How it works team project and it's possible to work with the footage on adobe cloude?

Question

Hi, i just download the new version of Premiere and i have not idea of how it works the collaborations with collegue in team project. Are there any tutorial? We want to work on the cloude cause we want are free to share all the projects and works everywhere we are.

Thanks a lot

Carola

R Neil Haugen · Answer

You have just taken the first step into a larger universe!

Although it can be a confusing one, for certain. Here's a few things about the Team Projects process, having used it for several years.

1) The Team Project (TP) project file itself 'lives' on Adobe's CC Cloud. Your media does not.

2) One person is the originator of the projects, all others are invited by the originator. It is good if their setup of that TP for media folder structure is the one that others follow on their local machine for folder structures et al.

3) In a TP, each member needs "local access" to the files. However, as long as the filenames are the same, and the basic organization of folders is the same, they can be proxy files. Much smaller files used for the editing process but not for exporting the final work out.

This makes it possible to have "hefty" video media in the project, but not place too huge demands on sharing via dropboxing files. It does mean the final export needs to be done from a machine with the original files present.

3) If using proxies as per above point, the originator or media source person, can convert the original files to H.264/265 heavily compressed formats for sending to the various team members. And if any team member's computer struggles with long-GOP format (H.264/5) file playback, they can transcode the H.264/5 to ProRes or Cineform for better playback. (You don't get the original files quality back, but you may get better local playback while editing.)

4) Trying to 'sync' original media files via Dropbox or WeTransfer folders may be problematic, as you should avoid having any such service constantly 'touching' the actual files on the local drive that you are working with. So copying/transporting via such services is ok, then copying to a non-dropbox local folder.

5) The one cloud storage/transfer solution I know that works for actual use of cloud-stored files is done using the LucidLink transfer service. It is not free, though not incredibly expensive either.

LucidLink is the only such service I know of where the needs of video workflows are the main consideration of the design of the service. And this his HUGELY important. L-L sets up "virtual" drives on your machine. And apps on your machine think they are simply accessing data from a local drive.

But the data is transferred in bits as needed by the video applications. Which is very different from how the bits are parsed by say Dropbox. Because Dropbox assumes that a) the file is simple data, like a word document or a spreadsheet, and the order it sends data is irrelevant; and 2), just grabbing random chunks as it's easiest to do for that file transfer software, and then moving them in random order, is fine.

That doesn't work for video processing with files stored on the cloud! And to do what I'll cover next, you really need at least 150Mbps sustained transfer speeds with low latency. Above 250Mbps is much better.

For example: I'm in western Oregon, USA, on a PC. My partner Mo is in Cape Town South Africa, and a TOTAL Mac geek. We are nearly exactly opposite each other on the planet. We use different operating systems, and we cannot be farther apart physically.

Mo calls me via WhatsApp, says he's uploading a file to our filespace storage, which is on an Amazon S3 server in London. Within a couple seconds I see that folder appear in my L-L virtual drive via Windows file manager service. A couple more seconds, individual files start to appear.

After those files start appearing, I can go into that TP (or Production) in Premiere, and in the Project panel or MediaBrowser, import them. And immediately drop them on a sequence! And start playback.

The files haven't finished uploading from Cape Town to London, but I'm getting playback in Oregon!

Which seems near magical, but it works.

I'm including some links to some Adobe docs on long-form/episodic work, which are good for really all users but especially if you're working in either Team Projects or Production mode with other team members.

Neil

Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide

Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam

Premiere Pro Productions Introduction

Using Productions in Premiere Pro

Productions Workflow for Long Form & Episodic PDF