Copy, transcode, or archive project

Select File > Project Manager.

In the Project Manager window, under the Sequence section, check the boxes next to the sequences you wish to include. To select all, hold Shift and click any checkbox.

You can copy or transcode your project by selecting one of the following options:

• Consolidate and Transcode: To consolidate the footage you used in the selected sequences and transcode into a single codec for archiving.
• Match: Match the settings of the newly created media with the sequence settings, individual clip settings, or presets.
• Sequence: Uses the frame size, frame rate, field type, and pixel aspect ratio of the selected sequence, and transcodes the matching clips to these settings.

Clips that don’t match these settings are only copied and not transcoded.

• Individual Clips: Uses the frame size, frame rate, field type, and pixel aspect ratio of each individual clip in the sequence, and transcodes them using their individual settings.
• When the source cannot be matched, the clip is only copied and not transcoded. For example, if the clip contains an attribute that the chosen format or preset does not support.
• Preset: Uses the frame size, frame rate, field type, and pixel aspect ratio of the chosen preset and transcodes all clips to these settings.

When the sources cannot be matched, the clips are only copied and not transcoded.

• Format: You can choose from MXF OP1a files, MXF OP1a files in DNXHD format, or QuickTime format.
• Preset: Based on the selected format, the applicable preset options appear.

Premiere Pro creates a new project file that links to the selected media based on the following options:

• Exclude Unused Clips: Specifies that Project Manager will not include, or copy, media you did not use in the original project.
• Include Handles: Specifies the number of additional frames to retain before the In point and after the Out point of each transcoded clip. You can set a value from 0 to 999 frames.

For example, a value of 30 means that 30 frames are retained before the In point, and 30 frames are retained after the Out point. Handles function as extra frames that allow for additional minor adjustments to the edits in the new 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. This option is available only if you select Collect Files and Copy to New Location.
• Convert Image Sequences to Clips: Specifies that Project Manager converts a sequence of still-image files into a single video clip. Where each still image becomes one frame of video. Selecting this option often improves playback performance.
• 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. This option is available only if you select Collect Files and Copy to New Location.
• 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.
• Convert After Effects Compositions to Clips: Converts any After Effects compositions in your project into flattened video clips.
• If your project contains dynamically linked After Effects compositions, selecting this option flattens the composition into a video clip. The advantage of selecting this option is that you can play back the converted video clips even on systems that don't have After Effects installed.

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.

Disk Space displays a comparison between the size of the current project’s files and the estimated size of the copied or consolidated files. Select Calculate to update the estimate.

When you have selected your preferences, select OK.