I did "proxy editing" or "bait and switch editing" all the time with my laptop.
I generate a low resolution of the video files so I can keep them into 2.5" portable HDD to be edited with the laptop for draft cut. When finished all the editing, I open the project file (or import) in desktop so it will prompt me for the source file. Then I point them to the HQ version of the same AVI files. It works very well. Premiere will never remember or reuse your index and conformed audio file in another computer. So you will have to leave it index and conform audio on your laptop. It's unavoidable. But the tips is, during these 2 processes, leave your laptop alone. Not to touch it. Otherwise, Premiere will go into a conforming loop. From: Mike Boom Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 7:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] Avoiding video re-indexing on portable drive I've got to work on a video while on the road, so I've copied the entire project -- including source video files -- to a portable drive that I can use with my laptop. I've run into a problem, though: when I move the drive from my normal editing computer, a desktop machine, to my laptop, the laptop assigns a different hard drive letter to my portable drive. When I open my Premiere project, the new drive letter completely throws Premiere off so that it has to ask me where the source files and preview files are. That's only mildly annoying. The big problem is that Premiere has lost track of the indexed video files (I'm editing HDV) and then proceeds to grind for a couple of hours before it has re-indexed all my source video so I can start work. Premiere also has to re-conform all the audio. Does anyone know how to get a Premiere project to use relative directory names for all of its components (i.e. "the SourceClips directory within the current directory") instead of absolute directory names (i.e. "K:SourceClips")? Or, failing that, any way to point Premiere to the indexing it's done previously? I'll try forcing both computers to assign the same drive letter to my portable drive, but there's got to be a more elegant solution. Or maybe not. Sometimes Premiere surprises me with its foibles. Thanks for your help, Mike Boom www.laughingeel.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
