| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2025-06-03 | - |
| 2025-06-04 | - |
| 2025-07-21 | - |
| 2025-07-22 | - |
Program Overview
From Beginner to Master: Premiere Pro
Overview
Our Premiere Pro course series is designed to guide you from a beginner to a master user. Our courses cover everything from the basics to advanced levels and can be taken individually, offering flexibility based on your prior knowledge.
Course Details
Premiere Pro: Getting started
This course is designed for newcomers to Adobe Premiere Pro. It introduces essential tools, the interface and basic projects. The course aims to help learners navigate Premiere Pro efficiently, use its features effectively, and perform simple video editing tasks.
- Course details and outline
- This course covers video editing basics, including creating projects, navigating the interface, importing footage, understanding resolutions and configuring clip settings. Participants will also manage clips and organise projects.
- The second part deepens these skills, focusing on audio adjustments, editing tools, adding still frames, organising the timeline, using markers and mastering J and L cuts. Learners will also configure app settings, apply effects and transitions, and export sequences. Efficient project organisation through labels and bins is also taught.
- Session One (3 hours)
- Creating basic projects
- Understanding the Interface
- Importing footage
- Video resolutions
- Video clip and sequence settings
- Creating an initial edit/sequence
- Editing and handling video clips
- Organising projects
- Session Two (3 hours)
- Adjusting audio volumes
- Different editing tools
- Adding hold/still frames
- Cleaning up and organising a timeline
- Using markers
- Understand J&L cuts
- Editing application settings and preferences
- Applying effects and transitions
- Encoding and exporting video
- Project organisation
- Eligibility or prerequisites
- We require you to be confident in using a computer with some Adobe application experience.
Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level
This course is perfect for those who have completed the 'Getting started' course or already have basic skills in Premiere Pro. Building on your existing knowledge to create professional-quality videos, taking your editing skills to the next level.
- Course details and outline
- This course delves into editing techniques and effects. Participants will learn how to create sub-clips for better project management and use animation and keyframes to bring elements to life. The session also covers blending modes, adjustment layers, and masks. Additionally, importing Photoshop files and creating Multicam sequences are taught.
- The second part continues with more specialised techniques. It includes importing image sequences and using masking to isolate parts of a video. The session also covers the Ultra Key effect for green screen work and the Track Matte effect for compositing video and stills.
- Session One (3 hours)
- Making a sub-clip
- Animation and keyframes
- Blending modes
- Adjustment layers and masks
- Importing photoshop files
- Creating Multicam sequences
- Editing tools
- Session Two (3 hours)
- Importing image sequences
- Masking
- Ultra key effect
- Track matte effect
- Adding and editing tracks
- Eligibility or prerequisites
- We require the completion of a short questionnaire. This will help ensure the course content is appropriate for your skill level and learning goals.
Master Premiere Pro
This course targets users who are familiar with Premiere Pro basics and wish to enhance their skills. It covers more complex projects, advanced editing techniques and creative workflows.
- Course details and outline
- In the first part, the course delves into various aspects of production workflows, focusing on adding and editing text, and creating lower third graphics. Participants will learn about nesting sequences, which helps in organising complex projects. The session also covers the use of Creative Commons licensing and royalty-free content, ensuring legal and ethical use of media. Additionally, different camera shot types and the crop effect are explored to enhance visual storytelling.
- Session two shifts towards audio and finishing touches. It begins with recording and cleaning up voiceovers, including noise and reverb removal, using the essential sound palette. The session also teaches scaling and positioning clips within a sequence, which is important for adding visual interest to a video. Finally, participants will learn about archiving projects for future use and the basics of colour grading to improve the overall look of their videos.
- Session One (3 hours)
- Production workflows
- Adding and editing text and creating lower third graphics
- Nesting sequences
- Creative commons licensing
- Different camera shot types
- Royalty free content
- Crop effect
- Session Two (3 hours)
- Recording a voiceover
- Cleaning up a recording - remove noise and reverb
- The essential sound palette
- Scaling and positioning clips in a sequence
- Archiving a project
- Colour grading
- Eligibility or prerequisites
- We require the completion of a short questionnaire. This assessment will help ensure the course content is appropriate for your skill level and learning goals.
Upcoming Short Courses
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Tue 03 Jun 2025
- 09.00-16.00 | Price £150
- Short Course: Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | June 2025
- Online
- This course is perfect for those who have completed the 'Getting started' course or already have basic skills in Premiere Pro.
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Tue 03 Jun 2025
- 09.00-16.00 | Price £150
- Short Course: Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | June 2025
- Online
- This course is perfect for those who have completed the 'Getting started' course or already have basic skills in Premiere Pro.
