For beginners, Adobe Premiere Pro CC can cause some shocking surprises when you open up the door to this editing powerhouse. There’s a wall of emotions from the many menus, options, and panels and it can feel like maybe there’s another person who could work with this program much better than you. Luckily, we have Billy the Tutorial Guy here to show us some basic editing techniques for getting the release we need making beautiful family home movies.

In this basic tutorial, Billy begins by importing a few clips of his wife and her friend and shows how to Mark In and Mark Out clips that you then drag into the timeline. Once there are a few clips to work with in the timeline, Billy jumps right into bed with transitions. Adding transitions may seem hard, but as you can see in the video they are incredibly easy to get intimate with just by dragging them down to where you need them in the timeline.

I don’t want to blow it by giving up everything Billy talks about in the video, but other topics exposed are importing audio, adding titles, and creating slow motion effects. It will almost seem like you’re cheating once you have these nailed.

After watching this engaging tutorial, I’m sure you’ll agree that by remaining faithful to Premiere Pro CC you will continue to pick up tricks like these and editing will become much less of a burden.

Note: Because of the language in this video, it is marked as NSFW.

[via 537 Productions]