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AtonMusic
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February 22, 2012
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Premiere Pro - Auto Save is Killing me

  • February 22, 2012
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I work with a lot of professional applications which have had auto save features included since a decade.

Those fine apps simply save everything in the background, the user senses nothing different going on.

I think that is the way - ANY Auto Save should behave.

In Premiere Pro

1) If the Auto Save starts while I am dragging a clip - I will loose the drag

2) If I am playing back a sequence, showing a client my work, if Auto Save kicks in, Playback stops

3) If I am entering a name into a clip and hit enter and Auto Save kicks in I loose the naming dialog.

Am I doing something wrong or is this feature simply just there to annoy the user ,-)

The feature works i.e. it does what it is supposed to do (Backing Up) but why on earth cant it do it in the background.

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      Go to Edit > Preferences > Auto Save > Uncheck "Automatically save projects.

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      petergaraway
      Adobe Employee
      petergaraway
      Adobe Employee
      July 16, 2012

      Hi AtonMusic and everyone else,

      Sorry for the frustration. We're working on this and hope to have it resolved in a future release.

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      RolandMABrown
      Participant
      September 14, 2012

      Hi I'm new to Premiere Pro (and video editing) and had also wondered why Pr brings itself to the front every time it autosaves - hope you can sort that.

      Much more annoyingly though, I have been working on a project all last evening and today, watching autosave back up my work every 15 minutes, and assuming I'm safe - that's what autosave does, right?

      My Mac just crashed, which shouldn't have been a problem because I'd have had a maximum of 15 minutes' work to redo... except that when I checked the ten autosaved files, there is none from the last few hours!?!

      The sixth file is the most recent (and the largest file size), but was last saved about five hours ago. Everything I have added since then seems to have been lost.

      Am I missing something here? I've been watching the autosave bar go across the screen so I know it was saving the project, so why can't I find the up-to-date files? Surely, unless I'm going crazy and have missed something, 1) the autosave function is worse than useless — if it didn't exist, I'd have save the project manually every so often, as I do with other software; and b) presumably thousands of other Premiere users would have experienced the same problem when their computers crashed?

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      Shadreck Rukweza
      Participating Frequently
      September 14, 2012

      I would recommend manual saving as well as auto save everytime you edit. Good luck!!

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      RedCoyote12
      Participating Frequently
      July 16, 2012

      "If I am playing back a sequence, showing a client my work, if Auto Save kicks in, Playback stops"

      This problem has to be fixed! I'm tired of explaining to clients what happened when their video suddenly stops.

        Jeff Bellune
        Jeff Bellune
        Legend
        July 16, 2012

        RedCoyote12 wrote:

        "If I am playing back a sequence, showing a client my work, if Auto Save kicks in, Playback stops"

        This problem has to be fixed! I'm tired of explaining to clients what happened when their video suddenly stops.

        Continuing playback during Auto Save would make a fine feature request.  Please add your voice if you haven't:

        Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

        Until that feature is implemented, you can solve this problem completely by going to Edit | Preferences | Auto Save and deselecting "Automatically save projects" just before the client arrives.  Once the client leaves, go back and re-select that option.  While the client is there, you can manually Save the project, or increment the project version with a Save As to protect any work done with the client.

        Jeff

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        RedCoyote12
        Participating Frequently
        July 16, 2012

        Thanks for the reply. I agree that is an option, however to me it seems like a needless burden for an editor, plus I'd be worried I'd forget to turn it back on. I just think for a professional application, this shouldn't be an issue.

        I appreciate your help, however, and thank you for listening. I'm a big fan of Premiere Pro and I am encouraging my colleagues to make the switch from FCP.

        Jeffrey Parsons

        www.parsonspost.com

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          Shadreck Rukweza
          Participating Frequently
          February 23, 2012

          I think you are right guys Premiere Pro autosave should run in the BG rather than interferring with the edit. For instance if you have a project size of over 500mb it may take ages for PrPro to write the autosave file.

          Feature Request....

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            Viktor Devjatov
            Known Participant
            July 3, 2012

            I will double that! Autosave sometimes takes up to 15 seconds. And since Premiere can crash sometimes, that would be nice to have an option to make it a background process.

            Just like in AVID.

              the_wine_snob
              the_wine_snob
              Inspiring
              February 22, 2012

              AutoSave does the Save for how things ARE at that point, and not what might be in the process of being done. It CAN be an annoyance at times, however, depending on what is being done.

              You probably know that you can adjust the timing of AutoSave from Edit>Preferences, as well as the number of AutoSave files generated.

              If you have a good habit of doing Saves, and Save_As operations, you might want to alter the timing to suit.

              Good luck,

              Hunt

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              AtonMusicAuthor
              Known Participant
              February 22, 2012

              Bill Hunt wrote:

              AutoSave does the Save for how things ARE at that point, and not what might be in the process of being done. It CAN be an annoyance at times, however, depending on what is being done.

              You probably know that you can adjust the timing of AutoSave from Edit>Preferences, as well as the number of AutoSave files generated.

              If you have a good habit of doing Saves, and Save_As operations, you might want to alter the timing to suit.

              Good luck,

              Hunt

              If only they would kill that stupid dialog coming and refrain from halting playback or whatever the user is currently doing, it would NOT be so annoying.

              I use a software a lot, it is called AVID ProTools and the software is being programmed by people who actually use the code they write... Therefor, they know what is good and what not....

              I WISH I would say the same about the Premiere Crew... Love the Software but I seriously doubt its programmers (aside from Ubilos who conceived it) EVER use it for Professional Work ;-)

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                steve1.3
                Participating Frequently
                February 22, 2012

                "If only they would kill that stupid dialog coming and refrain from halting playback or whatever the user is currently doing, it would NOT be so annoying."

                I agree. Autosave should definitely be a non-interfering background process. Other programs can do it this way, why not PPro? Even an older NLE from several years ago that I used to use, Pinnacle Liquid, did continuous background autosave without interfering. A non-interfering background autosave would be a great product suggestion but I wouldn't be surprised to learn it's already been suggested hundreds of times.

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                  cvid01
                  Inspiring
                  February 22, 2012

                  With fast computers, autosave does not interfere too much. But you can always turn autosave off. Just remember to save your project from time to time as you are working.

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                  AtonMusicAuthor
                  Known Participant
                  February 22, 2012

                  cvid01 wrote:

                  With fast computers, autosave does not interfere too much. But you can always turn autosave off. Just remember to save your project from time to time as you are working.

                  I have a 16 Core, 32GB 2.2GHZ Mac Pro... If that is not fast enough for autosaving, I dont know what is...

                  As I said, been using adequately-Programmed AutoSavers in many other apps since a decade and never had issues...

                  And NEVER saw an AUTOSAVE dialog appear while saving... Who cares about that dialog.... After setting the preferences to save every 10 minutes...

                  Would be the same as if each time you hit play, premiere would halt and put up a seriously SLOW dialog stating.. Premiere Will Now Commence With Playback !

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