Video Editing Career Track

From zero to a professional
video editor.

Six months. Real footage. A reel-ready portfolio. A hands-on, project-based program that takes learners from their first computer click to cutting in Premiere Pro, animating in After Effects, color grading like a colorist, rigging characters with Duik Bassel, and shipping polished video work for clients on Fiverr, Upwork, and PeoplePerHour - with every core technology powering modern post-production in 2026 baked into the curriculum.

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6Months
100+Lessons
10+Live Projects
// The Program

Built for the way video editors actually edit in 2026.

The Learnio Video Editing Career Track is a complete six-month journey designed for absolute beginners. Each month stacks on the last - computer basics, Premiere Pro fundamentals, motion graphics and After Effects, advanced animation and character rigging, freelancing, and professional remote-work skills - so learners graduate with a marketable skillset, a polished reel, and a pipeline of paying work.

Project-Based Learning

Every chapter ends with a real deliverable - an animated title, a motion-graphic banner, a character walk cycle, a color-graded scene - exported and shipped with MOGRT assets a client can drop straight into their own timeline.

Modern Stack Mastery

Premiere Pro, After Effects, Lumetri, LUTs, keyframes, expressions, masks, track mattes, Duik Bassel, green screen, rotoscoping - the full post-production toolkit running every editing suite in 2026.

Freelance-Ready

Live profiles on Fiverr, Upwork, and PeoplePerHour. Winning proposals. A reel of finished work, a portfolio of exported deliverables, and a first paying client before graduation.

// The Curriculum

Your six-month learning journey

Each month builds on the last. Here's exactly what learners cover, when they cover it, and the projects they'll ship along the way.

// At a Glance
01
Foundations
02
Premiere Pro
03
Motion & AE
04
Advanced Animation
05
Freelancing
06
Professional
01
Month One

Digital foundations for complete beginners

Phase · Foundation Skills

Before code comes confidence. Month 1 removes every barrier between a first-time computer user and the digital workspace - hardware, file management, the internet, email, productivity tools, and safe online habits. Learners also get their first taste of AI tools and digital security, closing the month with a practical troubleshooting project.

Week-by-Week Curriculum
Week 1Computer Basics
  • Introduction to computers & hardware components
  • Starting, shutting down & troubleshooting power
  • Desktop interface, Start menu, pre-installed programs
  • Mouse & keyboard mastery, shortcuts, typing practice
  • Operating systems & customizing basic settings
Week 2Files & Software
  • File and folder management, file extensions
  • External storage & USB drive handling
  • Intro to Word / Google Docs & Excel / Sheets
  • Media players & playback settings
  • Internet fundamentals, browsers & safe browsing
Week 3Internet & Email
  • Creating and using an email account professionally
  • Attachments, replying, forwarding, spam & phishing
  • Social media basics: FB, IG, X, LinkedIn, TikTok
  • Privacy, etiquette & professional use of platforms
  • Typing speed tools & intro to Grammarly
Week 4Practical Skills
  • Presentation tools: PowerPoint / Google Slides
  • Photo editing with Canva & PDF annotation
  • Intro to AI: ChatGPT, Grammarly, voice assistants
  • Digital security, passwords, 2FA & safe browsing
  • Troubleshooting, review & final hands-on project
02
Month Two

Premiere Pro & the editor's craft

Phase · Editing Foundations

Month 2 is where learners stop being viewers and start being editors. They open Premiere Pro for the first time, configure shortcuts and workspaces, master the timeline and tools panel, then layer on keyframes, essential graphics, masking, adjustment layers, and speed ramps - closing the month with an animated title project they can drop into any client's edit.

Week-by-Week Curriculum
Week 1Premiere Pro Setup
  • Premiere Pro projects, panels & workspace
  • Optimizing performance & tweaking preferences
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts & label colors
  • Understanding resolutions & frame rates
  • Creating sequences & project organization
Week 2Editing Basics
  • Premiere Pro layers - the building blocks
  • The Tools panel & essential editor tools
  • Basic movement, trimming & cutting
  • Shrinking & expanding footage on the timeline
  • Adding audio & editing to the beat
Week 3Keyframes & Graphics
  • Keyframes overview & Ease In / Ease Out
  • Audio levels, channels, noise removal & EQ
  • Essential Graphics: shapes, text & customization
  • MOGRT templates - adding & editing
  • Title, shape & video animations
Week 4Effects & Speed
  • Project 01: Animated title with keyframes
  • Masking - adding, alpha mattes & mask tracking
  • Adjustment layers done right
  • Speed adjustments & cinematic speed ramps
  • Audio transitions & finishing the cut
03
Month Three

Effects, color & After Effects

Phase · Motion Graphics

Month 3 is where things start to feel cinematic. Learners master Premiere Pro's effects engine - green screen, blurs, drop shadows, stabilization - and the Lumetri panel for professional color correction and grading. Then they make the leap to After Effects, learning the interface, compositions, layers, basic animations, and the timing graphs that separate professional motion from amateur work.

