{"id":51294,"date":"2015-02-04T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=51294"},"modified":"2015-02-04T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:01:42","slug":"video-editing-3-uses-for-the-premiere-pro-project-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/video-editing-3-uses-for-the-premiere-pro-project-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Editing: 3 Uses for the Premiere Pro ‘Project Manager’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most editors neglect to develop the technical and organizational side of their craft, ultimately causing huge problems for themselves and their collaborators during post-production. Premiere’s ‘Project Manager’ feature can save the day.<\/h2>\n

When I first started editing, my projects were a complete mess. I was self taught and as a result never had it drilled into my head to keep my projects organized – let alone how to deal with media management<\/strong>. As the years went on and I started working professionally as an editor, it became very clear that in order to do my job well creatively, I would need to drastically improve the way in which I was organizing and handling my projects and media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now, having around a decade of experience in the editorial world, I have finally developed a system for handling my large scale projects that allows me to spend more time editing and less time trouble shooting\u00a0– largely thanks to a thorough understanding of\u00a0media\/project management.<\/p>\n

\"Premiere<\/p>\n

In this post I\u00a0want to zero in on project management, a tool that it is extremely important\u00a0in a number of post situations, regardless of how well organized your material is.<\/p>\n

I am going to use a few examples that are specific to Premiere Pro, however it\u2019s worth noting that these tips apply to just about any video editing application\u00a0that you may\u00a0be working in<\/strong>. I work in a variety of NLEs, from Final Cut Pro\u00a0X to Premiere to Avid, and each of them are able to deal with media\/project management in their own way. The project manager (or media manager) works very similarly across the board. There are just some slight differences in terminology and overall functionality that differ between various pieces of software.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Organizing a Very Disorganized Project<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re an editor that suffers from poorly organized projects, the project manager is going to be your new best friend. It\u2019s quite common for editors to start throwing clips into their project (and other assets such as music, photos, etc.) that aren\u2019t properly labeled and filed away on their hard drives, and then just start cutting away.<\/p>\n

Most editors do this to save a couple of minutes up front, so that they don\u2019t need to \u2018waste time’ filing their assets away. However they end up having major issues down the road. For instance, they might be referencing a photo on their desktop that accidentally gets deleted or they want to pass of the project hard drive to another editor and there’s a ton of offline media on it.<\/p>\n

The key to getting your project organized – whether it\u2019s for your own sanity or because you are going to share it with someone else, is consolidating the media<\/strong>. In Premiere Pro, the best way to do this is to access the Project Manager (under the file menu) and select \u201ccollect files and copy to a new location<\/strong>\u201d. This does\u00a0exactly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n

It will take every last one of the files in your project and copy them over into a folder of your choice. This feature is a\u00a0life save when working with a messy\u00a0project. It will essentially organize the media (on the finder\/hard drive level) for you. It won\u2019t help to clean up your bins at all, but it will help to ensure that you are never missing any media.<\/p>\n

\"Collect<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Workflow Prep<\/h2>\n

Adobe Premiere does a great job of working with mixed media in a single timeline. In other words, if you were to create a sequence that has a few ProRes clips it in, an H.264 shot, and then an .r3d file (from a RED camera), you would be just fine.<\/p>\n

However, there are plenty of post production tools out there (from color grading software to visual effects programs) that don\u2019t deal with mixed format timelines well at all. As you might imagine, if you were working on a project that needed to get sent to a VFX\u00a0artist, colorist, or finishing house, they may not be able to work with an XML\/AAF of your project if it is linking back to all sorts of different media types.<\/strong> Once again, these issues can be solved by using the Project Manager.<\/p>\n

When dealing with this sort of scenario, you would want to step inside the Project Manager, and then select \u2018Consolidate and Transcode<\/strong>\u2019. Unlike the option listed in the previous point, this will not only create a new folder with all of your media in it, but it will also convert every last clip to a singular format. This is a very simple way of converting your entire timeline to ProRes let\u2019s say, while still maintaining your edit points, transitions, and other editorial actions.<\/p>\n

\"Consolidate<\/p>\n

3. Creating Proxies<\/h2>\n

Many editors today cut just as much on their laptops as they do on their desktops. In some cases you may need to be cutting remotely, or in other cases you might simply be doing a lot of traveling and want to be able to work on your project on-the-go. For whatever reason, it\u2019s always nice to be able to work off of a version of your project that is linked to proxy media<\/strong> (meaning low-res versions of your clips). In the past, it was critical that editors would plan for a proxy workflow before they would start editing, and generate proxy files to be ingested into their NLE when first setting up their session.<\/p>\n

Now however, by using tools like Adobe Premiere Pro\u2019s Project Manager, you can decide to generate a proxy version of your project at any given time<\/strong>. So if you are in a situation where you need to travel all of a sudden and weren\u2019t expecting to bring your project with you – you won\u2019t have to worry about bringing along all your hard drives.<\/p>\n

You can simply use the \u2018Consolidate and Transcode<\/strong>\u2019 feature like I mentioned before, but this time select a lower quality codec (such as ProRes LT) to have the footage transcoded to. In the end you will wind up with an identical project to the one you are working on, but it will just be linked to much smaller files.<\/p>\n

\"Pro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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