Classroom in a book

Using the Media Browser
If you’re an experienced Adobe Premiere Pro user, you’ll tend to want to use the 
traditional method of importing clips through the Project panel. You were intro-
duced to the Media Browser in Lesson 2, and you will be using it in this lesson to 
locate and import the example clips. Although it’s possible to import all the clips 
using the Import menu in the Project panel, using the Media Browser has advan-
tages, as you will explore in this lesson.

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LESSON 3 Importing and Managing Tapeless Media
Importing XDCAM media
You’ll be using XDCAM EX 720p24 video clips for most of the lessons. This means 
the media is in XDCAM EX format with 720p resolution at a frame rate of 24 
frames per second. Typically you would first copy the clips from the camera’s flash 
memory card to your local hard drive before importing. This step was completed 
when you copied the included DVD lesson files to your hard drive in Lesson 1.
The clips are already on your hard drive. You’re going to open a new Adobe 
Premiere Pro project and import the clips into the project.
1
After launching Adobe Premiere Pro, click New Project.
2
Name the new project 
XDCAM Lesson
, and save it in the Lesson 03 folder.
3
Since you’ll be importing XDCAM EX media, you need to choose the correct 
preset in the New Sequence dialog box. In this case, the video was shot at 
1280x720 1.0 PAR at 24p. So, choose the XDCAM EX 720p24 preset, and 
click OK.

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 Note:
If you have problems creating the project, you can open Lesson 03.prproj in the Lesson 03 
folder to start at this point.
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Click the Media Browser tab if it is not already selected. You may also want 
to make the Media Browser wider by dragging the right edge of the panel to 
the right.

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