Project setup & media import

[00:00:00] moving over to Premiere from media

[00:00:00] composer takes a little bit of getting

[00:00:00] used to how Premiere works with files

[00:00:00] I'm going to take a little bit of time

[00:00:00] kind of walk you through the creation of

[00:00:00] a new project also talk a little bit

[00:00:00] about using multiple projects in

[00:00:00] something called a production um and

[00:00:00] then we're going to get really into how

[00:00:00] Premiere links to Media how to relink

[00:00:00] Clips if you ever need to what Premiere

[00:00:00] is looking for and where you can store

[00:00:00] your media there are some ways of making

[00:00:00] sure that as you're importing things the

[00:00:00] media is getting copied to a central

[00:00:00] location we're going to kind of dive

[00:00:00] into that a little bit so to get started

[00:00:00] I'm over here in Adobe Premiere I've got

[00:00:00] the uh startup screen going right now

[00:00:00] now the first thing to realize is when

[00:00:00] you're importing Clips when you're

[00:00:00] creating project files in Premiere um

[00:00:00] just know that a premier project file

[00:00:00] doesn't have a frame rate doesn't have

[00:00:00] any type of resolution associated with

[00:00:00] it it's format

[00:00:00] agnostic where we do the sort of locking

[00:00:00] down frame rate and resolution or raster

[00:00:00] size is on a sequence by sequence basis

[00:00:00] but your project can contain whatever

[00:00:00] you want uh inside of it uh there are

[00:00:00] some people that are editing 8K natively

[00:00:00] from RED cameras in Premiere you can do

[00:00:00] that uh other people are working with a

[00:00:00] DA's house and they're bringing in

[00:00:00] footage that's maybe 1920 by 1080 or

[00:00:00] even OD ball resolutions like 1920 by

[00:00:00] 858 it really doesn't matter Premiere

[00:00:00] leaves that door wide open uh and this

[00:00:00] is great if you suddenly have to

[00:00:00] transition into doing something for like

[00:00:00] social media where you need to work in a

[00:00:00] non-standard aspect ratio for delivery

[00:00:00] on Instagram or uh other social

[00:00:00] platforms so to get started let me go

[00:00:00] ahead and make a new project in premiere

[00:00:00] and when I'm making a new project

[00:00:00] Premiere automatically jumps into this

[00:00:00] import screen um and you can see up the

[00:00:00] top this is the location of my new

[00:00:00] project uh I can click here to choose a

[00:00:00] specific location for that project uh

[00:00:00] and at this point I can choose to put it

[00:00:00] wherever I need to put it in this case

[00:00:00] I'm going to go ahead and say let's put

[00:00:00] this on an external drive and I'll

[00:00:00] create a new folder for my Premiere

[00:00:00] project and we'll call this one

[00:00:00] files and I'll go ahead and click

[00:00:00] create um so this is going to be the new

[00:00:00] location of my project and now at this

[00:00:00] point I can give the project a name I'm

[00:00:00] going to just call it

[00:00:00] Carl just for the sake of doing this you

[00:00:00] can use numbers letters whatever you

[00:00:00] need um and at this point if I just want

[00:00:00] to create a blank project I don't need

[00:00:00] to go any further I can make sure that

[00:00:00] these options over here on the side are

[00:00:00] all turned off and I can just click

[00:00:00] create and it will create this project

[00:00:00] for me however if I want to go ahead and

[00:00:00] import some clips at the same time I can

[00:00:00] do that directly from this One-Stop shop

[00:00:00] screen so from here maybe I want to

[00:00:00] bring in some dailies I'll go into a

[00:00:00] folder here called media and premere

[00:00:00] provides some different options for

[00:00:00] looking at my media um I can use a grid

[00:00:00] view if I want this actually features

[00:00:00] the ability to play Clips before I've

[00:00:00] imported them you should also note that

[00:00:00] there's some options under this uh it's

[00:00:00] like a tri upside down triangle with a

[00:00:00] little line um coming off of it these uh

[00:00:00] different buttons here provide some

[00:00:00] different viewing options including the

[00:00:00] fact that Premiere will recognize

[00:00:00] certain types of card

[00:00:00] structures and just kind of cut through

[00:00:00] some of the extra folders and sub

[00:00:00] folders that you might have to work with

[00:00:00] uh if you want to edit natively with red

