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Selecting project and sequence settings
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Setting scratch disk options
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Adjusting user preferences
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Importing assets
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Taking a closer look at images
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Managing media in bins
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Finding assets with the Media Browser
This lesson will take approximately 50 minutes.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is eminently customiz-
able and adaptable. All you need to do is adjust 
the sequence settings and preferences.

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LESSON 2
Selecting Settings, Adjusting Preferences, and Managing Assets
Getting started
In most of your Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 projects, you won’t have to give more 
than a passing glance to project settings and preferences. Nevertheless, it’s good 
to know the options available to you. You’ll learn how to manage your assets from 
within the Project panel and delve into the Adobe Media Browser—a full-scale 
asset browser that works with all the media types you may need to import into 
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
Selecting project settings by sequence
The basic rule of thumb when selecting project and sequence settings is to match 
the settings to your source material and not to the final output. Maintaining the 
original quality of source material means you’ll have more options later. Even if 
your goal is to create a low-resolution video to play on the Internet, wait until 
you finish editing, and then reduce the output quality settings to make your video 
Internet-ready.
You might have a mix of source media—wide-screen, standard, HDV, and P2, for 
example—among your project assets. With Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, you can cre-
ate multiple sequences, each with a different media type or frame size, all in the 
same project.