• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Importing a project into another – workflow advice

  Posted by Terry Hahin on October 30, 2012 at 11:19 am

  Hello All,
  I have a big project looking for some advice on. Here the skinny:

  2 editors. 2 separate machines. No central server available, so two sets of source footage from the show. But IDENTICAL sets of source material.

  We were hoping to be able to cut, and be able to pass off sequences back and forth to each other into each other’s project. Since we are working on identical sets of source material, we thought just update each other’s sequences in our projects as we go. This update would come in the form of importing each other’s sequences from our separate project files.

  Problem: when I import my partners sequence into my project, it brings in new iterations of the footage associated with those sequences. It links to the material on my asset drive ok, but it’s it’s making a duplicate example of the footage in my bins. It doesn’t link up with my source material I already have in my bins. It creates new, identical copies in my bins. This will be disastrous and confusing in the long run to have copies and copies of the same source footage in my bins.

  So my question is:
  Is there a way to import another project file, and NOT have it make duplicate iterations of my source footage?

  Anyone who might know…..my absolute thanks.

  Terry Hahin

  Designer and Editor
  terryhahin.com

  Terry Hahin replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  October 31, 2012 at 12:47 am

  Yeah, that’s a tough one because unlike FCP you can’t just create a project with ONLY the Sequence to pass along between the two. Depending on how big the project is, you CAN use Project Manager to create a new project that ONLY includes the clips from the selected timeline. So the only thing you’ll be bringing over is a newly created Project that ONLY has the sequence.

  Yeah, you’re gonna have to keep that new bin with all the media in it because, well that’s just the way Premiere Pro works for the moment. You can’t delete those clips from the bin because they will disappear from the timeline……

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  Terry Hahin

  October 31, 2012 at 1:57 am

  Yup seems to be the case.

  That’s what I get for allowing the client to insist on cutting a large scale project in Premiere….

  Thanks for your thoughts Walter.

  Terry Hahin

  Designer and Editor
  terryhahin.com

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