Premiere Pro

Keep your original footage on Aspect so every editor works from the same media. Mount the project on each computer, import from the mounted drive, and use the Premiere collaboration workflow that fits your team. When everyone uses the same mounted root and the media stays at the same paths, you can hand off projects without relinking the footage each time.

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Mount the shared media

1. Upload your original footage, audio, and graphics to an Active Storage project in Aspect. Give your editors access to that project.
2. In the Aspect desktop app for macOS or Windows, open the drive view and select Mount for the project.
3. Confirm that the drive appears in Finder or File Explorer, then import your media into Premiere from that mounted location.

Have everyone mount the whole Aspect project at the same root. Keep volume names consistent on Macs and check drive letters on Windows. For a team using both operating systems, establish the media mapping once rather than moving or duplicating the footage for each editor. See Mount your first project for the full setup.

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Choose your Premiere workflow

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Individual projects

Save the .prproj file on the mounted Aspect project and import the shared media from that drive. This works well for one editor or a project passed between editors. Enable Project Locking in Premiere’s Collaboration settings and set your username. Before sharing the project, confirm that a second editor sees it as read-only while the first editor has it open. To hand it over, save and close the project, wait for Aspect to finish synchronizing, then have the next editor open it.

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Productions

Create or open the Production on the mounted Aspect project. Keep the Production folder and its project files together on Aspect so the team sees the same set of projects. Productions let editors work in different project files while project locking controls who can change each one. Enable locking and use a recognizable username on every workstation. Save and close a project when another editor needs write access, and allow synchronization to finish before the handoff.

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Team Projects

Create or open the Team Project through Adobe and invite your collaborators there. Import its source media from the mounted Aspect project. Adobe manages the shared edit and its changes; Aspect provides the common media. Each editor mounts the same Aspect project and uses Team Projects’ Get Latest Changes and Share My Changes controls as usual.

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Set up Premiere for mounted media

Open Premiere’s Settings or Preferences; the menu name varies by version. Apply these settings on each workstation before importing a large amount of footage: If you need analysis, transcription, or waveforms for a group of clips, pin those files first, then run the task. Premiere’s media cache is separate from Aspect’s local cache.

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Edit with proxies

Proxies reduce the amount of media your workstation needs to read and decode. Keep the originals on Aspect and attach proxies to the original clips so you can switch between them in Premiere.

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Copy proxies from media already on Aspect

1. In Aspect, select the source videos or a folder containing them and choose Copy.
2. Choose a destination in your shared Aspect project.
3. Under Content, enable Copy videos as proxies, then select Copy.
4. Wait for the copy to finish. Videos still processing will be copied when their proxies are ready.

Aspect creates smaller MP4 copies. The source originals remain in place; other file types are copied as-is. In Premiere’s Project panel, select the original clips, right-click, and choose Proxy → Attach Proxies. Locate the matching MP4 copies on the mounted Aspect drive and check the matches before attaching them.

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Create proxies in Premiere

Select the source clips in the Project panel, right-click, and choose Proxy → Create Proxies. Choose a proxy preset and a destination on the mounted Aspect project. Adobe Media Encoder creates the proxies and Premiere attaches them to the source clips. Use this option when you need a particular editorial codec or an Aspect proxy does not match Premiere’s frame-rate, duration, or audio-channel requirements.

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Switch playback to proxies

Add Toggle Proxies to the Program Monitor toolbar using its button editor, then enable it. Check a few clips for matching picture, duration, and audio before continuing the edit. Keep the original media available for full-quality export. If you plan to finish while offline, pin the originals too.

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Pin the files used in your timeline

Before traveling or working without a reliable connection:

1. Identify the video, audio, graphics, and proxy files used by the sequence.
2. Select those files or their containing folders in Aspect and choose Pin. Include the .prproj file or the Production projects you need.
3. Wait for pinning to complete, then open the sequence and check playback in the mode you intend to use.

Pinning a project file does not download the media it references. If proxy playback is enabled, pin the attached proxies as well as any originals still used by the sequence. Continue opening files through the mounted Aspect drive. For a Team Project, prepare and open the project on the workstation before going offline, and follow Adobe’s offline workflow for project changes. Pinning makes the media local; it does not replace Adobe’s project collaboration service. Agree on project ownership before an offline edit. On reconnecting, let Aspect finish synchronizing before handing a shared project file to someone else, and share Team Project changes through Adobe.