Adobe Premiere Pro

Project Organization

For a “real” editing project, the first step is to bring footage off the camera into a folder. Most cameras shoot onto a card that mounts on your hard drive like any other folder. One then copies the files from the camera card to, say, a fast external hard drive. For our purposes, we’ll emulate this idea somewhat.

Copy the Files from CameraCard to ProjectStructure

First, make sure you’ve downloaded the Course Files (see Introduction), and place them somewhere dependable—either somewhere on your internal hard drive, or on a fast external hard drive (USB 3, USB C, or Thunderbolt connections are often indicators of good speed). Premiere will continuously be reading these files, so a slow hard drive will impede your flow.