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Organizing Media in Adobe Premier Pro

Learn how to organize your clips using the Project panel in Adobe Premiere Pro. This sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Adobe Press.
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Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book (2020 release)Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book (2020 release)

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LESSON OVERVIEW

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Use the Project panel.

  • Stay organized with bins.

  • Add clip metadata.

  • Use essential playback controls.

  • Interpret footage.

  • Make changes to your clips.

This lesson will take about 90 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the Getting Started section at the beginning of this book.

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Once you have some video and audio assets in your project, you’ll begin looking through your footage and adding clips to a sequence. Before you do, it’s well worth spending a little time organizing the assets you have. Doing so can save you from spending hours hunting for things later.

Starting the lesson

When you have lots of clips in your project, imported from several different media types, it can be a challenge to stay on top of everything and always find that magic shot when you need it.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to organize your clips using the Project panel. You’ll create special folders, called bins, to divide your clips into categories. You’ll also learn about adding important metadata and labels to your clips.

You’ll begin by getting to know the Project panel and organizing your clips.

  1. For this lesson, you’ll use the project file you used in Lesson 3, “Importing Media.” Continue to work with the project file from the previous lesson. Alternatively, open the project file Lesson 04.prproj from the Lessons folder.

  2. To begin, reset the workspace to the default. In the Workspaces panel, click Editing. Then click the panel menu adjacent to the Editing option, and choose Reset To Saved Layout.

  3. Choose File > Save As.

  4. Rename the file to Lesson 04 Working.prproj.

  5. Browse to the Lessons folder, and click Save to save the project.

    By saving a new version of the project file you can always go back to the previous version—it’s an electronic paper trail.

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