I agree about the grabbing part. Hear you, that's my dilemma. I guess I can just try to not have more than one project open at a time in Premiere. As if I do it would be easy to muck things up.
Attached is a screenshot of my current setup in Premiere and my folder structure. I only have one project open, but if I open more than one at a time The bin and timeline tabs become...mixed. which is a bad (and easy) scenario to run into. I guess that's kind of my dilmemma/question, you know? Like, the ability to open multiple pproj files in this manner is like wading into a swamp.
But as you can see in my folder structure, I have one file for each stage assembly/rough/fine etc. Do editors just make sure never to have more than one project open at a time in their own fashion or is there a different approach? I would think making one master file for all stages would be a tight rope if the file became corrupt for some reason. There is auto-save but I like to segment my process for this reason.
I hope that makes sense. I guess for now I can just be very careful not to open more than one project at a time.
The working process for Premiere has always been to have one project per project, really. I've seen project panels that had 50 bins of stuff, but all organized by what they were.
Think about it ... sequences are nothing but metadata, right? And Premiere needs to have that meta to work. So ... you drag something from one project to a sequence in another project, Premiere has to add that media to that second project or it has no working 'reference' to the media. It can't access information from a different project.
So ... you get duplications of assets building up, no idea where what actually comes from, and closing down the project is a total mess. Stuff splattered everywhere to heck and gone.
So yes, running ONE project, which is very different than an Ae Vx person running carefully no more than say 3 comps per Ae file.
The other, newer option in Premiere is Productions mode. I'll include their actually pretty good doc links. Production mode is completely a different beast, but pretty awesome.
You create a New Production, Premiere creates the Production folder ... and honest to gosh live folder on disc! Then in that Production panel/folder, you right-click and create subfolders for however you want your project organized. Say ... Media, then under that, Day 1, Day 2 ... then Audio, Sequences, or whatever.
And in those named folders, you now right-click, create projects. The project files are actually used like bins in the old 'stand-alone' workflow. So you have a project doing nothing but "holding" Day 1 media, one for Day 2, another in the Sequences folder for Sequences ... see?
Within a Production, Premiere can track assets from other project files, and this is the way that all 'big' long-form and episodic work is now handled in Premiere. It doesn't bog down like massive single project file projects will.
Premiere Pro Productions Introduction
Using Productions in Premiere Pro
Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide
Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam
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