There are two "formats" or Premiere that are designed to work with collaborators. Team Projects and Productions.
Team is the older form, and is still usable for certain types of things. A user originates a TP, and then from the option from the menus, invites other participants via the email address they log into Adobe CC apps with. The TP communication between users is via the Adobe CC cloud. But ... the media files need to live "on" each user's machine.
There are some things that are different, especially in file management, from stand-alone Premiere projects, but it's not too difficult to get it sorted out. You probably will need to ask questions, and of course ... TEST everything!
The other, newer option is the Productions mode of Premiere, which was designed for large production work needs and remote users. You do need a way to 'share' the Production ... such as by using LucidLink. There are a number of things different about Productions working but it is spectacularly better for larger and more complex projects.
To start a Production you use the Premiere menu option for new Production. It creates an actual folder on disc, which you specify, and a .prodset file in that folder.
IN PREMIERE, the Production panel, you then add folders by right-clicking in the Production panel area, "create new folder", name it, and use the folders you create to organize your project. These will both be seen in the Production panel, and are real folders on disc.
Within the folders you right-click "create new Project" and use those new projects quite a bit like we normally use bins in stand-alone workflows. So a folder tree for Media to house the various media Project folders ... where you actually import media.
And ... in another folder tree, you have Sequence projects ... projects devoted to sequences. You have the production folder open, a Media project shown, select clips, drag onto a sequence open in the sequence project. and showing in the Program monitor.
No duplicates ... and it doesn't bog down with large projects and a lot of media.
I have worked in Productions for several years now, with our media and our Production files living on Amazon S3 servers in London. My partner is in Cape Town, SA, I'm in Oregon in the western US. He's all Mac, I'm all PC. He'll call to say he's uploaded something from Cape Town, I'll see that appearing in the 'virtual drive' LucidLink puts in the system, within seconds of his starting the upload. And can gothen to Premiere, and the import the media or AfterEffects mogrt or whatever in Premiere, dropping it onto a sequence ... starting playback ... and it isn't even finished uploading from Cape Town to London!
Seems like magic, but we've loved working in it. Or internet upload/download speeds are both above 300Mbps, with low latency. If needed, you can "pin" a file to local storage, but use it as if it was via the LucidLink 'drive'.
The Adobe documents linked below are the best docs they've ever produced on general use of Premiere, let alone the Productions information. Should be read by everyone even if you never use a production.
Premiere Pro Productions Introduction
Using Productions in Premiere Pro
Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide
Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam
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