Welcome to Premiere Pro.
It is time to start editing your film.
The most important part of any project is to start with an organized foundation.
If you've already offloaded all of your media, the first thing you're going to do is start a new project with a consistent naming structure.
Open up Premiere Pro and save the project to the folder with all of your assets from your film.
Now let's organize our project using the Bins or the folders inside of Premiere Pro.
Click Next to get started.
Before I import all of my footage into Premiere Pro, I create a very specific folder structure inside of the project so I know where all my assets live, starting with Sequences, Footage, Audio, Graphics, and any miscellaneous assets that I'm using inside of my project.
You can then save this structure as a template so you don't have to do this additional work every time you start your project.
Simply go to New, Save as Template..., and I can then use this exact folder structure for all my videos moving forward.
At this point, our foundation is now built and it's time to start importing that footage.
Click Next to move on.
Now the easy part.
Simply go to File, Import..., or Command/Control I to import your various files into the appropriate Bins.
At this point in the process, you are now ready to start going through that footage and pulling your selects and creating what I like to call select sequences.
If you are ready to move on to the next chapter, click Next, as we start breaking down how I edit using these select sequences and using some of the shortcuts and tools within your Toolbar to begin the edit.