[00:00:00] cameras this import screen will actually

[00:00:00] go through and usually each clip from a

[00:00:00] red camera is stored in a separate

[00:00:00] folder this will just show you all of

[00:00:00] those clips without having to go through

[00:00:00] and show you all the different folders

[00:00:00] here right now we're just looking at

[00:00:00] files if you ever need to move away from

[00:00:00] this if Premiere has accidentally

[00:00:00] recognized a folder as a DPX sequence or

[00:00:00] something strange like that just feel

[00:00:00] free to click on this and go up to files

[00:00:00] that'll make it match more like what you

[00:00:00] see in your operating system I'm just

[00:00:00] going to go ahead and select a few Clips

[00:00:00] here we'll grab this clip we'll grab

[00:00:00] this clip we'll grab this clip and you

[00:00:00] can see as I'm doing this it's kind of

[00:00:00] building out a little uh a little series

[00:00:00] of thumbnails down here at the bottom um

[00:00:00] if I want to there are some options over

[00:00:00] on the side here for uh what I want to

[00:00:00] do with these clips as I'm ingesting

[00:00:00] them

[00:00:00] Premiere has the ability to copy clips

[00:00:00] and I can turn this functionality

[00:00:00] on and I can choose exactly where I want

[00:00:00] these clips copied to but here's the

[00:00:00] thing this is optional in Premiere um

[00:00:00] the basic default way that Premiere

[00:00:00] likes to work is just linking two files

[00:00:00] um it's the bread and butter of Premiere

[00:00:00] it's the native way Premiere works there

[00:00:00] isn't like a consolidate and transcode

[00:00:00] step that you have to worry about it

[00:00:00] another point to unlock Extra features

[00:00:00] uh Premiere really really is comfortable

[00:00:00] with just editing the media wherever the

[00:00:00] media happens to live uh this is great

[00:00:00] if you have an assistant editor who's

[00:00:00] automatically taking care of dailies for

[00:00:00] you um you need to import some

[00:00:00] additional

[00:00:00] files if you need to if you want to make

[00:00:00] sure you're working in a shared

[00:00:00] environment you want to make sure that

[00:00:00] your media is being copied to like a

[00:00:00] central server by all means use this

[00:00:00] copy media function here and you can

[00:00:00] choose EX exactly where you want uh this

[00:00:00] to put your media but uh you know again

[00:00:00] just remember it's optional Premier will

[00:00:00] edit from wherever you can even edit off

[00:00:00] of a memory card I don't recommend that

[00:00:00] except for like there are some news

[00:00:00] editors out there that like to work very

[00:00:00] fast they're trying to turn a story

[00:00:00] around and get it on the air as quickly

[00:00:00] as possible most times you want to make

[00:00:00] sure your footage is backed up have

[00:00:00] multiple copies of it and so on and so

[00:00:00] on you can do it is all I'm saying

[00:00:00] okay so in this case I've gone ahead and

[00:00:00] said copy the media into my project um I

[00:00:00] can also put the media into a new folder

[00:00:00] and so this means that the clips when

[00:00:00] they come into my project are going to

[00:00:00] be found inside of a folder called

[00:00:00] poetry that I can then work with

[00:00:00] Premiere is also very sequence oriented

[00:00:00] a lot of people like to use string outs

[00:00:00] in Premiere if you're an editor that

[00:00:00] prefers that you can also put these

[00:00:00] clips onto a new sequence

[00:00:00] and again I'll just come in here we'll

[00:00:00] delete this sequence 01 and we'll call

[00:00:00] this

[00:00:00] poetry string

[00:00:00] out okay lastly there is the ability to

[00:00:00] actually create an automatic

[00:00:00] transcription I'm not going to cover

[00:00:00] that in here today but just know that

[00:00:00] this is part of the power of Premiere is

[00:00:00] that we have this ability to

[00:00:00] automatically convert spoken word into a

[00:00:00] searchable text document that that you

[00:00:00] can open up in Premiere in a panel

[00:00:00] called the text panel uh not going to do

[00:00:00] that here today but there's a lot of

[00:00:00] videos online about it it's a new

[00:00:00] feature in Premiere as a version

[00:00:00] 23.4 I want to say okay I'm going to go

[00:00:00] ahead and hit

[00:00:00] create and what has just happened here

[00:00:00] Premiere has created a new project file

[00:00:00] and it's gone ahead and created a new

