I know this is a common issue many have experienced with Premiere, but I figured I would throw this out there in case someone knows a workaround/solution or can spot a step that's missing in our current workflow.
So to be brief, I'm working on a project with two other editors. We want to be able to pass sequences back and forth without getting a ton of duplicate clips in the bin.
At the beginning of the project, after the shoot, I enabled "write XMP ID to files on import" and imported ALL of the media for this project. I verified that XMP had been written to the files by looking at the date modified property in the Finder. I then cloned this XMP-enhanced media to our file server, from which both editors pulled down a copy of all the media to their local editing drives.
Additionally, each editor made a duplicate of my ingest project (the one I used to write the XMP data) and used that as the starting point for their own edit.
Meanwhile, in my master project, I started working on color correction for the several days' worth of footage we shot. I did this by applying the correction at the Master Clip Effect level. The idea is that an editor finishes a draft, I import their sequence through the Media Browser, and their sequence references the same XMP-enabled media on my machine which then gets the color correction applied to it upon import.
Except it isn't. Instead I am getting duplicates of ALL the media used in a particular edit, and none of it has my grades applied.
So that means if we want to have color correction applied as we go along through revisions (for the client to review), I have to sit there and copy/paste hundreds of filters tediously onto every shot. When the editors change something on their end, I have to start all over again.
I am now instead going to copy/paste all of my grading adjustments onto an Adjustment Layer with cuts that mirror each shot's duration. I will have to make some tweaks to the layer as things change in the editing but I think ultimately this will be a less tedious way of working than the alternative.
But seriously - did we leave out a step? Is it because I'm applying effects to the Master Clip and Premiere is now seeing these as separate media? If so... why? Who does this help? Why would anyone want hundreds or thousands of duplicate clips in their project bin, and why would they not want to be able to have Master Clip Effects ripple out across iterations of an edit? Is there no way to simply have Premiere recognize the XMP id is the same for two clips and not duplicate them?
Very frustrated and on a deadline. Really appreciate any workarounds to address this.
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