Today you will be learning the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro.

Tutorials

• Open Premiere Pro then navigate to Help -> Premiere Pro In-App Tutorial
• In the Learn window, work through the Premiere Pro Overview tutorial
• In the Learn window, work through the four tutorials in Learn The Basics:
  • Importing Media
  • Prepare Your Clips for Editing
  • Editing Your Clips
  • Exporting Your Project Content

Working with Turtle Videos

To put your new skills into practice, you’re going to make a short video that has turtles in it.

• Start a new project in Premiere and save it as intro-premiere.prproj
• Download the following .zip file to your course folder on your computer by right-clicking on the link and selecting Save as (or save target as): premiere-videos.zip.
• Extract the contents of the .zip file (Windows instructions, Mac instructions).
• The extracted .zip folder has four files:
  • duck-and-cover-intro.mp4
  • tmnj.gif
  • led-zepplin.mp3
  • turtle-walking.mp4
• Import all four media files into your project and make sure they are appearing in your Project Panel
• Use the Source Monitor Panel to preview each file (three videos and one music)
• Add the Duck and Cover video to your Timeline
• Trim the Duck and Cover clip so that it ends on second 48 with the title screen “Duck and Cover”
• Add the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video clip to the Timeline
• Arrange the TMNJ clip so that it appears after the end of your newly trimmed Duck and Cover video
• Add the video of a turtle walking to your Timeline
• Add the audio of a sample of Led Zepplin’s “Immigrant Song” to your Timeline (led-zepplin.mp3) so that it appears under the video of a turtle walking
• Trim the end of the video of the turtle walking so that the video ends with the end of the audio from Led Zepplin
• Export your project content as a single new video file using the settings Format: H.264 and Match Source: Medium Bitrate. Make sure to rename the Output Name to my-first-video.mp4