Abode Rush Tutorial for Beginners | Humanitarians AI

This step-by-step beginner walkthrough of Adobe Premiere Rush covers everything from importing a first clip to exporting a finished, reframed video.

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Video editing software has a reputation for being intimidating to first-time users, packed with menus and options that take a professional editor years to fully master. Adobe Premiere Rush, part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, is built specifically to avoid that problem, and this walkthrough covers its core tools in the order a beginner would actually encounter them, from importing a first clip through exporting a finished video.

Starting a project and getting familiar with the interface

Starting a new project in Rush begins from the homepage, where a "create new project" option lets a user select a video either from their local desktop or directly from cloud storage, with the option to select and merge multiple clips at once if needed. Once a video is selected and the project is created, a short processing step brings the footage into the workspace. From there, the interface's basic navigation includes a home button to return to the full project list, along with separate edit and share options, the share option being where a finished video eventually gets exported or published.

Adding and organizing media

An "add media" option lets a user bring in additional clips or images alongside the original footage, pulled from the same media browser used to import the first clip. Beyond video, Rush also supports adding graphics, including new text overlays, audio files, and voiceovers directly into a project. All the media currently added to a project sits in a repository or storage bin, giving an editor a central place to see everything available to work with.

Trimming and arranging footage

The core trimming tool is a scissors icon used to split a clip at the playhead's current position. Splitting a clip at two different points isolates a section in between, which can then either be duplicated using a dedicated duplicate icon, or removed entirely using a delete option, which cuts that section out of the final video cleanly.

Working with audio separately from video

Rush includes an "expand audio" option that separates a clip's audio track from its video, since footage typically arrives as one combined file. Splitting them apart makes it much easier to edit audio independently, for example removing a section of audio without affecting the corresponding video, or removing audio entirely and replacing it with something else. A dedicated audio panel provides further control, including volume adjustment, background noise reduction for ambient sounds like traffic or an air conditioner, and speech enhancement options for adjusting pitch and intensity. Rush also includes built-in music that can be browsed and added directly to a project when a full soundtrack replacement is needed.

Managing multiple tracks

A track control feature lets an editor work with multiple layers at once, useful when adding a new image or video element on top of existing footage. Individual tracks can be locked, to prevent accidental changes to a section that's already finished, or muted and unmuted, giving fine control over which audio elements are actually playing at any given point without having to delete anything.

Titles, transitions, and reframing

A graphics and text option provides access to a library of pre-built titles and overlay templates that can be dropped directly into a project. A separate effects section offers a range of transitions, including dissolve, wipe, and slide styles, which can be applied between clips and trimmed to a specific duration; transitions are typically applied to both the audio and video tracks simultaneously, though the audio portion of a transition can be removed independently if it isn't wanted.

Rush also supports changing a video's aspect ratio, with options including 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, and 1:1, useful for adapting a single piece of footage across different platforms. Paired with that is an auto-reframe option, which attempts to automatically keep the main subject centered in the frame after an aspect ratio change. Auto-reframe doesn't always get it exactly right, and when it misses, a manual "adjust frame" option lets an editor pull the frame to the correct position by hand, working through the footage as needed to keep the subject properly framed throughout.

Color, speed, and final adjustments

Rush includes a set of built-in presets and filters, along with a manual edit option for adjusting exposure, contrast, highlights, and shadows directly. A speed control option allows footage to be sped up or slowed into slow motion, with ramp options available to ease in and out of a speed change gradually rather than switching abruptly. A transform option handles cropping and resizing footage to a specific width and height, along with rotation, useful when working with still images pulled into a video sequence, and includes crop presets along with an edge feather option that softens the boundary of a crop.

Exporting and sharing

Once editing is complete, the share button provides the final export options: saving the finished video locally with a custom filename and destination, or publishing directly to YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook from within the app. Export and publish time varies depending on the length of the video being processed.

Key takeaways

  • Adobe Premiere Rush projects start from either local or cloud-stored footage, with support for merging multiple clips into one project.
  • The scissors tool splits clips at the playhead, and isolated sections can be duplicated or deleted directly.
  • Audio can be separated from video using the expand audio option, enabling independent edits, background noise reduction, and pitch or intensity adjustments.
  • Track controls allow locking finished sections and muting or unmuting audio without deleting content.
  • Aspect ratio changes paired with auto-reframe, plus a manual adjust-frame fallback, help keep the main subject centered when converting footage between formats like 16:9 and 9:16.

