Import photos, videos, and audio

On the Home screen, click Create a New Project.

In Media Browser, browse and select the assets you want to import in the order in which you want them to appear in the timeline.

Premiere Rush marks all the clips in the order you select them and arranges them at the bottom of the screen in a storyboard.

If you are not satisfied with the order of the clips, you can deselect them by clicking them. Then select the assets again in the order in which you want them to appear.

(Optional) When adding an audio or video clip, you can choose to add only a part of the clip. For more information, see Add part of a clip.  

(Optional) Select the following options:

• Sync with Creative Cloud: To save your video project to the cloud, select Sync with Creative Cloud. You can then access the project from all your mobile and desktop devices. All of your edits are synced to the cloud, so you always have the latest version of your project on any device.
• Copy Media: To save a copy of the selected media on your device, select Copy Media. This option is useful if you are importing media from a detachable device. Premiere Rush saves the media in the folder that you specify in the Preferences dialog box. By default, the media is stored in the Premiere Rush/Imported Media folder. For information about how to change this default location, see Set audio, input, output, and rendering preferences.

Click Create.

After you click Create, Premiere Rush automatically adds all of your selected media to a sequence (by default, named Sequence 01), and the project is available for you to start editing in the Edit workspace.

To add media to your project while editing, click the  icon in the left toolbar and select Your Media. 

Browse to find the media you want to add to your project.

Do one of the following:

• Add the entire clip: Select the clip and click Add.
• Add part of an audio or video clip: Select the clip and click the Large Preview icon. Play the media and select a range. Then click Add. For more information, see Add part of a clip. 

Click Add.

From Media Browser, select the media that you want to add.

Click the Expand icon to open a larger preview of the clip. Here you can play the clip and choose the portion you want to add to your project. 

From the timeline, select the portion of the clip you want to add. Click the icon.

After selecting the portion of the clip, click Add.

To add media to your project while editing, click the  icon in the left toolbar and select Audio. 

Browse to find the media you want to add to your project.

You can quickly search for in-built audio within Premiere Rush using keywords. The results include matching titles, artists, genres and categories.

Select the clip and click Add.

To open the Preferences dialog, choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or select Premiere Rush > Preferences (macOS).

To change the location where Premiere Rush stores your copied media, click Choose in the Media Import area. Navigate to the folder where you want to save your media and click Choose again. 

If you have multiple audio input and output options for your computer, set your input and output audio preferences.

By default, Premiere Rush uses the built-in output and the built-in microphone for your system.

Select these options to improve video playback and rendering performance:

• Select Pre-render sequences for playback if you are facing playback or performance issues. When this option is selected, Premiere Rush pre-renders parts of your sequence in the background to optimize playback.
• Select Enable hardware acceleration encoding and decoding to accelerate the encoding performance while exporting the timeline and decoding while playing back the timeline in H.264/AVC and HEVC codecs. This preference is on by default, but you can turn it off if you are facing playback and rendering issues.

To remove all cache files and free up disk space, click Manage Cache.

In the Manage Cache dialog box that opens, you can choose to:

• Delete all preview files - <<what does this do?>>
• Delete cache files for media that can no longer be located - <<what does this do?>>
• Delete all cache files - Deleting all media cache files deletes all cache files from the current location. Deleted cache files are recreated automatically whenever source media requires them. To remove all media cache files, restart Premiere Rush and select this option before opening any project.

Click OK.