Premiere Pro Guru: Organizing Assets

Learn how to import, organize, and log your footage and other assets in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• How to use the exercise files
• Organization: What works best for you

1. Asset Organization

• The benefits of organizing assets
• Updates to modern workflows
• Organizing assets in and out of Adobe Premiere Pro
• The Common Media folder

2. Efficient Importing in Adobe Premiere Pro

• Determining the best import method for your workflow
• The Metalogging workspace
• Using the Media Browser
• Importing footage from a drive
• Importing photos and graphics
• Importing layered Photoshop files
• Importing audio files
• Importing bins with a CSV file
• Browsing and importing Premiere Pro projects
• Importing Final Cut Pro and Avid projects
• Useful keyboard shortcuts for import

3. Other Adobe Workflows

• When to use Bridge
• Creating a collection in Bridge
• Batch renaming in Bridge
• When to use Prelude
• Performing a verified card transfer with Prelude
• Transcoding media with Prelude
• Copying to multiple drives with Prelude
• Moving clips from Prelude to Premiere Pro

4. Organization Inside Adobe Premiere Pro

• Essential preferences related to media management
• Logging and pre-editing
• Understanding the Project panel
• Adding metadata in the Project panel
• Sorting and sifting through clips
• Organizing media with labels
• Selecting a label group
• Working with bins
• Clip markers
• Sequence markers
• Marker shortcuts
• Workarounds with markers
• Using the Find command
• Using filters
• Using subclips
• Choosing markers vs. subclips
• Customizing columns
• Useful keyboard shortcuts for organizing and logging

5. Logging and Pre-Editing with Prelude

• Adding markers with Prelude
• Subclipping with Prelude
• Rough cutting with Prelude

6. Other Export Workflows

• Understanding metadata
• The Metadata panel
• Customizing headings and displays
• Metadata schema
• The Timecode panel
• Speech analysis

Conclusion

• Wrapping up