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Where do you save your Premiere Pro project files?
For a number of years I always had my Premiere (and After Effects) project files and their auto-saves going to a folder on my Creative Cloud. This enabled me to always only have one version of the project that I knew was the latest and greatest that I could access from the office on my desktop system and/or on my MacBook Pro when I needed to WFH, or anywhere else. Then Creative Cloud decided to stop functioning in the traditional cloud way where it is constantly syncing files from devices to the cloud and back. Now I use iCloud in the same way. Before we started doing this there were always multiple versions of any given product floating around depending on what hard drive it was saved to. Plus, there was always the risk of losing the drive and therefore, the project file. With the cloud system I call up an old project and it tells me which drives it’s looking for to link to the media instead of me trying to remember which drive the project file was on, of course. Would love to hear of anyone else doing something similar. Or give me a better plan. Thanks.
Geo
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Its an age old workflow.
Have more than one copy in different locations.
For me its daunting.
I have some projects with 20TB of RAW media (RED mostly).
That stuff will forever reside in two to three different locations.
The supporting files (mograph etc…) the same but size depending maybe a cloud option.
One of my jobs has a massive OneDrive account so it can handle it.
The actual project files can be small at times but I’ve seen Pproj files balloon to some dumb numbers.
Those I def save in a many places.
Again, its up to you on what works.
If I was on my own I would def use both local and cloud options.
Back in the day I use to zip a project and email it to myself just in case.
But I work with all NLEs so you cant really do that with Avid.
FCPX I tend to create an XML for safety.
Premiere and Resolve needs more care to handle.
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Dropbox is what we use, combined with NAS.
As Eric mentions, basically a 3-2-1 backup/archive strategy. But a combination of cloud and on-prem. Which I believe just about everyone in the industry uses in some combination mitigated against cost and risk.
We did ‘sneaker-net’ for awhile. And like your experience, you end up with various versions of things, risk of losing a drive, etc.
Basically, what you’re doing sounds sufficient, and certainly has the advantage of accessing the latest regardless of which computer you’re logged into at the moment (e.g., work, home, team member, etc.). I’ve even heard of teams that store everything in Dropbox, including original assets. Seems a bit risky IMO, but with care and workflow discipline, I could see it working.
But yeah, unless you’re willing to tote around a single harddrive everywhere you go and incrementally back it up, the cloud definitely has some advantages, especially for storing smaller project files such as Premiere.
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