Premiere Productions. Can two editors, with two mirrored drives, work on the same production file?

[Al Yonder]

Hi,

Wondering if anyone has had any success with two editor working on the same production file using local mirrored drives?

Have a sprawling documentary that has recently moved across to Productions and wondering if there's a way to host the production file in the cloud so that we can work off it at the same time, whilst all the media lives on two mirrored local drives in each location?

Any thoughts, or steers, hugely appreciated!

Thanks

Al

[R Neil Haugen]

I've done quite a bit using a Production with the Prod and media/assets on an Amazon S3 in London, with my partner in Cape Town SA, me in Oregon. All done via a LucidLink transport process ... which sets up "virtual" local drives on the computer, so the OS and any apps "see" the data as being just another local drive.

But again, the media storage was also 'shared' online.  So I'm also curious if this would work.

@mattchristensen  ... any thoughts or wisdom to add?

[Al Yonder]

Thnaks Neil,

Appreciate the response.

Yes, it's how the local mirrored drives would work that I can't get my head around.

I had a call scheduled with Lucid Link today to see if they could offer any help. But they didn't call in the end - which was a little frustrating.

In a worst case scenario I'm wondering if I created two seperate Premiere projects - for editor 1 and editor 2 - within the Production folder.

Then duplicated that Pr Production folder, with the two Pr Projects - for editor 1 and 2 - inside. 

And then we sent those Pr Projects back and forth to each other. Replacing the earlier Project files in the two mirrored Production structures.

Having said that, as I'm fairly new to Productions I'm at little loathe to tinker around with the structure. Not to mention that I'm guessing it would still mean having to relink media for each of editor Projects every time it was updated.

If Matt @mattchristensen has any wisdom to add that would be hugely welcome.

Thanks again Neil.

Al

[mattchristensen]

@Al Yonder Yes, you can work with this way. At the end of the day all Premiere Pro cares about with regards to media linking is the file path. As long as you and I have mirrored drives, with the same drive name (or letter on Windows), it will work. So Editor 1 can build out the media drive, clone it, and give it to Editor 2. Then you can put the Production folder in a cloud location and each editor is using their local media but a "cloud" Production.

You can try this using Dropbox or Google Drive or something like that, but be warned if both or many editors work in the Production at the same time you may have issues from time to time, as these services run in the background and aren't always the quickest at updating the Production as each editor makes changes. For this reason we often recommend something like LucidLink which is very fast at updating the small changes in the Production (media can still be on the local cloned drives). 

Hope that helps!

[R Neil Haugen]

Thanks Matt, that is so useful to know!

[Al Yonder]

And big thanks for your help with this as well Neil. 

Really appreciated. 

Al

[Al Yonder]

Wonderful!

Thanks Matt, that's exactly the way I was hoping it would work, but just couldn't find anywhere that covered it. 

 You've just halved my current stress levels by at least half with that response 😉

Really appreciated. 

Have a great evening - or day depending on time zone.

Al