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Managing media in the Project panel: Lesson 4-5
You used naming conventions to make accessing your video and other media assets easier. One additional step will enhance that ease of access: organizing your Project panel.The Project panel is simply a means to access and organize your assetsvideo clips, audio files, still images, graphics and sequences. Each listed media asset is a link. The files themselvesthe video clips and so onremain in their file folders.Importing and logically arranging your assets in the Project panel is simple. It's not much more than adding a few bins, then doing some dragging and dropping.
Adobe Certified Expert exam objectiveGiven an option from the Project panel, explain the purpose of that option. |
| 1. | Click the Icon button in the lower-left corner of the Project panel (highlighted in the next figure).That changes the Project panel display from a list to thumbnails and icons. |
| 2. | Expand the Project panel view by dragging its right edge to the right so you can see all nine items.[View full size image] |
| 3. | Click Audio 4a.aif to select it and then click the Play button next to the Preview screen (highlighted in the next figure) to play the eerie-sounding clip.You can click any other asset and play it. The Play button will be inactive (grayed-out) for still images and graphics. |
| 4. | Click Video 4.avi and drag the slider under the Project Preview screen a few seconds into the clip. |
| 5. | Click the Poster Frame button next to the Preview screen to create a new thumbnail image for that clip. |
NoteThat new thumbnail shows up immediately in the Project panel. The thumbnail view has an audio display in it indicating this is a video clip with audio.
| 6. | Double-click the Graphic 2 file folder icon thumbnail to view its five thumbnailsfour graphic layers and a sequence. |
| 7. | Click the file folder with the up arrow (highlighted in the following figure) to return to the main Project panel view.[View full size image] |
| 8. | Click the Bin button to create a new file folder.It shows up in the Project panel with its default nameBin 02 .[View full size image] |
| 9. | Type in Audio to replace Bin 02 and press Enter. |
| 10. | Create one more bin and name it Stills . |
| 11. | Drag and drop the three audio clips onto the Audio file folder thumbnail. |
| 12. | Drag and drop the two stills into their folder. |
| 13. | Do some housecleaning by dragging the folders and remaining files into a tidy 3x2 grid as shown in the next figure. |
| 14. | Return to the List view by clicking the List button (to the left of the Icon view button). |
| 15. | Click somewhere in the Project panel to deselect any bin that might be selected. |
NoteYou need to do this here so the bin you're about to add won't be a sub-folder inside another folder. There are instances when you might want to use sub-folders to help organize the Project panel.
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