Get Me Started with Adobe Premiere Pro – New Course on MZed

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by Mascha DeikovaApril 24^th, 2025

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Editing is a creative process. Seeing your story come together before your eyes is fun, but it can also be frustrating. This is especially true when you are starting out and want to edit your videos using professional software, and you start to run into technical obstacles. Sound familiar? Then our new course “Get Me Started with Adobe Premiere Pro” could be the perfect launching pad for your editing journey.

In roughly 1 hour, seasoned filmmaker and instructor Digby Hogan shows participants around Adobe’s professional-grade NLE (non-linear editing) and does it with humor and passion. It’s true that Premiere Pro is a widely-used powerhouse program, in which all kinds of films and videos come into the world (like David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” or the Netflix series “Mindhunter”). That said, it’s still accessible to beginners, who can start using it without much trouble. This is the approach that Digby Hogan sets out to prove in his short three-part mini-series.

Get Me Started with Adobe Premiere Pro: the goal

The main idea behind the new course is to get Premiere Pro beginners from A to B as quickly and efficiently as possible. In other words, no deep dives into advanced settings you probably don’t need now (or maybe ever) for the kinds of videos you plan to edit. Digby Hogan guides course participants through all the basic steps: from importing your media to the final cut. Along the way, he covers key things everyone should know – like where to find royalty-free music, how to cut to the beat, and what the four main sections of Premiere Pro are all about.

And do you know what makes this course oh-so-entertaining? Digby’s fun, hilarious, and dynamic approach to teaching. I promise you can binge all the lessons in one go, and at some point, you’ll be dancing to the remix of Jingle Bells with a wide smile on your face. Basically, everything that a learning heart desires.

What else will you learn in “Get Me Started with Adobe Premiere Pro”?

The course is divided into three short modules:

1. Preparing to Edit, in which Digby Hogan shows you how to open and save your project, and gives you a walkthrough of the Premiere Pro interface
2. Building the Base of your Edit, where things get creative. We dive into the music search and get to know some of the tools on the timeline to work with (like a “Razor” tool to cut video and audio clips, and that Digby tends to call a “Blade”).
3. Editing Your Story. The longest 30-minute module covers the basics of linear editing in lightning speed and also includes tips on fine-tuning your edit, inserting jump cuts, adding a title, and adjusting some parameters like scale and position.

By the end of this concise course, Digby will have exported a short video from one of his trips, and hopefully, so will you, if you’ve watched his demonstration from start to finish. This, alongside some new skills that can help you create and share your own video stories.

Revisiting the basics

Personally, I’ve been working with Adobe Premiere Pro for many years, but even for me, this course was refreshing. For instance, I came across many tips and tools that I used to know and forgot, or never really implemented to start with. For instance, some of my insights were:

• Turning on and off the waveform on the audio clips. To do so, you just need to click on the settings icon at the top of your timeline tab and find the “Show audio waveform” line.
• If you hover your mouse over the tools in the panel, it shows you not only the tool’s name but also the current keyboard shortcut set for it. Honestly, I’ve never noticed it before.
• How to use the slip tool to keep the length of a particular clip (like a container) but move the contents within it to a new starting point. It is very useful for adjusting the transitions within your edited music track.
• If you select all the files on your track—say, all your on-location audio—and use the shortcut for the default transition (Cmd+T, in Digby’s case and mine), Premiere will automatically add a fade between each clip. This really helps to streamline the editing.

So, even if you are already an editor and may be considering a switch from another NLE to Adobe Premiere Pro, this course is a great place to start. And for those who want to go deeper, there’s another, more thorough dive into the software by Digby Hogan – a 25-hour-long MZed course titled “Learn Everything in Premiere Pro.”

Pricing

The “Get Me Started with Adobe Premiere Pro” course is available as part of the MZed Pro subscription. If you are not an MZed Pro user yet, we highly recommend you consider becoming one.

As an MZed Pro member, you can access hundreds of hours of filmmaking education. Plus, we’re constantly adding more courses (several are in production right now).

Starting at just $29/month (billed at $349 in the first year, $199 from the second year, or billed monthly at $49), here’s what you’ll get:

• 60+ courses, over 800+ high-quality lessons.
• Highly produced courses from educators with decades of experience and awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award.
• Unlimited access to stream all content during the 12 months.
• Offline download and viewing with the MZed iOS app.
• Discounts to ARRI Academy online courses, exclusively on MZed.
• Most of our courses provide an industry-recognized certificate upon completion.
• Purchasing the courses outright would cost over $9,500.
• Course topics include cinematography, directing, lighting, cameras and lenses, producing, indie filmmaking, writing, editing, color grading, audio, time-lapse, pitch decks, and more.
• 7-day money-back guarantee if you decide it’s not for you (on annual billing only).

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Have you considered starting your journey in Adobe Premiere Pro? What kinds of videos do you want to edit with this software? Let us know in the comments below!