Adobe Premiere Pro for Complete Beginners (Udemy.com)
A complete step-by-step guide for absolute beginners, starting from zero and building your first full video edit.
Created by: AI Video School
Last updated February 2026
What you will learn
- Confidently navigate Adobe Premiere Pro as a complete beginner starting from zero
- Download, install, and set up Premiere Pro on your computer
- Import and organize footage using bins for a clean, efficient workflow
- Understand sequences, aspect ratios, and how to match settings to your footage
- Edit on the timeline: cut, trim, move clips, and remove gaps
- Understand video and audio layers and how they work together
- Create your first skeleton draft edit step by step
- Add motion using keyframes for scale, position, and smooth animation
- Add and style text in any position, color, or font
- Enhance videos with sound effects, music, and clean audio transitions
- Apply basic color correction using Lumetri Color for a polished look
- Use green screen (Ultra Key) and blur tools for creative control
- Stabilize shaky footage and sync external audio automatically
Course Description
Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro for Complete Beginners — a fully step-by-step course designed for absolute beginners starting from zero.
If you’ve never edited before or want to make sure you've covered the basics, this course is for you.
Start From the Very Beginning
We don’t jump straight into editing.
In the first section, we make sure everything is set up properly. You’ll learn:
How to download and install Premiere Pro
How to check your system requirements
How to download the optional course footage so you can follow along step by step
You are welcome to use your own footage — but if you prefer guidance, you can download the provided presenter clips, b-roll, and music and edit exactly alongside the lessons.
Step-by-Step Editing Basics
Next, we move into the core foundations of editing.
You’ll learn:
How the Premiere Pro layout works
What sequences, bins, and timelines are
How to import and organize footage
How to cut and place clips
How video and audio layers work
How to create your first “skeleton” draft edit
After each learning stage, you’ll see a draft version of the video come together — so you’re never lost and always understand how each step improves the edit.
Building a Complete Edit
Once the basics are clear, we layer in more creative tools:
Adding motion with keyframes
Scaling and repositioning clips
Adding text and graphic elements
Sound effects and music
Audio transitions and pacing
Basic color grading
Stabilizing shaky footage
You’ll see your edit evolve from a simple structure into a complete, polished video.
Slightly More Advanced (But Still Beginner-Friendly)
After mastering the essentials, we introduce slightly more advanced techniques — explained simply and clearly:
Green screen (Ultra Key)
Masking and blur effects
Video transitions
Nesting
Opacity effects
Cropping and split-screen layouts
Auto-removing pauses in speech
Syncing external audio
These lessons show you how to combine tools together to create real effects — not just click buttons.
By the End of This Course
You will:
Understand Premiere Pro confidently
Know how to structure a full edit from scratch
Be able to combine video, audio, motion, text, and color
Create clean, professional-looking edits
Feel confident starting your own projects
This course is intentionally designed for beginners. We move step by step, build gradually, and always show the results in draft form so you can see real progress.
If you’ve been wanting to learn video editing but felt overwhelmed, this is the course that walks you through it clearly — from your very first click to your final export.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
1,103 Reviews
AI Video School
Award-winning AI movie creator and AI video specialist creating cinematic content using cutting-edge artificial intelligence. I focus on AI video creation, editing, AI imagery, and AI audio to produce fully AI-driven films. I create step-by-step digestible courses with a laid-back approach and a bit of fun along the way. Follow along and see me use various tools as I show you how to create AI videos in different styles, for different purposes and some real-world examples of AI videos and how they can be made.
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Reviews
By Terence Sheridan on 8/28/2026
First go around is a little overwhelming. Covered alot which is good. Sometimes went too fast for me to follow the instructions along with the action items on the screen. Well organized so I can refernce when I work on Premier Pro. I think that is when I will br able to evaluate the course.
By Ron Bengivenga on 8/23/2026
This Udemy Course, Adobe Premiere Pro for Complete Beginners, is the best tutorial on any Adobe product I’ve ever tried. It’s completely cohesive, starting from the basics and taking the student through the weeds with a comprehensive, hands-on, well-explained approach, and it continues to build at a nice pace. It’s direct, concise, and applicable. Thank you!
By Patrick H on 8/11/2026
Information delivered was clear and concise. Presenter showed a thorough knowledge of the material early in course. The flow of the topics, length of the course, and having downloadable video/audio clips to practice along with kept me engaged. I would recommend this course to beginners or users needing refresher training.
By Lisa Seymour on 6/13/2026
This is a great "quick course" covering the most useful tools that you'll really need to do some great editing. It's quite fast paced, and it's up to you to pause and go back and do the work and play around with the tools you were given to try. If you are a slower or more thorough learner, then I would recommend combining this with a more in-depth and hands-on learning course. This course is a great go-to quick bible to have at your fingertips, but as a total novice, I'm glad I combined it with a slower and more detailed tutorial as well.
By Sean Brodie on 3/9/2026
This course was AMAZING! The instructor explained editing techniques with great detail. The visuals kept me engaged. After completing this course, I'm genuinely excited to continue my path of learning more about video editing and feel as though I'm now capable of editing content at an intermediate level.
By Anonymized User on 12/6/2025
It was easy to follow along and easy to understand. I was so afraid of premiere pro because there were so many windows compare to other adobe software.
By Adonis P on 5/16/2025
Going through the entire course as someone who learned how to use adobe premiere pro "shooting from the hip," and creating 12 reels for a client. I wanted to take the course to sharpen my foundation since I never took a proper course. I consider myself an intermediate video editor and got a good amount of gee-whiz information, but learned the most from the Editing Effects section. This course is definitely a good start for beginners looking to get a jogging start into premiere pro video editing.
By Kevin Wanner on 3/7/2025
I am in a position where I will be creating a video "How To" series of tutorials using screen recording as I go through the procedures then I will need to develop a script and add audio later. I feel like I was given more than enough information to successfully execute these projects. I enjoyed and was able to follow along and your speaking was very easy to understand as well.
By Carly Williams on 8/9/2023
Recently redundant graphic designer who needed to up her game so decided to sign up to this course! So far so good excited to get started!
By Rungwe Junior on 4/2/2023
I've tried several courses on editing, but this one simplifies the process and gives me the confidence to start editing. After that, the rest is practice, and I'm on my way to mastering editing. Thank you so much for the course, Dan.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100











