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  • Maintain folder structure of received files when importing to Media Composer?

    Posted by Jay Moss on April 19, 2021 at 9:00 am

    Hi,

    I’ve been away from Avid for a long time, but need to use it again for my current project and need to import a large folder tree of stills files.

    As far as I can see there is no way of doing this without manually re-creating each folder/bin in Avid?

    If anyone has a workaround, or if there is something i’m missing i’d be grateful…

    Roger Shufflebottom replied 5 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jayasri (joyce) hart

    April 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    In a similar situation, if I am not going to be using all of the material from the old project in the new project, I simply File>Open Bin and find the old project under Avid Projects, then open the bin that has the stills I want to use in the new project. I just leave the old project bin in the “Other Bins.” If I want to disconnect the old project bin, I Alt+Drag to make copies of Master Clips into a bin in the new project. Of course, this assumes your old project and media are on the same system as the new one.

    Hope this helps.

    Joyce

  • Roger Shufflebottom

    August 6, 2021 at 8:02 am

    When you link, there is an option to create a bin based on a folder. This will at least maintain a mimic of your folder structure within Media Composer.

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