Cut the noise: Editing video podcasts in Premiere Pro

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Date
12/07/2026 - 12/14/2026
Time
12:00pm-3:00pm EST
Where
Online Workshop
Cost
$275.00
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Class 1: Monday, Dec 7

Session one will provide an overview of Premiere Pro Basics. Instructor Pierre Kattar will start with the foundation. He’ll walk you through file naming conventions, setting scratch disks, file management, and explain how to set up your Premiere Pro projects.

He’ll also cover best practices for using the Adobe Premiere interface. You’ll learn to import footage and to edit on a timeline. This is where you’ll build real fluency in Premiere — learning the shortcuts, tools, and good habits. By the time you leave session one, you’ll be comfortable with Premiere’s different layouts and understand when to use each one.

Class 2: Monday, Dec 14

Recording a podcast almost always means multiple sources — a host track, a guest track, and maybe a separate audio feed. In this second session, Pierre will lead you through multicam editing. You’ll learn how to sync and manage tracks, cut between them cleanly, and shape a conversation into something tight, listenable, and well-paced. He’ll also focus on making vertical social clips with burned-in captions. If there’s time, he’ll touch on color correction.

Along the way, Pierre will step back from the software and talk about editing as a craft — when to cut, how to think about pacing and flow, and what makes an edit feel effortless to the audience.

PREREQUISITES

Prior to the start of class, you must:

– Have Adobe Premiere Pro version 26.0 or higher installed on your computer.

– Open Adobe Premiere at least once to make sure the program starts up in good order.

– Download the footage shared for the class (link provided after you sign up for the class)

*This class is capped at 17

Who's this class for?

Beginners who want to feel genuinely in control of Premiere. If you're new to Premiere, you'll build a solid foundation to start editing right away. If you've been using it for a bit but still feel like you're working around it rather than with it, this class will ease that frustration.

About Your Instructor

Pierre Kattar

Pierre Kattar is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. He has more than 20 years of experience. He shoots, edits, reports, writes, and narrates his own work.

Pierre has taught Adobe Premiere Pro bootcamps at NPR and the City University of New York (CUNY). He served as an associate professor of video journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Washington, D.C. He now teaches advanced multimedia production to master's students at George Washington University. For Radio Boot Camp, he teaches Cut the Noise: Editing Video Podcasts in Premiere Pro.

His stories have taken him from Paris during the Charlie Hebdo attacks to Libya's secret migrant prisons. He covered Barack Obama's first presidential campaign and a Hepatitis E epidemic in Nepal. In Rome, he documented how the Black Lives Matter movement echoed across the Atlantic. His work has aired on public television, screened at film festivals, and been exhibited at the 2025 Venice Biennale and the Philadelphia Art Museum. His clients include The New York Times, NPR, PBS, and The World Bank.

His honors include a Peabody, multiple RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards, two regional Emmys, and a national Emmy nomination. He was named Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. He works in English, French, and Italian.

Notes on this Class

Refund and recording policy: Classes will not be recorded and are non-refundable. We are not able to issue a refund if you cancel or do not attend a class. If you are unable to make a class, you are welcome to sell or give away your ticket and email the name of the new attendee to info@radiobootcamp.org. You will receive a Zoom link for the workshop the day before it begins.
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