Self contained Premiere projects

[Alex Udell]

Yes…

this is no problem…

what you should do is create folder for the project..

save your project into that folder…

then in you prefs set all media paths to be “Same as Project”

then when you open the project Premiere will (by defualt) look in it’s local directory as the first place for any media…

This also means that if you plan to import any external files (photos, psd’s, anims, etc) into the project, they should be copied into the project folder first…

If you do this….it should be no problem to pass the project around!

hope this helps…

Alex

[Alan Lacey]

Excellent, this does certainly help. Thanks very much Alex – it appears even easier than FCP, where the scratch disk and other seetings are ‘system’ not project settings

Full steam ahead then building a Prem system.

Alan

[Marisu Fronc]

Alan-

Alex has it spot on EXCEPT for one key point – you need to make sure the drive is labeled with the LETTER designation, and make sure each user assigns that letter to the drive when they load it in – otherwise Premiere will want to “relink” everything (which is easy enough, but MUCH more time consuming than changing a single drive letter designation). We have a bunch of swap dirves in trays set up and labelled with its name (ie: swap 1, swap 2, etc) and it’s letter designation (R, S, T etc) – if you “block out” certain letters (the end of the alphabet is good) for this use then no one should have to “reassign” any of their internal drives.

slainte,
mairsu

[Alex Udell]

Hi Marisu…

I would say your’re right….EXCEPT when a Project file can not find it’s media…the first place it will look is it’s local folder…regardless of derive letter…

so that saves you some of the pain of doing the drive letter shuffle…

🙂

Alex

[Marisu Fronc]

Alex-

You’re right, and I wish it were that simple, BUT – in practice it doesn’t work reliably on all our systems just by folder (our sound man and one of the artists wasted HOURS before I started the drive letter thing, probably because we have tonnes of sub folders (scratch VO, music, final VO, graphics and subfolders within that by scene, etc) and you have to relink through each, back and forth) – there is SOMETHING (don’t know what, maybe the media cache??) on some of our systems that means it ONLY works properly every time when we do it this way. Since we’re always working on a bunch of stuff at once (right now I have 18 new shows, a three-hour behemouth in revision, 8 spanish translations, plus a bunch of customized versions of programmes) and passing it back and forth constantly, for us, at least, it is a time saver. Obviously your mileage may vary!

In any event – IF someone has a problem with the need to relink media this bypasses all the hassle.

slainte,
marisu

[Alex Udell]

In your case I think it’s that it may not look in sub folders of the current directory.

Alex

[Marisu Fronc]

Alex-

I’m sure that the subfolders are the culprit – I just haven’t figured out why it matters on some of the systems and not on others.

slainte,
marisu

[Aanarav Sareen]

[marisu fronc] “I just haven’t figured out why it matters on some of the systems and not on others.”

You aren’t the only one. As a laptop editor, I make sure that my drive has a letter and ensure that I remember that letter. If the letter doesn’t match on another computer then I have always been prompted with the ‘link files’ message.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks so much guys.

It’s obviously possible, I’ll just need to be aware of the drive letter.

One other point Aanarav, can you recommend the best laptop, or at least exactly what to look for in the specs for a successful Prem system. Although this project will be majored by the group there are one or two others that will be asked to contribute, and it would be very convenient if we could take the edit to them for this.

Kindest regards

Alan