Week-by-Week Curriculum
Week 1Effects & Color
  • Green screen removal & background matching
  • Zoom blur, rotation blur & effect basics
  • Cropping, stabilization & drop shadow
  • Lumetri Color panel overview
  • Color correction vs grading & using LUTs
Week 2Into After Effects
  • What is motion graphics & freelancing in MG
  • After Effects interface walkthrough
  • Project panel, shortcuts & file organization
  • Compositions & pre-compositions
  • Layer types & naming conventions
Week 3Basic Animation
  • Basic shapes & keyframe fundamentals
  • Shape animations across three projects
  • Solid layers & solid layer animation
  • The graph editor - easy ease in & out
  • Project 02: Graph-driven motion piece
Week 4Text & Posters
  • Text layers, Character & Paragraph panels
  • Basic text animation techniques
  • Importing illustrations from Illustrator
  • Project 03: Static poster to animated poster
  • Project 04: Animate an explainer scene
04
Month Four

Advanced AE, characters & delivery

Phase · Production Ready

Month 4 is the career-defining month. Learners build animated banners with expressions, layer track mattes and inverted alphas for cinematic reveals, animate paths for rotating earth and moon scenes, ship social-media-ready lower thirds and subscribe buttons, then rig a full walk cycle and run with Duik Bassel - finishing with green screen, rotoscoping, and the MOGRT export pipeline that gets work into a client's timeline.

Week-by-Week Curriculum
Week 1Effects & Expressions
  • Project 05: Animated banner
  • After Effects effects engine - deep dive
  • Intro to advanced AE expressions
  • Animated backgrounds with effects
  • Project 06: Background animation with expressions
Week 2Masks & Mattes
  • AE masks - intro & advanced techniques
  • Inheritance & parenting in After Effects
  • Track matte: alpha, inverted alpha, luma
  • Project 07: Alpha matte text animation
  • Cinematic reveal animations
Week 3Paths & Social
  • Path animation - rotating earth scene
  • Project 08: Rotating moon with expressions
  • Flat-style transitions for social
  • Lower-third animations for video
  • YouTube subscribe-button animation
Week 4Characters & Delivery
  • 12 principles of animation
  • Duik Bassel - structuring & rigging a character
  • Project 09: Duik Bassel walk cycle
  • Project 10: Make a character run with Duik
  • Green screen, rotoscoping & MOGRT export
05
Month Five

Job readiness & freelance marketplaces

Phase · Freelancing Launchpad

Month 5 turns editing skills into income. Learners build personal brands, write winning CVs and cover letters, and go hands-on with the three biggest global marketplaces - Fiverr, Upwork, and PeoplePerHour. The month wraps with entrepreneurship: setting up a portfolio, marketing channels, and the legal basics of a freelance editing business.

Week-by-Week Curriculum
Week 1Freelancing Intro
  • What is digital freelancing? Popular editor skills
  • Successful freelancer interviews & insights
  • Communication & personal branding fundamentals
  • Written, verbal & virtual meeting etiquette
  • In-demand skills & market research
Week 2Soft Skills & Jobs
  • Presentation skills & negotiation
  • Project, time & financial management
  • Problem-solving & proactivity
  • Finding the right jobs, CV & cover letter
  • Apply, follow up, learn from failure
Week 3Fiverr & Upwork
  • Fiverr: profile, ranking, gig research, titles, tags
  • Fiverr: gig descriptions, images, marketing, buyer req.
  • Upwork: interface, profile bio, settings, connects
  • Upwork: specialized profile, portfolio, proposals
  • Upwork: Project Catalog, JSS, ranking, payment
Week 4PPH & Business
  • PeoplePerHour interface & ranking system
  • Setting up account, finding jobs, offers
  • Setting up portfolio & digital marketing channels
  • Starting a company, legal & tax compliance
  • Growing, sustaining & staying motivated
06
Month Six

Professional & remote work skills

Phase · Professional Readiness

The final month elevates learners from skilled freelancers to true professionals. They deepen communication, collaboration, and emotional intelligence - then master the tools and habits of modern remote engineering work: productivity software, video conferencing, project management, and cybersecurity.

Week-by-Week Curriculum
Week 1Communication & Thinking
  • Effective verbal & written communication
  • Active listening & public speaking
  • Giving & receiving constructive feedback
  • Teamwork, trust, conflict resolution
  • Problem-solving & decision-making frameworks
Week 2Professionalism & EQ
  • Time management, prioritization, deadlines
  • Workplace etiquette & work ethic
  • SMART goals, self-motivation & accountability
  • Self-awareness, empathy & social skills
  • Stress management & resilience
Week 3Remote Work Ready
  • Benefits and challenges of remote work
  • Setting up a productive workspace & schedule
  • Windows basics, file mgmt & troubleshooting
  • Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
  • Professional email & intro to cloud storage
Week 4Tools & Security
  • Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams
  • Project management tools & Slack
  • Miro & digital whiteboards
  • Phishing, passwords, encryption, VPNs, 2FA
  • File organization & time-tracking apps
// Graduate Outcomes

What every graduate can actually edit.

