As organized as we've been putting all our source material into the proper folders, let's import the folders into Premiere in an organized fashion.

1. In Premiere, choose File -> Import -> Import Folder.

2. Navigate to your Sized Images folder and press the button marked "Select 'Sized Images'."

3. Repeat steps (1) and (2) for your Sountrack, Titles, Video, and Voiceover folders.

You won't need to import your Scanned Picts folder, since your original scans aren't the proper size for Premiere, but keep the folder handy. You may not get exactly the effect you want from one of your sized images. With your original scan intact, you'll be able to go back and change the image to meet your needs.

Most of you will see the Project files in this form. If it looks different, pull down the WINDOWS menu to PROJECT WINDOW OPTIONS and click on the selection in the top left corner. Click OK.

Take a look at the information in the Project Window for each clip. First, the little image of your file is called a thumbnail. The thumbnail will help you differentiate between your files if your names are not that specific, such as Uncle Harry 1, Uncle Harry 2, etc. To the right of the thumbnail you will find file information. The file type is indicated: movie, audio, still image, title.

Below that is the duration. Time in video is measured in what’s called SMPTE (pronounced "simpty") timecode, a uniform time standard proposed by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. 0.00.00.00 represents hours.minutes. seconds.frames. The real distinction from other kind of time keeping is the frames measurement. At the Olympics, everything is measured to one hundreds of a second, one hundred little clicks on those LED clocks. In U.S. standard video, there are 30 clicks between seconds, so 0.00.01.15 represents one second and 15 frames, or one and one-half seconds. As you navigate around Premiere this concept becomes a little more important; just use it as a reference for now.

Click on the thumbnail of one of your image clips and drag it into the construction window into the top video track (Track A), and let go. You now have started to edit in Premiere. Congratulations, it’s taken a while to get here. Note that in your Project Window a little kaleidoscope has appeared in the top right-hand corner of your file description. This lets you know you are using the file in the Construction Window. (Audio files in use have a little sine waveform instead.) Keep an eye on these kaleidoscopes and waveforms, as they will become helpful when you begin editing all of your project.

Your title file is looking a little empty. That's because we're going to create our titles in Premiere. Let's do that now so we can put them in the right place later.