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Adobe Premiere Pro may be configured to autosave projects as the user is working. The target location for the autosave is configured separately (see above in the “Scratch Disk” settings panel). However, the feature is enabled, and the frequency is set in the Auto Save submenu:
Set the autosave interval according to personal preference. A smaller interval will result in more granular restore points but will consume more system resources during the saves.
The Maximum number of Project Versions limits the number of restore points that are saved. Increase the maximum to save a longer history but doing so will consume more system resources.
A “tier 2” or “second level” backup of the project in its most current state may be made to the user’s Adobe Creative Cloud account, by ticking the check-box. Enable according to personal preference but be aware that this option requires consistent and reliable Internet connectivity.
Checking Auto Save also saves current project(s) provides another layer of protection. When the Auto Save function runs, Premiere Pro also performs a standard save of the open projects, as if the user did a File à Save All command. If the Premiere Pro project files are being stored on the PowerScale storage and the Auto Save location is on the user’s local hard drive, this option will keep an up-to-date copy of the most recent project file in both locations. However, if the user wants to open a project, edit that project, and not have Premiere Pro automatically overwrite the original project file during an Auto Save operation, then this box should remain cleared.
As discussed above, Adobe Premiere Pro has several collaboration methodologies, Team Projects, and Productions. Team Projects are out of the scope of this document. Productions in Premiere Pro are most common for PowerScale environments where multiple editors have projects open simultaneously.
For Productions to work properly it is vital that the Project Locking checkbox is enabled in this preference. With Project Locking enabled, Adobe automatically creates and destroys lock files alongside the project file to govern which users have read/write vs read-only access to projects.
In a collaborative environment, the setting to Write XMP ID to Files on Import should be disabled. If enabled, existing media cache files may be invalidated or corrupted if accessed by multiple users.
Adobe Premiere Pro can generate proxies. Working with proxies may be useful if the demands of the workflow cannot be supported by the environment. For example if the user requires to work with high resolution or high frame rate material on a system that was not originally designed or specified to support it. Generating proxies consumes system resources and should only be enabled as part of a managed proxy workflow.
Growing Files: Adobe Premiere Pro supports working with growing files that are written by another application. Workflows of this type are common in collaborative environments, where live capture devices write media. The frequency at with the application updates the clip while it is on the timeline may be set here. Reducing the frequency may allow the user to work “closer to the wire” but may consume more system resources.
Adobe Premiere Pro creates multiple files in the background to support the application. Primarily, these include waveform displays of audio files and metadata about imported video files.
Adobe does not support locating the Media Cache files or database on shared storage. These files tend to be small, numerous, and accessed by Premiere Pro frequently. There is no mechanism in Premiere Pro to prevent Media Cache from being corrupted or overwritten if multiple machines are using the same location. Besides, locating this cache on the PowerScale storage uses storage resources and network bandwidth that can be better used playing back the video files being edited!Application Preferences: Sync Settings
The options in the Sync Settings submenu are related to the interaction of the application with the Adobe Creative Cloud. This option sets the behavior of the application when updating and managing the preferences and can have unintended impacts on the application if settings are unexpectedly changed.