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Working with Projects
Saving and loading project settings
The Save and Load buttons in the Project Settings dialog box let you save all project settings
into a file and later load them into any project. For example, after completing a television
program, you can load a different project settings file that prepares the same program for Web
video. Premiere comes equipped with settings files preset for typical programs, which you can
adapt and save for your own projects. Some video-capture cards may include settings files for
Premiere. For information about loading saved settings, see “Starting a project” on page 57.
Save and name your project settings even if you use only one set. This creates a backup
copy of the settings in case someone accidentally alters the current project settings.
Saving and autosaving a project
Saving a project saves your editing decisions, references to source files, and the most recent
arrangement of the program’s windows. Protect your work by saving often. If you prefer,
Premiere can save your project automatically at a specified interval. Premiere can either save
the project to the same file each time or to a new file. For example, you can set Premiere to save
a new archive of your project every 15 minutes, producing a series of files that represent the
state of your project at each interval. In this way, automatic archiving can serve as an alternate
form of the Undo command, depending on how much the project changed between each save.
Because project files are quite small compared to source video files, archiving many iterations
of a project consumes relatively little disk space. Archived files are saved in the Project-Archives
folder inside the Adobe Premiere 5.0 folder. For information about other ways of returning to
earlier versions of a project, see “Correcting mistakes” on page 73.
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