations for using third-party content.
  
• i. Key Terms: Creative Commons, public domain, copyright, intellectual property, derivative work, commercial use, attribution, work for hire, fair use, fair dealing
• b. Identify when and how to obtain permission to use images, audio, or video.
  
• i. Key Terms: model release, location permitting, property release, rights, permissions, licensing.
  
• ii. Key Concepts: permission to use an image is separate from permission to use a person’s face or a restricted location, etc.

Resources & Tutorials

Intellectual Property

About CC Licenses

What’s a model release, and when do you need one?

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• 1.4 Demonstrate an understanding of key terminology related to digital audio and video.
  
• a. Demonstrate knowledge of digital video and audio terminology.
  
• i. Key Video Terms: frame rate, aspect ratio, safe zone, image and video resolution, file formats, video codecs, pixels, rendering, aperture, shutter speed, ISO 
  
• ii. Key Audio Terms: clipping, levels, natural/ambient sound, room tone, Foley sound, audio sampling rates, file types
• b. Demonstrate knowledge of how color is represented in digital video.
  
• i. Key Terms: white balance, bit depth, and working color space (RGB, CMYK, YUV, HLS). ii Key Concepts: Choose the right color space.

Resources & Tutorials

Best Practices: Working with native formats

The best audio format types for audiophiles

The Beginner’s Guide to Color Management with Adobe Creative Cloud Apps

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• 1.5 Demonstrate knowledge of basic editorial principles and best practices employed in the video industry.
  
• a. Communicate visually using standard film/video timing techniques.
  
• i. Key Concepts: following the action; leading in and out of shots to give editors time to cut; matching shots; zooms and pans; wide vs. tight shots; establishing shots vs. closing shots; shooting B-roll footage
• b. Identify general editorial principles and guidelines for video.
  
• i. Key Concepts: sequencing shots, cuts (L and J cuts, cross cutting, match cuts, cutting on the action, cutaway, montage, jump cut), transitions, compositing, audio levels, mixing, background music, narration, sound effects, still images used in video (file formats and image specifications), titles
• c. Define common photographic and cinematic composition terms and principles.
  
• i. Key Terms: aspect ratio, rule of thirds, foreground, background, color, tone, contrast, cropping, depth of field, field of view, types of shots include: close-up (CU), extreme close-up (ECU), medium close-up (MCU), medium shot (MS), wide shot (WS), long shot (LS), extreme long shot (ELS), background (BG or bg), foreground (FG or fg), over-the-shoulder (OTS), point of view (POV), cutaway, etc.
• d. Identify appropriate workflows
  
• i. Key Concepts: Ensure continuity and quality as the project moves from preproduction through postproduction; Maintain technical quality for deliverables; Communication, documentation, and tech sheets

Resources & Tutorials

Different types of shots in film

Bring your A game to B-roll

Add J cuts and L cuts to your filmmaking toolkit

Official guidelines

• 2.1 Create projects and sequences.
  
• a. Choose appropriate project settings for video.
  
• i. Key Concepts: project location on drive(s), sequence settings, scratch disk, playback engine, display format, audio samples, ingest settings
  
• b. Create a sequence that matches the delivery requirements.
  
• i. Key Concepts: editing mode, timebase, pixel aspect ratio, fields, timecode, working color space, resolution, sample rate, video previews, tracks, sequence presets
  

Resources & Tutorials

Learn Editing Skills

Creating projects

How to select and change your video aspect ratio

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• 2.2 Navigate, organize, and customize the application workspace.
  
• a. Identify, navigate, and manipulate elements of the Premiere Pro interface.
  
• i. Key Concepts: menus, panels, toolbars, search within panels, timeline, Project panel, Program and Source Monitors, Button Editor, zoom level 
  
• b. Organize and customize the workspace.
  
• i. Key Concepts: using/switching default workspaces; showing, hiding, nesting, and docking panels; Workspaces panel, shortcuts, and menus; customizing, saving, and resetting workspaces
  
• c. Configure application preferences.
  
• i. Key Settings: Auto-save, General (bin settings, default scale to frame size and transition duration), Audio Hardware, Media Cache, Timeline, Memory, Playback
  

Resources & Tutorials

Workspaces

Getting Started - The Premiere Pro Interface w/Justin Odisho

Clearing Cache and Resetting Preferences in Premiere Pro with Vashi Nedomansky

Official guidelines

• 2.3 Use non-visible design tools in the interface to aid in video workflow.
  
• a. Control and work with the timeline and media.
  
• i. Key Concepts: playhead, panning, zooming, playing, pausing, keyboard shortcuts (j-k-l keys, spacebar, backslash, etc.)
  
• b. Use markers.
  
• i. Key Concepts: setting timeline and clip markers, marking in and out points
  
• c. Use guides.
  
• i. Key Concepts: title safe areas, action safe areas, rulers and guides
  

Resources & Tutorials

Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro

How to Edit using Markers with Kyler Holland

Quick Tips for Premiere Pro - Using Rulers & Guides with Mango Street

Official guidelines

• 2.4 Import assets into a project.
  
• a. Import media from various sources.
  
• i. Key Concepts: file, importing layers from .psd, dynamic linking, all files are linked, dragging and dropping, creating a proxy on import, interpret footage, Media Browser, adding assets from Essential Graphics and Essential Sound panels
• b. Manage assets in a Premiere Pro project.
  
