Any tips or tricks for assistant editing in Premiere Pro?

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September 27, 2019
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So here's the main question: Does anyone know of any weird hiccups I should look out for while assisting in PP or any random advice that you wish you knew before assisting?

Now for the reason I'm asking:

While I'm definitely more efficient in Avid Media Composer, I'm not a stranger to Premiere Pro as an editor. I work in a post house that is primarily an Avid house but we do get little side projects that are PP based and those always come to me since the other editors are entirely Avid editors.

As an assistant, that's a different story. We're bringing in an editor to work with us from a larger market who's used to having an assistant and they want me to help out. No biggie. I started my career in a bigger market as an assistant and, because of that, am also the only editor in house who has any knowledge of how assistants and editors work together. But it was all Avid based.

I know I'm overthinking this but here's my struggle: while I have Avid assisting knowledge and PP editing knowledge, I've never worked assisting a PP editor. We're going to be in separate rooms and I know PP and Avid handle two users in a project very differently, plus the way they handle media, etc.

Any and all thoughts are welcome.

Thanks!

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ahorne21

Participating Frequently

I would say one thing that comes up is merge vs multicamera when syncing. Use the create multicamera option when syncing. This is important because if you're completing turnovers to sound or color this keeps all metadata needed for others to complete their jobs. I think this is the most common issue people inquire about when assisting in Premiere.

troyw98734052Author

Participant

Thanks for the tip! Thankfully there aren't any scenes that we need to sync but I've always been curious about this so I'll make sure to stick this in my back pocket.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

There are two separate processes to be aware of, Team or Shared projects. I recommend using one of those over simply opening the project file on different rigs.

I'm guessing you're using shared storage in that facility so the Shared Projects process is probably the best choice. It allows for projects locking and sharing of work.

I've an article up on Mixinglight.com outside the paywall explaining the differences and a bit on how to use them.

https://mixinglight.com/color-tutorial/team-shared-projects-in-premiere-pro/

And another free article there and video on color management and setup in Premiere, as ... it's confusiong and not well covered (at least accurately) elsewhere. I spent hours with then-color engineer Francis Crossman to prep for that to make sure all the information is correct. For some of my questions, he had to go into the engineers notes as it had never been published, weird as that sounds.

https://mixinglight.com/color-tutorial/demystifying-premiere-pros-color-management-and-finishing-pipeline/

Past that, there are articles and tutorials on the Adobe help and information systems about them. Such as this article ...

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/collaborative-video-editing.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_PREMIEREPRO_1_1/learn-path:intermediate-advanced/set-header:ccx-designer/playlist:continuinged/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

One of the key things in Shared projects is each worker has a name ... and when they open a project, can lock parts they are working on. Others can at that time access that sequence, but only in read mode.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

troyw98734052Author

Participant

Thanks for all the resources! I've briefly skimmed them and they look very informative. At a glance it looks pretty straight forward and not too different from assisting in Avid but I might come back to pick your brain tomorrow as I dive deeper into these resources. Thanks again!

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