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I'm sure this is a subjective matter, but I'm wondering what your preference is.

If you were going to do a 10 part series on a particular topic, each shot once per week, published weekly, for 10 weeks, would you:

1. Create a single project for the whole series and organize each part using bins and timelines?

2. Create a new project for each of the 10 parts?


Another example might be a Sermon series in a church. If the series had a title and a theme, and it was to last 6 weeks, would it make more sense to create one project for the series, or a project for each week?

In thinking about this, I may have answered my own question...but I'd like some real world feedback from someone who's done this before?

I would create a new project for each episode and put them all into the same folder in Project Manager.

Dedicated Database for the Project/Season with dedicated Projects per episode.

How would you guys approach the need to compile resources across projects over time to create a compilation based upon keywords for clips you took note of during the year(s)?

I would create a folder in the database and then create multiple projects inside that folder. Then use Power Bins to share assets across each project.

Power Bins is a good way to share media across projects.

You can't share certain assets in power bins. What if you have an animation that you want to use in every episode?

I have a similar situation where I have an opening with several layers of assets and a watermark. I would like to be able to have the intro sequence available for each of the episodes and be able to simply edit the text in them to account for the individual episode. I don't really want to have to re-create all those intros for each episode, rather have a sequence I can grab from a Power Bin that has all the elements in it and is editable.

CapandDez wrote:What if you have an animation that you want to use in every episode?

Fusion comp.

This is a great topic. I'd love to hear more folks chime in! I've wondered about this myself.

For my limited use-case, I created a Project for the series and use folders to separate the assets for each week, plus a Common Assets folder for common assets. But it seems like folks with a lot of experience would not do that.

For those who would do a separate project per episode, is this for organizational purposes, for safety purposes, or something else? I remember reading a while back that someone would mostly put each product in its own database so that a corrupted database wouldn't kill multiple things. That seemed overly-cautious to me, but I've not had a DB get corrupted.

One definite disadvantage -- from one perspective -- to having all episodes in one Project is that Color Groups are project-wide. So if you have very different clips in week 2 and think you'll use the same group name it wants to group them with clips from the week 1. (Color Groups is probably the wrong mechanism for what I was trying to do anyhow.)

One slight advantage of a single project for all episodes is that your Project Settings become your Season Settings, and changing them applies across all episodes. Or maybe that's a disadvantage.