Video Editing In Teams: Infrastructure & Adobe Premiere Pro Workflow

What you'll learn in this course

The course has two parts, infrastructure first and Premiere Pro workflow second.

Infrastructure: shared storage over your network

• Sharing a drive over the network on Windows and on a Mac, with a separate account per user and different permissions (read only for a library folder, read and write for projects).
• Choosing a NAS: drive bays, hard drives versus SSDs, Synology model series, Ethernet and 10 gigabit ports, desktop versus rack models.
• Setting up a Synology NAS with DSM, from placing the drives to QuickConnect.
• Configuring a RAID volume: RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 compared, and why the course builds RAID 5 with the btrfs file system.
• Creating user accounts and shared folders on the NAS, and mapping them as drives on Windows and on Mac.
• Adapting your network for 10 gigabit: CAT6a cables, a 10 gigabit switch, network cards and Thunderbolt or USB 3.1 adapters.
• Link aggregation with adaptive load balancing, plus the speeds measured on two NAS models with four editors at once.

Workflow: Adobe Premiere Pro for teams

• The preferences to change on every computer: Project Locking, XMP settings and importing workspaces from projects.
• Starting a production, splitting it into media, graphics and edit projects, and linking one project's media into another.
• Project locking: opening, unlocking and reloading projects, and opening a project in read mode.
• Organization: custom label colors, custom metadata columns such as a Notes column, and combining everyone's work into a final edit project.
• Problem solving: Reveal in Projects, Generate Master Clips, importing a traditional project into a production, and a global effects mute for effects such as Lumetri.

How the course is built

There are 15 lessons, about 1 hour in total. The lessons follow one setup from start to finish: share a drive, build a NAS, tune the network, then edit on it in Premiere Pro with a production. The course comes with a project files download (Teams_Adobe_Premiere_Pro_Course_Project_Files.zip, about 1.9 GB). In the conclusion Jordy says it holds the footage, the projects and the production structure, so you can practise with the test footage and find the workflow that suits you.

Who this course is for

It is for video editors who work with others on the same project, freelancers, and owners of a video production company. It also fits you if you edit alone today: Jordy says a good infrastructure gives you redundancy, better organization and room to grow, and that a solo editor should prepare before the first hire.

The infrastructure part uses Synology as its example brand. Jordy says he cannot cover every brand on the market, so for another make, such as Western Digital or QNAP, you apply what the lessons say about bays, Ethernet ports and RAID, not the exact menus.

What you need

• Adobe Premiere Pro.
• For the infrastructure lessons, a computer with a spare drive to share, or a Synology NAS with hard drives, plus a router or switch and Ethernet cables.
• For the 10 gigabit lessons, a 10 gigabit switch, CAT6a cables and network cards or adapters.