Which sequence preset for .mp4 movies

Report · Apr 25, 2013

I'm making a compilation video using clips from already existing hollywood movies. The movies are mostly 720p .mp4's. Which preset should I select when I start a new sequence?

Report · Apr 25, 2013

Do this to create a sequence that matches your footage:

How do I choose the right sequence settings?

Report · Apr 25, 2013

Thank you but I'm not sure how you got to that screen shown in the picture. If I try and create a new project or a new sequence it immediately asks for the preset I would like to use to match my footage. If there's another way to get there can you explain a little more? Thank you so much.

Report · Apr 25, 2013

When you launch Premiere and create a new Project, it asks you

if you want to choose from a list of Sequence Presets... just skip that step

by hitting Cancel, import your media, then do what is shown above.

Report · Apr 25, 2013

Okay, thanks. So if I load 30 movies into my project but I only want to work with 2-3 minutes from each film. How can I extract those clips without moving the whole movie into the timeline and cutting it there? Can I make smaller files of the scenes I need and then remove the complete films from the project?

Report · Apr 25, 2013

So if I load 30 movies into my project but I only want to work with 2-3 minutes from each film. How can I extract those clips without moving the whole movie into the timeline and cutting it there?
The movies are mostly 720p .mp4's.

Take one of these 720p .mp4 files and create a new sequence.

Then you add the segments from all of the other clips in the preferred

order to the one sequence you now have created... editing.

Adobe Premiere Pro Help and tutorials

http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/topics.html

Getting Started with Premiere Pro CS6

http://www.video2brain.com/en/getting-started-with-premiere-pro

Report · Apr 25, 2013

I think I missed a step. Right now I don't have segments from the movies. Just the complete movies. So how do I get all the segments together. I don't know what the preferred order will be just yet. I want to extract all the 2-3 minute clips and get those into the project and then be able to load those onto the timeline and trim what I want.

Report · Apr 26, 2013

I don't have segments from the movies. Just the complete movies. So how do I get all the segments together.

That's what you do with Premiere.

You select segments of various clips and put them

together in a particular order in one Timeline... editing.

I don't know what the preferred order will be just yet.

Don't worry... just start pulling together the pieces you want to use.

You don't need to immediately determine what your preferred order

or durations will be. You can easily change it later... nonlinear editing.

I want to extract all the 2-3 minute clips and get those into the project and then be able to load those onto the timeline and trim what I want.

Then... do just that.

Pick out the 2-3 minute segments you might want to use,

throw them all together on one Timeline, then start figuring

out what order, what to trim etc.

Required Reading:

Adding clips to sequences

Report · Apr 26, 2013

I guess what I mean is I don't want the 2-3 minute clips on the timeline initially. I want them in the project pane window and be able to pull them as needed into the timeline. I will have 30-40 clips and If I put them all right into the timeline it semms like they would be harder to work with. I'm not totally unfamiliar with premiere. I've done a few other projects but I was using clips that I filmed myself and each were not very long in length.

Report · Apr 26, 2013

I want them in the project pane window and be able to pull them as needed into the timeline.

Load them into the Source Monitor, mark in and out points

to define the segment you want to include in your Timeline,

then hit 'insert', 'overwrite' or drag them to the Timeline.

You really should read about

Adding clips to sequences

Also: