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Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Under Review

Better project management

  • January 24, 2023
  • 88 replies
  • 6644 views
We often need to collect the project for transfering or archiving purposes. When collecting - all assets will be collected in one folder which is a bit messy....it would be great if files can be collected in 2 ways:
- following the Premiere project bin structure
Or
- following the folder structure on hard drive
That would help us a lot in keeping the collected projects organized.

88 replies

Known Participant
January 24, 2023
The issue is that Premiere Pro doesn't trim the files, right ? So your project end up the same size
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
So is Adobe a congressional body or something why does it take 2 years for something to go through "review." Either make the feature or don't. Man I get tired of this.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Project Manager needs a complete overhaul. It has been quite a mess since its inception.

My current workflow actually has me going through the free version of Resolve just to be able to trim and collect the original media without transcoding it.
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
So Adobe replied over a year ago and nothing has changed!
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
The Project Manager needs a complete overhaul.

The navigation is awful, slow and confusing for large scale projects.

You cannot include nested sequences when selecting one timeline.

You cannot choose to render nested sequences like you can with After Effects.

The ability to render all effects (audio and video) before consolidating.

Hope we can see major improvements in the future.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Totally agree, and this feature is totally necessary!

What I currently do is as follows, for whom it might be helpful:

- Export the timeline as an XML.
- Import the XML into the free version of Resolve.
- Use Resolve's media management tool to """COPY & TRIM""".

It seems like a simple tool in other software, I have no idea why Adobe weren't able to fix it. I've been asking for this feature for at least 10 years.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
This! And including trimming without transcoding...
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Also fix it! We get about 25% success rate on collect and copy. Most often they just fail. So when they do, it starts over and erases all previously copied content. DONT! Instead just add to what was already moved. Progress bar never really updates either. Clunky.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
If this was possible, this would also solve a huge problem currently, which is that if you have duplicate file names in project (ehem... "Clip0001") when it currently exports, we get Clip0001_001, 002, etc, etc. This makes relinking back to original footage later tedious because Premiere no longer is looking for the correct clip name, it's looking for the _001 version, and you have to manually re-link every clip - sometimes in thousands.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Yes, Please! This would make sending projects to out-of-house Color Artists So. Much. Faster. Also, as previously suggested having Project Manager be able to work in the background would be amazing!