team project, not with after effects

Team projects....no after effects?

What the heck? That would have been good to know. I'm Very disappointed in team projects overall.

When I first saw team projects, I made assumptions and became excited, thinking it worked like google docs. But sadly, no.

Basically, team projects saves you from saving a file, and sending it to your coworker. That's all. That's all it saves you from. But it Also comes with headaches like, not being able to use after effects files in premiere, because it blocked adobe dynamic link. So working with you animated title guy (who may very well be yourself)? Dream on. Now they'll have to render each thing out, probably in a file format that accepts alpha, which are big, and then import them into the team project.

Want to work on one timeline as a group? Well, better sit over eachother's shoulder then. You can only work on different timelines.

So if your project happens to be split up into several groups, then for You it might work out well. One person can make some changes to the beginning while another edits segments from the end, So long as each part is nested into the main timeline.

This is a start, but I recommend you don't go using it yet. Already started? That stinks, me too. But you can still save your file away. It's just not where you would expect it. Not at all. My first thought was, hey, I'll just do a save as, and get my own file. Well, no, that's grayed out. So it must be in the team project settings right? No, it's not in there.

You have to go to Edit > Team Project > Convert Team Project to Project.

For now, team project doesn't have much use. Play with it, see what it can do. But most of us don't really have time to put in to just trying something out without throwing yourself into it. I wish I knew you could really work together.

My workflow Should be, ingest some files as a team project inside of Prelude. Yay, we're all done. Now send them to Premiere. Well, you can't do that yet. Just FYI. Send to Premiere is grayed out. Although, I did realize that as long as you don't have to go back to prelude, you can just open everything all at once and get basically the same thing.

So then I would start editing there. Found a place where I need AfterEffect, that usually happens quickly because you can't really do much more than basic cuts and color adjustments in premiere. That's where I would normally create a connection to AfterEffects and start sending things over from there. I could start one piece, tell my coworker to complete that task in AE, and when he's done it'll just show up in my Premiere file.

That is Literally what I do now. And collaboratively. But with Team projects, you CANT! So they actually went backward.

Honestly, I'd still like the software to be combined, just switching between timeline modes from AE to Premeire in some sort of hybrid stack. Then make the whole thing collaborative so the only thing I can't do is touch the exact same area of a clip. They could be adjusting a the color grading, while I adjust the length, speed, whatever. As long as we aren't on the Same setting, no problem. Then just leave an indicator of where someone else is.

If that ever happens, it'll be a while. In the meantime, just keep to your current workflow.