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Every project includes a Project panel. This panel acts as a storage area for all files used in the project. When you add a file to a Premiere project, which is called importing, it appears here in the Project panel. You can organize a project's media and sequences using bins here in the Project panel. I have two bins here called Sample Media and Salient Logo Layers, but I can add more bins by clicking on the Add Bin icon right down here at the bottom of the interface and then go ahead and name that bin; let's call this New Media, like so. And then I can drag and drop content into that new bin; looks like a folder there, that folder icon, but the lingo as used in the Premiere Pro CS3 documentation is Bin. These are called bins, and notice I can compress them, so it just makes for a nice, tidy, organized workspace here for all of your content media clips that you'll be using in your Premiere Pro CS3 projects. Now it's very important that I point out here that Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't actually store video, audio, or still image files in this project file, although they are listed here in the various bins and workspaces of the Project window. Premiere only stores a reference to each of these files based on its file name and location at that time that you imported it. Let me repeat that for emphasis. It stores only a reference to each of these files based its file name and the location at the time you imported it. Actually, I need to repeat for the third time the part: location at the time that you imported it, because oftentimes this is what causes a lot of confusion with my beginner Premiere students, is they forget where they stored these files at the time that they imported it into Premiere, and then the next time they open Premiere, they have a missing link icon here. Premiere can't find that file, and it will give a generic icon that says This material is offline. So you need to keep track of the location of those media files at the time that they were imported into Premiere Pro so that it's available at all subsequent sessions of Premiere with this particular file. I can demonstrate this quite clearly by closing this project and opening, opening up a new one. Let's open up Sample 2 or copy of Sample NTSC. Let's not save, and notice that it's asking me where is this file, Salient Ambient underscore bed dot WAV. It's been moved since I imported it into this file, so let's just go ahead and skip it by clicking not the Skip Previews, but the Skip button and, or just cancel. And then you'll notice that sure enough, this clip here, because I didn't locate it for Premiere Pro, is showing me the offline, Media offline icon, and that's a sure sign that it's lost the connection with the location of the original clip, media clip, that I imported. In fact, you'll notice that down here in the timeline, all of my clips are missing, so I'm getting that symbol there, that icon symbol for all of them, and also notice that I'm getting this icon symbol in the Project window. This means that those clips are broken, in essence; Premiere Pro can't find them on the desktop. So let's go ahead and open up this project a second time, and this time let's point to the location where those media files are located. In this case, right here, I have those media files, Salient Ambient Bed is there, and let's go ahead and select that. Now this time, Premiere Pro will find all the other files it needs on my computer system, where I imported them from. And now notice this time I see instead of the Offline icon, I see actual thumbnails, both here in the timeline and also here in the Project panel. There's the icon for video clips; there's an audio clip. It's very important concept; it's a little bit confusing. Notice that I have some different icons there, and now if we move this window all the way to the right, I have some information about each of these clips, including Label, Frame Rate, Media Start, Media End, Duration, Video In-point, Out-point, Audio Info, Tape Name, Description, Log Name, Capture Setting, Status, Scene, Shot Take, and more. I can rearrange the order of these columns by clicking on let's say, Media Duration, and dragging it to the left. And notice that I'm moving it over here to the left. You can also expand or contract these columns by clicking on the edge and dragging to the right or to the left. I can also sort my content using a column here. Notice I can sort it by video in-point in an ascending order or descending order. I can arrange by duration, so in this case here, notice that Media Duration is the one that I'm sorting it on, and it looks like it's sorting it from the longest to the shortest. If I click on it again, it'll sort it in the opposite direction. My shortest clips are first, and my longest clips are at the bottom. And there's one last tool I'd like to demonstrate here when working with the Project window, and that's Icon View. Down here there are two icons, one for List view, which is the view I have open now, and there's Icon view. This will show you you're contents of the Project window using icons. Notice the Bin icons have little folders. My Sequence icons have this little mini timeline, and if I double-click on one of the bins, I can see the contents of that bin. Notice that my audio clips have this icon. The video clips show me an icon of the first frame in that clip. Later on, I'll be demonstrating how to have Premiere Pro automatically construct sequences for you here in Icon view by selecting a series of clips and then clicking on this button right here, this one right here, Automate to Sequence. What that does is have Premiere Pro automatically add these clips to a sequence for you, and then you have a variety of options here, but more on that a little bit later. Let me continue my tour with the next interface component, the Monitor window. This is a very important Premiere component, where you can see your footage much as you would in a video monitor in a traditional video editing suite.