Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Using the Project Manager: Lesson 15-2

The Project Manager comes into play typically after you complete a project.

You can use it to create a separate file folder that consolidates all the assets used in your sequences into one spot. This is a great way to archive a project and make it easier to access it later. Once consolidated, you can remove all the original assets if you choose.

You can conserve hard drive space by saving only those assets you used in the project and trimming them to the portions you used in your sequences, then saving them (or offline references to them) in asingle file folder.

If you originally captured your footage at a low resolution to save hard drive space, you can use the trimmed project, in conjunction with batch capture, to recapture only the footage that you need at the highest possible quality.

To see its options: select Project > Project Manager.

You have two basic choices, each with its own set of options:

• Create New Trimmed Project.

• Collect Files and Copy to New Location.

Trimmed project

In the trimmed project, the resulting files (or offline file references) refer only to the portions of the clips you used in the project sequences. You have some options:

• Exclude Unused Clips This almost goes without saying when you are making a trimmed version of your project.

• Make Offline Instead of storing the clips as files, create a list of file data so that you can capture them from videotape (see following Note).

• Include Handles This works the same as video capture in that you retain some extra head and tail frames to allow forsmooth transitions or slight editing changes later.

• Rename Media Files to Match Clip Names If you changed the clip names to make them more descriptive, you can use the new names in the trimmed project.

Note

If you select Make Offline, Project Manager checks all the video files to see if they have source tape names associated withthem. If not, because they can't be recaptured, it will copy those files into the newly created project rather than just list themas offline .

Collect files and copy to new location

This option will store all the media assets from the current project to a single location. You might use it to prepare a project for sharing or archiving. This selection shares two options with the Trimmed Project selection: Exclude Unused Clips and Rename Media Files to Match Clip Names. And it has two others:

• Include Preview Files These are files created when you render effects. It saves you time later but takes up more disk space.

• Include Audio Conform Files This is only a minortime-saver. Audio conforming goes on in the background when you import files with audio into a project. There generally is no need to include audio conform files.

Final project management steps

Click Calculate (at the bottom of the Project Manager dialog box) and Premiere Pro will determine the size of the files in the current project and the resulting trimmed project's estimated size. You can use this to check what difference it'll make to select Make Offline or include preview files, audio conform files or handles.

Finally, select (or create) a file folder for the trimmed or consolidated project and click OK.

Note

Because the video files in all of this book's lessons do not have source tape names associated with them, clicking Calculate with Make Offline checked or unchecked will yield the same results. By default, even if you select Make Offline, Project Manager copies all video files that don't have source tape names associated with them to the new project to ensure you don't delete them accidentally .