You get up to 100 GB of storage for your files or you can upgrade to 1 TB of storage for $59.99 per year.
It’s free for prime members and only $11.99 per year if you aren’t. I believe creative cloud is the safest storage option since it’s not subject to being dropped or damaged by water, fire, or any other elements that our home computers and drives are subject to.Īmazon Drive seems to be the most affordable option, especially if you are already a prime member. You want to save your project in more than one location, just in case something happens to the hard drive where your main project is saved. Not only are creative cloud plans very inexpensive, they are the safest way to save your project. This is an excellent option to have checked. You can always delete these excess autosave files once you’ve finished your project. It shouldn’t take up too much more space on your drive to save lots of files. Plus, Premiere Pro project files generally aren’t that file heavy. I set this option to 100 project versions. If you’re working all day on a project and you decide later that something was messed up and you didn’t realize it until the next day, you’ll have more options to find an older project from the day before. I recommend going much higher than 20 copies, especially since we’ve just told Premiere Pro to save our project more often. The 20 autosave projects will always be your 20 most recent edits. What this means is that once Premiere Pro has saved 20 total projects, when it goes to save the next project, the oldest one of the 20 will be deleted and replaced by the most recent. This option is set at 20 projects by default. Instead, I recommend setting this preference to every 3-5 minutes.
As an efficient editor, you probably already know how much work can happen in 15 minutes. How often to save your projects?īy default, this is set to every 15 minutes. Now that we’ve located where to change all the preferences, let’s discuss the best options for those preferences. Step 2: Recommended Settings for Premiere Pro Autosave You’ll now see the Autosave Preferences window open up, giving you a few options to set up in Premiere Pro. In the top menu bar, navigate to Preferences -> Auto Save Step 1: Set Up Autosave Preferences in Premiere Pro As an Amazon associate, I receive compensation for qualifying purchases, however any commission that I earn comes at no cost to you. This post does contain Amazon product recommendations. We’ll also cover how you might be able to salvage a lost or erased project by searching the autosave vaults of Premiere Pro.īe sure to check out more beginner Premiere Pro tutorials here. In today’s post, we’ll cover everything you need to know about setting up Autosave on Premiere Pro. Thankfully, Premiere Pro’s built-in Autosave function works seamlessly as you work, saving various versions of your edits as you work. Completely gone.īelieve me, it’s happened to the best of us. Imagine: you’ve spent hours of detailed time working on a project only to have a sudden, unprecedented error from Premiere Pro. It only takes one time to learn that painful lesson. One of my video editing professors in college said this phrase all the time: