Premiere Collaboration Feature with Shared Projects needs Duplicate Master Clips?

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November 28, 2017
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Was really excited about diving into the shared project and collaboration features of Premiere. We're an Avid facility that has been interested in Premiere for a while, but could never justify it without real collaboration (it's really difficult for assistants).

I started digging through and I noticed that it's not working as I'd expect. I understand that if I have multiple projects open at once and I drag a sequence from one project to another, the media needs to travel with it. But that seems problematic for Shared Projects (or subprojects?) of the main project like Adobe shows in their examples.

This is the problem I'm having:

If I were to make a DAILIES shared project and a CUTS shared project and a SELECTS shared project, they all appear to need their own master clips. And each of those projects would now need their own management! I can't see a time where this is practical unless the shared projects are meant to be used by entirely separate teams, which makes me think I'm doing it wrong? The assistants are already performing a balancing act as it is. Having to manage duplicate media seems silly.

I'd love to know if I'm doing this incorrectly.

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gilzoo

Participating Frequently

Yeah, same issue here. Master Project with multiple shared projects or "bins" for certain types of media as well as a "work" bin for main editor and assistants. Every time media is moved from one bin to another it creates an additional folder and duplicate media. This is useless, in my opinion. Might as well scrap the whole thing and disable the feature. I'm starting on a year-long feature documentary project and this is going to create a bigger mess than if we just did it the old way.

Wish I could switch to Avid but the production has already started in Premiere...

Or maybe Adobe will actually update this feature so it's useful?

ulikunkel_autobahn

Inspiring

Having this EXACT same issue. Doing a feature film. Three workstations. Shared storage.

I have a hard time believing that we are the only ones with this problem given all of the big productions that are allegedly cutting in Premiere now.

I hope I am doing something that's causing this duplicate master clip issue in sub-projects so that I can fix it and get to work. But, if not, I will have to start from scratch and go back to cutting in Avid.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

You might be looking for Team Projects here. It's a paid service that I believe includes the kind of asset management you're looking for.

russellaugustAuthor

Inspiring

I've looked into Teams, and it's not quite what we're looking for. It requires a really odd Push/Pull sync system that may make sense for people far away from each other, but not for people working on a local shared storage system. We tested it in-house when it was first in beta and people would constantly forget to push and pull their cuts. It felt a lot harder than Avid's "just save it normally" system. The Project Locking seems like it mimics that system, which we like.

Although its possible we were misusing Teams... I'd be great if that were the case.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Take another look. It came out of beta with 2018.

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