Editors & Colorists – How To Properly Archive Your (Premiere Pro) Projects

November 22, 2024

Editor Jonny Elwyn teaches you the ins and outs of archiving your projects, the different options, and tips for Premiere Pro projects.


Ensure future success by archiving your projects correctly

Whether you’re a colorist or an editor, creating an efficient and effective archival strategy can make you a hero with clients and earn extra income when the core job is completed. In this Insight, you’ll learn your various archiving options and how to correctly archive Premiere Pro projects.

Contents

  • Part 1: Archiving for Editors vs. Colorists
  • Who does the archiving?
  • Business benefits
  • Designing an Archive
  • Archival storage systems
  • How to consolidate a project for Archiving
  • Part 2: How to consolidate in Premiere Pro

Part 1: Archiving 101 for Editors and Colorists

Mixing Light is a tremendous resource for colorists and editors, but since you might only work in one of those roles, I wanted to highlight an important difference as we explore this topic.

If you’re a colorist, you’re likely the last pair of hands the project passes through, and you create the final deliverables. However, you may only have access to the project’s final consolidation plus the deliverables you created.

If you’re an editor, you might be tasked with archiving the entirety of the original ‘offline’ project and potentially all of the final graded deliverables.

The principles in this Insight are the same, but the scope of the files in question might be slightly different.

Who handles the archiving?

The first question you must answer regarding archiving: Whose responsibility is it to archive the project?

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What’s your archiving strategy?

Hit the comments with your archival workflow and client-focused approach! Let me know if I missed any Pros or Cons of each approach. Do you have another approach?

– Jonny

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