DISCUSS: Project templates in import mode

I consider templating part of my secret sauce. It is vital for consitency in terms of how a show looks, and it makes cutting new shows extremely easy. I template everthing - with the template having pre-imported all the base assets for every show, all the graphics, and a rough-out of the timeline. Once I have assets in the project folder, I do one sync with Watchtower - and they're all watch folders from then on as I build. I also have a template for a project folder - which is also copied each time. It includes empty ingest sheets, spots for various types of outputs, and a standard bin system. Each template is copied and renamed with the show number and the slug - and then once I'm working in the timeline, it's basically a game of knockout - where I can quickly define and delete elements I don't need - or make th something from the pre-imported assets. I also have templated sedquences  - broadcast for instance requires me to output six channels of audio - so I make a subsequence of the show, or the promos or whatever - and drop them into the new six channel sequence etc. That sequence is where I do captions and final legalizing on audio etc. I've been using Premier this way for years - and I would have failed without developing this sytem. This gets pretty deep, but it's the way to go. I actually teach this. Below is the template's timeline without a show's project folder imported. Below that is my project folder system over on one of my aux drives. 

- The Relatively "New Project" window really counter intuative and a pain, I very much dislike using it.

- Prem not having any ability to modify media on disk while most of the time works well means you needa  robust "pre" premier tool and Bridge is not it.

- Tools like "Poste Haste" and "KYNO" allow for rapid creation of proejct templates (inc copy of files) but KYNO allows for Sub Sequence, Trim, Keyword , Rename and Sub Sequence, that then can be used between projects.

- The only reasion you need a project template is if you have bad file management to start with. 

I love the idea of a project tempalte buy why wouldn't you just keep a copy of the .proj files and use post haste to generate the project from a copy.

If you really want to blow peoples minds, allow the ability for preimer to "hard link" to external files (toggle for those who want

Using project manager now to sync out a copy just dumps all the files intoa  root folder, the whole thing is just terrible

If you are planning on doing templates just to try and compete with other projects you should go above and beyond, look at poste haste, look at KYNO and think about how you can help editors work with their digial library or DAM .

While i love the idea of this feature it just looks like a copy paste of an old project file is doing the same think the issue is relative file paths and all that fun stuff. 

If you really want to do this properly it needs to look a bit wider than making the new project screen more painful than it is now. 

I try to avoid it at all costs I wish i could go back to the old screen.

Rob

I'd like to see something that mirrors how project templates work in After Effects.

Changing AEP to AET tells After Effects to open the After Effects template project as a new, untitled project.  If an edit needs to be made to the template project (AET), we change the extention back to AEP, then open, edit, save, and then change the extension back to AET.

So, a PROPROJ file and PROPROT file that work in the same manner (if possible) would be helpful.

1: depeniding on template we have a bin structure : 01 OUTPUT , 02 EDITING, 03 RUSHES, 04 AUDIO 05 graphics 07 RANDOM ... and now even extra bin for the caption master template style)

2:  yes depending on the edit and the need in the template is stored another sequence : and audio rooting (like news or Post production)

3: if you want i can send you some templates

This has gone away for me, any fixes?

One use case is to preload the audio track mixer with plugins set to always good enough parameters if the editor respects the naming convention of the tracks. Mainly compressors and EQ for voice over background sound and music and a global compressor. Could also be done if preloading that was possible at the sequence settings step.

Folder structure:

1. Media

a. Video

b. Audio

c. Images & animations

d. Others

2. Sequences

- FHD preset

- UHD preset

- 9:16 preset

- 4:5 preset

This is a great first step, but I definitely want to add my voice to the requests to get this implemented for Productions and to get this reflected in folder structure as per the Post Haste note above. Project organization is not isolated to the prproj file. It's a multi-faceted concept that needs to perpetuate throughout the post-production environment in order for it to be truly useful.

1. I prepare my template-projects with several bins for Footage, Grafic, Music and Sequence etc.
2. I also use the sequences with prenamed audio-tracks and audio routing.

What will be very helpfull when you can name your sequences with the project-name:

I use different sequences in the project, here a sport-production example:

• yymmdd-TeamA-TeamB-PGM
• yymmdd-TeamA-TeamB-CLF
• yymmdd-TeamA-TeamB-Online
• yymmdd-TeamA-TeamB-Online-CLF

So, if you name the project 230322-ABC-DEF und you can place a placeholder eg "$project$" in your sequence-name that will replace the project-name in the sequence it will be a time-saver.

Also helpful: find & replace for sequence-names

Are you planning to have a similar function for productions?

Also the Avid 'favourite bins' feature is very useful. If I mark a bin (ie a project in Adobe productions) as a 'favourite' then it appears in any project (ie a production in Adobe) I open.

Thus my SFX, VFX etc bins appear in every project + are updated as I make changes/additions to them. They are left in the original location (Google Drive for me).