Don't know where Premiere Pro is saving projects/Can't change where to save projects to

[maryp396681]

I am trying to save my Premiere Pro project in a certain folder on my computer; however, when I click "Save as," the file saves and then disappears. I have no idea where the project is located. I've tried using my explorer/finder tool and still no luck. I've check my Cloud files and nothing. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[R Neil Haugen]

It's all over the program.

In the lists of project in File/Open Recent Projects, each project is listed with the bread-crumb full-path listing.

Right-click anything in the Project panel, select "Reveal project in Explorer(Finder)", and it will navigate to the project file.

"File/Project/Scratch Disks" will show it.

In fact, if you've got the full header bar showing for PrPro, like mine is ... the full path for my current project is shown at the top on the window bar. There's the Pr icon, then "Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 - C:\Users\User\My Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\9.0\PrLappieTest 2017_1.prproj" ... the full location of the file currently open. Note, this is on my laptop, NOT on my regular editing machine. There, I store them in a specific drive and folder tree.

And when I click the File/Save-As, it pops up a dialog box asking me to select the spot to save it. A simple "Save" does as your comment says.

Neil

[maryp396681]

Thanks for the quick and thorough response, Neil.

I don't have a problem opening the project in the "Recent Projects" list when I first open Premiere Pro each time, but it doesn't help me locate the project as a file that I can copy/relocate on my desktop... or indicate where the project is located.

Unfortunately, I've tried all the things you've mentioned above. The closest I've gotten is an empty folder named after the project found in "C:\Users\User\My Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\ProjectName\"

When I click the File/Save-As, the dialog box only allows me to change the name of the project and add a description. It doesn't allow me to choose the spot or location to save the project.

Any further thoughts?

[Ann Bens]

Save project as usually.

Reboot

Open project and try again.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

The project isn't "in" a folder ... the project is in the XXX.prproj project file. That's it. So anytime you've navigated to that file, you've been to the project.

There are the cache files, and the Media Cache database file, but those are put in other locations, and dumped anytime you're having a problem with a project behaving wonky.

And if you can't save elsewhere, that sounds like a disc permissions issue. PrPro doesn't care as long as it's  1) on a (preferably) locally installed real drive and 2) in some folder not on the root of the drive.

Neil

[scoutg]

HI there! I'm new to premiere and am having trouble finding the sequence I just created. I saved the project and can open the .prproj file just fine, but when I go in the sequence I created is gone. Please help!

[R Neil Haugen]

Sequences show in the Project panel, but will have the name auto-assigned of the first clip put on them. So it's easy to mistake a clip and a sequence that have the same name. I always change the name of sequences so I know exactly what's on them.

In the project panel's icon view, the thumbs have little icons in the lower right corner ... you can see sequences by the icon there.

Note in this bit of project panel ...

The clip in upper left with a 1 on it in red ... has two icons: film-strip for indicating video stream included, and audio waveform indicating audio stream included. And note, there's a couple clips that show a thumb but indicate there's only audio available.

Now, look at the clip with a red 2 ... same name as the first clip, except there's no codec indicator on it ... and right under the 2, see that icon? That's to indicate this is a sequence not a clip.

But you can see how hard it is to tell at a glance, which is part of why I manually name all sequences.

Neil