Hello, I am an assistant editor on a feature documentary working together with two other assistants and an editor, all remotely.
Below I describe our setup and problem, but to be short: when editing multicam clips from a timeline in our multicam project into a timeline in an edit project, Productions creates new multicam clips in the edit project.
We are using Lucidlink to work remotely (it contains our projects and some media (e.g. sound effects (media that will be constantly updated during the editing) (separate from the project folder)).
Everyone working on the project has an exact replica of our master disk, everything links back without any issues. Also, all of these disks have the same name. Two of us are working on mac and one of us is working on windows. The editor will be working on mac.
To make everything run smoothly on our systems, we are working with Adobe Productions. We first started working in a normal project before we knew about Adobe Productions. We also had several projects for different footage that we later combined. Since we are still receiving new footage, some projects still have to be added.
Our Productions project is setup as follows:
- A folder containing multiple source projects for differents camera formats (containing all our prores proxies and wave audio files)
- A folder containing multiple multicam projects for different characters and situations (containing multicam clips created from the source footage and timelines for each "scene"with these multicam clips)
- A folder containing multiple edit projects with edit timelines (one per assistant for precuts, a precut project for the editor and an edit project for the editor)
These multicam clips were created when the project was still one big Premiere Pro project. Later, the project was added to the Productions project and divided across all the projects I mentioned above. All worked fine till we started precutting our multicam clips, which we do as such: we open a timeline with multicam clips from a multicam project (used as source timeline). We then open a timeline from an edit project (used as record timeline). Using pancake timelines, we copy a segment from the multicam timeline to the edit timeline (in-out, copy, paste).
When doing this, new multicam clips are created inside the edit project which contains the edit timeline. They are always inside of the same folder structure as they were in the multicam project.
Bringing the multicam clips over to the multicam project and consolidating works a charm, no problem with this at all. The main problem is that this seems to happen randomly to some clips and not to others. For us as assistants, it already makes our precut projects very cluttered. Ideally I would like to find a way to prevent this before the editor starts working in the project, as it would make working very unorganized for him.
A few weeks back I already tried to prevent this by dragging everything into one master project (which was inside Productions), and then divided everything back again. I am going to try this again when most of our footage is added to the project. In the meantime, since we are precutting and actively trying to deal with the issue, I wanted to see if anyone had any experience with this.
If anything is unclear, or you need extra information to understand our situation, please let me know. I look forward to hearing your ideas, experiences, thoughts, tips, etc. Thank you!
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