Learn how to edit Advanced Music Videos, Documentaries and Films, and master your sound recording with Adobe Audition, Sound forge or audacity. The program walks you through the entire process of getting footage from the Camera, cutting it into nice pieces for further compositing in Adobe Premier pro.

Our seasoned experts will show you the tools and options available to create complex compositions using just Adobe Premiere Pro, without worrying about the Knowledge of Adobe after Effects or Adobe Photoshop.  This Course gives students all the necessary skills to edit with Adobe Premiere Pro. Students are also taught multiple theoretical editing approaches.

Over the course of the Course, students are provided footage to edit 20 varying types of projects. Students will edit: a Montage, a short Documentary, and a Dialogue project. The final week of the Course is dedicated to cutting a Reel.

They will learn various theoretical concepts of editing and how to practically apply those theories. Editors are not solely limited to the film industry; they work in many areas of media, including news, documentaries, television, and web series.

This program provides students with hands-on instruction in editing theory, techniques and the fundamentals of digital editing. Students gain hands-on experience by editing various projects with footage provided to them in class. They also learn various theoretical concepts of editing and how to practically apply those theories.

Software Tools to Learn

Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Adobe Premiere Pro is used for editing videos, commercials and other film, television, and online video. It is a comprehensive video editing software application. Students will become comfortable or fluent in the software, learn Shortcuts, Audio Mixing, Color Correction, Graphics and Effects, and Export Settings for various platforms.

Adobe Photoshop CC
Adobe Photoshop is an advanced digital imaging software, used by photographers, designers, web professionals, and video professionals. The app gives you the utmost power and creative control for 2D and 3D image manipulation and compositing, video editing, and image analysis. Students learn the major functions of Adobe Photoshop and will create usable assets to be imported into Premiere Pro.

Overall Objectives of the course:

• To provide a well-rounded and comprehensive training on video editing through lectures, exercises and applications.
• To set a contextual backdrop for aiding ease of understanding, the theoretical background pertaining to video editing would be covered as well.
• To emphasize skill proficiency so that trainees can practically contribute and provide support to the relevant industry.
• To maximize the production of high quality videos, films, documentaries and other related formats.

Competencies gained after completion of the course: On completion of the course, the trainee will be able…

• To professionally edit videos of different genres i.e. documentaries, drams, short films, interviews, commercials etc.
• To proficiently use different video editing software applications including Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
• To acquire a theoretical and practical knowledge of video editing and its related constructs including filmmaking.

Job opportunities available immediately and in the future:

• The trainee will be able to understand the industrial set up and would be able to work efficiently.
• Trainee can be hired as a video editor or work in a related industry as a professional thus, aiding post-production skills to produce quality video/films.
• Trainee could become an entrepreneur to further extend the industry.
• They could work in different areas of the media industry, work within a production house as an editor, or even provide freelance editing solutions to various clients. They can be easily employed by different TV channels as a Non-Liner Editor.

Course Salient Features:

• Medium of Instruction:                  English
• Duration of Course:                       6 Months
• Mode of training:                          Both on Campus and Online

Training methodology:

• Theoretical coverage       20 %
• Practical coverage:          80 %