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In Encore, your command and control center is this guy right here; the Project Panel. Let's go ahead and just expand it by clicking on the little Options Arrow and choosing Maximize Frame. We'll spend a little time talking about how to actually get around in this panel and see why you want to use it. The first thing, of course, is the little preview window that appears whenever you click on something. So you can get a preview as to what your asset looks like and you have this little scrub bar down here at the bottom of a movie so you can see a preview as to what your file looks like. That's quite handy. You also have a little Play Button that you can play and pause the movie with if you have a movie or anything that can be played. So this is a great way to preview content you're going to include in your project. You can see information about the selected file. So I can see the name of it, Sequence 01.mov. It's a video file that is 720 pixels by 480 pixels and I can see the duration. It's 22 seconds and 18 frames. I don't have any minutes and I don't have any hours. That's what this all is about. I can also arrange how my files are by name. So I can click on this button here and I can go alphabetically from the Z all the way to A and A to Z. I can look at the type of file here the same way. I can do the same thing. I can also arrange them by duration so I can see the shortest to the longest or the longest to the shortest. But there's more here to these little categories. I can also click and hold my mouse down and drag to rearrange them so that I could put the ones that are most important to me in the order that I want to see them and I can also right click on one of these guys like so to get this option to hide this category just in case it's something I really don't deal with. I can also choose the columns that I want to see in this list. Very handy. The ones that have a checkmark are the ones that we actually have here and the ones that don't, of course, aren't here. So you can always add them by selecting the little checkmark and then you can simply scroll to find what you're looking for and just drag it all the way to the beginning or you can, once again, right click and choose to hide this. Very handy indeed. You can also use the Project Panel to Import Assets in one or more ways. So let me go ahead and show you one way. I'm going to right click in this blank are and the Contextual Menu pops up and I can import an asset, a menu, a timeline, slideshow or I can create a new menu, blah, blah, blah. More importantly, folder. Now let's take a look at the bottom of the interface. We, of course, have our little scroll bar. If you have a lot of information here that you can't quite see, you can also click on something and click on the garbage can to delete it. Let me go ahead and undo that. I can also click on the Create New Button to create a new folder, menu and chapter playlist. I can also click this guy here. It's kind of an interesting-looking thing. It allows me to toggle different items that I see in my Project Panel. For example, these guys are all assets so I can click here and turn that off by deselecting it. So I click on Assets and they're gone. I can get them back the same way. So this is a nice way to filter out what you don't want to see and what you do want to see. Of course, I recommend highly the creation of folders for everything. So create a folder for your movies, create a folder for your pictures, slideshows and all that kinds of stuff. So let's go ahead and put that back the way it was, Restore Frame Size and that is your Project Panel. We'll be using this guy throughout the tutorial and we'll get more familiar with it as we go along.