Linked Team Projects

Report · Mar 19, 2021

I am worked as an AE on a feature documentary. We are using Team Projects to collaborate remotely.

As our project assets have grown and timelines have become more complex, our project load and share changes time has sky rocketed, and we are experiencing more frequent crashes.

I am troubleshooting this issue, and am interested in exploring creating Linked Team Projects: https://helpx.adobe.com/team-projects/using/create-a-team-project.html#Creatingalinkedteamproject

I have been struggling to find further documentation about this workflow beyond this brief mention, and am wondering if anyone has further experience to offer or can point me in the right direction to learn more.

Or, if there are other solutions you would consider? We are using proxies, and generally working off of 10 minute timelines.

System Specs:

MacOS Catalina

Version 10.15.7

3 GHz 6-core Intel Core i5

40GB memory

Radeon Pro 570X 4GB

Premiere Pro 14.4

Report · Mar 22, 2021

Hi,

In a nutshell, a 'Linked Team Project' is just another Team Project but one with a link-reference from within the main/master project for quick access.

After you open a Team Project, Premiere continually validates all of the media files in the background, while you work. When a media file comes online, it also checks any sequences that use that media file to see if they might have been affected by a change to the media file, this operation can take some time depending on number of assets and complexity of the sequences. E.g. Lumetri effects, warp stabilizer add quite a bit of data to the sequence which makes it time-consuming to scan for changes.

People had great success by creating smaller (linked) Team Projects for editing and pulling in only the required media and then merge their edits/changes back into the master project.

You may also want to consider updating to a newer version, a number of performance and stability improvements have been added since 14.4.

Best, Udo

Udo Pawlik | Sr Software Product Quality Specialist | Adobe | upawlik@adobe.com

Report · Apr 01, 2021

Hi Udo,

Thanks for your response! Do you have any advice (or any online tutorials that you could point me to) about how to break up a current Team Project into smaller linked Team Projects? I do not find the process of moving forward with splitting up an already existing project to be particularly intuitive, and have not been able find any mentions of this online (let alone step-by-step tutorials).

Thanks, in advance, for your guidance!

Report · Jan 16, 2023

Dear Udo, we are in the exact same position today (January 16, 2023) as you were on March 19, 2021. I just ended a chat with the adobe team who informed me that there is no other information available other than the same basic link you listed. All the tutorials on Team Projects are out-dated.

By chance, have you and your team come up with a great workflow using Linked Team Prejects that you can share?

Report · Jan 17, 2023

Hi,
We don't have a best practices document regarding Linked Team Project usage. How to split a large Team Project into Linked Team Projects is largely up to the user and depending on what is being edited (e.g. Episodic, long-form documentary) and the number of collaborators. You could split the Team Project into scenes, episodes, timeframes, per editor, etc... - You may want to just give it a try and see what works for your team.

Best, Udo

Udo Pawlik | Sr Software Product Quality Specialist | Adobe | upawlik@adobe.com

Report · May 01, 2023

How do you re-merge the projects? I am trying to keep a separate proejct for all GFX but I can't seem to drag in AEP comps from the GFX project into the main project. You can seemingly move seqeunces back and forth, but if the sequence has a .AEP on it then it locks you out.

Report · Jun 15, 2023

I am having exactly the same issue here. From my perspective, both Linked Team Projects and Productions seems to offer the ability to 'split the compexity into smaller pieces' however I am struggling to see how either of these are significantly different than just having several completely separate Team Projects.

A key bottleneck with Team Projects is that when you open the Team Project in After Effects, and if you have say 300 video clips, it can take a long time and basically freezes your computer - and there's no need for After Effects to see such a large amount of footage. So, I am trying to create one team project with AE graphics, and another with PR timelines and the footage, but I can't add AE clips to the PR timelines. Of course, with Team Projects, you can't add standard offline AE projects.