If you look at what is behind every audiovisual super production, there is a constant that keeps repeating: they all have a great team of professionals. However, even the most professional can encounter problems with organization, or rather the lack of it. Within cinema or television, many creative decisions need to be made in real time, and for that, their tools must also be up to the task, as is the case with Adobe Premiere Pro.
In addition to being one of the best editing programs at the moment, it also has features that facilitate team editing without complications or time loss. Below, we will explain what they consist of and how you can use them in your projects.
Create team projects within Adobe Premiere Pro
The function of Team Projects remains the center of collaborative work in Premiere Pro. By using it, we can edit simultaneously in the same project stored in the cloud, with automatic updates and integrated version control.
- As soon as you open Adobe Premiere Pro, click below on New Team Project. You can also click on File > New > Team Project.
- Assign a name to the project and select collaborators from your Creative Cloud account. To do this, you will need to click on Edit and add the emails of your collaborators. You will also be able to configure some video options, color, and more before starting.
- Once created, all members will be able to import material, edit sequences, and save changes without interfering with each other.
- Auto-save will be enabled by default, so every change you make will be saved in the cloud. You can revert to previous versions of your project by clicking on the name that appears above and selecting Version History.
Sharing media with Adobe Frame.io
Frame.io is a video collaboration platform developed by Adobe that is fully integrated within Premiere Pro and After Effects. Essentially, it is an ideal program for teams that edit video remotely.
What makes it so ideal? Basically, any team editor can directly upload their sequences from the timeline to Frame.io and the rest can leave comments anchored to specific moments of the project. This makes reviews much faster and more agile.
If you want to try it, you will have to do the following:
- Select Window > Workspaces > Review.
- Log in to your Frame.io account from the Frame.io: Comments panel. Frame.io is already included in your Creative Cloud subscription.
- To share the timeline on Frame.io, select Export & Share. Name it and check that the settings are correct. When you’re done, click on Export.
From now on, you will receive notifications within Premiere when there are new comments from project collaborators.
How to invite other users to collaborate in Adobe Premiere
From Frame.io you can add new collaborators without too much hassle. Here’s how to do it:
- Log in with your Adobe account on the Frame.io page.
- Click on your project. Once inside, select the user icon that you will find right next to the Share button.
- Enter the email of the user you want to invite to your project. You will be able to manage that user’s permissions from the dropdown on the right, where you will need to choose whether they can edit, comment, or have full access to the project.
Other tools that will help you: this is how Media Intelligence works
Editing together with your team will be much easier if you can also quickly access clips or other materials. Thanks to artificial intelligence, Adobe analyzes your resources so you can search for any image, conversation, or written content without wasting much time in the process.
- Import your resources.
- Let Premiere analyze the contents. Depending on the volume, it will take more or less time to process. You can check the progress from Window > Progress.
- Select the magnifying glass icon, which is located at the top right of Premiere. This will open the Search panel.
- Type what you want to search for. Visual search will yield better results the more specific you are in your description.
Here we emphasize again how important it is to be specific in your search. This will help you find what you’re looking for faster without having to try several different searches.
That said, you need to keep in mind an important limitation: for now, visual searches are only compatible with English. A small drawback that, most likely, Adobe will resolve in the not-too-distant future.
