Realistic editing time for someone proficient in Premiere

Report · Feb 13, 2025

I am in the process of learning Premiere for my job. I have been tasked with editing instructional videos that have a top-down view of an instructor teaching an art project. I'm trying to determine if the number of hours they have budgeted for each video editing project is realistic or not. Here are the specs:

Cut 80-100 minutes of raw footage down to 15 minutes. Minimal guidance is provided by curriculum designer on out cutting unnecessary content, but it's up to me to catch and cut repetitive language, filler words, pauses, etc., plus create timelapses and add transitions.
Create and add 5-7 slides with graphics and text (most graphics are provided, but a few might need to be created from scratch in Illustrator)
Add pre-made intro and outro clips
Add 60-80 graphic icons that pop up for ~3 seconds (probably utilizing a mogrt template). Most graphics are provided, but 10-20 of these may need to be created in Illustrator.
Add 5-10 Chapter titles
Add 5-10 text pop-ups ("Tips")
Adjust audio/voice if needed
Add music and adjust levels to when instructor is talking/not talking
Incorporate any revisions from team
Export to mp4 and upload to Wistia (not counting passive time for this task)

I am pretty new to Premiere, but have edited videos in other programs like Capcut, so I'm not a complete newbie.

Can anyone with significant experience editing long-form videos in Premiere give me an educated guess on how many hours a project like this might take? They have budgeted 10 hours per video, which seems very ambitious, even for someone with more experience than me, but I could be wrong. I can't share the first finished video I created publicly, but I could potentially share privately if taking a look would help you give a better estimate.

Also, we are open to exploring AI tools that could help speed up this process. Any recommendations are welcome. Thank you!!

Report · Feb 13, 2025

I am a home video editor so you are doing things that I don't do... meaning I can't give an direct help

What I do have is a list of tutorials... you may want to scan titles inside the links to see if there is a tutorial that is specific to one of your tasks

Report · Feb 13, 2025

Thank you @John T Smith , I will check these out!

Report · Feb 13, 2025

Those would very dramatically in time needed based on the speedability of the editor. Someone with knowledge like Jarle Leirpoll or Christine Steele can bang through most of that in a few hours. While many others, like myself, might need a half day or better just for bullet two, that one group of graphics.

The first one is probably best done by getting a transcription of the media, print it out, and go through highlighting what you want to keep. Then go down the sequence using keyboard shorts for jumping to timecodes, and grab the bits you want, drag/drop onto another timeline. You'll still have to do some scrubbing and playback of the top section for each to make sure you get the 'right' bit.

That part could take me half to full day. Maybe more or less depending on ... whatever.

The making of intro & outro could for many people again be a half to full day, or ... for a hot worker with bits to grab and repurpose, a couple hours.

So much depends on so many other factors.

Realistic editing time for someone proficient in Premiere

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