The last item I want to go through is really talking about the column areas of Premiere Pro's Project Panel. So if you choose from the Wing menu, Edit Columns, this brings up a dialog box that is directly related to each of these columns that you see here in the Project Panel. Now what these column say is, when I open the Project Panel, what attributes of the files do I want to have access to immediately. Right now, you'll see Label is checked, Media Type is checked, Frame Rate is checked, and the ones that are checked are all the ones that are active. Notice how I have a scroll bar here at the bottom of the window. That's because I have a ton of other attributes that are active and selective, but they are way down to the right.
So if you have a dual monitor configuration, you can make your Project Panel cover one monitor, and your other monitor panels cover the other monitor, so you can see all the information about your clips, and then view your clips as large as possible on the other monitor. If I want to turn off any of these columns to make it more sparse, I can go ahead and just start un-checking these boxes. So here, maybe I'd just want my Media Start and End, my Video start and End, I don't really need my duration. I want my Video Info, Audio Info, don't need Tape Name, Description, Log Note and so forth.
Let's just turn off all these and see what that looks like. You go ahead and click OK, and now what you have is a much shorter more condensed list. Now here you can see for Video Usage, and Audio Usage, this is one of the best ways to work through your project, and see what files are being used in any sequence. So right now if I was to delete things that I knew I didn't really need in my project anymore, I could just click on Video Usage, and see what showed up below. So right now the only files that's being used is this 13E which is down in my sequence below. If I want to resize any of these columns, I can just drag one of the edges to make it either smaller or larger. If I want to change the order in which column comes first, I can simply grab the column.
Notice when I grab it, it has a blue line selected on it, and then I can drag it to the right or to the left. If I drag it over here, notice how there is a little blue line at the beginning of Audio Usage. That means that's the position it's going to occupy, and when I drop it, it dropped Audio Info right between Video Usage and Audio Usage. Again, to move a column, you just click on it, drag it, and shift it into another position.
Now certain columns have metadata associated with them, so you can actually write text inside of them. So if go Wing menu>Edit Columns and I click Add, I can add my own custom new columns, so I could, maybe if I was passing this project from one editor to the other, I could actually have a column that says, Jacob's Comments. Now this column can either be a Text column or Boolean column. A text column allows you to specifically add text information to. A boolean column is just a field for clicking a check box. So I don't really need to click a check box with my comments, but I can inter-text into my own comment field. So let's go ahead and click OK, and then I click there, and there is Jacob's Comments.
Now I could click on this clip, click in my comment area and say, This is a good shot. Now that text information stays with this clip in this project. If I wanted to delete a panel, I just choose Wing menu>Edit Columns, select that, and choose Remove. If I want to change the order within the Column dialog box, I simply just select Media Start, and I choose Move Up, and that moves it up or down.
The default columns are unable to be removed, so you can't delete or rename those. However, any custom column that you create, you can delete it, or you can rename it after you have created it. Just to show you what a boolean column looks like, go ahead and click Add and then when Add dialog comes up, we'll call this Jacob's Okay. Make it boolean, we'll click OK. So now if I wanted to maybe have a check box where I could say, all these clips are fine, or only use the clips that I have selected, I could go ahead and select these clips, and then they would show up with that check box. So if I pass the project on to someone else, I could have a column that was maybe okaying the shots, and then a column that was commenting on the shots, just by adjusting that.
Okay, so we have gone over importing media into the project, choosing the automatic scale adjustment for them, looking at how you are viewing the clip, or the still, or listening to the audio within the project window in the preview area, turning off the preview area to make it smaller, and then also just navigating your project window, understanding all the buttons and all of the Wing menu items.
In the next lesson we are going to go ahead and start working in the source monitor to look at how you are going to open all these files that you have brought into your project, how you play them back, and you how you begin to add them to your sequence to create your edit.
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