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Wed 04 Jun 2025
- 09.00-16.00 | Price £150
- Short Course: Master Premiere Pro | June 2025
- Online
- This course targets users who are familiar with Premiere Pro basics and wish to enhance their skills.
- Short Course_Premiere Intro_Main image
- Mon 21 Jul 2025
- 9:00-16:00 | Price: £150
- Short Course: Getting Started with Premiere Pro - Introduction to Video Editing | July 2025
- Online
- Learn the basics of video editing and how to save your footage to the best format. Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful tool for video editing.
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Tue 22 Jul 2025
- 09.00 - 16.00 | Price £150
- Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | July 2025
- Online
- Building on your existing knowledge to create professional-quality videos, taking your editing skills to the next level.
Course Details
What you'll learn
The course will start with an overview of the Adobe Premiere Pro CC. We will then begin to look at the fundamentals of timelines, effects and what Adobe Premiere Pro can do all the way up to a master user level.
Matthew Abbott - Course Lead
Matthew is a Digital Skills Trainer at Falmouth, specialising in Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Premiere Pro. He delivers a range of Adobe and Microsoft courses, including Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) and Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) qualifications. He holds a degree in Sustainable Product Design and a PCET teaching certificate, and has served as a Senior Technician at Falmouth University for over 20 years.
How you'll learn
Our online courses are delivered through Microsoft Teams, ensuring a seamless learning experience. Each session starts with a live broadcast from the tutor to introduce the topic and guide you through the resources.
Our courses include various learning methods such as videos, quizzes and exercises. The tutor remains available online for real-time support, making learning effective and enjoyable. Our blended teaching approach combines live and pre-recorded content, providing flexibility to learn at your own pace.
What to expect
- Engaging content
- A variety of different ways to learn
- Clear guidelines to work through the practice exercises
- Constructive feedback from tutors on your submitted work
- Technical assistance from your tutors
Digital badges
Digital badges are a great way to celebrate your achievements and stand out from the crowd, and are awarded to all learners who successfully complete a course and all associated learning activities.
So whether it's obtaining the skills needed to create a promotional video using Adobe Premiere Pro or the ability to successfully use formulae in Microsoft Excel.
Our digital short courses play a unique role in helping to upskill or re-skill to be more competitive in the job market. Sharing your digital badge on employability websites such as LinkedIn or on your CV can showcase your range of learning achievements to potential employers.
You will also attain a digital badge from Adobe or Microsoft when successfully completing the exams on our ACP & Microsoft Office Suite Certification Courses.
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How to apply
To apply for this course, make your selection from the available dates below, this will take you to an event page where you will be able to book yourself onto the course via the Book now link.
Upcoming Short Courses
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Tue 03 Jun 2025
- 09.00-16.00 | Price £150
- Short Course: Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | June 2025
- Online
- This course is perfect for those who have completed the 'Getting started' course or already have basic skills in Premiere Pro.
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Tue 03 Jun 2025
- 09.00-16.00 | Price £150
- Short Course: Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | June 2025
- Online
- This course is perfect for those who have completed the 'Getting started' course or already have basic skills in Premiere Pro.
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Wed 04 Jun 2025
- 09.00-16.00 | Price £150
- Short Course: Master Premiere Pro | June 2025
- Online
- This course targets users who are familiar with Premiere Pro basics and wish to enhance their skills.
- Short Course_Premiere Intro_Main image
- Mon 21 Jul 2025
- 9:00-16:00 | Price: £150
- Short Course: Getting Started with Premiere Pro - Introduction to Video Editing | July 2025
- Online
- Learn the basics of video editing and how to save your footage to the best format. Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful tool for video editing.
- Premiere Pro ACP lead
- Tue 22 Jul 2025
- 09.00 - 16.00 | Price £150
- Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | July 2025
- Online
- Building on your existing knowledge to create professional-quality videos, taking your editing skills to the next level.
Fees, costs & funding
- Course name | Tuition fee
- Premiere Pro: Getting Started | £150* per individual
- Premiere Pro: Propel your skills to the next level | £150* per individual
- Master Premiere Pro | £150* per individual
If you're a student or staff different fees apply. Please visit our dedicated student and staff areas for specific information.
A subsidised rate of £50 is available for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly residents through the SPF Digital Futures Cornwall project. To find out more or check your eligibility, contact or please complete our form to enquire about our subsidised short courses. Once your place is confirmed, you’ll receive a secure payment link along with full instructions.
Course requirements and costs
You will need access to a laptop/desktop computer (Mac/PC) with Adobe Premiere Pro Installed.
If you don't have an Adobe licence, a monthly or annual subscription may be available, or Adobe often offer free trials on their products.
Please visit the Adobe.com website to find out more.