[00:00:00] sequence in my project tab you can see

[00:00:00] here where it says Carl this is my

[00:00:00] project showing up

[00:00:00] here um I'm not going to go into the

[00:00:00] user interface I've got another video

[00:00:00] that uh will cover some basics of

[00:00:00] setting up the user experience in the

[00:00:00] user interface uh the one thing I will

[00:00:00] do is come in here and choose the

[00:00:00] editing

[00:00:00] workspace and just to make sure it looks

[00:00:00] exactly the same way you see it I'm

[00:00:00] going to go ahead and use this option

[00:00:00] here called reset to saved layout so

[00:00:00] that that way everything is kind of

[00:00:00] lined up and everything looks the way we

[00:00:00] expect it to

[00:00:00] look okay um what have I just done in

[00:00:00] this case well a couple of things are

[00:00:00] going on first off um I've created a new

[00:00:00] project so if I click on the little

[00:00:00] hamburger menu for my project and I say

[00:00:00] reveal project in

[00:00:00] finder what has actually happened is on

[00:00:00] that external drive

[00:00:00] uh under the the pro blade here in fact

[00:00:00] let me change this from a list View to a

[00:00:00] column view for those of you who are Mac

[00:00:00] users you'll probably uh recognize this

[00:00:00] so I'm on the drive Pro blade um I've

[00:00:00] got a folder that I've created called

[00:00:00] files and this represents my project

[00:00:00] this is the project file that I'm

[00:00:00] currently working on um it's the one

[00:00:00] that I currently have open you'll notice

[00:00:00] that I have there's another little file

[00:00:00] here called a PR lock file I do have a

[00:00:00] preference turned on to enable project

[00:00:00] locking uh that just prevents other

[00:00:00] editors from opening up my project when

[00:00:00] I'm actively working on it so that

[00:00:00] nobody loses any changes that they're

[00:00:00] making um you'll also notice that

[00:00:00] there's a bunch of clips now in this

[00:00:00] folder you may if you try this for the

[00:00:00] first time see Adobe Media encoder

[00:00:00] actually fire up because media encoder

[00:00:00] is the active tool I'll bring it over

[00:00:00] here from my other monitor display media

[00:00:00] encoder is the tool that will actually

[00:00:00] do this copying action so when you tell

[00:00:00] Premiere to copy to a new location a

[00:00:00] copy of your Clips ends up in the new

[00:00:00] location I just specified this files

[00:00:00] folder here with my project uh same as

[00:00:00] project is the way I had this set up so

[00:00:00] you can see that now a copy of all those

[00:00:00] clips has now been copied into this

[00:00:00] folder as well you you can put your

[00:00:00] media in a separate location it doesn't

[00:00:00] have to be same as project um you know

[00:00:00] if you're working in something called a

[00:00:00] production you generally want to keep

[00:00:00] your media outside of the production

[00:00:00] folder it can live adjacent to the

[00:00:00] production folder but you want to keep

[00:00:00] your uh production and project separate

[00:00:00] from where your media is stored in this

[00:00:00] case I'm just using a single project now

[00:00:00] if none of that made any sense please

[00:00:00] check out the playlist that I have here

[00:00:00] about Productions because Productions

[00:00:00] are a very very important method uh if

[00:00:00] you're doing any type of um long form

[00:00:00] documentary any type of uh episodic

[00:00:00] where you have a lot of media and you

[00:00:00] want to have a more Avid style way of

[00:00:00] kind of organizing things into separate

[00:00:00] bins um I highly highly recommend

[00:00:00] checking out this

[00:00:00] playlist Okay so we've got a project

[00:00:00] file we've got our Clips each of these

[00:00:00] clips may have a frame rate and a

[00:00:00] resolution

[00:00:00] the easiest way to make another sequence

[00:00:00] this sequence has actually inherited the

[00:00:00] values it saw from these clips and if I

[00:00:00] want to see what exactly is going on in

[00:00:00] this uh sequence I can always come up to

[00:00:00] sequence sequence

[00:00:00] settings and I can see here that these

[00:00:00] clips are on a 23976 timeline at 1920 by

[00:00:00] 1080 um Square pixels and my working

[00:00:00] color space is for broadcast at 709 okay

[00:00:00] so Premiere does that automatically if I

[00:00:00] needed to create a different sequence I

