Premiere Pro Productions Panel - Why I LOVE This NEW FEATURE
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Adobe Premiere Pro CC version 14.1 just released the new Productions panel. Have you tried it yet? Do you have any questions about it? If so, let me know in the comments below!
A lot of us Premiere Pro editors, need to reuse logos, social media tags, and other assets from older Premiere Pro projects, when we work on new projects Productions was designed to work with multiple projects in one workspace and the ability to easily take clips or assets from one project and bring them into another project without creating duplicate clips, longer save times or disorganization.
So, let’s look take a look at how to create and use a Production as a solo editor:
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Let’s open up Adobe Premiere Pro CC, go up to File - New - Production, and give your Production a name. Since I edit Youtube videos fairly regularly, I’ll be creating a Production where all of my future Youtube projects and any other Youtube project I choose, will live, so I’ll call this. Youtube Production.
Next lets click on Where, and when you’re choosing where to save your Production folder, store it in a place you plan to keep it because if you move your Production folder around, Premiere won’t easily recognize your Production as a Production anymore and it will just cause you a lot of hassle. I have a Youtube Videos folder with a few of my more recent yotuube videos, so I’ll create a New Folder in here and call it Youtube Productions and this will be the folder that any of the projects I work on in this Production, will be saved to. So I’ll click Select Folder which brings us back into Premiere and press Create.
Now we’re in our Premiere Pro Production and you’ll notice the layout has a similar look to your regular Premiere Pro projects but it also has a Production panel on the left side...and if you don't see this Production panel for some reason you can go up and click on Window and Production to bring it up.
The Production panel is where your various projects will live. When you create a Production by default Premiere Pro will create an Untitled Project which you can see here. We can create New Projects in this panel as well but first, I’m going to a Youtube project I previously had started working on before Productions existed into this Youtube Production so I can continue working on it here. To add a Project, right click in the Production panel and select Add Project To Production. I’m going to add my How to Change Colors in Premiere Pro project intot his Youtube Production so I’ll select it and press Open. And this popup window shows, saying A new copy of the chosen projects will be added to the selected folder inside the Production. Would you like to continue?, So yes, I would like to continue, press Copy...and now, any work we do on this project within our Production will be saved on this project file that’s been copied into our Productions folder here.
Here’s my imported project in the Production panel and notice that the little box to the left of it is greyed out. This means that it’s currently inactive whereas the Untitled Project shows a green diagonal line indicating that it is active. Let’s double click on our Inactive project to open it up. And doing so has opened up this project in Productions and we can easily go about editing it the way we would in a regular project.
Next I’d like to create a project that contains all of the social media tags and assets I tend to use in every single one of my Youtube videos so I’ll do that using this Untitled project, which I’ll rename by right clicking on it, choosing Rename, and I’ll call it Youtube Tags. And as you can see the correlating project panel has also been updated with the name Youtube Tags. I’ll right click in the Youtube Tags project panel, press Import, hop into my Youtube ASsets folder, select all of the tags that I regularly use and open them. Create a new Youtube Tag Sequence and drag all those assets onto my new sequence. And now I have this Youtube Tag project and sequences easily accessible to copy any of these assets over to any of the Youtube videos I edit, like I’ll do so now by selecting these tags, pressing Command C on my keyboard to copy them, going over to my Coat Color Change sequence, from another Youtube project, just gonna close this Lumitri panel to make more space, great, and paste all those assets. I recently shot some talking head footage for a new Youtube video I’m going to create so lets create this new project within our Production by right clicking in our Production panel, choosing New Project, I’ll name it How to Use Adobe Audition, Okay. And in the corrolating Project panel, right click, Import, I’ll go into How to Use Adobe Audition folder that contains that footage, select it and press Import Folder. Again I’ll create a New Sequence, name it, drag that footage onto it and again I can go into my Youtube Tags sequence, select all the tags, copy them and paste them into this new project.
As you start to work on and open up more projects in your Production, I currently 3 projects open, your workspace may start to feel a little cluttered so as you’re working, just pay attention to which Project panel and Sequence you’re working in. You can also close some of the projects that you might not be using like I’ll right click on my How to Change Colors in Premiere Pro project and choose Close Project. It’s now closed which is indicated by the empty grey box to the left of the project and the Project panel and sequences associated with that project are now closed as well. Because I just closed this project Premiere Pro’s no longer using processing power to reference files from it.
If you want to save all of the projects you’ve been working on in your Production at once, I highly recommend you create a keyboard shortcut to do so. You can do that by going up to Edit - Keyboard Shortcuts; in the search bar typing in Save All, there it is, and you can choose whichever shortcut you’d like by clicking on the empty space beside Save All, under shortcut. You obviously want to make sure you’re not already using that shortcut, I’m going to choose Shift plus S and press OK and now when I use that keyboard shortcut any changes I’ve made to any of the projects within Productions, will all be saved. If you exit out of your Premiere Production and then want to open it back up you can do so by opening Premiere and at the Home screen you can either choose a specific recently saved project you worked on in your Production and click on it to open it up or you could find your saved Production and click on it which will open it with each of the projects in it closed. And you can double click on any of these projects to open them back up as well.
So there you. That’s how to work in Productions as Solo Editor. If you’re working on a video series or you regularly create Youtube videos or work on more than one video project for a client, Productions makes editing much faster and more efficient.
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