collaborative editing

[Shane Ross]

No. Collaborative editing in PPro is very FCP 7 like. Each editor works locally on duplicated and differently named project files. Then back those up on the main server drive. Other editors then open or import those project files to retrieve the changes.

Actually, a little more complex as PPro doesn’t open multiple projects like FCP 7 did.

Shane
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[Dennis Radeke]

Yes, Adobe does make a collaborative editing product that includes support for Premiere Pro, Prelude and After Effects. It’s called Adobe Anywhere. The downside is that this is a fairly expensive product designed for large companies at this time.

https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere.html

[John Pale]

The majority of my freelance work is in an Avid Unity environment. It’s wonderful and works well, however there really isn’t much you can’t do using the classic FCP or PPro duplicated project workflow. Just takes a bit more discipline managing large projects.
Often I find myself running into Avid’s limitations as far as it’s ability to work with footage without transcoding, but when I suggest using PPro instead (“Hey….you know if we were not using Avid, we’d be editing NOW and not waiting 2 hours for this footage we just got in to transcode”) I am met with horror at the thought of not working on a true shared project. As an experienced editor, I think that horror is vastly overblown…but it’s a tough sell to the folks that make these decisions. If Adobe had a product that was less expensive than Adobe Anywhere, and had real project sharing, a big reason to not consider PPro over Avid would disappear.