Projects opening up on top of each other

[Lone Lobo]

I am running Windows 7 Professional. Upgraded to Premere Pro 2018. Now when I open a recent project from within a currently opened project, it jumbles both projects all together, throwing the sequences from both projects onto the timeline and horribly confusing all my folders and their contents and mixing them up completely.

Yikes!

CC2018 also unlinked multiple clips from most of my old sequences and reverted my hi-res version stock footage to their lo-rez trial versions (within the sequence/not on my drives), complete with watermarks. Whaa???

[Lone Lobo · Accepted solution]

I just got off the phone with technical support and was told this was a new feature to allow multiple projects to be open at the same time and was a requested feature.  Makes little sense to me as we already had ways to import and move items between projects with media browser and the potential for confusion in saving projects and versioning is immense.

Plus, there's no way to turn it off, so every time I want to switch between projects I am forced to exit the program entirely and start it again from scratch...just seems very weird to me.  Not an improvement at all.

[R Neil Haugen]

I don't find it difficult at all, though you need to be aware that just opening another project doesn't close the current one. It would be nice to have a switch for that, and I hope they add that.

Just go to the file menu and close the project you're working on, open the next ... no need to exit the program at all.

Neil

[Lone Lobo]

Ok, good to know. Tech told me to "close all" and that definately closes the program. I think most of my angst was from ignorance of what was going on.  Seemed like chaos to have everything open at once for my workflow. I will have to let it "settle in" to see if it's something I like or not...but having a switch to turn the feature on or off would seem reasonable.

[R Neil Haugen]

Yea, it catches a lot of people at first and can be a mess. Once you're used to it, it's actually quite useful.

But ... it's good to learn how to set your options for opening other bins & such in the Preferences folder. Makes it easier to keep things distinct.

Neil

[Kristian Gabriel]

The new feature to open multiple projects takes a bit of management but will be improved in future updates. The power of this has to do with the management of large-scale projects--like feature films or heavier episodic material. As you stated, we did have the ability to move items between projects by importing a project into other projects. This worked but was a little clunky because you had to bring/import entire sequences/projects into a project to transfer a single simple asset (depending on the asset). This had the potential of weighing down the program. Opening multiple projects simultaneously is actually cleaner and more efficient for file transfer. I completely understand--it is not perfect, there are parts of this that are rough--but we are headed to a much, much better place as this feature gets refined.