Premiere Pro Guru: Organizing Assets

Course details

Organization is key to a successful post-production workflow. This course picks up where the end of your shoot leaves off and before editing begins—when you need to import, organize, and log your footage. Jason Osder shows how to import all different types of assets, from stills to soundtracks, and how to sort and annotate your footage in Adobe Premiere Pro. Plus, learn a few tricks involving Bridge and Prelude (like batch renaming) that will cut your logging time in half.

Learning objectives
Using the Media Browser and Metalogging workspace
Importing from a drive
Importing bins with a CSV file
Batch renaming in Bridge
Logging and pre-editing footage
Using clip makers
Working with metadata

Concepts

Introduction

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

Asset Organization

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

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

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

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

Logging and Pre-Editing with Prelude

Adding markers with Prelude
Subclipping with Prelude
Rough cutting with Prelude

Other Export Workflows

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

Conclusion

Wrapping up