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Share and manage changes with collaborators

Learn about Sequence Locking, visual cues, and offline editing for conflict-free video editing collaboration using Team Projects.

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Sequence Locking

While you perform edit operations (such as trim, move, delete, and more) on the locked sequence, other collaborators will have view-only access to earlier versions of the sequence until you publish your changes. 

Sequence Locking also offers visual indicators to your collaborators in several panels that show who is editing the sequence and which changes have been published. Indications appear in the Timeline panel, Project panel, and Program Monitor

Visual clues for other collaborators that indicate sequence locking

Collaborators see your edits only once you publish. While you edit, the sequence is locked and view-only for your collaborators to avoid conflicts.

Visual clues for other collaborators that indicate sequence locking

Editing your sequence locks the sequence just to you. Your collaborators now have view-only access and cannot do edit operations.

Publish changes in Team Projects

Publish changes and add a note to unlock the sequence.

Sequence Locking initiated

The Up to date status shows that all changes are published, and no other edits are pending to sync. Another collaborator can start editing the sequence, initiating the Sequence Locking

Note:

When you're editing a sequence, other collaborators can play / seek / scrub through the sequence, duplicate the sequence, and even copy clips from that sequence.

Publish an edited sequence with changes

When you publish your changes to a sequence, the lock on it is released. The collaborators will then see your changes and get the option to update the changes in their projects. 

While publishing, you can also add a comment for the collaborators.

  1. When you are editing a sequence, the Project panel will indicate that editing is in progress, and the Publish button will be enabled.

  2. Once done editing, select Publish.

  3. You can add any comments to let the other collaborators know about your changes. 

    Adding comment for the collaborators during the publish.
    Adding a comment for the collaborators during the publish.

  4. Select Publish to complete the publishing process.

Note:

Saving your project does not publish it to your collaborators. To share your changes, you must select the Publish button.

Visual cues during collaboration

Multiple visual cues for both the current editor and the collaborators offer helpful indications for seamless collaboration on a sequence. These indications make it easy for teammates to work together in a shared timeline without conflicts.
 

Active collaborator

If you're an active collaborator and currently editing a sequence, your sequence will be locked so that only you can edit and make changes.

Publish Status

If another active collaborator is editing the sequence, you'll be prevented from making any changes to the sequence. Until you update to the latest version of the sequence, you'll only be able to view an older version and will not have access to any changes made by collaborators or the ability to edit the sequence.

Publish status in the Timeline panel

Visual cues with options to Update and Publish the changes for an active collaborator.

Show Asset Status icon shows a white pen

The Show Asset Status icon shows a white pen indicating it's being edited.

Other collaborators

If you're an active collaborator editing a sequence, the rest of the members will have view-only access and get different visual cues.

Update Status

If another active collaborator is editing the sequence in the Team Projects, you'll be prevented from making any changes to the sequence. You'll also see multiple visual cues and sequence status notifications in the Project and Timeline panels.

View-only status in the Timeline and Project panels

View-only status in the Timeline and Project panels with the name of the active collaborator.

Update available notification indicating that the collaborator has published the sequence

Update available notification indicating that the collaborator has published the sequence with changes.

The Show Asset Status icon shows a downward white arrow.

The Show Asset Status icon shows a downward white arrow.

Offline editing and cloud sync status

While collaborating on Team Projects, a cloud icon in the Premiere Pro header bar displays your online or offline status. It offers a quick visual representation of your internet connectivity status while working on a collaborative project. If you are disconnected and offline, your changes are locally saved to be synced once the internet connectivity is restored.

If you hover over the cloud icon, you can view a tooltip that displays the last time your locally saved changes were synced or if there are any sync pending.

Sync status with a green check icon

The cloud icon status shows a green check icon indicating connected status with all local changes saved and synced.

Sync status with a yellow warning triangle icon

The cloud icon shows a greyed-out cross icon and mouse over on the icon informs that your changes are being saved locally.

When you mouse over the cloud icon based on your connectivity to the Internet, you'll view details such as: 

  • Project saved. Locally saved [Time]. Sync Pending.         
  • Project saved and synced. Last synced [Time].
  • Disconnected. We will save your work until you reconnect. Locally saved [Time].
Project saved and synced with last saved time.
The Cloud icon shows the online status with changes saved and synced a minute ago.

Team Projects includes an offline editing capability so you may continue working even if your Internet connection is temporarily interrupted. During such interruptions, you cannot publish your changes or get the latest updates from other collaborators, but you can continue to work with your edits being saved locally. When you reconnect to the Internet, the Update and Publish buttons reappear. 

Caution:

Working on Team Projects for an extended period when disconnected from the Internet isn't recommended. The offline editing feature is meant to provide safety and security if there are intermittent Internet interruptions only.

Sequence Locking for offline editing

When you lose Internet connectivity and go offline while editing a sequence in Team Projects, apart from the connectivity status visual cues, your project panel will also show the disconnected asset status. Sequence Locking also gets disabled, and another collaborator can lock the sequence and start editing the sequence.

The sequence asset status appears as 'Disconnected' in the timeline
Disconnected asset status in the Project panel during offline editing with Sequence Locking.

You can still continue to work in disconnected status, but you cannot publish your changes, and all your edits are saved locally in a duplicate sequence. When the connection is restored, based on the possibility of a conflict, you'll be notified of further actions for the project.

No conflicts

When you reconnect to the internet after working offline, and no one else has edited the sequence, you'll have the option to update the changes you made while offline and continue editing the sequence.

Option to publish the locally saved changes.
Option to publish the locally saved changes.

Conflict

When you were offline and editing a sequence that had no lock, if another collaborator also edits the same sequence simultaneously, upon reconnecting to the internet, you will receive a notification alerting you of a conflict. You can use the Duplicate option to duplicate the sequence to keep working on your unpublished changes.

Option to publish the locally saved changes.
Duplicate the sequence to updated changes and continue working.

Note:

In the event that multiple collaborators (two or more collaborators) edit the same sequence offline, when they come back online, only the first user to reconnect will have the option to publish their changes to the contentious sequence. Other collaborators will be warned of the conflict once they reconnect to the internet, and their work will be automatically saved to a new sequence.

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