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Projects Do Not Maintain Individuality Even When Saved, Projects Get Intermixed and/or Deleted

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
July 31, 2025
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When working in more than one project, I will see the following things occur:

1. Titles of projects will get mixed up with one another, I'll click into a project and make edits and the name of the project will change to the name of an already existing project in the midst of these edits and things will start to get mixed up ?

2. In-progress projects will be completely empty, even when saved correctly to the correct place, when exiting the application and then re-opening it (Expected result: I am able to return to the project where I left off), this has caused me to lose hours of important work.

3. When on the application for a certain amount of time, distortions will occur (ex. my audio sounds fine in the file queue but sounds like a phone call when placed into the project, there are no effects or changes done to this audio)

Now, all of my project files are either empty or mixed up, which is frustrating since I've been saving them under their respective names in the proper place, working in the respective project areas, and naming them differently. It's felt very unintuitive and I've lost several hours of important work for my agency due to these issues. Luckily, I was able to export most of the finished products before they were messed up, but I now do not have the luxury of going back and making edits, which I was heavily reliant on in case of needed changes for the future. I believe my workflow is correct and that my computer functions optimally while doing these projects, yet something is telling me I am either missing a crucial, ambiguous step in my workflow, or there's a bug occuring. I am now too worried to exit my projects on the application due to the fears of my work being deleted once again, but I am also worried that leaving it open for too long will pose other random issues.

In the images given (some information is blotted out for privacy reasons), when I entered a previous project (L*** Tutorial Video), that project copied what I am doing in my current project (Upload Files to O****************n). Now the content in that prior project has been all deleted. The L*** Tutorial Video project is in the correct project space and has the correct top title, but it took the content from the Upload Files to O****************n project and its own content is gone. What am I doing wrong here? I've made sure I was in the correct spots for each project, yet it's not been giving me any expected behavior.

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @makenzie_0566 - Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
Please see, How to Report a Problem.

Please see the suggestions from Matt and Neil and let us know if you are able to provide a screen recording.

Sorry for the frustration.

mattchristensen

Legend

@makenzie_0566 I'm sorry for the confusion, that sounds frustrating. Looking at your screenshots and what you wrote, here are some things to know that may help:

Premiere Pro allows for any number of projects to be open at once
An open project could have one Project panel, many Project panels (looking at different bins), or no Project panels (you can close all Project panels, but the projects are still open).
Closing a Project panel does not close the project, there is a separate command "Close Project".
There is always only one active project, and its name is what you see at the top middle of the window. The active project is the one that will receive keyboard shortcuts and commands, like Save, Close, Import, etc.
Clicking into a Project panel or a Timeline panel will make the corresponding project the active project
Copying a sequence from Proj A to Proj B means all the clips that are in that sequence in Proj A will also come over to Proj B.

Given all that, I hope it helps work out what you're seeing. It may help to only work in one project at a time, or to combine your projects into one unless there is a specific reason it needs to be separate projects. Also, it might help to put your Project panels into List view (button in the bottom left corner) so you can see more of the items in the project at once.

If you're still having isuses, it would be most helpful to include a screen recording video, or a specific set of steps you are doing, so I can understand what's happening. Thank you!

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Having mulitple Premiere projects open, and going forth and back between them, is always a situation that can create mixups so freaking easily.

And so it is done only at need, and with great care. Which is why I left that a long time ago.

Using the Productions mode of Premiere, which is designed to have mulitple projects open and in use, is far easier to use to grab things here and use them there.

Premiere Pro Productions Introduction

Using Productions in Premiere Pro

Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide

Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam

Everyone's mileage always varies ...