[00:00:00] can create one manually by clicking on

[00:00:00] the new item button and going to new

[00:00:00] sequence or I could take a different

[00:00:00] format clip import it and then just drag

[00:00:00] and drop that onto this new sequence

[00:00:00] button or new item button and it'll make

[00:00:00] a new sequence based on that particular

[00:00:00] clip uh multiple ways of dealing with it

[00:00:00] but just know that your uh frame rate

[00:00:00] your time base uh your resolution or

[00:00:00] raster size are based on the sequence

[00:00:00] and any other clips that I throw into

[00:00:00] this sequence are going to be conformed

[00:00:00] they're going to be scaled uh the frame

[00:00:00] rate's going to be adjusted using

[00:00:00] something like motion blending uh to

[00:00:00] match that particular output so it's not

[00:00:00] uncommon to set your resolution of your

[00:00:00] sequence to to what your deliverable is

[00:00:00] going to be what your output is going to

[00:00:00] be working in um and that way you can

[00:00:00] have Clips kind of scale up and scale

[00:00:00] down you can use uh the scale value in

[00:00:00] the effect controls to kind of zoom in

[00:00:00] reposition shots and so on and so forth

[00:00:00] um but just know that that's a

[00:00:00] fundamental difference now the other

[00:00:00] thing is you know I can also bring in

[00:00:00] clips from virtually any location so uh

[00:00:00] I'm going to go ahead and reveal this in

[00:00:00] the finder here just to bring up a

[00:00:00] finder window and I'm going to go back

[00:00:00] to my uh folder here that I have of

[00:00:00] dailies and I'll go ahead and go into my

[00:00:00] media folder here's some additional

[00:00:00] Clips we'll go down here to some of

[00:00:00] these clips in the bottom there's

[00:00:00] nothing preventing me from just grabbing

[00:00:00] a set of clips and dragging them and

[00:00:00] dropping them into the project perfectly

[00:00:00] valid way of importing some shots as

[00:00:00] well if you need to you can also d click

[00:00:00] on this empty location down here and go

[00:00:00] to uh a finder window an operating

[00:00:00] system window let's see I'll go into

[00:00:00] this folder and I'll go into some of my

[00:00:00] media here here's some stuff from scene

[00:00:00] one of this movie and again you know I

[00:00:00] could do a group selection and say

[00:00:00] import and you can see all of these

[00:00:00] clips have now been imported as well

[00:00:00] it's kind of best to think of a premere

[00:00:00] project almost like a bin

[00:00:00] because that's really the way it's

[00:00:00] designed it contains sequences it

[00:00:00] contains uh your meteor clips and these

[00:00:00] clips are all referencing a spot on a

[00:00:00] drive someplace so at no point do these

[00:00:00] clips get embedded into the project

[00:00:00] they're always uh linking to wherever

[00:00:00] the media happens to live if you ever

[00:00:00] need to throw Clips offline for some

[00:00:00] reason you need you're going to relink

[00:00:00] them to a different piece of media on

[00:00:00] disk you can do a group selection of

[00:00:00] clips and we use a lot of right-clicking

[00:00:00] in Premiere so I can rightclick on these

[00:00:00] clips and say make offline and now those

[00:00:00] clips are offline in the project if I

[00:00:00] need to link to Clips I can select them

[00:00:00] and say link

[00:00:00] media and at this

[00:00:00] point a panel will pop up on the screen

[00:00:00] that looks something like this and from

[00:00:00] here I can click the locate button and I

[00:00:00] can come in and find the location now

[00:00:00] again this is pointing to where that

[00:00:00] clip currently lives it's currently uh

[00:00:00] in the files folder here so now if I

[00:00:00] want to uh relink to it I can navigate

[00:00:00] to that location and this little box

[00:00:00] down here display only exact file name

[00:00:00] matches what this does is it'll take a

[00:00:00] directory that maybe has dozens and

[00:00:00] dozens of different clips in it and it

[00:00:00] will uh filter everything out to just

[00:00:00] the files that have the exact same file

[00:00:00] name so I'll go ahead and click on that

[00:00:00] and you can see it automatically found

[00:00:00] the rest of the clips and brought

[00:00:00] everything online for me now if you're

[00:00:00] ever in a situation where you're trying

[00:00:00] to make a project more portable um where

[00:00:00] you want to have the media and the

