Collaboration using Adobe Premiere Pro Productions with QNAP NAS

• What is Productions?
  • What are the benefits of Productions?
    • Manage multi-project workflows
    • Keep everything organized and synchronized
    • Designed for collaboration
    • Security: You control your media
• Get started using productions
  • Shared Folder Mounting
  • Set up your preferences
• Set up a production
  • Create a production
  • Open a production
  • Build out a production
    • Create projects in a production
    • Add existing projects to a production
    • Create folders in a production
  • Production panel interface
• Frequently asked questions

What is Productions?

Productions offers tools for organizing multi-project workflows, sharing assets between projects, and keeping everything streamlined and efficient. Whether you’re working on your own or collaborating with a team, a QNAP NAS is the best way of creating a high-speed media editing environment.

What are the benefits of Productions?

MANAGE MULTI-PROJECT WORKFLOWS

When working with large/complex workflows, Productions allows you to divide them into smaller pieces, based on the existing Premiere Pro project format. Productions connects the projects, making them into components of the larger workflow, helping you to keep projects and assets organized and efficient.

KEEP EVERYTHING ORGANIZED AND SYNCHRONIZED

Media referencing across projects means you can reuse assets within your production without creating duplicates.The new Production panel in Premiere Pro provides a command center for managing multi-project workflows. Any projects added to the Productions folder becomes part of the production. Whether you are working on macOS or Windows, any changes you make on disk are reflected in Premiere Pro; changes in Premiere Pro are applied on disk. Productions keeps everything in sync.

DESIGNED FOR COLLABORATION

Using shared local storage, multiple editors can work on different projects in the same production. Project Locking ensures that no one can overwrite your work - your colleagues can still access your project and copy content from it, but they can’t make changes until you’ve completed your edit.

All projects in a Production share the same settings, including scratch disks. This means that preview files rendered by one editor can be available for all editors who use that project, ensuring smooth playback and time-saving for the whole team.

SECURITY: YOU CONTROL YOUR MEDIA

With Productions, you have full control of your content. Your projects and assets can live entirely on your local storage. Nothing is on the cloud unless you put it there. If needed, you can do all your work without an internet connection.

Get started using productions

Shared Folder Mounting

Connect your PC (Windows or Mac) to your QNAP NAS using Qfinder Pro.

For Mac :

1. Open Qfinder Pro.
2. Select your NAS.
   
3. Click “Network Drives”. The Network Drives window opens.
4. Enter your username and password.
5. Click “OK”.
   
6. Select the IP address and protocol.
7. Click “OK”.
   
8. Select the volumes to mount.
9. Click “OK”.
   
10. You will see the mounted volumes in Finder.
    

For Windows : 

1. Open Qfinder Pro.
2. Select your NAS.
   
3. Click “Network Drives”. The Network Drives window opens.
   
4. Click “OK”. The Windows Security window opens.
5. Enter your username and password.
6. Click “OK”.
   
7. Right-click on the volumes you want to mount.
8. Select “Map network drive...”.
   
9. Select the drive letter to mount the volume to.
10. Click “Finish”.
    
11. You will see the volume under “Network locations”.
    

Set up your preferences

Set up the following preferences in “Edit” > “Preferences” (For Windows) or “Premiere Pro” > “Preferences” (For Mac) dialog box.

• In “Preferences” > “Media”, deselect the following:
  • Write XMP ID to files on import
  • Write clip markers to XMP
  • Enable clip and XMP metadata linking
  • Click “OK”.
    
    
• In “Preferences” > “Collaboration”:
  • Make sure that “Enable project locking" is checked
  • Enter a User Name that others will see when you open a project
  • Click “OK”.
    
    
• Choose “Window” > “Workspaces” and deselect “Import Workspace from Projects”.
  This avoids having your workspace change when opening projects used by other editors.
  
  

Set up a production

Create a production

1. Click “File” > “New” > “Production”.
   
   
2. Enter a Production Name. This will also be the name of the folder on disk.
3. Click the blue path text to Where. This is the location of the production folder. For collaboration, make sure to save the production on your NAS.
4. Click “Create”.

Open a production

• From the Welcome screen choose “File” > “Open Production”.
  
  
• Select a recently used production from the drop-down list.
• Click “Open” or click “Browse” and navigate to an existing production folder and choose it.
  
  

Unlike stand-alone project files, you can open only one production at a time.

Build out a production

You can build out your production in multiple ways. You can create files or folders, add new projects within a production, and move or rename projects and folders.

CREATE PROJECTS IN A PRODUCTION

1. Click the “New Project” button or choose New Project from the context menu.
   
   
2. Enter a Name for the project.
3. Click “OK”.
   
   

ADD EXISTING PROJECTS TO A PRODUCTION

Right-click on the Production panel or use the Production panel menu to choose “Add Project to Production” and then choose a project on disk.

CREATE FOLDERS IN A PRODUCTION

1. Click “New Folder” or choose New Folder from the context menu.
   
   
2. Enter a name for the Folder.
3. Click “OK”.
   
   

Production panel interface

After a production is set up, you can see all your files and folders within the Production panel. Here is an example production panel interface.

Production panel interface

A. Search for projects and folders
B. Green pen indicates you can edit the project
C. Outlined icon means the project is closed on your system
D. Red lock indicates someone else is editing the project
E. Solid icon means the project is open on your system
F. Zoom slider adjusts the size of the text and icons in the panel
G. Buttons for New Project, New Folder, and Trash
H. Name shows who is editing the project