Preparing your final video product for distribution ensures your content is professional, high-quality and formatted correctly for the intended recipient. To ensure a successful hand-off of your work, you must complete several steps for proper video product distribution.
The first step is exporting. Exporting a catalog allows you to move a set of images with all of your work. You can choose images from folders or collections to upload to DVIDS, move to another computer or pass off to a colleague. Exporting catalogs with the appropriate settings is vital to backing up and archiving your work for later use. Refer to How to Export Video Using Adobe Premiere Pro for a step-by-step tutorial on using the catalog to export and manage images.
After exporting, you must include metadata. Every visual information product must contain complete and accurate metadata for accessibility and proper documentation. Follow How to Add Metadata to a Video Using Adobe Premiere Pro to learn how to add all required metadata in accordance with the DoW Visual Information Style Guide.
Finally, package your video into a movable folder. Sometimes you may need to hand off an unfinished video project to someone else for color grading, fine-tuning or other functions. Regardless of whether your product is finished, you need to gather all the necessary assets and package them with your project file in a single, movable folder. Check out How to Package a Video Project Into a Movable Folder for packaging steps.