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Adobe Premiere Pro Help Capturing and Importing Source Clips
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When creating three-dimensional images or animations for use in Adobe Premiere Pro,
use the following guidelines whenever possible:
• Use broadcast-safe color filtering.
• Use the pixel aspect ratio and frame size specified in the project settings in Adobe
Premiere Pro.
• Use the appropriate field settings to match your project.
• If you’re using an Adobe application to generate the sequence, turn on the Embed
Project Link option so that you can open the sequence in the application that was used
to create it. See
“Editing a clip in its original application” on page 145.
To import numbered still-image files and compile them into a single clip:
1 Make sure that each still-image filename has the correct file extension, and make sure
that all filenames in the sequence contain an equal number of digits at the end of the
filename (before the filename extension)—for example,
file000.bmp, file001.bmp, and so
forth.
2 Choose File > Import.
3 Locate and select the first numbered file in the sequence, select Numbered Stills, and
click Open. When Numbered Stills is on, Adobe Premiere Pro interprets all of the
numbered files as a single sequence.
Importing another project
You can add the contents of an existing Adobe Premiere Pro (or earlier version) project to
an open project. When you import a project into an open project, the imported project’s
clips and sequences are added to the Project window in a bin named after the imported
project. The bin hierarchy of the imported project is maintained within its new bin in the
current project. All of the imported project’s special effects, such as transitions and effects,
are included. Use caution when importing a project into another project with a different
timebase or audio sample rate, because these differences may affect edit positioning and
audio quality.
Projects created in Adobe Premiere 5.1 or later can be imported directly into an Adobe
Premiere Pro project. To import an Adobe Premiere 5.0 or earlier project, first convert it to
an Adobe Premiere Pro project by opening and saving it in Adobe Premiere Pro (see
“Opening a project” on page 41). For projects saved in Adobe Premiere 6.x format or
earlier, the project’s timeline becomes a sequence at the top level of the bin that results
from importing the project.
Importing one project into another is the only way to transfer complete sequence and
clip information from one project to another.
To merge a project into a currently open project:
1 Choose File > Import.
2 Locate and select the project, and then click Open.
Note: In earlier versions of Adobe Premiere, storyboards were stored in files independent
of project files. While Adobe Premiere Pro contains all storyboard features within the