From the course: Getting Started with Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Pro

Setting your Premiere Pro project for autobackup - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Getting Started with Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Pro

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Setting your Premiere Pro project for autobackup

“

- Remember, as you work in Premiere Pro, project files are really quite small. As such, it's a good idea to back up occasionally. This will ensure that you don't lose any material as you're working. And it's much better to use up a few megabytes on your disc than lose a few hours of work. You can always clean these project files up in the future. Let me show you how to control this. For the current project file I'm in, I'm going to go to my Premiere Pro preferences here for a moment and choose the Auto Save preference. Here, you see the option to control how often Premiere saves. If you check the box to automatically save, the default is every 15 minutes with up to 20 copies. Basically, this means that it's going to store about the most recent five hours of your work, 'cause every 15 minutes would be four times an hour, which means about five hours of work are backed up. If you want, you can change any of these numbers to save more versions or more frequently. It's really up to you. Additionally, consider using the "Save backup project to Creative Cloud." What this does is creates a snapshot and backs things up to your cloud folder. Now, this doesn't put everything up to the cloud, but it automatically backs up the most recent sequence. This could be quite useful. Ideally, what you did before erasing your memory cards is make two copies of the media: one that's on your hard drive that you're editing but maybe another copy that you put up on your backup drive. It's never a good idea to have only one copy of media. You always want to ensure you have at least two copies in case something were to go wrong with your hard drive. In this case, if the hard drive failed, no big deal: my project file was backed up to Creative Cloud, and I can go to my backup media drive and just copy the media off to a new drive and start to work with that. I'd lose a couple of minutes with copying the material, but, at most, just a short amount of time and I'd be up and running again and not lose days of editing work if this was a project that I'd been working on for a week, for example. This is really good so that you don't actually lose your material. This Auto Save option has one more important choice in here, and that is whether or not you wanted to write over the current file. I like to manually save this; that way I can control when it saves. But the auto saves are going to be timestamped. Now what I can do is click Okay. And, effectively, as I'm working, every 15 minutes, Premiere will force a save to the folder. This gives me an auto save or a backup. Then, if you ever need to, you can go to your file menu and you can actually choose to open up one of those backup projects and restore by navigating to the backup project files, or use the Revert command, and it will take you back to an earlier version that you last saved. Either of these is quite useful, and it just gives you the flexibility to ensure that you don't lose your work.

Contents