{"id":17,"date":"2026-06-30T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sts.doit.wisc.edu\/training-materials\/?post_type=manual&p=17"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:06:13","slug":"premiere-video-editing-basics-with-adobe-premiere","status":"publish","type":"manual","link":"https:\/\/sts.doit.wisc.edu\/training-materials\/manual\/premiere-video-editing-basics-with-adobe-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere Pro: Basic Video Editing with Adobe Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About Premiere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adobe Premiere, part of the Adobe Creative Cloud package, is a powerful timeline-based video editing software application. This sophisticated editing platform is considered to be an industry standard, and is used worldwide by professionals to edit video footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premiere is a good choice for video editing because it is user-friendly, it supports high resolution video and integrates easily with other creative suite applications like Audition and After Effects. Premiere is used to import, edit, and export video projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This manual provides a basic introduction to the Premiere interface and explores commonly used features needed to create a simple video. After reviewing this manual and activities, we encourage students to learn about more advanced features either through 1-on-1 support or through LinkedIn Learning (all UW-Madison students get free access).<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Getting Started in Premiere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Creating a New Project<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Home window will show your most recent projects you have been working on. If this is your first time opening Adobe Premiere, you will not see any past projects appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Team Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Adobe Premiere now offers the option to create a “Team Project”, where different users can edit the same project across different computers. However, at this time, the process to use this feature is not as seamless as it sounds and requires quite a bit of set-up beforehand. If you are interested in this, you can view this YouTube video that explains the details of setting up your workspace for this purpose: What are Premiere Pro Team Projects? (2023 Update and Guide)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

1. Open Adobe Premiere<\/strong> and click on the blue “New Project”<\/strong> button. You will be taken to the “Import” section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Update the \u201cProject Name\u201d<\/strong> and ” Location”<\/strong>. If your video is for a class project, follow any naming guides your instructor has provided. Change the location to a folder on your computer that you can easily find later if needed.
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TIP:<\/strong> It is always good practice to create a new folder within your Documents Folder or Desktop for each video project you create in order to keep things organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. Import videos<\/strong> that you want to immediately include in your project by locating them within the folders on the side panel and select the folder(s) or file(s) you want. If locating your media via this section becomes difficult, you can opt to Skip<\/strong> this part and import media after initially creating a new project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. Import Settings<\/strong> can be left as the default<\/strong> unless you have specific guidance on how to change these settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5. Click the blue Import<\/strong> button if you are selecting media to enter Edit mode. If you prefer to import media later, you can click Skip.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Premiere Interface: Essential Windows and Panels<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Premiere Workspaces<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This manual focuses on the “Editing”<\/strong> workspace (this is different from the default \u201cLearning\u201d workspace when you first open Premiere). Different Workspaces prioritize different windows and menus most useful for the kind of work or effect you want to focus on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can change to a different Workspace by clicking on the Workspaces icon (from the upper-right corner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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