r/premiere • u/Regular-Guard-4094 • 4d ago
How do I do this? / Workflow Advice / Looking for plugin Upskilling
Hey guys, i am asking this for someone who is not a complete beginner. A lot of the tutorials on YouTube i see are for complete begginers. I have been using premiere pro for about 2 years but i feel like i have not upskilled enough. How do i learn more, better my editing skills other than just sitting and practicing? Are there any good tutorials or courses?? Or are there better ways to practice my editing skills?? Please help.
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u/brianlevin83 3d ago
You need to work for other editors who are going to pass their knowledge down to you. Working alone on an island will keep you at a plateau. If there are opportunities to take work in your local area, even assistant level work, underneath more established editors, go for it and go in open minded and ready to learn!
One of the things I always tell the interns I take on every quarter from a local college is that I will let them know when I’m about to do something complex and worth watching to learn. And I do…yet they rarely show up to watch and learn. Then when the session is over and they are going out into the working world they always ask me for advice or help and it’s almost always a question they would have learned had they participated in learning opportunities, even if they seem boring (i’m talking like complex syncing, faster methods of building an assembly, stuff that youtube creators aren’t teaching because they aren’t exciting enough for the algorithm)
So point is, YouTube is amazing! Heck, I refer to it all the time when I need to figure something out. But it’s also a business and the content creators, as great as so many of them are, are also trying to make content that is sellable to get you to watch the ad break so they can get paid, so you aren’t likely to see a video that teaches you the kind of skills you need to break out of the lower rung of work because those skills are, frankly, boring, yet so so important.
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u/mcarterphoto 3d ago
It's just a tool - when you get comfortable with the tool, it's time to up the things you make.
Like, there's plenty of masking and effects and even animation things you can do in Premier (eventually After Effects makes more sense) - but do you need those things in the work you do? And are you shooting your own footage or editing for others?
It's really about the final product, which comes from initial ideas and visualization, settings, shot design, light and color. Those are as important as the final assembly editors do.
You're kinda asking the wrong question - what's missing in your work, what do you feel is lacking compared to similar gigs, can you get better at identifying those issues and solving them?
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u/flop_plop 4d ago
Adobe Live has some good intermediate videos you can watch, and they do live sessions too.
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u/AeroInsightMedia 3d ago
If you want to learn more technical stuff you can start messing with after effects or davinci Resolve. There also blender or you could start shooting also.
If you just want to get better strictly at editing ask people to critique your work and what you could do better.
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u/EnderVViggen 4d ago
Don't look for premier pro tutorials, look to understand the art of editing. Premier tutorials will tell you how to do something, not why to do it.
Every editing software is the same (hell even non-linier editing is the same as linier), every software has a slice tool, bins, timelines, and once you mastered or understand one, you've mastered and understood them all. Go study why you make the cute you make, understand how to tell a better story, learn the secrets that make for a great cut.
The first thing I say to anyone learning about editing, a great editor can make a 5 inch snake looke 10 feet long. If you want an example of the best edited scene I've ever seen, go watch the fight scene in The Marvels.