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Roei Tzoref
Brainiac
January 24, 2023
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increment and save for Premiere

  • January 24, 2023
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allow an increment and save feature in Premiere same as Ae. this way you can easily create incremental versions of your project in cast you want to go back and auto save is not enough. this will solve the workaround of "save as" and adding _number.

15 replies

New Participant
January 24, 2023
Roei is right about this. Increment and Save is a big time saver in AE.

Creative work is about flow, and being able to secure your work in a matter of seconds without diversion or distraction is a great workflow boon. No combination of autosave or Save As is as effective.
Roei Tzoref
Brainiac
January 24, 2023
thanks again Fran. yes I am aware I can save as. this feature exists in Ae and it's a huge timesaver and lifesaver. and in Ae you can also "save as" but there's a command that does all that automatically so you wont have to do 3 things:
1. save as
2. change the name to _2.3.4.5 etc. (this can take a few seconds)
3. save
doing that 30 times a session that's minutes of my time. another example is C4D that also has incremental save. again, you could save as - it will just be longer. please consider this.
Adobe Employee
January 24, 2023
Hi Roei,

Incremental Saving is basically an automated Save As function. I can see it is faster, but not sure if there is a great benefit out of it.

Just by pressing Shift+Cmd+S, it will open the save as dialog, and you will be able to save an increment by hand.

Premiere also has "Save a Copy", which will save the current status in a backup copy and will let you work in the current project.
Roei Tzoref
Brainiac
January 24, 2023
Hello Fran thanks for reaching out. as I wrote in my request - auto save is not enough. After Effects has both auto-save and incremental saving (as do some other software) for more control over saving.
Adobe Employee
January 24, 2023
Hi,

Premiere Pro creates increment projects when auto saving like After Effects. You have to go to Premiere Pro --> Preferences --> Auto Save, and modify "Maximum Project Versions".

You can even have a backup project in the Creative Cloud.

Let me know if this is what you are looking for.

Thanks,
Fran