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msedits
December 4, 2025
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Moving Projects into Productions with Multicam

  • December 4, 2025
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Hi everyone,

 

Sorry in advance as these are a few multi-tiered questions, of which I haven't found straight answers for while browsing answer here or elsewhere.

 

So I am currently working on a multicam show. Up to now, I have made a project per episode. I currently have 7 episodes in separate projects, and they are shooting about 7 more. 

All but one of the Episode Projects currently have the sources, and mulitcam source sequences - and that's it.  I have only started to edit 1 episode, so that project has a good amount of edited sequences.

 

I really wish I had started with a Production, but now I think I need to combine projects into a single production.  My first question is:

 

Is there harm to importing my current projects into a new Production, where I would then separate the sources and multicam source sequences into one new source project per episode?  Which leads to my next question - 

 

My second question is: I plan to eventually color correct the clips in the multicam source, thereby effecting the clips in the sequences (it's a studio show, so the color shouldnt really change much across the shoot).  Will a production recognize the color effect on the multicam source between projects in a single production?

 

 

Thirdly, and again, sorry in advance if this is a loaded question:

Am I asking for trouble by importing and separating these projects this way?  As I said, really am only deep in an edit of 1 episode.  So I do have the option of starting from scratch on all other episodes and re-making the multicams for all but 1.  That said, would I be able to import the project with edited sequences into a production, seperate the sequences into their own project, sources in their own project, while retaining their link to each other?

 

If not - would it be possible to make a new source project for this episode in the production, a long with a new multicam source, and relink the sequences from the old project to the new multicam source sequence?

 

I hope this all makes sense and someone can let me know a best practice for doing this.  Thank you!

2 replies

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 4, 2025

Matt is so solid and good at helping on these issues.

 

I would add, that when you create a Production this way, there are almost always at least some duplicated or lost clip references. They do have a process for re-creating clip references. It's been long enough since I needed to do so the process is a bit dim in memory, but it's actually fairly easy to do.

 

Especially as working in a Production will over time save a ton of time.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
mattchristensen
mattchristensen
Legend
December 4, 2025

@msedits these are great questions! Here are my answers:

  1. Existing projects into a production: This is totally fine to do. You can create a new production, then in the Production panel click the panel menu and choose "Add Project to Production". You could also just drop them in to the production folder on disk, but the "Add Project to Productioin" command just makes sure the projects are all the correct version and have unique project IDs. Note: if any of your separate episode projects have the same clips, like if a clip is imported into Episode 1 project and Episode 3 project, they won't magically de-duplicate just by bringing the projects into a production. Premiere considers them to be separate clips and you'll just have to live with the duplicates in different projects.
  2. Adding source clip color: Yes, this is fully supported. If you add or modify an effect on the source clip, that effect will sync down to anywhere that clip is used in a timeline in another project. The one caveat is that both projects have to be open for that syncing to happen. So you could, for example, open your projects that have the source multicams, do the coloring, then open the projects with your edits and you'll see the color then appear on the edit sequences. Do a quick test to verify everything is working before you spend the time to do all the color.
  3. Asking for trouble: No I don't think so; your plan makes sense. The only real concern would be my note in #1 – if you have a lot of shared clips across the episodes, those will not magically reconcile in a production. If you had started with a production, you would have only imported them once and thus have no duplicates. But they won't deduplicate if you join existing projects together. Only you know if that is going to be a problem or not. If there is no shared media between the episodes, it's no problem.
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mseditsAuthor
December 4, 2025

Thank you so much! 

 

As for your concern about sharing media between projects, the only thing I have done so far (which I dont think is a big deal, but you tell me) is that I have a separate project for field shoots.  I had to edit some of the field footage into that one episode.  But instead of copying the footage from the field project, I instead imported those files fresh to live in the episode project.  So I'm thinking I can just separate those files into their own new project after I import into the production.  The only caveat is that I made a multicam of the field shoot to sync a field mic in that field project.  I have not used this multicam in my edit yet.  Just the stand alone files as Broll.  I'm thinking when I'm setting up the production is just import the original field project into it's own project in production, and use the multicam sequence in my edit from that.  I'll have duplicate files but I don't think it will be a big deal?

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