Premiere Pro. Edit your videos like a pro

Last updated on 12 May 2026

Premiere Pro is a professional video editing software offered by the Adobe editor that makes it possible to make your videos and those made by your students into real ‘works’ ready to be broadcast on both small and large screens.

Premiere Pro is one of the reference video editing software. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, it allows you to edit your videos like a pro. And this, whether you have a simple editing to make or downright a clip in virtual reality.

Video is becoming, and is not about to change, the dominant medium in new educational materials. It is also an excellent pretext to offer your students creative or thought-provoking activities. What better way, for example, to do media literacy and help your students decipher information than to offer them video reports like pros themselves.

Video processing requires the use of serious tools.

This is the case for Premiere Pro, which no longer has a reputation but, like other similar tools, suffers from a powerful but difficult-to-learn image of a tool.

This is a shame, because if it requires a learning period, Adobe Premiere Pro then combines real ease of use with professional quality editing tools for all video editing needs. The latest version of the software also incorporates the features of many other adobe products, making it a unique Swiss knife editing solution.

A complete video editing tool for experts and beginners alike.

Premiere Pro will allow you to import videos from a camera or phone, cut clips, add titles or adjust and improve sound. The interface remains very intuitive, with custom shortcuts for editing. The ergonomics are flawless and you will find yourself in familiar terrain if you have already had the opportunity to use another Adobe creation tool such as LightRoom or Spark, for which you can edit the videos.

The software also offers a range of animation models or transitions to insert spectacular effects into your videos without you needing to become a special effects expert.

Premiere Pro can support a wide variety of input files, from DivX to H.265. In the same way, it also allows you to export your creations in many different file types.

Ideas for using Premiere Pro in class?

There is no shortage of opportunities. Once you have become accustomed to the tool, you will be able to give free rein to your imagination knowing that the software will allow you to achieve quality results.

Obvious uses, such as offering your students a short film scenario and then directing it, creating a video clip or a TV news story, going through a film from the last sea class or a simple school outing.

The technical tools available in Premiere Pro allow you to create and embed subtitles in a video, add a green background to a scene or blur the face of a student or person in an entire video.

adobe Premiere Pro is a touch to any expert to put in all hands for creative and editing needs with video media.

You can test Premiere Pro for free, you will then have to switch to a subscription. Premiere Pro is part of the suite Adobe Creative Cloud for Education*.

Link: Adobe Premiere Pro.

*Adobe offers Education Rates for teachers, students and schools on the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, which includes most of the publisher’s major graphic design software. Through this Education program, adobe offers its creative applications Creative Cloud for pupils and their teachers in primary, secondary and higher education establishments at preferential rates. For more information, you can write to educ@adobe.com