Understanding Project Management and Importing Files

So, for the record, there is, even if I closed every freaking window here, that would not close the project. To close the project, I either open a new project, by the way, or I say close project. So, if I close every physical window here, I'd have, I have no idea what would happen if I tried that, by the way.

But it wouldn't, I wouldn't lose anything. Even closing the timeline for guitar picks does not delete anything. It just hides the window it's in, and again, double click, gets it back.

Okay, by the way, one note, all those extra nones are because whoever made the preset just, just made it badly. If I wanted to do this, I could take what I have now, where I close the extra nones, window, workspace,  save changes to this workspace would update the standard workspace. So, now when I reset, I shouldn't get six, I should only get one timeline.

This is whoever made it, just made it badly, by the way, it happens. Now, so right now, all I can do is use the shape tools to make basic shapes, type tool to make some text,  and there are effects that make things, but none of those would make specific pictures that I want,  because we don't have AI in this program yet, sorry. So, that means I got to get pictures someplace else.

I'm going to import them, importing files. Okay, file, import, file, and six other choices. File, file is what you want, okay? The other choices are all very specific things, like Premiere Pro project.

Okay, don't do that. Okay, multiple files. Multiple files just opens the import window, lets you grab files from a folder,  and then reopens the import window to grab files from another folder.

That's all multiple files does. It'll keep reopening the import window until you manually tell it to stop. Okay, that's basically what it is.

The other things are very specific, so it's usually that command. If you like dragging and dropping folders, you can drag and drop folders in there too, no problem at all. Okay, it's a little tricky with certain file types, but mostly they'll work fine.

Okay, you can also keyboard shortcut is command I, or control I for Windows users,  and my personal favorite is just double click on the simply space in the project panel. So, by the way, this is the project panel. Double click, it opens the import dialog box.

Okay, I got to find where I'm going, sorry. Class files, at first class. I do not like this layout, I'm sorry.

I'll do a list view, I like a list view a little easier. So, I find my files where it is. It's the guitar picks file, media folder.

Here's your choice. One, you can grab the media folder. That will import that folder, all of its subfolders, and all of their content.

Okay, you can also grab the individual folders. Okay, import those, no problem at all. You could also go into a folder and import just its content.

Okay, I'm going to import media, just say import media. Okay, media came in, open, everything came in, like that. Okay, that's all it does, by the way, seriously.

So, if you go to the trouble of organizing your files on your computer into folders,  you can import the folders like this. If you only have a handful of things, yeah, don't bother. But the more items you have, the more files to work with,  the more convenient folders are.

Okay, so this is a fairly small product. It's got maybe like, what is that, like eight things? You could easily have a product with hundreds of things, if not thousands. Okay, and it becomes really hard to manage that, seriously, without folders.

One note, by the way, when you try to import,  the one thing you got to be careful about is that it should import folders by highlighting them. If you're on Windows, wait, because you're on Windows, right? So, yeah, so Windows is a little different. Let me do that for a second, okay? So, on my Mac, there is literally one, sorry, I need to go back to GuitarPix folder.

So, on my Mac, I have an open button. On Windows, you have two buttons on Windows. One says import, one says import folder.

On Windows, you have to highlight the media folder and click the import folder button. Otherwise, it'll just open the folder and go into it. Is that what's happening? That was happening, right? Yeah, import folder is the command on Windows.

So, I grab media. For me, I just use open, and you're cool, and I'm cool. But, yeah, on Windows, you got to tell it import the entire folder.

It's a separate button on that dialog box. So, the instructions have you rename the folders. It's up to you if you want to or not.

This is just because renaming is annoying. Here's why. In most programs, if you want to rename a folder, on your computer, you want to rename a folder.

You highlight the folder, right? You click it a second time, and the name becomes editable. Not here. Sometimes, if you're like other Adobe programs, maybe you're used to double-clicking on stuff.

Nope, that doesn't make the name editable either. Double-clicking on a folder, by the way, just expands the folder, okay? So, first of all, don't double-click on things here. That is the first thing.

If you double-click, it doesn't work the way you think it will, and it's going to be a problem. So, don't double-click on anything. Double-clicking specifically does this.

It isolates whatever you double-click on. Double-clicking on that item in my folder opened its own window called footage so I can preview it. When we have layers, double-clicking on a layer isolates the layer.

Double-click is isolating this program. So, be careful about double-clicking because it's going to happen, okay? Someone's going to say, oh, my animation vanished. Did you double-click on something? That's probably why.

So, yeah, it's annoying. It happens a lot, by the way. So, to rename something, you can right-click on the folder, rename.

That's your return key. So, I forget what I call this, like 0-3 video. So, if you don't want to rename it, that's fine.

No big deal. 0-1 images. And I named audio 0-2, like that.

And then the instructions have you select those folders, just like they're folders on your computer. Remove them from media by dragging them to empty space down here. And then it has you delete media.

It's just so that you can learn how to, like, rename stuff and work with folders. That's all this section is. If you don't want to do it, it's fine.

And by the way, if I had actually named the folders on my computer, 0-1 images to audio, it would have come in like that. So, I got to save some time. So, you can rename that.

It's fine.