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Premiere Pro 2 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide
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Premiere Pro 2 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide

by Antony Bolante
September 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
18h 15m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 2. Starting a Project

When you edit with Adobe Premiere Pro, you’re actually creating a detailed set of instructions called a project (Figure 2.1). A project contains a list of all the clips that you intend to use in your edited video program. It also contains a list of all your editing decisions, including the arrangement of the clips, transitions, audio levels, and effects.

A project file is a detailed set of instructions that refers to—but doesn’t contain—source files. Your hard drive must contain both the project (a small file) and the source files to which it refers (larger files).

Figure 2.1. A project file is a detailed set of instructions that refers to—but doesn’t contain—source files. Your hard drive must contain both the project (a small file) and the source files to which it refers (larger files).

You can think of a project as analogous to ...

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