Prefs & Settings - how thorough is CC's "Sync Settings"?

[ETorr]

Haven't used CC's Sync Settings yet.  How thorough is it?

If you're switching frequently between work stations, each with a different account, and you want as many settings as possible from your account,  are there prefs /  settings that are included / excluded?

• Project Settings
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Workspaces
• Sequence Presets
• Timeline Presets
• Metadata Display Presets
• Overlay Settings
• Effects Panel Presets

Others?

[kulpreet singh]

Hi ETorr,

The Sync Settings features give you the ability to upload settings files from your local computer to Creative Cloud and then download your settings from Creative Cloud to any other computer from within Premiere Pro.

The settings that can be synchronized in this way correspond to the entries in the Sync Settings category in the Preferences dialog box:

• Preferences/Settings
• Workspace Layouts
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Do let us know with a feature request if there are other settings that you’d like to see synchronized.

Check this: Sync settings with Adobe Creative Cloud

Thanks,

Kulpreet Singh

[ETorr]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/kulpreet+singh  wrote

Do let us know with a feature request if there are other settings that you’d like to see synchronized.

Check this: Sync settings with Adobe Creative Cloud

Thanks,

Kulpreet Singh

Feature requests coming soon, but basically the feature request would be "all of the above" to the extent reasonable.

Having just finished a project where we volleyed from work station to work station, drive to drive, and project to project in various permutations and combinations, we ran into workflow bottlenecks because of challenges with settings transferability.

Shy of the Settings being fully syncable through CC, here's what a little digging revealed.

It was all prepped for Mac.  No PC systems available at the time.

You can use the blue "Mac Paths" (after replacing [**MacUser**] with your actual Mac User) to make those Finder > Command-G friendly to help locate and move settings more systematically.

Settings Set	App Access	Mac Path	PC Path	Ext	Format
App Preferences	Premiere Pro CC > Preferences	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs		none	XML
Project Settings	File > Project Settings	[Project File]	[Project File]	prproj	XML
Keyboard Shortcuts	Premiere CC Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Mac		kys	XML
Workspaces	Window > Workspaces	TBD – travels, voyages with projectsCheck out ~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Layouts		xml	XML
Sequence Presets	File > New Sequence	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Settings/Custom/		sqpreset	XML
Timeline Customization	Timeline Panel > Track Patch/Activators > Context Click	N/A (not possible to save)		N/A	N/A
Metadata Display Presets	Bin Panel > Header > Context Menu Metadata Panel > Hamburger Menu > Metadata Display	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Metadata Preferences/		xml	XML
Overlay Settings	Source or Program Monitor Wrench Menu > Overlay settings	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Settings/Overlay Presets/		olp	XML
Video Audio FX Presets	Effects Panel > Presets	TBD (Saves with App) (Save any individual pref to a custom location) (So far unable to grab in batch)		TBD	Seems XML
Edit to Tape	Window > Edit To Tape	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Settings/Edit To Tape Presets/		prtape	XML
Source Patching Presets	TBD	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Settings/Source Patcher Presets/		sppreset	json
Track Height Presets	Timeline Panel > Wrench Menu > Save Preset / Mange Presets	~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[AppVersion]/Profile-[MacUser]/Settings/Track Height Presets/		thpreset	json
Customize Touch Bar	Premiere CC Pro > Customize Touch Bar	N/A (not possible to save) (minimally customizable)		N/A	N/A
Export Presets	File > Export > Media	~/Documents/Adobe/Adobe/Adobe Media Encoder/[AppVersion]/Presets/		epr	XML

[ETorr]

Posting at http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Central Management for Preferences/Settings presets

How would you like the feature to work?

Ability to centrally name, edit and manage all PPro settings & Preferences

Currently settings like "Sequence Presets" can only be created at the time of sequencer creation.

They can't easily be renamed or modified after the fact.

Of course you can always jerry-rig a management workflow by creating a new sequence and jockying to name as many presets as you want, but it's roundabout and awkward.

Alternatively you could rename the preset files at the OS level, but that requires finding those files, renaming those files, and matching the name to an internal line of XML.  You can even, with a but of cunning, edit the preset settings themselves.  But all that is both cumbersome, slow, and prone to errors.

What would make sense would be centralized presets management center -- on top of the existing "create in place" presets features currently in PPro -- that allow editors to systematically and comprehensively manage all available PPro settings.

This would include not only the App Prefs, Workspaces, and Keyboard Shortcuts, but also Workspaces, Sequence Presets, Timeline Presets, Metadata Display Presets, Overlay Settings, Effects Panel Presets, Video & Audio FX Presets, Edit to Tape, Source Patching, and Customize Touch Bar, and no doubt a few more.

Why is this feature important to you?

Workflow efficiencies.