Collaborative Editing in Premiere Pro?

Oh Heavens, yes!  In fact there are two methods, the Team Projects mentioned earlier, but more important these days, Productions mode. Premiere is heavily used by teams working on the same project simutaneously in different continents.

My partner in Cape Town and I … western Oregeon … started working together years ago, with Team Projects and large file transfers of the assets. It works, after you learn the differences between that and regular single user Premiere.

However, I do not recommend TP for most users and organizations.

The newer Productions mode is the process designed for multiple users in the same or multiple locations, and they have extensive docuementation and video presentations on this. This process is used by many productions from long-form/movies to network/streaming to whatever. 

Mo and I were some of the earlier testers of Productions combined with LucidLink’s file handling service.  When someone first connected us with Peter et al at LucidLink, it was early enough in their operation that our filespace was listed as “X”. poc, poc standing for proof of concept.

LucidLInk is incredible, working in our filespace seems very Harry-Potterish magical. You have online storage either via their offers or whatever you have already arranged … and LucidLink provides a real-time transfer service like no other. It sets up a virtual drive on each computer, that to that computer and all programs, is seen as if it was an actual, connected local drive.

Mo can call me via WhatsApp to say he’s uploading a file of his massive Ae comps and some clips to our Amazon S3 storage in London. I go right to my computer’s file manager system and yep, that folder is there … and while we’re talking, it starts showing files.

I can immediately go into Premiere, and import those files into a Project, drag clips to timelines … get playback! … and yet, the entire thing hasn’t finished uploading from Cape Town to London yet! Because LucidLink was built for professional video production, and moves files in a fashion to make them immediately usable.

Note … this was not loading the files onto any local drive … the files still only exist in London! Although if you are having any playback troubles with a file, you can simply “pin” that file in the LL virtual drive on your computer, and it downloads the file to local storage. I’ve tested this but never needed to use it.

We set up a Production on that LucidLink filespace in London, and Mo can then simply move the assets to the proper folder setup on that server, and on his Mac in Cape Town, import things into the Production. When I next open that Production, everything he’s done is right there … on my PC … in Oregon. I can work away like we were sitting next to each other.

This takes at least 450Gbps transfer speeds up/down with very low latency, but that’s possible from many places these days. I’ll give some links below, but also, go to Adobe’s YouTube and look for Karl Soule videos on using Productions. Karl has a ton of them out now.

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

​@R Neil Haugen 

Can you help here?

You might ask in Team Projects https://community.adobe.com/team-projects-77

Note that I do NOT know if that will help, so go to that forum and ask