Premiere Pro tutorial for beginners (free curriculum)

Learning Premiere Pro from scratch on a Mac? This is the full beginner curriculum — 7 hands-on lessons (about 6 hours total), in the order that actually makes sense, from the interface to export.

Each lesson is a real, do-it-yourself walkthrough. For hands-free help, Skilly teaches this exact curriculum live — a voice tutor that watches your Premiere Pro window and points your cursor at the right button. Free to start.

The Premiere Pro curriculum

1. Interface and Workspace — Get oriented in Premiere Pro’s panel-based workspace and understand where everything lives before touching footage.
2. Import and Project Organization — Bring media into Premiere and organize it so editing is efficient.
3. Timeline Editing — Make your first cuts and build a rough edit in the Timeline.
4. Trimming and Transitions — Refine your edit by trimming clips precisely and adding transitions between them.
5. Effects and Color Grading — Apply visual effects to clips and perform basic color correction with Lumetri Color.
6. Audio and Titles — Mix audio tracks and add text titles to your sequence.
7. Export — Render your finished edit and export it for delivery.

How to use this

Work top to bottom — each lesson builds on the last — or jump straight to what you’re stuck on. Every page lists what you’ll do, the exact menus and shortcuts, and the common mistakes to avoid.