About This Course
This course introduces students to the full Adobe Production Premium workflow, a high‑performance toolset designed for creating professional video content for virtually any screen. Students learn how Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, Prelude, and SpeedGrade work together as an integrated ecosystem—eliminating bottlenecks and enabling editors to move from concept to final delivery with speed and creative freedom.
At the core of the course is Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry‑standard non‑linear editor used in film, television, social media, and commercial production. Students begin by mastering the editing interface, timeline operations, trimming tools, transitions, audio mixing, and export settings. From there, the course expands into the broader Production Premium workflow, demonstrating how each application contributes to a modern post‑production pipeline.
Through hands‑on projects, students learn how to send sequences seamlessly between Premiere Pro and After Effects for motion graphics, compositing, and visual effects. They explore how Photoshop integrates into video workflows for titles, graphics, and image manipulation. The course also covers Adobe Audition for audio cleanup and sound design, giving learners the ability to produce polished, broadcast‑quality mixes.
Students gain practical experience with Adobe Prelude, using it for on‑set logging, metadata tagging, and ingest workflows that keep large projects organized from the moment footage is captured. The course concludes with Adobe SpeedGrade, where learners apply professional color correction and color grading techniques to give their projects a cinematic finish.
Throughout the course, students work with real‑world footage and complete a series of editing challenges that build toward a final project: a fully edited, color‑graded, sound‑designed short video. Emphasis is placed on efficient workflow design, creative problem‑solving, and the ability to move fluidly between applications without losing time or momentum.
By the end of the course, students will understand the complete Adobe Production Premium pipeline and be able to manage video projects from raw footage to final delivery. Whether preparing for film school, entering the creative workforce, or building a professional portfolio, learners will leave with the technical skills and creative confidence needed to produce high‑quality video content in a fast‑paced production environment.
Course Staff
Chief Educational Troublemaker
Michael Williams
Michael Williams is the Chief Educational Troublemaker at World Mentoring Academy — a title he earned the hard way: by spending more than a decade poking, prodding, and occasionally drop‑kicking the traditional education system into the future. In 2010, long before “MOOC” became a Silicon Valley buzzword, Michael was building a free global college from a backpack, a stubborn belief in open learning, and whatever Starbucks Wi‑Fi he could borrow. The Orange County Register profiled him as a “homeless by choice educator to the world,” documenting his 12‑hour days assembling university‑level courses from MIT, Yale, NPTEL, and Stanford — all without charging a cent.
While the big platforms eventually traded “open” for “subscription,” Michael never budged. World Mentoring Academy remains one of the last true free MOOCs on Earth, offering more than 1,000 courses without paywalls, upsells, or fine print.
Michael’s LinkedIn essays — including “Harvard & MIT, Follow a Homeless Educator,” “The Future Won’t Wait for Academia,” and “Future of Education May Have Ancient Roots?” — have earned him a reputation as a futurist with calluses, someone who can explain why AI is breaking the job market, why teens are the workforce pipeline no one is using, and why the next education revolution will look more like ancient Athens than a modern lecture hall.
Across every WMA course, Michael appears as your unofficial guide, mentor, instigator, and occasionally your friendly academic arsonist — the guy who hands you the map, the compass, and the confidence to build a future that doesn’t depend on debt, gatekeeping, or waiting for institutions to catch up.
He helps learners find their place in a world that’s changing faster than universities can update their syllabi — and he does it with humor, humanity, and a refusal to accept that opportunity should be rationed.
If education needs a troublemaker, Michael is happy to volunteer.
