Customize List View in Project panel

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Learn how to customize the List View in the Project panel to organize, sort, and filter media using metadata.

Use List View to see all of your media files. You can sort your list by different criteria to find or group your files.

To hide or show the thumbnail viewer and clip information, select Preview Area from the Project panel menu.

Hovering over clips with the mouse provides a tooltip with information about the clip.

Hovering over columns with the mouse provides a tooltip with information about the column.

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 the 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.

Select 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 schemas, select 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.

The Metadata Display shows various schemas and metadata columns for customizing the List View columns in the Project panel. — Customize the metadata columns you want to display in the Project panels using the Metadata 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 Premiere Pro project metadata.

Select OK.

Rearrange columns

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

To change the width of a column, position the mouse over a dividing line between column headings. When the Column Resize icon appears, drag horizontally.

To sort based on a column, select a column name to switch between ascending and descending sorts based on the content of that column.