Learn Short Form Video Editing Premiere Pro After Effects by Vlad Sateev

Stop guessing why your videos flop. This course shows you how to cut Shorts, Reels, and TikToks in Premiere Pro and After Effects that actually hold attention past those first 7 seconds.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Edit short-form video from scratch in Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Cut for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels for real growth
• Use shortcuts, presets, and MOGRTs to edit twice as fast
• Break down viral styles from MrBeast, Ali Abdaal, and Alex Hormozi
• Build stories with cutting, pacing, and sound design
• Understand how TikTok, Reels, and Shorts algorithms push content
• Follow full real-time edits and real client breakdowns step-by-step
• Color grade, fix export colors, and export correctly for vertical platforms
• Create simple motion graphics in After Effects for beginners
• Find freelance clients, set expectations, and use contracts
• Speed up workflow with ChatGPT, Google, and file organization

✅ Requirements

• Skills: No prior editing experience needed, you can start from zero
• Tools: Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects installed
• Hardware: PC or laptop capable of running Premiere Pro and After Effects

📝 Description

Most beginners quit because Premiere Pro and After Effects feel like a cockpit. Too many buttons, no clear order. This course fixes that with a straight path: setup, cuts, sound, visuals, export. You watch, then you cut along.

You will work on real short-form stuff, not random demo clips. That means vertical storytelling, tight pacing, captions, b-roll, music hits, and sound design that keeps people watching. Plus full walkthroughs where you see every cut in real time, including a real client edit with behind-the-scenes thinking.

You also get the speed side of the job. Shortcuts, presets, MOGRTs, templates, and clean project organization so a 30-second video doesn’t take you all day. And a practical look at how top creators cut — MrBeast retention tricks, Ali Abdaal pacing, Hormozi talking-head structure — so you can borrow the logic and build your own style.

At the end there is freelance reality, not fluff. How to find clients, set expectations, use a contract, and price short-form work. You get 60 downloadable resources with footage, SFX, and templates to practice with right away.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Beginners who want to edit Shorts, Reels, and TikToks from zero without tech overwhelm
• Video editors who want to get faster and cleaner at short-form cutting and packaging
• Creators and freelancers who want client-ready vertical videos and a repeatable workflow

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Vlad Sateev is a video editor with 10+ years cutting for YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. He has managed two of the biggest channels in their niches and built a system for short-form editing that works across formats. He teaches the exact workflow he uses on client work — cuts, sound, pacing, and delivery — with a focus on finished videos, not theory.

🏁 Final Result

• A published vertical capstone video edited in Premiere Pro with After Effects graphics, cut, mixed, graded, and exported for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok — ready for your portfolio.