Premiere Pro for Filmmakers (The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Presents)

You'll not only learn Premiere, you'll learn how to edit a movie.

The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Presents Premiere Pro for Filmmakers, the editing handbook you’ve been waiting for.

Everyone edits video, at least a little bit. But there’s a huge difference between trimming a clip for social media and truly making a film, whether it’s short, long, or episodic. Filmmakers, even beginners, push editing apps like Premiere Pro to the limit. Written by filmmakers for filmmakers, this book covers everything you need to know to edit your movie and tell the story you want to tell using Adobe Premiere. Premiere Pro for Filmmakers takes you through each step of the post-production process, from easy, entry-level editing tutorials that use footage from real feature films to advanced topics like multicam editing, sound editing, graphics, visual effects, and color. And it doesn’t stop there. Since many Premiere users have access to the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite, discussions of related apps are included whenever appropriate—After Effects, Photoshop, Media Encoder, Audition, Bridge, other resources like TypeKit fonts, Adobe Stock, and more.

Premiere Pro for Filmmakers is the flagship book in our new, single-topic, companion series, The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Presents. This series picks up where The Digital Filmmaking Handbook leaves off, tackling each topic exclusively, in-depth, and as always, from the perspective of working filmmakers.

Sonja Schenk is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and artist. Her first short film premiered at the AFI festival when she was a student. She has an MFA in film from the University of Southern California. She directed the theatrically-released, independent feature comedy, The Olivia Experiment, and has written several screenplays. Her showrunner credits include several prominent television series, including The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and High School Reunion. She has edited over 15 feature films, both scripted and docs, including premieres at the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and many others. Having started out as a video artist, she continues to make and exhibit art that shows internationally and is a member of the video collective Paper Tiger TV, a retrospective of which was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She has contributed many articles on filmmaking and video technology to various publications, is the co-author of The Digital Filmmaking Handbook and the editor of the companion book series The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Presents. She is currently in development on a new feature film.