Who this is for

This tutorial is aimed at content creators, educators, and anyone new to mobile or lightweight video editing who wants a practical, feature-by-feature walkthrough of Adobe Premiere Rush. It's presented by Deepali Krishna Kashib as part of Humanitarians AI's Lyrical Literacy program content.

Full transcript(auto-generated, with timestamps)

[0:05]Hi everyone, I'm Deepali Krishna Kashib and today let's learn about the Adobe Premier Rush. Uh this is an application within the Adobe Creative Cloud. Um this is how the homepage looks like and uh to start a new project you go on the left corner here. You have an option to create a new project. Let's click that. So you have couple of options. You can either choose the file that you want to edit from your desktop or your local directory or if you have it stored on the cloud, you can select it from there. Um I have something here. Let's pick this video. And um if you want to select

[0:45]Multiple videos or uh add and merge couple of them, you can choose that. But I'll just go with one video right now just to show you. And on the bottom right corner, there is a create button. Let's click on that. It'll take 2 minutes. Perfect. Now we have uploaded the video that we want to work with. Uh let's first get familiarized with all the features that Adobe Rush has for us for video editing. Um on the left hand side the corner top corner you can see the home button. So if you click on that it's going to take you back to the projects that you are working with. Uh

[1:24]Let's get back to the video that we were editing. Um, next to that you have the edit option and the share option. Once you're done completing all your video, you can click on the share option to, you know, save it down to your local or share it on uh the cloud. We'll come to that later. Uh there is a plus uh icon here which says add media. So if we click on that we have the option to add uh more clips that is video clips or images to the existing video that we have added. So we can just go on your media and then it just takes us to uh

[2:01]Folder where we can select what we need to add. Uh other than that we also have options to add graphics like you can add new texts uh onto the video that we are editing or we can add audio files or even add voiceovers. The next option below the add media option is a repository or like a storage bin where all the videos that we have added currently on the uh Adobe Rush to uh edit is present. So you can choose what you want to work with. Uh when you come a little to the bottom you have couple of options here. The first option you see is the scissors. So

[2:46]This is for splitting the clip that you want to. So let's see how that works. So uh imagine I want to split my video somewhere at 1 minute. So we can bring the cursor to somewhere at 1 minute and then just say clip. So you see uh my video is now clipped at this time stamp. Um and I want to like clip it again at 130. So let me just come back to 130 and say clip. So now you can see that this highlighted section of my video uh is a clipped video. So now if I want to duplicate it, I have an option to click

[3:26]On this um icon here which says duplicate. So if I just do that. So it duplicated my clip again. But in case I don't want to duplicate it but I want to delete it, I can choose the delete option. Says delete. So you see it's deleted. So um now when I play it, it doesn't have that part in the video at all. You see, >> you see that part of my video was cut off. Uh the next option you see here says expand audio. So when you click on that um it expands the audio section and the video. Okay. Yeah. So usually when you load

[4:18]Your video um it adds the audio along with it. It's it's just one file. So if you use the expand option, it just separates both of them. uh it's easier to work if you want to edit something in the audio then you can do it here. If I don't want audio for this section um I want to just clip it off. What I can do I can just say separate audio option here and then so you see this is grayed out. So this is separated from the uh audio f video file that we have added. Now I just want to remove it and replace it with some other audio. So I'll just

[4:54]Say delete. So my audio is deleted. Let's play and see. >> I think I see Patrick. >> Yeah. So you see the audio is completely off now. It's not there. Uh and we do have option to replace the audio if we need. So yeah, on the right hand side we have more options here. So I think the last but one option says audio. So if you click that uh here you have an option to browse for new audio. So um Rush has some inbuilt music that you can choose from. You can browse for what you want and just select it and add it to your video. I'm not going to do that

[5:41]Now. But yeah uh you have other options to play with your audio like you know increase the volume or change it accordingly. Uh you also have some advanced options uh like reducing the background noise. Um if if there's something in the background you can just like traffic or like the nature the uh room air conditioner uh ambient noise you can just remove it with this reduce background noise option. Uh you also I think can change the pitch of your um voice as in you can enhance the speech uh by choosing either higher pitch or lower pitch and also play with the intensity of the audio. These are a couple of things that

[6:26]You can do with audio here. Um and yeah getting back the last option here. So this is um you can control the tracks. So it gives you an opportunity to have multiple tracks while editing. Uh imagine you're adding a new um image or something. So let's do one thing. Uh I want to cut it here. And now I will put this on the top. So now when I play You see, so um you can uh add more media to your other tracks and edit it while editing, that's an option. Um here as well, you have a couple of uh interesting options. One is to lock the

