Managing assets

Customize List view columns

The columns of metadata in the Project panel List view tell various things about the assets listed. The Project panel can display any XMP metadata fields you choose, not only the clip data fields. You can select which metadata columns Premiere Pro displays, add properties to schema, and change the order of columns. Premiere Pro saves your choice of columns in the project file. The same selection of columns appears in the Project panel whenever you open the project.

Edit the display of columns in the Project panels

1 Choose Metadata Display from the Project panel menu, and do any of the following:

•To display all the columns in a metadata schema in the Project panels, check the box next to the schema name.

•To display columns selected from one or more schema, click the triangles next to the schema names to open them. Then, check the boxes next to the names of the columns you want to display.

Note: If you can’t locate or change a property in the Metadata Display dialog box, Adobe Premiere Pro locks the property, so that you cannot change it. For example, you can delete properties you added, but not the properties built in to the Adobe Premiere Pro project metadata.

2 Click OK.

Rearrange columns

In the List view of the Project panel, drag the column header horizontally to the desired position.

Change the width of a column

In the List view of the Project panel, position the mouse over a dividing line between column headings. When the Column Resize icon appears, drag horizontally.

Sort by a column

In the List view of the Project panel, click a column name to switch between ascending and descending sorts based on the content of that column.

Add a column

1Choose Metadata Display from the Project panel menu.

2Click Add Property.

3Type a name for the column.

4Choose a type:

Integer columns can contain only whole numbers.

Real columns can contain decimals up to two digits.

Text columns can contain any text you enter.

Boolean columns provide the option for Boolean terms.

5 Click OK, and click OK again.

List view columns

The names of most of the Project panel columns are self explanatory. Following are definitions for the less obvious ones:

Name By default, displays the asset filename. You can change the name the asset uses within the project. You cannot remove the Name field from the List view.

Last updated 1/16/2012