RobbieChilderhousetvblog: Guide to preparing material for editing

First off you must use a local login instead of a network login, this means you'll only be able to access the files you create on this computer on this computer. This is important to do when editing video because the files will be large and won't be able to transfer over the network smoothly.

You will find the SD card slot on the back of most macs, once the SD card is inserted it will appear on the desktop. highlight all the files you want and drag them over to where you want to place them. Before doing this you should make a folder for your project, under the movies folder would be sensible.

With in this folder you should make other folders, one for the video, one for audio and one for graphics that you might create, your actual Premiere file should also e saved in this folder. You should drag and drop all of your video files into the video folder and all the sound you recorded into the audio folder.

Once this is done if you just right click on the SD card and click eject the card will be ejected safely.

It's important to make sure the project is set up correctly before you start this. Make sure you set the file to save in the correct place, this is very important for file organisation to make sure you keep all of your files together. It's also important to make sure all of the scratch disks are set to the right locations, this makes sure that everything save to the right folder.

If you right click on the bin section in the bottom right hand corner of the screen there will be a drop down menu, click import and select all of the files you need to import. It's important to make bins to put all of the footage into, and to make sure that the bins mirror the folders in the project folder. If they're not it could get confusing. I also have a folder for music, which is where I imported my music into, it is very important to make sure the music you use in royalty free, it would be illegal if not, or if the source isn't credited properly, a good website for music to use in projects is incompetech, this website has many free to use songs, as long as you credit the website.

Under the footage bin I separated into days of shooting just to make it a little bit easier to navigate and find files that I need, although this isn't necessary, it does make it easier to locate things.