DISCUSS: Background Auto Save now in Premiere Pro (Beta)

This feature alone will make me and a lot of people leave premiere.

While I get the idea of background save, it does not solve the issue of "saving" your work.

The main issue is crashing and losing work. If the background save "waits" until you stop working, then youre going to have even more people losing work due to crashes. Premiere crashes more than any other app i've used, so I don't trust it to save my work in this manner.

The orginal thread HERE that requested this was asking for a "Live Save" feature. One that does not interupst and saves every click and every action. Like the Resolve feature. Whoever read that thread completely misunderstood what we were asking for. Or they did understand and just wanted to take the easy route...

Working in premiere is a constant anxiety attack because Im always worried it's going to crash and Im going to lose tons of work. So I don't feel inspired to do good work if it's just going to get lost anyways.

Give power to the user without making them feel distrust in the app. If i'm constantly thinking "Oh crap did I save my project?" then i'm not inspired to do my best.

Please give the original thread another look. I would hate for you guys to conitnue wasting your time on a feature that will create more issues and doesn't even address the reason why we want a new saving feature.

Occasionally Premiere just disappears from the screen - a sudden force quit. I can see in my projects folder that it was just attaempting a background auto-save. Most of the time the recovery file has been fine actually (telling by the filesize and by trying to use it) though this last time it was 0 KB. Win 10 Pro, Pr 23.2.0.32 Beta

Am I missing something here;

this keeps popup up.

Matt - my initial reaction after one day is very positive. It makes a big big difference to not have the auto-save pop up interupting all day. I would add my vote that it should show up bottom right or bottom left instead of just in the Progress window which I wouldn't normally have open. I have had it open for interest today and to see it saving during playback is very nice.

Of course a live save would be even better and you've said you have some people working on that so if that ever came that would be brilliant, but for the current Premiere format, this is a great solution. 

I thought we were not suppose to see the bar anymore and not interupting work? Or am i missing something.

For me, it's no quit working as it should. Instead of being able to continue work, I have to wait for the spinning wheel and window to close.

This is build 52.

Low cpu and gpu activity at this particular moment.

And I too use a lot of Warp Stabilizer.

Project file is 212 mb.

I have a question, but I can't run the beta to test this autosave feature...  I hope someone else can comment on this.

1) When using warp stabilize, the save process is dramatically affected by home much warp stabilize data is inside the project.  My concern with a background autosave is that if there is 5 min of saving time will that prevent the user from using the machine for that 5 min like a normal Ctrl-S does currently?

2) if its autosaving in the background once of these larger project files with warp stabilize data, if it doesn't lock out editing activity while its savings will the process cause stutters in the playback or other issues?

I'm sure loading the beta and trying it would answer these questions for me, and I will try and find some time in the near future.  I am however concnered about the feature when paired with how long a CTRL-S currently takes when you have 30+ min of timeline stabilized.

p.s.  CTRL-S saves seem to be faster in the last couple of versions already, not sure if they were working on it or if I am imagining it, but still no improvement with warp stabilize heavy data in the project.

I tested it out and seems to work well. I like it and just wanted to take a minute and say I appreciate you fixing some of these items people have been asking for, we are super happy that you guys listen 🙂 It would be nice to see a save progress bar flash in the bottom left-hand corner of Premiere next to the Adobe logo/sync settings. This would give us peace of mind that it IS in fact saving and can keep creating with the comfort that our project is being saved. It's a double-edged sword, having it in the background and not popping up is great, however, we need some subtle less obtrusive indicator that it is being saved. I think we have all had the instance where at some point, the auto-save didn't auto-save for some reason and having some indicator (without being required to have the progress panel open) would be beneficial. In the progress panel, on a small project, It does display in a blink of an eye so you can hardly see that it saved).

I think with it having the ability to be able to save on playback will never likely create an issue of not auto-saving (unless you are a speedy ninja editor that is constantly cutting without playing back often). I like the direction this is going and am just happy that this won't pop up randomly when I'm doing a screen recording (and of course interrupt my creative workflow with the loud apple sound when I try to click on something at the same time auto-save comes up). Good job guys!  

You were asking for feedback.  Yesterday, I lost quite a bit of work because autosave had not worked for 2 hours. PP crashed due to a BSOD related to the video driver. The auto save was set for 5 minute intervals, however, it did not work.

I wonder if there have been other similar reports of Auto Save not working correctly?

Thanks

This is great news Matt!  Thank you for implementing this.  It will now be feasible to decrease the time between autosaves to something lower than 5 minutes (I currently have it set to 15 mins to reduce interuptions), resulting in far less lost work when a fatal crash happens (which thankfully has been ever more rare as of late!)