Working with Projects > Saving and autosaving a project
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Saving and autosaving a project


Saving a project saves your editing decisions, references to source files, and the most recent arrangement of the program's windows. Protect your work by saving often. If you prefer, Premiere can save your project automatically at a specified interval. Premiere can either save the project to the same file each time or to a new file. For example, you can set Premiere to save a new archive of your project every 15 minutes, producing a series of files that represent the state of your project at each interval. In this way, automatic archiving can serve as an alternate form of the Undo command, depending on how much the project changed between each save. Because project files are quite small compared to source video files, archiving many iterations of a project consumes relatively little disk space. Adobe recommends saving project files to the same drive as your application. Archived files are saved in the Project-Archive folder inside the Adobe Premiere 6.0 folder. For information about other ways of returning to earlier versions of a project, see Correcting mistakes.

To save a project:

Do one of the following:
  • Choose File > Save. If necessary, specify a location and filename, and click Save.
  • To save a copy of a project under a new name or location and continue working in the new copy of the project, choose File > Save As, specify a location and filename, and click Save.
  • To save a copy of a project under a new name or location but continue working in the original project, choose File > Save a Copy, specify a location and filename, and click Save.

    • To automatically save a project or series of projects:

    1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Auto Save and Undo.

    2 Do any of the following, and then click OK:
  • In the Auto Save section, select Automatically Save Projects, and type the number of minutes after which Premiere will save the project.
  • In the Project Archive section, type a number for Maximum Files in Archive to specify how many copies of project files from all projects will be saved into the Project-Archive folder. When the limit is reached, Premiere deletes the oldest project file to make room for the newest one. Type a number for the Maximum Project Versions to specify how many versions of each project file you want to save. For example, to save the last five versions of each project you work with, type 5.

    • To open an autosaved project file:

    1 If a project is currently open, close it.

    2 Choose File > Open.

    3 Locate and double-click the Project-Archive folder in the folder containing Premiere.

    4 Select a project file, and click Open. If no files are available, the autosave feature may be turned off; see the previous procedure.

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