Intro to Video Editing
with Victoria Guillem
Date: December 5, 2026 - December 6, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Course Fee: $500 (includes materials fee)
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Location: Duke Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705
Contact Hours: 12
This two-day workshop introduces the fundamentals of video editing through the lens of documentary filmmaking. Centering the interview as a key documentary form, participants will learn how interview footage is filmed and recorded, then move through the editing process in Adobe Premiere Pro, including importing and organizing media, syncing video and sound, building a sequence, and exporting for different platforms. Designed for beginners, the course offers a hands-on introduction to the essential tools and workflow needed to begin editing a short documentary or interview-based video.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Build and edit a short interview-based documentary sequence using Adobe Premiere Pro, from import through export
- Organize and sync video and audio, then construct a clear, story-driven sequence from raw interview footage
- Understand the full post-production workflow for documentary editing, including preparing media for different platforms
Victoria Guillem is filmmaker, educator, and film community organizer born and raised in New York City and currently based in Durham, North Carolina. Victoria holds a BFA in Film and Television from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University, and is a 2023 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow.
Victoria’s directorial work has been included in the Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers series, the Universe Multicultural Film Festival, the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival, among others. Their short film Todo won Best Experimental Film at the 2023 Oregon Documentary Film Festival.
Victoria is currently teaching at the Hussman School of Journalism at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and hosts Open Screening Durham, a monthly screening series for local filmmakers.