Hey guys, I need help. I don't know how to post this or search for the answer. The challenge that I face is trying to edit the same project on my desktop and my laptop.

I capture everything via Premiere Pro 1.5 using my desktop into a external 200 Gig harddrive. I've been editing it using the desktop. But I want to be able to bring the external harddrive with my laptop to starbucks (or a dif coffee shop) to edit.

Everytime I go into Premiere Pro 1.5 on my laptop and go to the external harddrive and open the project...it doesn't let me.

What is going on? Can we not just open the project like that? What else do I need to do? What is the procedure.

Thanks in advance.

Do you get an error message? Or some other message? What exactly does
"doesn't let me" mean?

You should have no problem moving a project over from one computer to
another. The tricky part is can it find your footage. If not then (at least that
is what Vegas does) it should ask where the footage is so you can help
locate it.

Hey Rob,
Thanks for helping. Here is more info. I install Premiere on the C Drive. However, When I capture I place the avi files and the project file in the External Hard drive "G". Basically the footage and the project files are both on the portable drive. I save the project file as "Rough Cut". When I unplug the external drive from the desktop and connect it to my laptop, I change all my Scratch disk settings to the External Drive too...except the computer read it as drive "E". I don't think that makes a difference.

When I open project on the laptop, I go to the folder where I have "Rough Cut", when I click on it it says " E:\Immi Writer\Rough Cut is not accessible. Access is denied"

Is there a step that I miss besides changing the scratch disk?

Thanks again in advance guys.

Did you try keeping the drive letter the same? So the external drive is the same drive letter on the desktop as it is on the laptop?

You can do this in your windows settings.

Jeremiah

How do I change the disk letter from G to E? I know how to rename the disk.

thanks again

Okay...assuming Windows XP.

Start--------->Control Panel
Then click "Administrative Tools"
Then Click "Computer Management"

In the left frame of the window towards the bottom there should be a line that says "Disk Management"

When you click this, in the top-half of the right frame should be all of your drives. It will say:

Volume Layout Type File System
C: Partition Basic NTFS

etc etc.

Right-click on the drive whose letter you want to change. It will open yet another window, that has three buttons, Add, Change, Remove.

You'll want to click "Change" and then it will open yet ANOTHER window, and in the top-right of that window there is a pull-down menu with a bunch of drive letters that are available. You can pick any letter that isn't currently used.

Hope this helps...

Jeremiah

Thanks Jeremiah,
change the drive to the same letter and name. Yet to no avail. I'm going to experiment. I'll post if I learn anything.

thanks again....even anyone know....please help

Hi, I've occasionaly used my laptop for editing and as long as the drive letters are the same to the captured files then it works ok for me.

I got a question though... when you say it doesn't let you open the project, do you mean that it won't open the .prproj file at all or that it can't find any of the source files?

Even if the drive letters are different you should still be able to open the .prproj file, it just won't be linked to the source capture files.

... one more thing, are you running premiere pro 1.5 on the laptop for sure?

So you edit with a destop and laptop? If so, where are the captured file located? laptop or desktop?

Did you have to edit any Offline? Or did you recapture again on the laptop too.

It says I can't even open the folder where the project file is. So I copy and paste the project out of the folder so I don't have to open the folder. I did that in the desktop. I can open the project folder on the desktop...NOT the laptop.

When I open project on the laptop, I go to the folder where I have "Rough Cut", when I click on it it says " E:\Immi Writer\Rough Cut is not accessible. Access is denied"
Take a look at this Microsoft Knowledgebase article, "'Access is Denied' Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder", http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=810881&sd=RMVP. Perhaps it will help.

Even if the drive letters are different you should still be able to open the .prproj file, it just won't be linked to the source capture files.
Since both his project file and assets are on the external hard drive (according to his second post), wouldn't they still be linked no matter what the drive letter is? Doesn't Premiere Pro use relative links so long as the project file and assets are on the same hard drive?

Hey Christopher,
thanks for the link. I tried and it didn't work. Yes, they are both on "G" drive. what happen was when I accidently click an avi file from one folder and drag to another folder (both still in drive "G") it did something that made the file unreadable. neither can i open with windows media or pp1.5.

thanks for the link. I tried and it didn't work.
Sorry about that. Try this link for the article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810881

Since both his project file and assets are on the external hard drive (according to his second post), wouldn't they still be linked no matter what the drive letter is? Doesn't Premiere Pro use relative links so long as the project file and assets are on the same hard drive?
Unfortunately, no. Premiere Pro looks for the drive letter, instead of the folder categorization.

Hey Christopher,
I mean the link work. but fixing the problem it did not as yoda would say.

What might be happening is that the Windows Security information on the files
does not allow you to read them on the other system. Are you loggin on to both
systems with the username "administrator" or with something else?

You can right-click on the the .pproj file and then select properties and check
the Security tab to see which permissions are being set on the file. It might
be needed to add some rights to the whole folder the project is in. Unfortunately
this can be tricky to do and it is hard to guide you in that matter without being
able to see what is going on with your system.

But you can at least look in that section to see if anything looks "off".

If you know someone who's (very) good with Windows and they know what
"NTFS permissions" mean (and do), then they should be able to help you out
in that department.

Good luck!

Unfortunately, no. Premiere Pro looks for the drive letter, instead of the folder categorization.
Hmmm, I just did a test. I copied a Premiere Pro project folder, which contains both the project assets and Premiere Pro project file, to a new location on another hard drive. I then moved the project folder on the old drive to another location to make sure the assets couldn't be loaded from the old location. Then I opened the Premiere Pro project file from the new location on the other hard drive. The project loaded just fine. I checked the properties for an asset, and sure enough, it was being loaded from the new location on the other hard drive. From this I can only conclude that the drive letter is not hardwired into the project file for an asset, unless it is located on a separate hard drive from the project file.

Hey Christopher,
I mean the link work. but fixing the problem it did not as yoda would say.
Well, I'm sorry about that. I hope you get the problem sorted out some way.