Copy projects

Select File > Project Manager.

In the Project Manager dialog box, under Sequence, select the check box next to each sequence that you want to select. To check all boxes, Shift-click any one box.

Select Collect Files and Copy to New Location to collect and copy the footage you used in the selected sequences to a single storage location.

Premiere Pro creates a new project file that links to the selected media. These options are available only if you select Collect Files And Copy To New Location:

• Exclude Unused Clips: Specifies that Project Manager will not include, or copy, media you did not use in the original project.
• Include Audio Conform Files: Ensures that the audio you conformed in the original project remains conformed in the new project. When not selected, the new project occupies less disk space, but Premiere Pro conforms the audio again when you open the project.
• Include Preview Files: Specifies that effects you rendered in the original project remain rendered in the new project. When not selected, the new project occupies less disk space, but the effects are not rendered.
• Rename Media Files To Match Clip Names: Renames the copied footage files with the same names as your captured clips. Select this option if you rename your captured clips from within the Project window and want the copied footage files to have the same name. (Captured files that you import, especially those captured using scene detection, may not have intuitive names, so you may want to rename them from within the Project window.) This option ensures that the filename of the actual captured footage is updated to reflect the new name in the Project window, greatly simplifying the organization of your footage files. Selecting this option for an MXF file will not change the User Clip Name in the file’s XML; however, it will change the filename of the clip copied for the trimmed project to match the clip name shown in the Project panel.

Select the destination path where Project Manager saves the files you specified. Select Browse to navigate to a location other than the default.

When copying a project, Project Manager creates a folder named “Copied_[Project Name]” and copies the project, footage files, and other specified files into the folder.

Select OK.