Adobe Premiere Elements 12 - Manual (Page 42)

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Click Add Media, and then click Files And Folders. Locate and select the files that you want, and click Open. To add an entire folder, select it
and click Import Folder.
Drag files or folders from Windows Explorer to the Project Assets panel.
Drag files from Windows Explorer directly to the Quick view or Expert view timeline.
You can also use the Elements Organizer to access files that are stored on your hard drive. Files that you added to the Elements Organizer
from either Premiere Elements or Adobe Photoshop Elements are displayed.
Import photos from your digital camera, phones, or removable drive
1. Connect the digital camera, or mobile phone to your computer.
Install any drivers your device requires. Consult the manual.
2. In Adobe Premiere Elements, select Add Media >Digital Still Camera, Phones Or Removable Drives, and then click Advanced Dialog.
Adobe Premiere Elements - Photo Downloader (Advanced Dialog view)
3. Choose the drive or device from the Get Photos From pop-up menu. Thumbnails of all importable files appear in the dialog box.
4. To specify a location for the saved files, do one of the following:
To save files to the default Adobe folder, leave the location as it appears in the dialog box.
To specify a different location, click Browse (Windows)/Choose (Mac OS) and choose a folder. Alternatively, click Make New Folder
(Windows)/New Folder (Mac OS) to create a folder and name it.
To create one or more subfolders for grouping files by criteria, click the triangle next to the Create Subfolder field. Choose one of the
options from the pop-up menu for naming the subfolder.
To rename the files in the folder consistently, click the triangle next to the Rename Files field. Choose an option from the pop-up menu
for naming the files. The filename defaults to the folder name you enter. When the files are added to the folder and the Project Assets
panel, the filenames are in increments of 0001. For example, if you enter summer, the filenames are changed to summer0001.vob,
summer0002.vob, and so on.
5. Select files to add to the Project Assets panel. A check mark below the file’s thumbnail indicates that the file is selected. By default, all files
are selected. Click an option to remove the check mark and exclude a file. You can also select or deselect all files by using the Check All
button or the Uncheck All button.
6. If you are using metadata, you can select Preserve Current Filename In XMP.
7. Click the triangle next to Apply Metadata, select a template, and fill in the Creator and Copyright fields.
8. Click Get Media. You can click Cancel in the Progress dialog box at any time to stop the process.
If you don’t intend to use all the files you add, you can delete them from the Project Assets panel. Deleting files from the panel doesn’t
delete them from your hard drive.
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