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Luisa Winters

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Archiving

Learn how to export your videos with Adobe Media Encoder. Learn how to use presets and what parameters you need to to post to social media.

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Archive projects using Premiere Pro's project manager
  • Transcode footage to QuickTime format
  • Calculate project size before and after archiving

Level: Intermediate

Skills you'll gain:

Premiere Pro, Archiving, Transcoding, Project Management

Key Insights

  • Use the project manager for efficient archiving.
  • Consolidate footage to reduce project size.
  • Select appropriate transcoding settings for quality.
  • Exclude unused clips to save space.
  • Include handles for future editing flexibility.
  • Convert image sequences to clips for consistency.
  • Rename files to match clip names for organization.
  • Preserve transparency for visual integrity.
  • Calculate project size to manage storage effectively.

Learning outcomes

  • Archive projects using Premiere Pro's project manager
  • Transcode footage to QuickTime format
  • Calculate project size before and after archiving

Key insights

  • Use the project manager for efficient archiving.
  • Consolidate footage to reduce project size.
  • Select appropriate transcoding settings for quality.
  • Exclude unused clips to save space.
  • Include handles for future editing flexibility.
  • Convert image sequences to clips for consistency.
  • Rename files to match clip names for organization.
  • Preserve transparency for visual integrity.
  • Calculate project size to manage storage effectively.

Skills

Premiere Pro, Archiving, Transcoding, Project Management

Transcript

[00:00:00] [Music]

[00:00:10] welcome to this premiere pro tutorial on

[00:00:12] archiving i'm luisa winters

[00:00:15] let's start by opening the project named

[00:00:18] 14 export and archive

[00:00:21] this is the project we have been working

[00:00:23] with for export

[00:00:26] if you have not downloaded the project

[00:00:28] files please go ahead and do so now

[00:00:33] now we're done editing and exporting our

[00:00:35] project

[00:00:36] all that is left to do is archive it

[00:00:38] just in case we need to reference it at

[00:00:41] a later date in premiere we can use the

[00:00:43] project manager to accomplish this

[00:00:46] let's make sure that the coffee place

[00:00:48] sequence is active

[00:00:52] and now go to file

[00:00:56] project manager

[00:01:02] if the coffee place sequence is not

[00:01:04] checked in here make sure that you check

[00:01:07] it

[00:01:08] we could use the others as well but

[00:01:10] those are already nested in the coffee

[00:01:13] place sequence so there's no need to

[00:01:15] check them we will choose to consolidate

[00:01:17] the footage and transcode it so for this

[00:01:20] one the source will be the sequence

[00:01:28] and we will transcode it to quicktime

[00:01:31] so we will choose that from this drop

[00:01:33] down menu

[00:01:34] and for the preset we will choose match

[00:01:37] source

[00:01:38] and apple prores 422 lt

[00:01:41] we can change the destination path so

[00:01:44] let's click on browse and i'll create a

[00:01:46] new folder on my desktop

[00:01:54] i'll call this folder archive

[00:01:59] now let's go ahead and calculate the

[00:02:01] size of the current project

[00:02:04] versus the size of the archived one

[00:02:07] to do that just click on this button

[00:02:10] here and you can see my values

[00:02:12] this is the original project size

[00:02:15] which is

[00:02:17] 498.28 megabytes

[00:02:19] and here's the resulting project size

[00:02:22] which is

[00:02:24] 472.21 megabytes

[00:02:26] you can also see how much space i have

[00:02:29] left on my hard drive

[00:02:31] there are other options that you can

[00:02:33] check in here

[00:02:34] you can choose to exclude unused clips

[00:02:38] and of course we want that

[00:02:40] you can also include handles and 30

[00:02:43] frames is a good number

[00:02:46] you can convert image sequences to clips

[00:02:50] you can rename files to match clip names

[00:03:02] you can also convert after effects

[00:03:04] compositions to clips

[00:03:06] and finally you can choose to preserve

[00:03:10] transparency that's the alpha channel

[00:03:14] now let's click ok to start the process

[00:03:16] and let's save it

[00:03:24] this dialog opens up because there are

[00:03:26] discrepancies within the clips and

[00:03:28] premiere is just telling us click ok

[00:03:35] the transcoding happens and now we have

[00:03:37] an archived project

[00:03:40] this is what the files look like

[00:03:43] you can see the clips in here and even

[00:03:45] the project file

[00:03:46] in the future we will be able to open

[00:03:48] this project and go back to what it was

[00:03:52] when we archived it

[00:03:55] this brings us to the end of this video

[00:03:58] about archiving in premiere pro

[00:04:00] i'm luisa winters thank you for watching

[00:04:03] and see you next time

[00:04:07] [Music]

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