Preferences in different projects

[Troy Murison]

This is the way PPro apparently works (2.0 is no different).
It annoys me too. Put in a feature request with Adobe.
Maybe if this bothers enough people, they’ll change it.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Alex Udell]

So, for example, you’ve directed Media Capture to a praticular folder.

Then when you change projects,you’d like the media cpature to go to that projects folder?

[Dan Plonsker]

It make sense that the preferences should be saved in the project file.
As far as I remember there were no problems like this in P6.5 .

Thanks

[Dan Plonsker]

Alex,
When I change projects, I’d like the media capture to go to another projects folder, but what I get is the same folder as the previous project.

[Alex Udell]

Hi Dan…

the only way I see to do what you want to do is:

1) Set your Scratch disk settings to “Same as Project”
2) Create A folder on your media volume
3) Create the project file in that media volume
4) Then for any new project always create a seperate folder for the rpject on the root of the media volume and create your project there.

doing this, your media will always be directed to the project relative folder as opposed to specific folder, and you won’t have to change it every time you make a new project.

Alex

[Dan Plonsker]

Thanks Alex,
What you suggest is right, but I must use “same as project”.
If I want to have some material (Previews, conform audio etc.) on onther disk it will not work, unless I put it all in the same folder (for all projects).

Dan

[Alex Udell]

Dan…

I’m right in the middle of road mapping multiple Premiere Pro’s on a SAN, so setting up standardized method of project creation and media capture set up that is not too tricky for editors, so my head is in the same place as yours.

I could suggest that you set Media captures to same as project…

and the media cahces, renders, etc to a dedicated path….but all renders etc will land in the dedicated folder nomatter what the project, bu the media will land in the project specific folder.

It aint perfect…but it’ll have to do….

Alex

[Dan Plonsker]

Thanks Alex.
For now I continue to change the Preferences each time I switch between projects. It’s annoying but this is what we have.
I was hoping for a fix in PP2 but as Troy said there isn’t.
May be in PP2.5 ……..

Dan