[00:00:00] project files in one location go ahead

[00:00:00] and click on the file menu go to project

[00:00:00] manager and project manager can manage

[00:00:00] your files on a sequence by sequence

[00:00:00] basis I only have one sequence in here

[00:00:00] so it's basically saying do you want to

[00:00:00] use that sequence now the important

[00:00:00] thing to note

[00:00:00] here there are some there are two

[00:00:00] different options here one is to collect

[00:00:00] files and copy to new location the other

[00:00:00] one is consolidate and

[00:00:00] transcode if I choose consolidate and

[00:00:00] transcode I need to convert these files

[00:00:00] to some common format there's a lot of

[00:00:00] formats where you can't Primm a file in

[00:00:00] Premiere uh good example of this is like

[00:00:00] red r3d media uh that is just beyond the

[00:00:00] capabilities of Premiere it's a raw

[00:00:00] format um so in situations like that I

[00:00:00] would typically collect the files if I

[00:00:00] wanted to stay in the original file

[00:00:00] format and this is the most uh ideal

[00:00:00] option here consolidating and

[00:00:00] transcoding always means that it's

[00:00:00] converting to a common image a common

[00:00:00] file format type and you can see some

[00:00:00] favorites in here like

[00:00:00] dnxhr uh as well as mxf op1a and

[00:00:00] QuickTime so I can select one of these I

[00:00:00] can choose between different formats and

[00:00:00] these are all designed to give me decent

[00:00:00] mezzanine codecs including prores uh if

[00:00:00] I choose QuickTime here I can go ahead

[00:00:00] and choose and have everything

[00:00:00] transcoded into something like prores

[00:00:00] 422 or

[00:00:00] 4444 another important thing to note is

[00:00:00] over here on the side where it says says

[00:00:00] exclude unused Clips when I use the

[00:00:00] project manager this will actually uh

[00:00:00] include everything that's in the entire

[00:00:00] project unless I check this box if I

[00:00:00] check this box it's just going to give

[00:00:00] me the clips from the sequences that are

[00:00:00] selected up at the top here um and you

[00:00:00] can also see when I do consolidate in

[00:00:00] transcode this will include handles um

[00:00:00] so I can set a number of frames that I

[00:00:00] want to have his handles these other

[00:00:00] options I don't recommend messing with

[00:00:00] it you know Premiere does have some

[00:00:00] older options in here that can actually

[00:00:00] rename your Clips on disk to match not

[00:00:00] recommended for any type of workflow

[00:00:00] where you're going to be conforming to

[00:00:00] high reses later on um you always want

[00:00:00] to try and preserve file names if at all

[00:00:00] possible once this is all done I can

[00:00:00] browse to a uh location and I can go

[00:00:00] ahead and click the okay button and this

[00:00:00] will go through and kick off that

[00:00:00] process again collecting files is just

[00:00:00] going to give me the entire Clips uh

[00:00:00] those uh files are going to be copied

[00:00:00] whole to the new location uh consolida

[00:00:00] and trans code does give me an option

[00:00:00] for trimming files down but at the cost

[00:00:00] of having to convert them to a mezzanine

[00:00:00] codec at that point all right so this is

[00:00:00] just a little basic uh understanding of

[00:00:00] how Premiere kind of works with files I

[00:00:00] know for some of you this is probably

[00:00:00] very very basic uh but for others if

[00:00:00] you're new to Premiere I wanted to make

[00:00:00] sure and walk through these basic steps

[00:00:00] because this is a little bit different

[00:00:00] from the way media composer likes to put

[00:00:00] everything in the Avid media files

[00:00:00] folder and work from there Premiere does

[00:00:00] give you a lot more flexibility when it

[00:00:00] comes to what type of storage you're

[00:00:00] working on where you're cutting from and

[00:00:00] have that ability to kind of you know

[00:00:00] unlink clips and relink to a different

[00:00:00] resolution not uncommon to actually do

[00:00:00] the conform in Premiere where you

[00:00:00] eventually relink to something like an

[00:00:00] r3d file or an a raw clip uh in the

[00:00:00] timeline and actually start editing at

[00:00:00] uh an online uh resolution of the

[00:00:00] original camera negative so just

[00:00:00] something to be aware there all right

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