2. Setting Up Projects

Every time you produce a video in Premiere Pro, you’ll produce it within a project file. However, project files do not contain the media that you import into the project; that would be too cumbersome. Rather, a project file is more like a file that points to your source files with instructions about which frames to include and exclude in the video that you’re producing, which effects to apply, and where to apply them. If you copy a project file from your office workstation to your notebook for some weekend editing, you won’t be able to get much done, because the content won’t be there to edit.

Each project file has high-level settings for video ...

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