Working with adobe premiere cs6 on multiple computers

Question

Hello,
I work in a school and we are currently using premiere cs6. We have a major issue with working on multiple machines that I can't seem to find a solution for online. The problem exists with the media cache. I understand that when opening a very large project for the first time, it will take 20-30 minutes to conform all of the audio and cache all of the mpg files. unfortunately, when working on muliple machines, this can be a bit excessive. Everytime the project is opened on a new machine it takes 20-30 minutes to open the project again. We thought that if we moved the media cache and database folders with us, from machine to machine, that it wouldnot have to cache and conform everything again, but that doesn't seem to be working. Even with all of the cache folders copied from the other machine over to the new one, it still goes through the tedious process of conforming and caching when it is opened on a new computer. How does someone use the software on mulitple machines with out having to go through this excessively long process of opening the project??

Answer 1

Working on multiple machines is a pretty common workflow. For example, if I have an assistant editor and they are pulling selects and cutting small scenes on their computer, saving premiere project files etc., then they bring the project over to my house (editor) and we need to open up the projects we would have to wait 30 minutes for the project to load. This is a big problem. Also, I work in a school. So we have a lab of 25 computers equipped with Premiere. If a student stores their 45 min movie on their external hard drive, and they come into the lab the next day, they might have to use a different computer if someone is on the one they used the day before. Then, when they open their project, they will have to wait 30 minutes to load the project. I've seen and heard about this issue from many editors. Most of them chose AVID when they migrated away from FCP because of this issue. It is very practical that with a large project with multiple editors, especially with a sequence duration of over 30 minutes, for the project to have to be moved to multiple machines and editors, this is common in the industry. Adobe Anywhere does address this issue, but for right now it is very frustrating to work on large projects with Premiere if we have to open the projects on multiple machines. I feel that this problem is really keeping Premiere from being the best it can be, I've been using Premiere for 10 years and I am a strong advocate for the software. I'm totally confused by this issue coming up now, when Adobe is striving to fill the void of the professional video editing market that was left open when apple released iMovie Pro.