Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 - Manual (Page 97)

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To create a project without a sequence, click Cancel.
5. (Optional) If you want to change where Premiere Pro stores various types of files, specify the scratch disk locations. See Specify scratch
disks to improve system performance.
Note: Premiere Pro supports high bit-depth (greater than 8 bits per channel) video necessary for editing standard and high definition
footage.
Review project settings
All project settings apply to the whole project, and most can’t be changed after a project is created.
After you begin working in a project, you can review project settings, but you can change only a few of them. You can access these settings
through the Project Settings dialog box.
1. Choose Project > Project Settings > General, or Project > Project Settings > Scratch Disks.
2. View or change settings as needed.
3. Click OK.
Project Settings dialog box
General
Video Rendering and Playback Specifies whether the software or hardware function of the Mercury Playback Engine is enabled or not. If a
qualified CUDA card is installed, the choice for hardware rendering and playback with the Mercury Playback Engine will be enabled. For more
information about CUDA, Mercury Playback Engine and Premiere Pro,
see this post on the Premiere Pro Work Area blog .
Title Safe Area Specifies how much of the frame edge to mark as a safe zone for titles, so that titles aren’t cut off by television set overscan. A
rectangle with cross hairs marks the title-safe zone when you click the Safe Margins button in the Source Monitor or Program Monitor. Titles are
usually assumed to require a wider safe zone than action.
Action Safe Area Specifies how much of the frame edge to mark as a safe zone for action so that action isn’t cut off by television set overscan. A
rectangle marks the action-safe zone when you click the Safe Margins button in the Source Monitor or Program Monitor.
Display Format (Video and Audio) For information about video and audio display formats, see their entries under General Settings in Sequence
presets and settings.
Capture Format For information about setting the capture format, see Set capture format, preferences, and tracks.
Scratch Disks
For information about designating scratch disks, see Specify scratch disks to improve system performance.
Online Resources
See this video tutorial by Andrew Devis on the Creative Cow website for information about the choices users must make in the Welcome screen,
and the New Project and New Sequence dialog boxes after opening Premiere Pro.
Open a project
Premiere Pro for Windows can open project files created with earlier versions of Premiere Pro or Adobe Premiere 6.x. You can open only one
project at a time. To transfer the contents of one project into another, use the Import command.
Use the Auto Save command to automatically save copies of your projects in the Premiere Pro Auto-Save folder.
You may encounter missing files as you work on a project. You can continue working by substituting offline files as placeholders for the missing
files. You can edit using offline files, but you must bring the originals back online before rendering your movie.
To bring a file back online after the project is open, use the Link Media command. You can continue working without having to close and reopen
the project.
1. Choose File > Open Project.
2. Browse to the project file and select it.
3. Select Open.
4. If the Where Is The File dialog box opens, locate the file using the Look In field, or choose one of the following in the Where Is The File
dialog box:
Find Launches the Windows Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS) search feature.
When moving a project and assets to a different machine, you can edit the file path in the project file so that Premiere Pro finds the files
associated with the project automatically. Open the PRPROJ file in a text editor, or in an XML editor like Dreamweaver. Search for the file
path that was used when the project was on the previous machine. Replace it with the file path on the new machine.
Skip Replaces a missing file with a temporary offline clip for the duration of a session. When you close your project and then reopen it, you
see a dialog box that asks you to locate the file or allows you to skip it again.
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