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Auto Save preferences

Last updated on Dec 14, 2023

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Learn more about the Auto Save preferences in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Image showing the Auto Save preferences options within the Preferences panel. — Set the default Auto Save preferences to Automatically save projects, Maximum Project versions, Save backup project to Creative Cloud etc.

Adjust the options within the Auto Save tab of the Preferences panel.
UI option	Function
Automatically save projects	Select this checkbox to choose the following options: Save backup project to Creative Cloud: Select this checkbox to let Premiere Pro auto-save your projects directly to your Creative Cloud-based storage. When Premiere Pro auto-saves a project, an "auto-save" directory is created in your Creative Cloud online storage, where all the backed-up projects are stored. You can access your backed-up projects from the Files tab of your Creative Cloud desktop application or your Creative Cloud account on the Web. Auto Save also saves the current project(s): Select this checkbox to create an archived copy of your current projects and save the current working project. This setting is disabled by default. Auto-saved versions have a suffix with the date and time it was saved (yy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss) appended to the project name (for example, ProjectName-2018-08-31_09-53-41.prproj). When an auto-save occurs, Premiere Pro creates a new backup project file and adds it to the auto-save folder as an emergency project backup. This file is always the latest saved version of that project and has the same name as the project. It does not have any suffix. Note that Premiere Pro produces only one emergency backup file per project, and it’s overwritten at each Auto Save interval and when you save the current project.
Automatically Save Every	Type the number of minutes you would like between automatic saves.
Maximum Project Versions	Type the number of versions of a project file you want to save. For example, if you type 10, Premiere Pro saves the 10 most recent versions. Note: When you specify auto-save to occur at regular intervals, Premiere Pro auto-saves a project by detecting changes to the project file. The auto-save occurs irrespective of whether you manually save the project’s changes. Earlier, Premiere Pro would not execute auto-save if you manually saved within the interval setting. If the system goes idle for a period beyond the interval setting, Premiere Pro forces an auto-save.

Note:

By default, Premiere Pro automatically saves your project every 5 minutes and retains the last 20 project file versions on the hard disk.
You can revert to a previously saved version at any time. Archiving many project iterations consumes relatively little disk space because project files are much smaller than source video files. It’s best to save project files to the same drive as your application. Archived files are saved in the Premiere Pro Auto-Save folder.