I've been using Adobe Premiere Pro for something like 15 years now, more or less. Nearly all of what I've done with it has been basic taking footage and cutting it up and spitting something out at the end. I've done a few interesting things here and there like credits crawls and masking effects, but it's been pretty rudimentary.

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. Well, I guess I really haven't "invented" anything, so maybe "Necessity is the mother of education" is more apt in my case. Last month my boss came to me and one of my coworkers and tasked us with interviewing another department and creating a video from the footage for the company's quarterly meeting. We got about an hour's worth of footage on our cell phones. Since I have a subscription to Adobe CC and I've got some minor professional experience in multimedia production, I took on the task of doing the editing.

It was blast. It took about three weeks and more revisions that I could keep track of, but after a couple false starts, I finally produced something of some polished quality that came in nicely under the ten-minute mark limit. It was played at the meeting and got a wonderful positive response, and we have a green light to do it for the meetings coming up in the new year.

I've learned a lot about Premiere in the past month or so and right now I'm hungry to learn more. I'm picking up a lot of interesting new techniques and learning about things I didn't even know Premiere could do, despite having it for well over a decade. I'm hoping to incorporate some of what I learn in the little things I put up over on DA from time to time. When applicable, I'll drop in links from the related artwork here.