How to work on same project from 2 different locations...

How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Allard DePallerd on Aug 14, 2016 at 6:52:20 pm

Hi, I have the newest Premiere running from Windows 10. I have this video project that im working on. I have a PC at my work..and a laptop at home. The main movies files are at my PC at work. However. I would like to work on the project from my laptop at home aswell... (doing the initial edit e.g.). I was thinking.. what is the best way to do this? make proxies and put them in creative cloud and the project file aswell? But i cant seem to get that to work properly

so my question is.. whats the best way to work on the same project from 2 different locations... Without just putting everything on a external harddrive...

thanks!

Re: How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Alex Udell on Aug 14, 2016 at 9:12:04 pm

Hi,

If you are willing to deal with the sync time of the internet....

dropbox can deal with this....

As I suppose the adobe cloud storage could....

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Re: How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Allard DePallerd on Aug 15, 2016 at 8:38:04 am

Thank you for your answer

So there's no way to do this with proxies then? Have to proxies on dropbox or creative cloud..do the edit with the proxies on whichever location..and when its done.. connect it to the real files that are on my desktop (on a local folder, not in the cloud...?)

thanks!

Re: How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Alex Udell on Aug 15, 2016 at 2:08:23 pm

Hi....

I suppose you could....

you just need to specify that the proxy directory is separate from your full res directory.... and the full res directory is outside of any directory being synced by Dropbox or Adobe CC...

I'm not using the proxy workflow yet....so I can't give you step by step....

and I don't know what happens with Proxies when paths change from system to system....

it might be easiest (although a little bit cluttery) that you PPro Project and proxy media actually reside in the SAME directory...

that way PPro should autodetect the files even when the paths change when moving back and forth from machine to machine...

but it would seem some testing would be in order to develop a bulletproof workflow...

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Re: How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Alan Lloyd on Aug 16, 2016 at 11:23:09 pm

I have had occasion to work on files both here and on the road.

One thing I did is to set up the data drives on both machines so all the paths are the same. (I have a nice laptop with two physical drives for that very reason.) Using an external purely as a "bucket" I can preserve paths and edit either here or...Arizona, California, Missouri, the Denver airport - you get the picture.

Once your session at home is done, save it all back to the external to preserve the project and update the directory at work.

I don't think a Team Viewer approach would be very pleasant, though it would work in a pinch. I even know a guy who did that using the old "remote desktop" in the Windows XP days.

That way everything will track nicely.

Re: How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Allard DePallerd on Aug 17, 2016 at 3:31:37 pm

Ok great guys, I know what i can try now..thank you for your help!

Re: How to work on same project from 2 different locations...
by Alex Udell on Aug 17, 2016 at 3:49:33 pm

Hey Allard,

if you get something going....

would you mind reporting back?

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