What is the purpose of our plugin PlumePack and its features? The PPro Panel presentation and how to use it.
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You want to learn more about what PlumePack can do?
This article will explain all PlumePack features and parameters and also its limitations.
What does PlumePack do?
PlumePack is a Premiere Pro panel intended for helping you consolidate your project, keeping all your media and dependencies into the same folder. It can also transform your projects to be lighter: taking less space on disk and removing useless stuff not used in your project.
The product comes with 2 different licenses : Basic and Premium.
PlumePack Basic is an improvement of the Premiere Pro "Project Manager" Collect & Copy feature.
PlumePack Premium can also Trim your media files losslessly without re-encoding!
Trimming removes the extra frames in each footage (more or less depending on a handle parameter), based on their use in your current project. The shorten media will keep their own codec and quality: you keep the exact pixels values from your original medias.
You can find the list of the supported codecs for this Trimming feature below.
Keeping the codecs of your media can be really useful for RAW kind of footages! They are associated with parameters called Source Settings to decode the image in a different way, which gives to the colorist a powerful tool with more potantial than re-encoding this file with another Codec.
So if you are working with R3D, BRAW or ProRes RAW footages in your project, you will be able to have project much liter in terms of disk usage, without losing their Source Settings power!
Get rid over the current native Project Manager bugs!
Some of you are already using the Project Manager and already know all its problems:
Nested sequence are not taken into account if you want to consolidate from a main sequence
After Effects Dynamic Linked Compositions are not copied with their dependencies
Final Folder Project organization is a mess: everything is put into the same folder
Collect & Copy: RAW footages like R3D or BRAW footages are not copies with their sidecar file.
A lot of projects are failing for different reasons ...
Fast Transfer projects for team work
Transfering huge projects with every medias is tricky and can take a lot of time. PlumePack reduces your Project size and makes those transfers way quicker!
Lighter Backups
Archive the project without useless stuff and lighter medias!
Clean your project
You can use PlumePack whenever to :
Remove unused project items, isolate one sequence, reduce disk space used.
Gather everything used in your project at the same location on your computer.
Speed up Premiere with less materials to handle.
How can I install / open / test / license PlumePack?
When using PlumePack, in case you have trouble with the plugin, you should send us some logs so we can give you assistance and fix a potential bug in our plugin. Here's how to do it.