Organize and view items in the Project panel

Compositions and footage items are listed in the Project panel. Unlike items in the Timeline panel and Effect Controls panel, the order of items in the Project panel has no influence on the appearance of the movies that you create. This means that you can organize footage items and compositions however you like, including organizing them using folders. Solids are automatically placed in the Solids folder.

Folders that you create in the Project panel exist only in the Project panel. You can expand a folder to reveal its contents, and put folders inside other folders. To move a file or folder to the top level of the Project panel, drag it to the gray information area at the top of the panel.

You can use the File > Collect Files command to gather copies of all files in a project into a single folder.

Show information for items

To show information about a footage item or composition, select it in the Project panel. Information is displayed at the top of the Project panel next to the thumbnail image.
To show the file creator ID for a footage item, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) it in the Project panel.

Create a folder

Choose File > New > New Folder, or click the Create Folder icon

at the bottom of the Project panel.

Rename and sort items

To rename a composition, footage item, or folder, select it in the Project panel, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), type the new name, and then press Enter or Return again.
Note: The names of items in the Project panel can be no more than 31 characters long. The same is true for names of layers, effects, and property groups in the Timeline panel and Effect Controls panel.
To rename the Comments column, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the column heading and choose Rename This.
You can use the Comments column to create a custom sorting option. Rename the column, enter corresponding information for each item (for example, camera number), and then sort by that column.
To sort items by entries in any column, click the column name in the Project panel.

Copy items

To duplicate or copy an item in the Project panel, select it and choose Edit > Duplicate or Edit > Copy.
To copy a footage item to Windows Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (Mac OS), drag the footage item from the Project panel to the desktop.

Find and view items in the Project panel

To find items in the Project panel, choose File > Find, or click the Find button at the bottom left of the panel. Select Find Missing Footage to locate all footage items that refer to a file that has been moved, deleted, or renamed.
To find the next item that matches the most recently used search criteria, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Find button.

Comments

Todd_Kopriva said on Jul 28, 2007 at 6:55 PM :

A useful, free tool for analyzing files and determining which codecs they use (as well as many other details) is the GSpot codec information appliance:

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

You can even download a script that gives you the ability to analyze a footage item in the Project panel using GSpot or another, similar tool:

http://www.leapfrog-productions.com/Scripts/Gspot/gspot.html

Todd_Kopriva said on Dec 28, 2007 at 5:52 PM :

Jeff Almasol provides a script that automatically writes specified information about footage items or layers to the Comments fields for the respective items in the Project panel or Timeline panel:
http://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_Commentron