Short documentary edit
Deliverable: A three-minute piece cut from supplied interview and B-roll footage, with mixed audio, corrected colour and titles, structured around one clear idea.
Course
Video Editing with Premiere Pro
Editing taught as decision-making — what to cut and why, how to fix bad audio, and how to export once correctly — using the tool most professional edit suites actually run.
- Duration: 3 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Cut footage for story and pace rather than assembling clips in order
- Organise a project so you can still find a shot three weeks later
- Repair, level and mix audio so dialogue is clearly audible throughout
- Colour correct for consistency and grade for a deliberate look
- Add titles, lower thirds and simple motion graphics
- Export the correct file for cinema, broadcast, YouTube and Instagram
Who this course is for
- Comfortable operating a computer
- Content creators, wedding videographers and social media editors
- Students targeting production house or agency editing roles
- No prior editing experience required
Syllabus
6 modules · 3 months
Module 1. Project setup and media management
- Sequences, frame rates and resolution
- Ingesting, proxies and working with large files
- Bins, labels and naming that survives a long edit
- Backups and why a lost project is a lost job
Module 2. The edit
- Rough cut, fine cut and locking picture
- Three-point editing and trim tools
- Cutting on action, and cutting for rhythm
- J and L cuts, and letting sound lead the picture
Module 3. Story and structure
- Deciding what the piece is actually about
- What to cut, and killing your favourite shot
- Pace, breathing room and where an audience gets bored
- Structuring a wedding film, an interview and an advertisement
Module 4. Audio
- Levels, loudness and consistency across a timeline
- Noise reduction and repairing bad location sound
- Music, ducking and mixing under dialogue
- Sound effects and why silence is a choice
Module 5. Colour
- Correction versus grading
- Scopes, and trusting them over your monitor
- Matching shots from different cameras
- Building and applying a consistent look
Module 6. Graphics and delivery
- Titles, lower thirds and the essential graphics panel
- Simple motion and keyframing
- Export presets for each destination
- Client review, versions and handling revisions
Tools and technologies you will use
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Audition
- Lumetri colour tools
- Media Encoder
Projects you will build
Audio rescue
Deliverable: A dialogue scene with genuinely poor location sound, repaired and mixed to the point where every word is intelligible, submitted alongside the untouched original.
Multi-format delivery set
Deliverable: One finished edit exported correctly for YouTube, Instagram vertical and a broadcast specification, each at the right resolution, bitrate and loudness.
Where this course can take you
- Video Editor
- Content Creator
- Post-Production Assistant
- Social Media Editor
- Wedding Film Editor
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 3 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Ask about the combined fee if you take this with After Effects.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
The cut is the craft
There is a version of this course that spends twelve weeks on transitions and effects, and its graduates make videos that look like a software demonstration.
Editing is deciding. What the piece is about, which shot earns its place, where an audience starts to drift, and which of your favourite moments has to go because it does not serve the whole. Those decisions are the job, and the software is how you carry them out.
So the story module sits in the middle of the course rather than being implied, and the graphics module is the shortest one here.
Audio is half of it, and it is the half people notice
An audience will forgive a soft shot. They will not sit through dialogue they cannot make out.
The audio module is a full sixth of the course because bad sound is the single most common reason a piece feels amateur, and because most of it is fixable. The second project hands you genuinely poor location audio and asks you to rescue it, which is a more useful skill than any effect in the software.
Export once, correctly
A finished edit exported wrong is a finished edit nobody watches properly.
Wrong resolution for the platform, wrong bitrate, loudness that gets turned down automatically by YouTube. The last module covers the actual settings for each destination, and the third project is a single edit delivered correctly to three of them.
Premiere or Filmora
Filmora is a good tool and there is no snobbery here — it is faster to learn and entirely adequate for social content.
Premiere is what edit suites run, and the gap shows on audio mixing, colour with scopes, and multi-camera work. If you are editing for a living, this is the one. If you are editing your own content, Filmora will not hold you back and it will get you working sooner.
Questions
Video Editing with Premiere Pro — frequently asked questions
Do I need an expensive computer to learn video editing?
Not for the classroom batches — systems and footage are provided. If you want to practise at home, editing is genuinely demanding on hardware, but the proxy workflow in the first module exists precisely so a modest machine can still cut high-resolution footage. We cover it early for that reason.
Should I learn Premiere Pro or Filmora?
Filmora is far quicker to pick up and fine for social content and simple work. Premiere Pro is what production houses, agencies and broadcasters actually run, and it does things Filmora cannot — proper audio mixing, scopes-based colour, multi-camera. If editing is a hobby or a side income, start with Filmora. If it is the career, start here.
Is editing mostly about effects and transitions?
No, and this is the most common misunderstanding. Professional editing is deciding what to cut and where, then making audio and colour invisible enough that nobody notices them. A piece full of transitions almost always reads as amateur. The story module carries more weight here than the graphics one for exactly that reason.
Will this cover shooting as well?
No — this is post-production. It does not teach camera operation, lighting or sound recording. It does teach you to recognise what makes footage difficult to edit, which tends to improve how people shoot, but the shooting itself is a separate subject.
Enquire about Video Editing with Premiere Pro
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