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Premiere Pro CS6 collaborative editing
It looks to me like collaborative editing is still an issue with PProCS6. As in sharing edits between two editors working on the same project (not on a SAN).
For example, if you have two editors working on a common project, the normal routine is to share just the edited sequences. In FCP 7 you can have a project file with only a sequence. In Avid you can simply move a bin file with only a sequence. Even in FCP X you can simply move the one project folder over that contains the revised timeline. In all these cases, the new sequence links to the existing media and master clips are not duplicated, since both editors are working with copies of the same media and same master clips in their own versions of the project.
With Premiere, when you import a new sequence, it also brings in all the master clips for that sequence, so you end up with duplicates of everything each time you bring in a new sequence. Is this in fact correct or am I missing something?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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That is, in fact, correct.
There’s another thread about this issue here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/925028
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Hmm… I just ran another test. When I imported a revised project, which had exactly the same media clips, only the edited sequence was imported. So maybe if the two projects already have common media, then duplicate files aren’t imported after all. If the new project uses different media, then additional master clips are also imported.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
[Oliver Peters] “Hmm… I just ran another test. “
OK this is weird. I import a sequence from a project with common media. I copy & paste the clips from Sequence B back onto the end of Sequence A. All is OK. Save. Close. Relaunch. Now, only the audio of the pasted clips is offline and media is not connected. Video is there. The exact same clips earlier in the same sequence have audio.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
PS: When I choose to import the entire project, then the audio stays linked. Of course, then you have duplicate clips. Seems like a bug to me.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
Oliver –
You’ve hit on a HUGE problem for collaborative editing in Premiere. It’s the one thing, in my opinion, that makes Premiere Pro unsuited for multi-seat edit environments, something that Avid, FCP, and FCX all have their own way of dealing with.
I would encourage you to go over the Adobe’s feature request and ask them for this, as well. https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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[Ryan Patch] “I would encourage you to go over the Adobe’s feature request”
Already in touch with Adobe. Thanks.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
Awesome. What are they saying about this problem?
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[Ryan Patch] “What are they saying about this problem”
No feedback to report, yet.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
Hiya…
I can’t imagine it would be hard for them to create a dupe clean up script based on seeking media assets in the XML with identical paths….
I’ve used PPro regularly in multi seat environments….
but really as an assembly line where a project was passed from one editor to the next….
not so much importing one project into another…
i do agree…this is a pretty important thing to look at…
Alex
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Yeah, I used PPro in multiseat last summer in an assembly-line style and it worked great! That’s why this sort of snuck up on me when I realized that this small modification (two editors working with the same footage) made such a huge difference in the way projects could be shared.
Would love to see a clean-up script that runs on a .prproj file to not have to go out to XML and loose lots of Premiere’s strengths… if you’ve ever opened one up in a text editor, you know that they are XML-based as well and should be able to be parsed through and cleaned up by a script.
They’re XML-based, but have nothing to do with Apple’s XML standard – to clarify.
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