From the course: Learning Premiere Elements 2022

Adding media from your hard drive

From the course: Learning Premiere Elements 2022

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Adding media from your hard drive

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- [Narrator] Once we've started our Premiere Elements project to made sure that our settings are correct. Our next step is to bring our media into our project or import it into our project. And our media may include video. it may include still photos, may include audio or sound effects, narration and music files, but we need to bring all that media into our project. Before you do that, though, make sure that any media you're going to use in your project is on your hard drive. Make sure that it's already copied over and I'll show you in our next session, a way to get media from your camcorder onto your hard drive. There's a nice tool built into the program for that. But if your media is on a separate device, say it's on your camcorder and you don't copy it over to your hard drive, you may import it into the program, but as soon as you unplug your camcorder from the computer, that connection is broken. And you lose the media. So we'll make sure all your media is on your hard drive. And then it's as simple as just selecting add media, to get the media into your project. Now you can launch the Elements Organizer. That is a media file management tool that comes included with Premiere Elements. We'll take a look at it a little bit later. We'll also take a look at least one of the tools here for getting the media off your camcorder or recording device. But most of the time when your media is already on your hard drive, all you need to do is select Files and Folders, And then browse to it. To add the media to your project, all you need to do is select one clip or hold down the Shift key and select a series or hold down the Control or the Command key on a Mac and select one at a time. Then click Open and the files will be imported into your project. They're brought into the Project Assets panel, which is sort of a holding area for your media before you start adding these files to your timeline. By the way, there's a shortcut, you just want to jump to that browse screen, all you need to do is find a blank spot, any place here on the Project Assets panel and double click, and that will reopen the brown screen so you can add another media file. If you are in quick view, there is no Project Assets panel. So when you add any media in quick view, this media is added directly to the timeline. So there is no holding area as there is an expert view. And we'll show you a little later in the course, how having media in your Project Assets panel before you add it to your timeline has a number of advantages. Let's go back over to our expert view. By the way, you notice when you leave quick view to go into expert view, quite often you get this warning that says Expert view is a more advanced view. You may do some editing there and then come back and it simply won't work in quick view. So let's continue back over to expert view. And we can continue to add our media files. Now there are a number of tools here in Project Assets we'll look at for creating sub folders for gathering your media into, or for looking at them in sort of a list view rather than this a thumbnail view. But once you've got your video, your photos, your music, and any other audio files into your project, you can begin the process of editing. And that in my mind is where the fun really begins.

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