Can an "Edited" Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 PROGRAM be SAVED on disc ??

[George D.]

I have a question that I need a knowledgeable answer on, especially from you guys that have been doing this stuff for years and years, and working with Adobe Premiere Pro in a Window7 PC.

If I have a production in APP CS5.5 that I am working on, and let's say it's a 1 hour movie, and I complete it, or even have it only half finished, can I save the PROGRAM itself onto a DVD for protection?

I know I can save the movie onto Blu-Ray or DVD, but I'm NOT talking about the completed movie. I'm talking about "THE ADOBE PROGRAM" itself. In other words, I want to save the CS5.5 program, with all it's edited sequences, onto another medium other than the computer itself. Can this be done, and if so, how?

I realize if I wanted to put the program from the disc back into the computer, the "original" R3D files/scenes would have to still be where they were in the computer or the program couldn't find them.

All help and advise would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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[Elsie N]

George, need more info. Are you concerned if you Install CS 6 that your project will be locked out? If that's it, CS 6 will adapt your project to work in that program, and if you are only doing a trial, the original 5.5 version should be left intact. I have a computer that has both 5.5 and 6 on it and I can open either app if I don't want to take a chance on CS 6 causing a hitch. Or maybe you are thinking about installing a trial of Windows 8? Just install it on a separate drive from your current OS and choose which one to open at startup.

Otherwise, I think Acronis (although I haven't used it) will likely give you a way to save your current CS 5.5 app, probably to a DVD or Blu-Ray. Orrrrrrh?! You can purchase a standalone docking station that will create a mirror image of your source drive onto a target drive of equal or larger size.

If none of the above fit your needs, I got nuthin.

 

[Richard Fox]

You can export all of the files associated with a project to a directory using the project manager. Go to the project menu and choose project manager. It will open up a dialog panel where you can choose the destination, length of handles, etc.

 

[George D.]

George, need more info. Are you concerned if you Install CS 6 that your project will be locked out? If that's it, CS 6 will adapt your project to work in that program, and if you are only doing a trial, the original 5.5 version should be left intact. I have a computer that has both 5.5 and 6 on it and I can open either app if I don't want to take a chance on CS 6 causing a hitch. Or maybe you are thinking about installing a trial of Windows 8? Just install it on a separate drive from your current OS and choose which one to open at startup.

Otherwise, I think Acronis (although I haven't used it) will likely give you a way to save your current CS 5.5 app, probably to a DVD or Blu-Ray. Orrrrrrh?! You can purchase a standalone docking station that will create a mirror image of your source drive onto a target drive of equal or larger size.

If none of the above fit your needs, I got nuthin.

Thanks, but it has nothing to do with CS6 or different OP.

I realize I can save it to a RAID Array or Docking Station, but I just wanted to know if it's possible to save it to a "non-spinning" medium. If it's on a disc it's saved forever.

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[George D.]

You can export all of the files associated with a project to a directory using the project manager. Go to the project menu and choose project manager. It will open up a dialog panel where you can choose the destination, length of handles, etc.

Thanks Richard,

But, that is not what I want to do.

I want to save the PROGRAM, with all the files, edit points, effects, etc, onto a DISC. I just want to know if that is possible.

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[CK Olsen]

Umm, yes... yes you can.
The complete edit is contained within the project file itself, which is very small. If you save that without ANY of the source media, it is still an excellent archive of the project... you may just need to "relink" to the media when you later open it up.
This relinking process can sometimes be an annoyance, but PPro remembers all the source media names, and has an interface to assist you in the relink.
If the media files are always saved in the same location, this should not be an issue.
And... If you are able to save all the media files alongside the project file, then you will have everything in one archive, and can easily reload at will.
Hope this helps!
-CK

 

[Joe Minuni]

You can export all of the files associated with a project to a directory using the project manager. Go to the project menu and choose project manager. It will open up a dialog panel where you can choose the destination, length of handles, etc.

George, I believe this is the answer you are looking for.

It exports the actual timeline(s), edits, effects (your whole project) as well as the media required to open it.
If you have a backup of the project media elsewhere then you only need to copy the adobe project file onto a disc or whatever backup media you choose, it will be a very small file. On Pc it is a .prproj file. You can take that .prproj file to any workstation with Premiere and open it up. It will ask you to point it to where the actual video media is located.

 

[Darren Levine]

i think it's the terminology which is leading to confusion, George you state you want to save the adobe "PROGRAM", the program is the adobe application itself in windows which allows you to do your editing, but from your further descriptions it seems you really mean the "project" file which, which as joe mentioned is the file you click on ending in .prproj, which although it is opening the adobe program, that itself is not the program, but rather a project you created in the adobe program. you never save the adobe program, thats basically re-installing adobe altogether.

 

[Richard Fox]

Thanks Richard,

But, that is not what I want to do.

I want to save the PROGRAM, with all the files, edit points, effects, etc, onto a DISC. I just want to know if that is possible.

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I don't think it's possible to do what you want. For starters a program like Premiere can not be run from a single folder. Premiere has to be installed on the host computer.
In addition Adobe has a robust licencing system. Even if you could somehow put all the associated program files on a DISC or created a virtual machine of your current desktop computer, I highly doubt the program would run. Hope that helps.

 

[Jake Bastian]

You can always just export an XML. PPro exports all sequences in your project in its XMLs.

 

[Elsie N]

Thanks, but it has nothing to do with CS6 or different OP.

I realize I can save it to a RAID Array or Docking Station, but I just wanted to know if it's possible to save it to a "non-spinning" medium. If it's on a disc it's saved forever.

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The only way I can think of you could possibly get the Adobe CS 5.5 Premiere App with it's current settings on something like a large Thumb drive is use a program like Acronis True Image. And as I said, I don't know if it will allow saving just one app with its settings.

 

[Keith Putnam]

Thanks Richard,

But, that is not what I want to do.

I want to save the PROGRAM, with all the files, edit points, effects, etc, onto a DISC. I just want to know if that is possible.

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When you say "PROGRAM", are you referring to the Adobe Premiere application, or are you using that word to refer to your edited sequence? If you mean your edited sequence, then yes, you can save that to a disk. But if by PROGRAM you mean the Adobe Premiere application, then read on.

The project file ("the edit points, effects, etc."), the media ("all the files"), and the Premiere application ("the PROGRAM") are separate but related entities. You can save the project file onto a disk, save all the media onto that disk, and also copy Premiere onto that disk, but it is meaningless to talk about saving "the PROGRAM, with all the files, edit points, effects, etc." as if it were all one thing to be saved which would spring back into the precise state where you last saved it.

You can open your project file in any compatible version of Premiere, and it will ask you where you have stored the media. You will tell Premiere where the media lives, which is called 'relinking', and you will proceed with your work.

 

[Keith Putnam]

If it's on a disc it's saved forever.

Beware, this is absolutely untrue. Anything saved in a digital medium will necessarily require being recopied to more current formats as technology changes. You can't just throw disks in a drawer and hope they'll be useful to you in ten years, with perhaps the exception of LTO tape, but eventually even that will be supplanted by a newer, more "archival" format.

 

[Michael Romano]

Agreed about spinning disc storage, unreliable over time like everything else. On a side note, I've started saving clones of OS X installs with all the editorial software, plugins and hardware descriptions for future recalls. We try to stay away from robust licensing methods (Anything that won't run without contacting a server is a problem) so we can open sessions from however many years ago. Generally, I try to upgrade sessions but some things just are too much trouble and keeping a .DMG of an entire OS isn't as bad as it sounds. The switch from PPC to Intel on the Mac platform was a big killer. Always be ready from something like that too!