From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC
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Using the Project Manager
From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC
Using the Project Manager
- Premiere Pro calls the tools that allow you to, as a group, move all your media to a different drive, the Project Manager. There's a couple different uses of it, and one can also be the idea you want to copy your project and just the used media, as well as some ability to copy and transcode. Let's take a look at how it works. So, here in Premiere, I go up to the File menu and I choose the Project Manager. At the top, I can choose what Sequences I'd like it to manage. I can tell it whether it should just collect those files and copy them, or Consolidate and Transcode them to a different codec. Along the way, I can tell it to bring all the clips or exclude the unused clips, whether or not to bring in Preview and Conform files, and rename media to Match Clip Names. Now this is one I personally have off all the time because I don't want it to touch those camera masters in any way shape or form. I just want it to copy the material. When you do this, you press the Calculate button and it…
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