Premiere Pro · Projects and workflow
How to do a paper edit for Premiere Pro
Short answer
Export the transcripts, choose and order the soundbites in a document with their timecodes, then build the sequence in Premiere by marking each bite in the Source Monitor or selecting it in the transcript and inserting it.
In Premiere Pro
01
Transcribe the interviews
Transcribe the clips in Premiere's Transcript tab and export them as text.
02
Pick the bites
In a document, highlight the lines that tell the story and note each bite's timecode.
03
Order them
Arrange the bites into a structure: opening, the main points, the ending.
04
Assemble in Premiere
Open each clip's transcript in the Source Monitor, select the line's text, and press , (comma) to insert it into the sequence, in your paper edit's order.
05
Refine
Watch the assembly and tighten the joins.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie takes a written paper edit and builds it.
Hand Eddie your paper edit, and it builds one edit in your order and reports how many bites made it in, such as 67 of 69 bites. Or open the paper-edit view (Pro mode) and drag transcript lines into the edit. A paper edit exports to Premiere like any other edit.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- What is a paper edit?
- A written plan of an edit: the soundbites you'll use, in order, with timecodes.
- Can Premiere build an edit from a script?
- Not automatically. You insert each selected line from the transcript.