In the Best in Class series, we present the best of the best projects that you'll find in the Elements library, including templates for popular video editing apps like Adobe After Effects, Premiere, and Apple Final Cut Pro. Even for rookie video editors, these projects can help you create professional videos by giving you an easy-to-use starting point. All of these projects in this series are available as part of a subscription to Elements.

Recording high-quality video has never been easier, but recording video is only part of the story. To get video from its raw form to a finished, polished state, it needs to be edited. The good news is that video editing is not as complicated or hard to learn as you might think!

Want to make your projects more organized? How easy should it be for you to make revisions to your work? This four-part video series will walk you through the process and workflow of creating an organized template that can easily be customized by anyone. You'll learn how to design a template from scratch using placeholders, make buttons with custom settings, and implement your own visual editor.

Join Pilar Newton-Katz, who has illustrated and animated for Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Cartoon Network, MTV, Ted Ed and Sirius Thinking among many others, as she teaches you animation for beginners.

In this series you'll 3D model and rig a quirky cartoon parrot using Maya. 

Learn how to build and animate a dyvvnamics based catapult with Aleksey Voznesenski in this six part series.