Software Tutorials: Premiere Pro & After Effects for Filmmakers

Post-production starts with the right tools, and the know-how to use them. This section features hands-on guides for editing, effects, and virtual production across industry-standard programs. Whether you’re cutting in Premiere Pro or creating motion graphics in After Effects, these tutorials walk you through real workflows step by step.

Premiere Pro

Learn the basics of video editing with Premiere Pro, from timeline setup and keyboard shortcuts to essential editing techniques. This course is great for beginners or anyone looking to speed up their workflow.

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Exporting High-Quality Video With Small File Sizes In Premiere

Exporting is the final step of your editing process. The amount of data your export will need to encode depends …
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How to Create and Export SRT Captions in Premiere Pro

Adding closed captions to your video is a great idea to reach the widest audience possible. Captions were designed for …
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How To Work With Multiple Cameras In Premiere Pro In 3 Easy Steps

Learning to edit with Premiere Pro’s multi-camera features is essential for your video editing tool bag. You may think of …
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21 Premiere Pro Keyboard Shortcuts You Need To Know [PC/Mac Cheat Sheet Included]

In this article, I explain the 21 keyboard shortcuts that I think are essential for Premiere Pro users. These are …
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How to Synchronize Clips and Audio in Premiere Pro Automatically (Without Plug-Ins)

In Premiere Pro, you can sync clips manually or automatically – without plug-ins. Both have good uses for different reasons …
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How to Add Subtitles and Closed Captions in Premiere Pro

Closed captions and subtitles are similar in presentation but different in use. Both show the text of spoken words or …
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How to Add, Edit & Animate Text in Premiere Pro (Illustrated Guide)

Adding a text file is extremely simple inside Premiere. There are four primary methods for creating a text file.  With …
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How to Normalize Audio in Premiere Pro Correctly

Normalizing audio for your video projects should be the first step in your audio editing and mixing workflow. Normalizing is …
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How To Crop A Video In Premiere Pro (+ animate it as an effect)

Cropping a video is the removal of unwanted parts from an image. Typically, this is done in a square or …
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How To Change The Sequence Resolution In Premiere Pro

Understanding video resolution is an essential part of being a video editor. Nearly every platform where you may post a …
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How to Resize Videos (Changing Width & Height) in Premiere Pro

There are multiple methods for resizing videos on your timeline, which I’ll cover in this article. Note that resizing videos …
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How To Rotate And Flip A Video In Premiere Pro

There are two primary ways to rotate or flip a video in Premiere: using built-in presets or the rotation function …
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How To Fade In/Out Audio In Premiere Pro (J-Cut & L-Cut).

This illustrated guide explains how to fade audio in and out in Premiere Pro using keyframes, or transition presets and …
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How To Use the Essential Graphics Panel in Premiere Pro (Illustrated Guide)

The Essential Graphics Panel in Premiere Pro is a great tool for customizing text, shapes, and other graphics. This is …
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How To Create A MOGRT File In Premiere Pro (Illustrated Guide)

MOGRT files are pre-made motion graphic templates. They are an easy way to add motion graphics to your video projects …
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How To Import And Edit Motion Graphics Templates (MORGT) In Premiere Pro

This article explains how to import and edit a MOGRT file that was pre-made by someone else. Here’s an illustrated …
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How to use Proxies in Premiere Pro: An Illustrated Guide

Proxies, or proxy files, are lower-resolution substitutes for your original high-resolution files. Proxy files make it possible to edit high-resolution video …

After Effects

Build motion graphics, visual effects, and title animations with After Effects. These guides walk you through the layer system, keyframes, compositing, and more.

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How to Create A MOGRT Template in AE (Illustrated Guide)

MOGRT files are pre-made MOtion GRaphic Templates that can drastically speed up your workflow. They can be reused and easily …
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How to Use Extract In AE for Sky Replacement and More

Rotoscoping with the roto brush tool is great for separating a person or a single object from the background in …
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How To Roto Brush In After Effects. Part 2: Advanced Settings (Illustrated Guide)

In this second part of our tutorial on using the roto brush tool to do rotoscoping in After Effects, we’ll …
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How To Enable Classic Controls In Roto Brush 2 In After Effects

If you’re working with Roto Brush 2 in After Effects, you might miss some of the features from Roto Brush …
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Share And Backup A Project In Adobe AE (Illustrated Guide)

Have you ever needed to share an After Effects project and assets, but there were too many files to manage? …
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How To Use Roto Brush In After Effects. Illustrated Tutorial. Part 1.

The Roto Brush tool in After Effects is essential when you want to place something – fx text or a …
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How To Convert A RotoBrush Selection To A Keyframed Mask In After Effects

Did you know you don’t have to manually create and track masks with the pen tool in Adobe After Effects …
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Must-Have After Effects Tools & Plug-Ins Available for Free

One of the things, that makes Adobe After Effects so powerful is the number of third-party plug-ins, which are available, …
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How to make a lightsaber and X-wing scene in After Effects

Some of the names on this page are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm (Disney), of which I’m in no way affiliated …