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teams in Holly wood that have turned to Premiere Pro in recent years. The end result is a new Production panel in Premiere Pro that serves as both a command center and window into the group's collective activity. You can see not only how the project is organized in terms of folder structure, but who is working on what. It can easily be organized into reels. scenes or whatever is the best approach for the team. One of the ingredients of the secret sauce behind Productions is cross- project referencing, a feature that required a significant rewrite to Premiere's underlying code. Clips always "remember" their relationships to master clips regardless of the number of sequences they're used in. If you need to reveal a clips source, it will go to that clip, no matter how many sequences it appears in. Sequences can be locked, but still allow new sequences to be built from its assets. A Production is something of a meta-project. Multiple traditional Premiere projects can be added to them. As of April 14, Productions became par t of Adobe Premiere Pro and available to all Creative Cloud customers who can share local storage. There is, however Team Projects, an enterprise - licensed version that allows true remote collaboration. When the Productions feature set was announced in April, the company revealed that it would be making all the Team Projects resources available free to all CC subscribers until August 17, to help the locked- down production community–and likely raise awareness of how indispensable a work f low tool like this can be. To Be or Not NAB? In mid-April, just about the time we would be slathering over a slew of NAB product announcements, Adobe went ahead on schedule and revealed the new features that have become a spring staple for their video product users. This year, what may have been missing in the drama of live keynotes was made up for in substance. (Though if you still need your seasonal dose of Jason Levine, he's been doing loads of lockdown webcasts.) And Adobe did, as usual, gather the media together for it's usual, safely socially-distanced web conference to give us a preview of what was in store. First up, they alerted us to their plans to speed up their release cycle, so some of those updates we'll be seeing when our menu bar cloud icon glows red may mean new features and performance boosts and not just bug fixes. On the heels of Productions, what was arguably the biggest news from About Premiere Pro is the addition of support for the Apple Pro Res R AW codec for both Mac and Windows, though the latter is still in beta. This follows the release of Blackmagic Raw support at IBC last September. This is a definite sign that video raw format is making slow progress into the hands of a wider