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Backing up projects
Hi all,
I’m looking at ways of backing up my projects in CS6 without breaking links between media and disrupting the way I have my assets archived.
I like to keep everything organised, so when I start a project I create a folder with the name of the project, and place several sub-folders within it. These sub-folders are called: Footage, Premiere, Graphics, Exports, Client Assets, Brief, Audio and After Effects.
I have an external hard drive that I use for saving copies of my projects – obviously if I just copy all the folders across the media links are broken as the file destinations have changed.
I just discovered Premiere’s Project Manager feature and tried it out – although I’m keeps the media linked, it doesn’t maintain the folder structure that I’ve set up for all my assets. It will never move the relevant After Effects project to the new destination and all the video clips etc. will just be dumped into one big folder.
Is there any easy way of moving everything like this without having to re-link all the media?
Thanks a lot,
Jonnie. -
4 Replies
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The proyect pannel folder structure is supposed to always be kept in the premiere pro proyect file (.prproj), all your media can be compiled and saved in the back up folder, and names can be changed according to new names you have configured in the proyect if you set this option in the Proyect Manajer window previously to making the backup. Then don´t re-open the proyect from the saved ppro proyect file with options “Save” or “Save as”, but from the backup one. This might keep all the links to the new path of your media, but if it doesn´t you only have to link one file, the others will be recognized by PPro and automatically linked and imported.
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I have exactly the same question Jonnie,
After effects has the ability to collect all associated files and maintain folder structures but Premier just dumps it into one big folder…. all the folder structures in the finder window are lost, but remain in the project file.
It would be so good if Premier CS6 had AE’s file management capabilities. -
Glad I’m not the only one! I should have made it a bit more clear that when I referred to my folder structure it’s within Finder, not the Premiere Project panel.
It’s this Finder folder structure that I want Premiere to maintain when I save it to another location to back it up. I wasn’t aware that AE was capable of doing this actually but that’s good to know for projects that are made entirely in AE.
Cheers!
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Jonnie and Gabriel, I agree. I am anextremely organized editor. If I use Project Manager It creates a sloppy mess. As a beta tester I railed about this one but got the feeling it was low on the priority scale.
Let Adobe know its damn important by filing out this request form. The more that do, the more likely it will be addressed.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Tom Daigon
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