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Making a clip offline
It’s possible to purposely make clips offline and still work with them in the Timeline. 
This can be useful for saving disk space while working in the early stages of a project 
or for relinking to a clip that is being reshot.
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Delete the Adobe Premiere Pro Batch bin you just imported.
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Click the bike cable shot1.mov clip in the Project panel to select it.
3
Choose Project > Make Offline.
4
In the Make Offline dialog, select 
Media Files Remain on Disk, and 
click OK.
The file becomes offline in the project 
but remains on the hard drive. 
Selecting Media Files Are Deleted takes 
the file offline and removes it from the hard drive. If you select that option and 
you want to use that file in a project, you’ll need to recapture it (or, in this case, 
copy it from the DVD).
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Move the current-time indicator over the first clip in the Timeline.
Note these two things:
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The clip remains in the project with all its effects applied. (The first clip has 
scaled motion and a transition at the end.)
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The Program Monitor displays a “Media offline” placeholder graphic for 
that clip.
This is useful if you work with massive files and want to speed up editing. 
The drawback is that you can’t see the video if you want to make frame-
specific edits.
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 Note:
If you’re using 
the clip in another 
project, it will still be 
online there.

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LESSON 17 Managing Your Projects
Using the Project Manager
Typically the Project Manager comes into play after you complete a project.
You can use it to create a separate file folder that consolidates into one spot all the 
assets used in your sequences. This is a great way to archive a project and make it 
easier to access later. Once consolidated, you can remove all the original assets if 
you choose.
You can conserve hard-drive space by saving only those assets you used in the proj-
ect, trimming them to the portions you used in your sequences, and then saving 
them (or offline references to them) in a single file folder.
To see your options, choose Project > Project Manager.
You can choose to save all sequences (the default) or only specific sequences.
You have two basic choices that determine how the project will be saved, each with 
its own set of options (shown here):