Best practice for synchronising Premiere projects across two computers

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HelloI'm trying to figure out what best way is to synchronise a Premiere project across two workstations. I have an iMac and MacBook Pro and use the iMac when I'm in the office and MacBook Pro when travelling. I need to be able to edit on both of them. I'm a vlogger, so generally create a new sequence for each episode rather than a new project for each episode because a lot of the media I use is repeated (e.g. intro, outro, etc..). I've tried copying the whole project folder from one computer to the next but I've clearly hit a problem as when I recently tried to copy it across from my MacBook Pro to iMac, when I open it on the iMac it just hangs says "Media pending" and I get the spinning beachball of death indefinitely. I've contacted Adobe directly on their website and Twitter and not even received a response, which was disappointing. I've also searched on YouTube and not found any advice on what I'm trying to do. Any advice on best practice to synchronise projects across multiple workstations would be appreciated! Thanks,Nigel

jstrawn · Accepted Answer

There is no one best practice for that. I depends on your needs, your subscription level and your hardware.

The simplest method is to copy your project file(s) + media onto some kind of disk and move it to another computer. But that can get tricky if your media is spread out all over the place and not already in place on both systems. The existing Project Manager feature can help with that part if you wan to use this method.

If you have network storage, you can save things to that and open the project from any system and it should just work. Just be careful that multiple editors aren't saving different changes at the same time or anything like that. (This is the method I use for my own work, using a NAS that I maintain myself) Use this in conjunction with the new (12.0) Multiple Projects Open feature mentioned above and you will have some powerful collaboration options with no additional subscription required.

If you have a Team Project level subscription (or if you think the work you do warrants one) then by all means use Team Projects (aka Project Sharing). It will offer you the most robust features for collision detection, notation, merging or discarding incoming changes, media sharing and more so that you can easily collaborate across a team of several editors.

nigelivy · Answer

Thanks for the input guys. I'm meticulous with cataloguing and archiving my media, so there's no problem with it being all over the place. I use a NAS when I'm at the office, but it isn't really the solution I'm after as it needs to be mobile. I guess the best option is for me is going to be to manually copy the project files around when I need to be able to edit on the go.

However, it would appear that there's a problem with the latest version of Premiere on my iMac I upgraded to the new version of CC last week and haven't been able to use Premiere on the iMac since. I've tried several times to copy my project from my MacBook Pro and when I go to open it on the iMac, it just hangs and never responds. All the media for that project is either in a folder structure on the iMac that's identical to that of the MacBook Pro or on the same external HDD that the MacBook Pro was using.

It's not a resource issue as the iMac has 16gb of RAM and an SSD and was editing with Premiere perfectly before. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Premiere, but no luck. No error messages or anything, it just doesn't respond.

Any ideas?

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