• i. Key Concepts: relinking files, updating file locations for missing/moved/updated media, organizing assets in bins, thumbnails vs list view, metadata, renaming a sequence, removing unused assets, collect or consolidate files with the Project Manager
  

Resources & Tutorials

Find assets

Transferring and importing files

Importing digital audio

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• 3.1 Manage tracks and sequences.
  
• a. Use the Timeline panel to manage tracks.
  
• i. Key Concepts: clips vs tracks, adding/deleting tracks, locking/unlocking tracks, renaming tracks, targeting a track, expanding a track in the timeline, patching, etc.
  
• b. Manage sequences in a complex project.
  
• i. Key Concepts: nesting sequences, linking/unlinking audio and video clips, syncing audio with video clips, renaming sequences, sync lock, creating a multi-cam source sequence
  
• c. Recognize the different types of layers in the Layers panel.
• i. Key Concepts: background, pixel, adjustment, type, fill, shape, vector, Smart Object (embedded and linked), active/inactive (hidden), artboard layers, etc.

Resources & Tutorials

Working with Panels

Editing audio in the timeline

Working with markers

Official guidelines

• 3.2 Enable and disable track output.
  
• a. Hide, show, mute, and solo tracks
  

Resources & Tutorials

Overview of audio in Premiere Pro

Adjusting volume levels

Audio balancing and panning

Official guidelines

• 4.1 Use core tools and features to edit audio and video.
  
• a. Assemble a video sequence using a variety of tools and panels.
  
• i. Key Panels: Timeline, Source Monitor, Program Monitor
  
• Ii. Key Concepts: setting In and Out points to determine an edit; splitting, inserting, overwriting, lifting, and extracting clips. 
  

Resources & Tutorials

Best Practices: Editing efficiently

How to cut and trim videos with Adobe Premiere Pro

Editing, repairing, and improving audio using Essential Sound panel

Find more Trainings and resources for similar topics on helpx.adobe.com or at the Adobe Education Exchange

Official guidelines

• 4.2 Add and animate titles and modify title properties.
  
• a. Add superimposed text and shapes in a sequence.
  
• i. Key Concepts: Type tools: point text, paragraph text; Create shapes with the Pen, Rectangle, and Ellipse tools; Use the Essentials Graphics panel to browse and select relevant templates
  
• b. Use appropriate controls to modify text and graphic appearance.
  
• i. Key Text Controls: font, size, alignment, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, etc.
• ii. Key Appearance Controls: fill, shadow, stroke, background.
  

Resources & Tutorials

Create title graphics

Creating Titles and Graphics in Premiere Pro

About animating effects

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• 4.3 Trim footage for use in sequences.
  
• a. Resize clips using a variety of tools.
  
• i. Key Terms: adjusting scale, aspect ratio, or frame size; letterboxing; adjusting for mixed aspect ratios; using vertically shot video from phones; etc.
  
• b. Trim and refine clips using various methods.
  
• i. Key Tools: Rolling Edit tool, Ripple Edit tool, Rate Stretch tool.

Resources & Tutorials

Create and change sequences

Trimming clips

Working with aspect ratios

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• 4.4 Transform digital media within a project.
  
• a. Modify clip settings.
  
• i. Key Concepts: labeling, renaming, setting poster frame, changing clip speed, creating a freeze frame
  
• b. Adjust the audio of a video clip.
  
• i. Key Concepts: audio gain and channel remapping.

Resources & Tutorials

Work with your clips

Change duration and speed of clips

Working with clips, channels, and tracks

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• 4.5 Use effects to modify video in a sequence.
  
• a. Use basic auto-correction methods and tools.
  
• i. Key Concepts: Know how to use the Basic Correction, Creative and Vignette controls of the Lumetri color panel
  
• b. Apply effects presets.
  
• i. Key Tools: effects, transitions, presets
  
• c. Apply effects presets on multiple clips.
  
• i. Key Concepts: creating and adjusting the length of the adjustment layer, nesting
  
• d. Composite video clips using tracks.
  
• i. Key Concepts: keying (luma/chroma), opacity, masking, mattes, alpha channel, picture-in-picture
  
  

Resources & Tutorials

Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro

Effect presets

Apply effects to audio

Official guidelines

• 4.6 Use keyframes to control video properties over time.
  
• a. Modify effect settings.
  
• i. Key Concepts: adding and adjusting keyframes, adjusting effect properties
  
• b. Apply and adjust video motion effects.
  
• i. Key Concepts: adjusting clip settings over time by using keyframes
  
• ii. Key Effects: motion, opacity, other visual effects
  

Resources & Tutorials

Video Editing 101: How to Use Keyframes with Shirin Nahvi

Adding, navigating, and setting keyframes

Crop Tool and Keyframing Basics with Roberto Blake

Official guidelines

• 4.7 Manage audio in a video sequence.
  
• a. Apply effects presets.
  
• i. Key Tools: effects, transitions
  
• b. Add audio to a sequence.
  
• i. Key Concepts: synchronizing, linking, replacing, merging clips, mono and stereo tracks
  
• c. Adjust audio on the timeline or using the Effect Controls panel.
  
• i. Key Concepts: adding audio transitions and effects; adding, removing, and adjusting keyframes
  

Resources & Tutorials

Overview of audio in Premiere Pro

Audio effects and transitions

Best Practices: Mix audio faster