Is Teams still being supported?

Question

I’m as assistant editor responsible for setting up projects for the editors. We’re working on a show with 4 editors at once so we decided to try out Teams. We tested it first and it felt promising. Now we’re a day away from pic lock and Teams is failing us. It is going very slow, showing sequences as being edited that are not actually being edited, not allowing audio edits, and taking a very long time to export sequences. The most consistent advice I’ve seen is to slim down the project file, but I don’t see a way to even gage how large the file it.

The posts in this community are all about a year or more old and I’m wondering if I’ve really stepped in it setting my team up with Teams and then not being able to provide adequate support. We’ve had to dump sequences into standalone projects to get around sync issues and then have duplicate media. Remove duplicates has no effect.

What I’m really looking for is advice for a reasonable workflow for professional editors to continue to use Teams. We are unable to use Productions because we don’t have mounted / sharable storage. I understand we could still technically use it, but what we did like about Teams was the ability to immediately look at other editor’s sequences. Would anyone recommend switching to a Productions workflow without shared storage?

Thanks in advance for reading.

Kcaudill · Answer

Long story short, our workflow was heavily built around Team Projects, but we’ve abandoned them.

We’re hybrid, home and in-office, and have projects consisting of many ~5 minute videos to broadcast campaigns to longer docs. In every instance, Team Projects have let us down.

I feel Team Projects were most stable around 2020, but since then, every new update contains a new bug. We have a great setup, in that we should be a textbook example of Team Projects working flawlessly- We’ve got big server hosting four edit bays, we have a robust proxy workflow utilizing LucidLink for our work from home days and remote freelancers. We have several seasoned in house editors that understand the publishing workflow. We have an assistant editor who builds, ingests, and organizes all the projects.

This should be a recipe for success, but we’ve: run into sequences locking and going view only when nobody else is in the project. Solo buttons and audio settings not working. Endless sequence and multicam duplication loops. Premiere quietly not saving and losing hours of work. We’ve lost countless time staring at blue loading and publish bars. All the while, my patient editors have trusted me that eventually the project will load, or publish. We’ve had to convert Team Projects to local projects just to get work out the door. I’ve done endless experiments, posted, and followed forums trying to figure out a solution.

In the end, it’s been too embarrassing to try to keep using this product in a professional environment where time is of the essence, and editors, producers, directors and industry professionals won’t take excuses.

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