Workflow question: Multiple editors, how?

[Aanarav Sareen]

They are working on the EXACT SAME THING at the same time or on different segments at the same time? Are they using different workstations? You have to provide us with a little more info.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Mark Weaver]

Sorry about not giving enough info… Thought I did,
but I guess I’m a little closer to the issue.

Anyway, there are two people wanting to edit a
project. Initially one editor went through and created
15-20 sequences with the appropriate ordering
of the clips.

Now the two editors would like to be able to go through
this project at the same time, splitting the sequences
between the two, and edit them down appropriately, adding
titles music and effects as necessary.

In the end, it is desired, to have one project with all
the sequences connected together to create a complete
video.

Does this make sense?

Mark

[Aanarav Sareen]

What about the computer situation? Is this project over a network or one computer?

Either way, what I would do is create a copy of the project and split the sequences as you described above.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Mike Velte]

If both editors are on a network, Windows wont allow both to have the same project open at the same time.You would have to schedule each editor on a different shift.
Duplicating the project file wont work…how can you merge the 2 versions? You could have each editor export his/her sequences as Mpeg files for DVD or DV .avi.

[Perry Cheng]

How about spliting the project into 2 project files, i.e. Duplicate the project into ppj1 and ppj2, decide who is going to work from where? Then, after edited with each project, create a master project and import ppj1 and 2 and edit the joining part. Would this work?

Perry

[Mark Weaver]

Aanarav,
Yes the two computers are networked together. I was hoping
that because they were networked and the original DV clips
were on a shared volume that the editing process could be
shared easily. Oh well….

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Mike,
You ask the big question….Even if I have two distinct projects
that use independent DV clips, how does one merge projects together.
From the manual, I don’t see a way to do it. Other than creating
a AVI file from each project then combining these AVI into a
third PPro project.
Oh well… It was just an idea that I hoped would be easy. Back
to the one editor at a time method.

Thanks for the help.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Perry,
This would work and is apparently the only solution, but
I was hoping that I missed something in the manual that
made this workflow a little less manual. Arrgg.. Oh well..

Thanks to everyone for the ideas and comments.!!!!

Mark

[Aanarav Sareen]

You CAN merge two projects together. Simply import one project into the other and delete the unneeded sequences.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Craig Howard]

Fundamentally it just can not work.

What would 2 editors working on the same project independently achieve ?

Solution:

Split the editing tasks or give them two chairs at the same machine….

Tasks that split could be story editing, graphics, track laying, comping, color grading, FX/transitions

It is easy enought to import in components and sequences.