Production Folder Structures

Question

Hey Folks

How are people organising their folder structures on disk versus their bin structures inside the production? What is the best practice?

eg
If I have this on disk /path/to/production
01_cuts
02_rushes
03_audio

04_gfx
etc etc

But I also want to mirror this inside the production

01_cuts
02_rushes
03_audio

04_gfx

Do I create the production here? /path/to/production
Or should I put it here? /path/to/production/00_production for example

When I do it the first way, I end with media in the directory eg audio, but also project files mixed in, eg audio/music, audio/vo, etc
But if I have it in the 00_production directory, I'm doubling up on the folders on disk.

Any thoughts? suggestions?

mattchristensen · Accepted Answer

@Imkindofabigdeal one of the most powerful uses of a production is to have it in a shared network location, and then have multiple editors working inside it at the same time. For that to work (within the limitations of the Premiere Pro project format), it has to be a folder. This way multiple editors can open the projects inside. If it were zipped up, that wouldn't be possible.

Also, the flexibility of being able to direclty add or remove projects from the production outside of Premiere Pro is appreciated by many editorial teams, which is another benefit of it being a folder.

If you want to duplicate a project in the production, it's best to do it inside the Production panel. Right click the project > Make a copy. That will avoid any duplicate project warning.

mattchristensen · Answer

@Imkindofabigdeal You want to avoid the first way, exactly like you mentioned because then media files are inside the production folder. Premiere Pro expects to have full control over what is placed in the production folder, so you should never put any other files inside the production folder.

Think of the production folder as analogous to the .prproj file, if you were working in a single project. When you're organizing stuff out on disk, in Finder or Explorer, treat the Production folder like one single unit, like your project file would be, and organize it like that.

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