Opening A Project - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

68 CHAPTER 2
Working with Projects

Opening a project

You can open one project at a time. Premiere recognizes Premiere project files created using
versions 4.2 to 5.0 on Windows or Mac OS. You can also open many kinds of clips created
on other computer platforms; see "Using a Premiere project on another platform" on page 70.
To open an existing Premiere project:
Choose File > Open. Locate and select the file, and then click Open.
Premiere doesn't copy an original clip into the project—it stores only a reference to the original
clip based on its filename and location at the time you imported it. If you move, rename, or
delete a clip after you import it, Premiere displays the Locate File dialog box the next time you
open the project. You can resolve this situation using the Locate File options explained below.
The Locate File dialog box appears when a source clip
or preview file is missing.
OK (Windows) or Select (Mac OS)
to locate and select the original file or its replacement, and then click this button.
Removes all references to the missing file throughout the project. All instances of the clip
Skip
will disappear from the Project and Timeline windows. Do this only when you are certain that
you want to rework all the instances where the file is used in the project.
Replaces the missing file if you first use this dialog box