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Assistant Editing in Film with Adobe Premiere

Adobe via Coursera Specialization

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Coursera Specialization
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Paid Course
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English
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Certificate Available
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4 weeks, 5 hours a week
Sessions

Self-Paced
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Beginner

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This Specialization prepares you to work as a professional assistant editor in Adobe Premiere across the full lifecycle of a production. Through three courses, you'll configure production-ready Premiere environments, protect and organize camera-original footage, support editors during active production with dailies, proxies, and multi-camera workflows, and prepare finished projects for color, audio, VFX, and final delivery. You'll finish equipped with the technical skills and professional habits, reliability, anticipation, and clear communication, that define a trusted assistant editor on any Premiere-based production.

Syllabus

Course 1: Assistant Editor Foundations in Adobe Premiere
Course 2: Daily Editorial Workflows for Assistant Editors in Premiere
Course 3: Finishing the Cut: Post-Production Pipelines in Premiere

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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.
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You will learn the day-to-day workflows assistant editors use to keep an active production moving. By the end of this course, you'll ingest and organize daily footage using professional dailies workflows, and build string-outs and selects sequences that anticipate the editor's first move. You'll also create and manage proxy workflows, and batch exports in Adobe Media Encoder, and troubleshoot common technical issues like broken links, frame-rate mismatches, and sync problems. This course picks up where project setup ends and daily production begins, simulating the pace and pressure of a real editorial workflow. You'll configure standardized audio track layouts, perform technical dialogue cleanup, place temporary music and sound elements, and maintain version control and changelogs that track editorial revisions. Through a continuous hands-on project, you'll practice the professional habits that make assistant editors dependable collaborators: anticipating what the editor needs, flagging problems early, and communicating clearly through handoff notes as footage arrives and the cut evolves.
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You will learn to prepare a Premiere project for finishing and delivery with the precision expected of a professional assistant editor. By the end of this course, you'll configure color-managed editing environments, use waveform, vectorscope, and histogram tools to flag technical image issues for the colorist. You'll reconform proxy-based sequences to full-resolution camera originals and consolidate project media for finishing. You'll also prepare the handoff packages downstream teams depend on: exporting AAF and OMF files for audio post-production, identifying VFX shots and generating pull lists, and writing turnover documentation that includes delivery manifests and issue logs. Through hands-on exercises, you'll explore the automation tools and collaborative workflows professional assistant editors use to manage complex productions, including Adobe Media Encoder watch folders for scalable encoding. You'll finish by archiving a completed project with Project Manager and writing wrap documentation, and you'll learn how the assistant editor role progresses across production types and toward an editing career.