Six months in, our learners don't just know about video editing - they ship it. Every capability below is backed by hands-on practice, exported project files, and a portfolio reel a client or studio can press play on.

01

Cut pro-grade video in Premiere Pro

Configure projects, sequences, and workspaces, then trim, cut, and reorder footage with shortcuts and label workflows - the same edit-bay habits every working editor relies on.

Premiere Pro Timeline Trimming Sequences
02

Mix and master audio

Balance levels, manage channels, remove background noise with EQ, and ride audio transitions - so every edit sounds as polished as it looks, even before the colorist touches it.

Audio Mixing EQ Noise Removal Transitions
03

Design titles, lower thirds & MOGRT

Build Essential Graphics from scratch, customize MOGRT templates, ship reusable lower thirds and animated titles a client can drop into any timeline - the deliverables every YouTube channel pays for.

Essential Graphics MOGRT Titles Lower Thirds
04

Color correct & grade with Lumetri

Use the Lumetri panel to fix exposure and white balance, then push into creative grading with LUTs and curve work - the difference between footage and cinema.

Lumetri LUTs Grading Color Theory
05

Composite green screen footage

Pull clean keys, match foreground to background, and integrate talent into any scene - plus rotoscoping techniques for footage that wasn't shot on green.

Keying Compositing Rotoscoping Tracking
06

Animate in After Effects

Build comps, animate shapes, text, and solids with keyframes, and tune timing in the graph editor - the toolkit powering every motion-graphics studio in 2026.

After Effects Keyframes Graphs Easing
07

Build advanced animations with mattes & expressions

Layer track mattes, inverted alphas, and luma keys, drive motion with AE expressions, and animate along paths - the techniques behind every viral motion-graphic on social.

Track Mattes Expressions Paths Masks
08

Rig & animate characters with Duik Bassel

Structure an illustrated character, rig the limbs with Duik Bassel, and animate a full walk cycle and run cycle - guided by the 12 principles of animation.

Duik Bassel Rigging Walk Cycle Character
09

Deliver finished work to clients

Convert After Effects animations to MOGRT for Premiere Pro, export in the right codec at the right resolution, and hand off polished deliverables a client can use immediately.

MOGRT Export H.264 Delivery
✦ Bonus Track · Included in Every Month

AI superpowers for every video editor.

Editors who team up with AI cut features in hours that used to take days. Every learner in the program gets this dedicated AI module - from foundational concepts to prompt engineering and a full deep-dive on AI for video post - so they graduate wielding the same tools top studios are hiring for in 2026.

7
Dedicated AI Chapters
Chapter · 01
Intro to AI
Foundational concepts, AI history, and the distinctions between Narrow, General, and Superintelligent AI. Plus the ethics every editor needs to understand - bias, privacy, and responsible use of generative tools.
Narrow AI Everyday AI Ethics History
Chapter · 02
Core Concepts
How AI actually works - algorithms, datasets, and training models. Key vocabulary (neural networks, ML, deep learning, NLP, diffusion) so learners can read any AI paper and keep up with the field.
ML Diffusion Neural Nets Deep Learning
Chapter · 03
AI Tools Landscape
A guided tour of the best free and paid AI tools for video, audio, image, and text. Set up accounts, navigate interfaces, and go hands-on with the categories that matter most to editors.
ChatGPT Runway Descript ElevenLabs
Chapter · 04
Mastering ChatGPT
Go deep on the AI assistant editors will use every day - for scripts, shot lists, treatments, client emails, ideation, and reading dense documentation. Plus customization via the OpenAI API.
GPT Scripts Shot Lists API
Chapter · 05
Prompt Engineering
The single highest-ROI skill in 2026. Craft, refine, and iterate prompts that get exactly the output you want - step-by-step instructions, role-based prompting, and multi-step generation flows.
Role Prompts Multi-step Iteration Evaluation
Chapter · 06 · FEATURED DEEP-DIVE
AI for Video Editors
The heart of the AI track - hands-on lessons teaching learners how to use AI across the entire post-production workflow. From auto-captioning and AI rotoscoping to audio cleanup, color matching, generative b-roll, and AI voiceover - the exact toolkit top studios are hiring for in 2026.
Runway Adobe Sensei Descript ElevenLabs Topaz Video AI ChatGPT Sora
AI in post - speed & creative leverage
Auto-captioning with Premiere Pro & Descript
AI rotoscoping with Adobe Roto Brush 3 & Runway
Audio cleanup with Adobe Enhance Speech
AI color matching & grading suggestions
Background removal without a green screen
AI-powered motion & object tracking
Generative fill for video frames
ElevenLabs for AI voiceover & dubbing
ChatGPT for scripts, shot lists & treatments
Runway Gen-3 for text-to-video b-roll
Topaz Video AI for upscaling & frame interp
AI music & SFX generation for cuts
Stock-footage AI search & smart curation
Responsible AI use in client work
Chapter · 07
Future of AI & Careers
Emerging trends, generative video, AI in post-production pipelines, and how to position a reel for the AI-native editing job market. Plus the responsible-use principles that make AI careers sustainable.
Trends Careers Reel Responsible AI