Production workflow with off-site editor

Question

I work at a documentary company where the editor is off-site.

I enjoyed Karl Soule's videos about Productions and had a question that arose from his seventh video, "007 Troubleshooting tips for Premiere Productions - Duplicate IDs":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy_aW-9V6U4&list=PLQffqHOsF2KZk6kWPWqYJ3mAdoTAJp3w5&index=7

Let's say I create a Production and ship it to the editor on an SSD drive. Then, we have a new day of footage, for which I create a new project in my Production and ingest the footage into it Let's say I name the project "DAY12_250223".

If I upload the project to LucidLink and the editor downloads it onto his SSD, would the proper workflow be for him to, within his Production, "Import Project"? Would his Production be giving this project a different ID than it has in my Production?

If he uses clips from the "DAY12_250223" project in a sequences and shares the sequence with me, when I open the sequence in my Production, will Premiere be confused if his Production has a different ID for the "DAY12_250223" project than my Production has for it?

mattchristensen · Accepted Answer

The Production panel is listening for changes to the Production folder on disk. If you manually drop a .prproj in there, it will show up in the Production panel. This is a perfectly fine way to add a project to your Production. We created "Add Project to Production" mainly for projects that are coming from outside the production that you want to incorporate. For that you should use Add Project to Production. But in your case, you are really just manually syncing, in a way. So there's no need to use that command, just drop it directly in the folder.

The key here is to just make sure when creating this new project on your end, always create a brand new project. Don't duplicate an existing one. This will avoid any issues with Duplicate IDs.

mattchristensen · Answer

@KazuTa If you both are working with non-syncing Productions, meaning you have your own cloned copies then when you share a new project to the other person, they should just drop it directly into their Production folder. There's no need to use the Add Project to Production in this strict example.

However, if you host the Production on LucidLink directly, then you both are looking at the same Production, and there's no need to send the project at all. The other editor will see your project as soon as you make it.

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