Assistant Editor Foundations in Adobe Premiere

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Assistant Editor Foundations in Adobe Premiere

This course is part of Assistant Editing in Film with Adobe Premiere Specialization

Instructor: Adobe

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

4 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

4 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Configure Adobe Premiere as a production-ready editing environment with custom workspaces and shortcuts.
Verify and protect camera-original footage using industry-standard offload and backup practices.
Organize footage with bin structures, metadata logging, and selects for fast editorial retrieval.
Maintain versioned sequences and write handoff notes that keep collaborators informed.

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This course is part of the Assistant Editing in Film with Adobe Premiere Specialization

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There are 3 modules in this course

You will learn to set up, organize, and manage a professional Adobe Premiere project as an assistant editor. By the end of this course, you'll configure Premiere as a production-ready editing environment, protect camera-original footage through industry-standard practices, and develop systems that keep footage organized and easy to navigate. You'll also practice maintaining clean, versioned sequences and communicating project status through markers and handoff notes.

This course is designed for aspiring and working assistant editors, including experienced Assistant Editors bringing their workflow knowledge into Premiere from another system. You'll explore how post-production teams collaborate, where Premiere's terminology and tools differ from other non-linear editing software, and what it takes to hit the ground running on a Premiere-based production. Through hands-on exercises, you'll build the Adobe Premiere project used throughout the course: configuring sequence settings, scratch disks, auto-save, a custom workspace layout, and a keyboard shortcut set suited to assistant editor tasks.

Great edits rarely begin with the timeline. Before an editor can shape performances, pacing, and emotion, the project itself must be organized, reliable, and easy to navigate. Editorial systems create the structure that makes creative storytelling possible. This module builds an understanding of the role through the habits, responsibilities, and professional values that define a reliable assistant editor. It also connects those practices directly to Premiere’s environment and terminology, showing how professional editorial workflows are implemented within the software. You'll learn to navigate the interface from an assistant editor's perspective and configure the software as a professional editing environment ready for production work.

What's included

5 videos4 readings

5 videosTotal 17 minutes

What does an Assistant Editor actually do?3 minutes
The Post-Production Team and Where the AE Fits3 minutes
Navigating Adobe Premiere as an Assistant Editor2 minutes
Collaborating Without Chaos: Shared Productions and Team Projects in Premiere4 minutes
Starting Clean: How to build a project that won’t break later4 minutes

4 readingsTotal 60 minutes

Course Outline10 minutes
Build the Project Foundation30 minutes
Learning Paths and Certifications10 minutes
Join the Adobe Community10 minutes

Next, you’ll learn how assistant editors protect and organize production media in Premiere. You’ll practice verifying footage, building bin structures, logging metadata, and preparing subclips and selects that allow editors to work efficiently.

What's included

4 videos3 readings

4 videosTotal 14 minutes

Protecting the Footage: Why Media Integrity is the AE’s First Responsibility4 minutes
Building a Structure Anyone Can Navigate3 minutes
Logging Footage for Fast Editorial Retrieval 4 minutes
Preparing Selects So the Editor Can Cut Without Hunting4 minutes

3 readingsTotal 50 minutes

Media Verification and the Two-Copy Offload Protocol10 minutes
Camera Formats and Codecs: What the AE needs to know10 minutes
Verify, Import, and Organize the Media Package30 minutes

Finally, you’ll develop the habits that keep editing projects reliable during production. You’ll practice sequence versioning, project cleanup, and exporting screeners while communicating project status clearly to collaborators.

What's included

2 videos4 readings1 assignment

2 videosTotal 7 minutes

Keeping the Project Trustworthy: Versions, Markers, and Hygiene4 minutes
Delivering What the Team Needs: Screeners, Master, and Exports3 minutes

4 readingsTotal 60 minutes

In-Production File Naming, Versioning, and Backup Conventions10 minutes
Version, Export, and Handoff30 minutes
Showcase your creativity with Behance10 minutes
You did it — now share the love10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 50 minutes

Knowledge check50 minutes

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