MediaStorm Guide to Enhancing Adobe Premiere Pro’s Auto-save Functionality

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. Like Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro offers an auto-save vault. The functionality is similar. Premiere incrementally saves a backup of your project at a user-specified interval. To customize this feature on your Mac choose the menu Premiere Pro > Preferences > Auto Save. There are three options in this menu: A checkbox to enable the feature, plus two options boxes. One tells Premiere how often to backup and the other designates the maximum number of versions that will be saved before the application begins to delete the oldest ones. I like to save every 10 minutes. That’s about as…

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MediaStorm Guide to Final Cut Pro 7 Autosave Vault

Final Cut Pro’s Autosave Vault is your insurance policy against crashes, lost work and just about any other mishap. In short, it will save your bacon. The vault works by saving an entire copy of your Final Cut Pro project file at a regular, user-determined interval. This post will explain how to set up your Autosave Vault, copy items from a backup to your working project as well as replace your FCP file with a backup file. Setting Up the Autosave Vault From the Final Cut Pro menu choose System Settings (Shift-Q). Click the Autosave Vault: Set... button. Select a directory to save your backup files. It’s important to set your backups to a different drive than your actual assets. That way, if your media drive dies you still have access to these files. Next, from the Final Cut Pro menu choose User Preferences (Option-Q). On the General tab, check the Autosave…

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