Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0

Back up a project with Auto Save

To more easily revisit editing decisions or recover from a crash, enable the Auto Save option. This option automatically saves backup project files to the Adobe Premiere Elements Auto‑Save folder at a specified time interval. For example, you can set Adobe Premiere Elements to save a backup copy every 15 minutes, producing a series of files that represent the state of your project at each interval.

Automatic saving serves as an alternative to the Undo command, depending on how much the project changes between each save. Because project files are quite small compared to source video files, archiving many versions of a project consumes relatively little disk space.

  1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Auto Save.
  2. Do any of the following, and then click OK:

    • Select Automatically Save Projects, and type the number of minutes after which Adobe Premiere Elements will save the project.

    • Type a number for the Maximum Project Versions to specify how many versions of each project file you want to save. For example, if you type 5, Adobe Premiere Elements saves five versions of each project you open.

      Note: Each time you open a project, you must save it at least once before the Auto Save option takes effect.