Video Production Resource Center

Find teaching resources to prepare your film students for standout careers.

Film schools can integrate real-world projects into their video production curriculum to give students an edge when they start work in the digital filmmaking industry. Working with faculty from leading film schools and universities, Adobe has created free projects and curriculums for teaching video production skills to students at all levels.

Adobe also offers a selection of additional resources you can provide your film students to inspire them with work created by their peers and motivate them to learn on their own.

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Inspire with sample video projects

Use these free sample projects and assets in your courses to help advanced students deconstruct real-world examples, learn new skills through in-context video tutorials, and be inspired to create their own films.

Music videos

Teach students how to use advanced techniques like using Dynamic Link, animating text to sound, creating a cartoon look, building custom waveforms, and more to create a professional-looking music video.

Commercials/PSAs

Help students discover how techniques like 3D motion text, light writing, and motion tracking can enhance the promotion of a product or service.

Digital shorts

Challenge your students to produce a YouTube-worthy digital short using techniques like multi-effect presets, creating a hologram effect, changing weather from sunny to rainy, or using custom shape tools.

Documentaries

Empower students to document reality and inform the public using Speech Search, the metadata workflow, motion graphics and titles, and adding an aged look to video.

Explore the Digital Video production curriculum

Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production

Use all or part of this yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in digital video production using Adobe tools.

Adobe TV: Digital Video CS5

Watch video tutorials that supplement the skills and techniques students learn through the Digital Video curriculum.

Develop your own video production skills

New to Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium? Watch video tutorials on Adobe TV to learn how to use new features and quickly get up to speed with the latest versions of Production Premium and Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Soundbooth®, and Encore®.

Production Premium

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

Soundbooth

Encore

Dive into tips and tricks

Provide instruction on specific video techniques with these handy tip sheets.

Rely on guides from the experts

An Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro (101)

This entry-level course teaches students to perform essential editing techniques while becoming familiar with the Adobe Premiere Pro user interface. This class is designed for anyone looking to edit professional-quality video with Adobe Premiere Pro and uses hands-on and interactive instruction to best explore its functionality. The course is designed for new users who have no substantial editing experience.

Adobe Premiere Pro for Experience Editors (250)

This course teaches experienced editors how to navigate Adobe Premiere Pro and helps give them insights on how to use Adobe Premiere Pro within the Creative Suite Production Premium workflow. This class is designed for students who are making the transition to Adobe Premiere Pro from another nonlinear editing platform.

Teachers, if you are new to Adobe Premiere Pro and wish to learn it well enough to teach your students, consider purchasing the Adobe Premiere Pro CS5/CS5.5 Classroom Training - Teacher Bundle. This bundle contains the required materials for both courses (101 and 250): books, videos contained in both student bundles, plus classroom setup guides and teacher supplements. This bundle will equip you to learn Adobe Premiere Pro as well as help you teach the 101 course in your classroom.

Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 choose Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book. The 22 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Premiere Pro CS5.

After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CS5 choose Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects CS5 and how to work efficiently and deliver in the widest possible range of media types.

The Video Collection Revealed: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth and Encore CS5

Dive right into video editing with the Video Collection Revealed! This all-new book introduces the video applications of Adobe CS5, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore.