These are notes on the Adobe videos - https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/create-project-import-media.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/export-video-share-social-media.html.
Select File > New > Project and give it a name. The extension will be automatically added. The location shown is where the project file will be saved; feel free to change it. Then click the blue Create button at the lower right.
Put the media files you want to use in a folder that doesn't have a lot of other files - this will aid finding the files in the steps below. If your files are in downloads, put them in a folder in downloads so they will be easy to find.
The Media Browser tab may be visible in the Project panel at the lower left. If not, click the >> at the far right of the menu to display additional options.
The active panel will have a blue line around it; knowing which panel is active is important because it will affect what options are available.
Within a panel, there may be several tabs at the top and each of these may be followed by a menu icon which when clicked will open a menu. Right clicking on an item can also open another menu.
Every panel is listed and can be accessed through the Window menu at the top of the screen.
In the Project Panel (lower left), use the Media Browser (if the Media Browser isn't visible, click the >> at the top right of the panel) and to where your media files are located. In Windows 10, if you put them in "Downloads", choose c drive, then Users, and select the user account you are using, then Downloads and browse to the folder where your media files are located. If you double click one of the media files, iIt will be displayed in the Source Monitor (top left) and you can press the Play icon or drag the blue playhead to move it. However, you don't have to drag the blue playhead; just click where you want it to go.
In the Project Panel, hold down the shift key and select 3 clips and then right click on any of them and choose Import. Importing a clip is necessary to use the clip in your Premiere Pro movie. At the bottom of the Project Panel, you can switch between List View and Icon view and use the slider to change the size of what is displayed.
Within the Project Panel, you can organize clips into bins. To create a bin, you can click the folder icon at the bottom right of the Project Panel (just immediately to the right of the Search icon). We'll name it Shots and click away to apply the name. You can double click the bin and you will then have the same options. You can put multiple items into a bin with one step by shift-clicking them and dragging them onto the new bin icon. You can put bins into bins by shift-clicking several bins and then dragging them onto the new bins icon.
If you right click on the clip in Premiere Pro and choose "Reveal in Explorer", it will take you to the location of the file . You can rename a clip in Premiere Pro and the file the clip is pointing to will not change.
We are going to put clips into a sequence, which is a container where clips will play one after another. Change the Project panel to icon view and then drag the desired clip to the Timeline Panel. Repeat the process for other desired clips.
The left side of the Timeline Panel is called the Track Header. In the Track Header, drag up at the border between the v1 and v2 layer to give the v1 layer more height so that the content of the thumbnails will be visible. In the Program area above, you can click the play button to play the sequence of clips. Hitting the space bar is another way to play and stop the sequence from playing. You can click at any point in the timeline above and the playhead will move there. You can drag the playhead in the Timeline panel to go quickly through the sequence.
In the Timeline, there are horizontal lines - between each of these is a different track v1, v2, v3 for video; a1, a2, a3 for audio. The waveforms for the audio give an indication of how loud the track is. Audio tracks at the same point in the timeline play at the same time, but a video track plays visually in front of a clip that is in a layer below it so a title video track might appear above a content video track in the Timeline.
To remove a clip from the sequence, just click on it to select it, and hit delete; Ctrl-Z undoes this. To delete it without leaving a gap, press the Shift key when you press delete.
The steps are slightly different in Premiere Pro 2023 from earlier versions. In 2023, at the top left, there are tabs for Import, Edit, Export, Choose Export and the first choice (Media File, with the slider set to the right. In the Settings area to the right
To do the export to the specified location, click the blue Export button at the bottom right
Sometimes one gets an error message in the export process and the error message will probably not be helpful. There are several things you can try
At the top left, one can specify other export locations (YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook, Behance, Creative Cloud, and FTP) by clicking the corresponding circle so that it turns blue. When these choices are chosen, one needs to enter the approriate login information for these services.
Revised: April 15, 2023. Comments to Bill Pegram, wpegram@nvcc.edu