MML Basic VIDEO Editing Workshop!

1 hour tutorial with 37 minutes of content

Welcome to the Brown's Basic Video Editing Workshop as a part of the Multimedia Lab. We will go over the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere by recreating a 45-second video together! Anyone can take this tutorial even if they aren't part of the Brown community, and many of the basic editing concepts are useful across editing platforms. The workshop is broken down into 5 consecutive parts with each video building upon the skills learned in subsequent videos.

ALTERNATIVE: EASY EDITING

The tutorial below is intended to get you started on a semi/professional path towards having marketable video editing skills that can be used in a variety of creative projects. If instead, you want the easiest (and sometimes limiting) video editing experience, or want to build up your basic skills to eventually become more proficient, we recommend taking a look at our resource page for Adobe Rush instead, a drag-and-drop video editor

PREP Work

Software

For this tutorial we will be using Adobe Premiere, a software which is free to use for Brown University students. Use this link to learn how to download Adobe products like Premiere at if you plan to use your personal machine, or you can use Adobe Premiere at the Multimedia Labs on campus. If you are reviewing this guide and are not part of the Brown community and don't have Adobe, we recommend using a software like DaVinci Resolve which is free for students, though you may find some aspects of this tutorial limiting.

Download

For this tutorial, the MML is providing you with media to use and follow along with. more about this is explained in the Part 1 Video (00:54).

In the mean time, feel free to download the entire contents of the zipped filed titled MML Video Workshop FINAL, found here

SETUP

While you can successfully complete the tutorial using just your laptop or personal computer, it may become a little annoying to switch back and forth between the videos and premiere. If possible, consider using two devices side-by-side during this process: one device to play the videos and the second device to follow along on in Premiere. You should always prioritize the more powerful device to do your work in premiere with. A good secondary device could be a, tablet, smart tv, smart phone or second computer. If you are using a single device, consider using a Picture in Picture extension for Chrome or Firefox browser which will allow the videos to hover while your work in Premiere