4. Organizing Your Content

After you’ve captured or imported your content, you can drag it to the My Project panel from either the Media view or Project view in the Edit workspace. Why two locations? As you’ll read in this chapter, each has its own unique strengths.

For example, Media view and its big brother the Organizer are ideal for tagging your clips for easy search and retrieval, for creating InstantMovies, and for creating albums to back up to Photoshop.com. Project view works well when you want to sort and trim your clips before adding them to the Sceneline or Timeline.

Fast and efficient movie production is all about organization. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Manually tag your clips in the Organizer

• Apply Smart Tagging in the Organizer

• Create an album for backing up your projects to Photoshop.com

• Create an InstantMovie using manual and Smart Tagging

• Trim clips using the Preview window in Project view

• Drag clips to the My Project panel from either Media view or Project view

This lesson will take approximately two hours.

Tagging content in the Organizer.