Often we have to just very quickly edit something for someone, try something out or do anything that doesn't take a long time, but we don't need the project to be saved in any specific location, or make any changes to standard settings that cannot be made while sending a sequence out for export.

The current workflow for those situations is to create a project like any other and, what consumes the most time, select a project location.

I want to propose the idea of a quick way to create disposable projects that will not be saved anywhere once they are closed, with a fixed temporary location.

I don't have any specific idea yet on how it could be best implemented, but I am too often getting annoyed by all the mouse-clicking when creating a project that I will simply delete minutes later.

Just like in regular Projects, the Productions main window MUST support better search functions. We need to be able to add descriptions, comments or tags on the many folders (or even the unique Projects inside Productions main window).

Working on massive documentaries or long-format projects, the search function is crucial - and being able to navigate, search and find things FROM THE PRODUCTIONS WINDOW - which will then point you to the project where the information you're searching is located - is absolutely necessary.

Think of a documentary. You've done a lot of logging, notes, comments and tags on clips. You have transcriptions embedded on the Speech Analysis portion of clips. You need to find a specific comment or moment that was shot 2 years ago. You have NO IDEA which unique Project to find it from. Being able to find that information in the Productions "home window" would be a GAME CHANGER :)

Currently, we are not able to customise the Metadata Display at all in the Productions window - as opposed to having incredible control over it inside normal Projects.

When running collecting media with Project Manager, it puts the whole project in one folder with the project file and all media and graphics in that same folder. This makes it hard to find the project since there can be hundreds of other files in the same folder.

I'd like the project to go in the main folder, and all media/graphic files go in a folder called "Media". That would significantly reduce the clutter and make the project much more presentable.

I personally don't think it's necessary to replicate the bin structure with folders (After Effects does this when collecting a project). One big folder is fine by me.

Premiere Productions should have a nested sequence/project feature. Many people who are coming from long form into the new Productions workspace use nested sequences for each of their scenes. You should allow a master sequence within one project to contain nested references to sequences in other projects. These would be read-only unless you double click them to open up the original sequence/project.

As it is, Productions is cumbersome for keeping a master sequence of the entire show synced when you split your scenes into their own projects.

You should also allow the user to save a "Productions Workspace" which will automatically open all the projects that one wants to work with and arrange windows to their properly saved arrangement.

Productions would be 100X more effective with these updates.

If you have proxy files in a project and attempt to use the project manager and the transcode and consolidate function a lot of bizarre and unexpected behaviour occurs.

I recently found I could improve the results by making a project including only the sequence I intended to transcode and consolidate and nothing else, because despite being able to choose such an option in the project manager, it will ignore that choice and transcode every single clip in the project instead, hence having to make a project where there are no other clips than those in the sequence.

This almost worked, however for some infuriating reason after I succesfully used the project manager to trim (with handles) and transcode all the clips in the sequence, it went ahead and copied all the proxies of all of the clips that it just transcoded and to make matters worse it decided to copy the ENTIRE proxy file for each such clip, not just a trimmed section of what's used in the timeline. This massively increased the space it consumed and the time it took and now leaves me with a bunch of useless proxy files I have to somehow separate and deal with in the output folder.

Can the project manager please be improved to deal with proxy material properly, including the ability to explicitly tell it not to use it at all and not include it in any consolidating or transcoding functions?

Furthermore can the project manager be fixed so that when one specifies a SEQUENCE to be project managed as opposed to the entire project, that that is what actually happens? This might just be because of the proxy files, perhaps it works as expected when they aren't present but in my experience, before I took the step of specifically making a new project that ONLY HAS THE ONE SEQUENCE, it decided to transcode every single clip in the project, untrimmed. It also did this using the proxy files as well and completely ignored the original rushes.

When working in a "Production", using "Save As..." to create a new version of the project causes the following event:

"Duplicate IDs. This production contains projects with duplicate IDs, which will interfere with tracking media across projects. Please remove these duplicated projects..." etc.

Why doesn't the new version of the project have it's own unique ID?

To avoid this issue, you must save the new version outside of the production folder, and then add it back into the production using "Add Project To Production...", so that the copy that is created has it's own unique ID. This is an overly complicated workflow.

Please allow "Save As..." or "Save a Copy..." to create a unique ID for the new versions so they can be saved directly into production folders.

As has been recommended by seasoned editors in the Premiere forum, I save my project in three separate locations frequently. This is safe but oh so tedious. Can the Save commands be reconfigured to be associated with each other? For instance, can I hit Save, which will automatically save my project AND optionally "save a copy" in two (or however many) other locations that I've previously chosen... using a logical version naming convention? I would love to achieve the exact same result that I do now... except with one click. I do the same multiple motions in a row, so can this repetitive task be automated and efficient?