Reusing a common Project in Adobe Premiere Pro

[@PatDevlin407]

You could not imagine how surprised I was to hear my name when I loaded this week’s video!!! I have made a common project full of bumps, lowers, music and other graphic elements. I import the project into a single folder structure and I’m ready to finish my show. This process works great since I’m working on a multi episode series. Thanks again Colin! You’re the greatest!

[@VideoRevealed]

And thanks for the tutorial suggestion Patrick!

[@dougbuseck8268]

Thanks, Colin! Once again you are a life-saver. I'm quickly finishing some projects for the holidays. A former Vegas user where this function was done differently. Thanks for help here and in your other videos. You rule!

[@user-ep7cz6yt3t]

2:31 Hey! It's our ukrainian goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov )) Thanks for the tutorial )

[@lifeofjunaid]

Very helpful! Thank you for taking the time to make this video!

[@ahmeddikkoyl]

So it's that simple.I'm grateful

[@AkornzStash]

Thanks so Much!

[@kvleditorial6208]

One thing that should be noted is that the media files don't copy over when importing. They still point to wherever you have the common project media located.

[@kbcitv2316]

Thanks Colin, been waiting on this.

[@VideoRevealed]

I hope you liked it.

[@ghastwriter]

Your tutorials are so awesome!!

[@VideoRevealed]

Thank you so much!

[@mauamolat]

What if the sequence is in different resolution, like HD and 4K?

[@dianaavila9744]

Great tutorial! Thanks for the info. Quick question, I’m an assistant editor , sometimes while I organize some footage my editor starts putting together some of the material we both get. What he usually does is to copy the bins of my project ( the organized material) and he adds them to his project, he also erase the unorganized files of his project so he doesn’t have any duplicates and just keeps the sequences he already worked on . He doesn’t want duplicates files. Is this method safer to unify both of our projects? Or is just going to duplicate our import files? What is the best choice you could recommend me for my workflow. I love your channel it helps me a lot,!

[@marcgothic]

Thanks so much Colin

[@VideoRevealed]

Any time Marc.

[@vasilissimeonidisofficial]

Thanks again!!!

[@VideoRevealed]

Any time!

[@mehransajjadiyan6685]

Thank you for the the video. But I think I will keep on making a copy of the project and working on that. seems more safe. :D

[@VideoRevealed]

Ok.

[@LensVid]

Thanks, Colin - maybe it's time that Adobe will add templates to PP - I believe this is something that many users will want and it will negate all this cumbersome workflow. Maybe we need to post this as a suggestion on the Adobe page (I would guess it might already be there).

[@woodenbeast9337]

Yes I agree

[@VideoRevealed]

Sure, there's a menu command in the application to tell Adobe what features you want. I've been asking for Templates for about 20 years so maybe one day.

[@VideoRevealed]

Me too.

[@robertdavidson7242]

On an Apple Mac computer you can make a project a "Stationery pad" (like a template), and open it as an Untitled project (a copy). On a PC I think you can make a project "Read Only" and that will do the same?

[@VideoRevealed]

This method is safer and not tied to the OS.

[@robertdavidson7242]

@@VideoRevealed OK

[@NativitySLO]

Thanks for this. Why not just open an existing project with all its content and just do a "save as-new file name" for repeating projects? Does that not have the same result?

[@VideoRevealed]

I know from experience you will get distracted, forget you opened the precious Project, change something, then save and realize your error. I've done that dozens of times over the years. Importing protects the original Project.

[@jbairdexp]

Great video as always Colin. I've used a PP template for many years to create my videos. Such a time saver as I have all my bins, common assets, etc, all there ready to go. However, I just copy the folder containing the template project and go from there. Is it a case of just doing what works for you, or would there be an advantage to doing the import process?

[@VideoRevealed]

To me the advantage is there is zero percent chance of changing the Project I'm importing from. Plus, I don't have to rename and/or move any files on my drive.

[@jbairdexp]

@@VideoRevealed Thanks and fair point. Even if I properly copy the template folder, I still have the problem with PP using absolute file paths rather than relative file paths (a behaviour I wish they'd change or provide an option to change).

[@TechTrainTracks]

Sorry. But the new project creation method is just a mess. Even the Colin the Premiere Guru has issues with it.

[@VideoRevealed]

Well, this is a demo file I created on the fly. I forgot where I put it, yes that's my fault. In my show where I have my template that I work with and know were every thing is, I don't have this problem. Either way, it's a good workflow, if you have a better one, I'd love to know what it is.

[@TechTrainTracks]

@@VideoRevealed Colin: Sorry I wasn’t more clear. My comment was not on your template method - much appreciate that tutorial. The issue I was commenting on was the new project creation change and import of assets. The new methods are messy. The original project creation and file import was so simple and clean. Appreciate all your years of Sunday training as well as the many conversations we had at NAB when you were still w Adobe. Thank you for all you do for this community!