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LESSON 2
Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences, and Managing Assets
Importing assets
In Lesson 1, your project started with links to video clips (
assets
) that had already 
been placed in the Project panel. Adding those links to the Project panel—
importing 
assets
, in Adobe Premiere Pro parlance—is easy. But you should keep a few issues in 
mind. This exercise will cover the how-tos of importing and the issues you’re most 
likely to encounter.
You’ll import all four standard media types: video, audio, graphics, and still images. 
You’ll see two importing methods and take a look at the properties of audio and 
graphic files.
You can continue where you left off, or you can open Lesson 02-01.prproj from the 
Lesson 02 folder.
You should see the standard Adobe Premiere Pro opening workspace. All the 
frames should be empty except for the Sequence 01 item in the Project panel and 
in the Timeline.
1
Choose File > Import.
2
Navigate to the Lessons/Assets folder, and select the .jpg, .mp3, .ai, and two 
.mpeg clips, as shown here. Then click Open. This will 
import
(create links 
from) these files to the Adobe Premiere Pro Project panel.
 Tip:
To select 
multiple files, hold 
down Ctrl (Window) 
or Command (Mac 
OS) while clicking the 
filenames.

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In the Project panel, double-click the empty space below the newly added clips.
You’ll import files from a different file folder, demonstrating that you don’t have 
to keep all your assets in the same place. The Project panel simply lists links to 
your assets, wherever they may be.
4
Navigate to the Lessons/Assets/More Assets folder. Select movie_logo.psd, and 
then click Open.
For the Adobe Photoshop file, an Import Layered File dialog appears.
5
Choose Sequence from the Import As menu, and click OK.
You could have selected one of the Merge Layer options to import the 
Photoshop image into a single layer. Choosing Sequence does two things: