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Adobe Premiere Pro Help Working with Projects
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Skip All Removes all references to all missing files throughout the project, without asking
you for confirmation.
Important: Select Skip or Skip All only when you are certain that you want to rework all
the instances where the file is used in the project. If you want to keep the file in the project
but can’t locate it at the moment, use Offline instead.
When you want to replace an offline file after the project is open, you don’t have to close
the project and then open it again. Instead, use the Link Media command. For more infor
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mation, see “Using offline files” on page 87.
Note: Because a clip is only a reference to its source file, do not delete source files while you
are using them as clips in an Adobe Premiere Pro project (unless they were captured using
device control and you plan to recapture them). After you deliver the final movie, you can
delete source files if you do not plan to edit the project or use the source files again.
Saving a project manually or automatically
Saving a project saves your editing decisions, references to source files, and the most
recent arrangement of windows. Protect your work by saving often. If you prefer, Adobe
Premiere Pro can automatically save your project at a specified interval. For example, you
can set Adobe Premiere Pro to save a copy of your project every 15 minutes, producing a
series of files that represent the state of your project at each interval. Automatic saving
serves as an alternative to the Undo command, depending on how much the project
changes between each save. Because project files are quite small compared to source
video files, archiving many iterations of a project consumes relatively little disk space.
Adobe recommends saving project files to the same drive as your application. Archived
files are saved in the folder
[current user]/My Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/7.0/Project-
Archive. For information about other ways of returning to earlier versions of a project, see
“Correcting mistakes” on page 44.
Note: Adobe Premiere Pro may ask if you want to save a project even though you haven’t
edited any sequences. This occurs because other attributes of the project may have
changed since the project was opened. Adobe recommends that you save changes when
asked.
For information about specifying where Adobe Premiere Pro stores associated project
files, such as captured video and audio, video and audio previews, and conformed audio
files, see
“Using scratch disks” on page 57.
To save a project:
Do one of the following:
• Choose File > Save to save the currently open project.
• To save a copy of a project and continue working in the new copy, choose File > Save As,
specify a location and filename, and click Save.
• To save a copy of a project but continue working in the original project, choose File >
Save a Copy, specify a location and filename, and click Save.
There’s no need to save copies of a project when creating different segments or
versions
of the same video program. Simply create new or duplicate sequences within a single
project file.