Using the Project Manager in Premiere Pro

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Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today, we are going to look at creating a project manager file. When you want to create a project manager file, you're creating all the source material for your sequence put into a folder. Maybe there's a point down the road where you want to add music to it or change the text. When you're finished with your project, create a project manager file and you'll have a dedicated folder that has all the files to do with the sequence all together. It's a fantastic technique. Render out the whole sequence and you can see it's starting to turn green.

So, here are all the sequences that are part of the project. Your project will automatically check whatever sequence you have open in your project, collect files and copy to a new location. Yes, that's exactly what you're doing. You're going to browse, call this project manager, create it and say choose. And, over here, exclude unused clips. Absolutely, you don't want anything that's not part of the sequence. Why would you want it included? Include audio conform files? I would keep that checked. And, I would also not bring in the preview files if I include them. When you reopen the sequence, you'll have a fully rendered project. Maybe you want that. It's such a small project, so keep it checked. Why not include the audio conform files? Rename media files to match clip names? Absolutely, if you happen to have renamed your media, this will help you reconnect media if you ever had to do that. Let's just say okay. It always asks you to save it.

Let's take a look at what's in this copied Noble August, the name of the overall project. Here are your audio preview files, there weren't any, and here are the render files, the media cache. Nothing here cannot be re-rendered and recreated. Just so you know, I'm going to close this existing project and I'm going to click on this. We'll see what happens here. We have August instructional videos, a fully rendered movie, and in this bin, we have everything to do with this look. This is actually a recorded movie called ducking, that's why there's only one clip, but normally you'd have several clips here. Then you have your motion graphics, intro, and outro. I did a few different lower thirds, so each one of these will represent something different on this line.

So, this is it, and you know your project manager file is amazing. You can share this with another editor, or keep it for your own archives, which I would recommend doing all the time. All in all, it's a fantastic way of keeping your project safe. I hope you've enjoyed this lesson on creating a project manager file. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.