How To Set Up A Project In Premiere Pro

We are going to talk about:

The definition of a project in Premiere Pro

Creating, saving, and opening projects

Adjusting project settings

Moving projects to different editing stations

About Premiere Pro Projects

Every video that you lot produce in Premiere Pro is produced in a project file. Project files are files that simply point to source files – or the files that volition be used in the video that you're producing using Premiere Pro. The project file is NOT the actual media file. If you try to export the project file from your desktop to your laptop, for example, with plans to view the media from the laptop, it will not work. Again, project files are non actual media files.

If that still confuses yous, think of information technology like this. Let'due south say there is a web page about spiders. This web page ONLY contains hyperlinks to articles nearly spiders. These articles are found on other sites. If you lot printed out the web page with the intention of reading the articles later, yous would NOT be able to read those articles considering the

page you lot printed only contained hyperlinks. This is in essence how a projection file works.

Creating a New Projection in CC

The start time you open Premiere Pro CC, you lot will encounter this welcome screen:

To create a new project, choose New Project.

NOTE: If you already take Premiere Pro running, you can also create a new project by going to File>New>Project on the Menu Bar.

You will then see this dialogue box:

The dialogue box in a higher place is where you set your project preferences.

In the Name field, type a name for the project.

Next, click the Scan push button and select a location to store the new project file.

There are two tabs in this dialogue box: General and Scratch Disks. For now, let'due south work with the General tab.

Under the General tab, click the Renderer dropdown menu. If Mercury Playback Engine GPU Dispatch (CUDA) is shown, select information technology. If it is non available, you have to select with Mercury Playback Engine Software But.

Now, click on the Video Display Format dropdown card. Select the format you want. Y'all volition detect that Timecode is the best option for this. By definition, Timecode is a coded signal on video that gives information such as time or recording, exposure, and frame number.

In the Sound Format dropdown menu, select the audio format. Sound Samples is typically the best one to choose.

Next, get to the Capture Format dropdown menu and select the format yous desire. You don't have to worry virtually it if yous volition use HDV (high definition) or DV at this point. You tin change it later if you demand to do that.

Now let's go to the Scratch Disks tab. You can click on information technology at present.

Nether this tab, you will specify where you desire to store the media that is function of your projection. Every bit you lot can encounter, y'all will decide where to store the captured sound, video previews, audio previews, etc. It is recommended that you store these in the default locations already listed for yous. This mode all your media is stored with your project file.

Click OK when you're finished.

Creating a New Projection in CS6

The process of creating a project in CS6 varies from CC. For all the CS6 users, let'due south talk over the differences.

But as with CC, when you commencement Premiere Pro, you volition come across a welcome screen.

Cull New Projection. You lot will then run across the New Project dialogue box.

In that box, you will want to enter a proper name for the project and specify a location for it, simply as you lot did with CC.

Click OK when you're finished.

Your new project is created, and you lot volition then meet the New Sequence dialogue box. For at present, type the proper name of your sequence in the Sequence Name field. Nosotros are only going to stick with the default proper name (shown below).

Click OK.

A projection with a sequence is so created for you. You will encounter the Premiere Pro CS6 interface. The interface contains the same panels as CC. The only major difference will be in the appearance.

To set your project settings equally you did in CC under the Full general and Scratch disk tabs, get to Project>Projection Settings in the Menu Bar.

Closing a Project

To close a project, go to File>Close Projection.

The welcome screen will announced.

Click Go out.

Saving a Project

It should go without saying that before you close a projection, y'all should make sure that's saved.

To salvage a project, become to File>Salvage or File>Relieve As. File>Save volition let you to save the projection nether its current name and in its current location. File>Save As will let you cull a file name and location.

Opening a Project

Yous tin can also open an existing Premiere Pro project.

To exercise this, you tin either get to File>Open up Project then navigate to the file, or you can get to File>Open Recent if you want to open a project y'all've edited recently.

Finding Missing Files

As nosotros stated earlier, a project file doesn't actually contain media. Instead, information technology is more of a database that stores locations of different media. You got to see this offset hand when you fix your projection settings.

That said, if you motion or delete a file that is part of your projection, y'all will see the Link Media dialogue box. Yous will too see it if you modify the name of a file – or move or delete a file –while doing editing on a projection.

You volition see the files that are missing, as well as where Premiere Pro thinks the file should be located.

This is what you tin do to prepare problems with missing files:

Locate the file and incorporate it back into the project.

You tin can treat it equally offline. Premiere Pro creates a placeholder for it. This appears as a big cerise "Media Offline" bulletin in the Program Monitor and Timeline. You tin can and so either delete the files from the projection or relink to the file later.

If you exercise zip, Premiere Pro volition create a placeholder for you anyway.

Relinking Files

To relink a file to the project, get to the Link Dialogue box.

Select the file to link, so click the Locate push.

Yous will then run across the Link Media To dialogue box.

If the file name has changed, uncheck the Display Just Verbal Proper noun Matches box.

Next, navigate to the missing file, then click Open up. You lot will see a checkmark appear side by side to the file in the Link Media dialogue box.

To close the Link Media dialogue box, click Cancel. If files are missing, they volition appear equally offline.