[Steve Bransford]

Vince– Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I don’t think your solution can work. When launching the duplicate project file (with the slightly amended file name), Premiere creates a new folder in the folder “Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files” folder based on the duplicated project file name. When I go to Project Settings->Scratch Disks and set the preview file location for the previous editor’s preview file folder, save the project, and relaunch, it still doesn’t work (the render bar is still red and the previous renders haven’t connected to the new project file). What Premiere does is, within the previous editor’s preview file folder, create a new “Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files” folder and then another folder based on the new project name within that. I don’t think you can trick Premiere into connecting render files from an original project to a duplicate project with a slightly different project file name. –Steve

[Steve Bransford]

I should mention that we did attempt to use the Project Manager to duplicate projects and selected the option to include Video and Audio Previews, but, even with just the sequences selected in the Source window of the Project Manager dialog box, it still duplicated the bulk of our media assets into the duplicated project folder, which isn’t a viable workflow for us because we often have six or more duplicates of a project file during the whole production cycle, and duplicating all the media takes just as long as re-rendering.