[7:23]Track. So in in case you have already edited it and you don't want to mess around with it, you can just lock it up so that it doesn't move here and there. or you have an option to mute and unmute the track. So uh now in this the example that I'm showing the audio is removed but in case I want to like mute or unmute. So in this section I can just say mute it muted the uh audio for this section. So I can unmute it. Um these are a couple of options. Uh other than that let's cover something here as well. So the first option on the right top

[7:59]Corner is the graphics the text option again. So that's same to uh what we saw here. So you can add graphics. If you click on that you know you have couple of um examples or already available titles and graphics that or overlays that you can choose from and use it in your videos. The next one is the effects uh the thunderbolt option. So here um you have different transitions to choose from to add to your video. So um it can either be like the dissolve or you know wipe uh or slide up slide down different transitions. Uh we can just try something that we want to do. So imagine

[8:47]I want to add this transition. So I've now added the dissolve. So let's just zoom in a little and I think we can see. Yeah. So here the transitions added. So when you choose a transition, it usually adds it both to to the audio file and the video file. You can see that here. In case you don't want the transition in the audio file, you can just select it and say delete. So it just goes away. uh or you can keep it and you can try to like you know trim it uh to any time stamp that you want with you can play around. So it usually adds the uh uh transition

[9:27]Even at the end of the clip. Uh let's see if it's added here. I think so. Yeah. So you see it's added here as well. So if you want we can like play around and you know remove it if we do not require it here. Um this is something that you can see here and you can play with the duration here as well if not manually. Um and then there's auto refframe option in case you want to um reframe. So um uh you do not have the subject in the center of the screen and you want to reframe it, you can just say auto refframe. Uh which okay it doesn't

[10:05]Work right now. U that's because uh I have not told you about this another option that is the aspect ratio. In case you want to change the aspect ratio, you have four different options here from 16 is to 9 to 96 or even 4 is to 5 and 1 is to 1. Uh now let's just convert this video to a 916 video. You see I did that. And now I want to say auto refframe. I'll just enable that. So it just refframed this section that I had selected. So what it does is it tries to get the uh subject into the center of the frame.

[10:43]Uh this is the auto refframe option but most of the times it might not do the 100% of the job. So in that case we'll have to do it manually. Let me try to play it. >> So in this part the fish is off. So what I do in such cases is just expand on it. It gives you an option to adjust frame. If you click on that, you can just pull the frame to wherever you want and just say apply. So now if we play it again, here we go. >> You see it's it's much better. So um basically when you have to do adjusting

[11:30]The frame, you'll have to go by each u second of the video and try to make sure that the frames right. This is one other option. Um we have some built-in presets that rush provides us with like um couple of filters probably. I've never used them. Uh but if you require for any editing you can just make use of that. And uh under the presets you also have the edit option where you can directly you know change the exposure, contrast, highlights or the shadow of the uh video that you're editing. The next option here is the speed. So you can also uh change uh the speed of

[12:18]Your video. Uh if you need it to be faster or slower, make it a slow-mo video, you can try to do that. You can add ramps like you know the fade in fade out like it slowly uh ramps up to the speed that you want to. You can do that. Uh the next option, yeah, we already spoke about audio. Uh the last option here is the transform option. I think this is mostly to crop or fit uh your video to the right uh width and height if required. Um and you can also play with like rotating the video if you have images uh multiple images um added on to

[13:00]Make a video. Then if you want to rotate the image, you have options like that. You can also set the width and height that you want for your video. Yeah. And the crop options as I already told. So maybe if I say crop top, it just crops the top the bottom left. So it's that um I don't know what's edge feather. Okay. It just gives that blurred out edge effect. Yeah, there is something that's also available. Uh other than that, is there something else that we didn't talk about? I think there's exit. Um, sorry. There is a full full screen option and if you want to like preview your video

[13:45]And we can exit out of full screen. Yeah, this is pretty much it. Um, this is how you can edit your videos on Adobe Rush. And once you're completed, you can just click on the share button here. So here you can um either save your uh edited video to the local um and name it in whatever you want and save it in whatever destination you want to. You have that option or you also have an option to directly upload it on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. Um you can do as per whatever you want. uh it takes a couple of uh minutes or like some time

[14:27]To render the video depending on the length of your video and once it's done it publishes it uh as per whatever you have requested to do either save it in your local copy or upload it on YouTube. Um I think this is all for uh the video of Adobe Rush. We'll get back to you later next time with a new uh tool. Thank you.

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