Classroom in a book

Using a storyboard to build a rough cut
Film directors and animators frequently use walls of photos and sketches to visual-
ize story flow and camera angles. These are known as 
storyboards
, and they can 
be very useful in planning a project and making sure you get the shots or material 
you need.
Storyboards also help after the shoot ends. In the case of Adobe Premiere Pro, you 
can arrange clip thumbnails in the Project panel to get a basic feel for how your fin-
ished video will work. Then you can move all those clips to the Timeline for more 
precise editing.
This approach is useful in revealing gaps in your story. It’s also a way to note redun-
dancy and to quickly place a whole bunch of ordered clips on a sequence. When 
you’re confronted with a Project panel loaded with clips, storyboards can help you 
see the big picture.
After creating your storyboard, you can place several clips in a sequence on the 
Timeline at one time. To begin, do the following:
1
Open Adobe Premiere Pro.
2
Choose File > Open Project, navigate to the Lesson 05 folder, and double-click 
Lesson 05-01.prproj.
3
Notice that Lesson 05-01 has the clips you will be working with already 
imported into the Project panel.
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 Note:
As in most 
of the lessons in this 
book, you’ll be using 
an XDCAM EX 720p 
sequence preset.

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4
Click the New Bin button in the 
Project panel, and name your new 
bin 
Storyboard
.
5
Double-click the new Storyboard bin 
icon to open it in its own window. 
This makes it easy to move assets 
into this bin.
6
In the main bin, select the seven 
assets (do not select Sequence 01).
7
Right-click (Windows) or Control-
click (Mac OS) one of the selected 
clips to open the context menu, and 
choose Copy. Note that you need 
to click the clip name, or you will 
deselect all the clips.
8
Select the Storyboard bin to make 
it the active window, and choose 
Edit > Paste.
All seven files now appear in the Storyboard bin. They remain in the main 
Project panel as well, because you copied them rather than dragged them.