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You're already cutting with some confidence. This is about the hour a day you are losing anyway
After a while everyone settles into habits. Some of them are good. The rest cost you an hour here and an hour there, every week, without ever announcing themselves as the problem. You think you're working effectively. Your'e not.
Two days on working substancially faster: rough-cutting at speed, trimming from the keyboard instead of the mouse, and setting the program up so the things you do fifty times a week take one keystroke instead of six.
- Length2 days
- FormatOn site or online
- LanguageNorwegian or English
- CategoryEditing in Premiere
After the course you can
Adobe Premiere — advanced
- Rough-cut a piece considerably faster than you do today
- Trim with the keyboard rather than the mouse, and see it in the hours
- Use AI to work faster, not to generate video
- Set up multicam, Productions and nesting without the project becoming unmanageable
- Move material to After Effects, Audition and Photoshop and back without unnecessary rendering
- Automate boring tasks, and get more time for the creative part
What we cover
The program
Starting a job in seconds rather than 15 minutes
- Folder templates and template projects
- Presets for everything you do often
- Import routines, sorting, subclips and backup that hold up under pressure
Rough-cutting at speed
- Storyboard editing from the bin
- Top and tail, stringouts, and why they beat scrubbing
- Pancake timelines: using sequences as sources for other sequences
- Text-based editing where the material is speech
Fine editing
- Trim mode and dynamic trimming
- Building a keyboard layout that fits your hands
- Custom workspaces that stop you hunting for panels
Sound, faster
- Normalize, and presets for compressor and EQ
- Auto Ducking, and when to overrule it
- AI speech cleanup when sound is bad
Color, faster
- Masks, adjustment layers and presets
- Shot matching that survives being done in a hurry
- Where automatic correction is good enough, and where it is not
Graphics
- Taking control of the Graphics Templates panel
- Reusing advanced effects in seconds through template projects
- Working with a MOGRT package somebody else built
Multicam, Productions and big jobs
- Multicam that stays manageable
- Productions: when it helps and when it is overkill
- Nesting without losing the thread
Finishing and delivery
- Auto Reframe and export presets for every platform at once
- Archiving so the project opens again in three years
- The user errors that are so common they look like software faults
The honest bit
Some of what you learn here will feel worse for the first week. Changing a trimming habit slows you down before it speeds you up, and if nobody warns you about that, you go back to the old way on Wednesday. Consider this a warning.
Who it is for
Editors, content producers and photographers who already work in Premiere daily or weekly and want to work considerably faster — while getting consistant results.
Prerequisites
Real editing experience in Premiere, or the beginners' course. One machine per participant with a current version of Premiere and at least 10 GB free for the footage you are given.
Bring
Bring a project you found slow or painful. Diagnosing a real one in front of the group teaches more than any demo.
Open courses
Prefer a fixed date for one person?
Also runs as an open course at Qross Kurssenter — classroom in Oslo and live online on the same dates.
Questions
About this course
Is this useful if we do not do long-form work?
Yes. Most of the time saved is in the material handling, the setup, and cutting faster, and a team that publishes short pieces daily gets more out of that than one cutting a single documentary.
We are on an older version of Premiere. Does that matter?
Tell me which version and I will adjust. Most of the workflow techniques go back years; only some of the AI features are recent, and those parts can be swapped for something else.
Can you look at our actual project setup?
Please. Bring a real project and the delivery specs you work against, and we will use them. It is the single most valuable hour of the two days.
Related courses
Related courses
2 daysAdobe Premiere — beginners
Most people who edit in Premiere taught themselves, which means each of them invented a way of working that nobody else understands.
1 dayEditing faster with AI in Adobe Premiere
Premiere turns speech into text, and you edit the text.
2 daysColor correction and grading for video
Grading gets treated as the thing you do at the end if there is time.
Want this for your team?
Tell me what goes wrong today and you get a written plan and a price back. Two sentences is enough.